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Retro Computers @retrocomps.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Antikythera mechanism (2nd century BC; reconstruction 2012, Tony Freeth)

A simple mechanism for predicting the Callipic cycle, a technique for estimating the time, solstice, and lunar state, used by Greek navigators. The dial on the left shows the state of six heavenly bodies, a crank, and the instructions for use inscribed on the front; the middle shows the mechanism itself, with various step gears used to multiply or divide the main gear into smaller or larger periods; the spring spirals on the back act as a kind of 'checksum', alerting the operator to the end of a calendar month or year.

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Ant @agramuglia.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

This headline goes hard.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Baby mama drama continues for the DOGE man.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Reminder that IMLS supports Libby and Interlibrary Loan, so if you like things like rural borrowers having the same access as city residents and immunocompromised people being able to still use their library despite ableds demanding libraries open without masks…time to push back.

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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

DOGE has just completely gutted the IMLS, firing all staff, closing down their email addresses, and leaving any funding for 2025 in question. bookriot.com/imls-gutted/

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The Institute for Museum and Library Services Was Just Gutted

DOGE fired all IMLS employees and closed down their emails. It is assumed all funding for 2025 coming from the federal agency will not be happening.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

There is no “novel legal theory” about a third term, as some reporters are parroting. It’s not legal, and the idea of seizing permanent power isn’t a “theory,” it’s just what dictators do.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Pushback works, part gazillion: "Here are the facts: DOGE moved forward with plans to close multiple field offices. Then, without public notice or explanation, they reversed their plans. Now they are trying to pretend like they were never planning to close the offices." popular.info/p/how-the-so...

The Social Security Administration (SSA) sent an email on March 27 to beneficiaries saying that reports that field offices were closing was an invention of fake news media.

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 31/03/2025

On Transgender Day of Visibility, we celebrate Minnesota’s transgender community and recommit to standing up for our neighbors in the face of hatred. As your Governor, I’m proud to stand in this fight with you.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

WATCH: “It’s horrific.” Joe Rogan reacts to the story of Trump’s ICE grabbing innocent people with no criminal record like a gay makeup artist (Andrys) and sending him to a hard labor prison in El Salvador.

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

DAMN IT THEY WEREN'T SKITS THEY WERE SKETCHES!!! (Just kidding, as I posted the other day, whether you use the term "skits" or "sketches," it's a meaningless distinction to me. Thank you for the kind words.)

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Not really, I always knew any riffs me or the other writers wrote were in good hands with Joel, Mike, Trace and Kevin.

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General Witchfinders - The British Horror Podcast and Zine @generalwitch.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Great poster- listen to our podcast on this one here - pod.link/1547179456/e...

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Richest man in the world muses about Jailing reporters, nothing to see here

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/02/2025

taking black kids away from their parents and putting them on farms seems really familiar to me! what could it be?

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

They're using fear to bully you into compliance. Fear of losing your job, your savings, your Medicare/medicaid, your rights, your freedom. They're using fear to bully our allies, to break our alliances and promises. What do they have to fear? Nothing so far. That needs to change.

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Gaijin "Jiangshi" Rando @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Newspaper ad for PHANTASM (1979), written, shot, edited, and directed by Don Coscarelli - BOTD in 1954

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

WATCH: “Go through JD Vance’s Munich speech and highlight any parts Putin would be unhappy about. He could almost have written it himself.” @mrjamesob.bsky.social on Vance using a lie about an abortion clinic protestor to say Putin isn’t the enemy Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGMZ-sC...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

As much as I love getting lectured by people in my replies that ACTUALLY the Republicans weren't able to score any points at all against Obama when they were in the minority, I did write a book that covered a lot of this.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

We need Pete Buttigieg as a clear messenger, more than ever.

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CineWolf 🧿 👻🎃🕸️🦇 @cinewolf.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Kicking back on Holbox Island, Mexico. The water you see is the Gulf of Mexico

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Melissa Chan @melissakchan.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

The Gulf of Mexico / America name change is a distraction relative to bigger stories, but name changes also matter — consider when St. Petersburg was called Leningrad. Or when Kazakhstan changed Astana to Nur-Sultan and then back.

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Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Presidents Day edition of “The Jim Acosta Show” with @michaelcohen212.bsky.social and WH Correspondent April Ryan avail on Substack open.substack.com/pub/jimacost... Apple Podcasts podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... and YouTube youtu.be/mOC6lXU6Si0?...

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Michael Cohen on Trump's wasting taxpayer money and April Ryan on covering the Trump White House for a second time.

Podcast Episode · The Jim Acosta Show · 02/17/2025 · 1h 2m

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/02/2025

so far going anti-woke leads to less money and planes falling out of the sky

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

A huge decision from Judge Amir Ali, meticulously reasoned and utterly scathing, finding that Trump’s foreign aid freeze is almost certainly an illegal and arbitrary abuse of power. He orders the immediate restoration of all international assistance. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

Consistent with the reasoning above, it is hereby ORDERED that Defendants Marco
Rubio, Peter Marocco, Russell Vought, the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Agency for
International Development, and the Office of Management and Budget (the "Restrained
Defendants") and their agents are temporarily enjoined from enforcing or giving effect to Sections
1, 5, 7, 8, and 9 of Dep't of State, Memorandum, 25 STATE 6828 (Jan. 24, 2025) and any other
directives that implement Sections 3(a) and 3(c) of Executive Order Number 14169, "Reevaluating
and Realigning United States Foreign Aid" (Jan. 20, 2025), including by:
• suspending, pausing, or otherwise preventing the obligation or disbursement appropriated foreign-assistance funds in connection with any contracts, grants, cooperative
agreements, loans, or other federal foreign assistance award that was in existence as of
January 19, 2025; or
• issuing, implementing, enforcing, or otherwise giving effect to terminations, suspensions, or stop-work orders in connection with any contracts, grants, cooperative agreements, loans, or other federal foreign assistance award that was in existence as of January 19, 2025.

It is further hereby ORDERED that nothing in this order shall prohibit the Restrained
Defendants from enforcing the terms of contracts or grants.
It is further hereby ORDERED that the Restrained Defendants shall take all steps necessary to effectuate this order and shall provide written notice of this order to all recipients of
existing contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements for foreign assistance.
It is further hereby ORDERED that the Restrained Defendants shall file a status report by
February 18, 2025, apprising the Court of the status of their compliance with this order, including by providing a copy of the written notice described above.
The parties shall meet and confer and file a joint status report by February 14, 2025, at 5:00
p.m. proposing an expedited preliminary injunction briefing schedule.
AMIR H. ALI
United States District Judge

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Will Morrison @wamorrison95.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other

The Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 14/02/2025

I resent having to have so much anger in my heart all the time. Because it’s not my default. I’m a happy person by default.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

If you want to know why Trump is able to rule like an autocrat, compare the Washington Post' coverage of the Saturday Night Massacre with Trump doing exactly the same thing

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TCMFanatics @tcmfans.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Happy 92nd birthday to Kim Novak, seen here in Bell, Book and Candle, 1958.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

@whipkclark.bsky.social: "If they didn’t stop at veterans programs and cancer research, I guess there is no line [Republicans] consider a red line that they won't cross. This is how countries lose democracies."

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 13/02/2025

READ Danielle Sassoon's letter to AG Pam Bondi, via @nytimes.com: "Rather than be rewarded, Adams's advocacy should be called out for what it is: an improper offer of immigration enforcement assistance in exchange for a dismissal of his case." static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...

Dear Attorney General Bondi:
On February 10, 2025, I received a memorandum from acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove, directing me to dismiss the indictment against Mayor Eric Adams without prejudice, subject to certain conditions, which would require leave of court. I do not repeat here the evidence against Adams that proves beyond a reasonable doubt that he committed federal crimes; Mr. Bove rightly has never called into question that the case team conducted this investigation with integrity and that the charges against Adams are serious and supported by fact and law. Mr. Bove's memo, however, which directs me to dismiss an indictment returned by a duly constituted grand jury for reasons having nothing to do with the strength of the case, raises serious concerns that render the contemplated dismissal inconsistent with my ability and duty to prosecute federal crimes without fear or favor and to advance good-faith arguments before the courts.
When I took my oath of office three weeks ago, I vowed to well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I was about to enter. In carrying out that responsibility, I am guided by, among other things, the Principles of Federal Prosecution set forth in the Justice Manual and your recent memoranda instructing attorneys for the Department of Justice to make only good-faith arguments and not to use the criminal enforcement authority of the United States to achieve political objectives or other improper aims. I am also guided by the values that have defined my over ten years of public service. You and I have yet to meet, let alone discuss this case. But as you may know, I clerked for the Honorable J. Harvie Wilkinson III on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and for Justice Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court. Both men instilled in me a sense of duty to contribute to the public good and uphold the rule of law, and a commitment to reasoned and thorough analysis. I have always considered it my o…

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Like watergate on angel dust

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Maile @maile.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Doge is auditing NASA today. This is absurd. The owner of Space X should not be auditing NASA. It’s a massive conflict of interest.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

This is all a good reminder that, “no help, no votes until the criminal conduct stops” is neither a big ask nor a politically perilous one.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

So….Hegseth has quit drinking yeah?

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 14/02/2025

REPOST if you support our federal workforce and know how dedicated they are to their jobs. Show them you appreciate them!

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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 13/02/2025

NEW: At least three more DOJ Public Integrity Unit senior officials have resigned after meeting with Emil Bove on the Eric Adams case. Five in Public Integrity overall. That’s six officials who resigned, triple the number that happened during the Saturday Night Massacre.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Yes think about how judges are supposed to decide if things the president does are constitutional, and why the richest man in the world who just bought the election might not be into that.

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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Somehow, you just KNOW his own mother knew that her son was a fucking moronic dipshit.

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makena kelly @makenakelly.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I'm hearing now that *every* technologist CFPB hired to investigate Big Tech was fired this evening. That's somewhere between 70-100 people. wired.com/story/dozens-of-cfpb-workers-terminated-in-after-hours-firing-blitz/

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Dozens of CFPB Workers Fired in After-Hours Blitz

Some affected employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau were notified with an email that addressed them as [EmployeeFirstName][EmployeeLastName], [Job Title], [Division].

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Nicole on Wheels ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @holyspacemonkey.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Pete & Chasten Buttigieg bought a house in Chasten’s hometown in Michigan 5 years ago in 2020. It’s been Pete’s official residence for 3 years. They moved there mainly to raise their twins near Chasten’s parents. Also, Pete grew up and spent most of his life only 4.9 miles from the Michigan border.

Pete and Chasten Buttigieg, each holding one of their infant twins, in front of a Christmas tree. From Pete’s Instagram post on Dec. 25, 2021. Under his name at the top, the location is listed as Traverse City, Michigan.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I thought they were all self-made rugged individualists who didn’t rely on socialism.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 14/02/2025

ATTN FEDERAL WORKERS: I’ll say this again: download all your SF-50s, performance evals, and your eOPF. Now. Print hard copies. And make sure you file an informal grievance with your supervisor within 15 days of any adverse action. Here is a template: www.muellershewrote.com/p/informal-g...

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Informal Grievance Template for Adverse Personnel Actions

There is a limited amount of time to oppose personnel actions. Time is short.

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I don't think anyone is demanding that every person needs stacks of film, VHS, DVDs and Blurays but the fact is, owning physical media is the only way to guarantee access to what you wish to see in the future. We are seeing streaming getting yanked on a whim and it's only going to get worse.

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