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John Shirley @johnshirley2024.bsky.social · 10h

Pink Beam Press, which leans to the Philip K Dick-ness of it all, is bringing out, soon, my novella Stretch It Till it Snaps as a short book. They're doing a series of novellas and short books including one by bsky.app/profile/rich... STRETCH IT TILL IT SNAPS is a bit hard to describe.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Here is @aoc.bsky.social thankfully telling everyone exactly what to do to stop a concentration camp from being built where you live. Please take it to heart and take action.

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John Shirley @johnshirley2024.bsky.social · 12h

"...managed to control emotions, create false memories or even recover lost memories in models of Alzheimer's disease," Valero said. "Perhaps the great promise it has yet to fulfil is precisely one of its ⁠founding promises: its ability to treat diseases of the human brain." A new science, really.

reuters.com

US and German scientists win Nobel medicine prize for work on light and brain

American Karl Deisseroth and Germans Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for developing optogenetics, a technique that uses light to control ind...

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 16h

MY FRIEND DAHMER is frequently on banned lists. Surprisingly, KENT STATE hasn't been, even though it's much more political. We'll see how it unfolds for THE DISSIDENTS, which, topically, seems ripe to be targeted. Book banners can all F off to hell, of course. They're traitors to America IMO.

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US book bans in public schools reach record annual high of 12,000

Texas tops list with 8,100 bans while Stephen King is again most banned author, PEN America finds

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Bucks County Beacon @buckscountybeacon.com · 16h

Banned Books Week and New Docuseries ‘Bucks County, USA’ Remind Us of the Threat Moms for Liberty Poses to the Freedom to Read | Central Bucks School Board Member Karen Smith recounts her time on the front lines of the "school board wars" defending her district against book banners. #BannedBooksWeek

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Banned Books Week and New Docuseries ‘Bucks County, USA’ Remind Us of the Threat Moms for Liberty Poses to the Freedom to Read - Bucks County Beacon

Central Bucks School Board Member Karen Smith recounts her time on the front lines of the "school board wars" defending her district against book banners.

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EveryLibrary @everylibrary.bsky.social · 18h

Defending the freedom to read takes more than opposing book bans. It takes library champions on school boards, library boards, city councils, and county commissions. This Banned Books Week, consider running for office. ReadLeadRun.org

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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 16h

Protect the freedom to read.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A whole political movement should be stood up against this arrogant and sociopathic bullshit www.politico.com/newsletters/...

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John Shirley @johnshirley2024.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

They will be cheaply made and they'll break down in midair after a certain number of flights, falling on cars, people, roofs.

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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is all hands on deck! Pneumatic plague is airborne and nearly always fatal if untreated. Wiped out 150 million, half of Europe, way back when. Treatable with antibiotics, but we don't have enough antibiotics. Also from a lab in Russia, where they still have weaponized plague. Total nightmare.

motherjones.com

Reports of a plague outbreak in Russia follow the death of a researcher

Several hospitals in the Irkutsk region have been shut down and up to 200 workers have been quarantined.

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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Oct 4 is the feast of St Francis of Assisi and it’s traditionally a day to bless your pet at the church.

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John Shirley @johnshirley2024.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"...black SUVs roaming parking lots and gas stations, neighbors and colleagues disappearing, and sometimes ICE agents grabbing, tackling, or even shooting people, forcing a thousand quiet reckonings with what the country has become. This time the violence was being investigated as a suicide"

theatlantic.com

A Reckoning in Springfield

A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The wealth of the richest 0.1 percent of Americans has more than doubled since 2019. If that doesn't convince you we need a wealth tax, renowned economist Gabriel Zucman will. Watch.

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How to Actually Tax Extreme Wealth (ft. Gabriel Zucman)

Billionaires want you to believe taxing their extreme wealth is too radical and that it can’t be done.Baloney.Economist

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Reporters need to start responding: "No, you did not inherit higher prices, Mr. Trump. And, no, you have not brought those prices down. Why are you being so brazenly dishonest to the American people? You think they never visit stores and gas stations?"

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John Shirley @johnshirley2024.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

From the scream scream scream of the babies To the retch retch retch of the youth From the lie lie lie of the righteous To the lost lost lost way I feel Corruption corruption corruption Rules my bones Corruption corruption corruption Chills my bones Corruption corruption corruption Rules my soul

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Iggy Pop - Corruption

YouTube video by IggyPopOnVEVO

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 04/10/2026

The Super Intelligence Force will report directly to the man who thinks windmills cause cancer.

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John Shirley @johnshirley2024.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It occurred to me that in much of my life I've been feckless. Then I thought, wait--I'm missing 'feck'? What does it mean to be feck-less? Word origins says feck, from the Scottish 'feck', means effect, responsibility, or energy. I was wasting my energy, applying it wrongly. I was less some feck.

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Scott Johnson @scottjohnson.zip · 04/10/2026

Call me crazy, but this merger making ALL of this under one roof is actually pretty bad. That is WAAAAAAY too much.

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John Shirley @johnshirley2024.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There's this new thing with AI faked accounts. Suddenly followed by several gir "a photographer"s with a sexy half-seen photo of her, and something pithy and borrowed about photography, and then a series of posts using AI to quote anecdotes and funny stories, wry remarks and--all one flavor. Eg:

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The guy would be kicked out of many a private dementia care home for being abusive and were stuck with him and his thieving vandals.

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John Shirley @johnshirley2024.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Right, as predicted they'll get rid of progressive and pro-environment programming. Because Paramount/CBS/Warner has been taken over by one of Donald Trump's blow-buddies. They're doing what CBS has been doing to its journalists--ending anything not on the order of Fox News.

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John Shirley @johnshirley2024.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Walmart too is engaging in this shit-tech nightmare. Wait till these fucking things start to break down in the air which they will. Wait till you start to go mad from the sound. Supposedly many people say "they're so cool!" They'll change their tune.

cbsnews.com

Walmart to expand drone delivery to hundreds of stores

Walmart said expanding its drone delivery service will make it easier for customers to get access to groceries and other items.

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The Real ZMAN @therealzman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Racist Piece of Shit

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John Shirley @johnshirley2024.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"the sound of dozens of drones, if not more than a hundred of them, sometimes so loud that they sound like flying lawn mowers" I said these things would be a nightmare. They'll run into windows and power lines and damage roofs and cause aviation problems and ruin views and terrify songbirds.

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weltschmerzing.bsky.social @weltschmerzing.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Since Labor Day, Democrats have been tied or ahead in nearly every nonpartisan poll of not just two but five states that voted for Mr. Trump by between 11 and 16 points: Texas, Alaska, Ohio, Iowa and Kansas." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...

nytimes.com

Democrats May Have Found the Recipe for Flipping Red-State Senate Seats (Gift Article)

Five new Times/Siena polls continue a run of strong results for Democrats in states that President Trump won easily in 2024.

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Good Samaritan @goodsamaritanhq.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Many of the proposed solutions have already been implemented somewhere and could, scientists claim, rapidly repair the planet within five years if they are scaled.

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51 ways to get the planet tipping the right way

Researchers have identified 51 positive tipping points that could save the planet. Here are five of the most promising

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John Shirley @johnshirley2024.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

2 things. 1, I am in favor of very strong gun control, and the banning of AR15 and similar assault military style weapons. But I'm not for banning all guns. Hence: 2. I just bought a gun. It's a Sig Sauer 9mm semi-auto pistol. This relates to the risks run by resistors like me if democracy ends.

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John Shirley @johnshirley2024.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Donald Trump spent hours asking Elon Musk’s AI chatbot about whether Venezuelans would celebrate if he captured leader Nicolas Maduro—then ordered the operation that seized the South American dictator weeks later.

thedailybeast.com

Jaw-Dropping Way Trump, 80, Got Talked Into a War Is Leaked

A Trump insider has offered a jaw-dropping glimpse of the president’s decision-making.

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johnjorgensen84.bsky.social @johnjorgensen84.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Simply banning devices or named entities will not work. Sanders et.al. will have to define composed data that violates privacy and/or anonymity. The danger is not ALPRs by themselves; the danger to society comes when that identifying data is used with other databases.

techcrunch.com

Sanders introduces bill to ban the federal government from using Flock | TechCrunch

The proposed legislation would extend to all automotica license plate readers.

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Maxim @temperaturezero.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

OpenAI has notified 100+ organizations about unauthorized AI-agent activity and is reviewing ~50 petabytes of data. The review will take months. Agent oversight is lagging agent deployment.

temperaturezero.com

OpenAI’s Agent Oversight Gap Surfaces at 100+ Organizations

100+ orgs notified, a ChatGPT Mac-app flaw, Anthropic's Hong Kong VPN squeeze, and $255.5M to secure agent swarms.

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John Shirley @johnshirley2024.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This was two months ago but it should have made us sit up and take notice then. There's no reason he'd do this if he didn't plan to interfere with midterms. If Dems take control, he will this time be impeached, and then sentenced for the fraud he was convicted of, then prosecuted for corruption.

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John Shirley @johnshirley2024.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Phantom daily newspaper strip (also available at Comics Kingdom online), once more picks up its satire of Elon Musk--the parody is called Ian Mollusk.

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John Shirley @johnshirley2024.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The tradition is not to sue, as suing is costly, unless pro bono lawyers step up. But in this time of AI deepfakes of candidates, I think they should sue. They should sue any pac that pays for this fraud; sue the owners of AIs used to make it. It's defamation and it's fraudulent.

fox2detroit.com

US senate candidate El-Sayed touches on AI deepfake spreading online

A candidate running for U.S. Senate is ready to set the record straight after an AI deep fake video was posted on social media.

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John Shirley @johnshirley2024.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If Trump and Hegseth try a military takeover--I don't believe most of the military will stand for it. My message to the Trump regime is, see you on the corner of...

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John Shirley @johnshirley2024.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

fox2detroit.com

US senate candidate El-Sayed touches on AI deepfake spreading online

A candidate running for U.S. Senate is ready to set the record straight after an AI deep fake video was posted on social media.

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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Justice Dept. says it released millions of Epstein files. But NPR reports FBI logs reference interviews tied to allegations against President Donald Trump that were not visible in the public archive. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/fbi-interv...

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