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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

E.W. Scripps — which owns 60 TV stations, including network affiliates — will eliminate 500+ jobs this year in favor of "‘AI-powered broadcast journalism." Dystopian moves like this —and the FCC killing the ownership cap — will end genuine, local voices in TV news. www.thewrap.com/industry-new...

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E.W. Scripps to Become an 'AI-Powered Broadcast Journalism Company' After Sweeping Layoffs

E.W. Scripps has cut 12% of its workforce as CEO Adam Symson touts AI and automation as part of an overhaul of its local news business

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John Walters @thevpo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A new poll from the reliable University of New Hampshire Survey Center shows Amanda Janoo with a narrow lead over Gov. Phil Scott. Yes, way. thevpo.org/2026/09/25/i...

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I Just Felt the Earth Move Under My Feet

When was the last time we had an honest-to-God “Holy Shit” moment in the bland, predictable world of Vermont politics? I’m thinking it was 2014, when Scott Milne nearly defeated i…

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Eric Daniels @deebat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Stunning poll numbers! Are Vermonters finally willing to admit that Uncle Phil is an empty suit?

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Eric Daniels @deebat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is why my eyes explode whenever someone says “we” are going to win in November. I want nothing to do with this fucking version of “we.”

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Eric Daniels @deebat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Just drove back from an appointment. Sunny day in Vermont with the leaves changing color. Chicago Transit Authority on the radio. Almost felt contentment for a moment there. 🍁

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Eric Daniels @deebat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is why Extinction Rebellion called for disrupting business as usual, but you just wouldn't listen

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Eric Daniels @deebat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This Age of Impunity we're living in is not playing out only at the government and oligarch levels. I see it every day now at the grunt level, as self-interested idiots "work fast and break stuff" to get a leg up at the office. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-the-a...

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It's the accountability, stupid.

Doing crime

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Eric Daniels @deebat.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It's amazing to watch as previously normal people, coworkers, catch AI fever and turn into elbow-throwing, break-shit-fix-it-later assholes. It's like half the white collar population was just waiting for an excuse to do awful work and then demand praise for it

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Eric Daniels @deebat.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Around noon that day I was on the road in northern MN when a crop-duster plane flew right overhead (airspace was already closed) and my cheeks instinctively tightened

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Eric Daniels @deebat.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

My noisy little town was so quiet there that I started to wonder if Today Was The Day It Happened

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Eric Daniels @deebat.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Apropos of nothing but here’s a photo I took of an East German watchtower on the Saxony-Anhalt border

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Eric Daniels @deebat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

For some reason I just remembered being in Italy and seeing a guy with a tshirt that said, in enormous letters, “Fuck It, I Love Gym” Why???

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Eric Daniels @deebat.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Drawing paychecks from an AI-frothy employer by day Resisting AI data center development by night This is not how I expected my career to wind down

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Eric Daniels @deebat.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Today was the day of my company’s annual anonymous employee satisfaction survey and ohhhmygawd it has never felt better to give feedback

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Eric Daniels @deebat.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It's September 1, which the MSM has reminded me a bazillion times already is the first day of the 11 Days of 9/11. Can we just skip to 9/12 please?

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Le Cagle @lecagle.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I will forever admire Wendell Berry's insistence on living his values through to their natural conclusions and relentlessly ripping through layers of politeness and habit to hold up for judgment those who do not.

Questionnaire
by Wendell Berry

How much poison are you willing
to eat for the success of the free
market and global trade? Please
name your preferred poisons.

For the sake of goodness, how much
evil are you willing to do?
Fill in the following blanks
with the names of your favorite
evils and acts of hatred.

What sacrifices are you prepared
to make for culture and civilization?
Please list the monuments, shrines,
and works of art you would
most willingly destroy

In the name of patriotism and
the flag, how much of our beloved
land are you willing to desecrate?
List in the following spaces
the mountains, rivers, towns, farms
you could most readily do without.

State briefly the ideas, ideals, or hopes,
the energy sources, the kinds of security;
for which you would kill a child.
Name, please, the children whom
you would be willing to kill.

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Eric Daniels @deebat.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

post something random or you’ll have a awful September

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Eric Daniels @deebat.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Screw you Vermont trees. Not yet

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Eric Daniels @deebat.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Wow, EU really showing up for Nepal with that staggering €2m donation

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Eric Daniels @deebat.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I propose FedEx Field in the east and Oakland Coliseum in the west to house ICE criminals while they await trial and sentencing. Nothing but the worst open-air experience for them.

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Eric Daniels @deebat.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I’ve had two eye surgeries this summer and as a result have been reduced to a homebound complaining bag of goo. Now that I’m starting to feel better, I’m getting ready to rip shit up this fall. I need action ideas.

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Eric Daniels @deebat.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

There are days when the depth of the rot is so apparent that it feels impossible to imagine us ever getting out of it

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Eric Daniels @deebat.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I believe having 60 people each do a reply-all to an email is the pinnacle of community

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Eric Daniels @deebat.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

On any given day, you can jack off with your lawnmowers, weedwhackers, edgers, leafblowers, chainsaws, logging trucks, coal rollers, snowblowers, and snowplows, but sure, *I* am the asshole when I flip you the double bird for ruining the quiet

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Eric Daniels @deebat.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

It really hurts to read this. Don’t Look Up came out in my most active climate resistance (as in, do stuff that can get you arrested) period. It was exciting to see a motion picture about climate change… but now it feels like the efforts we all expended were for naught. Sorry for the doomerism.

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Eric Daniels @deebat.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Contemplating diving into the AI battle at work. Is it worth fighting the bros who are destroying my four decades of experience in technical content development? Or should I skulk in a dark corner until the pink slip inevitably comes?

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Eric Daniels @deebat.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Is it possible that Vermont is finally going to have a July 10 without flooding?

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Eric Daniels @deebat.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

They shut down main street for a July 4 parade here in my small Vermont town. Until the parade kicks in, there’s no traffic noise - no big trucks, no revving motorcycles. For an hour a year, it’s bliss.

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Eric Daniels @deebat.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Where is the Louvre when we need it so badly

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Eric Daniels @deebat.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

When you have a medical procedure that is so retch-worthy the google safesearch photos are masked It me today (retina detachment)

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Eric Daniels @deebat.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

My eye doctor says my vitreous humor is really good but nobody laughs at my jokes

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Eric Daniels @deebat.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

First day at the office after two weeks off *Sits down at desk, cracks knuckles* ok, back to it “Windows is updating, please wait”

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Eric Daniels @deebat.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Appropriate juxtaposition of posts

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Eric Daniels @deebat.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

European airports: mandatory pre- and post-entry passport scanners, photographs, and fingerprinting Canadian airports: more pre-entry passport scanners and photographs US border control gateway: “We have a new thing now, crane your neck out the car window and look into my wired Logitech camera”

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Eric Daniels @deebat.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Today in Hamburg I learned that 12th graders every year set bronze plaques into the sidewalk in front of the homes of deported and murdered victims of the Nazis I can’t help but wonder if US children will someday do this

Six small bronze plaques set in a sidewalk, each with the name, deportation date, concentration camp, and date of death of each person

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Eric Daniels @deebat.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I’m leaving this asscrack country for two weeks and I’m not sure I’ve ever been so excited

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Eric Daniels @deebat.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Awesome to hear comments on the Vermont Senate floor from my senator asking if he can have sex with a dog if he identifies as a dog #vtpoli

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Eric Daniels @deebat.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I'm so old I remember a time when Americans didn't capitalize nouns

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Eric Daniels @deebat.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Finished signing my boss’s birthday e-card before 9am and thinking of clocking out for the day

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Eric Daniels @deebat.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Somebody let me know when we’re done here frothing about the WHCD; until then I’m peacing out

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Eric Daniels @deebat.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

37 months dealing with “AI is the solution to all our problems” before I retire Not gonna make it

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Eric Daniels @deebat.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Soon the Gypsy Queen In a glaze of Vaseline Will perform on guillotine What a scene, what a scene

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Eric Daniels @deebat.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Something broke in me when I saw this. (Didn’t know I had anything left in me to break.)

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