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Some software vanishes simply because nobody thought to save it. 💾 Journalist Josh Renaud recounts recovering obscure software through the Internet Archive. 🖥️ 📚 “Recovering Lost Software” appears in VANISHING CULTURE from the #InternetArchive. 📖 Download & read, FREE: archive.org/details/vani...

Book cover titled “Vanishing Culture” on a teal background. Pixel-art style graphics show a VHS tape, open book, film reel, chain link, and vinyl record dissolving into digital fragments. At the bottom, a cursor icon points to the word “SAVE,” alongside an archive-style building icon, evoking digital preservation.

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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 6h

The 988 suicide prevention hotline's Press 3 option — which provides specialized services to LGBTQ callers — has been restored more than a year after the Trump administration shut it down. Confirmed by HHS and the office of Senator Tammy Baldwin, who led on legislation that forced its restoration

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Don Sheldon 🌱 @donsheldon.bsky.social · 2h

Twice as many independents as Democrats, and twice as many Republicans as both of those combined. And they're this scared.

VOTE DAHO

Idaho has

1,030,522 registered voters.

646,820 Republicans
246,923 Unaffiliated
122,021 Democrats

Voter Age
18-29 154,877
30-44 234,447
45-59 236,493
60-74 262,173
75+ 142,532

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Don Sheldon 🌱 @donsheldon.bsky.social · 4h

Looks like a poster for a punk band.

The physical therapy department has labeled a piece of equipment with messy sharpie.

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Don Sheldon 🌱 @donsheldon.bsky.social · 13h

When your goal is making everyone's life better, you fund science, improve social programs, broaden educational outreach, work toward greater civil rights, and welcome immigrants. When your goal is to create a desperate underclass that will do your bidding out of fear you... do the opposite.

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Don Sheldon 🌱 @donsheldon.bsky.social · 13h

Miami? I'm hard pressed to imagine two US cities that are more culturally different. Also the Dolphins suck. (I assume, I don't really follow sports. (I looked it up, they are currently the worst team in the league, ha!))

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Don Sheldon 🌱 @donsheldon.bsky.social · 13h

This is the exact same thing as your ten your old telling you that he saw a YouTube short about how it's fine to eat cookies for breakfast and you can't tell him he's wrong because he can do what he wants. It deserves the same level of respect.

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Don Sheldon 🌱 @donsheldon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Do I know any gutter people? Did I do this right?

I hacked together junction of two gutter downspouts. I think it looks pretty cool but it's my first time so who knows? They don't carry these parts in store, you can get them shipped but they're $60 so the guy just told me to cut em up and jam em together.

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Don Sheldon 🌱 @donsheldon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Keeping this one for a while. NYT finally getting enough guts to be snarky.

NYTimes

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America's Chatbot

President Trump unveiled an A.I. search tool that answers questions about the U.S. government. It frequently contradicts him.

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Don Sheldon 🌱 @donsheldon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Remembering when Covid started and how trump did so many stupid, stupid things and killed maybe millions of people, but I thought then "good thing our government can do a lot independent of the president, we'll be ok," and I'm pretty sure if then was now we would all die.

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Don Sheldon 🌱 @donsheldon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Weird how all these Unitary Executive Theory guys finally got their wish by giving the most unimaginably stupid and hateful person in the world the power to obliterate them if they blink disloyally. Think they regret it?

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Don Sheldon 🌱 @donsheldon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Think we could get him to set the price of gas at $4.54⁷ as an homage to himself with an executive order? It'd be nice to save 20¢. Because gas is $4.79⁹ now, my god!

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sure, the 2024 election was one too, but 2026 might be the clearest intelligence test ever presented to the American electorate. Taken at face value, he's saying he stole hundreds of billions from the gov't, hid it somewhere Congress can't reach, and he pinky swears he will give you a piece. Really.

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Don Sheldon 🌱 @donsheldon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Great joy of today: Home Depot carries these in store!

A weird rectangular electrical thing with two red and two black wires attached to it. It's a thermostat for a baseboard heater.

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Don Sheldon 🌱 @donsheldon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Great find at Half Price Books last weekend. #IYKYK

Picture of a tiny part of a game board where a weird cartoon amoeba thinks "Ludo, ergo sum."

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Don Sheldon 🌱 @donsheldon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

How many times does *this* Supreme Court have to tell them no? This is like the third time this week or something.

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Don Sheldon 🌱 @donsheldon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Screw you, John Roberts, I wish all the punishments of the deepest hell for you before you leave this Earth. And after.

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Dan in Kansas City @daninkc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Kansas Livestock Association comes out against the ICE Raids????!!!!

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Don Sheldon 🌱 @donsheldon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This exists. I thought it was another joke but it's real.

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Don Sheldon 🌱 @donsheldon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I wish we had this rule for the people that make webpages for data entry work, especially when it's replacing forty year old, cobol-run, telnet-able systems. If you've never done the work, how are you making the tools? (Badly, that's how.)

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Don Sheldon 🌱 @donsheldon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I love this so much I'm a little misty-eyed about it.

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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

DoorDash spent $1.4 million trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming NYC mayor. Mamdani just made them pay $131.5 million in wage theft settlements to 264,000 delivery workers. This is why they fear working class solidarity. It comes with accountability.

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Don Sheldon 🌱 @donsheldon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Local Pittsburgh bookstore event tomorrow celebrating Dolly's Imagination Library. www.readingreadypittsburgh.org/futureevents

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Seattle just became the first city in America to ban grocery stores from engaging in surveillance pricing. This is a huge win for consumers against companies that abuse their personal data to rip them off. Watch former FTC Chair Lina Khan explain.

youtube.com

The Shady World of Surveillance Pricing (Ft. Lina Khan)

Should corporations be able to weaponize your personal data to rip you off?Well, they may already be doing that thanks t

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Don Sheldon 🌱 @donsheldon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Frickin' metformin?! All the talk about insulin prices and they were scamming yinz on metformin too! Going through the list is definitely with your time. Maybe not, the more claimants the more the payout gets diluted, but you know what I mean!

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Don Sheldon 🌱 @donsheldon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What are the chances that it's exactly the two roads where we operate that the town decided to tear up for resurfacing today. Anyway, I've got a refrigerator on a dolly that's not gonna go down the road itself.

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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 23/09/2026

Main-belt asteroid (14331) Alyankovic, discovered March 2, 1981, by Schelte John Bus at Siding Spring Observatory, was named for "Weird Al" Yankovic on Sept 7, 2026. Located between Mars and Jupiter, it orbits the sun every 3.8 years.

Weird Al Yankovic appearing on Space Ghost

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Don Sheldon 🌱 @donsheldon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

To reiterate the most important part of my conversation with/speech at my niece: Never give two weeks notice. Two weeks is from when you'd retire in your sixties from same company you started at with a party, a gold watch, and a pension. They are giving you nothing; give nothing in return.

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Don Sheldon 🌱 @donsheldon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Press is basically "if we ignore him maybe he'll go away" and I am here for it. Especially because when you're the news it's kinda true.

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 21/09/2026

If European countries & other signatories to the International Criminal Court have any self-respect, they'd sanction Rubio & Trump for obstructing investigations of Netanyahu's war crimes.

wsj.com

Exclusive | Trump Ramps Up Bid to Dismantle International Criminal Court

The U.S. administration is preparing sweeping sanctions that would cut the court off from much of the global financial system.

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David Zoltan (he/they) @wonkicorn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Good on Van Hollen. These are extraordinary times and extraordinary measures are called for. This is the right thing to do.

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Daniel Kwan @danielhkwan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Putting a call out for TTRPG artists! Doing an initial discovery for an artist to work on a new cyberpunk, body horror action game I'm designing. Please link your portfolio! NO AI.

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Don Sheldon 🌱 @donsheldon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We are so deep in the "how did good people allow this to happen?" part of the history book that there is no going back. The next chapter might be "they stopped it but it was already too late." If we're lucky.

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Don Sheldon 🌱 @donsheldon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Imagine if you stole a hundred million from your boss. Jail forever. Or even the five hundred they stole from each person. They would ruin your life. But the company just says "oops" and gives the money back. No harm no foul.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A couple weeks ago I heard a joyful shriek from across the street. My neighbor kids, who I planted milkweed for, found 2 monarch caterpillars by their stoop. This week, those monarchs hatched. Our block is fully concrete, .3 miles to the closest green space. But we’re supporting the life cycle 🥰

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Don Sheldon 🌱 @donsheldon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Finally. Good job guys, I mean it.

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Trump saying we urgently need well stocked sniper nests overlooking the nation’s main location for political protest should ring alarm bells.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Everyone involved in this, including the Palantir employees who built the software and the executives that sold it, need to be tried for warcrimes

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Don Sheldon 🌱 @donsheldon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

In a sane world "there are no jobs that need to be done" would be celebratory. But clearly it's not. I think this comes mostly from confusing jobs for work. There's plenty of work to be done, but it's all the kind that no one with money wants to pay for; ergo, there are no jobs.

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Don Sheldon 🌱 @donsheldon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Right wing "intellectuals" are what dumb people think smart people sound like. AIs are what right wing "intellectuals" think smart people sound like. Neither one actually knows.

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Don Sheldon 🌱 @donsheldon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Passed out on the couch last night trying to shove enough calories past my re-surgeryed teeth to not die of starvation. Now my neck hurts too and I'm still hungry.

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is the most masculine video on the internet right now

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Don Sheldon 🌱 @donsheldon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Wonder Woman wants your help! No no, OG variety, she's cool.

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Amelia Sandrine Reisinger 🏳️‍⚧️ @ameliasandrine.com · 17/09/2026

Gonna start referring to Democrats who take anti-trans stances as “Biological Republicans”

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 16/09/2026

Late last month, ICE reportedly put 12 Somali men on a plane and told them they were being deported to Somalia. Instead, they arrived at Guantanamo Bay, where seven or eight of them remain. Since then, the men have said they have been subjected to frigid temperatures and are shackled at all times.

motherjones.com

The Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants in Gitmo

“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.”

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TJ @tjsls.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It is like something out of Red Dawn honestly. It felt weird and Stalinist. I used to love DC. I don’t think I’ll go back for a long, long time u less work demands it and I’ll ensure they don’t.

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