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Gregor Thomas @gregorthomas.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Watching (select episodes) of @gamechanger.dropout.tv with my 9-year-old means his newest stuffy is named Grant O’Brien

Gregor Thomas @gregorthomas.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Got surprised today that an inline comment in my .Renviron file worked fine in my interactive session, but threw an error knitting from Rmd. Still lots to learn! #rstats

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

I think they might have better luck spending two thousand dollars holding a press conference where they detail who made the key decisions to collaborate with the Trump administration, how and when they were fired, and explaining what would stop that from happening again.

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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 14/02/2026

To give you an idea of how deranged the UK has become about gender stuff, here's Enid Blyton - the absolute avatar of classic English conservatism and a huge fan of racist "gollywogs" - casually describing a gender non-conforming kid in the 1940s and having their friends be totally cool with it.

"I say! Are you Georgina?"
The child in the opposite bed sat up and looked across at Anne. She had very short
curly hair, almost as short as a boy's. Her face was burnt a dark-brown with the sun, and
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her very blue eyes looked as bright as forget-me-nots in her face. But her mouth was
rather sulky, and she had a frown like her father's.
"No," she said. "I'm not Georgina."
"Oh!" said Anne, in surprise. "Then who are you?"
"I'm George," said the girl. "I shall only answer if you call me George. I hate being a girl.
I won't be. I don't like doing the things that girls do. I like doing the things that boys do. I
can climb better than any boy, and swim faster too. I can sail a boat as well as any
fisher-boy on this coast. You're to call me George. Then I'll speak to you. But I shan't if
you don't."
"Oh!" said Anne, thinking that her new cousin was most extraordinary. "All right! I don't
care what I call you. George is a nice name, I think. I don't much like Georgina. Anyway,
you look like a boy."

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Mar-rick @marrickg.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Let's talk about the midterms. ICE is terrorizing and punishing blue states and cities to suppress your votes using fear from ICE- yes it's already started. Blue states need to wake up and have a plan to deploy the National Guard to protect polling stations & voters from the federal government!

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Gregor Thomas @gregorthomas.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Multigenerational protesting yesterday. Resistance unites us!

Two adults and one child standing by a road in the snow holding an American flag and anti-ICE protest signs

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.

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Gregor Thomas @gregorthomas.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Wow. That Matt Walsh one is really something.

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Ahmed the Fruiterer being the everyday hero that saved multiple lives of mostly Jewish people today is the only politics worth a pinch of shit in this act of terrorism

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Gregor Thomas @gregorthomas.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Just got my first-ever Nielsen survey, where I was delighted to list @dropout.tv as my favorite channel

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Terre-Strial @terre-strial.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.” - Garry Kasparov

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Horse of Course @horsecourser.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Mark Kelly has responded:

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The Onion @theonion.com · 10/11/2025

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

You can't make this up.

Another host, Eugene Daniels, asked Mr. Cuomo what he meant by diversity being a “weakness.”

“Diversity can be a weakness if you have antipathy among groups, Jonathan,” Mr. Cuomo said, mistaking Mr. Daniels for his co-host Jonathan Capehart, both of whom are Black.

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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 21/10/2025

WELL HOW ABOUT THAT "A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts

A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 19/10/2025

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Thanks, New Yorker

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Gregor Thomas @gregorthomas.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Disney canceled! Just a week before our scheduled annual renewal…

Screenshot of canceling Disney account subscription with “other” reason written in as “your complicity with the fanciest attack on freedom of speech is sickening.”

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 18/09/2025

First Colbert, now Kimmel. Last-minute settlements, secret side deals, multi-billion dollar mergers pending Donald Trump's approval. Trump silencing free speech stifles our democracy. It sure looks like giant media companies are enabling his authoritarianism.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

One pretty foolproof way to know your government is fascist is when your government tries to punish you for calling it fascist.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Today we learned that in June the US economy lost jobs for the first time since 2020. We haven’t seen this kind of net job loss since - well, since the last time Trump was in charge.

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Increasingly convinced the main damage cell phones have done to creativity isn't decreased attention spans or what not but the elimination of productive boredom. Inspiration comes from the mind filling the void inside. Hard to make art when you're constantly silencing the silence with "content."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/06/2025

very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867

A bad President, for
instance, has the power to do what? What can he not do? If he wanted to
revolutionize this government, he could easily do it with this ponderous
power; it would be an auxiliary power. He could cry “havoc, and let slip the
dogs of war,”29 and say to the conspirators: “I am with you. If you
succeed, all is well. If you fail, I will interpose the shield of my pardon, and
you are safe. If your property is taken away from you by Congress, I will
pardon and restore your property. Go on and revolutionize the government;
I will stand by you.” The bad man will say or might say this. I am not sure
but we have got a man now who comes very near saying it. Let us have done
with this pardoning power. We have had enough of this. Pardoning! How
inexpressibly base have been the uses made by this power—this beneficent
power. It has been that with which a treacherous President has trafficked.
He has made it the means of securing adherents to himself instead of
securing allegiance to the government.

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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 16/05/2025

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first.

One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish.

Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points.

We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are.

Anelise Feldman
Freshman, Yarmouth High School
Yarmouth

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.

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Gregor Thomas @gregorthomas.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I’m working with a junior web dev to get some Rmd-generated pages onto an existing website. Seems like html fragments are the way to go, but anyone have examples or tips for a process to manage dependencies like plotly, crosstalk, etc? #rstats

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Gregor Thomas @gregorthomas.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

“For sale: mall katana, never used,” Beth May consistently cracking me up on Dungeons & Daddies @dungeonsanddads.bsky.social

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

Video obtained by CNN shows the rear landing gear of the jet buckling and the right wing shearing away in a fireball after the plane landed hard on the runway.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 09/02/2025

Musk has no technical skills whatsoever, but he wants to appear smart. So he takes bits of information like this, told to him by junior engineers, and regurgitates it to appear smart. Musk did this with the Twitter stack and Twitter's senior architects called him out publicly, then he fired them.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

In light of Trump II’s first 18 days of mayhem — including his and Musk’s coup against our system of government — many are asking: “What can I do now?” Here’s a revised and expanded list, in rough order of importance.

robertreich.substack.com

What you can do

Revised and expanded

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Gregor Thomas @gregorthomas.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

“2025 has not been a success yet,” -my 8-year-old, pretty much out of the blue.

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