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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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Nathaniel Downes @downix.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Butlerian Jihad origin spotted...

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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

arxiv.org

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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Nathaniel Downes @downix.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I thought the same, while also going "B-b-but, I'm a writer..." in a sobbing voice.

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Nathaniel Downes @downix.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Nicola Caputo is an Italian politician, on checking

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Nathaniel Downes @downix.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Salvadore Nuara is a former NYPD detective who worked prostitution cases.

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Nathaniel Downes @downix.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Leonov is a notable Russian family, with a notable cosmonaut and author as members. I have not heard of a member named Leonic, but it is not outside of the realm of possibility.

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

Okay then everyone, Senator Thune has picked full dissolution

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Nathaniel Downes @downix.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Considering my niece did not have any kids before she died that I am aware of, doubt your grandmother is in my photo.

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Nathaniel Downes @downix.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

It can drop to $0.00000000001 and rival the Iranian Rial

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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
SO CENTS
Congress Approves Orbiting Homeless Incinerator
WASHINGTON,
Thursday. Congress approved
DC-on 'This Is a
charged-particle beam will
President Reagan's request to
then shoot down from space.
fund a $17.9 billion orbiting

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

Reagan Says
will be able to incinerate up to
The plutonium-fueled, satel-
600 homeless adults or
750
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.
A
razor-thin
At that rate, the problem of American homelessness will be solved in less than two months. Thereafter, the unit will remain active for preemptive incinerations
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newly diagnosed schizophren-tes and teenage runaways.
A drawing of the proposed weapon ag

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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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Nathaniel Downes @downix.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

DHS per a few people I know on the ground there.

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Nathaniel Downes @downix.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

First one I ever played. The others feel a bit too normal by comparison.

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Nathaniel Downes @downix.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

They better hope the Adjuster doesn't come out of hiding.

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

Meet the Slate, exactly that kind of car, well, truck, due out next year; www.slate.auto/en

slate.auto

Slate

Slate Auto | The Customizable EV That Works for You

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

Tell me you have no idea what the 92 LA riots were like without saying it...

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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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Nathaniel Downes @downix.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Just watched this, and... hell yeah!!!

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Nathaniel Downes @downix.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Paintball is an option. Requires the honor system, mind you.

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Nathaniel Downes @downix.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

You want to claim that Robert Conquest was wrong, that is on you.

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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.

washingtonpost.com

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 · 06/07/2025

Gorgeous cinematography, great battle scenes, movie itself I fall asleep in.

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Nathaniel Downes @downix.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Gone With The Wind I know it's supposed to be a classic, but I can't get past the racist tropes.

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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

The voice apparently said for the US to surrender to Iran.

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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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Nathaniel Downes @downix.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Pirates. They were attacked and hijacked by pirates.

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Nathaniel Downes @downix.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

The US has financed and encouraged such pretexts multiple times in the past. Of course then we cut off those who trusted the US to bail them out...

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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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Nathaniel Downes @downix.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Indeed. I bring it up only to highlight the levels of fraud

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Nathaniel Downes @downix.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

The lab number on the leaked report was ficticious. I ran it through the system.

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