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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Zelensky on bombing the Russian data centers: “It’s pretty clear where the bots were coming from.”

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Doug Thorburn @dougthorburn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Art is not personalized, except to the artist - else its not art; its just commerce

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Doug Thorburn @dougthorburn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

“Not having an emotional stake in whether this experiment with human beings works” Carlin’s skill in doing this made him an oracle of his time - we just didn’t know it yet

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

22 California billionaires have spent a combined $150 million so far to defeat Prop 40. By spending their fortunes trying to stop California from taxing billionaires, they're making the argument for a billionaire wealth tax more clearly and articulately than anyone else possibly could.

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Pissedoffpundit @pissedoffpundant.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

True story🤔...

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I’ve been saying this for a couple of years now. The French get it. Several other countries have done it in the past few years. So why don’t we?🤔

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Absolutely 👇 This.......

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Doug Thorburn @dougthorburn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I endorse this message … …when we get adults to listen to it, then we’ll really be on to something …

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Doug Thorburn @dougthorburn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I’m conflicted watching this baseball-analyst panel of ARod-Jeter-Ortiz… On the one hand, I’m annoyed by analysis via a NYY-BOS rivalry of 20+ years ago… On the other, I’m intrigued by the fact that these 3 incredibly wealthy people have nothing better to do on a Wed night than talk baseball

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Doug Thorburn @dougthorburn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Am I the only one bothered by the “signature” of the guy from OpenAI? My 4-year-old has better penmanship. I’d be all-in for a C3PO robot, too, that is if I were an adult who lacked the ability to communicate legibly with other humans. It’s like a warning to future generations if they embrace AI

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026

I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's inconceivable to me how someone who lost in a free & fair election can incite an angry mob to attack his own government, (the very definition of treason) & be allowed to run for any office ever again.

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Doug Thorburn @dougthorburn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I am beside myself that the Eagles opted to punt on 4th & 1 from the 50, down 13 on the road with 3 min left in the 3rd Q … …what the f—- is wrong with this team? Somebody talk me off this ledge

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We don’t allow corporations to come up with new nuclear weapons or biological pathogens. If a product is potentially dangerous, it should be regulated and corporations should be held accountable for wrongdoing. Why would AI be any different? www.commondreams.org/news/ai-securi…

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AI Giants Probe 'Tens of Thousands' of Security Incidents—Some Involving Government Sites | Common Dreams

Security researchers investigate tens of thousands of artificial intelligence security incidents, fueling fresh calls fo

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

9/21/26 101 freeway in Encino A free press is the cornerstone of democracy. Silencing it is fascism. PERIOD.

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

THIS 👇 TOO.......

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Reminder that Elon's DOGE recommended firing government workers at the... -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. See what DOGE was really all about?

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Obama: “Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials from the White House press corps. You’re laughing, but this is what’s happening. It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent right now would have tolerated behavior like that from me.” Clip courtesy @meidastouch.com

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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Who said it was about "fairness"? It's always been about greed; for money and power.

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Doug Thorburn @dougthorburn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The renaissance was ~1350-1500… … the printing press was ~1440, and ~50 years later Columbus was connecting continents … the Dutch East India Company started in 1602… …aka our civilation has been organized around commerce for over 500 years. So I’m not sure “reveals” is the best word choice.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

RICK RUBIN on why Hollywood keeps making soulless movies: "So many big movies are just not good because they're being made by people trying to make something they think someone else is going to like. That's not how art works. That's commerce."

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Doug Thorburn @dougthorburn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

If we outsource “thinking” and “reasoning” to machines that can do neither, then we will lose the ability to detect their flaws - it’s a downward spiral into global brain-death. But sure, yeah, pump me full of that AI stuff - the human brain is done, apparently.

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Doug Thorburn @dougthorburn.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I tell my students: “Humans do one thing better than all other animals on the planet: We think… we reason. So why would we outsource the one thing we do well, to a machine that is wrong a bunch of the time? The only saving grace is that eventually humans will be too dumb to catch those mistakes.”

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

How do I explain to small business owners that the menu on the left is one billion times more appealing than the one on the right

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects

A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

A reminder that we don't lack national health in this country because it would cost too much. It would actually save tons of money. We lack it because it would not enrich businesses and their executives like the current system does. bsky.app/profile/jent...

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Doug Thorburn @dougthorburn.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I know! Let’s let Artificial Indulgence do our thinking for us! I mean, what could go wrong?

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Mandy Kilpatrick @mandypandaren.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Are we allowing this? Because there is no one with honor or integrity in Congress to stop it....? Is there a way for us to fight this?

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2028 Blue Wave 🌊🌊💙 🇺🇸 @2028-bluewave.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This should be much bigger news.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

“Socialism is a scareword they have hurled at every advance the people have made… socialism is their name for most anything that helps the people. 1952. Truman. This is how stale their desperate fearmongering is. cc: @MarshaBlackburn

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

If you have enough money that you can blow $100,000,000 on avoiding taxes, you have enough money to pay $100,000,000 *on* taxes that will help your fellow citizens, you self-centered prick.

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Doug Thorburn @dougthorburn.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

“Ain’t fuckin’ matter. I ain’t scared of ya’ll” ^^ this energy right here. You see the scared-to-shit look in that fucker’s eyes? He knows “his time” is coming to an end. Reap the whirlwind, motherfuckers

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Luke BOO 👻 ber @coolhand.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

For me, this is one of the most powerful Calvin and Hobbes strips.

A four panel Calvin and Hobbes strip. Calvin arrives with a butterfly in a jar and says look i caught a butterfly. Hobbes says if people could put rainbows in zoos, they would. Calvin looks thoughtful and releases it

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