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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 · 28/06/2025
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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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Samir @justsamironly.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
This is very beautiful, thanks for sharing.
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Samir @justsamironly.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
With all the kindness in the world what part of being a Marxist revolutionary who rose to the presidency makes him an Anarchist? I have nothing but respect for him but seems like he was — at least on the surface — pretty invested in the health of the state
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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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Samir @justsamironly.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Kris Kristofferson and dream theater in the same collection is a sight to see. Very cool
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Samir @justsamironly.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Poison Oak - Bright Eyes It’s hard to say anything that does this song justice, but I think it makes me emotional because of the sheer craft and structure of it. That you could take such real emotion and not just put it in a time capsule, but make it transcendent makes me stop in my tracks.
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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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Samir @justsamironly.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Reading a book
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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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Samir @justsamironly.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Really nasty work to lump Imran Khan into that. In no way anything like the other guys not a “right-wing populist” by any stretch
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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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Samir @justsamironly.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
In my head I blame Mark Knopfler
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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 · 13/03/2025
In a Travis Bickle sense I guess there is humor in the precise way the reverend is pathetic, too. There’s that great scene I always forget where the kids talk about how nice Jesus is to them too.
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Samir @justsamironly.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
I can’t figure why a movie like first reformed works perfectly as being joyless, but this doesn’t. There’s a marvel movie stink to it for sure, but also wonder why it’s so rare to pull off protracted misery.
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Samir @justsamironly.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Not even a like
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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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Samir @justsamironly.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Lost in the Supermarket/Guns of Brixton/Janie Jones are up there for me. Basic, I know. Gotta cheat and add solo Strummer though, love Coma Girl.
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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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Samir @justsamironly.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
I moved there for a brief but crucial stint of my adult life (it was my first real job out of college out there) and I still feel the weird butterfly in my stomach when someone brings it up. It’s as hard to leave as it is to love I guess.
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Samir @justsamironly.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
One of these days the left will get organizized.
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Samir @justsamironly.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
That song is burned into my memory from this one time I was standing on a really icy hill somewhere in Wyoming when I lived there, saying goodbye to someone as that song was playing on my car speaker
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Samir @justsamironly.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Papa Was a Rodeo
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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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