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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 11h

The fact that there are multiple Tolkien, Star Wars, and Star Trek properties out there that I have no interest in and I’m taking the side of the Pope against the AI geeks is strong circumstantial evidence that we’re living in an ironic hell built specifically for 14-year-old me.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

BREAKING: A federal judge has ruled for the first time that a Flock search was unconstitutional and violated a woman's Fourth Amendment rights. Oklahoma cop pulled over a woman and searched her in Flock "because he saw her license plate was from California" www.404media.co/federal-judg...

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Federal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’ and Unconstitutional

Flock’s nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

All of this. I also want to add that, in my research, I found that a lot of “inconsistencies” in a victim’s story actually came from gender bias affecting investigators’ record keeping and interview methods.

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Johnny Vector @johnnyvector.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yeah, and I just plain don't trust any of the parts that make renewables easier to actually happen under this administration. Trump will make up some arbitrary reason to deny permits or threaten the companies doing it, and by the time the courts fix that he'll be gone.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm especially fond of this one she did of The Bear busking in my kitchen in Norfolk in 2013. The Bear was always "The Bear", NEVER "Bear". That would have been a very different cat. (People who still call him the latter tend to be people who followed the Twitter account but never read about him.)

A linoprint of The Bear busking in my kitchen

An actual photo of The Bear busking in my kitchen.

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Hare LockwoOoOoOod @harelockwood.com · 30/09/2026

[with gritted teeth] the WHIMSY will be INCREASED proportional to the DIFFICULTIES

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Johnny Vector @johnnyvector.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes, the correct response is "And what did you learn from this?"

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Johnny Vector @johnnyvector.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’ve already forgotten how he phrased it since it just says “blocked post” for me. 😁

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Johnny Vector @johnnyvector.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Beth Mole at Ars Technica is not messing around.

Screenshot from Ars Technica.
Head: RFK Jr. thinks AI will free us from the "tyranny" of medical
facts, expertise

Dek: Al is far from a perfect resource. But it seems to hallucinate less
than Kennedy.

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captain bleach @blainecapatch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

MAD TV’S 100 BEST TV SHOWS OF THE 21st CENTURY 1. Butter Ball Saul 2. Hicks 3. Widow’s Bae 4. Mad Men’s Wearhouse 5. Succotashion 6. Kevin Hart Can Fuck Himself 7. The Wirewolf 8. Slow Lorises 9. Twin Peaky Blinders 10. Reacheround

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Johnny Vector @johnnyvector.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The lights went out The oil ran dry We blamed it on the other guy…

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Johnny Vector @johnnyvector.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The torpedo it must have taken to do that much damage to the prosody of “simultaneously”.

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Johnny Vector @johnnyvector.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yes, but... know this, the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance, will have flooded the banks of the empire's authority and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege. Remember this. Try.

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Johnny Vector @johnnyvector.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just wait until Mr. Teatime hears about this.

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Johnny Vector @johnnyvector.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

No lies detected. I had a gas loaner for a few days a couple months ago, and man I had forgotten how terrible those things are.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed

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Johnny Vector @johnnyvector.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

All gods are capricious. (see Pratchett)

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Johnny Vector @johnnyvector.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I saw a shockingly large number (10? 15?) of them during my 2 week road trip to upstate NY earlier this year. And not a single Buzz other than mine. 😔

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Johnny Vector @johnnyvector.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You could instead take the Merritt Parkway, which would, um... Never mind.

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Johnny Vector @johnnyvector.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In this particular case, I strongly suspect a conflict of interest.

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Gandalf the Wight @gandalf-the-wight.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic feature."

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Johnny Vector @johnnyvector.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Not as such, but I did have a Phase A study report on which the same item was counted as a major strength by one reviewer and a major weakness by another. Us: Don't you try to consolidate the opinions when that happens? HQ: No.

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Johnny Vector @johnnyvector.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My three ages of theater appreciation: Teen: Look at this awesome new concept; I've never seen this story before! Thirties: Ah, this story again. Fifties: Yes, every story has been told a thousand times. What matters is how well you tell it.

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Johnny Vector @johnnyvector.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yeah, just wait until I go full Andy Serkis and broadcast a St. Crispin's Day speech over the company-wide Teams channel.

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Johnny Vector @johnnyvector.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We have our ballots here in Maryland! I don't know if the drop boxes have been set up yet but that's how I plan to vote; I don't trust the USPS at this moment.

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Johnny Vector @johnnyvector.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Tom Cox is about to enter the chat.

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Johnny Vector @johnnyvector.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Not sure whether "the recycling lobby" or "making everything about" is bearing more load in that sentence, but they are both majestically vague.

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Johnny Vector @johnnyvector.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Oh yeah. As soon as the midterms are over he's going to start knocking down everything on the National Mall. And I don't think he'll even be able to wait that long to tear into the Kennedy Center.

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Historian Jen @historianjenfl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Andy Beshear has an entire chapter in his new book about backing the LGBTQ community and it's worth a read. He talks about how the anti-trans ads were tested in KY during his election and how vetoing anti-trans legislation didn't hurt his reelection campaign.

However the anti-trans ads had less to do with Kentucky and more to do with the fact that we were in an election. Terry Schilling, the head of the APP, decided to test the ads in our election to determine whether or not the issue could win votes for the Republican Party. Earlier in the summer of 2019, Scholling had partnered with a behavioral science firm to try to find a wedge issue that resonated with suburban voters. That's right. The anti-trans ads did not come out of some firmly held conviction but was a purely political stance. Their research landed on trans athletes, specifically trans women, competing in women's sports. They tested their theory in the 2019 Kentucky gubernatorial general election. Although I won, APP considered their test successful, because their research showed the ads delivered thirteen thousand votes for Trump Lite, which made the race tighter than anticipated.

You might hask how, in this political climate, I was reelected after vetoing the anti-trans bill. Because people respect authentic faith. The day I vetoed it, I explained my why. I said I believe all children are children of God and that I don't want people picking on these kids. I then countered their anti-trans ads with commercials talking about good jobs, healthcare, roads and bridges, public education, and

public safety. The result? The biggest win of my career. So don't tell me the Democratic Party should stop fighting for the rights of all people. Just explain your authentic why, and then get back to focusing on issues that touch all our lives on a daily basis.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’ve been thinking about the Cornell rape all day. And I have to say, there are very good men in my life, many of them, who are confident and would have stepped in. And I also have to say I think something men and women need to reckon with is that those men are the exception.

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Johnny Vector @johnnyvector.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Pubes only become cuth when they're under extreme stress, is what you're saying?

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Johnny Vector @johnnyvector.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"He makes me laugh." —J. Rabbit

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Johnny Vector @johnnyvector.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

That... that *plonk*ing sound. It's so familiar... What could it be?

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Johnny Vector @johnnyvector.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Sadly, it hasn't shut down that behavior for campground reservations. People just eat the fee.

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Johnny Vector @johnnyvector.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Correct. You have to radiate the heat away, which requires a lot of surface area. And a way to get the heat from your CPUs and GPUs to that surface area. It's all well understood engineering, but it's a bunch more weight you have to pay to launch.

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Johnny Vector @johnnyvector.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I mean, it is true that you don't need water, which was maybe your point. But cooling in a place where you can't use fans requires a lot of additional stuff! All of which is expensive, and also has environmental impacts.

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Johnny Vector @johnnyvector.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm not even a spacecraft thermal engineer but I can hear all the ones I know groaning at that statement from across town.

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Johnny Vector @johnnyvector.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Solar power works on the ground too. And enough solar + batteries to power it full-time is still guaranteed to be cheaper than launch costs and all the additional hardware you need in space.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Johnny Vector @johnnyvector.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Has Randall been reading the Broken Earth trilogy?

xkcd.com

Slab Graveyard

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Johnny Vector @johnnyvector.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In college I fixed a reel-to-reel tape machine by opening it up, finding nothing wrong, and putting it back together. I think it missed me over the summer.

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Johnny Vector @johnnyvector.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's the latter. Self-aggrandizement is all he cares about at this point.

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Johnny Vector @johnnyvector.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I built one of those last year for our three ferals. The front is made of that double-wall polycarbonate that they use in greenhouses. Can't really see through it, but it lets in some light while still being reasonable insulation.

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Johnny Vector @johnnyvector.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Stories like this are why I support ProPublica with actual cashy money.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

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Johnny Vector @johnnyvector.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"The company did not admit wrongdo... Hang on. They what? I don't even know how to say that."

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Johnny Vector @johnnyvector.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

With the 30 seconds it took to add alt text:

Truth Social post from Trump:
All of the SLEAZEBAGS, like Third Rate "Reporter," Kaitlan Collins, of Fake News CNN, a truly unhappy person, said they weren't going to be covering me. Then why were they ranting and raving like Lunatics, in the Press Area, at the United Nations? Why was she there? She's got a
"TRUMP" addiction, and so does CNN and MSDNC. They're all sick, treasonous, and demented! The "good news" is that they have a great, for them, and totally disloyal Judge. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! President DONALD J. TRUMP

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