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Samir

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End Political Homelessness Now @raaleh.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
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Samir @justsamironly.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Paul Westerberg are you out there on Bluesky?
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Hearing Things @hearingthingsco.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Lately I’ve wondered whether the perception of music as an almost magical pursuit also contributes, in some small way, to its treatment as essentially valueless by contemporary society
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Where Do Songs Come From?
Thinking of songwriting as labor versus divine inspiration can be helpful in resisting the endless churn of big streaming.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
ACLU — NEW ORLEANS: “ICE deported at least two families, including 2 mothers and their minor children – 3 of whom are U.S. citizen children aged 2, 4, and 7. One of the mothers is currently pregnant... 1 child with cancer deported without medication…” www.aclu.org/press-releas...
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 21/04/2025
Guy in post-apocalyptic Jackson Hole who keeps trying to reinvent health insurance
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
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The Onion @theonion.com · 17/04/2025
Nation Can’t Believe It On Harvard’s Side
Nation Can’t Believe It On Harvard’s Side
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onion person @junlper.beer · 15/04/2025
i’ve always wanted to use a social media website that only has fake users with fake human profile pictures with posts entirely created by a robot brain trying to sound human
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
MIT following Harvard's lead here
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
They said my artisanal hand-carved semiconductor business would never be viable but who’s laughing now?
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Citizens cannot, by legal definition, be "deported." What she's describing is kidnapping and forced imprisonment without cause. She and many, many others in this administration should face prison one day. bsky.app/profile/ones...
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 08/04/2025
It feels like it should be a bigger story that S&P Global is considering downgrading SoftBank's credit rating due to their investment in OpenAI, saying that their "financial condition will likely deteriorate" as a result of their investment. www.wsj.com/business/dea...
Ratings agency S&P Global said Tuesday that SoftBank’s “financial condition will likely deteriorate” as a result of the OpenAI investment and that its plans to add debt could lead the agency to consider downgrading SoftBank’s ratings. 

None of the startups with early leads in generative AI have shown they can operate profitably, and the sector is pouring tens of billions of dollars into data centers based on assumptions, not yet proven, of a future in which AI rapidly permeates the globe. 

Early tech leaders often falter—a point SoftBank learned when it made a dot-com era bet that Yahoo would be the dominant force in search.
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My Password is Louvre @bmceuen.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
There is absolutely no way the US can host the World Cup or the Olympics
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serena @505serena.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
i don’t want to hear anyone’s opinion on chappell roan ever again like genuinely.
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Sarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
If you were a halfway decent human being and you knew an innocent man was rotting in foreign prison—likely suffering nightmarish conditions—because your administration screwed up and send him there, you’d do something about it immediately instead of shitposting lies all day.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
this is why i say it's a form of hegemonic suicide. america had the entire postwar consensus built around it and decided liberal internationalism was woke
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 26/03/2025
“We had positive ID of him walking into his girlfriend’s building and it’s now collapsed,” National Security Advisor Waltz wrote. “Excellent,” VP Vance replied.
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The Real Outrage About the Yemen Signal Group Is That It Called for Attack on Civilian Home
“We had positive ID of him walking into his girlfriend’s building and it’s now collapsed.”
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 25/03/2025
massively depressing that the big scandal is that the shithead guy from the atlantic got texted accidentally and not the part where they're raining more death on yemen
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
In partnership with @freedom.press, WIRED will make all of its FOIA-based reporting free to access for anyone. Public records should be public, and I hope to see more outlets follow suit: freedom.press/issues/wired...
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Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Read this now www.ft.com/content/bcd3...
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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Congratulationz to all my friends at Ted Lasso,,, I think we all need something to BELIEVE in right now ,,, and if y’all need Flavor Flav to step up and sponsor your women’s soccer team,,, I gots you. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾 @jasonsudeikis.bsky.social
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a man standing in front of a door with ted lasso written on the bottom right
Alt: Jason Sudiekis hitting the Ted Lasso BELIEVE sign
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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
In the US, the homeless are not treated with an ounce of humanity.
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Change The World
A kind of simplified drawing of a man, reminiscent of cartoons from the 50s-60s, laying on the ground clutching his head, next to an easel with an even more simplified drawing of a man with a snake emerging from his pelvis, obviously a stand in for a phallus, surrounded by flowers, with the words "world peace" written on the canvas.
The artist laments "I don't think art will ever change the world, and it's an indictment of my character that art is all I can do."
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Samir @justsamironly.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Put me under coach
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Computers are accusing humans of terrorism
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Happy International Women’s Day to the most international woman of all: the woman trapped on the International Space Station
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
(guy whose business is entirely government contracts) we’re going to run the government like a business
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Megan @forestfauxx.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Happy Twin Peaks Day, my friends ☕️
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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Sure looks like Google News caught the Latin Times using a large language model to write an article picking up on my latest report
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
this is not universal but it is distressingly common among legacy media people. the idea that they have any duty to society or responsibility beyond getting clicks and clout is abhorrent to a sizable number of people at the top of this industry
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
This whole saga has, I think, demonstrated very well my contention that American political journalists believe that they deserve all of the respect and deference that comes with filling a vital societal role, while rejecting the idea that holding such a position also entails duties and obligations.
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Defector @defector.com · 11/02/2025
"The unified message I took away from the ads was that the time of new ideas is receding, and society along with it. The theme was the soft acceptance of a comfortable death." defector.com/for-sale-the...
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For Sale: The End, And The Means To Wait For It | Defector
In one Super Bowl commercial, an octogenarian actor waxes lacrimal about freedom, a privilege bought for you with the blood of troops 80 years ago, a privilege whose outer bound and cleanest expressio...
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Samir @justsamironly.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Everyone in your life knows a band called Daisy Chain
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Reporters: Please stop calling things DEI that are not DEI. This is only cementing the propaganda being used to legitimize the dismantling of all types of initiatives that are not DEI as well as legitimize efforts to end civil rights enforcement. Be specific with your language. Be accurate.
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Samir @justsamironly.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
At the last minute the president of Buffalo just wired the NFL a million dollars. sad night for all of us out here in the United States.
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Samir @justsamironly.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
I will be a reporter again come the morning
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onion person @junlper.beer · 24/01/2025
the ai sloppification of the world will only end if organizations stand up for artists like this. this is another great reason to unionize your workplace as you can include NO AI ART in your work contract
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
In 2004, I interviewed for a teaching position. The principal asked me how many kids I had. I answered. He asked if I was planning to have more —said he couldn’t afford to have another teacher out on maternity leave. This is why women need protections, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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Samir @justsamironly.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I miss Michael Brooks
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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
It should prob be remembered that “birthright citizenship” was the product of the abolitionist mvt, which understood that no person of color would be safe from deportation or bondage if their citizenship could be questioned or taken away
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
With literally minutes left in his presidency, Joe Biden has granted clemency to Leonard Peltier
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Joe Biden Frees Leonard Peltier
The ailing Native American rights activist has been in prison for nearly 50 years after the U.S. government lied to put him there.
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marlo @marlo.ooo · 16/01/2025
david lynch on angelo badalamenti, who passed away in 2022
MS: I've noticed that all the way through this conversation David, you've referred to him in the present tense.

DL: You have to keep Angelo alive. I believe life is a continuum, and that no one really dies, they just drop their physical body and we'll all meet again, like the song says. It's sad but it's not devastating if you think like that. Otherwise I don't see how anybody could ever, once they see someone die, that they'd just disappear forever and that's what we're all bound to do. I'm sorry but it just doesn't make any sense, it's a continuum, and we're all going to be fine at the end of the story.
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Mark Frost @markfrost.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Thanks to all for your kind remembrances on this awful day. Words will come later. Only feelings at the moment. Mourn and remember him but don’t forget to celebrate too. We won’t see his like again. The man from another place has gone home. #DavidLynch #TwinPeaks
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Washington Post's traffic has gone from 22.5 million daily active users in 2021 to about 3 million in 2024, per Semafor. damn lol
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Peretsky @peretsky.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
These people are your enemies
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Marianne Williamson @marwilliamson.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Nixon established the Environmental Protection Agency. The environment did not used to be a Left Right issue. We all want to live.
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 09/01/2025
Sure the world is rapidly decaying but the semiotics are amazing
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 09/01/2025
“The consistent defunding of other city programs in order to give the LAPD billions a year has consequences, and these elected officials do actually have blood on their hands."
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LA Gave More Money to Cops While Cutting Fire Budgets. Now It’s Burning.
“Defunding of other city programs in order to give the LAPD billions a year has consequences,” according to a local activist.
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