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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
As a guy that makes his living being a cog in the wheel of making movies I can absolutely tell everyone - the people making the decisions at the top are not our best and brightest.
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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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jlaudy.bsky.social @jlaudy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Closest thing to royalty the U.S. had after Mr Rogers. By all account a truly fucking good human.
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jlaudy.bsky.social @jlaudy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I work in entertainment very close to Dollywood. Never got to meet her myself but I know dozens of folks that did and they all to a person said she was a wonderful person. She grabbed a good friend of mine on the ass accidentally. He said she smelled of rainbows and marmalade.
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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
Ok. But the wrap up was gold. Pure gold. Laughing out loud alone in my kitchen. Kind of worth it really
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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 · 06/08/2026
I was the best boy electric on this movie. Just sayin.
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jlaudy.bsky.social @jlaudy.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I’m working in a distant suburb of DC and almost took the train in to see all this for myself…. I kind of wish I had. But your piece is a great consolation prize!
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jlaudy.bsky.social @jlaudy.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Thanks for posting the account! I love that instrument (baglama saz). Not one you catch folks playing super often.
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jlaudy.bsky.social @jlaudy.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
As a man of a certain age I feel relatively qualified to say “yes, absolutely.” What a fucking horror show
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jlaudy.bsky.social @jlaudy.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Damn. As an old Luddite that will be forever beyond me. But thank you!
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jlaudy.bsky.social @jlaudy.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Though the cats are cool too. My cats don’t seem to care when I’m messing around with it.
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jlaudy.bsky.social @jlaudy.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
lol. The instrument is a baglama saz. Turkish version of a lute. Personally I like it for the thought of adding melody to psych kind of doom metal with no vocals…. That doesn’t exist. I’m not good enough to make it exist. But I’d love hear it.
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jlaudy.bsky.social @jlaudy.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Anybody know who this is? I’ve dabbled in the baglama saz for years. She’s better at it than me.
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jlaudy.bsky.social @jlaudy.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
This one got me. Maybe cause it sits so close to home!
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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
Back where they came from! It’s a dark fucking world right now. But the fucking turtles grew up. And they get to go home. And it’s the best thing I’ve heard or been a part of in a really long time.
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jlaudy.bsky.social @jlaudy.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
So I brought the 2 survivors into the house. But I didn’t know what to do with them so I called the local wildlife refuge. They took the turtles. 2 years went by. Suddenly I get a call. It’s from the wildlife refuge saying the baby turtles is now big turtles and can I please release them…
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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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jlaudy.bsky.social @jlaudy.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Just a rando chiming in to say this place is awesome! My hobby when traveling for work is going to all of an area’s used book stores. This is the town with the cool walking bridge right?
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jlaudy.bsky.social @jlaudy.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Background are a different story. We do talk shit that I’m not proud of. But we also know most of them are just people making minimum or less wage to get yelled at by the ad department and truly get treated as meat. We have a cynical solidarity there
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jlaudy.bsky.social @jlaudy.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Sadly in the movie business we’ve already taken this one for actors. Specially ones who are a huge pain the ass, get paid exponentially more than us, and whom no one really cares about anyway even though they are being paid exponentially more than us (the general crew.)
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jlaudy.bsky.social @jlaudy.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
I could get behind slopslave
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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 · 21/05/2026
More people should know about this album. A relative by marriage was one of the audio engineers
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jlaudy.bsky.social @jlaudy.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I could stare into his eyes until the end of the universe. And I’m a middle aged cis man!
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jlaudy.bsky.social @jlaudy.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I was part of an entire film crew that got fired from a Boll set after the loose cannon producer showed up on set with a loaded gun. Sucked cause I was actually excited about doing a trash Boll movie.
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jlaudy.bsky.social @jlaudy.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Do you have any idea how expensive it is to be poor in the U.S.? How the debt cycle closes doors that cannot be opened again? How few living wage paying jobs exist in so many areas? Cost of living? Any of it?
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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 · 25/04/2026
A glorified interview with certified weirdo Mumpower. He used to eat at a restaurant I managed. He’s a sleazy nasally man with a grip like a wet fish. I cannot believe anyone would turn to him for therapy.
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jlaudy.bsky.social @jlaudy.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
I survived reading the 120 days of Sodom…. Which I am sure has been banned. And all I got was definitely not anything having to do with empathy. (Also everyone should read banned books, just not of the ones I’ve read.)
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jlaudy.bsky.social @jlaudy.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
It hasn’t rained in weeks. The woods in my area are littered with super dry fallen down pine trees left over from the blowdowns of Helene. One spark hitting wrong could burn down the entire area. I’m sure no one will read this but I would take any advice anyone has on how to deal with this.
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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
I was traveling for work when Helene happened but I left that job to come home as the news started to filter out. After checking on friends and family Firestorm was the first place I went because I knew people there would be able to put me to work for my community. It deserves our support.
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jlaudy.bsky.social @jlaudy.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
I haven’t looked at the list. But it is a real book store with tons of titles on the shelf. I travel for work but I’ll be stopping by next week in person to pick up a copy of Against the State by James Stout because I want to read it anyway. I’m confident they’ll have it in store.
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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 · 04/04/2026
I haven’t looked at social media much lately. But I’m so happy I did today just to read this ridiculous article
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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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