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Young old dude. Retired, living in the woods on a lake. I will be fine but I'm watching with horror that people voted for a bomb throwing narcissist rapist traitor for president.

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Fighter-Lawyer Concept 🏳️‍⚧️ @fighterlawyer.bsky.social · 21h
You can't elect the most combative, un-American political movement imaginable and expect bipartisanship. www.pbs.org/video/one-on...
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PBS News Hour | Utah Gov. Spencer Cox on depolarizing a fractured nation | Season 2026
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox on his blueprint for depolarizing a fractured nation
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Jezebel @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The outcomes of a electric scooter that can go 50 mph hitting ... just about anything ... are not great, turns out www.jezebel.com/e-bikes-scoo...
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An E-Bike or Scooter Going 50 Mph Is a Truly Pointless Way to Die
The outcomes of a electric scooter that can go 50 mph hitting ... just about anything ... are not great, turns out.
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✨Cramer©️ @cramer-1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: pluralistic.net/2026/10/01/d...
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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period.
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
For my latest, I wrote about some of the modern addictions shaping American life, from social media to celebrity to sports betting. Read at @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/portraits-of...
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Portraits of an American Dopamine Eater
Our attention economy incentivizes the profane degradations of fame-seeking and celebrity culture.
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Now new and improved w 60% snark, 40% reasoned factual discourse @joeyblau.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Now do Karate Kid....
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For anyone interested in the story
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Russia - Ukraine war | Olga Bigar callsign "Witch" has a nasty surprise for aggressor
YouTube video by Aphex Gaming
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Is it too much to ask of Ed Flynn and Erin Murphy that they file things on time? www.universalhub.com/2026/council...
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Councilors unanimously approve emergency resolution to support burned-out Nubian Square businesses, then descend into a cauldron of castigation over emergency motions in general
The Boston City Council today unanimously supported an emergency resolution to urge city departments to do everything they can to help the businesses burned out by Monday's six-alarm fire in the Ediso...
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Double Sided Media @doublesidedmedia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW from DSM: Today we come to you with the absurd news that the Eugene Police Department wants us to pay more than $2.6 million for two records requests. Our editorial ⤵
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EDITORIAL: The Eugene Police Wants DSM To Pay $2.6 Million for Records
Yes. You, dear reader, read the headline correctly. The Eugene Police Department has invoiced Double Sided Media for more than $2.6 million to fulfill two public records requests.  The grand t…
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 01/10/2026
Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social I almost forgot that it’s cow parade season
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An absolute banger of a thread on the historiography of the Russo Japanese war.
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Julian Go @juliango.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Latest news: 2 of my sociology colleagues, John Levi Martin & Geoff Wodtke & I each wrote separate reviews of the Vanderbilt-Wash U Report on Sociology by A. Rubin. For my brief opinion and links to all 3 reviews, see this blogpost: scatter.wordpress.com/2026/09/19/g...
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guest post: scholarly malpractice and the vanderbilt-washington university report on sociology
The following is a guest post by Julian Go. By now readers of scatterplot will be aware of the Sociology portion of the Vanderbilt-Washington University Report (VWUR) by Ashley Rubin. Part of the “…
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Kayla Calkin @kaylacalkin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"This could open up nearly 45 million acres of our public lands to road-building, logging, mining and development." dailymontanan.com/2026/09/23/w...
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Why roadless areas matter for wilderness preservation • Daily Montanan
Roadless rules are there to protect wilderness areas and to keep them truly wild, for animals and humans, says columnist Suzanne Cable.
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LHCb Experiment @lhcb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Discovery of an unexpectedly light and narrow beauty-strange state - It exhibits a narrow natural width and a substantial mass deficit compared to the conventional quark model predictions. This result marks the first observation of a nonconventional single-beauty hadron. arxiv.org/abs/2609.25178
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Bart van Zwieten @bvzw.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Mayan jade necklace associated with the Divine Lord of Calakmul, which was ultimately deposited as an offering within the central staircase of El Castillo at Chichén Itzá, Yucatan. Viewed from the back, where the inscription is located.
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Now new and improved w 60% snark, 40% reasoned factual discourse @joeyblau.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Since Hegseth took the reins at the Pentagon, eighty generals and admirals have been fired or blocked from promotion.
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Patrick Koppenburg 🐧 @koppenburg.ch · 21/09/2026
But what about the baryon with three charm quarks? Quantum mechanics forces it to have spin 3/2, and thus it is in another multiplet. The Ωccc⁺⁺ is probably already there in the data, but too rare to be seen. We will likely need the second upgrade of the LHCb detector to see it. /end
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
1/x In the 1840s, a lame American naval officer, grounded at a desk in Washington, cut weeks off the world's ocean voyages without inventing a single machine. His raw material: a warehouse of logbooks nobody had ever read. Matthew Fontaine Maury, Pathfinder of the Seas. A 🧵 #maritimehistory
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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A behavioural biologist and shark drone expert has criticised the WA government's response to the state's most recent fatal shark attack, saying the chances of finding the shark responsible for the 63-year-old's death are slim to none.
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'Needle in haystack': expert says little chance of finding shark that killed Greg O'Neill
A behavioural biologist and shark drone expert has criticised the WA government's response to the state's most recent fatal shark attack, saying the chances of finding the shark responsible for the 63-year-old's death are slim to none.
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Jerkica @jerricaharding.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Dr. Bourbonstein Ph. D @drbourbonstein.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The "how much do you like dogs" chart we all needed.
A graph of Noem and Kash
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
1/x On a misty Sunday morning in 1942, in the empty middle of the South Atlantic, a cargo ship sailing empty met a German warship. The warship ordered her to stop. She attacked instead. Both ships died that morning. This is the SS Stephen Hopkins, and the duel of 27 September. #maritimehistory
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The biggest stretch I think I’ve ever heard in my life, is “Mitch McConnell RETURNED to the Senate.”
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This only came to light because we noticed an obscure campaign finance filing for a $5000 licensing fee paid by the anonymous, Wyoming-based LLC to the Marx campaign. The campaign's filing identified Marx as the LLC's owner. He's denied all involvement.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Every other headline now is "Huge liar who's financially motivated to lie says"
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Roger ZenAF 🖕🐸🖕 @rogerzenaf.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Every time I see a video of this sack of shit I now watch his primary SS detail, agent sniffer there to the left, to see the exact moment trump shits himself again... I'd love to play poker with that guy.👍
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Michelangelo Signorile @msignorile.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The Catholic League and the extremist wing are going bananas over this www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/mamdani-wi...
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Invited by Pope Leo XIV’s New Archbishop, Mamdani Will Attend 9/11 Memorial Mass
Three sources say the mayor will join Archbishop Hicks at St. Patrick’s Thursday and stay for the reception. The Catholic League boss who wants him gone made $671,000 last year writing press releases.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
So tired of these assholes. They do whatever they want. They don’t care. They’re not satisfied with a 6-2map. They want to erase every Democrat in the state. They want to erase every black voice in the state. It’s not democracy. It’s red state tyranny.
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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
97¢ is a good price, but I’m not sure how much is left on the roll at home.
Invisible tape on a peg for 97 cents on a peg in a store. The roll of tape is missing from the backing card.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
what is absolutely baffling is the idea that the far right's persecution of its enemies and intent to end democracy is contingent on anything the rest of the public does
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Brilliant Maps @brilliantmaps.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Colonial Africa On The Eve of World War I brilliantmaps.com/africa-1914/
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ineptitudinous.bsky.social @ineptitudinous.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
In the discipline of rhetoric, the concept is called kairos: the timely or opportune moment for persuasion. In ancient Greece, Kairos was personified by a god with a long forelock (which could be grasped as he approached you) but the back of his head was bald (act too late and he can't be seized).
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@bartgonnissen.bsky.social icymi
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Trump said he’s building these things because, well, no one is going to build a monument to him after he’s gone. He’s 💯 right. We’ll be spending years tearing down and undoing as much of what he did as possible.
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Brilliant Maps @brilliantmaps.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Los Atlantis: What Los Angeles Would Look Like If All The Ice Caps Melted brilliantmaps.com/los-angel...
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
10 House Dems voted the other day with Republicans for a bill that would effectively kill off the North American right whale: Costa Cuellar Davis (NC) Golden Gonzalez Goodlander Gray Pappas Perez Pingree
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
In a situation of hard job scarcity, as an aside, this is one of the key problems with academic hiring: it generally works as a series of veto points with many stakeholders but no singular decision-maker. So *anyone* in the process having bad vibes kills you, but no ones good vibes can save you.
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@bartgonnissen.bsky.social you're commenting on this right?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
From @charlesuffelman.bsky.social — “Clarksville made some history last night… we swore in a new county commission. First Democratic majority ever. A historic amount of women & Black candidates. The joy was unmatched.”
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Roger ZenAF 🖕🐸🖕 @rogerzenaf.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This mentions House whip, Rep. Katherine Clark (Mass.), and mentions that Hakeem Jeffries was "stunned", just in case anyone needed more proof that he should not be majority leader when we take back the House. Being blindsided by your own caucus's votes is not acceptable. thehill.com/homenews/hou...
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Democrats blindside leaders with move to bail out Johnson
House Democratic leaders were blindsided Tuesday when two rank-and-file members crossed the aisle to help Republicans advance a series of GOP messaging bills heading into the midterm elections. Rep…
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jorgepullin.bsky.social @jorgepullin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The Y arm valves were opened and LIGO Livingston enters the commissioning phase for the next observing run. I couldn't find a picture of the Y arm valves, so here's a picture of me inside the Y-end 😀
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Tuta @tuta.com · 31/08/2026
2. The Hidden Switch Turning off the first setting isn't enough. Most people stop there. On the same settings page: Google Workspace smart features → Manage Workspace smart feature settings → Turn off both checkboxes → Save. Both settings need to be turned off.
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
1/20 In 1990, Sean Connery took a Soviet submarine across the Atlantic in total silence. No propeller. A "caterpillar drive" that made Red October invisible to sonar. Two years later, Japan launched a real ship with no propeller at all. A small 🧵https://youtu.be/NSiAsQMBSRA
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industrialsmoot.bsky.social @industrialsmoot.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
You know it's a New York whale because it folded its fish in half before eating it.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
People are falling for the DSA vs Establishment trap again. Didn’t we learn our lesson in 2016 and 2024? It’s the establishment’s job to build a coalition that can win EVERYWHERE. In some places, that means ultra-progressive. In others, it means establishment. The tent is big enough for all of us.
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Alexander Fox @alexanderfox1.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
More breaking news from 800 AD.
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Your Ad Here [10 chars] @cooluser354.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
there's something extra humiliating that these freaks running the country are such massive losers
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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The full text of Hasan Piker's statements, denounced by ppl from Hakeem Jeffries to Ben Shapiro. I am not sure the best way to respond to a moral panic, launched to stop progressive candidates & derail nec conversations re Israel's crimes, other than to call BS: there is nothing anti-Jewish here.
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