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Erik Wessel 🖊️

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Erik Wessel 🖊️ @ejw.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
What kind of toolbox is even contemplating a war between Canada and the US. Pure insanity.
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g79G...
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Neuromancer — Official Teaser | Apple TV
YouTube video by Apple TV
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Erik Wessel 🖊️ @ejw.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Guess what airport I will never use in my life, ever.
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Erik Wessel 🖊️ @ejw.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Got mine in the mail today. @petersagal.bsky.social @fieldnotes.co . Glad to have my own personal physical copy for once.
A book lays on a table. The cover reads "The Founding Documents, The Declaration of Independence and Constitution of the United States, Introduction by Peter Sagal, Field Notes Brand Books."
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Erik Wessel 🖊️ @ejw.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Translation: he's attacking Iran, but doesn't want to tell the press or the American public. He pulled this same routine with the bunker busters against the nuclear facility (which failed to do anything substantial).
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Erik Wessel 🖊️ @ejw.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Chucky doll
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Collin 'Appears To Be A Typo' Woodard @collinwoodard.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
What could go wrong using AI to help stage a few listing photos?
Photo of a fairly generic modern bathroom with a shower/tub combo, a toilet, a sink, a mirror, and a demonic entity coming out of the mirror
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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 16/02/2026
A painting of a bird beside the text "it must be a great comfort that nothing in your fuckin' life has ever been your fault"
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Erik Wessel 🖊️ @ejw.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Today's been pretty crap for me in the social sphere, so I'm putting some good out in the world in the form of my two puppies taking a little breatk.
Two Italian Greyhounds bundled into a snuggle sack together. One, mostly visible, is wearing pajamas. Only the face of the other can be seen poking out from inside the snuggle sack.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
And, the word of the day is now "perfidy." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...
By Charlie SavageEric SchmittJohn IsmayJulian E. BarnesRiley Mellen and Christiaan Triebert
Charlie Savage, Eric Schmitt, John Ismay and Julian E. Barnes reported from Washington; Riley Mellen and Christiaan Triebert reported from New York.

Jan. 12, 2026
Updated 6:47 p.m. ET
The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first attack on a boat that the Trump administration said was smuggling drugs, killing 11 people last September, according to officials briefed on the matter. The aircraft also carried its munitions inside the fuselage, rather than visibly under its wings, they said.

The nonmilitary appearance is significant, according to legal specialists, because the administration has argued its lethal boat attacks are lawful — not murders — because President Trump “determined” the United States is in an armed conflict with drug cartels.

But the laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status to fool adversaries into dropping their guard, then attacking and killing them. That is a war crime called “perfidy.”U.S. military manuals about the law of war discuss perfidy at length, saying it includes when a combatant feigns civilian status so the adversary “neglects to take precautions which are otherwise necessary.” A U.S. Navy handbook says lawful combatants at sea use offensive force “within the bounds of military honor, particularly without resort to perfidy,” and stresses that commanders have a “duty” to “distinguish their own forces from the civilian population.”
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Lily Bart 📚 🎧 😽 @roguetime.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Federal agent drew his gun and pointed it right at the face of a non violent protestor. THIS HAS TO STOP NOW
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Erik Wessel 🖊️ @ejw.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
This is the perfect effinbirds to come up after the US's Venezuelan folly this weekend.
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Erik Wessel 🖊️ @ejw.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
The absolute temerity to say "You don’t have to embarrass our guests by asking a question like that" about MBS after what he put Zelensky through in the Oval Office. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
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Trump insults another female reporter, this time for her looks
On Wednesday, the president called a New York Times reporter “ugly,” the third insult toward a female reporter in recent weeks.
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Erik Wessel 🖊️ @ejw.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
What's most amazing about this is not the view itself (which is extra amazing) but that the NOAA still has the staff and funds to fly this mission after DOGE, never mind the government shutdown. youtube.com/shorts/P2MgO...
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Hurricane hunters share video from inside the eye of monster storm Melissa
YouTube video by ABC 7 Chicago
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Erik Wessel 🖊️ @ejw.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
It's pretty bad when someone describes your methods as "Obviously laughable". www.propublica.org/article/ted-...
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A Study of Mint Plants. A Device to Stop Bleeding. This Is the Scientific Research Ted Cruz Calls “Woke.”
The senator flagged thousands of National Science Foundation grants for using words like “female” and “diversify.” A ProPublica analysis found numerous examples of projects caught up in his crude meth...
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Peter Kafka @pkafka.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Here's a list of DOGE staff, assembled and annotated by my colleagues at BI. Whatever you do, please don't share it. www.businessinsider.com/doge-staff-l...
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We got a DOGE staff list. From a McKinsey alum to a former Clarence Thomas clerk, here are the workers powering Elon Musk's cost-cutting squad.
A list of White House DOGE staffers shows about 30 young tech, finance, and legal professionals remaking the federal government.
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Erik Wessel 🖊️ @ejw.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
This entire week.
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Hey LA folks. If you lost your pet during the fires, here's where you can call.
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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
ME: Hello, I'm here to apply for the position of absolute sickest looking motherfucker in the entire 19th century RECEPTIONIST: I'm sorry, sir, that opening has been filled
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Erik Wessel 🖊️ @ejw.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Hey, everybody, I was off social media today. How'd the quadrennial riot at the capitol go? Wait, what?
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing. They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays. The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k. www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...
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Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month. A year later, nearly half of participants said they had housing.
Participants in Denver's basic-income program reported having more-secure housing, though results were similar in the trial and control groups.
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NPR @npr.org · 09/03/2024
The lower 48 states just had the warmest winter in 130 years of record-keeping, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Temperatures were more than 5 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than average.
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U.S. has warmest winter on record – and no, that's not a good thing
From lack of snow to wildfires, a record-warm winter had impacts across the country. Scientists say winters are warming faster than any other season in the U.S.
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