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Meatwad Ron: Summer of Ron @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

San Diego residents are paying $3 million to wall off SDPD headquarters, because apparently our cops are incapable of protecting their own building and employees, despite occupying it 24/7

nbcsandiego.com

Construction to begin on security fence around SDPD headquarters

The downtown San Diego Police Department headquarters complex's construction on a security fence surrounding the facility is set to begin this week.

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Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 29/09/2026

Until platform holders are willing to accept liability for the scams running on their platforms I won’t be turning off my ad blocker arstechnica.com/security/202...

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Your uncle’s frozen Mac says it’s infected after viewing a Google ad. Now what?

Ads appearing all over the Internet are trying to scam people.

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Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 27/09/2026

Old school payola without the middleman

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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Today in 1983 in Moscow, just past midnight, 44 year-old Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov’s calm decision that a satellite warning of the launch of 5 US Minuteman ICBMs was a false alarm—based on “a funny feeling in my gut”—may have averted a catastrophic nuclear war. www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl...

An official color photograph of Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov posing in his uniform around the time of this incident.

A screenshot of the linked February 10, 1999, Washington Post article on page A19 headlined, “‘I Had A Funny Feeling In My Gut; Soviet Officer Faced Nuclear Armageddon.” The article also includes a large graphic title "A Crumbling Warning System," showing problems with Russia's early-warning satellites and ground-based radars. The continuation of a front page article headlined, "Dearth of Satellites Fogs Russian System," appears next to the article about Petrov.

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Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 25/09/2026

See also “Why are people saying the economy is terrible when all the data says it’s not so bad”

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending.

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Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 25/09/2026

It’s OK to admit that you’re not good at voting and leave it to the people who are

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I very much want to read this one. Pope Leo summoned Gareth Gore to the Vatican awhile back for a closed-door meeting about which Gore - who has desperately tried to get multiple popes to give a fuck about his reporting - said little except that he left feeling good about where they left things 👀

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Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 22/09/2026

Next book is Opus by Gareth Gore. When the Pope calls a book a “rigorous piece of work” and you’re a lapsed Catholic that’s married to a Catholic who’s very frustrated with the church and loves your recaps of @clairewillett.bsky.social threads, well, you put your name on the waitlist

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Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 22/09/2026

This is the seventh book in the series and it’s the same fast paced action that I enjoyed from the first three. If you’re this far in there’s no reason to stop now. I will say something that’s not about the book but about me skipping from book three to seven which no gen x, scifi fan has said ever

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Matt Miller @mattmiller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

a comic by Russ Heath, who drew the comic one of Lichtenstein’s most famous panels was based on

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Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 20/09/2026

I’m guessing this is being done so he can claim it’s critical to national security in the lawsuit that was filed. I’d bet the only change, if any, to the plan is to change a sign on a closet from “maintenance” to “armory” www.npr.org/2026/06/10/n...

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Veterans and relatives see no place for Trump's arch near Arlington National Cemetery

Three Vietnam War veterans are suing to stop President Trump from building an arch just steps from Arlington National Cemetery, where 400,000 service members, veterans and their relatives are buried.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The U.S. military swung into action to intercept a Chinese ship after an “entirely false” AI-generated intelligence report inaccurately identified what the vessel was carrying It also “almost started a war,” a source told CNN.

cnn.com

Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics

The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war

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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 16/09/2026

By me, at this.weekinsecurity.com, I wrote about how a data breach of 150+ million driver's licenses and their photos is a privacy and anonymity disaster for an entire generation of people in the U.S. and Canada.

this.weekinsecurity.com

A breach of over 150 million U.S. and Canadian driver's license photos is an anonymity disaster

The breach links the names and photos of millions of people across North America. One expert said this is likely the largest database of facial images ever breached.

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SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I wonder if the cost of chips has cut down on conspiracies. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/gates-3 PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

1-panel SMBC comic update. A man with a beard sits in the left corner, agitated, stating "Bill Gates put microchips in me! Hundreds of ‘em!" A man wearing glasses swiftly turns towards him, asking "really? What year? Do they have onboard memory? Where are you sleeping tonight?" The caption below the comic reads "The RAM shortage takes a dark turn."

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Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 14/09/2026

I owe every woman who told me I don’t understand women an apology. Absolutely nothing was where I thought it was

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Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 14/09/2026

I can’t stop thinking about this story of a 40 year old Christian Fellowship for law enforcement getting caught making one spectacularly bad hire and immediately disbanding the organization. Feels like they really don’t want anyone digging into their hiring practices or history

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Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 10/09/2026

*bangs fists on the table* POSTAL BANK POSTAL BANK POSTAL BANK (🧵)

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Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 09/09/2026

My wife is good about letting our neighbors take clippings from the garden and has built up quite a little fan club. Today a neighbor dropped off some eggs from their chickens and (I think?) quails. I ask in all seriousness: what should I do with the quail eggs?

An egg carton with six eggs. Three are brown chicken eggs and three are smaller dark grey eggs with brown spots

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Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 08/09/2026

A couple of months ago when we were stuck in the house I put on Fried Green Tomatoes and was surprised to hear that my wife had never seen it. Turns out she hasn’t seen many movies from 80’s and 90’s so we’ve been watching the heavy hitters that I thought she’d really like to have seen.

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Sarah the Absurd. @sleepy-kaiju.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I bought a ticket at The Nightlight for this so fast when I found out about it...it looks amazing! My kind of sci-fi action movie, right there!

youtu.be

HOPE - Official Trailer - In Theaters September 9

YouTube video by NEON

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Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 06/09/2026

Next up is This Inevitable Ruin, another Dungeon Crawler Carl. Each book is a floor of the dungeon and @mattdinniman.bsky.social makes a bold artistic choice by flashing forward from the third floor to the ninth. It’s definitely that and not that I screwed up which book to reserve at the library

The book This Inevitable Ruin by Matt Dinniman. It’s actually the ninth book in the series, not the fourth. How I managed to screw this up is beyond me. Anyway, time to put my “spoilers don’t matter” claims to the test

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Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 05/09/2026

Migrated to Proton Pass after being on @1password.bsky.social for six years. Super easy, they even read 1password’s proprietary file format. It was the neo Nazi stuff for anyone keeping score

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Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 05/09/2026

A good buddy cop story has lots of action, quippy dialogue and a massive conspiracy run by a mustache twirling evil genius. @scalzi.com delivers on all of it and it’s highly entertaining. Written six years before COVID, his commentary on post pandemic life and tech oligarchy is shockingly on point

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Goodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026

Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.

A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.

A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.

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Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 03/09/2026

While it’s great that this happened quickly the whole “we’re sorry for the damage we caused to law enforcement agencies and the taxpayers” bit really makes me wonder where CLEF gets its money from

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Jakob McWhinney @jakobmcwhinney.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Ex-Deputy Ricky Fischer’s litany of sexual assaults rocked San Diego County. When all was said and done, nearly two dozen women accused him of assault, leading taxpayers to pay out nearly $10 million in civil settlements. Now out of prison, he has a new gig — chaplain for cops in crisis.

voiceofsandiego.org

Ex-Deputy Convicted of Assaulting Women Now Chaplain for Christian Cop Group

Just two years after the final civil case against former Sheriff's Deputy Ricky Fischer was settled, the disgraced officer who pleaded guilty to crimes stemming from sexual assault of citizens has a n...

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Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 31/08/2026

Next book is @scalzi.com’s Lock In. It takes place after a global pandemic from a flu like illness which can cause long term neurological damage. Also everyone is trying to move on and pretend it never happened. It came out in 2014 so it ruins the “Novel of the near future” tagline for everyone else

The book Lock In by John Scalzi. The tagline reads “A novel of the near future”

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Claudia Sahm @claudia-sahm.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

'To preserve its independence, the Fed should play politics' is a terrible strategy. Also, when has appeasement Trump ever worked? The best thing for the Fed is to pursue good monetary policy.

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Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 28/08/2026

Two plumes of gauze? In THIS economy?!

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Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 28/08/2026

I hear this same kind of attitude from men my age when they see this newish trend of providing fathers with an equal amount paternity leave as mothers. “I didn’t get it so why should they?” is an unfortunately common take

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Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 28/08/2026

Finished @annanorth.bsky.social’s Bog Queen. Very entertaining and never goes in the direction you’d think. Read it now so you can say “Oh cool! They’re making that? I read the book and it was really good!” when the Netflix miniseries deal inevitably gets announced

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Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 25/08/2026

Aside from one problematic joke at the end the movie 9 to 5 holds up, if anything, too well. It’s 40 years later and the whole premise is still relevant www.imdb.com/title/tt0080...

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 24/08/2026

“I don’t know how I can mentally continue working 12+ hour days knowing that my dad is somewhere, possibly being treated like a criminal … [whose] only ‘crime’ was coming to this country to give my siblings and me a better life.” trib.al/5HuYdw2

trib.al

Navy Sailor Aboard USS Lincoln Learns ICE Took His Dad

U.S. Navy sailor Joshua Aviles hadn’t seen his dad in nine months when he learned his father was arrested.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

yes. the Bluth family stair car is in Captain America: Civil War, linking it to St. Elsewhere via the Detective Munch path.

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Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 18/08/2026

My next book is Bog Queen by @annanorth.bsky.social. This one was pushed by my wife and kid who couldn’t say enough good things about it

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andy vs. @im-all-id.me · 17/08/2026

For my birthday I want people to cancel plans with me

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Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 14/08/2026

Locking and unlocking your credit reports is free and a much more effective way of protecting yourself from fraud than identity theft services

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Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 13/08/2026

I’ve enjoyed Reacher so far and @rincewind.run does a great job of explaining why while treating the show with the reverence and respect it deserves

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Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 13/08/2026

The neighborhood I live in has a lot of e-bike usage with the majority of the riders being teens or younger. This past couple of weeks I was nearly run over twice by e-bikes and both times the riders were middle aged men

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Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 13/08/2026

I absolutely love iOS. Phone: you missed a call Me: checks recents, doesn’t see any new calls Phone: Nope. You still missed a call Me: Checks messages Phone: Uh uh. You missed a call Me: Checks spam while mumbling expletives Phone: Not that either I still have no idea what call I missed

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