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jlaudy.bsky.social @jlaudy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A click bait article that somehow really means something. Doomerism is so hard to avoid. apple.news/AhMveTNjKR4y...
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43 Enshittification Photos That Prove Things Are Just Getting Worse And Worse And Worse And WORSE — BuzzFeed
This is the bad place, I fear.
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jlaudy.bsky.social @jlaudy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I’m probably real late to game. I spend more time seeing what Nazis are saying than people I might agree with. But Third Way is a corporate terrorist organization. And I do not like it. I really do not like it.
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jlaudy.bsky.social @jlaudy.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I’ve often complained about how it doesn’t snow in the southern blue ridge anymore. But with the coming El Niño I’ve realized that the years of large snows in the mountain I remember were also the El Niño years of the 90’s. If we could get some snow that would at least be something
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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 28/08/2026
"Milo got arrested!" "That's good!" "By an unaccountable secret police force" "That's bad" "He supported them, though, so there's delicious irony at play." "That's good!" "But they came for him because fascist power has reached a point where petty infighting can lead to arrests" "That's bad"
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jlaudy.bsky.social @jlaudy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A certain leader of the free world reposted a diatribe by a local ascendant right wing influencer that I happen to have had dealings with. He’s one of the dumbest of them all. This world…. This goddamn world
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David DeWitt @daviddewitt.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Haitians living in Springfield, Ohio are being required to wear ankle monitors and turn their passports over to United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/08/14/h...
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Haitians in Springfield are required to report to Ohio's ICE offices and wear ankle monitors • Ohio Capital Journal
Haitians living in Springfield, Ohio are being required to wear ankle monitors and turn their passports over to United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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jlaudy.bsky.social @jlaudy.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Just a post no one will see, but I just listened to Fetterman interviewed by Stewart. And goddamn is that man’s mind completely melted. These are the people that rule us folks. They’re just as stupid as you and me. I think people forget that. They’re just as stupid as you and me.
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jlaudy.bsky.social @jlaudy.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Just a guy standing around in the rain trying not to freak out the teenage turtles that just got reintroduced to the wild.
A teenaged turtle testing the air after being raised in captivity due to hatching in the middle of winter.
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jlaudy.bsky.social @jlaudy.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
The blood boils. My rage is an infinite as my impotence to do anything about it. www.propublica.org/article/revl...
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The Price of Remission: This Cancer Drug Saves Lives — but Costs a Fortune. I Wanted to Know Why.
When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked ...
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Lauren Deschain @thatnerdchick.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜
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jlaudy.bsky.social @jlaudy.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
My profile pic is of a baby box turtle I found 2 years ago. It had hatched early, first week of January, with a sibling. There was a third that was already dead. A friend who knows about such things told me I had to save them. It was too warm in the wrong part of the year.
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Queer Satanic @queersatanic.com · 13/05/2026
we have to love people — fiercely — as a matter of politics we have to care and show up for people first to have any right to demand other conditions or share any ideology
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jlaudy.bsky.social @jlaudy.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Allegations against Chuck Edwards huh? I worked with him for a few long days and saw nothing like that. But I did see that the man is a human void. Utterly without charisma or anything to say. Just a blank kind of awful human.
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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Nearly five hours into the Asheville city council meeting, they're finally getting to the vote on fed funding for expanded police surveillance Interim chief Jackie Stepp claims the police can't possibly do anything unless they spy on the public in real time 24/7. The public's chuckling. #avlgov
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Firestorm Books @firestorm.coop · 11/05/2026
City Council: Sure your against fascism, but what if we only use mass surveillance technologies that respect your pronouns and don't see race?
A screenshot from the May 12 city council agenda. It reads: "B. Declaration of Policy for Public Safety Tools, Asheville Police Department Grant Award, Budget Amendment, and Axon Contract - ITEM B AND ITS SUBPARTS WILL HAVE ONE PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD.
B.1 (i) Resolution of the Asheville City Council to declare and reaffirm the protection of civil liberties of all residents and visitors in the collection and use of data obtained through the utilization of public facing cameras, license plate readers, and the operation of a real-time intelligence center.
B.1 (ii) Resolution authorizing the City Manager to apply for, accept, and sign all of the appropriate application and acceptance documents for the Community Project Funding Award allocated to the City of Asheville as secured through Congressman Chuck Edward's Office and managed through the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs, Byrne Justice Grants.
B.1 (iii) Budget amendment in the City's Special Revenue Fund in the amount of $1,141,255.56.
B.2 Resolution authorizing the City Manager to execute on behalf of the City of Asheville a contract with Axon Enterprises, Inc to bundle all existing agreements for Asheville Police Department's current inventory of Body-Worn Cameras, Tasers, Drones, Lightpost and Interview Room equipment, warranties, licensing, and cloud storage for all, and add FUSUS software, utilizing the pricing offered through Sourcewell cooperative contract."
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jlaudy.bsky.social @jlaudy.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Turns out parasocial breakups can be hard to do. The writing was on the wall for a while. But it’s weird to suddenly miss a couple of people I have never met. Hours each week with the voices of strangers will do strange things to you. Good luck to Dan and Jordan. Rays of sunshine in the darkness
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Congrats to Dan and Jordan at the Knowledge Fight podcast for an insane run. It was a consistently informative and entertaining show that will outlast them as a critically minded archive of Infowars. Wishing them the best in whatever’s next.
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jlaudy.bsky.social @jlaudy.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Broke a lifelong habit of never calling law enforcement last night. Drug addict neighbors revving something terribly loud next to a huge trash bonfire while explosions rang out. Maybe gun shots. Probably just explosions. Toxic smoke blanketing everything. I truly do not know what else I can do.
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jlaudy.bsky.social @jlaudy.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
More colonies of these large whorled pogonias. Pink lady slippers just starting to bloom. And a putty root orchid blooming for the first time I’ve seen. Springtime in these woodlands amongst all the destruction of Helene.
A large whorled pogonia in bloom.
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jlaudy.bsky.social @jlaudy.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
When Helene ripped through western NC it tore a large portion of the forest behind my house down. But in destruction comes new things. This year colonies of large whorled pogonia orchids have come to the surface. Utterly stunning.
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jlaudy.bsky.social @jlaudy.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Things may not be great. But the wild ramps I put in the forest behind my house last year are growing! Not enough to harvest or eat. But they exist now.
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jlaudy.bsky.social @jlaudy.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Some days you win the teenage girl dad game. Some days you lose. I lost today. So now I have to sit in the dark and try and figure out how to better react to everything even though I’m not terribly smart. Nothing is ever easy.
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jlaudy.bsky.social @jlaudy.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Took my fifteen year old to see Ratboys. It was awesome. And she’s still ok with going to concert with her old man. So yes, I am winning today.
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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
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jlaudy.bsky.social @jlaudy.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
We all know this…. But they’re about to declare victory. The majority of the American populace is not gonna have the bandwidth to care about the atrocities that follow in our wake. We’ll be doing new atrocities and the U.S. may love these new ones. Hate to be doomer. But this is doom.
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
These are the 4 things AI can do well: •Clean up your email inbox (badly) •Give my shittiest neighbor (Alan) something to talk about at a party •Tell a 12 yr old to kill himself •Incinerate a school at 10:16 AM on a Tuesday You can see why we need to base our economy around it
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jlaudy.bsky.social @jlaudy.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
I made the mistake of shit posting Naomi Wolf on the bad place and now my algorithm there is nothing but cloud screamers. I guess it’s not worse than Nazis, but definitely less pertinent to ur current world.
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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This Is All So Goddamn Unnecessary
Iran, and Courage, and The Waste Of It All
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jlaudy.bsky.social @jlaudy.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
What happens to all of these massive warehouses turned concentration camps if they actually get their way and deport 20 million people? Who takes their place? Do we really think they’re gonna let all that real estate sit empty?
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jlaudy.bsky.social @jlaudy.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Written between the lines of this story is another story I would pursue were I a reporter. Tons of private organizations it seems got lots of funding over the last decade to house unaccompanied minors. Except the supply coming across the border has now dried up. apple.news/A3J_sETkVT7i...
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ICE detained a Minnesota teen, labeled him an ‘unaccompanied minor,’ and lost him — The Minnesota Star Tribune
The Trump administration is apprehending and designating immigrant kids as “unaccompanied,” even as their parents in the U.S. search for them.
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jlaudy.bsky.social @jlaudy.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Ted Bundy worked for a suicide hotline. -interesting thing I learned from a pulp fiction novel that is actually true. Reading is good
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jlaudy.bsky.social @jlaudy.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
The freaks have starting posting videos of my kid’s school as they had an anti ice walkout saying that the school is facing being defunded. Not only is that not true, but I am proud of my daughter for being one of the protesters. The kids mights just be alright.
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jlaudy.bsky.social @jlaudy.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I occasionally think about Gorbachev. Not only was he wildly drunk and managed to not set off the events that would kill us all, but then he did Pizza Hut commercials and won the game of capitalism. Way to go Gorby. Way to go.
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jlaudy.bsky.social @jlaudy.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
It might be out of the norm that my partner and I have been together more than 20 years and have a 15 year old daughter and are not married. But I guess at least she’ll still be able to vote? We live in the dumbest timeline.
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jlaudy.bsky.social @jlaudy.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Today I learned that a megadeath is actually a unit of measurement. And watching kid rock lip sync so badly was much funnier than I imagined it would be. These two things are not related at all.
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jlaudy.bsky.social @jlaudy.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Just a word of caution. I’ve learned that you cannot freeze potatoes. Do not leave them out in sub zero conditions. You will be sad.
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jenna ruddock @ruddock.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
From Georgia‘s Facebook account — Bluesky is only allowing me to upload a short clip.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I really urge you to not just shake your head at the headline of this but to read each word, to imagine each step these kids took, to sit with the terrible dilemma of the mother, to imagine the principal driving toward Whipple.
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jlaudy.bsky.social @jlaudy.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
As a lifelong horror and gore fan I decided long ago not to seek out or watch real videos of death. It seemed like a line I did not want to cross. Now those same videos are becoming inescapable.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I am trying not to post on these events in this state of mind but: I hope people understand what the observers are doing is brave and dangerous.
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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
I went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
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Opinion | In Minneapolis, I Glimpsed a Civil War
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Kind of wild there has been almost no coverage of the fact that the federal government unleashed chemical weapons against literal kids *at school*. workdaymagazine.org/minneapolis-...
Only a few hours after ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot and killed Minneapolis resident and mother Renee Good on January 7, federal immigration enforcement agents descended onto Roosevelt High School property during school dismissal as students were exiting the building. MFE members say that ICE agents tackled and detained a school staff member and union member who was working at the time. The MFE member was since released, according to a union spokesperson. The agents also deployed a chemical irritant against students and staff on school grounds, MFE says. A school official, speaking to MPR News on condition of anonymity, said many students sheltered in a nearby library.
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
On paper, America remains a democracy. Democracies have several mechanisms, official and otherwise, through which citizens can effect change Every single one of these mechanisms depend on truth to function, which means that none of them are working anymore What now?
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The Law of the Gun
Minneapolis, Portland, and The Things That Come Next
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Clumsy Ninja 📚 @clumsyninja.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Another example from today ictnews.org/news/i-felt-...
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‘I felt like I was kidnapped’: Ojibwe man recounts ICE detainment - ICT
At least five Native American men have been detained by ICE around Minneapolis following significant immigration raids
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jlaudy.bsky.social @jlaudy.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
The wagons are circled. A woman is dead. Her child is left without a biological parent. Her car stuffed with toys and blood. And they are cheering folks. They are saying she got what she deserved. It’s being screamed by a thousand voices. The boot is on our necks. It has happened here.
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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
"Renee was one of the kindest people I’ve ever known,” her mother said. “She was extremely compassionate. She’s taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an amazing human being.” www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...
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‘She was an amazing human being:’ Mother identifies woman shot, killed by ICE agent
Renee Nicole Good, 37, lived in the Twin Cities with her partner.
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jlaudy.bsky.social @jlaudy.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Just finished “Book and Dagger” by Elyse Graham. It might be a bit heavy handed but the lesson it tries to convey is pertinent. Nerds can save the world. Nerds can fight. And in this age of intellectual devastation maybe nerds can help us survive.
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jlaudy.bsky.social @jlaudy.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
We are there. I’m not stopping it. No one is stopping it. Our leaders are useless children. Now to try and figure out how to even keep food and roof for the next thirty days as a freelancer in a dying industry. Times are really really bad.
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jlaudy.bsky.social @jlaudy.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
I am not a New Yorker. I once dreamed of going to the big city to live but in reality that is not who I am. But I love the city. So I watched Mamdani’s inauguration speech. I don’t have a lot of hope. I’m a child of the 90’s. But goddamn is he good at this politics thing. I hope he’s real.
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