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Hockey fan, dog dad, amateur gardener, baker, and tinkerer.

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Dru @drucifus.bsky.social · 6h
I'm going to swap out my three wolves shirt for a three wokes shirt.
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Dru @drucifus.bsky.social · 6h
"Instead of three wolves, I made it three wokes"
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 6h
This ICE agent’s entire Instagram feed, “shooter.914,” is guns, watches, energy drinks, and alcohol.
A shooter.914 post showing a blue handgun and Reign energy drinkThe console of a car with an energy drink and handgun in the cup holders. In the foreground, shooter.914’s wrist with a fancy watch in it. Background: Two assault rifles and a Monster energy drink A screenshot of his whole account showing more of the same
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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 08/10/2026
If you ever read my book THE FAMILY PLOT then you know *precisely* how amazingly shitty this is 👇👎
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Dru @drucifus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I mean I know what they're for, I passed basic science classes. I guess I can be a pickle influencer.
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Dru @drucifus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Like the leaf of a plant?
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Dru @drucifus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Have you been in business class though? It's a whole other world.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
BREAKING: ICE over the past year investigated hundreds of nonprofits across the U.S. that help people register to vote. The internal documents, obtained by the Democracy Forward, showed that ICE's investigative arm also contemplated sending undercover agents to investigate the organizations.
democracydocket.com
ICE  probed hundreds of voter registration groups across the U.S.
The agency also contemplated deploying undercover agents to "initiate prosecutions" against the groups and "dismantle" them.
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Dru @drucifus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Maybe? I forget, maybe you should share it again so I feel better about my purchasing mistakes. 😆
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This article (and Slade's book) are fan fiction. Trumpism isn't a break from Reaganism, it's the intended result, a gov't by, for, and of corruption, lawlessness, racism, and misogyny. That's why Reaganites with power—Thomas, Alito, Kennedy, McConnell—worked hard to empower and entrench Trumpism.
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Dru @drucifus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Does it involve rice?
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
imagine if the mainstream media covered Republicans' number one donor — the biggest political donor in US history! — and his controversial views with as much scrutiny as they covered Hasan Piker's
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Dru @drucifus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
When I first moved to NC forever ago, I stopped for gas whilst out for a job interview. The station had a great sticker on the pump showing NC's gas tax compared to bordering states. NC paid the most and that was 20 years ago, I doubt the GOP took steps to correct that at any point.
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Dru @drucifus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If you'd stop being a hippie and buy a giant truck you don't need, it wouldn't feel punitive.
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Dru @drucifus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Can't catch the measles if you die from pneumonic plague.
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Andy Samberg Says Smort!
ALT: Andy Samberg Says Smort!
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Also, the DoD just put Anduril founder Palmer Luckey on "Project Meridian," its commission to determine the future of warfare, which may just involve buying lots of Anduril products, who knows. Luckey has made over 1,000 contributions to Republicans since 2017, 23 of which were for over $100K each.
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.
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Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Samuel Alito: We won't overturn Obergefell because it's engendered reliance interests. Jan Crawford: Well, many people had organized their lives around Roe v. Wade. Alito: No, they didn't. Women merely had an "abstract" interest in "ideas about the kind of society that they were going to live in."
cbsnews.com
The Alito Court: A rare interview with the influential Supreme Court justice
Justice Samuel Alito discussed his opinion in the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, the leaked draft and its aftermath, same-sex marriage rights and why he's not retiring yet.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 05/10/2026
Yeah, this is a big time impeachment abuse of power.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Just a reminder that these Haitian immigrants in Springfield -- who came here legally, did everything they were asked to do and more -- became a target of federal crackdowns because the white nationalist vice president shamelessly spread racist lies about them.
rollingstone.com
J.D. Vance Defends False Claims Against Haitians: 'If I Have to Create Stories… That's What I'm Going to Do'
J.D. Vance defended his debunked claims that Haitian immigrants are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.
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Dru @drucifus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The "put on the glasses" fight from They Live.
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 02/10/2026
This summer, ICE arrests of people with no convictions or pending charges more than doubled. Arrests of people with charges or convictions rose under 20%. DHS says it targets the worst of the worst. The data say otherwise. austinkocher.substack.com/p/ices-summe...
austinkocher.substack.com
ICE’s Summer Enforcement Surge Driven by People with No Criminal History
The latest data from Deportation Data Project shows that ICE has never arrested so many people — and never so many people without any criminal history.
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
wired.com
ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Breaking News: The US only added 29,000 jobs in September. They were expecting 84,000. Unemployment is also up. www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...
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Lincoln Square @lincolnsquare.media · 02/10/2026
The richest man in the world was handed total control of government tech. Here’s why it failed—and why plutocrats want you to forget. www.lincolnsquare.media/p/the-doge-… Become a Lincoln Loyal Member to read the latest from @donmoyn.bsky.social
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The DOGE Disaster Memory Hole
The richest man in the world was handed total control of government tech. Here’s why it failed—and why plutocrats want you to forget.
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Dru @drucifus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Dude looks like Scott Baio went on Undercover Boss.
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Atlas Mugged (N95 Duckbill 😷)✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @pamacious.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
On Tuesday, while we were distracted, the "Pentagon rolled out a $1.5 trillion budget request that contained a line item almost nobody’s talking about: a 24,000 percent increase, from $225 million last year to $54.6 billion this year, for an outfit called the Defense Autonomous Warfare Group...
hartmannreport.com
From Surveillance State to Kill Machine: Has the Line Already Been Crossed?
What began with data collection is rapidly evolving into something far more dangerous: systems that can decide and act to kill people here in America…
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
He’s been saying this for 11 years. Obviously if the cultists still believe this BS they are just hopelessly lost to an alternate reality.
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
She was being blackmailed over explicit photos. She went to police and gave them the photos as evidence. The cop kept the pictures on his phone, showed them to others, and didn’t catch the blackmailer- who ended up killing her. Just enraging. I wonder why victims of sex crimes don’t report 🤔🤬😢
sltrib.com
University of Utah police officer showed off explicit photos of Lauren McCluskey to his co-worker
<b>UPDATE</b><i>: Logan police announced </i><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2020/05/17/logan-police-will" target=_blank><i>an internal affairs investigation into Officer Miguel Deras</...
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026
Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.
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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?
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Dru @drucifus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
At a previous job, I was forced to listen to modern country, or southern pop as it really should be called. For a hit, they would play it 3-4 times in the eight hours of my work day. I wonder if this helps keep a song higher in the charts or inflate popularity somehow.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The cases dropped included white collar crime, drugs and terrorism, 23,000 of them, all during the first six months of Trump’s second term. Instead the DOJ focused on immigration cases.
propublica.org
Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration
Under Attorney General Pam Bondi, the DOJ abandoned a record number of cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — in just the first six months of Presi...
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I think it’s fair to say that the student journalists at Cornell are braver than the news networks who just gave up on their WH pool ban even though CNN is still being denied access. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
cornellsun.com
EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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🌦️Wifeguy Auteur🌦️ @delugeduvall.effigyfilms.com · 25/09/2026
if “we’re all cam girls in a surveillance state” ya’ll better be acting in solidarity with actual fucking cam girls 😒
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Dru @drucifus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Thank you! I used to work at Borders (RIP) and I wondered about this.
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Dru @drucifus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If The Original were to get turned into a movie, would a copy of the book with the movie cover pay out the same? It seems like the studio would get a cut at that point. (I know there's A Lot that happens when books get picked up, just curious about this part)
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We'll have to take Musk on eventually. Because he's not hiding it. He thinks people he doesn't want should be rounded up and treated like the 14 million he sentenced to death. Do you want to do it now? Or when he's even richer and we're more dependent on SpaceX?
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Dru @drucifus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
They sound terrible, is there at least a pillow you can use?
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
ICE abducted a WBB player while she was traveling with her Kentucky State team in early August at Louisville airport. She has been imprisoned for 1.5 months and denied care for a serious ACL injury. It is the responsibility of universities and the NCAA to protect their players. They have failed.
Aminata Seck, 26, a student-athlete at Kentucky State University, was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport while traveling with her school's basketball team Aug. 7, said Sadiqa Reynolds, a lawyer helping coordinate Seck's case.

Seck's team was headed to New York for a tournament, and she was taken into custody after going through airport security, said Reynolds, former president and CEO of the Louisville Urban League.
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Dru @drucifus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
That explains Patel rolling back the regs on prostitution and beastiality...
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Symbols matter. White House isn't a palace. Kennedy Center is for the general public to enjoy. We don't have a triumphal arch in DC because that's imperial. We don't put the president's face on money because it's monarchical. It's about tearing down everything that says we're a democratic republic.
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David Moore @davidrussellmoore.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
OpenAI employees circumvented paywalls to scrape training data from sites like NYT, per un-redacted court docs. An alleged violation of JSTOR's terms of service set federal prosecutors on Aaron Swartz, even though the parties had already settled. Carmen Ortiz and Stephen Heymann disregarded that.
flaminghydra.com
Sam Altman and Aaron Swartz Saw the Future
The inaugural class of the YCombinator venture capital/startup accelerator was photographed in 2005. YCombinator provides seed money and advice to promising startups in exchange for a percentage of eq...
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Dru @drucifus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It's Bigfoot, not Boobfoot.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
They hate the Bill of Rights because freedom is a threat to people in government who want to hide the truth about what they are doing from the American people. So they behave like tyrants because that is what they are. Vote this party out of power.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 16/09/2026
“There’s no other nation, only Somali people in Guantanamo Bay, in the prison. And when we ask them why we are here, they tell us…Washington…ordered to keep Somali people in the Guantanamo Bay.” from @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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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Pumpactionmusket @pumpactionmusket.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Holy shit. All of the submission videos are just being uploaded immediately at the bottom of the webpage without any moderation whatsoever. Somebody is getting fired for this. openforlegends.guitarcenter.com/campaign/ope...
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