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fred-decker.bsky.social @fred-decker.bsky.social · 24m

So the five-bar discrepancy... was Trump's cut? Just spit-balling here.

A paragraph from the linked article, reading "During their search of his home, investigators seized about 300 gold bars, federal officials said, along with about $2 million in U.S. currency and 35 luxury watches. Initially investigators said it was 303 bars, but on Tuesday revised that figure to 298 bars."

fred-decker.bsky.social @fred-decker.bsky.social · 29m

Saw this on Gander, where the poster said it originated here on Bluesky. If anyone knows the origin, please let me know and I'll link back for proper attribution in a following comment.

Image of an attractive female protester, holding a cardboard sign on which someone has digitally inserted the words "'We can't tax rich people on unrealized stock gains because they haven't sold.' Then explain why my property taxes jump when my home value climbs. I didn't sell. I didn't cash out. Yet I still owe more off a higher assessment. Funny how 'unrealized' only works in one direction."

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 35m

Super Intelligence, please tell me which party started the Tariff war and currently controls the Senate?

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Angus McIntyre @angusm.bsky.social · 44m

I'd like to live in a world where we had the Democrats that Republicans invent to scare their voters instead of the Democrats we actually have.

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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 3h

💥🎃🤣

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 10h

How do I know Hegseth’s order to deny access to bases to members of Congress is about a cover up, not about safety? Because I asked for a military briefing at the embassy as a substitute and was told the policy prohibited military leaders in the region from even talking to me.

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Maj @lif3asmaj.blacksky.app · 2h

Not that this is news to anyone, but I watched this debate and well...let's just say that the GOP will likely tell candidates to not debate Dems like they did in 2021 & this debate will likely be why. If they haven't outright done so already considering how Paxton is ducking Talarico.

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Thatch @thatchspace.bsky.social · 8h

Found this gem via @doctorow.pluralistic.net newsletter. Its a nice read by @deadparrotbbs.com@deadparrotbbs.com over on Mastodon Why Plain Text Is Still One of the Best Technologies We Have deadparrotbbs.com/why-plain-te...

deadparrotbbs.com

Why Plain Text Is Still One of the Best Technologies We Have

Plain text is portable, inspectable, searchable, easy to back up, and remarkably resistant to obsolescence. Its simplicity has helped it survive decades of...

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 2h

It's *incredibly striking* how closely the rhetoric matches the MAGA/MAHA Administration's rhetoric....same nasty playbook

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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 2h

oh look paid protesters

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Inside Ukraine 🇺🇦 @insideukraine.bsky.social · 11h

🇺🇦🫵🪖💥🐽President Zelenskyy warned Ukraine will retaliate symmetrically against russian infrastructure, including telecom networks in moscow.

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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 2h

"Surging demand from data centers and air conditioners put the US power system through a tough test this summer. But instead of triggering a jump in fossil-fuel use, record renewables output carried much of the extra load and helped keep the lights on." The lies of the oil industry are falling fast

reuters.com

COMMENTARY: Renewables help US power system survive summer stress test

Surging demand from data centers and air conditioners put the US power system through a tough test this summer. But instead of triggering a jump in fossil-fuel use, record renewables output carried mu...

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Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 1h

I guess this is what happens when AIPAC-AI writes your talking points without any human in the chain to check for basic humanity. David Valadao (R-CA-22) literally says that military aid to Israel helps the US because the money goes to the production and TESTING of American weapons systems.

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nomadRuss @russlinton.com · 1h

Renting supercomputer time to replace an intern is likely a dumb idea financially but the oligarchs are awash in so much ill-gotten funds, they just don't care. The only way out of this financially irresponsible doom loop is collapse. Or - just hear me out - regulation and accountability...

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 4h

Other than an aside on the "white nationalism that has emerged out of the dark corners of the internet," (which she she pairs with the "excesses of work") Slade makes no mention of the role of race in the construction of the modern conservative movement. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/o...

nytimes.com

Opinion | With Trump Flailing, Some Conservatives Are Having Second Thoughts About Trumpism

What is the future of the conservative movement?

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1h

CO-SIGN

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Julie Cohen ❌👑 @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social · 5h

For months Gabriela Soto has relentlessly advocated for her husband Martin, unlawfully detained by ICE while buying diapers for their baby. Martin played a key role in the Delaney Hall hunger strike this summer. Last night we was RELEASED from ICE custody. ALWAYS FIGHT BACK.

Beautiful young family outside a detention center.

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Count Melancholia @lillyh.bsky.social · 13h

This is not the case in Alberta, which has the same language, culture and history as the rest of Canada (excluding Quebec) and has no case for "nationhood". This is a purely political ploy, stoked by US fascists. It has the same irrational character as Brexit had (also stoked by fascists).

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fred-decker.bsky.social @fred-decker.bsky.social · 3h

...and hey, Bobby Darin had already warned him to "look out for Miss Lotte Lenya," so he saw it coming.

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 15h

Also the American Revolution was not about "outworking the other guy." It was saving your energy while letting the other guy grind himself into dust and asking the French for help.

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fred-decker.bsky.social @fred-decker.bsky.social · 3h

If the union-busting wasn't enough, here's another reason to keep avoiding Starbucks. (...and of course, for Canadians, there's also the whole "avoiding US megacorporations" incentive as a bonus.)

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 11h

Mike Johnson says #VoteBlue!

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 10h

Why isn't this on every TV screen and not the fairy tale of killer robots

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h

The alarmists have yet to be wrong 😕🇺🇸

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 16h

The GOP: Never not looking into children's underpants

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 4h

a “banana republic” is precisely when the political system is dominated by overweening corporate interests

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 7h

This is incredibly important. I feel deeply that curbing sexual violence will come from raising social expectations of men, not from ‘educating’ them. I fear this is an unpopular view, because people are afraid to face up to the scale of the issue.

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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 15h

The Cornell community has floated abolishing the Cornell Police Department. We should take it seriously, especially if you think that survivors should have the option of going to the police instead of their schools. I feel strongly about this too, because something people don't understand is that universities at this point are essentially total institutions. For a lot of students, their schools are not just schools.
They're their landlords, their employers, their source of health care, their gym, their coffee shop, the arena where they attend concerts. It leaves survivors with almost no real options. If you can't trust your school and your school systematically discriminates against sexual-assault survivors, where is left for you to go?

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 15h

the tech industry is about to invent books

Andrew Yeung
@andruyeung
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We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Kybosh @kybosh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I like seeing the dev of the SNES core on the Pocket actually telling one of these dudes off. Holy shit.

8 Closed
Experimental MSU-1 streami. #123
nasonliu wants to merge 2 commits into a
agg23 commented yesterday
If it works, that's pretty cool; I didn't think
would ever see this implemented (I also didn't
expect LLMs to exist).
However, this is not something you can PR
here, or anywhere. You sent me a nearly 50k
line diff, unasked for, completely LLM built, and
you somehow expect me to review it. There is
SO MUCH unrelated garbage here. Never
minding all of the docs and Python, you've
somehow touched basically all of the upstream
HDL, which already had MSU1 support, so idk
what in the world you're doing.
This kind of behavior is not acceptable. You are
infringing on the time and brainpower of people
by pushing "your" content that little/no of your
brainpower went into; completely unrequested.
I hope for the sake of all responsible
maintainers that you do not do such a thing
again.
Again, I think it's cool that you and your LLM
supposedly got this to work. It has no place in
my world.

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 20h

This is beautifully said

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 19h

As a Catholic, like Alito, I think it's so important for you to know how little—how absolutely not at all—your marriage (or your LGBTQ identity) impacts my religious liberty. In fact, refusing to acknowledge your marriage (or your LGBTQ identity) is a grave affront to your innate human dignity.

abcnews.com

Alito calls same-sex marriage a 'decisive' turn 'against religious liberty' in new book

A new book by Justice Samuel Alito presents his view of the Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the country with a focus on religious freedom.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20h

I’m ready to be a CEO. I promise to take on debt, fire anyone who seems better than me at anything, and insist you’re going to love my product that kills you

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The GOP cut funding to the IRS because *audits work* and they fundamentally don't believe rich people should have to play by the rules.

Line chart titled "Revenue per audit," subtitled "In-person audits, 2010-2014." It plots average revenue and average cost per audit by taxpayer income percentile, poorer to richer, from the 0–5th percentile to the top 0.1%. Source: Boning et al. 2023, "A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution."

Across the bottom half of the income distribution, revenue and cost track closely, both around $3,000–$6,000 per audit. Above the median, revenue pulls ahead of cost: about $10,000 vs. $5,000 near the 90th percentile, and about $17,000 vs. $8,000 at the 95th–99th. At the top, revenue jumps to about $31,000 for the 99–99.9th percentile and about $90,000 for the top 0.1%.

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Andrea González-Ramírez @andreagonram.bsky.social · 20h

Midway through my call with @nbedera.bsky.social, I was so shocked I asked: "How are you not incandescent with rage every day?" If you want to understand the Cornell case and why universities fail survivors, read this. You may become furious too. (Gift link.) www.thecut.com/article/trum...

thecut.com

The Reason Why Colleges Still Fail to Address Sexual Violence

The “Cornell Seven” case highlights what’s wrong with Trump’s Title IX rules — and how the system was always designed to fail.

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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 18h

Get in on the ground floor of the agent everyone is talking about. Here are some of our favorite Z prompts to have a better and more fulfilling life. (This post is #PoweredByZ, proud sponsor of the Tim Heidecker Podcast.)

A stylized letter "Z" is centered against a dark cosmic background with Earth visible below. Text on the image humorously asks for help with improving intimacy speed to allow more time for Microsoft Excel.

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fred-decker.bsky.social @fred-decker.bsky.social · 16h

So... still eligible for the FBI?

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 17h

99% of rapers are men.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17h

I'm not sure if @oversightdemocrats.bsky.social have issued a statement on this yet, but they should publicly announce that if Russ Vought tries to fuck with the election in any way they will fire him out of a cannon when they take power.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22h

JON STEWART: “So in the FUTURE we WILL use A.I. to cure diseases… but right now it’s mostly murder, surveillance, and surge pricing for the McRib — What a trade! I’m getting the sense you guys might be full of shit.”

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The Onion @theonion.com · 21h

Tilly Norwood Moved To Trash Folder By Deranged Fan

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 21h

FUN FACT: The Bible doesn't say *anything* about abortion. Ever. Well, except for the time God provides a handy recipe for a magic potion to induce an involuntary one. Numbers 5:11-31

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Not only does the Israeli government not care about the safety of the Diaspora, they are actively willing to cultivate ties to figures who make antisemitism worse around the world, if it enables them to steal more land in the West Bank with global impunity. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

theguardian.com

US, Israeli and European far-right figures to gather for conference in Israel

Trump’s counter-terrorism ‘czar’, Sebastian Gorka, was scheduled to speak at conference but White House says he will no longer attend

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Today would be a particularly great, long overdue day for the Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin - Madison to get up in front of microphones & explain to the public, voters, students, & their families that we are facing an existential crisis because of the GOP’s illegal federal funding cuts.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Seems like if you're going to make a national story out of Hasan Piker, who campaigned a few times with the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, saying Israel causes antisemitism, you should also make a national story out of the favorite intellectual of the US Vice President supporting Hitler.

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fred-decker.bsky.social @fred-decker.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If you've ever wanted to know why the Epstein Class have spent the last several decades undermining expertise across all domains, @doctorow.pluralistic.net is your man.

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