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Griffin Withington

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A whole political movement should be stood up against this arrogant and sociopathic bullshit www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
henstomper

oh my god the slot machine company says i have to keep putting coins in their machine or Im Gonna Get Left Behind. thats so scary. and it has to be true because they know more about slot machines than i do

oh my god the slot machine company says if we dont give them money to build the world's biggest slot machine the chinese are gonna build it first and win all the prizes. and then there wont be any prizes anymore
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is the thing about AI that I love so much. Think of all the morons you know (many on this site!) using and swearing by this tech that can change the output depending on who is controlling the AI. And those dumbasses still believe it should be used for anything regarding data!
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Bill Connelly @espnbillc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Millions of reasons why I hate this (and most of real life right now), but everyone acting like they have no free will might make me the angriest. "We can't simply make MORE money, we have no choice but to make the MOST money even if we're screwing our future selves. It's out of our hands!"
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Jeremiah Oshan @jeremiah.sounderatheart.com · 29/09/2026
The thing about moving to Renton is any dreams of being a ‘big club’ are gone for a generation. Maybe they are cos-playing as one now, but the potential is there. It won’t be in Renton.
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Christopher Crawford @myohwhy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Can't lie, it sucks out loud we didn't get to do this for Dave Niehaus. Sucks doesn't even begin to describe it.
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Maybe this stick season will be better than last.
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brad will NOT take off the cursed amulet @bradicality.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Mayonnaise ass culture
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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Interesting that layoffs in Seattle mean our progressive policies are hurting businesses, but layoffs in corporate sycophant Bellevue is not even news. I guess it doesn't fit the narrative?
seattle times not covering bungie layoffskuow not covering bungie layoffs
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Realizing the extent to which this is true wildly changed my opinions about how to deal with Trumpism, since they're never going to be satisfied unless they're actively dominating everyone else. You can't give them some concessions and go back to the status quo: they're reactionary revolutionaries.
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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
say what you will about the myriad valid concerns with current LLMs but I personally will never get over the fact that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted to his literal death for downloading JSTOR and then a decade later, they downloaded & ingested the entire world and our IP laws just went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.
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Andrea LaFlamme @andrealaflamme.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Every single lawmaker that’s calling for their constituents to “be responsible with electricity usage” during the extreme heat had better be supporting heavy restrictions on data centers.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The real Team USA win is the Mariners winning the summer Blue Jays series when thousands of drunk Canadian casuals always pour into Seattle. Slink back to Alberta in shame, invaders.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 27/06/2026
literal inverse swag. A multi-billionaire loser desperately begging zynfused mid-20s psychopaths to partner with him on a quasi-legal gambling ring to prop up his brittle and declining data extraction and advertising operation. He has no contact with humanity outside of other rich weirdo losers
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Michael Zapata @michaelzapata.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
In 300 years, people will know more about the 1700s than the 21st century. AI is not only anti-human, its anti-history.
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
if he's going to keep peddling this bullshit i think he needs to pick a less autistic sport than baseball
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CatWoman @catwomanresists.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should
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Joe Veyera @joeveyera.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
As a Seattle resident me and many of my friends, colleagues, coworkers and enemies think Seattle dogs are good, actually.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
The result of AI boosters getting booed at commencement will NOT be them getting a wake-up call about AI skepticism. They will just stop speaking at commencements. But that’s a small win!
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Of all the people to complain about businesses being “forced” to leave Seattle….
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 04/05/2026
This is for *your* kids, you understand. The tech elites send *their* kids to private, screen-free Montessori schools. They know exactly what they're doing.
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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Just to give a sense of the insane scale of billions of dollars…MacKenzie Scott got about $38 billion after divorcing Bezos in 2019. She has become the world’s most generous philanthropist, giving away over $19 billion…and she’s currently wealthier than she started. Just. Tax. Them.
She reportedly parted ways with Bezos with a jaw-dropping $38.3 billion in Amazon stock. Their divorce settlement included a 4 % stake in the online retail giant or 19.7 million shares. Under the agreement, Bezos kept 75% of the couple's Amazon stock, along with voting control of her shares. Jan 11, 2023MacKenzie Scott has given away over $19 billion in the last 5 years and experts say she's 'changed entire fie...
MacKenzie Scott acknowledged another $2
billion in donations as 2024 comes to a close.MacKenzie Scott, worth $41.1 billion, is on a philanthropic tear and has donated an estimated 46% of her net worth.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Since the New Deal, the right edge of the conservative movement has been committed to the goal of eliminating all facets of the federal government that do good in the world, leaving behind only a war machine and a surveillance operation capable of containing the “internal leftist enemy.”
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 27/03/2026
I think writing your stories with AI so you can "focus on reporting" is both disrespectful to your audience and a guarantee that you don't do good reporting, because you're clearly not a fan of quality information. Negative levels of respect for people that do this.
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Dr. Pete Meyers @dr-pete.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
It's recklessly irresponsible (talking to you, Business Insider) to write these words as if they have any connection to reality. So tired of the idea that "unbiased" reporting means credulously translating the ludicrous statements of con-men.
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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 18/03/2026
a thing i will never get over is how little interest any of these wannabe tech oligarchs have in anything resembling class or grace or leadership or respectability; they’re all content to behave like pigs wallowing in shit in public, without even giving it a second thought
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John Frellington @johndavidfraley.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Abolish ICE, a stain on our humanity. It can never exist again.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Polymarket, Kalshi and all the rest of these prediction markets need to be wiped off the face of the earth. They provide absolutely nothing of value and are corrupting everything they touch.
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Xan López @xanlopez.net · 09/03/2026
Electing this guy twice is really bad. But the real reason the US cannot be trusted is that it has been unable to impeach him.
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Every time I open a news app or site and this story isn’t being discussed or featured prominently I feel like I’m losing my mind. Do not look away.
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🥊 @querelleofbros.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
if you think the greatest threat to effeminate gay boys is the trans movement and not the cis straight men who overwhelmingly exclude and brutalize them then you should walk into the ocean immediately
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Chris Towers Missed The Playoffs @cptowers.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
I dunno man I don’t think we should reorient our entire society around a bunch of dudes who seem to fundamentally not appreciate the wonder of human experience.
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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Hey what's going on with people getting arrested for trying to block AI data centers all over the country It's almost like the AI industry and fascism have the same goals in mind IDK IDK I'm not a doctor
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 16/02/2026
can you imagine if the establishment press treated this madness with the same scorn reserved for progressives advocating for affordable housing regulation?
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Physically incapable of analyzing politics outside of this insipid frame. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Why MAGA Wants You to Think Slavery Wasn’t That Bad
Both the left and the right try to co-opt it, but the real story of American slavery doesn’t serve any one faction.

By Thomas Chatterton Williams
Sanitizing slavery has become a core objective of the reactionary right under Donald Trump—a malignant response to the progressive left’s oversimplification of American history for their own present-day ends.
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Guillotine Hunger Force @handle.invalid · 14/02/2026
giving israel impunity from getting called out on its impunity you cant make this shit up
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Sage Deviant 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
hatred of unhoused people is genuinely a pipeline to fascism. if the wealthy can get you to dehumanize your own neighbors, then they can get you to do it to anyone.
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Otto Burr @mikeall.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Mike Macdonald to Josh McDaniels after watching tape on the Patriots:
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 05/02/2026
If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.
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West Seattle Bike Blob @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Fucking surreal that people dressed like this and carrying assault rifles are permitted to kidnap people off our streets
ICE agent wearing skull mask that is usually associated with the neo Nazi  atomwaffen group
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Joshua Dysart @joshuadysart.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Just a reminder, the greatest living American historian filmmaker, Ken Burns, released a 720 min exploration of every facet of the American revolution using zero generative AI and paying for all of its assets instead of cobbling it from stolen data, then he gave it away for free on PBS this year.
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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
If our "environmental protection" frameworks can stop an affordable housing project but can't stop a detention center or a highway expansion we really need to start talk about ripping things up root and branch.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
At the most fundamental level, the Trump admin is still treating peaceful protesters as the aggressors and the heavily armed government militias as the victims, even though Homan, Miller, Noem, Trump have spent months torquing them into a frenzy of hate and telling them they can act with impunity.
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Wes Burdine @wesburdine.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Swear to god its a newspaper completely staffed with people born yesterday (and yet all attended Harvard)
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