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DavidJ

@djedi.bsky.social
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Gay software dev and married parent of 2 He/him/Pavlova

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12h
“Every member of this ethnic group is a criminal who needs to be imprisoned by the state” is just pure uncut Nazi shit
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@Shamlet @shamlet.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This feels like something we've lost more broadly -- a consequence of privileging capitalist efficiency above all else (get me just what I want just when I want it)
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Micah @rincewind.run · 19h
you’re not letting us work three days a week, you’re all going to start competing for who has the most trillions of dollars instead of billions of dollars while spending significant portions of it to make sure that any taxes that could be used to that end never come to pass
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 20h
Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 18h
80% of the country is pissed off about something and they're blaming GOP incumbents for it, the worst possible strategy for a Dem challenger is to tell the base "I don't share your values" while also telling swing voters "I'm so out of touch I think 'men in women's sports' is a real concern."
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 21h
Wall Street and corporations have schemed for decades to stack the bench with judges who rule against consumers and workers. Result? Federal courts have distorted the law to further rig the economy—and you're paying the price. Democrats must be clear-eyed about this challenge.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 21h
I like how the GOP's position is that every single form of labor is trivial and pointless. The only "work" with any purpose or dignity is to be an owner, politician, or talking head. Everything else is contemptible and could be done by anyone with no training. Hence accountants just "do math."
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20h
We're maybe a week away from a Trump official shouting "White Power!" at one of these conferences.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Whether it's Bill Clinton using tax-payer money to pay for the postage on letters back to people who wrote to his cat or Donald Trump steering hundreds of millions of dollars in government contracts to his son's companies, both presidents engaged in corruption on an unprecedented scale.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
they did the thing
an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
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hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
one of the best devs of her generation: boss, i found this error scenario, but don't worry, i've created a fix fox it an- middest male manager: pssh no highly trained man would do that, we don't need your girl math best male astronaut: *immediately fucks up* middest manager: save us girl math
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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
And we still can take this shit seriously! In fact, we *must* still take this shit seriously! If we don’t grind this kind of conduct into a fine powder and fire it into the depths of space then it is going to continue.
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is just a relentlessly horrific story. It’s hard to adequately contextualize the moral desolation of this unfolding in the midst of a midterms against a ruling party helmed by inveterate rapists and rape apologists. www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/congres...
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. A Phoenix New Times exclusive.
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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We definitely do not have to worry about this.
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.
, it's
and I
have some personal news to share with you.
Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I feel deeply that we should have salad tonight
This year has been challenging in many ways, and I have immense gratitude for the kindness and support of family, community, and people like you who have continued to stand by me through everything. It means the world, and I wanted you to be among the first to know that squash is in the oven and kale is in the fridge.As many of you are aware, ve been navigating one of the most challenging periods of my day while waiting for dinner.
Facing baseless federal hunger brought on by not eating since lunch, fighting for the working kids of this country, and now caring for a mean toddler and helping him grow up in a world that isn't always easy. But it has also reminded me exactly why I do this work and who I do it for.
I will never stop working to eat dinner. I will never stop fighting for what is right, even when there is also some feta in the fridge. And I will never stop being so very thankful that you are by my side in this important work and that there is tahini in the pantry for dressing
With love and gratitude,
stop to end
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is incredibly important. I feel deeply that curbing sexual violence will come from raising social expectations of men, not from ‘educating’ them. I fear this is an unpopular view, because people are afraid to face up to the scale of the issue.
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Out of Town @thepurley.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
You write the paper to learn things! The writing is part of the learning - ahhhhhhhhhh
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
This will sound weird but love yourself enough to write your own term papers.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”
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Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is almost exactly what I say to my students. I don't have any use for your essays! You have use for your essays!
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Downside: The US now has government goon squads, and deploys them to try to intimidate voters into voting the way the president wants. Upside: They don’t have nearly enough goons. Not even close. They’re hoping fear will make up for that big shortfall, but it won’t.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
Troy Jackson: "As late as 2024, the FBI was circling around Sen. Collins ... then when President Trump came back, his administration dismantled the investigation. Now she votes with Donald Trump 96% of the time. Look, I don't owe Donald Trump nothing."
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DavidJ @djedi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I don’t understand how a president could have said this 90 years ago and here, 90 years later, it feels like not even a majority of Americans have learned this lesson.
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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.” ~President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936. Image: Universal History Archive/Getty Images.
This black and white photo shows a clean-shaven man, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, sitting at a desk and wearing a suit. He holds a paper in his right hand and appears to be speaking into a microphone that sits on the desk.
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
the tech industry is about to invent books
Andrew Yeung 
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We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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DavidJ @djedi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I have 10 minutes so the 2 people who read my skeets get a thread. Topic: Stochastic Parrots, I mean Generative AI - specifically LLMs. Stochastic parrots is a good tempering description.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Congress has the power to do pretty much whatever it wants with the Supreme Court. It can expand the membership of the court, and it can punish it in several ways too. We simply need to fill that Congress with a Democratic majority that has the will to use that power.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I'm not sure if @oversightdemocrats.bsky.social have issued a statement on this yet, but they should publicly announce that if Russ Vought tries to fuck with the election in any way they will fire him out of a cannon when they take power.
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Headline Vibe · by NoMAGA @headlinevibe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Kansas voters rejected an anti-abortion constitutional amendment in 2022, and Ohio voters protected abortion rights in 2023. Those results made the “run against abortion rights to compete” theory look especially detached from voters.
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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Thinking back to a year ago, when Ezra Klein did a podcast with Ross Douthat & said that to be competitive Democrats should run anti-abortion candidates in Ohio & Kansas.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 07/10/2026
Roughly two-thirds of Americans support the idea of Medicare-for-all, according to a new KFF poll, the highest share since the health policy research and news organization began polling on the idea 10 years ago.
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Medicare-for-all support is rising, KFF poll finds
The survey also found that the public’s views of a national health plan are highly malleable.
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The Big Picture @readthebigpicture.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The algorithm doesn't want you calm, informed, or connected. It wants you angry, addicted, and isolated. Because that's what lines the pockets of folks like Musk and Zuckerberg.
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karanormal activity 💜 @deadontheoutside.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
coroner: it appears the subject died of multiple tab wounds
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager
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A secret third thing @secretthirdthing.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"chatGPT thinks I am a genuis" is just the modern version of "I think this stripper is in love with me"
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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 06/10/2026
Early voting turnout in Virginia is jaw dropping stuff among Latino voters. Across all other demographics, numbers are well ahead of 2022 at the same point but Hispanic/Latino turnout is 50% higher than it was in 2024-- a presidential election year!
Race, 2022 Count (Share), 2024 Count (Share), 2026 Count (Share)
Asian or Pacific Islander, 7,293 (3.61%), 19,832 (3.43%), 15,827 (4.59%)
Black, 27,395 (13.54%), 85,589 (14.82%), 56,985 (16.53%)
Hispanic or Latino, 4,260 (2.11%), 14,508 (2.51%), 21,577 (6.26%)
Native American, 71 (0.04%), 285 (0.05%), 509 (0.15%)
Uncoded, 818 (0.4%), 1,512 (0.26%), 87 (0.03%)
White, 161,779 (79.99%), 455,802 (78.9%), 249,021 (72.22%)
Unknown, 639 (0.32%), 169 (0.03%), 820 (0.24%)
Total, 202,255, 577,697, 344,826

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A Democrat got drunk once. A Republican made his fortune swindling sick people. We report, you decide. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/u...
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The Campaign for Ohio’s Next Governor May Be the Ugliest in the Country
The candidates for Ohio governor have significant policy differences, but the campaign ads have been strikingly personal, with exaggerated portrayals of one candidate as a con artist and the other as ...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
4/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck. After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home. Then they threw his ID out of the truck.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026
i also read his op ed on originalism in the WSJ and i would love to know how presidential criminal immunity emerges from the structure of the constitution, especially when the literal authors of that constitution insisted that a president could he tried and even straight up executed
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Cory Miller🌹 @corymiller.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Because the engineers are working all working mandatory overtime and are underpaid relative to top-deck crew. 42% of ferry engineers have had to cancel planned vacations because of short-staffing. WSF are in the wrong here but won't admit that. theorcasonian.com/wsf-engineer...
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WSF engineers ask governor, lawmakers to address wage gap driving canceled and delayed sailings
Uncompetitive wages and reliance on overtime driving burnout, poor morale ||| FROM MARINE ENGINEERS BENEFICIAL ASSOCIATION ||| Seattle, WA – At a press conference today at Colman Dock, Washingto...
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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The IceCube neutrino detector has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in physics. The Trump administration has proposed slashing its budget in half in 2027.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
And the NYT is so proud of its both-sidesing the article is leading the website. Readers are offended, as well they should be. Most recommended comment:
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The headline refers to "exaggerated portrayals of one candidate as a con artist and the other as a drunk"; the article then spends a lot of time detailing a single incident, which has been widely exaggerated beyond all proportion and recognization, and finally turns to Ramaswamy's career exploits, which are by no measure being exaggerated beyond defensible arguments as to their social impact. Why couldn't this article be accurately headlined: In Ugly Fight For Ohio Governor, Exaggeration of Single Personal Incident Is Pitted Against a Plutocrat's Career and Its Consequences. Concerned readers are eager to know.
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
New: Some Democrats don’t expect to fill a Supreme Court vacancy under Trump BLUMENTHAL: "I think it is slim to none that we would support a nominee from this administration." GALLEGO: "No, we’ve got to do exactly what McConnell did to us." Big 2026 court stakes: www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
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Some Democrats don’t expect to fill a Supreme Court vacancy under Trump
Democrats need a net gain of four seats to capture the Senate. If so, they’d control what happens in a vacancy, as Justice Samuel Alito admits he’s thought about retirement.
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/10/2026
I mean, it’s an incentive thing right now companies, even ones who aren’t ideologically aligned with the GOP, do believe the GOP will fuck them over for not going along and they don’t believe Dems will impose consequences for that you’ve gotta change that, executives need to think twice
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
I remember when Obama criticized Fox News and all of DC's Very Important People spent *weeks* taking to their fainting couches at the horror of it.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 06/10/2026
A federal judge said that police conducted an “unconstitutional warrantless search” by using Flock cameras to reconstruct a woman’s travels without probable cause. wapo.st/4ANsaDS
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Just a reminder that these Haitian immigrants in Springfield -- who came here legally, did everything they were asked to do and more -- became a target of federal crackdowns because the white nationalist vice president shamelessly spread racist lies about them.
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J.D. Vance Defends False Claims Against Haitians: 'If I Have to Create Stories… That's What I'm Going to Do'
J.D. Vance defended his debunked claims that Haitian immigrants are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.
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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever
A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities
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