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Jerod Poore

@jerod23.bsky.social
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Retired curmudgeon. Former mad overlord of CrazyMeds, Fringe & SciFi editor for FactSheet5, big iron coder, and zine publisher.

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Marianne Dhenin @mariannedhe.bsky.social · 15h
Massachusetts is unsealing records of generations of disabled people and the violence many faced while institutionalized. Advocates told me their stories should serve as warnings to us as demands to return to institutionalization are ramping up under Trump 2.0.
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Massachusetts Unseals Records of Abuse of Disabled People in State Institutions
The state is baring the history of generations of disabled people and the violence many faced while institutionalized.
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 14h
Solved a Hilbert problem, invented the computer, defeated the Nazis AND, we now know, wrote erotic fiction staring himself. www.cam.ac.uk/stories/alan... The perfect human being.
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Alan Turing’s gay short story reveals ‘fun, cheeky’ man
A racy short story by the ‘father of modern computing’ rips up Alan Turing’s ‘isolated mathematician’ image, revealing a playful man overcoming trauma and defiantly embracing his homosexuality.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
First Lady Natalie Harp sits next to her man in Marine One as they return to the White House last night, then reenters the building after another day of traveling together #TravelWithNatalie (Tasos Katopodis/Getty)
pic of Harp and Trump on the chopperpic of Harp walking back to the White House
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15h
NEW: The Trump administration keeps denying and downplaying that immigration agents have been detaining Americans. It’s wrong. We’ve found more than 500 U.S. citizens have been held against their will, including handcuffed or held at gunpoint.
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Jerod Poore @jerod23.bsky.social · 13h
Your periodic reminder that as part of their prejudice against the mentally ill, @npr.org reported for over a year on their quest to find any evidence that Nidal Hasan had the slightest hint of crazy. They couldn't find any, but that didn't stop them from reporting how they would keep looking.
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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 05/10/2026
they’re calling it the most pathetic criticism of a billionaire-funded panopticon ever published
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 05/10/2026
As it's currently constituted, the US government is in many ways the house than Dennis Hastert built. Mainly bribes and pedophiles
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 05/10/2026
it is interesting that I can't find any mainstream media coverage of Altman's sister Annie going viral on social media over the weekend for uploading footage of the first hour of her deposition in her lawsuit against him (one of two) in which she is alleging years of CSA
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Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman
Boss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 05/10/2026
"She was subjected to a bewildering array of abuse, including multiple rapes by 3 separate men and beatings by numerous relatives. “'If they execute Christa Pike, it will confirm that the death penalty is reserved not for the worst of the worst, but for the most damaged and vulnerable among us.'”
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Tennessee says child rapists deserve to die. Now it prepares to execute one of their victims
At 18, Christa Pike was sentenced to death for murder. What if the jury knew she had suffered years of sexual abuse as a child?
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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“Accidental”
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"De-Trumpification" has to be one of the top agenda items if Dems win power. All the lawlessness and every last one of his efforts to turn DC into an imperial capital should be undone.
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
You’re paying higher utility bills because Jon Husted gave away $2.5 billion in out-of-control tax breaks to bring 220+ data centers to our state.
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ballpoint pen and colored pencil. 

At the top of the piece we see the delicately drawn branches and leaves of an apple tree. Just beneath the tree limbs, a bat is flying with one of the green apples in its mouth. This is when the morphing begins, reader. A sequence of 13 drawings show the bat morphing into a teeny witch (with completion of the morph around drawing #9). The morphing creates a spiral leading us to the center of the page where the little witch is running towards her basket filled with apples. It’s likely she’ll re-morph into a bat again and the morphing pattern will continue.
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 23h
Elon Musk Mishima-ing himself with a Boring Company flamethrower
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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 22h
very tired of being told it is the responsibility of urban democratic voters never to risk possibly maybe by chance seeming less than respectful of rural red state life and then watching thousands in nebraska cheer on the president joking about a nuclear strike on me and millions of my neighbors
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Medium Dave @azzageddi.myatproto.social · 18h
Of course, the ads still say things like "We will cast out the communists, Marxists, and fascists. We will throw off the sick political class that hates our country." Basically "we will exterminate everyone who doesn't agree with us" kitchen-table stuff. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Trump says he will stop using US taxpayer funds for ads
The ads, which tout Trump and his policies, could have violated US laws barring public government funds being spent on political advertising.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 20h
Hey just a reminder that Maslow stole the idea of the hierarchy of needs from the Blackfoot people (and his female research partner) and then made it weird and rapey (women can’t be healthy unless we experience a “surrender reflex” when encountering “masculine power”).
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...
Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026
Can we fast forward to the eagle and liver part.
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Sam Altman Thinks He's the Prometheus of Silicon Valley
In a new interview, Altman compares AI to fire and OpenAI to the Greek god that gifted the power to humanity.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"May Block..." My God. www.nydailynews.com/2026/10/05/s...
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Schumer warns Democrats may block Trump’s judge picks if they flip Senate
Republicans used their Senate majority to block vote on Merrick Garland’s nomination after the 2012 death of conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
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Smallbrainfield @smallbrainfield.bsky.social · 16h
I have just got back from Rhodes and had I known how many cats there were I would have gone much sooner. Here are a selection with descriptions in alt text.
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 16h
Well, if it’s 6 October, it’s the 83rd anniversary of the day the world was deprived of Ignatius Trebitsch-Lincoln, who was born a Hungarian Jew, elected to the House of Commons, spied for Germany in both world wars, and eventually declared himself the 14th Dalai Lama
Frontispiece from Lincoln’s 1916 book Revelations of an International Spy, showing a man in a suit and bow tie, holding papers, wearing a moustache, and looking at camera through small round glasses
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Brigid Alverson @brigidalverson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The PROTECT Act was supposed to stop this from happening, but ICE acknowledges no boundaries, apparently. ICE and DHS must be abolished.
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Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Marimar Martinez is one of the bravest people in the world and is a name everyone should know. The fact that she has to file these charges on her own and criminal charges against ICE haven't been filed by Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke is a moral crime unto itself.
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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 05/10/2026
Marimar Martinez was labeled a "domestic terrorist" and hit with criminal charges after she was shot by agent Charles Exum on Oct. 5, 2025.
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Chicago woman shot by Border Patrol agent challenges feds’ narrative while announcing lawsuit
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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In spite of being of the correct generation to have grown up while "Peanuts" was still in active publication, it's always a little surreal to be reminded that the most popular comic strip in the English-speaking world for fifty solid years was about an eight-year-old with clinical depression.
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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If you're only familiar with the franchise via its surviving legacy of holiday specials and Snoopy merch, it may not be apparent to you how many strips were just Charlie Brown saying something that would get an adult red-flagged for potential suicidal ideation, and, like, that was the joke.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I love when White House reporters assure us that Karoline Leavitt was an entirely different person off the record as if that's not key to the whole Trump regime's press manipulation strategy.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 05/10/2026
Congressional Candidate Has Different Wife For Campaigning In Rural Counties theonion.com/congressional-candidat…
Congressional Candidate Has Different Wife For Campaigning In Rural Counties
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 05/10/2026
Shocked and saddened to learn that Dennis Hastert had still been alive
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 05/10/2026
I don't know who needs to hear this, but the autonomous vehicle developers who most vocally argued that society must accept a certain number of deaths to enjoy the technology's safety benefits (Tesla & Uber ATG) were the only ones who killed people and never actually delivered on their promises
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Meanwhile bloodless appeals for mushy centrism arouse zero passion (see Jeffries, Hakeem and Schumer, Chuck)
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 05/10/2026
The goal in detaining these children, a former official says, is “to make sure no one ever sends their kids to the US again.” Read @samanthamichaels.bsky.social + @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social report on the administration's new family separation policy that targets children in the nation's interior.
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“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"A spiralling legal crisis threatens to engulf OpenAI after its AI agents hacked dozens of companies and governments worldwide, with the prospect of a barrage of lawsuits marking the latest test of Sam Altman’s leadership."
ft.com
Legal risks pile up for Altman as OpenAI uncovers dozens of hacks
Cyber security incidents involving company’s AI tools leave ChatGPT maker vulnerable to wave of lawsuits
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Jerod Poore @jerod23.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Neo-Nazi Pulls Off Surprise Victory In Long-Held KKK District | Onion News Network
YouTube video by The Onion
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Jerod Poore @jerod23.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
@amberying.com - looking forward to your sprog's replication study.
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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The planet-warming impact of this single leak is equivalent to 1.5m gas-guzzling SUVs gunning their engines and there are more super-emitting dumps across Turkey. (Guardian)
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Revealed: the methane mega-leaks from UN climate summit host Turkey
Exclusive: Cop31 leader calling for global curbs on climate-heating gas has landfills producing some of world’s worst plumes
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Amber Ying 應 緣 @amberying.com · 05/10/2026
Some of you are getting too comfy saying that billionaires, AI tech bros, and all the other assholes have to have some psychiatric condition because being a complete utter greedy mean-spirited troll of a person must mean they're crazy. As an actual "crazy" person, fuck you.
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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Artist: Roz Chast from The New Yorker
The image shows a black-and-white cartoon titled "The Mind-Body Problem" drawn by Roz Chast for The New Yorker.
It depicts a person slouching on a couch who says "No" in a speech bubble while their mind or head, leaning back, says "Get up."
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
weight-bearing “allegedly”
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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
IF or WHEN the dems have the majority in both Houses We the People have to be up in their shit, on their asses, screaming at them like they owe us money Remember, Trump was a one term POTUS...and now we're back in the shit. Because nothing changed, nothing really got DONE. Accountability.
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Kill Tim Faust 💀 @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 05/10/2026
I believe it is good to be polite to robots not because they have consciousness (they do not) but because it is bad for the soul to let oneself become a vehicle for cruelty, even if directed at inanimate objects.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 05/10/2026
Internet Watch Foundation reports huge rise in AI child sexual abuse material
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Internet Watch Foundation reports huge rise in AI child sexual abuse material
Abuse material monitor says number of AI images assessed this year is already 40% higher than last year’s total AI-generated child sexual abuse material is proliferating online, with the amount of illegal material investigated this year already exceeding the total for 2025. Analysts at the Internet Watch Foundation have found more photorealistic child sexual abuse material in the first half of 2026 than for the whole of the prior year. The UK-based IWF, which monitors abuse material globally, said it had assessed 6,310 AI images that met the legal definition of child sexual abuse, 40% higher than last year’s total of more than 4,500. Continue reading...
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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"
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Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge
Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The way to deal with the right is simple: out vote them. deprive them of power and influence. do not operate like they have anything to contribute and constantly ridicule their stupidity
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The biggest democratic/liberal mistake of the last 50+ years has been operating like the right has anything to offer America. It was the fundamental problem with Bill Clinton to Obama and everyone in between
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Cornell University has announced that the Cornell Seven will not be allowed to use AI to write their University-mandated rape apology essays.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/10/2026
Last year, just 21% of students from an Austin charter school using an AI learning platform passed state-mandated tests. Texas education leaders helped get the technology in front of public school leaders.
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How Texas Helped a Private School Chain’s AI Tool Get Into Public School Classrooms
Just three months after the Texas State Board of Education raised concerns about Alpha School’s AI learning platform, Education Commissioner Mike Morath was in talks about using the tool in public sch...
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