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TrailOfSalt

@derekjon.bsky.social
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PDX-based rants. General trip-bumming. Half-assed magick.

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Rob Tracinski @tracinski.bsky.social · 1h
One of the big things Trump did was to mobilize people who don't normally vote, and it turns out that was a mistake. We really didn't want a lot of those people to vote, because they know absolutely nothing about the issues.
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TrailOfSalt @derekjon.bsky.social · 4h
Context unimportant. We all know who the ghouls are.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 7h
The NYT is the Weekly World News now. There's no difference. This is never going to happen, not in our lifetime, and especially not with the fuck ass hucksters who run Silicon Valley today. They cannot do any of this. The NYT is just lying for them. This is so wild, man. This paper is asswipe
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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
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Caliban Darklock @darklock.com · 02/10/2026
This is within my lifetime and I watched our Congressional leaders DEBATE it.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
was discussing this at dinner last night: one of the many problems with trying to make policy 'that the American public wants' is that the American public change their minds all the time and are frequently very very stupid.
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You're losing the war you started for no reason, dumbass.
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TrailOfSalt @derekjon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yes yes the Eric Schmidt / Katie Britt dumbfounded idiot "oh-shit-we-got-caught" meme faces thing is hilarious, but it also bums me out because these incompetent and utter wastes of human life are in charge of our country and are making decisions that affect us all. 🤡🇺🇸🤡
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TrailOfSalt @derekjon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Behold the true face of the anti-christ. True demon possession. Vile and evil blood bubbling out of its skin. This is one of the handful of men who want to control society, control culture, and control your life.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Losers.
Republican Men Are More Likely To Blame Women For Their Problems chart
• Democrat
• Republican
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24
18 to 29
30 to 49
Source: Civility and Morality Survey, 2025.
50 to 64
65 and older
Survey Center
on American Life
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TrailOfSalt @derekjon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Incredible
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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
So much of the business of the past few years is silicon valley radicalized because for a brief moment there was social pressure that they couldn't be non-stop sexpests.
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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
there are still people in prison serving multi-decade mandatory minimum sentences for drug possession and the United States has not only legalized digital heroin, they’ve allowed it to place Super Bowl ads and buy your personal data to figure out how to sell your teenager more digital heroin
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We underestimate how much MAGA hostility and policy insanity comes from the fact that Trump people literally do not understand how things work
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TrailOfSalt @derekjon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Who cares
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Same people who seem to think it’s bad for China to beat us at AI are perfectly fine with China beating us at high speed rail, solar energy, wind energy, shall we go on
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Matthew Ingalls. Jonathan Newell. Winston Lee. Gillio Lopes. Diego Sarabia. Scott Norris. Scott Kretzschmar. The 7 men named as defendants in a civil complaint filed on Sept. 14 alleging they drugged and gang raped a Cornell student, identified as Jane Doe, in the Chi Phi house" October 2024."
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
the main thing AI is showing is that an awful lot of people have nothing to say about the world or themselves.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Millions voted for Trump because he would somehow make them rich but they feel poorer and they're mad about it. Millions of others didn't vote because obviously a Black woman can't be President and they're not sorry but they're mad Trump did what he promised instead of what they imagined he would.
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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Chinese Communist Party’s Politburo must be so dumbfounded by all of this that they simply can’t believe there isn’t some elaborate trick behind it -- it just can’t all be this stupid.
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TrailOfSalt @derekjon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I... I simply don't know how to process this response
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TrailOfSalt @derekjon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
John Henry West, Navio Forge, Monsula, and Admiral all damn day
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TrailOfSalt @derekjon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We enslaved people for a long time but then we didn't* so where is our reward where is our respect and our applause (*except we kept certain parts that we just couldn't shake etc)
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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My first choice is "zero billionaires," but if I can't have that I'll take "billionaires with night terrors of guillotines trying to buy off the public."
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The next Democratic president is going to pull the credentials Trump gave to some outlet called Crypto Newz with Da Rape Boyz and people will act like this is exactly like what Trump's doing now
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TrailOfSalt @derekjon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is why I'll never ever be a Bernie-believer
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 21/09/2026
You do get the sense that members of congress need more actual work to do
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TrailOfSalt @derekjon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Operation "Talk up the AI we now rely upon to hide the fact that it targets and blows up little girls oh and also nearly started WWIII" is in full effect and going great
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TrailOfSalt @derekjon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
He's like the 61st one too the whole family is on there
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TrailOfSalt @derekjon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Derek what is going on everyone is losing their fuggin' minds when the easiest and most obvious answer is that these AI techbros are greedy lying scumbags who are seeking to cash out what the hell
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
World War 3 machine Words spewed out from an AI machine will never be "intelligence." People in positions of responsibility need a deep understanding of the limitations of their tools. Those who are primed only for action and not thoughtfulness shouldn't be making decisions. Slow tf down!
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TrailOfSalt @derekjon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Here we are. AI is a very powerful yet very unreliable tool in many of its current applications. The real danger comes from the ignorant idiots that see AI as the final arbiter of truth. The only authority. There are so many of these types and they infest our government. They are tools themselves.
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TrailOfSalt @derekjon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Hahahahhahahahahahaa
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026
i am genuinely bewildered by people who say that the rise of white nationalism in the republican party is a response to the "woke left." like, did the woke left cause pat buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign? is the woke left why steve king had a long career in congress?
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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/09/2026
the problem for Dem consultants is that they haven't properly internalized that tech - not the rank and file, but the guys at the top - has completely turned against them and should now be treated as an implacable political enemy you can't win them back by playing nice on policy and you shouldn't
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TrailOfSalt @derekjon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
JFC
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TrailOfSalt @derekjon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Affart was right there and I missed it dammit
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TrailOfSalt @derekjon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Couldn't stick the landing but A for...effort
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Again - everyone who “just had concerns about their tax dollars” does not give a shit that their tax dollars have almost completely been redirected from Ukraine to gulag construction & continues complaining about Ukraine anyway
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I mean it seems to me that he would have been fine with his own death 🤷🏼‍♀️ "I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational." —Charlie Kirk
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TrailOfSalt @derekjon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Yes
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alexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"meet your new ai agent!" no. fuck you. fuck off. eat bee piss and then the bees. fuck you
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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The fact that both Democrats and Republicans are racing to the 10 side of a 90-10 issue really tells you a lot about the state of our democracy (it's a corporatocracy), and how both parties view democracy in general (as a nuisance).
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
(concerned reporter voice, talking to candidate) What is your message to stupid jerks who will never vote for you
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Micah @rincewind.run · 12/09/2026
for instance my generalization that everyone in the trump administration is a garbage monster who should be jailed seems pretty accurate to me
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TrailOfSalt @derekjon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This really is it. From the NBA to the NFL to MLB to the fucking Tour de France...no one really gives a shit about fairness and if they really did they'd lose half their players and all of the owners. The ultimate goal of anti-trans sports legislation is to eliminate trans folks. That's it.
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TrailOfSalt @derekjon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I was an adult when 9/11 happened, and what you are talking about here is fantastical nonsense. The bond you are referring to was united hatred. Americans wanted an enemy, and they were given a few to choose from (Muslims, Iraq, Afghanistan). We have learned absolutely nothing from this.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 11/09/2026
Genuine question, how did the boomers go from posting "I do NOT give Facebook permission to use my likeness or videos" to just dumping their photos and personal information into ChatGPT
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
sikhs were beat up for supposedly being muslim. muslims were branded terrorist cells. democrats were sent anthrax and called pro-terrorist for opposing invading iraq. this post-9/11 unity you always hear republicans, democrats and the media talking about NEVER HAPPENED.
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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It’s becoming increasingly clear that the narrative around 911 is being written by people who were either children or not born at the time of 9/11. We were not holding hands and singing Kumbaya in the streets. In fact, things got pretty ugly and anyone who didn’t toe the line was called a traitor.
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