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Jeff Rivett

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Independent tech writer, software developer, and provider of computing-related services of various kinds. Sometimes reclusive. Definitely weird. Cat person. #ubi #landback #antifascist (he/him)

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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I never thought in a million years that the president and First Lady of the United States would be targeting me personally and trying to hurt me and my kids. jojofromjerz.substack.com/p/be-best-be...
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Be Best. Be Quiet. Or Be Bankrupted.
Melania Trump is selling a story about lifting women up. I’m the mother of two she tried to frighten into submission.
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Jeff Rivett @jeffrivett.net · 13/09/2026
"We are too dumb to make decisions about anything."
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Dr. Ruth Marshall is still kicking against the pricks @wtfis2bdone.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The final stage of genocide is denial. There is no lie more foul. The people who created and signed this horrifying tissue of monstrous lies are radically evil.
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Jeff Rivett @jeffrivett.net · 12/09/2026
A list of people who are proudly, publicly whining "Please don't call what Israel is doing to Gaza genocide, because it makes people not like us." Here's a better idea for those people: denounce the horror being perpetrated by Israel on Gaza. Or better yet, just fuck off.
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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Nazi? If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck... right? They say that Germans don't have a sense of humor, they are wrong. More in comments ⤵️
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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Jeff Rivett @jeffrivett.net · 17/08/2026
Reason #4927 to hate this idiotic 'AI' bubble: Amazon is buying up old books, ripping them apart, scanning them to add to their LLM data, and trashing the books. www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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💠𝑺𝒄𝒉𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒛𝒊𝒆𝑷𝒊𝒆💠 @schultziepie.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
What an amazing story! 23 year old Joshua Baez made baseball history last night with 3 home runs in his first 3 at-bats as a Major League Baseball player! His promise to his father made it even more beautiful!🥹♥️⚾️ 🎥:ohhthatsrich on TT @ohhthatsrich.bsky.social #Pinks
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Bill Lindeke @blindeke.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I used to think Bond villains were a ridiculous conceit... theconversation.com/a-million-ne...
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A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth
If SpaceX launches one million new satellites, it will increase atmospheric pollution and risk of falling debris. And we will see more satellites than stars.
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 14/06/2026
We all have a positive obligation to do whatever we can to ensure he wears this until the end of days. Hopefully he’ll die in prison but even if not.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Families can't pay the bills because billionaires have jacked up prices, then protected themselves from investigations and liability by cozying up to the regime.
Screenshot of a tweet by Melanie D'Arrigo (@Darrig...) contrasting that over 70% of Americans struggle to afford food, housing, and healthcare while US billionaires grew their wealth by $1.5 trillion during Trump's second term and Trump more than doubled his own net worth, concluding "This is what an oligarchy looks like." The embedded video shows a CBS Mornings Money Watch segment with a chyron reading "Tips for Saving Money on Everyday Shopping."
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
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the handmaid 's tale is being advertised by hulu originals
ALT: the handmaid 's tale is being advertised by hulu originals
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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 17/04/2026
this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...
“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”
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Mrs. Beaverhausen @ghostmom.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain. Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow. #NoKings
An image of a list of the 27 grievances against King George III in the Declaration of Independence. Donald Trump's regime has committed at least 20 of them in whole or in part, condensed into the list below:
1.	He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
2.	He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation …
3.	He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing … his invasions on the rights of the people.
4.	He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; … obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners …
5.	He has obstructed the Administration of Justice …
6.	He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices …
7.	He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
8.	He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
9.	He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
10.	He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution … giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
11.	For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
12.	For protecting them … from punishment for any Murders which they should commit …
13.	For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
14.	For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
15.	For depriving us … of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
16.	For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
17.	For … abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
18.	He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
19.	He has … destroyed the lives of our people.
20.	He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us …
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Palantir CEO Alex Karp says his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men." And you wonder why feminism exists AND WHY WE STILL HAVE TO FIGHT. #Pinks newrepublic.com/post/207693/...
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Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power
They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 07/03/2026
yes I think cargo cult authoritarianism is another amazingly lucid way to describe the Trump administration’s whole deal
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Hegseth and Stephen Miller ridiculed "rules of engagement" and vowed this war won't be "politically correct." Now it looks like we may have bombed an elementary school. Hegseth/Miller's certainty that their version of "strength" would have support is imploding. 3/ newrepublic.com/article/2074...
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Libby Whittemore @libbage55.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlue For those of us who are not lawyers… I’ll just leave this here.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
All these people walked into a bar, and the bartender said, "Hello, Donald."
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GibbertyFlibbet @thecorrection.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I am more than adequately threatened with a good time thereby
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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
This one hits hard.
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Jeff Rivett @jeffrivett.net · 20/02/2026
TaxFreeway.
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Woke Everett @wokeeverett.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
A comment posted to an article by The Mirror on MSN titled "Donald Trump accused of lying on Fox as viewers fume he's killing America". All credit to "whoa whoa" for the spot on comment!
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
The racists are out in full force with their outrage over a Latin superstar promoting joy, love and inclusion whilst they continue to support one of the most evil sadistic deranged disgusting hateful repugnant immoral feckless narcissistic criminals in history. Stay mad assholes.
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Jeff Rivett @jeffrivett.net · 07/02/2026
At first I thought this was just kind of amusing. But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that it's pure genius. When faced with that second door, shitty people can either face their own shittiness, or double down, swear never to return, and auto-bounce.
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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
this weekend i visited a beloved local cafe/record store and they had a bathroom labeled "Gay Bathroom". when we complimented the sign the barista said sometimes shitty people ask if there's a different bathroom they can use, so they have a second one in the other room labeled "Super Gay Bathroom"
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Jeff Rivett @jeffrivett.net · 07/02/2026
3D. Keanu is a cool dude. Also I could kick the back of Elon's seat the whole time.
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DC🕊🌍🔥🌱 @dcminx.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
🚨🚨🚨 ✔️ Demolition of norms ✔️ Glorification of violence ✔️ Might is right ✔️ Politicized law enforcement ✔️ Dehumanization ✔️ Police-state tactics ✔️ Undermining elections ✔️ What’s private is public ✔️ Attacks on news media ✔️ Territorial and military aggression ✔️ Transnational reach
Screenshot of The Atlantic. 
Yes, It’s Fascism.

Until recently, I thought it a term best avoided. But now, the resemblances are too many and too strong to deny.

By Jonathan Rauch
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Lisa @lisajoy.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
We must continue to call things what they are: ICE = Gestapo Sending the US military against the America people = occupation Masked men asking to see your papers = fascism Shooting an unarmed woman in her own car = murder Targeting people based on the color of their skin or language = racism
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
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Jeff Rivett @jeffrivett.net · 29/12/2025
SHOLD NOT NOT?
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 29/12/2025
An essential development over the past decade-plus is that the ignorant went from feeling chastened when their ignorance was revealed to banding together and deciding that, actually, they were right. They might disagree at times, but they agreed that ignorance itself was an indicator of trust.
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Jeff Rivett @jeffrivett.net · 24/12/2025
Fascist movements *always* eat themselves. The bigotry turns inward, and then it's only a matter of time before they fail.
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
“Choosing your friends is an echo chamber,” the troll screamed miserably from outside the restaurant window at your birthday party-
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
MAGA, how do you suggest we keep military style assault rifles out of the hands of those who shouldn't have them so our students aren't slaughtered in their classrooms?
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
The perfect Thanksgiving message as we commemorate when a bunch of people rejected for their religious views by their broken homelands came to this continent and murdered and brutalized its inhabitants in order to erase their civilization.
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Jeff Rivett @jeffrivett.net · 16/11/2025
Trump hasn't changed. People are just waking up to what he was all along.
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Jeff Rivett @jeffrivett.net · 08/11/2025
www.omiword.com
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Omiword
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Jeff Rivett @jeffrivett.net · 08/11/2025
Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection: www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/pu...
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Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection
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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
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Sisyphus Idaho @sisyphus43.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Always remember that the divide isn't between Islam and Christianity. Its between western values of freedom and democracy v. religious totalitarianism.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
This.👇
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/10/2025
Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.
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Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
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stevethdemocrat @stevethdemocrat.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Seriously!? Exactly why are we putting up with this shit!? 🤷🏼 I don't get it.
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Jeff Rivett @jeffrivett.net · 21/10/2025
I like how he said he's not a "secret Nazi". Exactly. It's not a secret.
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Jeff Rivett @jeffrivett.net · 20/10/2025
Trump: "They're calling me a king. I'm not a king." Within hours, posts a video of himself wearing a crown, flying a plane with 'King Trump' emblazoned on its side, dumping poop on US citizens. Anyone who still supports Trump is either a complete moron or a terrible person. No other options.
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Jeff Rivett @jeffrivett.net · 19/10/2025
Consider this: if Epstein was still alive, Trump would have pardoned him by now.
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Christine Moretti @christine520.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Choose humanity. Choose peaceful resistance. “Let’s be antifascists, by which I mean let's be humans. Let's be wise and normal and silly and joyous and brave and hopeful.” www.the-reframe.com/the-crime-of...
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The Crime of Human Virtue
Sometimes it really is as simple as good vs. evil. This is one of those times. Human virtue is our great crime against the fascist project; it's also our great weapon against it.
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