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Fire Breathing Unicorn @firebunicorn.bsky.social · 10h

No more namby-pamby cyber security, either! bsky.app/profile/zack...

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"Twenty-four hours. Three states. Three people dead. Countless lives changed in seconds. The men in Maine and Florida were not even ICE’s intended targets for arrest – they became ‘collaterals’, as agency officials call them.” #AbuseofPowerWatch

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

Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports.

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Fire Breathing Unicorn @firebunicorn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A friend is dying. He's a significant presence at the Renaissance Festival. Tonight my oldest called home crying, saying she figured out how to get to the last weekend of Fest because she needs to hear the Mermaid at closing gate. Because it's our friend's last weekend.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026

This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The bubble is undefeated.

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Fire Breathing Unicorn @firebunicorn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Senator Britt keeps saying "biased" even when she means "bias" And she's doing her Pearl Clutch Vocal Ramp again

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Fire Breathing Unicorn @firebunicorn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Hawkeye basketball debacle is a perfect example of how unserious Republicans are.

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Miss Riss @missriss.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If anyone I know in the Seattle/King County area is looking for remote/hybrid work, PSE is hiring both temp and permanent customer service reps. Good paying, union job and after completing training (Bothell office), you can go remote and work from home in these roles

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Fire Breathing Unicorn @firebunicorn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I will never pressure my kids about grandchildren, but if I do have descendants some day, I am very excited for them to discover their ancestors 🥰 And I'll leave labeled photographs for them, too 😂

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Fire Breathing Unicorn @firebunicorn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This weekend I had to confront a man who was publicly urinating next to our stage. 🧵 My bestie and I were walking back from using the privy back stage (LIKE RESPONSIBLE ADULTS). As I approached the gate, I saw a patron man walking toward it. I called out, "We're opening this door!"

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yeah, about that steel mill promise…

S5 CHICAGO
DONALD TRUMP
'8th Wonder of the World":
Trump Speaks in Wisconsin at Foxconn Groundbreaking
The FoxConn factory is slated to open in 2020 and is expected to be massive, meant to produce LCD screens for televisions and computers
By Mary Ann Ahern and Sandra Torres • Published June 28, 2018 • Updated on June 28, 2018 at 5:28 pm
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$ 5 CHICAGO
NBC 5 INVESTIGATES
What happened to Foxconn? A look at the $1.2 billion spent and where it all went
It was supposed to be a giant manufacturing plant that would spur the growth of "Wis-con Valley.
Instead, it's a mostly-abandoned stretch of four lane roads and barren fields.
By Bennett Haeberle, Nathan Halder, Rich Moy, and Katy Smyser • Published June 3, 2025 • Updated on
June 5, 2025 at 6:02 pm

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One of the funniest parts of DOGE was all these dipshits simultaneously complaining about all the supposed waste in government while also whining that all the equipment was antiquated. What, you think slashing funding will magically modernize all the equipment?

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

preview: "Referring to AI development as 'the frontier' is a laughable ploy to get men who’ve never had a creative thought in their life to believe they’re an NPC in a gritty reboot of the Oregon Trail."

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The Onion @theonion.com · 28/09/2026

What’s Rustling In That Leaf Pile?

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Fire Breathing Unicorn @firebunicorn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This past weekend I got to help - for the 5th time - as one of the members of Fandazzi made an official attempted at a Guinness World Record. The previous record for fastest fire eating in 30 seconds was 57 torches. Bret got 62! 🔥

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Feels like the tech industry is producing T-100 terminators and instead of shutting down the T-100 production line the response is putting bubble wrap on the T-100s

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Fire Breathing Unicorn @firebunicorn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If I tied a brick to my accelerator and put the car in drive, I'm pretty sure the cops wouldn't shrug and say my car "went rogue."

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VoteHub @votehub.com · 28/09/2026

NEWS — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear criticizes fellow Democrats who say transgender athletes should be barred from women’s sports. “That is not the party that we are. We start as a party of compassion and empathy.”

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Fire Breathing Unicorn @firebunicorn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Had a big weekend with big feelings. I can't believe the talent I know.

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Fire Breathing Unicorn @firebunicorn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

OR... OpenAI programmers responsible for hacking US Government websites

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Fire Breathing Unicorn @firebunicorn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I've never e watched an L. Dunham production but I did just watch Trixie and Katya watch one and: I have made the correct life choices.

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Project True North @projtruenorth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

That’s Big Pharma and tobacco lobbyist Ben Golnik next to Lisa Demuth at her primary election watch party running her operation. She won't answer what he does for her campaign.

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Selena Kane @serendipityjones.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Erk we're down TWO bands... any Portland folks wanna rock out 2nite with some freaks from Seattle and Tacoma?? #portlandsky #pdx #music

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Fire Breathing Unicorn @firebunicorn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Finally watching the finale of Strange New Worlds over my lunch break and I had to pause it to say: Uhra's styling in this is 🤌🔥

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

and yes, good on senate dems for forcing the issue they should be doing this all the time. ditto house dems. this should be a central pillar of the dem party, in majority or minority.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“She nearly lost her home to foreclosure and her teenage daughter was entrusted with running her household. Her college-age son left a football scholarship to return home and help with costs around the home. Mason has three children and also raised four of her brother’s children.”

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Fire Breathing Unicorn @firebunicorn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The first one absolutely slaps, but the third one in this set is also amazing - good use of empty space, clear and impactful messaging. Student poster contests are the best!

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 24/09/2026

One time, CPSC hosted a carbon monoxide safety poster contest for students, and the kids came in with absolute bangers.

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Fire Breathing Unicorn @firebunicorn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I like seeing the rough edges of someone doing their best!

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Fire Breathing Unicorn @firebunicorn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The more I expect? NO ICE. Democrats should loudly acknowledge NOW that a win comes with a serious mandate: The people want JUSTICE and an END to ICE. There is no reforming evil. Immigration is a civil issue, NOT something that should have been militarized. Abolish ICE.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’ve floated, “GET YOUR HAND OUT MY POCKET, FOOL” for this purpose. So far no takers.

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

How many years have I been telling you to keep your eye on Iowa? I know what I’m seeing on the ground and what I’ve been seeing for a couple of years… LFG!

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Fire Breathing Unicorn @firebunicorn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Just out the throwing around the name of the Scottish Play on stage. Truly fearless.

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Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

LOL Wtfffff

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/09/2026

Many of the babies’ autopsy reports were clear: Vitamin K deficiency was the immediate cause of death, or contributed to it. The reports also included details about parents refusing the vitamin K shot, a long-standard injection, for their newborns. (Published May)

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What I Can’t Forget About the Babies Who Died After Not Receiving a Vitamin K Shot

Babies have died after not receiving the vitamin K shot at birth. Their autopsy records underscore how preventable their deaths could have been.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026

NEWSNATION: How much room is the RNC giving candidates to separate themselves from the president when it comes to the war? RNC CHAIR JOE GRUTERS: We think what the president has delivered in terms of messaging is a winner. I say they lean in to the policies this president has pushed and you'll win.

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 23/09/2026

ICE agents used excessive force to detain Luis Ochoa, an American citizen and teenager, on his way to enlist in the Marines. When his mom spoke out, they DEPORTED her. We cannot get numb to these sick fear tactics. Use your voice & your vote to force a CHANGE!

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Fire Breathing Unicorn @firebunicorn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Oldest is taking a course titled Medieval and Early Modern Studies: Quests, Quails, and Custards--Food in Life and Literature She's made a good friend in the class, and the prof inspired to relaunch the Medieval Club. Paperwork has been submitted! cc @lollardfish.bsky.social

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Give the people what they want

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm as shocked as anyone that Playboy is doing a better job covering important issues than mainstream outlets. The new Teen Vogue?

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Fire Breathing Unicorn @firebunicorn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We've put together a guide for folks who are new to absentee voting (or new to voting in general!) that has all the official MN SOS links you need and explains the steps in plain language: www.sd14dfl.com/blog/absente...

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2026 MN Absentee Voting FAQ

Answers to your questions and links to the resources you need for absentee voting in the Minnesota 2026 General Election.

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