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HardwareGuy

@hardwareguy.bsky.social
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Father, programmer, taco lover. Trying to make it another day. He/him.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 23h
So wild to me that the entire economy is propped up by companies who think living your best life is being a middle manager to a collection of bots.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/09/2026
NEW: ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series of incorrect and misleading claims.
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ProPublica Debunks Susan Collins’ Claims About FBI Anti-Corruption Probe
ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until President Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series o...
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
In the first panel we see Sarah, the protagonist, next to a stick figure labeled “AI”. The stick figure says, “my outputs look just like yours now.”
The second panel zooms in on Sarah’s face. Above her we see text reading “I think”.
The third panel zooms in closer on Sarah’s face. Text above her reads “you missed”.
The fourth panel shows Sarah drawing happily in a sunlit room. The text above her reads “the point”.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026
part of this is obviously national political conditions but don't underrate the extent to which a bunch of these incumbent republicans have never had to run a competitive general election campaign and basically do not know how to do it
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Dimension 20 @dimension20.dropout.tv · 07/09/2026
every job deserves comfort, dignity and safety! 🫡
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Paul @katamaridumassy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
25 years
cj @futurevictim_ tweet from 1:17 AM • 12 Sep 21

the only lasting 9/11 memory i have is when the budweiser ad with the kneeling clydesdales came on during the super bowl and i said "those horses are praying to mecca" and my friend's uncle got so mad that he had to go in the backyard
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The "school security industry" is a way to bankrupt school districts by redirecting funding away from teachers and giving it to various kinds of cop-adjacent chuds instead. The Plot To Enslave America
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delta! @peachdelta.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Scarlet Rose @scarlet-rose.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Good morning and happy Labor Day in the USA! Enjoy your backyard BBQs and the 3-day weekend, but remember to be extra kind to anyone who still has to work today.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe.
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Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.
From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a...
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🌶️ Motte! 🌶️🔞 @extra-spicymotte.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
don't hatewatch it. don't pirate it. don't waste your time with it. fuck JKR and her mediocre at best books. it won't kill the sadness in you to dig your claws into this rotten IP
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 02/09/2026
There are endless studies showing this and also the financial and societal benefits of universal basic income and or housing-first policies but the U.S. never goes for any of it because it would require allowing the poor to receive benefits that the rich consider “undeserved”
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The “radical left” wants you to be able to eat a salad and go to the doctor. Super scary stuff.
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The Democratic Party has let a consulting industry exploit elderly donors in its name, wreck its reputation and finances in the process, and walk away rich whether the party wins or loses. When a mirror is held up, the instinct is to break the glass rather than look. On why the press looks away:
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The Bulwark Killed an Investigation into Political Fundraising Spam After Its Publisher Took the Consultants’ Side
This is a story about the Democratic Party captured by its consultants, and about what happens when the pro-democracy press is asked to say so.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 26/08/2026
It’s comin’. It is comin’. FAST. Get To the rug— The good rug— NOW. buff.ly/H6eJilz
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I Am a Dog. I Am About to Puke. Where Is the Good Rug?
It’s comin’. It is comin’. FAST. Get To the rug— The good rug— NOW. 8/26/26
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TarZangief @tarzangief.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"Neutral in the culture war"
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Garry @thegmcconnachie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is why Dolly Parton will be remembered and loved ❤️📚
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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
Sorry, I can’t type that.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 23/08/2026
Kids shouldn’t be spied on by police on their way to school. This new wave of mass surveillance tech is a creepy violation of privacy.
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‘BusPatrol’ Put AI Cameras in Tens of Thousands of School Buses. Now They Want to Give Cops Access
BusPatrol plans to scan the license plates of all vehicles the buses drive past, and then let law enforcement search that data. The plan would essentially turn school buses into roaming surveillance vehicles.
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lurker474 (ラーカー) @lurker474.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
It is important to keep this in circulation
Insult Deflection or Insult Reflection is a single-panel cartoon illustrating the effects one's insults or other forms of verbal attacks directed at a disliked person can inadvertently have on their mutuals, depicting a stick figure shooting at another, who then deflects it into a third person. Spawned by a viral Tumblr post about bodyshaming, the cartoon has been used as an exploitable meme since June 2022.
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
this president is the softest target on earth right now. he's exposed and weak. the fact that saying he falls asleep in meetings is a delicious tidbit to noodle over on MSNOW is very telling
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
NEW: Flock has said for years that its cameras "cannot track individuals." We found the code for its new AI tool. It's preloaded w/ prompts like "Find me witness" & "find relatives." One tracks visitors of multiple hotels, another if you visit banks after midnight. www.wired.com/story/flock-...
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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Incredible scoop from @dmehro.bsky.social and @dell.bsky.social who were able to recreate Flock's new AI-powered tool that lets police officers ID drivers and track vehicles—capabilities the company has repeatedly said it doesn't allow. www.wired.com/story/flock-...
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Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code
Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plate...
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vanoreo @vanoreo.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
@edzitron.com had it on the money here
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 18/08/2026
I'm listening, I'm learning. Safety first, NYC.
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joe bell @jbellzer.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
wow im getting word that this is actually really good and funny
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Bigg County Restorations (Pilot)
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Leftist Gamer Memes @leftistgamermemes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
👩‍⚖️🔨⚖️🔜
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Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
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GET A JOB

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STAY AWAY FROM HER
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BLASPHEMY! HERESY! 🔞💖💦 @jimmyjimsjim.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
like we’ve apparently decided to pretend that frank miller is a charming old grandpa instead of an insane racist so why not? pull gaiman back in too, we need every single pervert hack from the british isles on deck for this
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The Onion @theonion.com · 10/08/2026
Study: Dolphins Not So Intelligent On Land theonion.com/study-dolphins-not-so-…
Study: Dolphins Not So Intelligent On Land
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𝒰𝓁𝓉𝒾𝓂𝒶𝓉𝑒 𝐻𝓊𝓈𝓉𝓁𝑒𝓇 @latenightnelly.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
This is what every one of these conversations sounds like
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The Onion @theonion.com · 31/07/2026
Chicagoans Over 25 Urged To Shelter In Place Until Lollapalooza Over
Chicagoans Over 25 Urged To Shelter In Place Until Lollapalooza Over
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nda🔞 @ndasfw.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I am urging liberals to please fucking stop using AI to make political images. I know you don't actually care, but it is a fascist tool that only serves to benefit fascism.
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Matt Goldberg @mattgoldberg.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
None of this shit is real. It's just games played by people who feel confident in reelection if they just spew bullshit. If this vaccine were so horrible, then you would have to blame the President who fast-tracked its development, except, whoops, that's Trump.
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Kim Hu @kim-hu.com · 29/07/2026
a meme titled the illusion of free choice

a cow having to choose a path between 'make a good game' and 'and make a bad game'; both paths lead to getting fired
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ceej @ceej.online · 26/07/2026
“The Bluesky Experience™”
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you have somehow made the exact point of my post, in a reply to my post, without having understood my post
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J🌹 @suburbansocialist.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
My revulsion at the mainstream media for participating in the WHCD tonight can’t be overstated. They’re laughing at his jokes and shaking his hand? Fuck off. The corporate press is an enemy addicted to access. And this was true before the Ellison’s started their takeover.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Every day this guy does something like this and every day the same people who dress him up as a terrifying commie destroyer of civilization do a dozen things to sabotage the public good, to murder and destroy and hate and kill, and I can't anymore handle those who won't see the clear difference.
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 17/07/2026
screenshot from the 1979 film Apocalypse Now against a background of thick yellow smoke. A shirtless Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore wearing a black cavalry hat crouches in the center among soldiers. White subtitled text across the bottom reads: "I love the smell of Canada in the morning."
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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 13/07/2026
this is where your money goes when you buy harry potter stuff. rowling isn’t shy about it. amnesty wrote an even-handed report that laid out what anti-rights groups do; rowling uses her billions & clout to suppress it. when you give rowling money; she spends it on stealing people’s human rights.
jk rowling quotes an account called trans widows’ voices

rowling says: 
Should any of the women's organisations targeted by @AmnestyUK's recent 'anti-rights' blacklist wish to take legal action, applications can be made to the JK Rowling Women's Fund.

trans widows’ voices says:

Whilst I understand the detriment to Beira's Place is real, and focussing on @jk_rowling get clicks it's a shame that mainstream press coverage of the Amnesty debacle is not also focussing on us smaller groups listed who do not have the same power or influence to defend ourselves
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Thembo @thembo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I'll remember that he was a wholly evil monster whose life's work caused incalculable harm to millions of lives. But yeah it's nice he told you a joke once I guess.
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Goldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 12/07/2026
Here is Graham gloating about "killing all the right people." Just in case you see anyone try to do the whole "we should have decency for the dead" nonsense.
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🔞eek! the dragon!!🔞 @aquivorous.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
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Revive Revival 🌌 @darthveda.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
A casual reminder that we respect ALL the Majors in this household.
Major Kusanagi from the 1995 Ghost in the Shell movie.Major Kusanagi from the Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex TV series (2002-05)Major Kusanagi from the Ghost in the Shell: ARISE OVA Series (2013-15)Major Kusanagi from The Ghost in the Shell TV Series (2026)
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 05/07/2026
"Yes, there is a housing crisis. True, there are not enough homes for everyone who needs one. But the bigger issue is that there are already enough homes to house me. Constant concern for people who don’t have homes oppresses those of us who do."
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To Solve the Housing Crisis, We Simply Need to Build More Homes (Just Not in My Town)
“The last new building that was acceptable and necessary (my house) was completed four months ago, right when I moved here. Yet ever since, the township keep...
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I actually don’t care what the founding fathers would say about the present and I don’t think you should either
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
We spend so much time thinking about how awful everything is that we forget Trump and The Turds don't get to decide what America is. I bought a birria ramen and tamale in the supermarket parking lot last night and sat on some folding chairs and watched soccer with some random people and had a blast
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ً @zan.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
dreamcast forever 🌀
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