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Joel Truher

@joeltruher.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy
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Retired SF Bay resident. 🌉 bridged from sfba.social/@joeltruher on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 18/10/2026
God. Damn. This was an amazing reply. He didn’t back down, explicitly called out the Islamophobia of the “just asking questions,” and then flipped the guy’s bigotry back on himself. This may not change hearts and minds, but feel like it’s an answer that’ll motivate his own base.
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 17/10/2026
LOVE THIS!! 😎❤️✨
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
FLASHBACK: “Was the civil war fought over slavery?” REP. MIKE SPARKS (R): “I haven’t really studied it… we all need to study our history…🤔” (He backed keeping the KKK Grand Wizard bust in our capitol… up for re-election again in Rutherford County😬)
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Given the competition, it’s pretty impressive that Trump has somehow managed to hire his worst ever press secretary. Katie Zacharia is a fake lawyer, can barely read aloud, and has zero personality at the podium. The bar is so low it’s in hell.
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Jonathan Kamens 86 47 @jik.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026
For what it's worth, #JerrySeinfeld has always been a huge asshole. I was never able to watch "Seinfeld" because as the creator and star of the show, Jerry's character came through loud and clear. Who wants to watch a show about a bunch of assholes being assholes? I mean, I guess apparently a […]
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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026
My younger kid has realized that school is at least in part, a prison where kids are kept so parents can be farmed by capitalists, and that the grading, testing, major, and degree system serves to normalize and perpetuate hierarchies of importance among people. Also that many people have no […]
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👁Pooka🫣Boo🫵 @lednabm.stranger.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
🤣👇😂👇😉
Trump is a Russian Asset
Prove me wrong
Zelensky
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GhostOnTheHalfShell @ghostonthehalfshell.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
I think this wins the Internet today. At least it should if the Russian bot networks are still out of commission
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Jess👾 @jesstheunstill.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
[Uspol globalpol] A depressing thing is even if every elected and appointed fascist in every government was kicked out of office and locked up, there's still some 40% of people who would gladly and eagerly vote for even more fascists.
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Stuart Wilkinson @fairtradestu.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
The second anniversary of this post is coming up, and surprise surprise these little "end of life" laptops are continuing to run well with #linux and do what we need then to, which includes spending less on tech so we can buy more actual books for the school […] [Original post on mastodonapp.uk]
A mastodon post from October  2024 showing a photo 8 laptops running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and libre office, the post explains the school has added Ubuntu to some old windows 10 devices that their IT support told them were end of life.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Mayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social : “ABOLISH ICE”
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
Planning out my teaching schedule for 2 years in the future and thinking fondly of the not-very-distant-past when Chegg was the biggest problem I had to deal with to make sure students were actually trying to learn my course material. Fuck LLMs.
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Scott Miller 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 @scottmiller42.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
I pointed out how most of the new unit tests were just running code internal to the test and then passing, and thus weren’t actually testing anything at all. They said they’d just remove those tests then. I said “Ok but for this entire code module, you’ll be left with one test and it hardly […]
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Jonathan Kamens 86 47 @jik.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
I want to share with you the gist of a mind-blowing conversation I had with my doctor today at my annual physical. She asked about my mood, which led to a conversation about how AI is ruining everything, which prompted her to mention that she doesn’t use the AI transcription app that her […]
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Joel Truher @joeltruher.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
"Earthquake weather."
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Again: The problem the fearmongerers have is @NYCMayor @ZohranKMamdani exists. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/o...
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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom For the umpteenth time: Quit trying to analyze Trump. Quit trying to figure out why he says and does the things he says and does. I'm so fucking sick of listening to some panel on CNN try to discuss his latest bizarre pronouncement like he's […] [Original post on c.im]
A tweet by Joe Walsh criticizing Donald Trump, expressing frustration over attempts to analyze his behavior and labeling him as a sociopath and a Russian asset. The message emphasizes Walsh's disdain for Trump's character and actions.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 28/09/2026
"If those putting forth this legislation actually listened to the needs and concerns of women in sports, they would outline clear steps to protect women and girls from the rampant sexual assault and harassment plaguing sports." -@beckysauerbrunn.bsky.social, USWNT captain, Feb. 2023 #woso #uswnt
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Becky Sauerbrunn: Let Missouri trans girls and women play
Those claiming to be concerned about women's sports should focus on real issues like unequal pay, Missouri Olympian Becky Sauerbrunn writes.
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Anumita Jain @ajsportstat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Check out the goals and saves from #NWSL week 23 with the highest PSxG-xG here! #GothamFC forward Jaedyn Shaw and #URFC goalkeeper Mandy McGlynn top their respective categories. Who else stood out this weekend? www.allforxi.com/18196/nwsl-m...
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NWSL Matchweek 23: Top goals and saves
Gotham FC’s Jaedyn Shaw and Utah Royals’ Mandy McGlynn top their respective categories, but who else stood out this weekend?
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We're going to be getting competing rulings on Missouri's congressional midterm map until approximately 2039. It's likely the Supreme Court will just end this, but it's an own-goal for Missouri's lawmakers, writes @gurleygg.bsky.social. prospect.org/2026/09/25/a...
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After Missouri, Mid-Decade Redistricting May Die a Natural Death - The American Prospect
Republican gerrymandering in the state might be too shameless even for the Supreme Court.
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
7/ I'm seeing others jump on this bandwagon too. I'd still love to hear from Denmark.
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Robert Kingett @weirdwriter.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
Went to the ER recently because my country is so garbage that's the only way I'm gonna be seen, medically, by someone, and The thing that pissed me off the most wasn't the EMTs assuming/joking I was fat because *sigh* I'm not, but the fact this woman kept insisting I must have Munchausen […]
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Aww, poor thugs, defecators, seditionists, cult members, and violent insurrectionists were "mistreated"!
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"Fine and dandy" That's some statesmanlike description of a nowhere-close-to-reality, self-inflicted global crisis outcome, Trump.
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aburtch @aburtch.shakedown.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
“Rules for thee, but not for me.” North Carolina company fined half a mil for dumping forever chemicals into the Cape Fear River goes “oops, we’re broke, can’t pay” and gets away with it. No jail time, no repercussions. Do you need any more proof we live in […] [Original post on shakedown.social]
Photo of the News and Observer article describing the events in the post. (Too long, type too small to alt text.)
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Bruce Mirken @brucemirken.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026
Anti- #trans activists invade a women's #sports bar. www.them.us/culture/the-sports-bra-…
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Anti-Trans Activists Went to Women’s Sports Events in Portland. They Were Shown the Door
​The Sports Bra, a women’s sports bar, asked them to leave the premises.
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Brandon - "Fietser" @americanfietser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Exhibit A:
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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026
The no of gambling ads around is.. pretty stunning. If it’s not sports gambling, it’s kalshi. Kalshi has a trademark: ‘trade what’s next’. How awful
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
From me: Medicare for All without ending the corporate consolidation of health care providers will just funnel cash to middlemen and extractors and private equity. A new paper explains just how concentrated Big Medicine is and what it will take to break them up. prospect.org/2026/08/27/h...
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Health Care Reform Needs More Than Universal Coverage - The American Prospect
Medicare for All without tackling the extreme consolidation in health care would just funnel money to corporate behemoths, a new report states.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Today is also the six month anniversary of my father’s death. While I was fighting the Washington Post, I was deep in grief. I hate that I can’t call him to tell him the news that I got my job back. But Daddy, wherever you are, I did it. I stood up for myself like you told me to do. 😭
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Mx. Aria Stewart @aredridel.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026
RE: mastodon.online/@BrentToderian/1171… This. Most of your microplastics exposure? Car tires. Most of the PM2.5 outside fire season? Car exhaust and tires. Most of the things that will cause lung damage other than smoking? Car exhaust and tires.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 13/08/2026
I have reanalyzed polling microdata from two surveys in Wisconsin, generously shared with me by State Navigate, and put the results up Strength In Numbers for all to learn from. As far as I know this is the only public autopsy from Tuesday's miss www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-08-13...
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I re-analyzed the raw data from Wisconsin's primary polls. Here's what actually went wrong.
What raw data from Wisconsin's Democratic primary reveals about demographic weighting, late movement, and who answers polls
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Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk · 09/08/2026
The Question About Transgender Youth That Adults Struggle to Answer
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The Question About Transgender Youth That Adults Struggle to Answer
A transgender teen, relentlessly bullied for her gender expression, asked me tearfully whom she was harming. I've yet to hear an adult answer it well.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
There is a certain type of bad guy whose main contribution is sowing confusion between good and bad by failing to understand things that are easily understood.
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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
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GAO Releases Scathing Report On 'Incorrect' Savings From Elon Musk's DOGE
The report found the agency did not share its methodology on how the purported savings were calculated, calling into question its accuracy.
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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026
This is a blog run by a Japanese man living in America 1/2
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
It’s a direct attack on rule of law from the highest levels, aimed at permanently ending US Constitutional democracy and imposing a dictatorship. Always has been. Anyone who tries treating it as something else—as if they’re dealing with mistaken impressions rather than lies—gets egg on their face.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The Republican Party has gone full mask-off Nazi; meanwhile the media narrative being pushed 24/7 is “ahhh! Democrats are being taken over by socialist radicals!!” and their terrifying examples are Miss Rachel, a doctor who wants you to have healthcare, and the friendliest mayor in American history.
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Joel Truher @joeltruher.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026
Destin on capitalism www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS6HEes8daw
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I'm very glad Hopkins Street is going to get its bike lane. It should not have taken anywhere near this long or gotten this vicious. Anyway, here's a piece I wrote three years back about how this fight helped precipitate my decision to move out of Berkeley. usa.streetsblog.org/2023/05/18/e...
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Essay: Why Even The Most Progressive Cities Are Failing Their Car-Free Residents — Streetsblog USA
As traffic violence has climbed over the past few years, a number of ostensibly progressive, climate-friendly cities have demonstrated that they are uninterested in taking even modest steps to support...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Should be a bigger story— “Alexandra Bravo, prosecutor investigating 🇺🇸 strikes on 3 Ecuadorian boats and survivor accounts of torture/kidnapping, shot dead… hitman on a black motorcycle opened fire… Bravo’s sister jumped to protect her, also killed…” www.dropsitenews.com/p/prosecutor...
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
“Everyone thought it would create gridlock.” It didn’t. “It’s difficult to imagine that just over 20 years ago, this was an elevated highway carrying 168k cars daily through South Korea’s capital.” Now it’s a world famous people-place. They’ve since removed 16 more elevated highways in the city.
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‘Everyone thought it would cause gridlock’: the highway that Seoul turned into a stream
Cheonggyecheon stream in the South Korean capital has become an attraction – and helps with flood management, fighting air pollution and cooling the city
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
They HAVE to realize how embarrassing and stupid they sound. Right?
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Obsidian Urbex Photography @obsidianurbex.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026
🍊🏛️An abandoned orangery and cloister in the south of France. Part of the estate of a Parisian poet, who moved here to find new inspiration for his poetry! #France #Architecture #Photography #Travel #History #Poetry #Abandoned #Ruins
An abandoned Gothic cloister features intricate arches and columns opening to an overgrown garden. Exposed wooden beams form the ceiling, with sunlight casting shadows.An abandoned orangery with classical columns and a glass roof shows decay.An overgrown, abandoned cloister garden features arched walkways surrounding a central green spaceA symmetrical view inside an abandoned cloister with archways and pillars surrounding an overgrown central garden.
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aburtch @aburtch.shakedown.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026
“Once fascists win power democratically, they have never been removed democratically. Not once. Ever.” I really hate that it will come to this, but we aren't going to be able to vote ourselves out of our current corporate-oligarchy-fascist situation. Those in power will use the violence of the […]
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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026
Having an in person international or national event in America? Are you weighing factors like lodging and transport? Cool stuff to do? Here’s a map to consider if any of your attendees may possibly, even remotely be LGBTQIA. And you care about them.
Source: Movement Advancement Project (MAP) LGBTQ Equality Maps

See original source of US LGBTQIA safety study for tabular data by state.
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🎄🎅🏻🎄Jolly Kringle 🎄🎅🏻🎄 @jonathankoren.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026
Did not expect William Shatner to form a heavy #metal band. www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/willi…
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