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BJ Clark

@karaterobot.bsky.social
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Firefighter, nerd, punky unionist and household entropy reduction specialist from New Zealand. Likes: Science, history, facts. Dislikes: Liars, misinformation, conspiracy theories, pseudoscience.

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BJ Clark @karaterobot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Bagpiper flamethrower dude has pulled out of opening for Ed Sheeran. youtu.be/cnVjkE87FDY?...
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Unicycling Darth Vader upgrades to Flaming Bagpipes - Keep Portland Weird - The Unipiper *Official*
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Again, Canada bitch-slaps the rancid pussy.
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Wrighty @wrightsnake.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Nice thing to see on my way home.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
De Niro: Every morning when I get up, I reach for my phone to look at the headlines of the day, and for some time now, I start every morning depressed about the latest outrage from our would-be king. I mean, it’s amazing—every fucking day there’s something new and crazy, but it’s different today…
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BJ Clark @karaterobot.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Trump is amazing in his ability to find new ways to make himself detestable.
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BJ Clark @karaterobot.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Rick Deckard and Detective Miller
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ScottinMarin @scottinmarin.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
I can't put into words the feeling of watching our government, a hive of evil antisocial filth, the absolute worst humanity has to offer, colliding with the best. Ordinary people trying to help each other, risking everything to stand up for what's plainly, unambiguously fair and right. It's unreal
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/01/2026
Absolute banger of a comment on r/military: www.reddit.com/r/Military/c...
jaderemedy • 4h ago
And now comes the most nauseating part of this whole goddamn mess: the hypocrisy. The same loud-mouthed idiots who spent years screaming about tyranny are suddenly dead fucking silent, or worse, cheering, now that it's their side doing it. "ThEy'Re cOminG fOr OuR gUnS!" "GoVerNMenT oVerReAch!" "ShAll nOt bE inFrinGeD!" All that chest-thumping bullshit evaporated the second armed federal agents started terrorizing people they don't like.
Let me get this straight: a civilian gets shot dead by federal agents, and the only thing you brainless cunts can muster is
"well, DHS says he had a gun"? THAT'S your red line? Guns are sacred when they're strapped to your waist, but magically become a death sentence when they're used as a post-hoc excuse by the government? Either the Second Amendment applies to everyone, or you never believed in it at all. Fucking pick one and own it.
This is exactly what tyranny looks like, by the way. Not jackboots marching in formation, but armed agents roaming neighborhoods, stopping people, killing civilians, and then daring the public to question it. Tyranny is execution followed by a press release. Tyranny is labeling the dead a "threat" so the state doesn't have to explain why someone's life just ended in the street. Tyranny is demanding obedience while shredding due process and calling it order.
And all you so-called "freedom lovers" are fucking fine with it, as long as it's brown people, immigrants, protesters, or anyone you've already dehumanized. Turns out "don't tread on me" actually meant "tread on them." You weren't afraid of tyranny.
You were afraid of losing dominance. There's a difference, and this moment exposes it completely.
"Just comply" isn't a principle. It's cowardice dressed up as common sense. It's the language of people who have already accepted that the state gets to decide who deserves rights and who doesn't. And once you make that deal, don't act shocked when the line moves, because it always fuckin…
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Yeah this is exactly how I feel
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BJ Clark @karaterobot.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
This is Pohutukawa, or the NZ Christmas tree. It's has amazing red flowers and leaves the ground looking like the set of some horror movie.
Pohutukawa tree in flower
Pohutukawa needles on the ground
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 04/12/2025
It's truly bonkers what they are doing to public health. 🩺 🧪
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
She ain't done
Joyce Carol Oates O @JoyceCarolOates
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It is particularly strange to argue against empathy since "empathy" is generated by a normal human brain registering a mirror likeness in another person: an involuntary/instinctive recognition that the other person is in an essential way identical with you. notoriously psychopaths don't register this kinship & can even murder blood relatives without emotion.
Hardly an ideal for humankind.
© downwardly mobile gentrifier
@Midwest... • 1h
it is strange the billionaires usually become far rightwing politically. Power corrupts as Lord Acton wrote. They lose all empathy.
11:36 AM - 11/10/25 - 16K ViewsJoyce Carol Oates O @JoyceCarolOates
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Truly it was out of curiosity: why a person with unlimited resources exhibits so little appreciation or even awareness of the things that most people value as giving meaning to life. Just minimally well to do people donate to charities, local museums & libraries & the like; they support the commonweal. & unlike the very wealthy these people pay high income taxes.
a timothy faust @taste_of_tbone • 18h i don't say things like this often, as i find them hyperbolic to the point of extreme dilution, so please believe me when I say that this is the most severe, graceful dissection of Elon Musk I've seen. Swift and effortlessly deep, like piano wire through tofu. Brutal...
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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Joyce Carol Oates's twitter burn of Elon Musk has the same structure that Stanley Cavell identifies in his essay "The Avoidance of Love" about King Lear. In this essay I will...
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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Joyce Carol Oates quoting a tweet that says “wherever he [Elon Musk] goes, he wants to leave”:

"wherever he goes, he wants to leave"-- that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation.
Boy watching Homer beat up the krusty burglar: 

Stop! He’s already dead!
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
For Trump: Seafood towers at Mar-A-Lago For Americans: Bread lines
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 09/10/2025
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
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Jon Hance @jhance.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Ok, this is just funny. isportlandburning.com
isportlandburning.com
Is Portland Burning?
No. See real-time Portland cameras, PulsePoint incidents, and sourced fact checks.
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
it's weird that a clown car full of freaks like stephen miller and jd vance feeding the populace a strict diet of state violence, austerity, and cringe are not getting more popular. bread and circus but there's no bread and the circus is one sclerotic monkey vomiting on his balls
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David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
So far, the incompetence is the only thing saving us. So far.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Kimmel’s writing staff doesn’t seem cowed by the events of the past week. @jimmykimmellive.bsky.social
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Gilroy is a political & cultural hero. Andor is a masterpiece. Major kudos to Dan for standing up to the oppressive censorship we're seeing from his distributor Disney. True courage is putting principles before profit.
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‘Andor’ Writer Dan Gilroy On Disney Suspending Jimmy Kimmel & Hollywood Facing “Venomous Evil”: “This Isn’t A Skirmish. It’s A Siege” – Guest Column
'Andor' Writer Dan Gilroy On Trump's Jimmy Kimmel Pressure Campaign: "Artists Are Censored First Because They Fear Us Most" -- Guest Column
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Motherfucking wind farms…
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Paul_BarlowNZ @paulbarlownz.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Need a quick guide into how to safely decide who to vote for this election? Then here’s a handy guide - like an airline safety plan. Watch out for candidates pushing specific ideologies based on pseudo law and organisations known to spread disinformation. They won’t help your community.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 11/07/2025
FBI Director Kash Patel has forced senior officials to reveal, under polygraph tests, whether they have ever said anything bad about him, The New York Times reported on Thursday.
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'Weak': Kash Patel slammed as he polygraphs FBI officials for bad-mouthing him
FBI Director Kash Patel has forced senior officials to reveal, under polygraph tests, whether they have ever said anything bad about him, The New York Times reported on Thursday."In interviews and polygraph tests, the F.B.I. has asked senior employees whether they have said anything negative about M...
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BJ Clark @karaterobot.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
I hope someone gives Trump a gold plated assault rifle to shoot skywards today. Just so he can round off his image of a tin pot strongman.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
“What Senator Alex Padilla did today was political theater.” --Kristi Noem, the Head of Costuming, Hair, and Makeup at Political Theater
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 03/06/2025
A Turing Test in March using GPT-4.5: "Participants incorrectly identified the left image (Witness A) as human with 87% certainty, saying ‘A had human vibes. B had human imitation vibes.’ A was actually AI-generated; B was human" www.bondcap.com/reports/tai
Turing Test Conversation with GPT-4.5 – 3/25, per Cameron Jones / Benjamin Bergen
Source: Cameron Jones and Benjamin Bergen, ‘Large Language Models Pass the Turing Test’ (3/25) via UC San Diego
What Was Tested:
The Turing Test is a concept introduced by Alan
Turing in 1950 to evaluate a machine’s ability to
exhibit intelligent behavior indistinguishable from that
of a human. In the test, if a human evaluator cannot
reliably tell whether responses are coming from a
human or a machine during a conversation, the
machine is said to have passed. Here, participants
had to guess whether Witness A or Witness B was an
AI system.
Results:
The conversation on the left is an example Turing Test
carried out in 3/25 using GPT-4.5. During the test,
participants incorrectly identified the left image
(Witness A) as human with 87% certainty, saying ‘A
had human vibes. B had human imitation vibes.’ A
was actually AI-generated; B was human.
AI Development Trending = Unprecedented
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 07/05/2025
TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths".
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BJ Clark @karaterobot.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
The David Frum Show's latest podcast is a humdinger on vaccine misinformation. open.spotify.com/episode/5vDF...
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America’s Pro-Disease Movement
The David Frum Show · Episode
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Lutnick’s ability to paint vivid images of the dystopian implications of their technofeudal policies is unparalleled
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
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BJ Clark @karaterobot.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
As Kiwi critters go, this is not something I wanted to find in my bike bag.
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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 07/04/2025
God this is just sad. The world is laughing at us and mourning the loss of our great nation's democracy, prosperity, ideals, alliances, and more. 😢
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BJ Clark @karaterobot.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
New Zealand here. Remember that anxious feeling you got watching the early seasons of The Walking Dead or The Handmaid's Tale, when you know something bad is about to happen.... That's what it feels like watching the US now.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
☠️☠️☠️
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BJ Clark @karaterobot.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Just dipped my teaspoon in the cats milk mistaking it for a sugar bowl. Far too early for that sort of carry on.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
no that was the Constitution
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 02/03/2025
Outstanding ‼️
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BJ Clark @karaterobot.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
An interesting and intelligent series about protest. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMnb...
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Courts & Crowds Not Kings | 2 Ways to Keep From Falling Into an Authoritarian Abyss | Andrea Pitzer
YouTube video by Degenerate Art by Andrea Pitzer
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/03/2025
Marco Rubio today.
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a man with a skeleton mask on his face is wearing a tan shirt
ALT: a man with a skeleton mask on his face is wearing a tan shirt
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BJ Clark @karaterobot.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
The shorter JD Vance, "Yeah, well my dad's a policeman!". Could you get anymore juvenile.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 27/02/2025
RFK Jr. Vows To Make Measles Deaths So Common They Won’t Be Upsetting Anymore
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RFK Jr. Vows To Make Measles Deaths So Common They Won’t Be Upsetting Anymore
WASHINGTON—Addressing the ongoing outbreak in Texas that has infected at least 124 state residents and killed one child, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vowed Thursday to mak...
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Politico @politico.com · 27/02/2025
During Trump's first term, the country’s 23 Dem state AGs notched key legal victories but in an improvised, reactive way. This time around, they had a plan.
politico.com
23 Dem AGs think they’ve cracked the code to fighting Trump
Democratic state attorneys general have been planning their lawsuits for a year.
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Libby Whittemore @libbage55.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlur Advertisement at a London bus stop. Ya gotta love the British…
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
There’s a Project 2025 tracker to follow their progress and to see what’s ahead. The project Trump and the GOP disavowed because it was so unpopular and then began immediately to put in place. www.project2025.observer
project2025.observer
Project 2025 Tracker
Track the progress on Project 2025
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