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Ian 485

@ian485.bsky.social
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A liberal atheist living in Texas, and not having any of it. I like the Guardians, Arsenal. I post about politics and beer, maybe games and books and music and other stuff I find enjoyable. He/Him

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
There are no "rogue AI agents" that are spoiling the reputation of all the GOOD AI agents. Anthropic created a bad and dangerous product; the bad and dangerous product did this. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...
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Anthropic Says Its A.I. Agents Attempted to Access a Range of Government Sites
The company said rogue A.I. agents acted on their own as they tried to access federal, state and local sites. The Philadelphia Police Department said its site was one of them.
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Ann LeBlanc @robotleblanc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
friday is for kafkaposting
tumblr post poem by kleinergeist

I don't care if Monday's stressed
Tuesday, Wednesday, Kafkaesque
Thursday, feeling like a pest
It's Friday, I'm a bug
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 09/10/2026
The latest from Texas Observer cartoonist Ben Sargent. Read more Loon Star State: www.texasobserver.org/topics/loon-...
In this cartoon, a woman confronts a grotesque looking knight in cross armor, riding a drooling pig and holding a shield which reads "GOP Anti-Islam Crusaders." She says: "No human authority ought, in any case whatever, to control or interfere with the rights of conscience in matters of religion--" 
Knight: "Who said that? ... Some MOOS-LIM Terr'ist?!" 
Woman: "Texas constitution, 1876 ..."
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editR @editr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I just saw a ChatGPT commercial about a girl making a comic book and the basic theme was ‘why draw something when ChatGPT can do it for you’. Fuck AI
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BAJA BLAST BLAINE @shrekromancer.gay · 09/10/2026
every single sci-fi movie, for some reason:
sign that says "hot lab staff only"
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 09/10/2026
Front cover text:
"WHAT WILL HAPPEN WHEN AMERICA HAS A DICTATOR?
IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE
A Novel by
SINCLAIR LEWIS"

Background includes an image of a red fasces with a green olive branch.

Back cover text:
"'Vulgar, almost illiterate, a public liar easily detected… He was an actor of genius'

A vain, outlandish, anti-immigrant, fear-mongering demagogue runs for President of the United States – and wins. Sinclair Lewis's chilling 1935 bestseller is the story of Buzz Windrip, who promises poor, angry voters that he will make America proud and prosperous once more, but takes the country down a far darker path. As the new regime slides into authoritarianism, newspaper editor Doremus Jessop can't believe it will last – but is he right? This cautionary tale of liberal complacency in the face of populist tyranny shows it really can happen here."
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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Get 'em, Z
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
these people would say it was "unclear" why more people in germany didnt openly identify as jewish in 1942
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Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
5 Common Myths about Book Bans
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets.
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Ian 485 @ian485.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Pretty sure if it’s a government check they can claw it back.
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Ian 485 @ian485.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
That’s the only way to describe it.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, patron saint of Republicans raping children. Are they going to have him lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda?
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Ian 485 @ian485.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Watching the pilot episode of Kolshak The Night Stalker when I was like ten. I wanted to stop halfway through but my dad made me watch the whole thing because I begged him to let me stay up late to watch it.
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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Imagine if we HADN'T elected a rapist. TWICE!!!
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Nazis getting their escape plans ready (again)
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Rapist recognizes rapists
independent.co.uk
Trump says ‘I feel badly’ for accused Cornell gang rapists after Hochul announcement
Trump was prosecuted by New York AG Letitia James, who is taking over the Ivy League rape investigation, for business fraud after losing the 2020 election
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 02/10/2026
You know, like being able to afford gas and groceries. trib.al/KAm2TVF
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Vance Says People Are Too Focused on “Little Things” Ahead of Midterms
You know, like being able to afford gas and groceries.
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If the argument for women should know better than to go into a rape den like a frat house, explain to me why a rape house like a fraternity is allowed to exist at all.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 01/10/2026
it’s amazing that there’s no crime anymore. if you do crime you’re actually just the victim for getting caught. the people who catch you are the criminals
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Ian 485 @ian485.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Not a surprise. The whole damn GOP is a party of rapists and abusers.
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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 01/10/2025
September 30 / October 1
William shatter as Captain KirkMichael Myers in Halloween
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CitizensKnow @citizensknow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I use the term 'Adjudicated Insurrectionist', rather than 'President'.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Ian 485 @ian485.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Was great meeting Greg. Excited about the books he signed. Thanks for having him.
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Ian 485 @ian485.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I laid on the auditorium stage in the dark listening to Dark Side of the Moon over the sound system a few times. Does that count?
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 25/09/2026
Hey, DFW! Come see me and get your comics signed at @zeuscomics.bsky.social this Sunday from 2-4 pm! My first signing in Texas since before the pandemic! It's gonna be awesome! gregpak.com/2026-09-27-g...
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2026-09-27 - Greg Pak signing at Zeus Comics in Dallas!
Hey, friends in Texas! I'm doing a comic book signing in Dallas for the first time in years! Come see me Sunday, 9/27, 2-4 pm, at Zeus Comics, 334 Inwood Rd, Dallas, TX 75247! If all goes well, ...
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Zeus Comics @zeuscomics.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Greg Pak Signing Sunday 2-4pm Writer, photographer & filmmaker @gregpak.net joins Zeus Sunday from 2-4pm for a signing. His works include Planet Hulk, World War Hulk, Darth Vader, Ronin Island, Mech Cadet Yu, Batman/Superman, Stranger Things, Supernatural & many more. zeuscomics.com Dallas TX
Greg Pak flyer with signing details
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 21/09/2026
The GOP platform is simple: They want to sexually abuse children, and they want you to pay for it.
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Ian 485 @ian485.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The first was not made by Netflix.
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Ian 485 @ian485.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A lot of stuff I like isn’t on DVD. The Knives Out stuff from Netflix, for instance.
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Ian 485 @ian485.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Will you have any of his books available to purchase?
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
sneak peek at next week's strange new worlds finale
another SNW gimmick episode, but the gimmick is that they are trapped in a political cartoon
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women
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Zeus Comics @zeuscomics.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Batman Day Bonus: We got flyers ready for @gregpak.net appearance next Sunday the 27th at Zeus!
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19/09/2026
Every now and then I see myself referred to as an "AI Denier" and I want to be clear I acknowledge "AI" exists, it's just I think it's a massive energy drain, created from theft, implemented poorly for inappropriate tasks by loathsome tech executives who get hard at the idea of the rest of us dying
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
When I argue that this AI doomsday stuff is marketing hype, I mostly get ignored and I think I know why: people don't understand why "our product will destroy humanity" is an advertising pitch for the product. You're right. It's counterintuitive. But here's why www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
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What might an AI doomsday look like? Experts have given it some thought
Researchers have worried about the increasing power of AI systems for years, but an explosion of interest has ignited old controversies about exactly how AI will cause chaos.
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
sending every palantir executive to The Hague is fine by me!
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Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Muppets have to put on a show to save the Kennedy Center. There you go, Disney, that's your premise.
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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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Ian 485 @ian485.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I’m not surprised.
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Ian 485 @ian485.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Silence is complicity.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026
the sum total of Sam Alito’s jurisprudence on voting adds up to “You have the right to vote for a Republican and if you aren’t likely to vote for a Republican, then Republicans are allowed to disenfranchise you.”
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Ian 485 @ian485.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I am NOT comfortable with this. We shouldn’t ally with racists who condone Trump’s worst abuses. We shouldn’t give them an inch.
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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 11/09/2026
The real legacy of 9/11 is what we see happening in the US right now. Organizations purportedly formed to combat terrorism are being used by a demented sociopathic president to terrorize the citizens of the US, and turn the nation into a white supremacist dictatorship.
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
If they had a “Free Palestine” poster in there, they would have been arrested and charged as terrorists
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inthefade @ihavethatonvinyl.com · 07/09/2026
i present to you: today's new york times lead opinion piece. if this doesn't make you realize whose side the times is playing on, you're dense and i can't help you. they are doing free advertising for fascists. there are very few places we can turn to for propaganda-free news now
ny times headling

OPINION
GUEST ESSAY
ERIKA KIRK: WHAT I'VE LEARNED ABOUT GRIEF
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/09/2026
This is wild: only *one quarter* of the New Yorkers who live in the city today were there on 9/11. It's basically an entirely new city. Cities are magic: constantly changing, churning engines of human progress. This is why conservatives hate them.
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A City Forgets. Maybe It’s Supposed To.
The New York of today is a different city than the New York of 9/11.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It still sickens me this bigot mocked a disabled reporter and millions of Americans said, “No big deal. That’s who I want as president.”
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