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Jay Bryant

@jaybryant.bsky.social
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Retired writer, editor, and software developer. Very liberal fan of Bernie Sanders. Proponent of letting people make their own choices rather than letting the government tell women to not have abortions and the families of trans kids to not have treatment.

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Freddy van Dam @freddyvandam.bsky.social · 54m
#Silence
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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is a valuable tutorial on why LLMs run into a fundamental problem of not being useful to tell us true things. And it gives some great use cases on what they *are* good for. Great for users, students, and teachers. Read the whole series!
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Freddy van Dam @freddyvandam.bsky.social · 2h
👇
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Carolirene @carolirene75.bsky.social · 18h
This is really good advice. You know someone will try to undermine your vote.
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Jay Bryant @jaybryant.bsky.social · 21h
You know, if the world's nations invested in fighting climate change as much as they invest in their militaries, we could have a bright future. Instead, as a species, we are bent on destroying everything, which is why I often say human nature needs an upgrade.
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Jay Bryant @jaybryant.bsky.social · 21h
This, big time. We've dumbed down the American public and left them prey to conmen.
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Jay Bryant @jaybryant.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I hate these people.
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Jay Bryant @jaybryant.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Masterful.
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Gary @garyh69.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Jay Bryant @jaybryant.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The #US that should be. Fuck #MAGA, the #GOP, and #Trump.
A NORWEGIAN'S MESSAGE TO MAGA:
"Hi.
Norwegian here.
A hard thing to explain about social democracy is that we WANT our taxes to go to the 'undeserving.'
Not because we're naive. Because it works.
Healthy people cost less.
Educated people contribute more.
Housed people are more stable.
The 'undeserving' are actually pretty good investments.
But the main point is that in a healthy society there are no 'undeserving.'
There are just people."
Trond Solberg, Norway
A STRONGER, KINDER TOMORROW IS POSSIBLE.
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Paul Ferguson @fergdawg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
THIS.
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Jay Bryant @jaybryant.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
THIS is absolute truth.
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Carolirene @carolirene75.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Nor hearing their voices!
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Jay Bryant @jaybryant.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
As I say every day, frequently multiple times a day, may he die today.
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Jay Bryant @jaybryant.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Accurate.
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Jay Bryant @jaybryant.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Dipshit doesn't see real polling numbers. He sees the numbers that his staff create for him and that the Dipshit Whisperer prints out for him. He's disconnected from reality by both his mental illness and by his sycophants.
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Jay Bryant @jaybryant.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Exactly right. He cares not at all about courts or the rule of law or the nation or its people. He cares only for himself and thumbs his nose at everything else.
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Jay Bryant @jaybryant.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The propaganda machine has blinded many, possibly most, Americans to the problems they live with every day.
Leaving the USA - Brian Krassenstein

"The weirdest thing about leaving America is realizing how much of America is just a sales pitch.

You spend your whole life hearing "greatest country on Earth," then you go overseas and see clean trains, safer streets, affordable medicine, cities where people can walk without playing Frogger with an SUV, and workers who take vacations without acting like they committed treason.

And then you come home.

You come home to potholes, medical debt, school shooting drills, $17 airport sandwiches, people living in tents under highways, politicians wearing flag pins (or worse, gun pins) while doing absolutely nothing for the people standing in food bank lines, and billionaires being treated like they're the fragile ones.

And somehow we're all supposed to stand there, hand over heart, and pretend this is normal.

I don't hate America. I hate what America has been taught to tolerate.

I hate that we call basic things "radical." Healthcare? Radical. Paid leave? Radical. Clean air? Redical. Kids not getting shot in math class? Somehow political.

Meanwhile, the loudest "patriots" are usually the same people telling struggling Americans to shut up, stop complaining, and be grateful.

Grateful for what? A flag doesn't pay rent. A bald eagle doesn't cover insulin. Fireworks don't fix bridges. And chanting "USA" doesn't make a broken system less broken.

America has incredible people. That's the tragedy. The people are better than the system they've been forced to defend.

So no, I'm not going to call America the greatest country on Earth just because it has the best marketing department.

Real patriotism isn't pretending the country is perfect.

Real patriotism is being angry that it isn't."
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Jay Bryant @jaybryant.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I fully expect demolition crews to show up some Friday evening and have most of the Kennedy Center down by Monday morning, before the courts open. Dipshit doesn't give a single flying fuck for the opinion of the American people, the rule of law, or the good of the nation.
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Bennie & Violet 🚫🧊8️⃣6️⃣4️⃣7️⃣ @thomasthecorgi.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'm aware anything over 100% is a mathematical impossibility, but this 1,000,000%
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ACW1234 @acw1234.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
🙃🐕🛋️
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kashwitna.bsky.social @kashwitna.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
America is ready to eat what we made.
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Jay Bryant @jaybryant.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Imagine what the prices will be next week. Then imagine what the prices of everything delivered by truck or train will be. That's not many things, right?
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Jay Bryant @jaybryant.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Pay heed. Private equity firms are parasites and should be regulated into oblivion rather than celebrated as successes. It's only our ridiculous late-stage capitalism that gives them value in our very diseased society.
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Jay Bryant @jaybryant.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
That's why it's so hard for many of them to change. They'd first have to admit they were wrong.
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Jim of Pennsyltucky @jimdigs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In the civilized world the primary goal of healthcare is healthcare. In America the primary goal of healthcare is profit. America is not a civilized country.
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Jay Bryant @jaybryant.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I checked my voter registration yet again today. You should, too.
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Jay Bryant @jaybryant.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Endless corruption at our expense, this time to enable bombing more war crimes.
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Jay Bryant @jaybryant.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Of course. We can't stop our decades-long campaign of bombing brown people.
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Jay Bryant @jaybryant.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
You know, the GOP is doing a good job of making a "big tent." They now welcome both couch fuckers and dog fuckers.
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Jay Bryant @jaybryant.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Houthis have blocked the Red Sea (and, as a result, the Suez Canal). Meanwhile, drought caused by El Nino has forced Panama to further reduce traffic through the Panama Canal. Everything is about to get even more expensive.
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Jay Bryant @jaybryant.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
We've already lost global power. We have pissed away ALL respect and soft power and diplomatic influence. All we have left is the threat of the world's largest military, and we've demonstrated that we can't even keep our sailors fed. The American century is done.
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Jay Bryant @jaybryant.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
If you live in the US, check your voter registration often between now and the election. You may get de-registered at any moment, and you want to know so that you can fight back. Fuck the GOP with a poison-bladed blender.
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Jay Bryant @jaybryant.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Just a brief update on the state of humanity: It's 2026, and we're staring down the double-barrel shotgun of climate change and resource depletion, wondering whether AI will kill us first. #AI #ClimateChange #Future
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Jay Bryant @jaybryant.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
At this point, Dipshit, the GOP, and MAGA have no possible exit from this war nor any way to prevent Iran from controlling the Strait for the foreseeable future.
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Jay Bryant @jaybryant.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The first obligation of citizenship is to pay attention.
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Jay Bryant @jaybryant.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
My voting strategy goes like this: I'm going to vote blue no matter who in the general election. However, in primaries, I'm going to vote for progressive candidates who support the things I want: universal health care, not-evil foreign policy, support for unions, and more.
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Jay Bryant @jaybryant.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Making sure @eff.org knows about this, so that they can, hopefully, warn people from their much larger platform.
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Our Common Defense @ourcommondefense.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Raise the Social Security payroll‑tax cap or eliminate it outright
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
IMPOSSIBLE. He's been a perpetual, non-stop source of embarrassment to all decent humans since he first rode down that escalator to declare all Mexicans criminals, drug dealers & rapists. He's the worst thing to happen to our country, EVER.
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Carolirene @carolirene75.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
That’s a great goal!
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Jay Bryant @jaybryant.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I hope we can do that. I hope we can reach a turning point and move in the direction of being a good society and nation. I hope to live long enough to see it at least begin.
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wolfspit.bsky.social @wolfspit.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Jay Bryant @jaybryant.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Homelessness started two years ago? To everyone who voted for this sack of shit, start apologizing now and keep apologizing till you die, because it will never be enough.
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Phillip Anderson @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Yes. This right here. This is the whole goddamn ballgame: “We need to tax the rich, yes, but the real political project is to take power away from capital, period.”
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Jeff Waid @jeffwaid.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Every Democrat won't do everything I want them to do, but every Republican will do everything I don't want them to do. Vote Blue.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
No, not irreversible. But it will almost certainly take more than one Democratic term to fix. Which is why I’ve been so insistent that folks stop the goddamn purity tests and vote responsibly in November. We aren’t looking for perfect candidates. We’re looking for better than Republicans.
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Bennie & Violet 🚫🧊8️⃣6️⃣4️⃣7️⃣ @thomasthecorgi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
#GoodTrouble
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Jay Bryant @jaybryant.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This is exactly what the right does. They always lie, and this is one way they do it.
From Kalen Dion:

Pay attention to the shifts in language. Notice that civil rights is now being called DEI and framed as racist against white people. Notice that the women's rights movement is now being boiled down to feminism and framed as oppressive to men. Notice that they have now started calling freedom of religion "religious liberty" so that they can frame Christian nationalism as the victim.

It's the dictators dance. The narcissist shuffle. Always shifting the language. Always playing with the narrative. Always avoiding accountability. Always blaming someone else. Always framing themselves as the victim. Usually of a minority group they are actively working to harm. People that want nothing more than to be left alone.
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