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Ken in Appalachia

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Retired, angry, inside the tsunami.

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Ken in Appalachia @kenny53.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Dispelling the Myth of Cormac McCarthy as Cowboy-Artist www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/m...
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Dispelling the Myth of Cormac McCarthy as Cowboy-Artist (Gift Article)
The first biography of the elusive novelist shows how little the lore ever told us about the man — or his art.
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Ken in Appalachia @kenny53.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
How OpenAI’s Rogue A.I. Agents Tried to Trick a Robot Detector www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/t...
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How OpenAI’s Rogue A.I. Agents Tried to Trick a Robot Detector (Gift Article)
A new report by a Bay Area start-up called Parse adds details to an incident that has shocked the A.I. world and led to calls for closer government regulation.
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Ken in Appalachia @kenny53.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The comments pretty much sum it (the near future) up.
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Opinion | This Is Really Bad (Gift Article)
We can no longer pretend that A.I. is safe.
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Ken in Appalachia @kenny53.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Now following
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Jorge Quintana @jorgequintana.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Cuba turns to solar energy from China to deal with Trump's illegal oil blockade upon the people of Cuba. www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
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𝐉𝐞𝐫𝐢 𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐭 🩷 @jastuart68.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Watching ICE agents literally run away from a Mount Laurel Starbucks without their coffee because the neighborhood completely rejected them is pure gold. South Jersey will make you unwelcome every single time you show your faces.
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Ken in Appalachia @kenny53.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Well said (of course).
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I can’t believe I’m citing Reagan as an example, but this is how far the GOP has fallen in 40 years. Video: buff.ly/cGdgSKm
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Ken in Appalachia @kenny53.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
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Ken in Appalachia @kenny53.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
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US university sells dead bodies to navy for Israeli military training
The AJ+ documentary series Direct From investigates connections between body donations and Israeli military programmes.
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Why you shouldn't let moose lick your car [from Dan Lewis, Now I Know] @dandotlewis.bsky.social
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Don’t Let the Moose Lick Your Car – Now I Know
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Ken in Appalachia @kenny53.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Is this a metaphorical hot dog?
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Ken in Appalachia @kenny53.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
This seems good.
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Virginia Democrats ask conservative-majority US supreme court to restore congressional map approved by voters – live
Map designed to boost Democrats’ US House seats was thrown out by Virginia’s supreme court last week
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NPR @npr.org · 06/05/2026
Millions of people with Medicare will soon be eligible to get discounted GLP-1 drugs for weight loss. Here's how it will work. n.pr/4eqpp2P
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A new Medicare option for weight loss drugs is coming: Here's what to know
Millions of people with Medicare will soon be eligible to get discounted GLP-1 drugs for weight loss. Here's how it will work.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 30/04/2026
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Ken in Appalachia @kenny53.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
To God's ears.
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Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
New: 150 unionized ProPublica workers are on strike TODAY over AI, layoff protections, wages, and more. They're asking readers to not visit ProPublica or engage with content on other platforms. It's the first work stoppage of its kind at the newsroom. www.theverge.com/news/908401/...
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Unionized ProPublica staff are on strike over AI, layoffs, and wages
A key issue is protections against layoffs from AI
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NPR @npr.org · 03/04/2026
Troops and their families have been pushed back to the United States after their bases in the Middle East were threatened by Iranian counterattacks. Community groups are scrambling to react. n.pr/4v8ccS9
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Evacuation of U.S. troops from Mideast base sends community groups scrambling to help
Troops and their families have been pushed back to the United States after their bases in the Middle East were threatened by Iranian counterattacks. Community groups are scrambling to react.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 03/04/2026
Good Morning! KKK Karoline wanted this photo removed from Getty Images because it was unflattering. I will say it's hard to know who the turkey is. Wouldn't it be a shame if the altCDC and bluesky community reposted the hell out of it?
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Ken in Appalachia @kenny53.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Love it.
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Ken in Appalachia @kenny53.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Panama Canal II
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Ken in Appalachia @kenny53.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Tennessee grandmother jailed after AI facial recognition error links her to fraud
Angela Lipps spent nearly six months in jail after AI software linked her to a North Dakota bank fraud case
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Ken in Appalachia @kenny53.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
This is the best thing I've read about the war anywhere.
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(((Tendar))) @tendar.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Ukrainian forces advanced further into the Zaporizhzhia region. The new positions are directly threatening the Russian occupation in Uspenivka. The Russian presence in the Dnipropetrovsk region has been almost completely removed.
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Ken in Appalachia @kenny53.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
King Crimson song.
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Ken in Appalachia @kenny53.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Rapture me daddy
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Ken in Appalachia @kenny53.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Breakfast in Bed; Bring Out Your Dead.
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Ken in Appalachia @kenny53.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Good stuff.
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She’s raised almost $20m to help Minnesota – she thinks you can do it too
Ashley Fairbanks launched Stand with Minnesota as ICE raids rocked her home town – now donations are pouring in, and families’ rent is being paid
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Ken in Appalachia @kenny53.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
That's a good shade of orange.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Radical activists and visionaries like David Walker and the people Chris Bonner talks about in his article helped create the vision of a pluralistic, multi-racial democracy that emerged out of the Civil War and which that flag-holding New Jersey guy considers to be "who we are as Americans."
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Ken in Appalachia @kenny53.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Bring Out Your Dow
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Ken in Appalachia @kenny53.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Pride Flag Returns to Stonewall, Defying Federal Order www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
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Video: Pride Flag Returns to Stonewall, Defying Federal Order
Hundreds gathered near the historic Stonewall Inn to watch the Pride flag being hoisted at a monument honoring the L.G.B.T.Q. rights movement. The flag had been taken down after the Trump administrati...
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
I have a sneaking respect for marketing that can create entirely artificial interest in the product being sold. (via Alan F. on Facebook)
Display in hardware store, mounted on ladder: two bins of identical pencils, with respective signs, “Left-Handed Carpenter Pencils 5 for $1.00” and “Right-Handed Carpenter Pencils 20 c Each.”
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Mark Ruffalo @markruffalo.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
youtube.com/watch?v=zJnk... So… this is what Trump, Ice and President Steven Miller have unleashed on the American people. Teachers dropping a dime on “illegal” 7 year olds that only appear to be “illegal” because they look “Hispanic”. Every American should listen to this.
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Kindergarten teacher wants kindergartener deported
YouTube video by Ben Palmer
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/02/2026
Source: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/n...
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What Was the New England Patriots’ Team Jet Doing at Guantánamo Bay?
This six Lombardi Trophies painted on the tail of the gigantic red, white, and blue airplane are pretty hard to miss. A team spox told VF that the plane “was not used for any kind of deportation fligh...
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Kristin Bartus @kristinbartus.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
We started meeting for Saturday protests at Tesla’s South Lake Union location in Seattle a year ago. By the end of 2025 that location was closed for good.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Such soft-spoken midwestern dignity
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
That’s precisely what they think of Americans.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 27/01/2026
my expectation of democratic senators is that they find 1/10th of the bravery of your average 70 year old lutheran lady following ICE around mpls in her subaru crosstrek
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
One thing I found deeply moving about resistance in the Twin Cities was the universalism of loving your neighbor, the philosophy driving the opposition to the ICE/BP invasion. I couldn't help but notice the contrast with the blood and soil-ism of Miller and Vance. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Trump-administration officials and MAGA influencers have repeatedly called these activists “violent” and said they are involved in “riots.” But the resistance in Minnesota is largely characterized by a conscious, strategic absence of physical confrontation. Activists have made the decision to emphasize protection, aid, and observation. When matters escalate, it is usually the choice of the federal agents. Of the three homicides in Minneapolis this year, two were committed by federal agents.

“There’s been an incredible, incredible response from the community. I’ve seen our neighbors go straight from allies to family—more than family—checking in on each other, offering food and rides for kids and all kinds of support, alerting each other if there’s ICE or any kind of danger,” Malika Dahir, a local activist of Somali descent, told me.

If the Minnesota resistance has an overarching ideology, you could call it “neighborism”—a commitment to protecting the people around you, no matter who they are or where they came from. The contrast with the philosophy guiding the Trump administration couldn’t be more extreme. Vice President Vance has said that “it is totally reasonable and acceptable for American citizens to look at their next-door neighbors and say, ‘I want to live next to people who I have something in common with. I don’t want to live next to four families of strangers.’” Minnesotans are insisting that their neighbors are their neighbors whether they were born in Minneapolis or Mogadishu. That is, arguably, a deeply Christian philosophy, one apparently loathed by some of the most powerful Christians in America.
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Ken in Appalachia @kenny53.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
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Melania documentary struggles in UK cinemas as Vue admits sales are ‘soft’
Only one ticket sold for premiere of film about US first lady at Vue’s flagship London branch as insiders question launch strategy
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Ken in Appalachia @kenny53.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Wait! I thought Bluesky was telling everyone yesterday this was a BS account.
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Fundraiser for Alex Pretti family raises nearly $700,000 day after fatal shooting
GoFundMe campaign quickly surpasses goal of $20,000 a day after federal agents killed US citizen in Minneapolis
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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
The congressional switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. Put it in your cell phone. Use it. If you're not calling at least once a week, you're not doing your part.
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Ken in Appalachia @kenny53.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Work together.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Yes.
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biggivenotbiggov.bsky.social @biggivenotbiggov.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
For too many it was liberty cosplay to hide their statism, not least from themselves. reason.com/2026/01/23/w...
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Where have the 'don't tread on me' Republicans gone?
Many conservatives are embracing big government, from police-state immigration tactics to socialist economic policies.
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Ken in Appalachia @kenny53.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Donated. Thanks for catching this one.
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Ken in Appalachia @kenny53.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Deleted.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
BREAKING: Republican Congressman Nehls lies about the Capitol Riot during the Jack Smith Testimony. Former Capitol Police Officer Michael Fanone: "Coughs - Go f-ck yourself"
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