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Alan Smithee

@kane-highsinger.bsky.social
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Incurable smart-ass. Incredibly masochistic sports fan. Scientist in a former life. Educator in the current one. Chairman of the International Federation of Rowdy Uncles- Great Lakes Council. Just as opinionated, but not nearly this chatty in person.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 5h
Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h
a livestreamed execution is just a lynching
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Alan Smithee @kane-highsinger.bsky.social · 5h
Yes. Because calling them The Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Peace Accords is too much of a mouthful.
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Alan Smithee @kane-highsinger.bsky.social · 5h
I literally have that at home. And at work. And on the road.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6h
Pete Hegseth says there needs to be serious consequences for people who commit crimes, just jotting that down for future reference.
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RedditCFB @redditcfb.com · 6h
Post, wheel, rail. Really trying to flood the whole continent.
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Alan Smithee @kane-highsinger.bsky.social · 6h
Will Wade and Rick Stansbury strolling into NCAA headquarters like Judy Hops and Nick Wilde at the DMV.
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 6h
We’ve got the Pentagon posting QAnon slop on a verified government account. What an utterly humiliating time to live in this country.
Department of War CTO posts a Qanon meme on X
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Alan Smithee @kane-highsinger.bsky.social · 6h
These piss me off more than they should.
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Alan Smithee @kane-highsinger.bsky.social · 6h
Daaaaaamn, Broncos. What the hell is THAT!?
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Alan Smithee @kane-highsinger.bsky.social · 7h
Busy day over at the metaphor factory, I see.
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Alan Smithee @kane-highsinger.bsky.social · 7h
If someone is already being escorted out, and you choose to jump them from behind, I don't care how old you are, you absolutely deserve to get folded up like a 30 year old lawn chair.
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Alan Smithee @kane-highsinger.bsky.social · 7h
Just noticed the backdrop. You have GOT to be shitting me.
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Alan Smithee @kane-highsinger.bsky.social · 7h
It's even a seasonally appropriate image!
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Lucy Pulls Football from Charlie Brown
Alt: Charlie Brown attempts to kick a football only to have Lucy Van Pelt yank it away at the last second, placing him flat on his back.
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Alan Smithee @kane-highsinger.bsky.social · 8h
"Orwellian" gives the statement a level of cleverness that it honestly doesn't deserve.
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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 11h
"Hey GUYS GUYS GUYS, WE'VE TAKEN THE BASTILLE" Followed by the roar of the crowd. (can't tell you how moving this is) via @LucAuffret
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 9h
WRC is running a race in bootlegger country next year www.wrc.com/en/news/wrc-...
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USA and UK return as WRC confirms landmark 15-round 2027 calendar
The FIA World Rally Championship has confirmed a landmark 15-round calendar for 2027, headlined by the return of the United States and United Kingdom alongside the introduction of Rally d’Italia.
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 13h
RFK Jr.'s NIH reportedly kept sending money to a Russian institute tied to the plague lab at the center of an outbreak, despite Biden's order to end these partnerships. Fuckface is calling Putin about it now. Why the hell was this still being funded, and what else is?
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RFK Jr. Reportedly Sent Nearly $800K to Research Project Linked to Russian Plague Lab
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has reportedly overseen nearly $800,000 in federal funding for a research project involving a Russian laboratory with ties to the Siberian facility at the center...
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10h
they've got nothingggggg
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Alan Smithee @kane-highsinger.bsky.social · 9h
I mean, if you need immediate eligibility for a guy, Stansbury has some experience in that.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 11h
Seen in Wicker Park
Street mural with pigeon on a stack of books and words saying READ THE ARTICLE
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 12h
they did the thing
an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
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🎃👻🧙‍♀️ Vio the VVitch 🧙‍♀️👻🎃 @viothevvitch.myatproto.social · 14h
this is so fucking sad
Alvin Sng 0 @alvinsng My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
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Me: Icanjust play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voic e.
Me:| can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you workin Al.
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Mike the Mad Biologist and Trump's Press Corps Approver @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 13h
In 2024, JD Vance wrote a blurb (favorable obviously) for Yarvin's book. The Republican Party is a fascist formation.
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Jody Rosen @jodyrosen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Definition of a Harper's Letter signatory: a free speech absolutist who hates when people protest
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)
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Suss-- 🥌 @suss2hyphens.bsky.social · 23h
“No Way To Prevent This,” Says Only Ballpark Where This Regularly Happens
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Just when you thought things couldn't get worse...
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Woman ‘posed as substitute teacher to insult students because she hates kids’
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Woman ‘posed as substitute teacher to insult students because she hates kids’
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shealagh @shealagh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Unbelievable miss from his team not noting the Cosmic Crisp was cultivated at Washington State
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Alan Smithee @kane-highsinger.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Park this bad boy in ground zero of generic American chain restaurants: suburban Columbus, Ohio.
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Paul Leigh -Some Rascal on the Internet @pleightx.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Alan Smithee @kane-highsinger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It's got to be a metric shit-ton because they're on every 10 minutes. Every 5 during primetime.
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Alan Smithee @kane-highsinger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Fellini? Way to subtle and artsy. Body horror THIS in your face is pure Cronenberg, baby!
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/10/2026
most cucked man alive
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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
chatbbb
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
People do not understand how men who are white supremacists can have wives who are women of color and I need folks to realize that those men see their wives as subordinate property and not equals. These men are foaming at the mouth to bring back quadroon balls.
Screencap from Invincible: "I do love your mother, but she's more like a pet to me."
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Alan Smithee @kane-highsinger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
They've re-invented Clearly Canadian?
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Alan Smithee @kane-highsinger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
So dogwhistles DO still exist!
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Alan Smithee @kane-highsinger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Ohhhhh. So it actually IS a cult.
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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
love to get reader emails
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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
nice. Nice!
Letter to the Columbus DIspatch: "We can't let Amy Acton ruin Ohio again"Close of the anti-Amy Acton letter, signed "Michael Standiford, Lancaster"Lancaster, Ohio native Michael Standiford being arrested for pedophilia in 2022
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Alan Smithee @kane-highsinger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Where are the valiant higher ed free speech warriors on this one? Also, every single Gulf-related event I talk about in class happened pre-2024. So historically accurate Gulf of Mexico it is, then.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
What you meant to say was that Musk and Altman and Zuck are gonna use their considerable wealth and influence to force this on people. You don't need to lie to make yourself feel better. You're on the side of the oligarchs.
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Alan Smithee @kane-highsinger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If not cult, why cult shaped?
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I have feared a bipartisan legitimization of MAHA and here we go...👇 📣 Can't be said enough: MAHA = anti-science wellness woo grifter movement. Random sense on some topics does NOT forgive harmful BS! Democrats plot a midterms push for MAHA voters www.statnews.com/2026/10/07/d... @statnews.com
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Democrats plot a midterms push for MAHA voters
Key Democrats are meeting with MAHA activists and rolling out food and environmental plans to entice them.
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Regina Schrambling @gastropoda.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Taxpayers can't tour US Mint in Denver without jumping through 50 hoops. Crook in WH? Just shitting illegal tender on all of us.
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Alan Smithee @kane-highsinger.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
NNNNNOOOPE.
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Alan Smithee @kane-highsinger.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Hey, it's The Stone Lab.
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Alan Smithee @kane-highsinger.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Pure oligarchy
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