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Doug Urner (he/they) 🏳️‍⚧️

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"The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people." – Karl Marx, 1844 A prescient warning over 100 years before Alan Turing proposed his test for an intelligent machine.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1h
Time for this classic again.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 14h
Jack Smith defends his team of prosecutors: "I'm extremely proud to have worked with them, and the fact that they have been targeted illegally, lost their jobs illegally, and had their lives turned upside down by this Department of Justice is an outrage."
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Doug Urner (he/they) 🏳️‍⚧️ @douglasurner.bsky.social · 11h
This will make your day. It's better than anything that ever happened on Perry Mason. Then watch Sen. Klobuchar's fact check. It's priceless, though if you're from Missouri and especially if you voted for Schmitt, it might be be a tad embarrassing.
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Fish @fishmcneill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Why are American "service personnel" being allowed to point guns at people and force them out of their cars on UK streets? This is outside of their airbase. They have no authority to treat UK residents like this. And we don't want their shitty, cowardly culture imported over here.
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Doug Urner (he/they) 🏳️‍⚧️ @douglasurner.bsky.social · 21h
It would be really nice if the parents of boys were just as concerned about the consequences of rape as the parents of girls – and raised their sons accordingly.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
IMPORTANT: There are 15 states that require in-person registration 28–30 days before an election, meaning this maybe your last week to register. Check your registration at Vote.gov.
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Register to vote in your state | Vote.gov
Find the information you need to make registration and voting easy. Official voter registration website of the United States government.
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Derek gendvil @derekbshelby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Italy Shows How Amazon Can Be Forced to Bargain: Shut Down Its Distribution truthout.org/articles/ita...
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Italy Shows How Amazon Can Be Forced to Bargain: Shut Down Its Distribution
Amazon is huge and powerful, but Italian workers have shown it can be forced to negotiate. Could US workers do the same?
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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Black folks don’t hang themselves from trees.
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Sunderland Lollipops @sunderlandlolly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Did you know that a Farage Reform govt intends to scrap the NHS? The private health care system he wants to introduce would cost you £10,000s, like the US, where getting ill can bankrupt you. #ReformUK #Labour #GreenParty #Newcastle #SAFC� #NUFC
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Dee Chan @deechan17.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When you die, please don't take your organs with you. They will be of NO use to you. Please sign the back of your driver's license and be an organ donor. This is the highest form of "charity" because the recipient can do nothing for you except be grateful for your selfless gift.
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Doug Urner (he/they) 🏳️‍⚧️ @douglasurner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nope. Not going anywhere near Meta.
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Doug Urner (he/they) 🏳️‍⚧️ @douglasurner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yup. That "Liberty and Justice for all" thing we like to toss around. Some folks believe it. Some folks think it's really important.
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Doug Urner (he/they) 🏳️‍⚧️ @douglasurner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Every member of Congress swore an oath to the Constitution. As they stand by watching the incessant attacks on the Constitution by Trump and his cronies and do nothing how are they not in violation of their oaths?
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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Doug Urner (he/they) 🏳️‍⚧️ @douglasurner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Oligarch owned platforms refusing to run ads for the Musk documentary was hilarious. I can't think of a better recommendation for the documentary about Musk than "his billionaire friends don't want you to know about it." I guess they figured that out… bleeckerstreetmedia.com/musk
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MUSK | Only In Select Theaters October 9, Nationwide October 16
An incisive look behind the legend of Elon Musk, the world’s most heralded “inventor-entrepreneur” who has enormous influence on the world in which we all live.
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Doug Urner (he/they) 🏳️‍⚧️ @douglasurner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This. Then go to the dorm room with a baseball bat.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Doug Urner (he/they) 🏳️‍⚧️ @douglasurner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Teaching engineering without a social/political context is educational malpractice. Practicing engineering without that context? You're being used – and negligent.
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Doug Urner (he/they) 🏳️‍⚧️ @douglasurner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Nope, definitely not "Choosin' Texas" – even if they came to their senses and put Paxton and Abbot in jail and kicked out Musk I couldn't handle the heat in the summer. And Langley? I can't imagine going anywhere near Langley, except under duress, way too many spooky people there.
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
They’ve got to be Republicans!
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Doug Urner (he/they) 🏳️‍⚧️ @douglasurner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Many of those immigrants paid taxes and got little or nothing in return.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.
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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#ResistanceRoots Johnny Appleseed was born on this day in 1774 in Leominster, Province of Massachusetts Bay. He was a real person, and he planted a lot of apple trees, but he mainly sold them to make hard cider. He was also a pacifist, altruistic, revered nature and respected Indigenous tribes. /1
Johnny Appleseed. The romanticized image of Johnny Appleseed handing out sweet, shiny apples for children to bite into is a myth popularized much later. In the 1800s, the American frontier ran on alcohol. Water supplies weren’t safe to drink. Because fermenting killed off pathogens, hard cider became the primary daily beverage for entire families — even children. The average frontier settler drank 10.5 ounces of hard cider per day. Because Appleseed refused to graft trees due to his religious beliefs, his apples were genetically unpredictable, small and bitter. Known as “spitters” because you’d spit them out if you tried to eat them raw, these tart apples were perfect for pressing into hard cider. Resourceful frontier families used them for other staples as well, including apple butter, applesauce and livestock feed, and used a process called “freeze distillation” to make applejack. Note, however, that Appleseed rarely sold apples. He sold the young saplings and the land itself.
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Doug Urner (he/they) 🏳️‍⚧️ @douglasurner.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
On my way out to canvas for @nohateinwasate.bsky.social today, I noticed that the No Hate sign I'd put out had been pulled down & replaced by a sign for Katy Cornell – a far right wing R running for state office. On my way back I stopped to get the sign & found this. Kinda felt like support.
Campaign sign for right wing candidate is WA state surrounded by bags of trash from a road cleanup.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 26/09/2026
If Tennessee executes Christa Pike next week, she'd be the first woman executed by the state in more than 200 years — for a crime she committed when she was 18 nearly three decades ago. Governor Lee must spare her life before it's too late.
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Tennessee Is Days Away From Executing a Sexual Assault Victim
Christa Pike’s lethal injection is booked for September 30. She may be the first woman Tennessee executes in 200 years.
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Union Thug™️ @theunionthug.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is a big fucking deal! ✊🏼
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
So proud of our work and amazing CAIL team and collaborators!! www.ru.nl/en/research/...
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Critical AI Literacy (CAIL) | Radboud University
The Critical AI Literacy (CAIL) project provides new scientific insights and innovative ways of thinking based on expert critical perspectives on AI in science and society.
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Frog Prof Fella 📎🇺🇸🐸🔔🇺🇦 @frogprof.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Digital scan of a traditional linoleum carving of the Blessed Virgin Mary crushing I.C.E represented as a serpent, by Libby Kercher @kibbyer for Justseeds

Attribution – NonCommercial-ShareAlike
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Doug Urner (he/they) 🏳️‍⚧️ @douglasurner.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
So… AI is supposed to be "super intelligent" but we're using it to make memes and reservations? Seems like, oh say, finding a way to avert a climate disaster would be a better use of an ultra-fast, ultra-smart "agent" with a "PhD in Everything" don't you think?
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
HUGE: Autozone workers just won the first ever union at the company. Despite Autozone spending an estimated $210,696 and using every tactic in the book to stop just 11 workers from forming a union, the small shop in New York chose to unionize today. These workers will now join the @uaw.org.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court GRANTS People Not Politicians stay application, ordering the 2022 map to be in effect for the midterms! A victory for Elias Law Group, our clients People Not Politicians and Richard von Glahn, and the people of Missouri. www.democracydocket.com/cases/missou...
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🚨Onder v. Missouri
Learn more here.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Removing or failing to build safe bike-lanes can affect much more than cyclists...” It undermines the success of cities, and the safety of people, in a lot of critical ways. “Lessons on what cities lose by giving in to car culture.” Via @momentummag.bsky.social momentummag.com/ontarios-bik...
People riding bikes in a painted bike-lane…
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hurry up and do it 💥
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Nevada election officials said Thursday that 185 voters in the state who the Department of Homeland Security identified as noncitizens were all, in fact, citizens — the latest snafu in the department’s attempts to uncover illegal voters across the country. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DHS noncitizen voter claims unravel in Nevada as state confirms flagged voters are citizens
Nevada election officials said Thursday that 185 voters in the state who the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) identified as noncitizens were all, in fact, citizens.
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Olive Ann Beech, the “First Lady of Aviation,” was born #OTD in 1903. 1932: Co-founded the Beech Aircraft Company (later, Beechcraft). 1940: Took full command of the company's daily ops & production when her husband fell ill, delivering >7,400 military aircraft during #WWII.🧵 #WomenInBusiness
A warm, intimate black-and-white portrait photograph of an elegant Olive Ann Beech (1903–1993), celebrated as the "First Lady of Aviation" for her historic tenure leading Beechcraft. She sits relaxed inside what appears to be an office or home setting, leaning her left elbow on a surface to rest her head gently against her hand. Her light-colored hair is styled in tight, classic curls, and she flashes a bright, genuine, open-mouthed smile toward the lens, exuding a warm and approachable confidence. She wears a structured textured jacket or blouse accented by an intricately patterned silk neck scarf. On her wrists, several thick chain bracelets with dangling metallic charms are prominently displayed, alongside an elegant ring on her right hand. The background features a soft-focus interior with a light brick or tiled wall, framed art, and a dark credenza holding bottles or barware. The composition focuses entirely on her expressive face, creating a joyful, personal mood that balances her formidable corporate legacy with a charming, personal warmth.
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Every stitch tells a story of love, community, and remembrance. Volunteers across MN created the "Stolen Neighbors Quilt" with 11,000 squares to honor Minnesotans detained by ICE. Each fabric square represents a neighbor, a family member, and a life impacted by deportation. We stand for Justice!
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Doug Urner (he/they) 🏳️‍⚧️ @douglasurner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It is deeply disturbing that apparently none of the AI labs working to "align" their "frontier models" has managed to implement what seems like a basic principle: "No, means no." I guess given the pervasiveness of rape culture that should not be a surprise. www.the-independent.com/tech/securit...
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An OpenAI system has gone rogue again – and it is the most panic-inducing yet
‘Our models took actions we did not intend,’ ChatGPT maker admits after latest outrage
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Doug Urner (he/they) 🏳️‍⚧️ @douglasurner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If you can stomach it, listen to Jensen Huang explaining in depth to Ezra Klein just how deep in denial and out of touch he is. Huang appears a head-in-the-sand techno-optimist, an elitist, and true believer in the fantasies of capitalism and open markets. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
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Opinion | Jensen Huang Thinks A.I. Alarmism Has Gone Too Far (Gift Article)
Jensen Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia, does not want you to be afraid of A.I.
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Doug Urner (he/they) 🏳️‍⚧️ @douglasurner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
And of course, spread the word, even if you can do nothing else it helps to let others know about KOI, they do good work. koinitiative.org
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Kawaguchi O'Connor Initiative – KOI is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. All donations are fully tax-deductible as allowed by law. Federal EIN 39-3400585.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 25/09/2026
🚨 TEXAS PEEPS, CHECK YOUR VOTER REGISTRATION. A DPS screwup left voter registration applications sitting unprocessed for months. The deadline to register is October 5. Don’t find out at the ballot box that you’re not registered. CHECK IT NOW. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
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Cassie Smith (she/her) @cassiesmith.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Our school doesn't just have a #bikebus, there's also a run club that meets, trains and runs to school together (another weekday). The parent organizer asked for a volunteer to drive all the kids backpacks to school. My husband said why drive when you could cargo bike?! 25 bags delivered this week.
A term GSD longtail with backpacks in a front basket, storm box, and trailer pulled behind.
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Lisa Gerrish 💙 @gerrishlisa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Macklemore said “What happened to me is bigger than one artist or one stage," he argued and referenced Kraft saying “When the billionaire class can decide which voices are allowed on stage and which ones are too dangerous to hear, everyone should be paying attention." www.aol.com/articles/mac...
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Macklemore announces 'Free Palestine Tour' as he delivers brutal 8-word blow to Ed Sheeran - AOL
Rapper Macklemore announced his upcoming tour dates on social media in the aftermath of getting kicked out of Ed Sheeran's tour due to his controversial comments
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It’s been a year since ICE drove a car through a crowd at Broadview, leading to the federal indictment of myself and five others. Today, those of us who could returned. The state can try all it wants, but it can’t silence us or our community’s fight for justice.
From left to right

Brian Straw, a white suburban dad with a dark brown beard, glasses, orange hat, and teal quarter zip

Me, a short blonde woman in a black sweatshirt reading, “IT’S MY BODY, IT’S MY CHOICE” in two curves on my chest

Michael Rabbit, a white older man with rosy cheeks in a black hoodie

Andre Martin, a tall curly-haired man with glasses, a grey hoodie, and blue fanny pack

Yes, we feel weird taking a picture at the concentration camp.
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We can't get comfortable 👇
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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...
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Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London Daily
Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
How many years have I been telling you to keep your eye on Iowa? I know what I’m seeing on the ground and what I’ve been seeing for a couple of years… LFG!
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Doug Urner (he/they) 🏳️‍⚧️ @douglasurner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The folks at KOI do amazing work – quite literally lifesaving work – support them if you can. Donations help, but there are many other ways to help. koinitiative.org
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Kawaguchi O'Connor Initiative – KOI is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. All donations are fully tax-deductible as allowed by law. Federal EIN 39-3400585.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 24/09/2026
This is what happens when you get loud and demand Dems not drop trans people. We CAN get orgs to realize this. But we can’t stop with Kaptur. She’s the worst but not the only one. There is NO acceptable anti-trans vote or statement or ad from a Democrat. None. GET LOUDER!
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Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Today I delivered another 18 bags (225 lbs!) of groceries from White Center Food Bank to 9 neighbors in White Center and Seattle for @cascade.org #PedalingReliefProject – we use volunteers with bikes and trailers to bring fresh food every week to folks with mobility and accessibility challenges 🚲 😍
Cargo bike and trailer loaded with groceries Cargo bike with grocery bags
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