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John Wedoff

@jwedoff.bsky.social
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Sr. Software Engineer, He/Him, dad, Somerville resident

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Cambridge Day @cambridgeday.com · 1h
Suspected electrical fire in Somerville’s Teele Square displaces 43 residents, shutters businesses Firefighters from a dozen neighboring communities battled flames that spread rapidly through the roof of a century-old building Wednesday....
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Suspected electrical fire in Somerville’s Teele Square displaces 43 residents, shutters businesses
Firefighters from a dozen neighboring communities battled flames that spread rapidly through the roof of a century-old building Wednesday.
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Ken Sinclair @khsinclair.bsky.social · 8h
They'll be funding 17 Democratic candidates to replace Senator Warren, one Republican, and Seth Moulton. A jungle indeed.
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 2h
"I'm supposed to be a tough guy," Curtis confided. "I can hold your hand," the mayor offered "What happens if I faint?" Sliwa asked. "I've got you," Mamdani assured him, grabbing his hand as Sliwa received his flu shot. abc7ny.com/post/nyc-may...
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Mayor Mamdani holds hands with one-time rival Curtis Sliwa to get flu shot
An apparent bromance has continued to blossom for the one-time political rivals.
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🥧 suzanne 🥧 @425suzanne.bsky.social · 6h
Even when things are stressful when making a game or running a crowdfunding campaign... things like this happen and all the negativity becomes nothing but background noise. 💖💖💖💖💖 #BoardGames #TheKingsGambit
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Post text: My 4th grade son is so excited for this game, he data collected the Kickstarter pledges for his math bar graph assignment. 
Post image: a simple bar graph drawn with colored pencil on an elementary school assignment sheet showing messy handwritten (cuz it's a child!) info. The bar graph lays out the different pledge levels for The King's Gambit campaign along the bottom with the backer count along the side.
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Fine. I’ll update with a word count when I start writing again. @legalminimum.bsky.social · 3h
Putting down a marker for future “I told you so” “you were wrong again” purposes: if we see a Blue Wave next month, that will start rumblings on the Republican side to go 25th Amendment or resignation so (in their mind) Vance has a better chance in 2028.
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 3h
Update: We're already at $5.8K, over halfway there 💪💪 fundrazr.com/f2mog6?ref=s...
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Stand With Irene Grimes: Legal Defense Fund
Irene Grimes told the truth about an attempt to fire Cumberland County's elections director behind closed doors, and now the same partisan majority she exposed is trying to remove her from the board.
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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 3h
"Damn! Are you the danger room? Because I'm not sure I would last very long inside you, but I think I could improve with practise."
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 3h
I suppose in the same way that eugenics was also the "biggest idea"?
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 3h
The pope and the Mayor .
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Finji @finjico.bsky.social · 6h
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist & 1000xRESIST are now in a Steam bundle! Experience two award-winning sci-fi narratives about how humanity builds and rebuilds after everything falls apart. 🚀👽 store.steampowered.com/bundle/87856... 🤝 @fellowtraveller.games @sunsetvisitor.studio
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Tim Pierce @unchi.org · 3h
a creative-first ho
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Kelly Robson @kellyrobson.com · 5h
Our community needs to do better.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 8h
Read this thread & also the NYT story (which will, be warned, make you physically sick and very distressed indeed, so keep that in mind). The campus police DID NOT TELL THE PROSECUTOR all that Jane Doe said. The campus police *omitted* her most important statements about what those men did to her.
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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 5h
Basically: assimilation is not something immigrants do or don’t do; it’s something US citizens do or don’t do with respect to them. It’s an acknowledgment we can always withhold. It’s power over immigrants that lasts forever.
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Calvinball Congress @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 5h
and vote NO on QUESTION 8, because smoking weed is cool and we hate the liquor lobby
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 6h
Voter registration deadlines are SUNDAY in Alaska, Rhode Island, South Carolina. And MONDAY in: Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and *Texas*. If you live in these states, verify your registration now, literally.
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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 6h
Is GUD buk! U reed! Signed: Bottomhead's clawprint (Can haz fud now?)
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Jason Meisner @jmetr22b.bsky.social · 6h
JUDGE: How would you envision that looking, then? PROSECUTOR: What part? JUDGE: The part where I appoint an independent person in the interest of justice to investigate the Department of Justice, and that person is being supervised by the Department of Justice www.chicagotribune.com/2026/10/01/b...
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Judge to begin inquiry that could lead to criminal contempt charges in ‘Broadview Six’ case
A federal judge on Thursday said she’d initiate a “fact finding” process to determine whether potential criminal contempt charges are warranted against prosecutors in the “Broadview Six” case.
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Saladin Ahmed @saladinahmed.bsky.social · 22h
so uh I'm back online after 3 years (!?) off socials I know all the terrible things that happened - tell me something *good* that's happened to you since 2023
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Alexander Abnos @anabnos.com · 19h
If your reaction to Wemby saying this is a hearty “hell yeah”, it behooves me to let you know that @theguardian.com does not take business from betting companies, we have a great sports section, no paywall, and a great app. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/o...
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‘It’s sad seeing players promote it’: Wembanyama says he will never endorse gambling companies
Spurs star says it is ‘very sad’ to see NBA players promote gambling companies and insists money no longer drives his sponsorship decisions
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John Scary Name Cullen @nellucnhoj.bsky.social · 30/10/2024
'tis the season
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Bustin
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 22h
I'd rather have an economy that makes 1,000 millionaires than 1 billionaire.
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 19h
Most of the commentary about this concentrates on how it's just an asshole move. And it definitely is. But it's also a violation of ADA
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 22h
Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow
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Specter177🐊 @specter177.bsky.social · 21h
Someone needs to dress up the giant Home Depot skeleton in a Spock uniform.
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We’re cutting it real close now, there are only 5 days left to get registered to vote!  Visit angienixon.com/vote to register to vote, find a voting location, and check the status of your registration. Make your plan to vote today! Change can’t wait. #AngieForFlorida
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Specter177🐊 @specter177.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Eizouken is a masterpiece.
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Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 01/10/2026
An occurrence is not "unprecedented" if it routinely happens; words mean things. What lazy, counterfactual reporting from @en.afp.com
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Botched Executions | Death Penalty Information Center
The Death Penalty Information Center (DPI) is a national non-profit organization whose mission is to serve the media, policymakers, and the general public…
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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
WAVE (1994) Acrylic on Canvas - 48” x 48” Of all the paintings hanging in my home, this one probably elicits the most comments. #art
An exponential curve expressed as a massive wave of green-blue water that climbs to vertical against a sky of puffy lavender clouds. Light breaks through the cloud cover just over the horizon casting a flat glare across rippling water before the wave climbs. Fin-like ridges emerge running up the wall give the water turbulence and dimension.
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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
you'd think ms. rachel had started a free breakfast program for kids in oakland, california with the way those people are talking about her. she really just said that she didn't think BABIES should die.
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Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
College journalism is one of the least well recognized defenders of civic life.
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Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Stupid Upon Stupid Upon Stupid, or as we in Kentucky call it, "a Tennessee Layer Cake." www.nytimes.com/live/2026/10...
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Live Updates: Christa Pike in Critical Condition After Botched Tennessee Execution
The inmate, Christa Pike, was “alive right now” after surviving an attempt to execute her by lethal injection, her lawyer said. He called on Gov. Bill Lee to reduce her sentence to life in prison.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
i can't think of another instance of the release of an extended director's cut hurting a movie and director's reputation as much as DONNIE DARKO's did
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ken Paxton offered plea deals to at least 10 students accused of raping their classmates.
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1
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Sigrid Ellis @sigridellis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is the end of an important thread, you should go read it for context, but this point I needed to shout from my very small online rooftop.
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👻spOOokika👻 @the17thqueen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Urban blue voters need to understand that if farm workers could vote, rural farming areas would turn blue overnight. But they can’t. Stop punishing rural America just because only landlords control the vote.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 01/10/2026
Debating adding "champion amateur horologist" to my bio
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/10/2026
“If your concern for women disappears the moment accountability becomes socially inconvenient, then protection was never the principle to begin with. Performance was.”
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Katie @littlelistmaker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
more than anything when they do this, I just hope she and her family are safe.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 01/10/2026
I went to Geneva a few weeks ago and spoke on a panel about the nature of time for a Geneva Watch Days event. While I was there, on a lark, I entered a competition to most precisely calibrate a Swiss watch. And today I found out that I won! 😃 www.instagram.com/reel/Dd6hUTB...
Me peering through a little magnifier at a tiny watch mechanism connected to some monitoring equipment, while making adjustments with a small screwdriver
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Dean Grodzins @grodzins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It does happen, though: kottke.org/23/05/the-ac...
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The Accidental Tetris World Champion
Last month I posted a link to a story about a woman who discovered she was one of the world’s top Candy Crush players. Since progress was tied to game score rat
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 01/10/2026
If I went to Switzerland and won a Swiss watch precision contest, I would literally never talk about anything else
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026
You can buy MY BOOK! www.simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-U...
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Deep Unlearning
Timnit Gebru, one of the fiercest voices in the world speaking truth to power, chronicles her journey as a refugee and Black woman in STEM—deliveri...
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 30/09/2026
I have come to an odd point of peace where I’m just glad that this is providing some people with a clearly much-needed place to direct their pent-up energy. Like how growing tomatoes keeps us gardeners off the streets and not shanking people in alleys.
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Yes, I’m wrong, but damn it! Am i wrong ENOUGH?!”
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 01/10/2026
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - John F. Kennedy "A riot is the language of the unheard." - Martin Luther King, Jr. I guess they supported terrorism too? Or maybe they just understood where violence and genocide lead.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 01/10/2026
An overwhelming majority of Americans want members of Congress to stop trading individual stocks.
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Why a Popular Push to Ban Congressional Stock Trading Crashed and Burned
But is it only mostly dead?
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