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Jody DiPerna @jodydiperna.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

They know it's going to blow up and they are trying to make money off the collapse, too. These mutherfuckers.

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Michael Mishak @mjmishak.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Online sportsbooks say they do not want business from problem gamblers. So @propublica.org's Jake Pearson spent 10 weeks on DraftKings testing how the company would react to someone displaying all the hallmarks of a compulsive bettor. Spoiler: It made him a VIP. www.propublica.org/article/draf...

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I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.

Amid growing public health concerns, operators like DraftKings have touted “responsible gaming” tools and prompts. But as I went off the deep end, I found they were no match for the incentives and pro...

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Jody DiPerna @jodydiperna.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In an administration full of dumb shit, this is one of the dumbest. You guys villify sick people and now you want to bitch about people who never filed a claim? Maybe because they're healthy and didn't go to the doctor? Shew. When I was young, I went years and years without seeing a doc.

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Jody DiPerna @jodydiperna.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

1/I have a theory about removing this book--separate from the blatant racism and misogyny. This book is always, *always* targeted. As is Dorothy Allison's brilliant "Bastard Out of Carolina." These books are not sexual. They are about violence perpetuated on girls, sexual violence against children.

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Jody DiPerna @jodydiperna.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This bears repeating all day every day.

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Jody DiPerna @jodydiperna.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's all fine. This is all fine and totally normal and this happens all the time with a functioning democracy.

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Jody DiPerna @jodydiperna.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Effort alone I loved. Some days I would have been hapy to push a pole around a threshing floor like an ox, for the pleasure of moving the heavy stone and watching my knees rise in turn." -- Annie Dillard, 'An American Childhood' Thank you for the wonder and effort and lighting the way.

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Jody DiPerna @jodydiperna.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Reporting in from Pittsburgh where we KNOW Bari Weiss. She’s a fraud and a grifter.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 15/09/2026

WARREN: You and Kennedy are keeping these pharma deals secret. The companies say they are immaterial. You still want the American people to believe they are a great deal? KLOMP: Billions of dollars have been saved in out-of-pocket transactions— WARREN: Then show me the receipts.

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Jody DiPerna @jodydiperna.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Completely accurate and true. The only good AI is dead AI

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Jody DiPerna @jodydiperna.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Just added this to my email signature. "This email may contain typos because it was written by a human and is not AI Slop." Too much? I don't think so.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Here's an anecdote: On 9/10/2001, The Onion staff had a New York launch party at the Bowery Ballroom to celebrate the staff's move from Madison, Wisconsin to New York City. They woke up hungover, took a week off, and then produced one of the greatest front pages in the history of newspapers.

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Jody DiPerna @jodydiperna.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

And breathe. There is still some magic in the world. It is a beautiful planet. We really should try to save it.

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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Happy Labor Day weekend! There’s power in a union, & solidarity in my 292nd #ScholarSunday thread of public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, please share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ +

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#ScholarSunday Thread 292 (9/6/26) – Black and White and Read All Over

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Jody DiPerna @jodydiperna.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I think he stole one of Marv Alberts toupees

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Jody DiPerna @jodydiperna.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Every day I wake up and the wrong person is dead. Rest in Power, Gloria. Thanks for everything.

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The federal law that makes this illegal basically says “it’s illegal” and nothing else. Congress should amend it to say that any U.S. currency featuring living people isn’t legal tender.

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Jody DiPerna @jodydiperna.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Mitch McConnell's been dead for two and a half months and the mainstream media is just like, what? Ignoring that? Get your shit together. #DeadMitch #DeadManServingInTheSenate

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Jody DiPerna @jodydiperna.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Who me? Just went for a run and near the end, while I was listening to Clear Blue Morning, a butterfly flew alongside me for a second and I burst into tears. On the jogging path. Like an idiot. More thoughts on #Dolly. pghrev.com/dolly-parton...

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Dolly Parton of Appalachia - Pittsburgh Review of Books

What is there left to say about Dolly Parton? About her stupendous talent. About her remarkable philanthropy that should put all of the billionaires and

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Jody DiPerna @jodydiperna.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Arrest this child for vandalism right this second

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Just a Dad 📎 @dadmakingcans.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

2022: Dolly Parton donates $1 million to fund pediatric infectious disease research 2025: Donald Trump cuts $12 million in grants for pediatric medical research

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

She was heaven itself.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"We love Dolly Parton’s music, but that’s not why we love her. We love her because she spent her entire life unconditionally loving us."

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She Who Never Needed a Crown

Dolly Parton, 1946 - 2026

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 25/08/2026

“Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.” Howard Zinn was born August 24, 1922 in Brooklyn

Howard Zinn sits in his office in front of a shelf full of books and a sign that says "Strike!"

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Jody DiPerna @jodydiperna.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

She’s horrible. But still worse than I thought

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Trump's covert surveillance of anti-ICE protesters is much worse than we thought. I dug into this and found that DHS agents secretly spied on over a dozen meetings of left-leaning groups, all protected by First Amendment. The details are unnerving. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2144...

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Trump’s Secret Police Spying on Americans? It’s Darker than We Knew.

Court papers reveal that the Department of Homeland Security’s covert surveillance of anti-ICE groups is much darker than it first appeared. Welcome to Donald Trump’s America.

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Jody DiPerna @jodydiperna.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

culling through newspaper archives for something and I think I found the solution to the "male loneliness epidemic" (from the Pittsburgh Press, September, 1969)

cartoon of a man standing outside of "snake-eye's pool hall," saying, "A pool hall is a place where lonely men gather for recreation and companionship!"

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

NEW: Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) used the following words to describe data center developers today; "Predators" "Bullies" "Secretive" Shapiro signed a new state exec order tightening restrictions on data centers, requiring they get local approvals & provide their own power

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Subpoenas ask for secrecy when there's a suspect who might get tipped off. This one demanded 17 million ordinary Americans' Social Security numbers — and asked that none of them ever find out. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/twenty-one...

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Twenty-One States Beat The Trump Regime Before Dinner

Plus: three more times somebody refused

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

These stories don’t happen without Ossoff lighting the spark. This is what I have been arguing for almost 20 years.

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Jody DiPerna @jodydiperna.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Today's reminder that it is a perfect day to put a full moratorium on building data centers. Go hug a dog. Or cat. Or donkey. #NoDataCenters

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Jody DiPerna @jodydiperna.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I made zucchini risotto for dinner last night and it was spectacular. Also, while we're here, fuck AI today, fuck AI tomorrow, fuck AI all of my goddamn days.

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Appalachian Learning Initiative @appli.org · 17/08/2026

#DidYouKnow Nearly 1 out of every 12 adults (8.2%) living in #Appalachian #Kentucky are living with #CoronaryHardDisease, compared to the state rate of 4.0% and the national rate of 4.4% Garrett has the highest, at 8.8%. Learn more: www.appli.org/maryland Maryland Department of Health

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Jody DiPerna @jodydiperna.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Just thinking about this line from Glenn Taylor's 'The Songs of Betty Baach' this morning: "I will never bend an ear to the authors of our misery." That's exactly how I feel about the techbros. The water below (near Boone NC) is more valuable than all of those jackasses.

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Jody DiPerna @jodydiperna.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Likewise, I am declaring all of outer Cape Cod as my own territory. Send your taxes checks to me at ...

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Jody DiPerna @jodydiperna.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

If yinz don't come out to Stay Gold Books, you will have the worst case of FOMO ever. 7:00. Be there.

Flyer for a reading at Stay Gold Books, 1104 Braddock Avenue, Pgh.
Dave Newman will read from his new book, "Dope and Vodka and Cigarettes, and Not Shaving her Legs" and Natalie Sypolt will read from her new book, "If Only the Rain Would Come." Jody DiPerna will emcee and run a Q & A afterwards.

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Mickey Kuhns @mickeykuhns.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/08/...

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Jody DiPerna @jodydiperna.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

🧵 In 2019, Matt Stroud released a book about technology in policing and unveiled the kinds of problems officials don't ever want to talk about. What I remembered most was just how dangerous tasers are--they are not necessarily safe or non-lethal. 1/

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Jody DiPerna @jodydiperna.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

These bullshit soft bois. Our crybaby is hiding in a catering cart, theirs is cowering on a train. Such alpha males. #Putin #MAGA

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Keri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

LA jails just reported their 25th death for the year today -- once again, a person in MCJ.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 12/08/2026

Joined CNBC's Squawk Box to talk about how 70% of AI revenues are coming from Anthropic and OpenAI, NVIDIA's vendor financing by proxy, and how outside of unprofitable AI labs, there's single-digit billions of dollars of demand for AI compute and software. youtu.be/8GWPjTDPVIM

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Ed Zitron on CNBC Squawk Box talking NVIDIA, unprofitable AI labs, and the Greater AI Bubble

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Jody DiPerna @jodydiperna.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Everytime the techbros yell at us to adopt AI or be left behind, I am reminded of Bobby Knight talking to Connie Chung in 1988, saying, "I think that if rape is inevitable, relax and enjoy it." #BanAI

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