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John dEFR0G does not pumpkin spice

@defrog.bsky.social
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I have nothing to skeet, and I am skeeting it. Sarcasm, dramatic irony, metaphor, bathos, puns, parody, litotes, satire, rubber ducks, sensible shoes, chocopies -- if we don't got it, you don't want it.

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John dEFR0G does not pumpkin spice @defrog.bsky.social · 5h
"See cos artificial means fake, right, as in fake news, that's why people are so opposed to it, they associate it with CNN so if we call it something else ppl will embrace it cos who doesn't like things that're super." "Right as usual, chief. You're a genius!" "Super genius!" "Yes sir." [weeping]
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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 7h
“ME TOO went too far” said the country that re-elected a rapist.
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John dEFR0G does not pumpkin spice @defrog.bsky.social · 5h
Correct spelling is for pussies.
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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 18h
Out very soon...
Ivor Cutler: Selected Poems (Hoorgi House 2026)
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John dEFR0G does not pumpkin spice @defrog.bsky.social · 17h
If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula.
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Count Chocula Cereal
Alt: Count Chocula Cereal
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John dEFR0G does not pumpkin spice @defrog.bsky.social · 18h
September 29, 2014
September 29, 2014, 9:00am:

Connaught Road Central, which should be jam-packed with vehicles, is empty as Occupy HK takes over Causeway Bay.

Photo taken by me.September 29, 2014, 9:00am:

Chater Road in Central, which should be jam-packed with vehicles, is empty as Occupy HK takes over Causeway Bay.

Photo taken by me.September 29, 2014, 9:00am:

Connaught Road Central, which should be jam-packed with vehicles, is empty as Occupy HK takes over Causeway Bay.

Photo taken by me.
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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Back in the before times, in the summer of 2019, I was asked to write about the Hong Kong anti-ELAB protests. I started with a movement that from five years prior, in 2014: "a 79-day occupation movement that surprised the world no less than Hongkongers themselves." www.aljazeera.com/opinions/201...
aljazeera.com
What is next for Hong Kong’s protest movement?
The pro-democracy movement has scored another political victory, but can it continue resisting China's encroachment?
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John dEFR0G does not pumpkin spice @defrog.bsky.social · 18h
If you think AI slop is sexy, wait til you try making sci-fi action TV shows with puppets and toys. This is ace television, kids.
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Charles Mok @charlesmok.bsky.social · 19h
Data center developer offers $10,000 checks to 4,500 households if the 1,300-acre facility is approved — locals push back over noise and 'bribe' concerns Many residents are rejecting the offer due to fears of noise, falling property values, and mistrust. www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
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Data center developer offers $10,000 checks to 4,500 households if the 1,300-acre facility is approved — locals push back over noise and 'bribe' concerns
Report says that many residents are rejecting the offer due to fears of noise, falling property values, and mistrust.
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Charles Mok @charlesmok.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Russia strikes Kyivstar headquarters amid attacks on Ukrainian telecoms infrastructure developingtelecoms.com/telecom-busi...
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Russia strikes Kyivstar headquarters amid attacks on Ukrainian telecoms infrastructure - Developing Telecoms
Russia has struck the headquarters of Ukrainian operator Kyivstar as part of a wider series of attacks on data centres and communications infrastructure across the country.
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Charles Mok @charlesmok.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The point isn't censorship. It’s control. Even if there’s less censorship (and that’s a huge ‘even if’), the regime wants MORE CONTROL, not less. Is China easing some online censorship? It doesn’t want free speech, but it does want to know what’s going on www.economist.com/china/2026/0...
economist.com
Is China easing some online censorship?
It doesn’t want free speech, but it does want to know what’s going on
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MHoussayH @mhoussayh.cpesr.fr · 09/06/2026
I have been looking for a punk Carebear for years. This is ❤️‍🔥 [alt: B&W drawing of a punk bunny, with a leather jacket inscribed with « te détends is the new punk, ACAB, an anarchist A, a safety pin. The text says: anyone can become bitter. Choosing kindness after pain is the real rebellion.]
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John dEFR0G does not pumpkin spice @defrog.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Or, you know, they could do that every week.
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John dEFR0G does not pumpkin spice @defrog.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As it happens, my first taste of Wm. Burroughs was the (at the time) new Laurie Anderson album I'd bought. Had no idea who he was, but his voice was amazing. Finally started reading him years later via a poetry teacher who hipped our class to the Beat movement.
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Sharkey's Night
YouTube video by Laurie Anderson - Topic
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John dEFR0G does not pumpkin spice @defrog.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This showed up on my Facebook "on this day" feed yesterday. The police thought everyone would run and go home. They thought wrong. They made everyone mad. Five years later, we found out they'd learned nothing.
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CNN crew gassed during Hong Kong protests | CNN
CNN’s Ivan Watson was in the middle of a pro-democracy protest in Hong Kong when things suddenly got out of hand.
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Stereogum @stereogum.com · 29/09/2026
Stevie Wonder’s ‘Songs In The Key Of Life’ came out 50 years ago today. An anniversary tour celebrating the double album masterpiece begins next month, and today Wonder shared four previously unreleased tracks from the sessions. stereogum.com/2512942/stev...
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John dEFR0G does not pumpkin spice @defrog.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Still plausible that he came up with the idea a few seconds before pitching it to Xi, then forgot all about it a few seconds after he asked. Which isn't really better than the alternative. It's all bad, really.
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John dEFR0G does not pumpkin spice @defrog.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
GOP: China is trying to steal US military technology! Trump: Okay – why don't we just sell it to them? That way at least we make money from it. [Note: This is satire. There's a good chance Trump came up with the idea to sell weapons to China about two seconds before he made the offer to Xi.]
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John dEFR0G does not pumpkin spice @defrog.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
How to take all the fun out of a fireworks display. (To be fair, the target audience for the explainer is likely the HK Liaison Office, not ppl actually watching the fireworks.)
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John dEFR0G does not pumpkin spice @defrog.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“The late Twentieth Century will go down in history, I'm sure, as an era of pharmaceutical buffoonery.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut, 1982 "Hold my raw milk." ~ Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 2026
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John dEFR0G does not pumpkin spice @defrog.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"In recent years, we have seen the weaponisation of a wide range of official powers, from sanitary inspection to tax collection, and their use – or abuse – to inflict a hard time on people and organisations which the government disapproves of." 💯
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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
debbie sounds like fun
Handwritten door sign reads “All Girls With Long Hair - Must Be tied UP.
Thank you
DEBBIE”
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Christopher Moore @theauthorguy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Claude, are my Bisquick Scones delicious?
Screenshot of Google AI confirming at all A.I. agents lie to please the user.
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I always liked this explanation of Trump’s strategic philosophy-
Trump as Sun Tzu.  “If you don’t know what you are doing, then your enemy doesn’t know what you are doing.”
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YTSL @ytsl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
As I've pointed out more than once, Hong Kong's the rare former British colony that did not become independent. Instead, it was "handed ("back") over" to another master. Without the people of Hong Kong getting asked/a say in whether they wanted this to happen or not.
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John dEFR0G does not pumpkin spice @defrog.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Wasn't aware of this, but it's very much in character for the performative "patriots" that run this burg.
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Rest of World @restofworld.org · 26/09/2026
Meta is facing a growing threat from social media bans for under-16s. Its response? Paying influencers in countries like India and Indonesia to promote its teen safety tools restofworld.org/2026/meta-influence…
A person is speaking in a video on a smartphone screen. The display shows engagement icons such as likes, comments, and shares. The Instagram account handle "hitentejwani" is visible, along with the option to follow the account.A panel discussion titled "What does safety look like from a young person's perspective?" is taking place on a stage. The backdrop displays the Meta logo and "Screen Smart." Several individuals are seated on stage, with an audience watching from the foreground.
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Joel Chan @kjoules.org · 27/09/2026
Hong Kong's prison population decreased on a quarterly basis for the first time since 4Q 2022. Unfortunately, that's the only good news www.kjoules.org/a/3mwiurawfr...
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Remand Prisoners in Hong Kong Reach New Record High
Only 51.68% of Hong Kong's prisoners are convicted. Numberwang 10
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John dEFR0G does not pumpkin spice @defrog.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is where I state for the record I never heard of "Choosin' Texas" or Langley until I read this, and I'm not really interested in what Rolling Stone thinks about that.
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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Note how a good number of activists were convicted under British colonial-era sedition laws
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John dEFR0G does not pumpkin spice @defrog.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Wild to think that of the 83 convicted so far, more than half of them (45) are from one case (for the crime of attempting to legally win an election).
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John dEFR0G does not pumpkin spice @defrog.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Dear Hong Kong Tourism Board: Hear me out: Convince Uber to get a whole fleet of Ariel Atoms just for Hong Kong ...
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John dEFR0G does not pumpkin spice @defrog.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Pulp Fiction in Memphis TN during its original run. It was my sixth time watching it (though the first time at a drive-in).
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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Record Store Customer: Excuse me, do you have any copies of Africa by Toto? Meryl Streep: No, sorry, we're (looks at camera) Out of Africa /roll credits
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John dEFR0G does not pumpkin spice @defrog.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Tbh I wouldn't have known it was on Netflix HK if Wen Wei Po hadn't said anything. Thanks for the tip, Wen Wei Po! 😀👍
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John dEFR0G does not pumpkin spice @defrog.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Oh, *those* health reasons.
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John dEFR0G does not pumpkin spice @defrog.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I don't think it will be quite this extreme, but AI agents will definitely overload the system. The whole idea is to automate this activity for our convenience, and it will likely take the form of DDoS attacks in a lot of cases, so I expect businesses to push back in some way.
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John dEFR0G does not pumpkin spice @defrog.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This 2019 quote from AOC is making the rounds. Here's an alt-text version. It was true then, and twice as true now. Repubs are distancing themselves from Trump mainly because of gas prices, not his racism, cruelty and crimes. They seem fine with those, and the next MAGA despot will exploit that.
AOC on Trump in 2019:


"As horrific as this president is, he is a symptom of much deeper problems. Even foreign influence plays on [national] wounds that we refuse to address: income inequality, racism, corruption, a willingness to excuse bigotry," she tweeted. "He can stay, he can go. He can be impeached, or voted out in 2020. But removing Trump will not remove the infrastructure of an entire party that embraced him; the dark money that funded him; the online radicalization that drummed his army; nor the racism he amplified+reanimated."

Source:

https://www.newsweek.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-supports-impeachment-reality-votes-senate-1375737
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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The B-Movie Vault @thebmovievault.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Lady on the right's husband is getting his own damn slippers tonight.
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Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Black woman found hanging from tree was dead before body was 'staged'
bbc.co.uk
Black woman found hanging from tree was dead before body was 'staged'
Tasia Fortune's body was found hanging from a tree on the grounds of an abandoned home in Jackson in August.
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Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com · 26/09/2026
Domestic workers called for an increase in their Minimum Allowable Wage from HK$5,100 to HK$6,172 at a rally outside the Labour Department on Friday. In full: hongkongfp.com/2026/09/26/m... Photo: AMCB.
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Thor the Great Dane takes his Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider Veloce for a spin in Hollywood. Not too fast, Thor! A great shot by Ralph Crane for Life, 1961
A very large dog in the front seat of a very small sports car
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John dEFR0G does not pumpkin spice @defrog.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I'll bet Xi hasn't.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Glad about the result, but I don’t think it speaks well of us as a country that after two years of human rights violations, war crimes, naked gangster corruption, and contempt for the Constitution, he’s finally unpopular because gas got expensive.
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Matthew Bradford @matthewbradford.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
‘This is part of the Hong Kong Voices series which presents the voices of people in Hong Kong who are persecuted. It’s meant to give people in the rest of the world a chance to listen to them directly’.
briankernkongtsunggan.substack.com
Interview with Ng Kin-wai on the Day of His Release from Prison
He is the 22nd HK47 political prisoner to be released
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Robert McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I promise, no matter what they say they are doing, Meta is using this to scrape everything they can find on your devices and recording everything you do or say. It is what they’ve done with every product they’ve ever released. Nothing of yours is safe if you use this, no matter how careful you are.
inc.com
Meta’s New Muse AI Agent Read My Private Messages. I Never Asked It To
Permission isn't the same and what a user actually expects your AI product will do with their personal information.
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John dEFR0G does not pumpkin spice @defrog.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It is impossible for the police to abuse power in a police state where all use of police power is justified.
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John dEFR0G does not pumpkin spice @defrog.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Epic troll, Registration and Electoral Office. Epic troll.
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John dEFR0G does not pumpkin spice @defrog.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's reasonable to assume this criteria is already being applied to any questions about things the govt doesn't welcome questions about. It's also telling that asking for clarity on what is legal and what's not (a reasonable question by any standard) is specifically cited as "soft resistance". 1/2
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