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John Marc

@johnmarc.bsky.social
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Somerville, MA politics, urabanisim, art and tech. Roboticist at RAI.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 21h
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US Archbishop Coakley: Livestreaming execution promotes a ‘culture of death’ - Vatican News
Archbishop Paul Coakley, President of the US Bishops’ Conference, expresses shock over the planned livestreamed execution of Nidal Hassan, warning ...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
El-Sayed: "I was a junior in HS on 9/11, sitting in my chemistry class. I watched as people started to point to people of my faith & say exactly the kinds of things that Rogers was saying. If that's his entire campaign strategy, you have to imagine how small minded he thinks Michiganders are."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
SUSAN COLLINS: I was successful in getting road salt removed from the Canada tariff list TROY JACKSON: What about everything else? We can't eat road salt
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kat excellence ✨ @katexcellence.io · 31/08/2026
this was difficult to read, but it's important to know people are currently in prison for 50+ years for attending a protest + one wasn't even at the protest, but got sentenced for 30 years for "concealing" anarchist zines
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How anti-ICE protesters became prisoners in Trump's war on antifa
“We are not terrorists.”
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Btw, as @annielowrey.bsky.social chronicles in her latest book, this “time tax” is particularly onerous for low income folks and benefit recipients.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 30/09/2026
this guy just fucking sucks, man
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John Marc @johnmarc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What if we did the same thing to O'Brien's daughter but she actually ages and goes feral? What if O'Brien's wife was a Pah-Wraith? What if a leprechaun showed up and fucked with O'Brien?
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John Marc @johnmarc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is beautifully written.
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John Marc @johnmarc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
As previously stated I always bring an iced coffee to an interview, but I'd be embarrassed to bring that example from the WSJ.
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John Marc @johnmarc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Greedy real estate developer whose takes are exclusively DSA platform.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
to people who are concerned that this suggests that 'Kavanaugh is not smart,' as opposed to 'Kavanaugh is evil,' I want you to rest assured that these things are not in opposition he is both evil and a dumbass
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John Marc @johnmarc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Guy who got a DUI manslaughter conviction and was doing his court ordered community service. Insisted over and over again how he had only crossed the double yellow line by 18" and if he hadn't been drunk he'd have faced no consequences.
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John Marc @johnmarc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Collins needs to step down.
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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Also, I think many people have a completely screwed up idea of what intelligence is, which, when combined with the fact that AI is supposed to have enormous intelligence, creates … problems. Consider how many people, when thinking about animals, confuse intelligence with tractability.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
🎯🎯
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Gav @antihippy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I've never forgotten the episode about fax maxhines... youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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The Secret Life Of Machines Complete Series - YouTube
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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Never would have occurred to me without this, but Hot Fuzz and The Wicker Man (1970s) would make a lovely little revival house double feature.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I don’t usually meddle on the writing side of Jeopardy!, but tonight I called in a favor for our Bluesky viewers.
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Stephanie 🍉 @ageofoddish.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
mmygod
the slut gnomes of false berlin jeopardy bluesky posttoday's jeopardy categories. the last 2 are "false berlin" and "bizarre little men"
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
They hate the Bill of Rights because freedom is a threat to people in government who want to hide the truth about what they are doing from the American people. So they behave like tyrants because that is what they are. Vote this party out of power.
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John Marc @johnmarc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I have never attended a job interview without an iced coffee.
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"Off The Hook" hacker radio show @offthehookradio.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Off The Hook" is on tonight at 7 pm EDT on WBAI 99.5 FM in New York City and on wbai.org online! "Overtime" follows at 8 pm EDT at www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fgr...
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WBAI Radio 99.5FM NYC
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Ayanna Pressley @ayannapressley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
More people are out of work now than they were before Trump took office in 2025. And families are being crushed by rising costs due to Trump's reckless tariffs, illegal Iran war, and irresponsible fiscal policies. Secretary Scott Bessent has no one to blame but himself & Donald Trump.
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jonlink @jonlink.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Four Somerville households lost their homes in Tuesday's fire on Dartmouth Street. Everyone is safe, but they're starting over with nothing. Clothes, medicine, groceries, a place to sleep. Give what you can to the Homeless Coalition's Emergency Fund: secure.qgiv.com/for/emerfun
https://bit.ly/shcfund
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John Marc @johnmarc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The funniest possible target of this right now would be Bob Kraft.
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👻 David Weiskopf believes in spooks 👻 @dave.bzky.team · 14/09/2026
A statistic that haunts me because it is 100% true and shocking and useless in advocacy precisely because it is true and shocking: Policy that enables a 1-car lifestyle rather than 2 is equivalent to giving a family a $25,000 annual pay raise.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
the modern republican party is a white supremacist, nazi-aligned organization. full stop.
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John Marc @johnmarc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
What your body actually does is ejaculate in your sleep.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
We need at some point to talk about American Evangelicalism as a heretical movement. We should not indulge the delusion of a bunch or nuts who cherry-pick the Bible to rationalize otherwise indefensible 21st century bigotries that they are representatives of a global faith.
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
NEW: The Department of Homeland Security has subpoenaed REI (yes, the outdoor retailer) for details on anyone who bought a specific green beanie in the Minneapolis area. It's one part of a larger, and very disturbing, effort to go after people protesting ICE:
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ICE Wants to Know Everyone Who Bought a Certain Green Beanie From REI in the Last 2 Years
Homeland Security Investigations agents hit the outdoor retailer with a controversial subpoena as part of a dragnet search for the identities of protesters who entered a Minnesota church in March.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
HOLY SHIT DUDES fucking with the environment is now not just a sin (which Francis also said), it is classed as a direct fuck-you to God and a central tenet of the reasoning is the need to care for "our common home," i.e. you are morally obligated to think about the other people who also live here
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Vatican theological commission defines ‘sin against creation and the Creator’ in new document
The more than 29,000 word text calls for ecological conversion due to “sin against creation and the Creator.”
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Uh what? www.newsweek.com/allison-guer...
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Woman who exposed FBI official for working with Russian oligarch found dead
A judge praised Allison Guerriero for her "extraordinary contributions" to counterespionage ops on behalf of the United States.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This doesn't offer any details beyond saying he died in a cycling accident. Given the location I have to assume he was hit by a driver, but I haven't seen anything else about this crash reported.
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Assistant Professor Thomas Rose, an expert in archaeometallurgy, dies at 37
Assistant Professor Thomas Rose, an expert in ancient metallurgy, has died of injuries from a bicycle accident. He was 37.
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John Marc @johnmarc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Somerville +59.9
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John Marc @johnmarc.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
We are long overdue for some serious privacy law updates. It's clear SCOTUS will not use the 4th Amendment to protect us from this abuse on their own.
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VoteHub @votehub.com · 02/09/2026
Sen. Ed Markey has defeated Rep. Seth Moulton in the Massachusetts Democratic Senate primary. The 80-year-old progressive turns back a generational challenge from the younger, more moderate Moulton and remains on track for a third full term.
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“His father said he couldn’t play soccer as he had for years because of the weight of the tracker. Classmates bullied him and made cruel remarks. He begged federal immigration officers to remove the bracelet, his father said, but they refused.” Driving promising young US residents to suicide
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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 01/09/2026
The replies to this are poignant, man. Every one of these new web games is built with ai tools! All of ‘em. 100%. I promise. Also basically all the rest of software. Sorry to be the bearer of that news! I know it upsets people a lot!
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John Marc @johnmarc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The method they used was to take a tip from a partisan website, cancel student visas and then kidnap them off the street without ever having informed them their visas had been 'canceled.' Rubio should be impeached and removed for it.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 28/08/2026
A Trump official diverted firefighting resources to a fire on his private ranch. He got 9 aircraft for the 7-acre fire while the 90,000 acre Grasshopper fire in Oregon got about the same. These guys kneecapped wildfire prevention and now they’re diverting what few resources remain for personal gain.
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Trump official faces inquiry over claims he diverted wildfire resources to his own property
Exclusive: Michael Boren, a senior official overseeing the US Forest Service, is accused by Democratic senators of ‘inappropriate interference’
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 27/08/2026
"The idea that an organization that is an alternative host—for email, websites, and other services—could be designated a terrorist organization simply for providing a service that a lot of people want…is scary," EFF’s @jillian.bsky.social told @reason.com.
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Rubio uses terrorism law to ban secure email service
The State Department doesn’t accuse Autistici/Inventati of doing anything more than providing surveillance-free email accounts. But that’s enough to declare it a terrorist organization.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"the money, which was supposed to be used to provide health insurance for poor children, was instead hastily passed through multiple organizations before eventually landing in the bank accounts of two political action committees and the Republican Party of Florida." www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/g...
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Grand jury finds DeSantis administration "misappropriated" $10 million in taxpayer money to Hope Florida
A Florida grand jury found the DeSantis administration misappropriated $10 million in taxpayer money for political purposes.
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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
I can’t explain it but it came to me fully formed- Donald Trump and Tim Curry will die on the same day
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Michael F @michaelf617.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This guy has a chance to have a religion formed for him
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This is what the growth of surveillance is going to bring. Not safety from crime, but new, non-criminal acts redefined as criminal so as to give the police an excuse to exercise power. local12.com/news/offbeat...
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Police request public's help to find suspect who picked up $30 off ground in Walmart
A police department took to social media and asked the public to help them identify a suspect who found $30 on the ground in Walmart.
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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
It is finally time to say something that has not only been said over and over and OVER, but is false. Also, apparently this person cannot wrap their mind around the fact that when COVID appeared, we knew nothing at all about it, including how it was transmitted.
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Dan Morison @darkmechanic.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Slake Moth - inspired by Perdido Street Station, by China Miéville
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John Marc @johnmarc.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Did a non-existent sentient AI write that?
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neophytecatomn.bsky.social @neophytecatomn.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
StimmyAbby writes: Sometimes people use  "respect" to mean "treating someone like a person" and sometimes they use "respect" to mean "treating someone like an authority" and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say "if you won't respect me, I won't respect you" and they mean "if you won't treat me like an authority, I won't treat you like a person" and they think they're being fair but they aren't, and it's not okay.
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