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Nathaniel Downes @downix.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The addictive qualities of social media really are frustrating. One thing I appreciate about BluSky here is something that really annoyed me at first, but now I recognize is good in that it slows down the experience. And by slowing it down, the addictive qualities are significantly less.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Add this to research that suggests that as Musk took over Twitter (but before Twitter became X), the algorithm there was serving up content that leaned markedly to the right, even for users whose networks leaned left. www.arxiv.org/abs/2512.06129

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Rabble-Rousers in the New King's Court: Algorithmic Effects on Account Visibility in Pre-X Twitter

Algorithmic effects on social media platforms have come under recent scrutiny, with several works reporting that right-leaning accounts tend to receive more exposure. In this paper, we expand upon thi...

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auntietiffa.bsky.social @auntietiffa.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Everybody knows that Pupper just won Downhill Gold

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Nathaniel Downes @downix.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

No new pictures. Where are you at mentally?

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Stop Calling Me Frank @stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

David Axelrod: Democrats should not run a campaign on defunding or abolishing the orphan-crushing machine. Also, exactly 42 years ago today:

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Friday, Februnry 3, 1984
AMERICA'S FINEST NEWS SOURCE
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Congress Approves Orbiting Homeless Incinerator
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Thursday. Congress approved
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President Reagan's request to
then shoot down from space.
fund a $17.9 billion orbiting

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transient to a small pile of
years of intense
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for America,
ash.
efforts on the part of the pres-
The HE lI, once operational.
ident.

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will be able to incinerate up to
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600 homeless adults or
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USA
lite-guided Homeless-Elimi-
homeless children per hour.
natronic ll space incinerator is scheduled for completion in December 1986, when it will be launched and deployed to its initial position 600 miles above the Bronx.
"This is a great day for
America," Reagan said at a White House press conference.
"Finatly, our defense industry is working in concert with our welfare system."
The HE Il will use bigh-tech locators 10 pinpoint homeless
Americans.
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newly diagnosed schizophren-tes and teenage runaways.
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Nathaniel Downes @downix.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

No cheating, reskeet with the most recent photo of your pet.

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Rob Boyte @roboyte.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

This Child Accurately Describes the U.S. Today From the Mouths of Babes

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adirosa @adirosa.com · 31/01/2026

btw the 'things i need to save up for' is now a degree 😂✌️💃 ganba student-me in the year 2026!

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Kate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.

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Nathaniel Downes @downix.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I really don't visit this site as often as I do Threads, and I really should. The content here is less ragebait. It strikes me that the main reason I use Threads more is just the position of the like button.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 01/11/2025

Physician Lauren Hughes was driving when another car T-boned her Subaru, totaling it and breaking her ankle. Then the bills came: $63,976.35 in total because her insurance deemed her hospital stay not medically necessary.

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A car accident sent her to the hospital — and $64,000 into debt

This doctor broke her ankle in a car accident. The hospital kept her overnight, but her insurer stopped paying after she left the emergency room.

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Nathaniel Downes @downix.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

So, I trained an AI model using my own writing, and use it to help overcome the post-covid brain fog to fix my writing. This seems like an okay use of AI to me, but what do you all think?

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Nathaniel Downes @downix.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

So, the president has apparently just surrendered to Iran. That was not on my 2025 Bingo card.

Donald Trump post on Truth Social from June 17th, 2025, saying "Unconditional Surrender!" in all caps.

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NEH Union - AFGE L3403 @nehafge3403.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Staff who are being terminated from the National Endowment for the Humanities this coming week received their last full paycheck this weekend. A reminder that appropriations for full staff salaries were made through September 30, 2025. Terminating us now was never necessary, just cruel. #NEH

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Dr. Sparklefairy @drsparklefairy.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

If we're just figuring this out about a disease that we have long considered ubiquitous and have had around as long as we can remember, that most people can only get once, why is everyone so eager to go out and get COVID as often as possible?

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

“Inscribe my book with something weird and random” I was born for this challenge

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Nathaniel Downes @downix.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

The new subvariant has mutations on the spike protein. This means that several vaccines may not be effective against it, especially older ones. Something we will need to keep an eye on. Mask up everyone.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

“I never thought leopards would eat MY face,” sobs man who spent $250M getting the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party elected. My reaction:

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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Everything he touches goes bankrupt.

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Nathaniel Downes @downix.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Okay, so Trump may win the birthright citizenship case before the SCOTUS. Trump's attorneys did not argue for or against the actual EO but are arguing for not allowing lower courts to apply such rulings broadly, and can only apply them in individual cases.

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Samantha Ferreira Is Back On Her Book Bullshit @sam-animeherald.northsky.social · 15/05/2025

This is not an idle threat, either. Most publications will not only fire you, they will blacklist you for using AI. Some of our fields are small, and we talk, mostly because we tend to run in the same circles. You will be found out.

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Lilith Ferreyra-Carroll @trasinscneach.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

So will all the Irish media that gave blanket coverage of this stitch up on vulnerable trans children report on it and hold Irish clinicians to account? Will they fuck!!

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 11/05/2025

The Quakers are probably the only US religious group shooting over 90% from the field on being on the right side of history.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

So when DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin tweeted last month that Abrego Garcia had been found with “rolls of cash” the reality is that he was wearing a sweatshirt that had rolls of cash depicted on it? Like cartoonish images of $100 bills? Is that really what happened here?

Tricia McLaughlin &
@TriciaOhio
1. When Garcia was arrested he was found with rolls of cash and drugs.
2. He was arrested with two other members of MS-13.
3. Two judges found that he was a member of MS-13. That finding has not been disturbed.
4. When arrested he was wearing what is effectively MS-13's uniform.

9:53 AM • Apr 16, 2025 • 399.6K Views

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Nathaniel Downes @downix.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

So, the US Treasury bond market has a maturation wall issue. This will push up rates, as more supply hits. Combine this with foreign debt holders selling off their bonds, further increasing their supplies, and foreign sovereign funds cancelling bond purchases, and we are in for a whole lot of pain.

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Nathaniel Downes @downix.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Zuck: The average American has three friends.

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Dave Kamper @dskamper.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Raymond Chandler, letter to a friend, January 1948. Seems relevant beyond the specific Hollywood context.

Snippet of text: What a wonderful thing it would be if the Motion Pictures Producers Association had said to Mr Thomas, ‘Sure, I guess we have Communists in Hollywood. We don't know who they are. How would you expect us to? We're not the F.B.I. But even if we did know, there's an Attorney General in this country. He hasn't accuşed these men of any crime. Congress hasn't legislated anything that would cause their present or future membership in the Communist party to be a crime, and until it does we propose to treat them just as exactly as we treat anyone else.’ You know what would happen if the producers had the guts to say anything like that? They would start making good pictures, because that takes guts too. Very much the same kind of guts.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

VICTORY, THEY FUCKING PROVED THE COVID/MAST CELL LINK IS THE SPIKE PROTEIN I HAVE A CONCLUSIVE PAPER TO SHOW PEOPLE WHO WHINE AT ME ABOUT MY FUCKING DIPHENHYDRAMINE PRE-VACCINE ADVICE NOW

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Peter @pajjr.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

'Aborted Fetus Debris' Is NOT RFK Jr.'s New Metal Band www.wonkette.com/p/aborted-fe...

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'Aborted Fetus Debris' Is NOT RFK Jr.'s New Metal Band

It's also not in the vaccines.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Very exciting thorium reactor news today, people. If your favorite nerds seem distracted or excitable, you gotta give the a little space.

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Mark @worgztheowl.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

"Get me a picture of Australians voting." "No that's too Australian".

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 01/05/2025

Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching. Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 01/05/2025

Scientists who study climate don't automatically attribute all changes to human activity. Rather, we carefully investigate every possible natural factor that could explain the planet's warming. Could these be the real culprits? The evidence is in--and the answer is NO. This thread explains! 🧵

A graphic with an icon of the sun, a wiggly line denoting natural cycles, and a volcano, with a title reading "WHY is climate changing?" created by me. Not fancy, as my graphic design skills lean to function over art!

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Nathaniel Downes @downix.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Witnessing the horror show of US politics today, I am disheartened. I should be finishing an updated edition of "The People's Constitution" to discuss the ratification of the ERA and other ways to interpret the CAA, but I just can't get the energy. For the current edition;

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The People's Constitution

Despite being the founding document of our nation, the Constitution of the United States is not something readily understood. The framers wrote it so as to be interpreted by people, in the time in whi...

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Sarah Kaplan @sarahkaplan48.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

"When Richard VanMetter tried to buy a sandwich, he didn’t realize he was dead." Read @merylkornfield.bsky.social & co on a scenario that could happen to many more people as Musk moves aggressively to transfer more names to the government's "Death Master File" www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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When government thinks you’re dead, it upends lives. DOGE may make it worse.

Elon Musk’s team has moved millions of Social Security numbers into the agency’s deaths database, potentially raising the risk of errors.

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Dr Jan Eldridge @astro-jje.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Needless to say anti-trans motions by an NZ political party along with everything else going on are really causing me to experience significant anxiety. The anxiety has been with me since ending up in hospital with pericarditis.

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Nathaniel Downes @downix.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Comfortable in my skin, care about people, not parts.

A poetry assignment.

Explain your gender in 10 words or less without using boring words like "male" "female", "nonbinary", "masculine", or "androgynous".

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Nathaniel Downes @downix.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

The response to the UK trans decision makes it clear that to TERFs, they don't care about women's rights or concerns at all. The only thing they care about is hurting transwomen. youtu.be/jeMjAqT0qOY?...

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I don't care if you win, I need Kylo Ren to lose

YouTube video by The Man in Black

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