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Jack Lynch

@jacklynch.bsky.social
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Queer, transit enthusiast, software engineer, complexity scientist, anarchist as in public libraries. He/Him.

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Jack Lynch @jacklynch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As someone who has had a variety of very rewarding disagreements with "big" accounts, and who once got to enjoy several hundred people calling me evil courtesy of some Christofascist prick, Micah makes a good point. If you start saying shit *to somebody* it's vampire rules, you invited that in.
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Benjamin Lipiecki @lipistickey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Ah, so just stealing $120m from schools and transit riders to.... shore up her right flank during the last two months of the campaign? "She said it wouldn't impact any existing transportation projects. She said it would cost about $120 million, which would come from surplus fair share tax revenue."
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‘We're in a crisis': Gov. Healey filing legislation to suspend Mass. gas tax
Gov. Maura Healey announced Monday she is filing legislation to suspend the Massachusetts gas tax for two months, cutting the price of gasoline by 24 cents a gallon.
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
it's weird that ai got too dangerous to keep advancing right around the time money got more expensive to borrow
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CSketch @csketch.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Oh my god I think I found the video.
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EC Hamilton (Siobhan O'Leary) @siobhanftb.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
As ever, I beg people not to NIMBY their way out of climate action.
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
In addition to the (very good) points being made here, the numbers also support it. If 100 people stop paying for chatGPT openAI's revenue goes from $2083333974 that month to $2083333174. When the money they save goes to pay an independent artist that artist could go from making $3900 to $4700
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
you: underachiever, aims low, drinks to forget me: meta grindset, peak hustle, drinks to fiveget
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 01/07/2026
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Mt. Olive Pickle Co. exits Great American State Fair over Confederate flag
PITT COUNTY, N.C. (WNCT) — Mt. Olive Pickle Company has withdrawn from the Great American State Fair in Washington D.C. after a Confederate flag was included in an exhibit. The company told W…
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 29/06/2026
When Google strips all this away by harvesting an "answer" and displaying it at the top of the page, the bargain between Google and the open web breaks down. Google is extracting 100% of the value from the websites it summarizes, and giving nothing back in return. 7/
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
LOL that Jake Auchincloss gives a non-answer in here. inthesetimes.com/article/immi...
A spokesperson for Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-Massachusetts) told The Appeal in an email that the ​“congressman’s voting record speaks for itself,” noting that ​“he has repeatedly voted against writing a blank check for ICE.” 

The spokesperson did not answer The Appeal’s questions about whether Auchincloss would make charitable donations offsetting contributions he has received from Palantir executives and whether he would pledge to reject all future donations. His 2026 campaign has received about $22,000 in donations from Palantir executives, according to The Appeal’s analysis.
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I knew this was true, but I assumed it'd remain subtext. It feels sort of moustache twirlingly evil to directly admit "we've done our best to slurp up all the knowledge so we can sell it back to you"
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
look trump can have his government sign any docs he wants; either the next democratic government throws all the corrupt motherfuckers in jail and seizes all their assets, or it's pointless anyway.
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
"History is written by the victor" implies the converse "The victor is whoever writes the accepted history" Good 🧵on the civil war here.
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
In addition to just being unthreatened I think they're domesticated into some of these risks. Had someone do a favor for me once bc of a long-term business relationship w/ family. Spent a week trying to find the scam since it rang so many alarms. If that's how people usually treat you though...
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Ahh, so these are the vaunted Morning People I've heard so much about
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
I had my own uncle (who lives in another state) tell me I shouldn't complain about the rate of housing growth in Brookline because "the people who live there" decided they didn't want it. Like where do you think I live bro?
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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
National high speed rail would be so amazing, but we have to spend the money bombing Iran, setting the Middle East on fire, and tanking the global economy. Because national security terrorism Jesus something something.
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Who first figured out that seasons are flipped in different hemispheres? Like did we have to wait for Eratosthenes to figure out the axial tilt thing? Or did some Polynesian sailors put it together 600 years before that?
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Gotta catch yourself first. They're trying to skip the part where you have to find yourself and run it down. Unfortunately for them robot meat is no real substitute for the raw red vital stuff we're made of.
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Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 05/03/2026
I’ve been asked if I would support Sen. Mullin as Noem’s replacement. The answer is a resounding NO. The rot in DHS is deep, much deeper than any individual. It’s a question of policy not personnel. The Senate should not consider any DHS Secretary nominee until DHS and ICE are reined in.
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I've severely limited caffeine for medical reasons and it's amazing how little coffee I need to add to a cup of water to trick myself. I swear, I drink it and my brain goes "yeah, that's brown, must be coffee." I can do it all day, 5 'cups of coffee' at 80% water a cup.
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redcapybara.bsky.social @redcapybara.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Isn't it time for Massachusetts to pass legislation to protect people? #MAPoli boltsmag.org/maryland-new...
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Maryland, New Mexico Become Latest Blue States to Ban Local Contracts with ICE - Bolts
Governors Lujan Grisham and Moore signed laws barring local sheriffs and police from partnering with ICE’s 287(g) program, joining a string of eight states with similar prohibitions.
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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Dug into this absolutely wild thing happening to Finji. The deeper I read into their increasingly baffling conversations with TikTok "support" the more I felt like I was on something. www.ign.com/articles/tun...
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Tunic, Night in the Woods Publisher Says TikTok Is Creating and Running Racist GenAI Ads for Its Games Without Permission - IGN
Publisher Finji says that TikTok has been using generative AI to modify its ads on the platform without permission and pushing those ads to its users without Finji's knowledge, including at least one ...
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Nosferatu (2024). I still want that 132 minutes back. It was nothing! it was all carefully arranged beautifully costumed nothing! It was like eating soup flavored soup and spending two hours trying to figure out what flavor it was supposed to be.
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
"Where you stand with the keys and your cool hat of silence Where you grip her love like a drivers license" (best is too hard, but my favorite today)
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Dax (David J.) Schwartz @snurri.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
I'm at their second benefit show right now. (They just opened their 3rd set with "American Idiot.) These white suburban parents are wearing t-shirts with slogans like "RADICALIZED BY BASIC HUMAN DECENCY" and "NO ONE IS ILLEGAL ON STOLEN LAND BUILT BY STOLEN HANDS." (4/?)
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Stock go up because AI is going to replace all the workers is one of the goofiest bets that the whole market seems to be buying. Either it's wrong, AI isn't magic, that won't happen, stock values collapse. Or it's right, AI is magic, everyone gets fired, whole economy (incl. stock value) collapses
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "We _can_ build whatever we want, but..."
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Prosperity gospel has got to be up there in terms of worst interpretations of Christianity. The Hyde to Protestant work ethic's Jekyll. (Spoiler if you haven't read it, turns out they're both bad)
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/02/2026
this particular line is maybe the best statement of purpose i have seen for those of us who want a more militant opposition to this administration
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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
BIDEN JUST SAT ON ALL THIS *sigh* Biden saw himself literally called to be the healer of the nation. He truly believed that his role was to be the Great Uniter, bringing both parties back to the middle. BUT ALSO? Both parties serve Big Business/Billionaires, and not the People.
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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...
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BILLY BRAGG - CITY OF HEROES
YouTube video by Billy Bragg
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Trump: I have made a new way to control the country Every previous admin: you fucked up a perfectly good consent manufacturing machine is what you did. look at it. it's got the PTA and Reddit mad at you.
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Essential point here. The purpose of nonviolent direct action is to make visible, in incontrovertible fashion, the abuses and cruelties of the system.
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Justice is an exceptionally strong motivator of human behavior. Even brutal and repressive regimes rely to some extent on it. Not by pursuing what I'd call justice, but trying to convince people what they do is just (the people we kill are traitors, or monsters, we do it to keep you safe, etc.) 1/7
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Saying there must be trials isn't just an emotive aspiration. Congress can: - Create a new court (complying w/ 6A jury vicinage) - Give it jurisdiction over defined category of crimes - Also create dedicated prosecutors for the same - Strip SCOTUS of appellate jurisdiction It can be done.
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I found Kropotkin aspirational, but devising political & social theories at a time when you think the "end scarcity" technology is arriving imminently lets you be real sloppy & impractical. You see it with early 20th c. Europeans, and with the AI crowd today (albeit w/ vastly different goals)
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Time to be mad about Oscar nominations! It's like Christmas for nerds.
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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Codify Bivens, make it retroactive, and sue these fascists to hell
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
People need to get over the "crime" Boogeyman. Less crime is good, sure, but we've done it, crime is reduced. In fact, in the interest of shifting the Overton window on this, I am now pro crime. We reduced it too much, we need to get those numbers up a little. Furthermore, DHS must be abolished.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Great sleuthing! ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden is by his own admission a proud racist and fascist.
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Since GlomarResponder was first created in 2012, the account has posted hateful, xenophobic, and pro-fascist content. "America is a White nation, founded by Whites.... Our country should favor us," GlomarResponder wrote last month. "All blacks are foreign to my people, dumb fuck," the account posted in September of last year. "Freedom of association hasn't existed in this country since 1964 at the absolute latest," GlomarResponder wrote four months prior, further clarifying the post was referring to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in a reply to a comment. "I'm not a commie, I'm a fascist," GlomarResponder posted a couple weeks later. "Fascists solve communist problems. Get your insults right, retard."
In August, GlomarResponder posted: "Migrants' are all criminals." Two months later, GlomarResponder shared an image that reads: "It is our holy duty to guard against the foreign hordes." Some Glomar Responder posts evoke anti-immigrant violence: "Nobody is proposing feeding migrants into tree shredders," the account posted in March 2024.
"Yet. Give it a few more weeks at this level of invasion, and that will be the moderate position." And inTEXAS OBSERVER
and that will be the moderate position." And in January: "My WWII vet grandfather didn't get a chance to kill asians, so he volunteered for Korea. He'd be asking for a short term job with ICE kicking doors and swinging a baton."
Rodden's ICE employment is confirmed by federal court records, background interviews, and Observer courtroom visits.
A resident of Frisco, Rodden has previously lived in Pennsylvania, Northern Virginia, and North Carolina, according to county voter registration, private data broker sites, and property records. Rodden attended Penn State and Wake Forest University law school. A James J. Rodden possesses a license to practice law in Washington, D.C., which allows representation of ICE in Texas immigration court and was granted within a year of Rodden's graduation from Wake Forest. In court filings, Rodden has claimed to have worked in federal government for a number of years prior to his ICE job. What appears to be his LinkedIn lists prior employment as a U.S. Border Patrol agent, a United States Marine Corps armorer, and a litigation clinic student at a federal nublic defender's office The
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Mac William Bishop @macwbishop.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
People seem to think my issue is with reflective vests. It is not. My issue is with civilian officers enforcing laws in a constitutional republic dressed as members of the military.
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
With proper education & outreach I hope someday every day can be shut the fuck up Friday. Furthermore DHS must be abolished.
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Keifer @dannyvegito.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
living in a world where the only two jobs are “gambling” and “murder” isn’t nearly as cool as Cowboy Bebop made it out to be
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
These chud cosplayers cannot be convinced that they do not want what their costumes say they want. Sherman was wrong about a lot of things but he was right about this particular brand of asshole.
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Yeah, "why are you accepting money from the illegal nazi porn guy" seems like a pretty straightforward thing to hit.
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Ever have a cup of coffee so good it makes you reexamine your whole brewing process? The pour over from the Newbury St Coffee Roasters pop-up could be the one, just had a fantastic cup there.
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Reality Winner @reazlepuff.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Literally fuck every government intelligence analyst who isn't picking up espionage act charges under Trump for leaking this crazy shit in advance
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