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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I don’t mind “soft Republicans” or former Republicans in the big tent. More the merrier. But the constant fetishizing of former Republicans (many of profiting off that narrative) is getting stale.

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squirrel @jwbates.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

i had a moment today when i solved all of my problems but it turned out to be just a bug in my code

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squirrel @jwbates.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Any thoughts on the aphorism i made up to explain why cs is not programming? “CS is the study of instantiated abstractions.”

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squirrel @jwbates.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

fuck Seth Moulton fuck Jake Auchincloss

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squirrel @jwbates.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

so wait does this mean that it is less popular at the start than vietnam was at the end? news.gallup.com/poll/18097/iraq-ver…

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squirrel @jwbates.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

I’m sorry, what? Publish the whole guest list. That the fact that 200 “rich and powerful” people gather every year to celebrate the birthday of a traitor and a racist? paging madame defarge

The awkwardness happened Saturday night at
the Alfalfa Club dinner, an invitation-only
event for some 200 of the rich and powerful
who gather together each year on Confederal
Gen. Robert E. Lee's birthday.

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

this is a real test of whether democrats in congress think "representative" means anything

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squirrel @jwbates.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

1. everybody knows the dice are loaded 2. everybody rolls with their fingers crossed 3. everybody knows the war is over 4. everybody knows the good guys lost 5. everybody knows the fight was fixed the poor stay poor the rich stay rich that’s how it goes

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squirrel @jwbates.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

"We've got so many things that the Congress has yet to do ... and I'd hate to see us get distracted with side issues," Bishop told Axios. yes, they are so busy … they are *fighting for you* by voting to give marco rubio more money

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Van Hollen: We are here to say not one more dime for Donald Trump's ICE operations

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squirrel @jwbates.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

So given a choice between fascism and no fascism, these brave visionaries leap to their feet to proclaim, “Wait! There is a Third Way!”

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squirrel @jwbates.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

gave my wife a print subscription to the onion @bencollins.bsky.social thought myself clever to wrap an onion in a box and give it to her then i opened her present to me and found a wrapped onion now we’ll have reading and archive copies

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

We choo choo choose it

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squirrel @jwbates.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

i think bonoboball should be a word. and a sport played by bonobos

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Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

And recent research found that sperm whales communication systems (language?) has the equivalent of vowels! www.popsci.com/environment/...

popsci.com

Sperm whales use vowels like humans, new study finds

Scientists decoding whale clicks found patterns that echo the building blocks of human speech.

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squirrel @jwbates.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

I’ll never be on team ezra. his judgement has been highly suspect on many occasions. the major disqualifier is the fact that he continued to stan Paul Ryan even after Krugman took the economics apart. www.splinter.com/ezra-klein-admits-…

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sanjukta paul @sanjukta.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

We need a "disempowerment" program for people like Musk and Ackman, rather than an "empowerment" program for anyone else bsky.app/profile/davi...

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Katie Porter @katieporterca.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

NEW: I’m calling on Trump to cancel private jet flights instead of commercial airlines. Private jet flights often take a single billionaire passenger, but still put real strain on our air traffic control system.

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

All politics is identity politics on some level. But the kind of identity politics we really want is identity politics advancing freedom and thriving across races, genders, religions, and sexual orientations. Not invoking your identities to defend bad policies. newrepublic.com/article/2023...

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squirrel @jwbates.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

when you think about meditating you’re metatating

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squirrel @jwbates.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

the problem with getting new glasses is now i can actually see myself in the mirror

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squirrel @jwbates.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

oh cory cory cory i’m so disappointed in you cory

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squirrel @jwbates.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

here’s a dynamic i’ve noticed and maybe other people can weigh in on it i am the only subject matter expert in my field at my company, and our central product is entirely within that domain. when the money folks approach me with an idea for the product, they always listen to me… 1/x

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

We rule that the mass executions may proceed while the larger Constitutional case works its way through the court system. by John Roberts, joined by Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, Barrett, and Kavanaugh (2026)

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squirrel @jwbates.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Son’s piano recital Daughter’s violin recital Son and daughter’s violin recital Daughter’s piano recital Daughter’s violin recital

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squirrel @jwbates.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

i’m sorry … what? agents left BULLETS in front of the public school? icing on a really fucked up cake

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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 08/08/2025

Excited to announce that I’m leaving journalism to join the writing team for the upcoming Warner Television prestige series “The Bracegirdle Sanction,” an espionage thriller set among dissident Hobbitonians between Bilbo’s eleventy-first birthday and the scouring of the Shire

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

I hope it’s become evident that corporate news will partner with fascists to attack the Left because literally our history is the story of how the wealth class use their political and media organs to ensure all Leftists are demonized and crushed. That’s the whole ballgame.

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Paul N. Edwards @avastmachine.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

That last line hits hard

@MichellCClark:
they made healthcare a commodity, education a debt trap, and housing a speculation market-then told you that poverty is a personal failing. they privatized survival and called it freedom.

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Mr. Congeniality @mrcongeniality.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

I voted for Harris, you fucking dunce. What you and other liberals have to live with is telling the left to fuck off over Gaza as a strategic consideration, which was a moral catastrophe in itself, AND THEN LOSING THE FUCKING ELECTION ANYWAY. Fuck off, man.

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squirrel @jwbates.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

I am very annoyed by people who tell me how chatgpt thinks i should do my job. No, I don’t do it that way because it’s a stupid way to do it, and oh by the way that reference you included to “explain the pipeline” was a 2018 paper on string theory

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squirrel @jwbates.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

i read this as arizona lawyer farm

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squirrel @jwbates.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

has anyone else ever noticed how hard it is to explain to an MBA any math more complicated than stock option grants

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Queer Satanic @queersatanic.com · 25/04/2025

to steal from @dcsatanists.bsky.social, physical books also make a great "achievement award" to give yourself for finishing the ebooks and audiobooks that you really liked

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Jonathon M. Floyd @jfloyd314.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

This, to me, is the most obvious messaging opportunity *ever* for Democrats. Chuck Schumer should be on the ground in Arkansas within 24 hours and Democrats in both houses of Congress should be filing measures to provide federal funds to assist in recovery efforts. Force Republicans to say no.

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

This, and allow direct-to-consumer auto sales to kill the car dealerships that are a major power center for the worst people alive.

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

This guy has family members. He has friends. He has neighbors. People may know him from church or softball or their kids’ hockey league or the corner store. I hope they all see this photo. I hope they all recognize him.

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Andrew Schroeder @simulacrandrew.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Universities will win if they stick together and focus on what's actually important - non-profit teaching and research towards the public good - and ditch this neoliberal idea that the university is just a business like any other.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Naming and shaming ICE agents would do a lot right now, methinks. Give them a taste of the fear they're creating.

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