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Glenn Is Being Obstreperous Again

@glennsummers.bsky.social
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Progressive dem, fan of comics, Trek and science fiction, history buff, Deadhead, rock, blues, bluegrass. Give me a shout out if any of that sounds good. Also brand new cat dad, and now, even newer dog dad.

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Glenn Is Being Obstreperous Again @glennsummers.bsky.social · 15h
Name a tv show from before 1980. Loved this one as a kid
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Glenn Is Being Obstreperous Again @glennsummers.bsky.social · 15h
Name a tv show from before 1980. The Wild, Wild West www.youtube.com/watch?v=no8t...
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The Wild Wild West- Season 2 Opening Credits
YouTube video by HJWX
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Glenn Is Being Obstreperous Again @glennsummers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#catsofbluesky #Derry #cats Derry is thinking of something. #Inscrutablekitty
Closeup of my tabby, Derry
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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
DNA testing showed 30 years ago that *a* Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings. But holdouts desperately claimed it wasn't Thomas. Now DNA from a lock of Thomas Jefferson's hair cut on his deathbed proves it was him: www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-...
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Did Thomas Jefferson Father Sally Hemings' Children? After More Than a Decade of Research, the Answer Is Finally Firmly in Hand
A lock of hair, advances in genetic science and a community of descendants all contributed to solving an American mystery
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Glenn Is Being Obstreperous Again @glennsummers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Alas, poor Yorick, I fucking knew him, Horatio! or To be or not to be...that's the fucking question now, ain't it?
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Please don't overreact to the SCOTUS SAVE database decision today Page 6 of the decision makes clear that we are in the 90 day statutory window when mass changes cannot be made to voter lists! Yeah it's a shit decision for the reasons the 3 dissenters say but we can deal with it. More to come...
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Supreme Court Allows Expansive Voter Screening Tool Ahead of Midterms (Gift Article)
Critics of the Trump administration system to monitor the citizenship status of voters had raised alarms about privacy and improper voter purges.
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Due North @tsinger14.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I'm a little puzzled at how The OA made the list and Sense 8 didn't.
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Glenn Is Being Obstreperous Again @glennsummers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#comics #comicsky #marvel The Manosphere! All the worst Villain-Man villains that exist in the Marvel 616. This one from Spider-Man and Hulk: Fire and Brimstone from Kevin Smith. I haven't finished the first issue yet, but I wanted to post this full page spread
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 24/09/2026
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Zohran Mamdani Is the Future of the Democratic Party. But Not for the Reason You Think.
What everyone is missing about the left’s fastest rising star.
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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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Nashville Scene @nashvillescene.com · 23/09/2026
Ahead of a Sept. 30 Ryman show with Linda Perry, Emily Saliers and Amy Ray of seminal folk-rock duo Indigo Girls discuss reflection and change with @avparnell.bsky.social.
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The Indigo Girls Look Long
In advance of their Sept. 30 show with Linda Perry, the seminal folk-rock duo of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers discusses reflection and change throughout their career of more than four decades.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Newsom signed 13 election bills Saturday. One makes grabbing ballots a felony. In effect now. The line the Legislature wrote into it is the part Trump's people won't like. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-pick...
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AgonyFlips @agonyflips.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
When you're ticked off and a friend sends you something to make you feel better. 🐑🔊
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Annie Wu @anniewu.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Batman Day isn't fun for everybody. Please check on your superstitious and cowardly loved ones today.
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Eric Rauchway @rauchway.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
An Ethan Hawke action movie with the premise that “Franklin Delano Roosevelt had recently announced that, in an attempt to slow or halt the currency deflation that was prolonging the Depression, his administration had decided to take the United States off the gold standard”? Yes please very much 🗃️
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The Weight review: Ethan Hawke shines in Depression-era drama
Hawke's performance is one of the best he's ever given.
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Comic Book Couples Counseling @cbccpodcast.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
#BatmanDay - Also last year, Grant Morrison joined us to discuss bringing Batman & Deadpool together while paying off their Animal Man run: www.comicbookcouplescounseling.com/post/grant-m...
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Grant Morrison's Revenge: Batman/Deadpool
Grant Morrison returns to the podcast for an in-depth discussion about Batman/Deadpool as an act of Writerly Revenge.
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cloudygrayfox.bsky.social @cloudygrayfox.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/s...
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New Species of Cat Discovered for First Time in a Century (Gift Article)
The species, called a tilcayo, is smaller than a house cat and lives in the cloud forests of the Andes Mountains in Bolivia.
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Glenn Is Being Obstreperous Again @glennsummers.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Another wild Friday night #everydayiscaturday #Derry #catsofbluesky
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Dr. Bourbonstein Ph. D @drbourbonstein.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The "how much do you like dogs" chart we all needed.
A graph of Noem and Kash
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Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 17/09/2026
Tom Morello’s Power to the People festival expands its October 3 lineup with Nathaniel Rateliff, Stephen Stills, Mike McCready, Geezer Butler and more joining Foo Fighters, Bruce Springsteen and Dave Matthews. zurl.co/xWR36
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Tom Morello’s Power To The People Festival Adds Stephen Stills, Geezer Butler And More - That Eric Alper
Tom Morello’s Power to the People festival has expanded an already packed lineup with Nathaniel Rateliff, Stephen Stills, Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready, Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler, State Radio, Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian and The Last Internationale. The one-day event takes place October 3 at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland. The additions join […]
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My man looks like the cad in a Marx Brothers movie who gets knocked out by Harpo
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Gary Muppet @garymuppet.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If he could time travel then he can order a pizza last night and eat leftovers today. Gary put a fork in the microwave and held on tight.
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💙🪄 Keep Rising 🪄💙 @keeprising.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
💖 please watch 'til end 🤣🙃🤭 #tiffanygomas #mitchMconnell
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Glenn Is Being Obstreperous Again @glennsummers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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The Making of the Millennial Working Class
A new book follows a rising generation of labor organizers as they attempt to unionize their workplaces.
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Fun run.
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Glenn Is Being Obstreperous Again @glennsummers.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
#StarTrek #StarTrek60
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Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️™️ 🧵 In the 1930s Great Depression, a violent splinter group broke away from the Ku Klux Klan. They called themselves The Black Legion — America’s hidden white supremacist army. Pull up a seat🪑 my friends.(cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
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Monika Bauerlein @monikab.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The original sin of today's AI models is how they were created—by feeding them everyone's content, with utter disregard for the people that made it. Time to stand up for humans. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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We’re suing ChatGPT—and Trump just got involved.
Guess whose side he's on.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This guy built 9 different types of bridges made out of LEGO to demonstrate the complexity of each one. [📹 Brick Experiment Channel] Original post
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11/09/2026
One giant step: first known T rex footprints found in North Dakota
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One giant step: first known T rex footprints found in North Dakota
The 23ft-long trackway, consisting of four three-toed footprints, two left and two right, date from 66.5m years ago The first known series of footprints from an adult Tyrannosaurus rex has been found in North Dakota by a team of scientists. The 23ft-long trackway – consisting of four three-toed footprints, two left and two right – was first identified in the south-west of the state, in the dinosaur fossil area known as Hell Creek Formation, last year by researchers from the Denver Museum of Nature and Science in Colorado and Liverpool John Moores University in the UK. Continue reading...
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Joan Walsh @joanwalsh.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Jon Ossoff on the internal Dem center v. left conflict: “No Georgia voter has yet asked me about elections that were 800 miles away,” he tells me. “I don’t know why we do this to ourselves.” www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Can Senator Jon Ossoff Hold On to His Seat?
He’s the most vulnerable incumbent in the Senate race, and his state is ground zero for the new Jim Crow attacks on voting rights.
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Glenn Is Being Obstreperous Again @glennsummers.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Polar bear cub in Japan goes viral for his love of traffic cones apnews.com/video/polar-...
baby polar bear with its head in a traffic cone
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 04/09/2026
nice quote from Mandami comms person Emilia Rowland to the New York Times
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
My man looks like Mongo only pawn in game of life
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Gautham Rao (pronounced: Knicks in 5) @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Here’s my op-ed on Chief Justice John Roberts whitewashed history of President and Chief Justice William Howard Taft. Roberts adoration of Taft’s “restraint” conveniently omits Taft’s racism, refusal to condemn lynching, and embrace of Lost Causism. That’s no accident. share.inquirer.com/IcPlmx
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Will the real William Howard Taft please stand up?
Chief Justice John Roberts penned an incomplete, but revealing, tribute to former President and Chief Justice William Howard Taft.
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greytdog @greytdog.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The GOP has always cheated...and harmed Americans in order to gain and hold power.
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Glenn Is Being Obstreperous Again @glennsummers.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
If Fetterman hasn't switched to republican by the 2028 election, he will do so then. There's not a democrat in the state that will vote for him. He'd be primaried so fast he wouldn't know what hit him.
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Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I have been asked many times what my favorite part of I AM THE NIGHT is, and to tell y'all the truth, I have no idea. But learning one of the reasons why Warner Bros. made such a big push to establish a web presence in the 90s is pretty high up there.
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Glenn Is Being Obstreperous Again @glennsummers.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Once again, Vance shows us that he is a hypocritical piece of shit.
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Dr Earhart Sampson PhD 🌎 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🇲🇽 🇩🇰 🇺🇦 @earhart.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
theconversation.com/using-a-rada...
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Using a radar satellite to track emperor penguins in winter is changing our understanding of the species
A breakthrough has helped researchers track down penguins living in the dark.
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Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It's time to go back to Gotham City. My book, I AM THE NIGHT: THE ULTIMATE UNAUTHORIZED HISTORY OF BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES, comes out today! It's a narrative history of the landmark cartoon, packed with new interviews and deep-dive research. Grab a copy here: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine personal opinions only @papootx.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Texas Didn't "Suspend" 1.2 Million Voters That's a misconception ripping through TikTok and Bluesky right now, and people in Texas are worried about voting. The real story is bureaucratic, boring, confusing and built that way on purpose. Here's the truth. open.substack.com/pub/lonestar...
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Suspense, Suspended, Purged, Purgatory
No, Texas didn't suspend 1.2 million voters. Here's what actually happened.
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Glenn Is Being Obstreperous Again @glennsummers.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Yay! Bluesky is back! Been down for me all afternoon!
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Glenn Is Being Obstreperous Again @glennsummers.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
#dogsofbluesky #Loki #pitbulls same vibes
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
NO 👇 LIES DETECTED.......
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
New article! This one is loaded with controversial topics: Epstein, Israel, midterm election corruption, Maggie Haberman’s Trump-mafia ties, Zelensky’s ties to Netanyahu and Musk, AI data centers, more. These are my answers to questions sent by readers. sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/midterm-ma...
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Midterm Madness
Your questions answered on elections, tech oligarchs, dirty journalists, and more.
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Glenn Is Being Obstreperous Again @glennsummers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Fucking attention whore who can't stand that he's irrelevant www.yahoo.com/news/politic...
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Trump’s former Border Patrol commander now claims Trump administration wants him dead
‘Do I think they want me killed? Absolutely,’ former Border Patrol Commander-at-large Gregory Bovino told Tucker Carlson
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Lee Thumwood @lt14gjc.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
If Google Maps changes the name I hope the entire world boycotts them & starts looking at alternatives like @openstreetmap.bsky.social & HERE WeGo Maps instead!
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Jeff Ellis 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @jeffreyellis.ca · 27/08/2026
www.cbc.ca/news/world/t... Counter proposal:
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The word "socialism" is constantly thrown out at any attempt at social progress that challenges the rich and powerful. We hear it used today — but this fear-mongering tactic goes back much further than most of us realize. @hcrichardson.bsky.social shares an interesting history lesson.
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