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Michael DuVernois @duvernois.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Cheaper ground "beef" coming soon?

Michael DuVernois @duvernois.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

It's distressing that the GOP voted down the Nazis running in their primaries, and the Dems voted for the Nazis in their primaries.

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R.E.M. @remhq.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

We’re celebrating 40 years of “Fall On Me” today (the first single from the band’s fourth album Lifes Rich Pageant was released on this day in 1986). The video was filmed & directed by @michaelstipe.bsky.social

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Michael DuVernois @duvernois.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

When folks say the enshittification of everything, they do mean absolutely everything.

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Michael DuVernois @duvernois.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Did I get this right, the "progressive" who won is opposed to inter-racial couples, hates Jews, supports the Russian war in Ukraine, and believes domestic violence is a matter for your imam to deal with, not the police? Okay, not sure this is going to flip the House for the Dems.

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Michael DuVernois @duvernois.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

"The antisemite does not accuse the Jew of stealing because he thinks the Jew stole. He does it because he enjoys seeing the Jew turn out his pockets to prove he didn't."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/04/2026

RFK Jr: "President Trump has a different way of calculating percentages. If you have a $600 drug and you reduce it to $10, that's a 600% reduction."

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Michael DuVernois @duvernois.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Making the strategic plan pretty obvious, the army is expected to coup at some point and replace the IRGC. The change in tempo today though might indicate a change in the plan though.

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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Beware the Ides of March!

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Wouf @zeseadog1966.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

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(((Tendar))) @tendar.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

The targets the IRGC has chosen, such as the Dubai International Airport, are absolutely senseless and self-defeating. They are acting like headless chickens. By the end of this weekend the entire Middle East will have mobilized against the (surviving) regime members of Iran.

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Michael DuVernois @duvernois.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

An unsettling look at drones at war

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

The Ford Pinto had a death rate of 85 people for 10 million cars sold. The Cybertruck hasn't sold 10 million, but the fatality rate so far maths out to 1,452 people killed per 10 million sold. The Cybertruck may be the deadliest road car, for the occupants, ever sold. fuelarc.com/evs/its-offi...

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It's Official: the Cybertruck is More Explosive than the Ford Pinto - FuelArc News

We now have a full year of data for the Cybertruck, and a strange preponderance of headlines about Cybertrucks exploding into flames, including several fatalities. That’s more than enough data to comp...

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Michael DuVernois @duvernois.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

I have gone back and forth about making this post, about writing anything about Epstein, and science and scientists. A number of colleagues of mine, and two people I had at one time considered friends, are in the Epstein files. And I feel like venting a bit...

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Michael DuVernois @duvernois.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)

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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

RIP Robert Tinney (November 22, 1947 – February 1, 2026), the artist famous for his playful covers for Byte magazine, a hobbist magazine that ushered in the microcomputing age from the mid-70s through the 90s. I'm honored to have included his work in my own art collection.

Byte magazine cover featuring a desktop with a screen showing a green landscape, next to a window showing the real-life version, which is ugly, industrialized, and smoky.

The original Star Trek crew are at a holographic museum of "ancient technology," watching a guy scratch his head while reading a retro computer manual.

A painting, a window, and a desktop computer are all lined up to complete the same view, a scene of a blue mountain range.

A white-bearded Robert Tinney stands near an easel with a famous Tinney illustration of a smartwatch that runs on a micro-floppy disk.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

New from me: It is not just that the US is experiencing democratic backsliding. Authoritarianism has emerged more quickly than in other benchmark countries. This graph from John Burn-Murdoch sums it up. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/autocracy-...

graph tracking democratic backsliding is occuring more quickly in the US than elsewhere.

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Hannah Richter @hannah-richter.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Wake up, babe, the new quietest spot on Earth just dropped 🤫🧊🌐 It's 2.5 km under the South Pole—and geologists have installed seismometers there that operate more quietly than the background rumblings of Earth itself. Read more about this cool project in @science.org : tinyurl.com/5n76jfht #science

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Earthquake sensors buried in the quietest spot on Earth

Deep beneath the South Pole, two seismometers will monitor the planet’s interior and the movement of Antarctic ice

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Michael DuVernois @duvernois.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

They threw Bovino under the bus, and the little fascist shit deserved that and so much more. But this guy has been in law enforcement for three decades or so, right? With Republicans and Democrats in office, and there's this evil little Nazi bitch waiting to emerge. We must clean house completely.

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Michael DuVernois @duvernois.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

In the end, MAGA is like the Manson Family, insane leader with dedicated cult following aiming to start a race war in America. A murder here, murder there, some Venezuelan fishermen, Hollywood actress... Well, like Manson plus 77M idiot voters and all of the tools of an empire in decline of course.

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Kas @kasonabike24.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

It is in no way “law enforcement” to beat up an American 10th grader and steal and sell his possessions.

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Michael DuVernois @duvernois.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I am so proud of my friends and family in the Twin Cities, and thinking of my old neighbors when I see photos and video from just blocks away. In the rest of the country, we need to act, and quickly I think. If the German 1930s were a guide, we have mere months to act, in any case, less than a year.

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Michael DuVernois @duvernois.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

The JASON report (well, most of it) is still available on this mass psychosis. www.state.gov/wp-content/u...

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Steffen Hope @hopesteffen.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Few individuals have had such a colossal & deleterious impact on the cultural psyche as the recently-departed Erich von Däniken. While he was not alone in fusing aliens into our conception of the distant human past, he was perhaps the most successful & the most harmful in doing so.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

I just found out last night that the $50k enrollment bonus only pays out after 5 years of service, and reader, the laugh I let out when I read that woke the dog from across the house. These absolute fucking grapes aren't seeing a dime of that money. No way they can ride out 5 years of this job.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 31/12/2025

Going through old files, found this response to a Commerce Dept. FOIA request a former colleague had sent.

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Michael DuVernois @duvernois.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Ah yes, Noam Chomsky with Epstein. Denying genocides? Discussing child rapes? Doing socialism on the billionaire plane flight to rape island? Manufacturing consent?

Chomsky and Epstein on the plane together. What ever are this discussing?

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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Pete Hegseth’s requirement that his “warfighters” use generative AI to “outpace our adversaries” and achieve victory is off to a great start.

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a cartoon of a chef with a needle in his mouth is playing at 4:32

Alt: A color cartoon GIF of a chef with a thin black mustache and goatee and wearing a white chef's hat giving a "chef's kiss."

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Michael DuVernois @duvernois.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Does the US have an opposition party? Asking for a friend.

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Michael DuVernois @duvernois.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Where do these people come from? Absolute aliens. Kentucky Fried French Fries? This is the opposition leader?

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Michael DuVernois @duvernois.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Editor's note: they will do nothing to stop him.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 29/09/2025

Hiking xkcd.com/3147/

Comic. [Two people hiking up mountain] PERSON 1: Okay, we’re nearing the next downhill segment I’ll put in the order. ...Confirming start and end points… Submitted! [water slide being dropped from above by drones] PERSON 2 with long hair: Look, here it comes! [Waterslide positioned on downhill slope of mountain with both people riding down] BOTH: Wheeee [Waterslide carried back into the air] [Both people continuing to hike up next slope] [caption] On-demand waterslide delivery has really improved the whole hiking experience.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

When I have to randomly put a bunch of dots on a map, I too copy paste clusters and rotate them around to make it look like they are actually different

Shitty map from the US Department of War website claiming the military has 4800 sites in over 160 countries but the placements are laughably wrong - for example a bunch are in Russia, Venezuela, Iran, and China. Yellow circles highlight where the dots are clearly copy pasted.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 14/08/2025

I know a lot of these folks didn't sign up to be at the vanguard of resisting American fascism, but sorry, that's your job now if you can't do the job give it to someone who can

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Nate Bethea @inthesedeserts.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Well I guess some things have changed since Umberto Eco wrote this in 1995

From Umberto Eco's "Ur-Fascism":

"We must keep alert, so that the sense of these words will not be forgotten again. Ur-Fascism is still around us, sometimes in plainclothes. It would be so much easier, for us, if there appeared on the world scene somebody saying, "I want to reopen Auschwitz, I want the Black Shirts to parade again in the Italian squares." Life is not that simple. Ur-Fascism can come back under the most innocent of disguises. Our duty is to uncover it and to point our finger at any of its new instances - every day,"

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Michael DuVernois @duvernois.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Today I learned two things about the Union Carbide Bhopal accident. We never did figure out how the water got into the chemical storage tank to cause the reaction and mass death. And the public relations lead for the chemical company later was Hillary Clinton's campaign lead. What a weird world.

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Michael DuVernois @duvernois.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Lots of folks know about his connection to Bill Gates, Steve Bannon, the Pope, Lawrence Krauss, Noam Chomsky, and Woody Allen. But I want to know more about that photo with Fidel Castro! The Austrian passport! Was this intel op strictly private, just with the Russians, maybe the Saudis? Coincidences

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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

New START, which replaced START I and is the last remaining bilateral treaty putting any legal and verifiable constraints on the US and Russian nuclear arsenals, expires in less than seven months.

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Michael DuVernois @duvernois.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

So the Qataris fund Hamas, fund a boatload of anti-semitic propaganda in the west, couldn't find anyone to buy this plane, so bribed Trump with it, and most of a $1B from an unrelated fund to refurbish it for AF1 or Trump's personal use? The corruption seeps into every little corner.

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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Tom was a prodigy who skipped grades to enter Harvard University as a freshman at 15. Below is the final stanza of “Dissertation on Education,” the poem he wrote and submitted around 1943 with his successful college application. Drafted into the Army in 1955, Tom worked at the NSA for two years.

The final stanza of “Dissertation on Education”:

“But although I detest/Learning poems and the rest/Of the things one must know to have ‘culture,’/While each of my teachers/Makes speeches like preachers/And preys on my faults like a vulture,/I will leave movie thrillers/And watch caterpillars/Get born and pupated and larva’ed,/And I’ll work like a slave/And always behave/And maybe I’ll get into Harvard …”

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