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Jim Grady

@jimgrady.bsky.social
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AI engineer and scifi reader

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Jim Grady @jimgrady.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
To keep myself from being hypnotized by the anti-DEI drumbeat I feel like I just have to say it out loud: DEI is good. DEI addresses injustice. If you want to expand the idea of diversity to be more than just race, include class or geography, that's great too, but the race based part is still good.
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Jim Grady @jimgrady.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
One of the most head scratching things to me is the way the stock market moves up and down with Iran war news. I mean, even setting aside the morality, the idea that people see a transient lurch toward calm and go "ok all good now" when it's the same deeply flawed people calling the shots.
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Jim Grady @jimgrady.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
#nokings Charlottesville bigger than ever this time ❤️
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Jim Grady @jimgrady.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
If you truly love your children and want their giant bubble experiments to succeed, in the end you have no choice but to buy them a substance used in horse gynecology.
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Streets of Minneapolis Irish female duet cover youtu.be/Ci_0PAObc4A?...
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Irish Female Duet)
YouTube video by Ethan Gontar
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/02/2026
I’m sharing Aliya’s entire opening statement. We owe it to her, and those who no longer have a voice, to watch. youtu.be/zrcW8SZtYpI?...
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WATCH: Minneapolis resident and U.S. citizen Aliya Rahman describes being detained by ICE
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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Indivisible Charlottesville @indivisiblecville.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Postponed from last week - state violence is escalating; we can meet this moment and stand in solidarity with targeted communities. We CAN prepare together for rapid mass mobilization and community care. Join us today (1/31) at 2 PM at the Haven!
indivisiblecharlottesville.org
People's Activist Series—January 31 — Indivisible Charlottesville
Non-Cooperation Strategies in Action: Responding to Police Violence Let’s deepen our use of non-cooperation to fight authoritarianism. In this session, we will engage in scenario-planning to develop...
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Jim Grady @jimgrady.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Second amendment doesn’t guarantee an unlimited right to bear arms, contrary to the incorrect interpretation pushed by conservatives for many decades. The tragedy of Alex Pretti doesn’t change that. It’s just that right now that expansive interpretation is dominant, so it has to apply to everyone.
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Jim Grady @jimgrady.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Called my (Republican) congressman McGuire’s office and left a message with a staffer strongly against the US invading Greenland. Given his military background I went with the message that to me an alliance is an oath to protect and aside from everything else, an attack would be dishonorable.
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Jim Grady @jimgrady.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
The test today is whether we can hold in our minds several ideas at once: Maduro likely stole his election and was not a legitimate leader. And also it's incredibly dangerous for any one nation to arrogate to itself the power to remove a head of state by force.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Remarkable how brutal the ruling against Trump on Abrego Garcia truly is: It details flagrant and malicious abuses of power all throughout. Trump and Stephen Miller were testing their ability to spread lawless state terror. But the court held the line. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2043...
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Fiasco for Trump as Judge Issues Harsh Rebuke in Abrego Garcia Case
Judge Paula Xinis’s ruling temporarily freed Kilmar Abrego Garcia from custody. It also savagely indicted Trump’s lawless handling of this whole affair from start to finish.
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Jim Grady @jimgrady.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Virginia friends, our senator Tim Kaine needs to hear our reaction to his vote on the funding bill last night loud and clear. I tried calling his office this morning but didn't get through yet. Here's his online form: www.kaine.senate.gov/contact/shar... What I just sent is in the replies.
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Share Your Opinion | U.S. Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia
The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia
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Jim Grady @jimgrady.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
I don't know how you all are going to feel about this but, although otherwise I voted a straight democratic ticket, I left Attorney General blank. Could not get past the violent text messages.
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Indivisible Charlottesville @indivisiblecville.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Good morning Virginia! Good morning 5th district folks! Polls are open. You know what to do. It’s a great day to vote!
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Jim Grady @jimgrady.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
I’ve heard some calls to demolish the ballroom as soon as we take back the white house. I think my preference would be to put an absolutely enormous black history museum in it.
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Jim Grady @jimgrady.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Thousands out in Charlottesville for #NoKings . Much bigger than last time. Nonstop honks of support. This photo is just our little corner well out from the main group. Really proud that my elementary age son chose to join me this time. Here’s his sign!
No Kings cville crowdSign: kids have rights no matter where they’re from!
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Indivisible Charlottesville @indivisiblecville.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Tomorrow! 11 AM - 1 PM. The Shops at Stonefield. #NoKings. The power resides with the people!
This graphic says No Kings. Nationwide Protest. Fighting Dictatorship Together. Saturday, October 18, 11 AM - 1PM. The Shops at Stonefield. 2100 Hydraulic Road. Organized by Indivisible Charlottesville.
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Jim Grady @jimgrady.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi... extraordinary level of grand jury pushback against the Trump DOJ. I have some familiarity with the grand juries and the ham sandwich thing really is true. The average juror is extremely deferential to prosecutors, and these cases don’t even clear that lowest of bars.
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Not guilty verdict in ICE case sends stark message to Trump DOJ’s political prosecutions
It’s not only grand jurors who have rejected the Trump administration’s charges. A trial jury just did the same.
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Jim Grady @jimgrady.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Let’s brainstorm some sign ideas for the No Kings protest on October 18. I’m thinking about “Make racial profiling illegal again.”
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Jim Grady @jimgrady.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
What is interesting about RFK saying that “40 to 70 percent” of parents of children with autism believe that their children were harmed by a vaccine is: making some standard assumptions you can say that the sample size of whatever survey we’re now basing national policy on was about 43 respondents
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Jim Grady @jimgrady.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Something we’ve been doing already is rotating streaming services. Seems obvious in hindsight that you don’t have to keep paying them while there’s nothing you want to watch on them. Given the Kimmel decision I think Disney plus is due to be rotated out, indefinitely.
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Jim Grady @jimgrady.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
These absolute gymnastics by the right on free speech and cancel culture are a good opportunity to get clear on first principles. Private citizens can punish whatever speech they want, with their own speech, or their economic decisions. The government can restrict only incitement to violence.
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Eric Goldman @theericgoldman.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
The reasons for this happening really bums me out and yet sadly is a sign of the times.
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Jim Grady @jimgrady.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
1/2: Our kids have really gotten into the lite/basic version of D&D I'm playing with them. The 9yo's lawyerly nature and the 7yo's wild imagination combined in a great way. 9yo was reading bits of the manual I printed out for him...
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Jim Grady @jimgrady.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Getting a lot of spam texts like this lately: “Hi, Michelle, I just came back from a trip to Italy. When can you send my dog to the Ritz-Carlton Hotel tomorrow? Thank you.” No no, thank you wealthy bon vivant who has serendipitously crossed my path, for the writing prompt!
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
because nothing says 'I deserve the Nobel Peace Prize' more than renaming your Department of Defense to the Department of War
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 04/09/2025
We need an HHS Secretary who respects science and does not make policy based on conspiracy theories. Vaccines are safe and effective. Kennedy is threatening the health of our kids and all Americans. He must resign.
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Jim Grady @jimgrady.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Disillusioned with this deep dish pizza whose depth is achieved entirely by making the bread thicker
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Jim Grady @jimgrady.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Can I just throw out there that I want the books my kids read to feature gay and trans people in the approximate proportions they occur in the population, in an age appropriate way? Such a radical position to want them to learn about various humans who exist, I know.
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Jim Grady @jimgrady.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Man this Overton Window shift is killing me. I hate that it now seems like the radical left position is to get the government to follow proper procedure while they ship human beings back to the places that were killing them. My position is that we are here on this earth to care for everyone.
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Jim Grady @jimgrady.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Thinking about the fact that women have only been able to vote in the US for 105 years. However f’d we are now, can you imagine how much worse it would be if they still couldn’t?
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ACLU @aclu.org · 01/08/2025
BREAKING: We're suing ICE for unlawfully targeting and arresting people who show up to court for their immigration hearings.
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Matthew Segal @segalmr.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
I think the idea that “The President is simultaneously an institution beyond the reach of criminal law and also a private person who can file $10 billion defamation suits when he dislikes a news article” is not very sensible.
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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
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Steve Quick @stevequick.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
One of the tenets of conservativism is to not fund anything because it'll be abused by those who can get away with it. How do they say they know? Because they would abuse it if they could. Their whole platform is: I'm a terrible person.
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Jim Grady @jimgrady.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Quick note of gratitude for Charlottesville No Kings
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Jim Grady @jimgrady.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Sure humans are fun to team code with, but no human can match AI in the sheer number of times it tells me "you are absolutely right!" which as far as I'm concerned is all the evidence of AGI I need.
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Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️‍🌈 @sarahhbickerton.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Good lord these two videos (well one, split over two posts) are amazing.
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
There's no declaration of war, and no AUMF that covers this. Entering this war is wrong on the merits; we had a perfectly peaceful way to address Iran's nuclear program. It's also unlawful. A democratic republic should not be able to enter a war of choice on one man's say-so.
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Jim Grady @jimgrady.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Charlottesville No Kings!
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Jim Grady @jimgrady.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
If you’re coming to Charlottesville No Kings I suggest parking on the Seminole court shopping center side, there’s lots of unrestricted parking in front of bounce and play for example. No spots on the stone field side. You can’t easily cross 29 on foot but there are plenty of us on both sides.
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Jim Grady @jimgrady.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
I hope you all can make it to your local www.nokings.org . I have so not been an activist these past few decades but this insanity has gotten even me off the couch. Let's fucking go!
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No Kings
On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. ...
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Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Los Angeles is full of peaceful people who simply want all of our children to be returned to us. All children deserve an education and a chance to grow up with their families. #GodmothersoftheDisappeared @cluejustice
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Jim Grady @jimgrady.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
They’re really scraping the bottom of the barrel on pharmaceutical names. They’ve used almost all the syllable combinations that sound remotely medicine-y and they’re down to names like “orforglipron.”
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Jim Grady @jimgrady.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I think my favorite lost positive is “chalant” although “ept” and “ert” are classics.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Well, looks like we’re already here. The Trump administration willfully defied a court order. Hopefully the court will hold the government in contempt. What happens next is going to tell us exactly what direction we are headed
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Jim Grady @jimgrady.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
So I spend some time over on Truth social trying to connect with people who are very different from me, and being the token liberal. Today I had a comment liked by no less a luminary than former gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake! Pretty sure it was by mistake but I’m going to pretend it wasn’t :)
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Jim Grady @jimgrady.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Great line from the 4yo today. We were discussing whether the tooth fairy could find her brother on a ship. All manner of tooth fairy transport was proposed: helicopters, planes, etc. to which she replied: “The Tooth Fairy IS A FAIRY. She doesn’t need any kind of vehicle to fly!”
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
do you have any idea just how badly you have to fuck up to get Canada mad at you
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