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Jake Hamby

@jakehamby.bsky.social
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aviation, Linux, retrocomputing, music, politics, Linux, consciousness, art, philosophy, spirituality, UAPs, Commodore 64, Amiga OS, RISC OS. (he/him)

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Holden Disperra, #1 Ally of the LGBTQ community @punishedholden.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
LISTEN UP SNOWFLAKES I'M PART OF THE GENERATION THAT
-walked in on our parents cheating
-got beaten with the garden hose
-fired guns indoors
-ate bicycles for every meal
-got murdered every day
AND I TURNED OUT FINE
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The solidarity of news organizations in support of CNN, MS NOW & Politico has been encouraging. But how about that same solidarity when Trump abuses a journalist with comments of piggie or ugly or whatever? That means sticking up for your peers & even walking out if this abuser refuses to apologize.
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chbarts @chbarts.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Choosy Moms Choose NIST
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chbarts @chbarts.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I believe in NIST Reference Peanut Butter. It's an actual standard. It costs $1,246.00 for three 170 g containers which ship on dry ice. Compared to that, your grandma's traditional cookies are written on the wind. shop.nist.gov/ccrz__Produc...
shop.nist.gov
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Kerr Avon ♨️ @kerravon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Briahna Joy Gray is currently crashing out on The Other Site about this event, so that's nice.
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Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 23/09/2026
RIP to Chris Christie’s 2028 campaign, murdered by an octogenarian mere hours after launch
Joyce Carol Oates • @JoyceCarolOates
really, this is a serious question: why on earth would Chris Christie imagine that anyone, anywhere, ever would want him to run for President? what sparks such a delusion? granted, his wife might enjoy having him out of the house & on the campaign trail; but better just get an inexpensive hobby instead.
Joyce Carol Oates • @JoyceCarolOates •1h
New Jersey thinks not, x.com/ianjaeger29/st...
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UAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Activists and leaders reflect on Standing Rock a decade on: ‘I would do it again.' Tribal leaders and organizers return to reservation 10 years after demonstrations against Dakota Access pipeline. #NoDAPL www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Activists and leaders reflect on Standing Rock a decade on: ‘I would do it again’
Tribal leaders and organizers return to reservation 10 years after demonstrations against Dakota Access pipeline
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Jake Hamby @jakehamby.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The new book How Russia Won by David Corn is a trip down memory lane so far about Trump’s first term and aspects I’d forgotten, like how Trump and Giuliani were totally convinced that Ukraine, not Russia, had interfered in the election and then stolen “the” DNC server and taken it back to Ukraine.
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Jake Hamby @jakehamby.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Story of Meat (1942) “WE all know the place occupied by meat in human civilization today. We know it is the largest single item in the food budget of the average American family. We know it is an excellent bodybuilding and energy-making food. We know it is easily archive.org/details/stor...
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The story of meat
First printing, 1939. Second printing, 1942.
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Jake Hamby @jakehamby.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“I know nothing about marijuana,” Nixon said in an Oval Office recording on 6 Mar 1973. “I know that it is not addictive and dangerous and all the rest of it and all the kids are in favor of legalizing it. On the other hand it is the wrong signal at this time.” www.mprnews.org/episode/2024...
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Minnesotan discovers new insight into former President Richard Nixon’s views on marijuana
Minnesota lobbyist Kurtis Hanna listened to hours of taped conversations from the Nixon White House. In one, the former president who started the war on drugs said that marijuana was not dangerous.
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Jake Hamby @jakehamby.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Nick Bryant was right early about political child trafficking blackmail operations as far back as the 1980s (in the Franklin Credit Union case that he investigated for 7 years and wrote a book about. He’s a “gain of function lab leak” believer, but levelheaded otherwise. youtu.be/aeJwuq_qXuc?...
youtu.be
"Hidden Symbols!" - The DARKEST Secret Epstein Network They Hid from You | Nick Bryant
YouTube video by Julian Dorey
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
@Very__Regular

george lucas, 1975 (in tunisia, severely dehydrated, over budget) sure, yeah. put the little blue guy in the background. is alec still in his trailer

guy who gets mad for money on youtube, 2024: and now disney made Deebo Threebo green. that's how little respect they have for you
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Cosmo Wenman @cosmowenman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Guaranteed once it's underway Trump will start saying "some people are saying it should be called the 'Arc de Trump'... I like the sound of that" and it will be made perfectly clear that his entire fixation with the arch is bc he heard "Arc de Triomphe" once and thought it sounded like "Trump."
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“[The Arch will do] damage to the historical and cultural landscape. But that is the goal. The scale of this arch is intended to smother and minimize everything around it. It is intended to dominate your attention and imagination and direct it to Trump.” kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/trumps-arc...
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Trump’s Arch Will Be Built and It Won’t Be Coming Down Any Time Soon
The Washington Post reported yesterday that the Trump administration is set to begin excavation work at Memorial Circle in Arlington, Virginia, for the planned 250-foot-tall triumphal arch, in the nex...
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Grok "research on controversial topics" may, in fact, be the dumbest way you could ever use AI
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Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 20/08/2026
“Research on controversial topics”
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TomTom @tomtomchi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I have a friend in Reno who’s very politically involved and he said this year has all the elements Dems need to take the seat — D environment + broadly acceptable Dem candidate + extreme MAGA Rep candidate
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Waschesalon Grammy Campaign Manager @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
when Nevada Democrats gerrymandered the state to hell and back in 2022 they let Republicans keep one safe seat because it makes things easier for the Democrats, and besides it's kind of hard to attach all the Democrats in Reno to Vegas on a map. this is that seat.
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Waschesalon Grammy Campaign Manager @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
new place Republicans shouldn't be spending in where they suddenly are: Trump+14 NV-02, the Reno/Carson City/Elko seat, where the Club for Growth just dropped more than half a million on attack ads against Dem nominee Teresa Benitez-Thompson
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Jake Hamby @jakehamby.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Teslas don’t come with the front license plate holders attached at the factory, and California is a state that requires you to have front and rear license plates, so a lot of Teslas just don’t have front plates, or they put the plate on suction cups in the front window, or it’s not centered.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The man this highly alarming article is about, Aakash Singh, is single-handedly destroying what little integrity is left at DOJ. He is Stephen Miller's Stephen Miller. www.ms.now/news/top-doj...
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Top DOJ official warned that prosecutors would be fired for not pursuing alleged voter fraud, according to sources
In a conference call among senior officials came a directive to prosecutors: Go after election fraud cases presented to them or risk termination. The Justice Department denies a threat was made.
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Jake Hamby @jakehamby.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I don’t miss 2016 when they were using the German Nazi-era word (lügenpresse).
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
They hate the Bill of Rights because freedom is a threat to people in government who want to hide the truth about what they are doing from the American people. So they behave like tyrants because that is what they are. Vote this party out of power.
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Grant Lorrell @grantlorrell.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026
I generally keep my head out of that specific intra-community thing. But there is a certain type of white feminist who clearly resents the reality that white women can be participants in/beneficiaries of white supremacy. And will try to derail any of those conversations with that kind of deflection
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I love that you can try to overthrow the us government and then get confirmed by the senate to olc
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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Trump’s DOJ says it will not enforce the federal law barring gun sales to 18-20 year olds because it violates the 2nd Amendment. SCOTUS has so far declined every opportunity to resolve the circuit split. www.justice.gov/olc/media/14...
(Slip Opinion)
Application of 18 U.S.C. § 922(b)(1) and (c)(1) to
Young Adults
prevents young adults, who are members of "the people" to whom the Second
Nation's tradition of firearm regulation, which it cannot do.
September 17, 2026
MEMORANDUM OPINION FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
Our laws deem an eighteen-year-old "mature enough to be drafted, vote, serve as a juror, and be sentenced to deathại One such eighteen-year-old represented the United States at the Tokyo Olympics in 2020, shooting skeet? Yet, due to statutes predicated on concerns over an eighteen-year-old's ability to handle a pistol as a responsible adult, it would have been a federal felony if a licensed dealer had sold her such a firearm before she left or after she returned to her studies at the University of Texas at Arlington. See 18 U.S.C. § 922(b)(1), (c)(1). You have asked whether that restriction may be enforced against otherwise law-abiding citizens between the ages of eighteen and twenty who seek to purchase a handgun consistent with the individual right to keep and bear arms recognized by District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), and
"fleshed out," Wolford v. Lopez, 146 S. Ct. 2032, 2043 (2026), in New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022). It may not. Section 922(b)(1) and (c)(1) may not be enforced to impose criminal penalties on dealers who sell handguns to a class of law-abiding adults who, in nearly every other relevant respect, are members of the political community.In sum, because the modern federal age restrictions limit young adults between the ages of eighteen and twenty from obtaining arms, they "fall[] within the plain text of the Second Amendment" and are "presumptively unconstitutional." Wolford, 146 S. Ct. at 2044. As we have not identified
"any analogue or collection of analogues" that "is 'relevantly similar' to the modern law," our view is that the government is unable to overcome this presumption. Id. (quoting Bruen, 142 S. Ct. at 2132).
In reaching this conclusion, we are aware that we are not writing on a
government (state or federal) to bar young adults from obtaining firearms has deeply divided members of the federal bench. 42 Having carefully considered these courts' decisions, we do not think that their reasons for reaching a contrary conclusion under Bruen can be reconciled with the Court's intervening clarifications in Hemani and Wolford. 4 Thus, we do
advice it gives you as you assist the President in the performance of his independent constitutional duty to "take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed." U.S. Const. art. II, § 3; see also Application of the Rehabilita-
Patients with Severe Mental Illness or Disabilities, 50 Op. O.L.C. _, at
*12 (June 18, 2026); Section 1715 at *14; cf. Eric S. Fish, Prosecutorial Constitutionalism, 90 S. Cal. L. Rev. 237, 254 (2017) (noting that "a number of important constitutional rights go underenforced by judges"_and
42 Compare Reese, 127 F.4th 583 (invalidating the federal age restrictions at issue here), Worth, 108 F.4th 677 (invalidating Minnesota's age-based public-carry re-
Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, 121 F.4th 96 (sustaining Colorado's age-based purchase restrictions).
1687.that Executive Branch officials should "supplement judges' enforcement
ing processesằ_.
We conclude by noting, however, a few limits on this opinion. For ex-ample, we do not address the age-neutral conditions and qualifications on commercial sales, the prohibition on the possession of handguns by those under eighteen, 18 U.S.C. § 922(x), or even the enhanced investigative period Congress has prescribed for purchasers under twenty-one, id.
§ 922(t) (1)(C); see also generally McRorey v. Garland, 99 F.4th 831 (5th Cir. 2024). And nothing in this opinion should be read to cast doubt on the distinct prohibitions of section 922(g), certain of which the Supreme Court has recently discussed with approval. See Hemani, 146 S. Ct. at 1692 n.6.
tion as it applies to sales to persons under eighteen, who-though part of
"the people" for the purposes of the Constitution-may constitutionally be subject to certain legal disabilities until they reach the age of majority,
Part II.B.2; cf. Paxton, 145 S. Ct. at 2300.
Instead, we conclude only that section 922(b)(1) and (c)(1) may not be enforced to impose criminal penalties on dealers who sell handguns, the
"quintessential self-defense weapon," Heller, 554 U.S. at 629, to a class
of the political community.
T. ELLIOT GAISER
Assistant Attorney General
Office of Legal Counsel
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laulukaskas @acceleratrix.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Nothing here is really surprising, Jeff Epstein was everywhere and it'd be strange if he didn't know anybody who'd go on to be big in the AI sector. The luxury porn thing is an enigma though. Is that the stuff shot in peoples' mansions? Does that constitute genre? Does anyone know?
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laulukaskas @acceleratrix.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The right tries to recuperate it but fails because you just ask them why they love voting for pedophiles so much if they claim they wanna kill them. The only viable conclusions are either a rejection of moralism outright or a sort of paranoid gnosticism in which everything is corrupt
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laulukaskas @acceleratrix.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
the Epstein scandal never goes away because for us proles the mere *suggestion* of sexual misconduct is life ruining and then we just watch the Publicly Identifiable Child Rape Cabal just continue waltzing through boardrooms and Congress. It's maddening and calls the whole shebang into question
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laulukaskas @acceleratrix.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
i think its worth noting the rich don't really do social conservatism, they just fund it. slave morality is for us slaves. they'll back christian conservative abortion restrictions and then make "luxury porn for women" (wtf is luxury porn?) with Jeff Epstein because it's a tiered system
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laulukaskas @acceleratrix.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
hello madame asmodei this is your lawyer speaking i am telling you to keep doing this shit
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laulukaskas @acceleratrix.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
a lot of modern politics starts clicking once you understand that the rich thought the tiered moral system was something everybody was on the same page on, that it was a reward for their great worth or whatever and everybody loved them and so on. meanwhile even the far right want them shot
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BARO @baro.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Mao killed tens of millions because he thought sparrows were stealing all his crops. Stalin killed tens of millions because he thought you could teach corn to learn how to grow in the cold via exposure therapy.
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🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️‍🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 19/09/2026
the human factors of the tech does this to you by design regardless of what it actually is. It will never tell you what it is. It will only be to you whatever you imagine it can be.
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🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️‍🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 19/09/2026
LLM outcomes are a pure logic feedback interface directly serialized into your ego. The only consciousness you’re seeing is your own reflected back at you and whatever you put into it you are doing to yourself with no differentiation between you and it because it’s all about you and your motivations
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Ashley Kuckelman @ashleyvotesblue.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
THIS!👇🏼
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 18/09/2026
ICE’s ERO ONE is official. The agency is looking for 140+ intel analysts to work nationwide to locate immigrants, map their social networks, and help plan arrest operations.
projectsaltbox.com
ICE plans intel units in every field office to research immigrants, map who they know
ERO ONE would task them with researching individuals and charting their associates for the agents who carry out arrests and deportations.
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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If you can convince yourself that your work might end humanity or whatever, at least you feel like you matter.
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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
And so, I think that part of what draws some tech workers into doom-coded strains of GenAI hype is an unacknowledged desire to recapture the sense that they're special people working on world-changing things. Doom narratives make their work seem important, puts their bosses in front of microphones.
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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
For someone who labored as a Special Important Person whose work was Changing The World a decade or two ago, it might feel good to capture that again. For someone who missed the boat on that era of money and status, it might feel good to finally find a version of it.
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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
But having a new wave of monied employers doesn't solve for the fact that the tech sector isn't as vaunted as it once was, that working in tech doesn't feel as special. But you know what does? Executives and commentators convincing workers and the public that this new stuff will remake the world.
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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Lots of the at-work perks went away. Salaries got less lucrative. The job market got harder. And at the same time, landing a job at Microsoft or Meta no longer came with as many bragging rights or a sense of authority, an outwardly and inwardly perceived role in crafting the future of humanity.
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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
People don't rhapsodize about, or make sweeping generalizations from, the fun Googleplex slide anymore. Many tech workers went through this shift firsthand. Many others first entered the sector right as it was turning into "normal" work, rather than treated as special work for important people.
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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Then it dissipated. Public perception of shiny tech companies shifted as scandals broke, movies got made, and unions busted. A glut of new coders on the market combined with the pandemic and the end "free money" to de-elite-ify tech work. Even privileged tech workers experienced labor discipline.
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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Broad strokes here, individual/group experiences varied by extremes, but: if you worked in tech in the '00s and early '10s (esp. Bay Area), the general sense was that money was everywhere, the sector was largely adored, and you were important. Your high school celebrated when you got hired by Apple.
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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Big names like Google were at the center of the cultural milieu. People cared about the Google Doodle. People shared photos of the fun slide at Googleplex and rhapsodized about how work could be fulfilling. A Google ad that aired in support of marriage equality during Glee was widely praised.
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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Up until relatively recently, working in software was still generally publicly vaunted. In press narratives and dinner table conversations, the tech world was portrayed as creating the future, democratizing this and that, putting the smartest people to work on the biggest problems, etc., etc.
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Louis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The bottom line, beside the obvious Islamophobia, here is envy: politicians go to random streamers because they have an audience, and the traditional media outlets see this as a threat
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Hands @anem.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It's fine, they balance it out. Every time they don't ban a transphobe for breaking the rules they get to ban a trans person for not breaking the rules.
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Trish Paton @trishpaton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Maybe if they'd banned him we wouldn't be arguing with Safety about whether trans folks are being too sensitive when they feel like "sent to the camps" is a threat
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