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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I do think they probably ran his texts through an LLM and it hallucinated crimes. That’s scary and bad and it’s funny they got caught, but imagine how many other times this happens on a day to day basis against people with no rights, let alone the ability to publicly humiliate the AI prosecutor.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Quoting Jean Paul Sartre and having the response be, "Did he say that?! I always hated that guy" is usually a cue that you're hanging out with chuds and in mortal danger of enchudification. Duncan, your heel turn is nigh complete.

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Chris Schweizer @ NCAF & NYCC @schweizercomics.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I know it's dangerous to pedestal politicians, but our governor has time &again refused to take the bait on throwing any vulnerable group under the bus, and I'm mighty grateful for both the steadfast decency that he has shown to date, and the kind, invitational correctives he offers his errant peers

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Watching the film BRENDA STARR (1989). Very much a direct comic adaptation, and has a exaggerated stylisms of the format. Brenda's wardrobe in particular are a lot of bespoke costumes that make sense on the comic book page but over the top in comparison to actual mid-century clothing. #Filmsky

The film poster for the film, Brenda Starr (1989), starring Brooke Shields, Diana Scarwin, and Timonthy Dalton.

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

By no means the most important topic, but... The attempt to rebrand The Kennedy Center feels a very particular vein of cruel and shallow. As though we don't live in the shadow of 30 years of conservatives hollowing out support for the National Endowment for the Arts, Radio Free Europe, NPR, PBS...

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It's vastly more comforting to believe in an imminent robot apocalypse than the truth: the things that will destroy us are extensions of the unsexy but obvious problems all around us. We are not doomed in one grand way, but a thousand petty small ways.

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Unc class grants the bearer additional attachment point (carabiner.)

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/09/2026

It's difficult to pick apart fears about AI & data centers that are intrinsic to the technologies vs. those that are connected to the fact that giant, fateful decisions about these things are being made by a small handful of insular brain-cooked oligarch narcissists.

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Was thinking today about how bifurcated and paywalled the Internet has become and how we've all tacitly accepted "I can't read this content, I can't follow this creator, etc."

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Brew day! Making a Wheat Ale, to which I am going to be adding in a silly Raspberry Lychee fruit spread I found at Aldi as an adjunct. #homebrewing #craftbeer #BrewSky

A table full of brewing ingredients, from left-to-right: Viking Wheat Malt, Melanoidin Malt, and Munich malt (steep grains), Hallertau Mittelfruh and Tettnanger hops, Whirlifloc tablets (a clarifier), Raspberry Lychee fruit spread, and two bags of Bavarian Wheat DME (dry malt extract.)

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Whiffing on a real softball across the plate on the subject of "How ghoulish do you want to be perceived?"

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Reflecting back on 9/11 today. I watched it happen in real-time. I also visited Windows on the World as a kid, when I was maybe 6, a place that ceased to exist when the towers fell.

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🌿🌞Sarah🌛🦋 @legndofphoenix.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Convoluted tax credits for the middle class isn't kitchen table issues. Government assistance isn't good when you have to jump through hoops to get any sort of benefits that are often means tested anyway.

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"I have yet to encounter a single person in my life who uses algebra." Not really the flex that you think it is, dude.

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It's *secretive.* Thus, it's far too important for you, the group being 'protected,' to have any mechanism for regulatory oversight until this inevitably leads to a swarm of additional false-positives and petty abuse cases.

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I question how much of this is expectation that people are just incapable of basic tasks? As opposed to how much of this is generating FOMO that you will be left behind if you don't get in with the crowd and do things the 'right' way.

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The billionaires pretend techno-optimism is an agnostic vision of the future of humanity. It isn't. Instead, it's a form of progress where only technologies deigned sufficient are passed along to the rest of us. So, LLM's and Meta glasses are somehow okay; clean energy and high speed rail aren't.

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"Some people say" has been doing so many hours of being a cover for accepting Dirtbag as a protected form of speech.

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

One major gripe I have with modern UI design (MS is especially guilty of this) - Setting up permissions structures where entire features are not just greyed out/inaccessible but completely invisible based on user role. (1/5)

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Me: "Hey, I've got a great song to end the night." Dad: "It's "Pulling Mussels From the Shell."" Dad: "It's Pulling Mussels From The Shell," isn't it?" Me: *presses play*

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Pulling Mussels from the Shell

Squeeze performs live.

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Man, I really hate the concept of "You have to hand it to [Fascist Leader]." Because make no mistake, Donald Trump is a fascist, and the pointless cruelty, worship of corruption, and generational longterm for our country don't justify any of this.

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

A parsimonious explanation is all the public-facing language used in ‘Abundance’, ‘Effective Altruism’, ‘neoliberalism’, etc. is that it’s marketing. It’s the big sell to the public for something quite different from the end product, and they’re aware of this, because they’re lying

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The Gen X complaint about Gen Z "influencers" is weak AF given you're talking about the same folks who hung on every word of Joe Rogan, Alex Jones, and RFK Jr.

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Having my country completely miss the point of Bioshock Infinite over the past two years has been regrettable to say the least. But, hey atleast the new RETVRN 10¢ coins are pretty cool. #photography

The front face of the new USD dime, a 10 cent coin, resting face up.

The front face of the coin features a bust of Lady Liberty with her hair done up in a bun in Greco-Roman style. Around the figure are wrapped the word LIBERTY in uppercase at top-right, and the dates 1776-2026 in bottom-left. The coin is stamped D, indicating it was minted in Denver, and below the figure at bottom-right is the phrase "In God We Trust."

Below this, in microscopic text is written CAC, the signature of the artist.

The reverse ("tails") side of the dime.

On it at top center is the all caps UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Below this, in slightly smaller face, is written the motto, "E Pluribus Unum," the Latin phrase meaning "Out of Many, One."

Below this is an eagle, its talons bared and wings folded, as though swooping dramatically, a clutch of arrows in its grip.

Below this is the phrase, again in all caps ONE DIME. Below this is the motto, "Liberty over Tyranny."

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The Milo stuff is the perfect picture of fascism. You think you're protected because you go as big as you can on racism, you spend years harassing the movement's perceived enemies, you even disavow your own sexuality. They'll still throw you in a cage over the tiniest disagreement already forgotten.

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

So we're to the point in the story where basic thermodynamics is Thoughtcrime.

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Skinwalker-in-a-Human-Suit Priorities: Being *furious* at the elderly having a meager sum to enjoy their remaining years after a lifetime of working.

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

We are watching a classic of the new American cinema canon tonight, "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas." 😤

The movie poster for Colin Higgins musical comedy film adaptation of the stage play "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" (1982), starring Burt Reynolds, Dolly Parton, and Jim Nabors.

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton spent 80 years proving you could have big hair, a bigger heart, a brilliant mind and absolutely no patience for anyone who underestimated you. She gave us unforgettable songs, free books for millions of children, and enough wit, rhinestones and kindness to light up Tennessee.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 24/08/2026

If Jensen Huang has time to attend a $1 million-a-head dinner at Mar-a-Lago and fly across the world to meet with President Xi Jinping, he can find time to testify in front of Congress about reports that NVIDIA technology is powering Russia’s war machine.

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Tradewater Brewing Company, Madisonville, KY. #craftbeer

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

At any point in the last decade a journalist could have followed up with a "what the fuck do you mean by that" And they don't, not a single "what the fuck are you talking about" followup in over a goddamn decade of this.

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

What has bothered me more than anything about the proliferation of Flock cameras is they're a crutch for lazy policing. The fallback with them has been to use the technology as the excuse/cover for profiling that LEO were going to do anyway.

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Mimey @lordmimey.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The Satanic Panic was really just repackaged McCarthyism and putting a 'Jesus' paintjob over it. It was all the same people/groups pushing both. Same thing with the AIDS epidemic at the same time, and now the anti-trans hate we see today. Same people, same tactics, same hate.

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Brew Day! Doing some housecleaning and experimenting with cold brewing some darker specialty steep grains I had lying around. Current batch is a porter I am adding cold brew concentrate as a late boil addition, as well as crystallized ginger in the fermenter. #homebrewing #brewsky #craftbeer

A countertop with a large baking measuring cup of cold brew steep grain concentrate, as well as a bag of crystallized ginger chips that will be used in beermaking.

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

This Afternoon's Topic of Conversation -- Dad: "Would it be wrong for me to take an older woman?" Me: "Are you asking for my permission to date a mummy, Dad?"

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Rustbelt in the Magic Hour, Evansville, IN. #photography

The view from the driver's side dashboard of a car. A burgundy Hyundai Accent car is directly in front of the vehicle, its red taillights glowing.

The sky is full of the faded blues and greens of late sunset. The lights of a railway crossing are flashing and the flag is lowered. The cars of a deep rust-iron red freight train is snaking from far left to immediate right in the background, their faces stenciled in neon blues and greens of graffiti tags.

At far left, an industrial looking building and a long trail of power lines stretch into the horizon.

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

How cooked is it that a sitting US Senator would rather listen to the idiot-reinforcement box than listen to actual experts on an actual podcast?

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Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Further evidence this site has lapped The Bad Place.

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