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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 3h
To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
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One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center
A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.
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Marcus @dkircaldy.bsky.social · 3h
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Power Vibe · by NoMAGA @powervibe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Oversight without consequences is mostly theatre. The real question is whether Democrats will restore the tools—antitrust enforcement, labor rights, public-interest regulation—that make corporate power answerable.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 18h
there's a lot going on right now, but the ability to buy elections in order to stay out of prison is on the ballot whether you realize it or not
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Marcus @dkircaldy.bsky.social · 10h
Hold on now--we could apply this to Trump: "US justice department officials on Monday announced the filing of 'denaturalization actions' against more than three dozen people alleged to have committed such offenses as 'acting as an agent for a foreign government, committing voluntary manslaughter'"
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.
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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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Marcus @dkircaldy.bsky.social · 17h
And the previous one. And the ones who left, and his family. Navy leadership. The DOGE twerps. Elon Musk. The contractor who tore down the East Wing.
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Marcus @dkircaldy.bsky.social · 18h
That's so weird because we need to charge McGurk with genocide, along with all the criminals in both Trump administrations.
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Sid Eschenbach @sid-eschenbach.bsky.social · 19h
If the incoming dem house has one job, it's not legislating. With Trump veto, it's a fools errand. The ONE JOB is to build the cases for all the federal laws broken by this lawless administration. In '29, new AG Jack Smith won't need 2-3 years and can go virtually straight to the Grand Juries.
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Marcus @dkircaldy.bsky.social · 22h
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The Onion @theonion.com · 06/10/2026
Tilly Norwood Moved To Trash Folder By Deranged Fan
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
People forget that J6 was successful. Everyone who participated was let out of jail and the guy who perpetrated it is President again. There were no consequences. They have plenty of incentive to do a much bigger and worse version.
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Marcus @dkircaldy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
No I think you're right.
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I think about this more often than I'd like to.
A side-by-side of two head shots: at left, Gavin Newsom smiles, baring top and teeth in a strange expression; at right, Elizabeth Holmes smiles in an oddly similar way.
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...
Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.
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Marcus @dkircaldy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
static.klipy.com
Jerry Seinfeld: That's a Shame
ALT: Jerry Seinfeld: That's a Shame
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Why is 🇺🇸 media not reporting on this 128 day Albanian protest of Kushner and Ivanka’s insane corruption?
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🧌🥛 🏨 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
r/bald in fucking shambles
James gandolfini with a shaved head and normal receding hairline and it is NOT close which one looks better
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Marcus @dkircaldy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I think the minimum group is a large group.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 05/10/2026
Israel is developing a reservoir on land in the occupied West Bank, with water syphoned off from Palestinians.
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What is ‘Herod's Pool', and why is Israel developing it in the West Bank?
Israel is developing a reservoir on land in the occupied West Bank, with water syphoned off from Palestinians.
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Marcus @dkircaldy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I really want him to spend some time in prison first, but ok.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Constitution allows it. South Korea has proven it works. If you want to make impeachment viable—and so much else is pointless if you don't—then it can be done by a simple majority adopting a simple rules change: vote on the verdict by secret ballot.
theunpopulist.net
A Democratic Senate Should Adopt Secret Impeachment Ballots on a Priority Basis
Such a change, requiring no constitutional amendment, would free senators to vote their judgment instead of their fears
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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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Marcus @dkircaldy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Boarding Schools and Assimilation: From the 19th well into the 20th century, the U.S. federal government ran compulsory boarding schools designed to eradicate Native American cultures, strip children of their languages and traditions, and force assimilation.
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Marcus @dkircaldy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
California Genocide (1846–1873): State-sanctioned violence, state militias, and armed settlers targeted Indigenous Californians through mass murder, human hunting, and forced labor, causing thousands of deaths.
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Marcus @dkircaldy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Trail of Tears (1830–1850): Approximately 60,000 Native Americans were forcibly marched to Indian Territory (modern-day Oklahoma), resulting in an estimated 13,200 to 16,700 deaths from exposure, disease, and starvation.
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Marcus @dkircaldy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It's bad, but no, it's not the largest ethnic cleansing operation in US history: Indian Removal Act of 1830: Authorized the forced eviction of Eastern Native American tribes—including the Cherokee, Muscogee, Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw nations—to lands west of the Mississippi River.
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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 05/10/2026
A high profile impeachment, whether it ends in removal or not, brings massive attention to the crimes of a bad president, and anything that can whittle away at his support should be done.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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Marcus @dkircaldy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Do you know what Trump can veto? Ethics reforms. Do you know what he can't veto? Impeachments.
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It’s not nearly as advanced as they want you to think….
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Marcus @dkircaldy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You don’t say.
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Braden Serkas @portmanteauface.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I’m just a boy, standing in front of a girl, using obscure Victorian terminology and not understanding what isn’t working, where are you going baby, why are you flagging down a mutton shunter
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jay, god's most perfect princex @jaythenerdkid.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
why pay for school photos when, for the low, low price of feeding your own child's sensitive personal information to a machine that churns out child sexual exploitation imagery, you could get a bunch of photos of a creepy waxwork simulacrum of your child instead?
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Voter registration deadlines are SUNDAY in Alaska, Rhode Island, South Carolina. And MONDAY in: Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and *Texas*. If you live in these states, verify your registration now, literally.
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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
friend of mine is visiting rome and shared with us that they’re selling sexy priest calendars there now. i guess this is the kind of stuff that happens when you make the pope an american.
Picture of some souvenirs for sale , including three calendars with handsome priests
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Gale Na @poisonjr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If I stay on X the everything app for too long it makes me feel like the world is just miles of people dragging IV lines behind them and asking me if they're pretty in every direction
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Mind-boggling - just mind-boggling Now expected to peak at an extraordinary 4.2C in December
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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent
Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range
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Marcus @dkircaldy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
His ex-girlfriend? Who are you talking about?
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How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 02/10/2026
Listen: I don’t want to minimize the danger of high e-bike speeds. But if the problem here is that stores sell e-bikes that can drive faster than legal limits, then where’s the story about how literally *every car dealership has been doing the same thing for decades*?!?
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Hidden cameras show some stores unlocking speed limits on e-bikes, selling e-scooters that go up to 120 km/h | CBC News
A new hidden camera investigation by Marketplace shows how some stores are selling e-scooters and e-bikes with top speeds much higher than provincial speed limits and with recommended rider ages young...
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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 01/10/2026
BREAKING NEWS: Tensions between Thor and the Care Bears have escalated rapidly overnight.
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Marcus @dkircaldy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Please be serious.
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Marcus @dkircaldy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
He really is kind of stupid.
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
the last shipment of arms (including bombs) to Israel Biden authorized was on January 5th 2025 and I still have people insisting the left didn't give him enough credit
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Full details in the article below
gizmodo.com
Trump Asked Grok About Potential Blowback Before Kidnapping Venezuela's President: Report
It's horrifying to imagine Trump asking AI for advice.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I tend to joke that a lot of bad decisions made both by the U.S. government and corporate America seem like leaders getting bad ideas from Claude. I was wrong. It’s bad ideas from Grok.
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