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Gammaword

@gammaword.bsky.social
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Software engineer. Writerly. Dad. Partner of her Moonliness. Gurdjieff/Fourth Way. Colorado. Pix/words mine unless noted.

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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The human brain, with 86 billion neurons and a million billion connections between them, runs on 20 watts, less than a lightbulb. Think we may be going down the wrong road believing data centres, needing megawatts or gigawatts of power, with all the environmental & climate costs, are the way to go.
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Gammaword @gammaword.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Andy Beshear should just call a special election. Republicans would’ve done that if, say, Nancy Pelosi went missing for almost a month with no word.
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Gammaword @gammaword.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Doctors Baffled By Man Who Didn’t Use ChatGPT To Diagnose Himself Before Appointment
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Gammaword @gammaword.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
All the ways the system breaks them — they want money to get more power, they want power to get more money. Wake up! The stench of your own corpse is near.
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Gammaword @gammaword.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
First day in the new job as bodhisattva: [looks around] Nope. Nope nope nope.
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Gammaword @gammaword.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Hey cereal makers — maybe just stop adding bits of shoe leather to your product that you call “raisins.” Just stop.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Adding a dead duck to the reflecting swamp because the metaphor wasn't quite on the nose enough.
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Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Not knowing, discarding everything, is the highest form of thinking. ~ #JeannedeSalzmann
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Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
If you've never been here, never been present, I'm sure you'll be terrified of death because your whole life has been an absence. - #MarionWoodman
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Gammaword @gammaword.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Can relate
Cantaloupe with face drawn on it, sliced open so the hollowed-out center looks like an open mouth.
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 20/05/2026
If releasing your tax returns and the Epstein files would end your presidency, then your presidency must end. It’s that simple.
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Allen Kenney @allenkenney.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I intend to make a claim that the federal government was weaponized against me by collecting taxes from me to pay people who claim the federal government was weaponized against them
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I’m so furious about how stupid everything is
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/05/2026
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
No money for pediatric cancer research but there's $1.7 billion for people who beat cops and smeared feces on the walls of the US Capitol.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Imagine being a billionaire in an unequal society where the system has been massively rigged in your favor, watching as ordinary people fall further and further behind and get more and more desperate, and thinking a slightly higher tax rate is the worst possible thing that might ever happen to you.
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Dr. Art Garfunky @chimpvsdog.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
The Confederacy is being revived, and only cartoonists are covering it. @andertoon.bsky.social
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
My hand to God, I often wonder how many of our problems would be alleviated if the entire internet somehow went down for a few months.
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Gammaword @gammaword.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I’m not against billionaires per se. I’m only against the shriveled-heart ones who suck the lifeblood out of everyone else — the living dead. Oh wait.
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Gammaword @gammaword.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Dayum… that was my goto place for years when I lived near Harvard Square. Omelet and bagel at all hours, brunches, pastrami, right in the middle of it all. Too bad.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/04/2026
Let’s all post it and see if they indict all of us.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
When children are shot in their classrooms, all politicians can offer are thoughts and prayers. When a shooting happens near them, they demand a $350 million golden ballroom to protect themselves.
Don't normalize a system that protects power more than it protects children.
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Gammaword @gammaword.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Why are birds so paranoid anyway?
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Gammaword @gammaword.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I like to think that the chickadees in my yard are living their best life
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Gammaword @gammaword.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
He needs to face justice before he dies (or is *officially* declared incompetent/insane).
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Gammaword @gammaword.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
It’s #NoKings #Caturday
Cat with lit-up ears looking into the blackness
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Gammaword @gammaword.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Spring spring, no kings
Pussy Willow in bloom with blue sky and white summer clouds behind
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Gammaword @gammaword.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
I just want one villain to die. Is that so much to ask?
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robert j bennett, ceo, results omega @robertjbennett.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
the question I have is why can we build data centers faster than we can build solar and storage?
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Gammaword @gammaword.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
War at our feeder. Most animals do similar kinds of dances for superiority and power, but without hurting each other — except, you know, that one animal, the “most intelligent” species.
Two House Finches in midair, one above the other with its wings spread, the other falling back defensively
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Gammaword @gammaword.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Hey, let’s name it the Watery Ocean, said the guy who named the Rocky Mountains
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Gammaword @gammaword.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Impeachment is really just the bare minimum at this point
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Gammaword @gammaword.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
They all think they’re getting pardons so they don’t care.
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Gammaword @gammaword.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
America, América — just finished this eye-opening read, incredibly timely. Loved learning about the intertwined histories of the Americas. I’ve known almost nothing about Latin America which is a damn shame. Also - fuck the heartless power-hungry of the world, especially morally empty capitalists
Book cover of America, América by Greg Grandin.
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Gammaword @gammaword.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
AI is the immigrant you should be worried about
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Gammaword @gammaword.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
“The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone.” - www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong
The pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions.
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Gammaword @gammaword.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
We need a law that strictly prohibits ANY ICE ENFORCEMENT on Election Day.
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Gammaword @gammaword.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Editorial cartoonists are absolutely nailing this moment. Their print colleagues could learn something here.
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Gammaword @gammaword.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Let’s get failed masculinity off our streets
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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
for Alex Pretti
For Alex Pretti

Because his last words were for a woman;
because he asked,
are you okay, are you okay;
because he had learned to say it
by standing each night beside the dying;
because sometimes he held their hands;
because he had lived only as long
as the scent of childhood in an album;
because he was a son;
because he sang once;
because of all of it,
because of all of it,
because of all of it,
tell it, tell the story:
a breath has left;
a country is dying;
and a man laid his face 
on its pavement today
as though he were listening 
to a patient's heart—
even then, even at the ending—
to do what he was there to do: heal.

—Joseph Fasano
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Gammaword @gammaword.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
According to Heather Cox Richardson, it would take 23 people (Republican senators) to end all of this (impeach and remove Trump). 23 people.
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Gammaword @gammaword.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Watch us discover the murderer was a J6-er pardoned by Trump. If they hide his name, then you can bet that’s why.
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Gammaword @gammaword.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Murderous thugs - of course I’m angry. Everyone with a brain is, and has said it so much better. But more than that, I’m deeply sad. This is all so heartbreaking.
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Gammaword @gammaword.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
I didn’t know being human would be this complicated
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Gammaword @gammaword.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
PSA
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Gammaword @gammaword.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
They murdered a poet. A woman. A mother. Whose last name is “Good.” Sums up this ugly, inhuman administration. All the things they hate. I can’t go on, I’ll go on. We’ll go on. With love and ferocity.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
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Gammaword @gammaword.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
There are more than five senses of course, and I’m not really counting but I think “being surveilled” is one of them now
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Gammaword @gammaword.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
They want you to forget history because they want you to forget the history they’re making right now
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 03/01/2026
Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
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