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12th house stellium. current: stay at home dad, writer previous: learning games | comedian | bass @jhaas on twitter too.

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It's finally happened: the improved quality of machine transcription and the greater ability to extract value from unlabelled data means "your tech is eavesdropping on you for marketing purposes" has crossed from "false conspiracy theory" to "true and concerning" www.theverge.com/tech/991190/...
theverge.com
LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby
Gamers Nexus comes for LG again.
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𝔻𝕖𝕖𝕡 𝕋𝕙𝕠𝕥 @thatsgoodweb.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
John Collier, The Devil Skating When Hell Freezes Over, 1894
John Collier, The Devil Skating When Hell Freezes Over, 1894
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
i wish they would leave trans people alone, i really do
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Star Tribune Going Out @stribgoingout.startribune.com · 03/09/2026
Threading the 2026 MN State Fair 4-H Llama and Alpaca costume contest contestants here because you deserve it 😇
Llama and owner dressed up in a Mamma Mia theme 
Llama and owner dressed up in back to school theme Llama and owner dressed up in curious George theme Llama and owner dressed up as thing 1 and thing 2
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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Zoë Keating @zoekeating.com · 23/02/2026
We have until March 6 to comment on whether there should be one million more satellites in orbit or thousands of mirrors that reflect light back at Earth Jesus Fucking H Christ on a Pogostick
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Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Cops double parked in the library parking lot so no one can get in: we salute you.
Exactly what it says.
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wyrd dad @jhaas.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...
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From the movies community on Reddit: ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’ (1975)- “I’m Going Home” scene. Starring Tim Curry- Directed by Jim Sharman
Explore this post and more from the movies community
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
A very positive sign that, nearly a year after Kirk's death, many if not most of the people punished for speaking truthfully about him have won legal cases against their former employees and compensation. Again, panicked compliance with Trumpism has only *cost* institutions.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 23/08/2026
Said it before: there’s no such thing as “mass surveillance, but with guardrails.”
techcrunch.com
Flock CEO calls for ‘compromise’ as surveillance company faces growing backlash | TechCrunch
Flock Safety faces a growing public outcry over concerns that its surveillance technology could be misused.
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Siddhartha Mitter @siddharthamitter.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
“Every day I’m crying,” Renita Theus, 41, said outside her darkened apartment, where her car remained trapped under a fallen tree. “It’s hot … I walked to the dollar store and they’re all out of candles and batteries.” "She lost her cleaning job in Chicago … because she was not able to travel."
nytimes.com
Desperation Mounts as Thousands in Indiana Endure 10 Days Without Power
Floods from powerful thunderstorms devastated Gary, where a third of residents live below the poverty line and full restoration isn’t expected until next week.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 21/08/2026
Here’s my full segment on MSNOW about becoming “the leading expert voice on the bearish case against AI,” the end of hypergrowth, and how AI’s costs and losses are magnitudes higher than those that built Amazon Web Services, and even Amazon itself. One of my best. youtu.be/n32mhb2aUsE?...
Ed Zitron on Ari Melber AI INVESTMENT: BOOM OR BUBBLE?
$217 BILLION
250B
200B
150B
100B
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$29.7 BILLION
AMAZON WEB SERVICES
SPEND BEFORE PROFITABILITY
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ED ZITRON, FIGURES ADJUSTED FOR INFLATION
THE BEAT WITH ARI MELBER
THE BEAT WITH.
LIVE>6:29間
OPEN AI & ANTHROPIC
INVESTMENT
(LAST 6 MONTHS)
ARI MELBER
THE BEAT WITH ARI MELBER
THE BEAT
THE BEAT
AMSNOWLet Al Burn
By Ed Zitron
RES TEUR
The Al Industry Is Losing
By Ed Zitron
The Hater's Guide to Oracle
By Ed Zitron
HERES YOUR
The Hater's Guide to Anthropic
By Ed Zitron
LIVE>3:24問
THE BEAT
SMSNOW
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philb @phillipbankss.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
my transformers comic 11
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Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Literally yes
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Shecky @shecky.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
FRIENDS IN THE NYC AREA: Okay, this is a tough one, but please bear with me. My wife's lifelong friend has stage 4 pancreatic cancer and is desperately seeking a home for his two cats when that time comes. The elder, Wally, is something like 13 years old and DELIGHTFULLY dim. The younger, Doris,
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Count Zoloft @wizardrodeo.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
MILFS in your AREA are BENEATH YOU, building a SERIES of elaborate TUNNELS and CAVE SYSTEMS. We don't know what THEY'RE doing DOWN below in the DEEP.
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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
thenation.com
One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Animaris Rex is an 18-metre-long walking 'beach animal' propelled by the wind, created by Theo Jansen as a fusion of art and engineering. Original post
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 06/08/2026
Third Way, a professedly "center left" group, is spending tens of millions of dollars to convince voters to vote for Republicans in November
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 06/08/2026
I'm not going to lie and say the Jewish community in the United States is as anti-genocide as it should be. It's not. Our institutions *cough whatever the fuck the ADL is doing cough* absolutely aren't. BUT.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
ATTN: if you want to commission someone, but not entirely confident in your ability to avoid paying a slopper for genAI trash? There's a site or that. 👇
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 02/08/2026
In other states, habeas cases can last weeks, but in Louisiana, they often take many months. Those delays mean some immigrants never see relief. Some get deported before a judge can rule, and others have died in ICE custody waiting for a ruling.
boltsmag.org
“Stuck in Purgatory”: ICE Detention in Louisiana Can Stretch on for Years - Bolts
Louisiana has more ICE lockups than almost any other state. Now as a surge in habeas petitions overloads courts, people are held “unfathomably” long without recourse.
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
"Prudery is the enemy of art" - Soviet poster, 1980s
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Dr. Donna Bowman @donnadb.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
These two posts really say it all. 💔
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
There are a lot of important things going on. Maybe this isn’t a top twenty concern. But, this is actually workplace harassment, the kind that can get people killed.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Google Earth slop image, "Create an image of an enormous Alf arising out of the water and approaching Mar-a-Lago. Essential it's as if Godzilla was actually Alf."
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No Cartridge Trev @nocartridge.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I’d like to request privacy as I consider next steps for Great Idea Trevor, Orcs Should Be In the Senate
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SCREAM, R.D. OLIVAW, SCREAM! @rhidaneelolivaw.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
*standing up on the plane* so BOB was born out of JOWDAY who was created (but also echoed backwards & forwards through time so she always existed) by the Trinity Test, and the design they had on the material universe was to possess Sarah and Leland Palmer and have their scion destroy existence, but
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Danchez @oriolesreview.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I don’t even know man lol whatever
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Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
My genuinely brilliant colleague in Southeast Asian studies, Dr. Erik Davis at Macalester College in St Paul, faces a federal indictment and a possible six-year prison sentence, for having "ties" to "antifa" (i.e. for organizing anti-ICE protests). www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
theguardian.com
The professor facing prison in ‘antifa’ case: ‘They want to scare all who oppose ICE’
Erik Davis is accused by the government of a ‘conspiracy’ to obstruct ICE – experts say it’s part of a pattern to criminalize lawful organizing and ruin activists’ lives
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I'm weirdly happy People decided to publish this article. this lady got very close to the peak and decided to turn back because she wasn't totally confident in her technical ability. That's praiseworthy wisdom, and a good example for others. share.google/d8Xi4aZ8aKkW...
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Hiker Forced to Make Impossible Decision Just 405 Feet from Grand Teton’s Summit. Now She’s Issuing a Warning to Fellow Climbers (Exclusive)
After stopping just 405 feet below Grand Teton’s summit, a 25-year-old climber whose emotional TikTok struck a chord with millions tells PEOPLE why she chose safety over the summit and why she’d make ...
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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 28/07/2026
Anatomy of an AI kill chain ai-killchain.airwars.org
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Interactive: Anatomy Of An AI Kill Chain
Breaking down how militaries are offloading life and death decisions to flawed technologies
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Alex Jaffe ➡️ NYCC @alexjaffe.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Marvin, it’s your cousin Chuck! Chuck the Martian! You know that Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator you’ve been looking for? Well listen to THIS! [phone is actually just a stick of dynamite, explodes]
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Beth @girlanachronism.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
These mofos are definitely Trying It. Are we going to let them? www.wired.com/story/ices-n...
wired.com
ICE’s New Detention Center Contracts Declare State Laws ‘Shall Not Apply’
One day after a federal judge ordered an ICE detention center opened to state health inspectors, the agency posted new contract terms that would void state oversight at four facilities.
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Kim Hu @kim-hu.com · 29/07/2026
a meme titled the illusion of free choice

a cow having to choose a path between 'make a good game' and 'and make a bad game'; both paths lead to getting fired
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
thread on the Palmares quilombo, historically interesting for lots of reasons
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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Repeat after me: I am not purer than Matt Yglesias. I am not purer than Lowtax. I am not purer than Adam Sandler. I am not purer than Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. But if I stand back and watch and learn, I will be purer than I am.
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JT Cestkowski @jtcestkowski.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
HAPPENING NOW Thousands of protesters are occupying Madison’s State Street and vowing to shut down businesses as a way to demand justice for Corey Ruiz.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 26/07/2026
It is illegal in Wisconsin to vote in any election that you’re also betting on — and the leaders of Kalshi are calling it “voter suppression.” It’s not a surprising reaction, but it’s raising some eyebrows — particularly given its ties to the Trump administration. demdock.com/3Tji7oZ
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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
if you love these movies, just admit you hate Greek Orthodoxy
ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 movie posterFriday the 13th movie poster
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Taylor Moore @taylordotbiz.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
We have to destroy the ruling class by any means necessary.
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heaumeau e. rotacism @vashwood.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
joining the war on taco bell on the side of taco bell
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 22/07/2026
All the components of a Supreme Court term limits law are already part of existing federal law and practice. For example, retired justices already sit by designation on lower federal courts. bit.ly/4wkTlDK
brennancenter.org
Want Supreme Court Term Limits? Here’s How to Do It
The Brennan Center has laid out a compelling roadmap for Congress to follow.
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Phineas, a corpse @phineas.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: 
Using Generative AI?
You’re prompting with Hitler!
GenAI is a Fascist Project!
Try using your brain instead
Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control
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wyrd dad @jhaas.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
No piece of entertainment folklore has ever seemed more manufactured out of nowhere than the "Hathahate." Never got it. Lot of people engaged in scared-of-their-own-shadow thinking. I hope she's working as long as we're both alive.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Yeah he got the diagnosis right but pulled punches, intent on making the wrong prescription. Historically, only radical actions have countered fascism. There’s no reason to assume we have found some other, heretofore hidden way to do that through incrementalism and sloganeering.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
No one is thinking this through. Okay, so you want to invade Iran. From WHERE? Let's discuss. First, an Iran invasion requires a 3–4 month buildup in at least one of the following countries: Iraq, Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan or Pakistan.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I don’t talk about real life on Main but my comment requires credentialing: i was at food banks 4x times last month, trying to support etc. Food insecurity is off the charts & I just don’t see anything on the horizon to help people. It’s terrifying. I just come home and sulk and cry and dissociate.
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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
This strip is extremely funny and very on point and libs are losing their shit over it and complaining it's unfair
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Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Absolutely loving this new merch design from New Bedford Whaling Museum store.whalingmuseum.org/en-gb/produc...
Black tee shirt with trip advisor type star review one star “Worst aquarium ever” and New Bedford Whaling museum in white text
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