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Jason Burbank

@jasonburbank.bsky.social
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Engineer and bioinformatics consultant. I live in the Midwest with my wife and my cat.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 10/10/2026
Its the current Supreme Court’s interpretation of the Constitution that’s the main problem.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Ossoff: "I think Pete Hegseth is frankly a deeply unwell person who seems to relish this kind of brutality all the while he's running a department that is falling into chaos. The guy cannot run the military competently and is spending his time with this kind of obscene medieval spectacle."
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
a big part of ossoff's rhetorical success is it doesnt contain the compromise and caveats that are a baked-in part of democratic party rhetoric. theres no pretending that his opponent is just misguided or will be pulled back from the edge by "the good republicans." ossoff is saying "fuck this guy"
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Nick Kodama 🌳👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
LLM (Large Line Man) solves math problem
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God @thegodshow.com · 08/10/2026
Dear Bluesky, Please come together to defeat the fascists. Elon belongs in prison. They all do. Thanks, God
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Jason Burbank @jasonburbank.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Kemba…his eyes opened!
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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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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
AI COMPANIES: “People who don’t use AI agents just aren’t aware of the vast power they possess to do anything.” NORMAL PEOPLE: “Wow, okay, wow. Sounds great. What can they do? Give me your top example.” AI COMPANIES: “The hardest task of all: Checking you into a flight!”
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I do understand there are more uses than this. It’s just funny that every AI agent video is like, “All you have to do is give a bot all of your personal, banking, and medical information and soon you too will know when your kids have a little league game!” Sure, sounds great.
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Jason Burbank @jasonburbank.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Stray Vek Strut
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Kim McCauley @kimischilling.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
imagine being a heretic AND getting zero bitches? like pick a struggle
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Of course Trump and his goons want to rewrite Watergate. “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” ―George Orwell, 1984
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. — Kurt Vonnegut
a photo of Kurt Vonnegut smoking
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trello @nicky.wiki · 02/10/2026
A brilliantly maddening example of this is Meta poaching engineers from OpenAI with $100 million comp packages while USAID was gutted
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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Meanwhile, deep in the bowels of the liberal propaganda machine (a state university), academic departments get yearly budget cuts and staffing reductions but somehow there's always extra money for edtech scammers and real estate acquisition.
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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The funding imbalance in American politics is just astounding. Running a homeless shelter? Sorry, your last 50k grant just ran out and now your lights are off. Want to start a podcast for racists who eat paint? Here's $50 million, no strings, go have fun.
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mindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The difference between a catacomb and a basement is skulls. Catacomb without skulls? Thats a basement. Skulls in your basement? Thats a catacomb. Tired of having to keep saying this
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I still can't get over how this dude looks like he's trying to sell me ketamine in a gas station restroom
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
John Roberts' friend and defender is quoted in the piece, saying they shouldn't be shaming Roberts for the wreckage and ruin he's brought to this country because of "civility." The bullies always cry "civility" when the victims push back in the slightest.
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Jason Burbank @jasonburbank.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The best version 👍🏻
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Matt Royer 🤘🏼 @mattroyer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Trump’s Midterm Message: - We have the best murder (?) - We have the best poverty (?) - North Korea can have nukes - He’s done a shitty job as President Will this resonate with voters???
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Trump: "We have the best murder"Headquarters C @HQNewsNow
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Trump: We have the best poverty in the history of our countryAcyn
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Q: You said that Iran cannot have nuclear weapons. Why not? North Korea can have nuclear weapons.
Trump: Ahh because you had a different president.
Kim Jong un. He's a friend of mine. He likes Trump.
I like him. As long as I'm around, he's going to be fine. You know why? He respects me.Headquarters {
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Trump: I've done a shitty job as president
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Jason Burbank @jasonburbank.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My wife and I just had this discussion last week…we order a ton from our local Thai place and they put 10 packs of silverware in the bag: “Yes we ordered 8 entrees…it’s called lazy meal prep”
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Jason Burbank @jasonburbank.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You just need an old mill stone set on its side in the front yard by the driveway and you will have officially stone-maxxed.
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A rich person can never be held accountable. Therefore, a rich person must never make a societal decision
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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Voters: "We want lower prices and the war to end!" GOP: "How about we take away your health coverage instead?"
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Henry Snow @henrys.now · 25/09/2026
I once told two friends of mine who aren't in academia how little money we'd need to properly fund and run a humanities department and both were stunned at how miserly public universities are
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is all right-wing politics is now, a guy who's killed tens of thousands of children complaining about podcasters
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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Jason Burbank @jasonburbank.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
For the right wingers, it’s a bonus. Stop immigration and kill higher ed with one stone.
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"House Republicans will continue to hold Hunter Biden’s feet to the fire until we have his testimony...no one – not even the president’s son – is above the law.” - Tom Emmer, 1.17.24 "Don Jr is a private citizen and businessman so this unwarranted attack will go nowhere," Tom Emmer, 9.23.26
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Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The NH Libertarian party has been very influential in NH politics, including being deeply tied to the Free State cult that has helped defund so much of our public infrastructure. They are absolute monsters. #NHpolitics
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
DAVE MATTHEWS: “I said it last night, but I’ll say it again - man, I’m so tired of this fuckin’ President.”
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 22/09/2026
Tyrannosaurus xkcd.com/3300/
Comic. [Person with long hair pointing to diagram with Tyrannosaurus Rex standing next to a person.] PERSON: We now believe the primary prey of Tyrannosaurus Rex was these humans who kept standing next to it for scale.
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Jason Burbank @jasonburbank.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Was he getting diesel? It’s literally $7/gal today in my neck of Indiana. It jumped 10 cents overnight.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Someone tell Trump that the teens are in reach, he'll be so excited!
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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Remember when Jake Tapper dug in his heels to defend Fox News when Obama dared to move them to the second row of the press room? Well, now that the roles have reversed, I'm sure that Fox News will -- come on, stop laughing, let me finish
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.
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Jason Burbank @jasonburbank.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Remember “THEY’RE COMING TO TAKE YOUR BURGERS!!!!” ? JFC…
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Jason Burbank @jasonburbank.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
IF NOT FRIEND Y FRIEND-SHAPED?
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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 15/09/2026
Got my updated COVID and flu shots today because I prefer not dying and also fuck RFK jr and this whole willfully ignorant and malicious administration.
Two bandaids, one for my COVID shot and one for the flu. I didn't know which is which, I didn't look.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
(🧵History as reported by the NYT Euphemism Desk) Young men from northern and southern U.S. states engaged in unpleasant disagreements over the South’s labor policies.
Battle of Fort Wagner
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
KEN PAXTON TREATS HIS MISTRESS GREAT JAMES TALARICO DOESN'T EVEN HAVE A MISTRESS AND WHAT DOES THAT TELL YOU EH? -Christians for Paxton
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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
In the 25 years since 9/11, the United States has spent $8 trillion+ on wars that have taken millions of lives in the name of fighting "terror." Can you imagine if we had instead invested those funds here on climate, health care, housing, and education?
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Middle Age Riot @middleageriot.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
BELOW: Donald Trump honors the victims of 9/11 by flying his eyelids at half-staff.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
To every reporter who stands there as Trump shouts down one of your (almost always female) colleagues with insults and bullying behavior without standing up for them -- you know the rest of us can see and hear you, right?
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 10/09/2026
If only there were a law that said: "Whoever makes or offers to make an expenditure to any person, either to vote or withhold his vote, or to vote for or against any candidate Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned" We could call it 18 U.S. Code § 597 - Expenditures to influence voting
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