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@fiddleabout.bsky.social
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she/her. selective luddite. fiddleabout in some places on the internet, nirav in others, comically bad at socializing in all of them.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h
a livestreamed execution is just a lynching
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h
jesus christ i have never heard a democratic talk this bluntly about an opponent
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 3h
There’s always some mysterious foreign land that is so much more authoritarian than the place that’s happily publicly executed minorities for 400 years
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 2h
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1h
A Tennessee appellate court has ruled that the killing of a woman may have been justifiable because she was trans. The court reversed a conviction, stating that the killer could have a new trial because the jury did not know the woman killed was trans. Trans panic in the modern era.
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Killing of Woman May Have Been Justifiable Because She Was Trans, Tennessee Court Rules
The case is a bitter reminder of the ways LGBTQ people have had their identities weaponized by the courts in the past, most notoriously through a legal defense tactic known as gay or trans “panic.”
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 6h
‘If AI doesn’t deliver on its promise then we face a double blow to growth: because AI didn’t expand our productive capacity as hoped, and because other investments which might have didn’t take place.’ www.ft.com/content/bf40...
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Jac @dairyqueenslime.bsky.social · 13h
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 6h
Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 5h
I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.
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Rebecca McCarthy - Game Writing & Narrative🔜 MCM Comic Con @rebeccamwrites.bsky.social · 5h
Dressmaker is a masterpiece.
I made a Garfield Dress
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 14h
i resent how there's a stable of a couple dozen dudes whose whole thing is 'has a racist blog' & they regularly get mainstream newspaper and magazine profiles. i have trouble keeping track of them all, i'm like 'what did he do again' & check his wikipedia & it's ah, has a racist blog, that's all
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)
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The Ken In Yellow @kenlowery.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I will simply say I am seeing exactly this situation play out right now in a different field. Work that would have taken about 3 weeks start to finish via traditional methods is now into week 6 and still in what amounts to first draft territory
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andré, but scarier @andre-carlisle.bsky.social · 23h
this looks like an 80s qvc infomercial about a microwave so quiet that it won't wake up your husband
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
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One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center
A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.
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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This money is absolutely meaningless to Elon Musk, but it has the potential to completely rewrite your future. He's spent over $36 million in about 4 weeks, and he's adding millions a day. All to corrupt our government to push his agenda. Let your friends know what's up.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
FUCK YES. This is the energy, morality, and courage that I expect from leaders. Unbelievably brave.
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gg @ggold328.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
i will help yakko, wakko, and dot in any way i can to get their vengeance
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026
interesting that conservatives were militantly “we must reward hustle” when the target was affirmative action at elite universities and now, when faced with the success of south asians and other groups, it is “i think we are too meritocratic”
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"I thought he wears Brioni." This is the American version of Brioni (Jabroni)
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
So... "cable"... we're just doing cable again.
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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Oh brother.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
this is all a joke to them because far-right conservatives think that rape is good, and that high status men should be entitled to rape any women around them who are not also already attached to other high-status men. this is their actual ideology
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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 06/10/2026
A year ago, @propublica.org told you immigration agents had detained more than 170 U.S. citizens. We’ve updated our count, and we’ve got all the receipts. The tally: At least 506 citizens detained. Sometimes held at gunpoint, handcuffed, or even deported. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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bobby @bobbylewis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
it may not be his origin story but “nobody liked my art” is such a common denominator among world-historic assholes
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"The federal government is lying to you." "The government has said that ICE does not zip tie or handcuff children." "They’ve denied engaging in racial profiling" "They’ve said the government is not wrongly arresting U.S. citizens." *We found the truth* projects.propublica.org/american-cit....
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Sean Morrow @snmrrw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Never forget that David Ellison's Skydance Media was originally created so he could be an actor. Skydance's first film was 'Flyboys' starring James Franco and... David Ellison. David and his daddy invested $60m to make Flyboys. It grossed $17m Here's a bit of David's acting:
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The federal government is lying to you. And we have the receipts. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 06/10/2026
Le Wackisme
Wired app push notification 

New Frontier
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A French company claims its newest Al model, ‘Le Chonk,’ can compete with the
US and China
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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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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026
this guy sounds like a minor character in legend of the galactic heroes
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/10/2026
It makes a lot of sense when you realize a lot of originalists idolize the Lochnerian view of the primacy of contracts above government's regulatory powers. He views marriage law as an extension of contract law and therefore sacrosanct even if he himself hates gays being able to marry.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Rabid hatred of all transgender people—including veterans!—is the point. And the Respectable Republicans™️ and Thoughtful Conservatives™️ are all on board with it.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 05/10/2026
Return to Oz
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 05/10/2026
All prisoners should have the right to vote while in prison
Norman Rockwell's Freedom of Speech
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 05/10/2026
I used an LLM (IBM's Granite 30B model, running locally) to write summaries of 15,000 newspaper articles. It took a few days. I just audited the results and, wow, they're just absolute dog shit, utterly unusable. It randomly shuffled around basic facts within most articles. A total waste of time.
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 05/10/2026
Summarizing text is a trivial task, one of those things LLMs are said to be able to do nearly flawlessly, and as somebody who has summarized several hundred thousands texts with a handful of different LLMs at this point: wow, no, that is absolutely not my experience.
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Unfrozen Caveman Librarian @latefiennes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Original Tweet: “I like Hole better than Nirvana”

Quote Tweet: “me leaving the monastery”
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/10/2026
The Trump administration wanted NYC to explicitly turn away trans veterans from a shelter so NYC was forced to turn down funding for it because it would violate city and state law. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
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NYC turns down $1.3 million for homeless shelter due to dispute over transgender veterans
The city says the federal government would have required them to exclude transgender veterans from seeking shelter beds at the Borden Avenue Veterans' Residence.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Exactly. This is such a lie. Email had a purpose. The internet had a purpose. Search had a purpose. Everybody loved Silicon Valley in the 90s because they made shit that did what it promised. Now 3 guys who never made SHIT have ALL the money in SV. They're scam artists. Not engineers.
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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Genuinely concerned about what's happening to the space-time continuum in this toilet.
A toilet door with a sign saying "Temporally Out Of Order"
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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A good fresh Star Trek take on those fake isekai title jokes
A tumblr screenshot showing a post and two reblog responses, reading:
1. "star trek would be the ideal fictional universe to get trapped in because you'd explain your situation and they'd be like yeah makes sense. no further questions. fortunately we can use the mysterious warp signature emitting from this system's icy moon to counterface with the solar radiation and slingshot you back home"
2. "I'm from a universe where your world is all a work of fiction." Benjamin Sisko, nodding. "That happened to me once."
3. "I Got Isekaid Into The Star Trek Universe And They Quickly Understood What Was Happening"
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Jon Baker @thejonbaker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
RANKED. COMPETITIVE. POOPING.
Royal Highland Show sign that says “Toilets For Competition use only”
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is very true. A huge theme in a lot of recent coverage that AI is a bit like Saving Private Ryan. Everybody's gotta step up and adopt AI to get it across the goal line.
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mcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026
Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026
someone call up will smith we need him to do something
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Amy Vants to Suck Your Blood 🩸 @msfoxifurnasty.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
sundays are for dissociating for three hours because you have to do A Chore
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