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Brian Jones

@dingodog19.bsky.social
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Physics, environmental science, hardware engineering, old school data analysis, philosophy, theology, affordable housing, police reform, mountain biking, dogs, baseball. He/him, love is love. 🌈 Influences: Mr. Rogers, Muppets, Richard Scarry

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Josh Manning @joshmanning.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Here’s a gift link for this piece, which hits on so many themes I have been struggling with recently. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...
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Opinion | I’m Exhausted. You’re Demoralized. We Weren’t Built for a World Like This. (Gift Article)
A greatly underappreciated virtue of other presidents was that you could forget about them for weeks at a time.
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Brian Jones @dingodog19.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Are these the last 3 days of regular season games we will see in a long time? I hope they settle the CBA quickly but I don't think they will #mlb #baseball
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The Wolves @the-wolves.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Ray Goins for Palo Alto City Council ✊🏽
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Every day that major media fail to clearly declare that the president is out of his mind and is building a dictatorship is a day when they are betraying their duty to the American people.
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Night of the Living Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I know trans people are a small minority & it's hard to consider their interests in the broader calculation of your campaign strategy, but you know who's an even smaller minority? People for whom limiting trans participation in public life is a vote deciding issue AND are not locked in Republicans.
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
hey man, I think there's been some confusion here! we have been calling you racist because you're staggeringly batshit racist. glad we could clear that up
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
There’s such an easy answer to this “gotcha” question and it’s “Sports are inherently unsafe and unfair and it’s ridiculous to single out trans athletes when we allow 150 pound linebackers to go up against 260 pound linemen in freshman football on a daily basis. Let kids play with their friends.”
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
For the past two years I've been tracking every bill proposed in state legislatures across the country to figure out what Republican plans for the future are. The answer, based on these 1,182 bills, is that they want to repeal the 20th Century heartlandsignal.com/2026/09/09/b...
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Proof from the states: the right wing attempt to repeal the 20th century – Heartland Signal
Republicans are in Dallas this week making the case that the other side is the extreme one. We read the legislation they introduced in all 50 states and built a searchable record of what we found: 1,1...
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 02/09/2026
The beginning.
Twitter post of the first CPSC safety meme. A Black baby is sitting up in a force field. The text reads: Imagine a 3 foot force field around your baby. That's how far away cords should be at all times.
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The Princess Bride (1987) @princessbride1987.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Arte Moreno bought the Angels in 2003 (the year after they won the Series) for $184 million. He then spent 23 years running them into the ground, let the stadium decay, wasted Trout and Ohtani, and sold for $4 billion. And the owners are crying poverty and threatening to kill baseball next year.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
we have immigrant concentration camps, diarrhea lettuce, zillion dollar gas, suicidal soldiers, measles resurgence, national park land sold to the highest bidder and teachers crowdfunding school supplies, but the real problems facing our country are a muslim senate candidate and an influencer
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Is Flock the only mass surveillance tool/network that people should be worried about? No. But it is an entry point for people from all walks of life to the fight against mass surveillance and I'm glad people are paying attention and taking action.
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Chris T @n0v0w3ls.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We're basically trying to recreate the US healthcare system, but for housing.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Amazingly, letting Americans have healthcare insurance is "communism" for the GOP, whereas the Government seizing a controlling stake in 21 companies is not. They have some very strange idea of what communism is.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
weird how you never hear about police department layoffs
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Brian Jones @dingodog19.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Five albums that shaped me? Men at Work - Business as Usual Graceland - Paul Simon Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits Indigo Girls - Indigo Girls Dale Warland Singers - Blue Wheat
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Brian Jones @dingodog19.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
"MAGA is the last breath of the Confederacy, and Imma be glad to watch the Millennials and Gen Z bury y'all."
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Brad in Syracuse @bradinsyracuse.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Superior Huron America Michigan Erie
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 25/08/2026
Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines. When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
like the reason Dolly feels like an exceptional human being is because all the things we're talking about today in her lifetime of philanthropy trace back to just .... having empathy and we live in the era of "I Don't Know How to Explain to You That You Should Care About Other People"
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 23/08/2026
In my opinion, a failure to understand the white-hot rage so many people feel about ICE's campaign of terror and oppression is what has taken some establishment Dems by surprise in their primaries. Abolish ICE and Nuremberg 2.0 is basically the floor for what the Dem electorate is demanding.
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 10/02/2024
John Lee Hooker
John Lee Hooker- The Round Table at the Lenox School of Jazz at The Music Inn. Stockbridge, MA 1951
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
There are going to be Democrats who say we shouldn’t rip it all out — it’s already built, we have other priorities — but removing the visible signs of Trumpism is absolutely necessary.
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Halloween III: Season of the Ben @franzferdinand2.bsky.social · 02/10/2023
In an alternate world where you are a murderer and Columbo is investigating you, what would he have to pretend that he and/or his wife are interested in?
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Brian Jones @dingodog19.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
These guys always say that if you aren't doing anything wrong, then you don't have anything to hide. So why are they hiding? www.instagram.com/reel/DcSktQp... #GetTheFlockOut #Flock #ALPR
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Brian Jones @dingodog19.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
2017 Mazda3 hatch. Best looking car under $35k in the last 20 years. bsky.app/profile/sesm...
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 21/08/2026
We need to bring back the hatchback. The people don't want sedans. They don't want stationwagons. They don't want SUVs and crossovers. They want indestructible sporty little hatchbacks with carrying capacity that feels like a bag of holding.
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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
man what what the hell are we doing here no one is actually worried about "boys in girls sports" it's all a fabrication preying on a cacophony of misinformation and misrepresentation in order to further the genocide of an infinitesimally small group that is literally just trying to hang out
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Brian Jones @dingodog19.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Does anyone know why the frame rate is much better on USA than on KPIX+? Seems like the same camera angle, so probably the same feed? #Valkyries #WNBA
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Brian Jones @dingodog19.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"Reality is far more depressing — the rich and powerful are as stupid (or stupider) than a regular person, they just got lucky." Ed Zitron @edzitron.com
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
NEW: Flock has said for years its cameras don’t identify or track people. We obtained the code for its police AI and rebuilt parts of it. The tool can find witnesses, surface associates, search people by race or physical description, and flag vehicles by how they move. W/ @dell.bsky.social
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Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code
Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plate...
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Brian Jones @dingodog19.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
VALKYRIES #WNBA
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Stretch Cunningham @stretchcunningham.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
To H Jeffries & H Stevens: How difficult is it to say, "We may disagree on some nuances, but affordability, taxing billionaires, spending tax dollars home, and no more wars are popular and hardly 'extreme' messages." There. Done.
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josparsons.bsky.social @josparsons.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Really wish he knew where the knife is buttered. How about we knock down the fascists before debaters’ points over ideological purity? I’m DSA in Ohio, but I’ll vote for anyone on the left who takes down a GOP candidate. We can debate later.
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Brian Jones @dingodog19.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Working on a story about Silicon Valley, and I needed some fictitious VC firms. Made up some silly cliched names and was shocked that so many of them were real. Warpdrive Wormhole XWing Pirate Ventures Melange is used by a VC AND a PE firm Atreides Folks, for the love of God stop with the scifi
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
One of the guys who helps me out on the farm said "The one thing nobody tells you about farming is how much of it is texting people" it's nice to know nothing has changed
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Wow. Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they doesn’t leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively.
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"In today's society, you know, everybody's filming everything, everybody has a cell phone," Glueck said. If an officer punches someone on camera, that can go viral in an instant; even a standard taser leaves puncture wounds. But "the glove is low optic, and it looks better on camera, and it looks better to those witnesses. With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars."But local police across the country are still eagerly buying the gloves—in large part so that they can harm people and avoid being sued for it. It's been successful "from the patrolmen to the jailers," Lumpkin County Sheriff Stacy Jarrard said in a Compliant Technologies promotional video. "It's been a great tool as far as mitigating liability," according to Nelson County Jailer Justin Hall.
Bob Couey of the Floyd County Sheriff's Department sung the GLOVE's praises, too: "I highly recommend these gloves to anybody that's looking for a utility they can use that is conducive to not leading to lawsuits."
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
to be clear you don't need to tell me or literally anyone else on the internet that these changes don't make this a noninvasive technology, i am merely saying that the huge amount of time and effort activists have spent protesting/i and others have spent reporting on this company has them sweating
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Lady Talia @djtalia.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Find out if Flock is in your neighborhood. thehill.com/policy/techn...
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Flock camera map: How many are in your neighborhood?
Flock Safety, a surveillance equipment company, says it partners with more than 5,000 law enforcement agency partners across 6,000 communities. Is your city one of them?
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 12/08/2026
“In sum, the documents show that local, state, and federal law enforcement are monitoring anti-Flock activists and are trying to tie together people who politically oppose mass surveillance with vigilantes who destroy Flock cameras.”
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The Government is Monitoring Anti-Flock TikTok and Instagram Accounts
Documents from law enforcement spy centers show the government is warning cops of "extensive and ongoing chatter on social media" about methods to "physically destroy Flock LPR cameras."
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I'll be in the street in five minutes I'll tell you that
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💙🏳️‍🌈 Kh’ymm (aka Goldie) 🏳️‍🌈💙 @thegoldfishmind.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Sharing because he deserves to be heard on his support of the Black community. My Black & Brown friends did in fact vote for him. As a matter of fact, one of them, his sister is friends with Abdul. She says he’s an incredible human. I hope he continues to build trust & support. #Pinks
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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
El-Sayed, Lawrence and McKinney all won progressive campaigns in Michigan last night by talking about climate and clean energy like it was a kitchen-table issue — because skyrocketing energy bills and endless wildfire smoke matter to people.
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Ryan O'Horo @ryanohoro.com · 05/08/2026
> Police in Wisconsin used Flock to determine that a man “travels to Michigan frequently,” where marijuana is legal, then back to Wisconsin, where it is illegal. They then used his travel as part of the probable cause justification to search his car for weed; he was arrested on possession charges.
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