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Ken Tidwell @kgcab.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

There was a local group, Medna Usta, that sang in this style in Santa Cruz back before the '89 earthquake. I've been a fan of this style of music ever since. I even like their bagpipes.

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Ken Tidwell @kgcab.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Cool! Where did you get them?

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Ken Tidwell @kgcab.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Oh, it's Catan! What else would it be?

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 16/01/2026

Californians are NOT going to vote for Gavin Newsom. They're telling you now, with YEARS to go before the election. Fair warning. Please support better candidates, there will be many to choose from.

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Ken Tidwell @kgcab.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

The Two Towers is very good! We got a copy at the pre-release in December. Lots of fun.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

I ask this every now and then and I’ve yet to get a good answer. How long does it take for people to realize they’re on the wrong side of history?

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

I understand the pressures on the BBC, but Radio 4's coverage of the Minneapolis shooting is an example of "bad balance". It's all "the Trump regime says she was a terrorist, but Democrats say it was murder". The BBC has the footage. It doesn't have to treat truth and falsehood as equally valid.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 05/01/2026

Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Primary them all and block anybody who comes with the “at this crucial juncture the most important thing is that we win.” if they believed that they wouldn’t do this and with friends like them nobody needs enemies

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Damien: Omen II the Joy Fantastic @mrmunchertoyou.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

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Eric Moran @deveric.net · 09/12/2025

I can't believe I have to say this, but if you have COVID don't go to public gatherings/events.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

It would be so nice if we had a Congress whose members did something besides appear on talk shows.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 24/11/2025

You have to keep giving money to avoid collapse and if there’s collapse you have to give more money. It’s called the free market.

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Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Of course I would say this, but we need to talk about the moral & ideological case for play & leisure more than ever. So much political discourse - especially from the super-rich - assumes we ought to construct society around forcing citizens to spend most of their one, unrepeatable life working.

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Ken Tidwell @kgcab.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Bonnie Ohara - Bread Baking for Beginners It's a great introduction to making your own loaves.

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

"Look, the Fed can do a lot of things, but what it can't do is lower the price of imports. It can't make it so there are more workers for California farmers to help pick the crops." These are self-inflicted supply shocks, and the Fed can't magically undo them. (The White House can.)

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Ken Tidwell @kgcab.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Would love to but $12 shipping on two little pins is outrageous. They need to learn to ship in padded envelopes.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Any President who calls for the opposition party to be hanged should be immediately impeached and removed from office.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Underrated thing that's been flying under the radar: ICE's hiring spree, by necessity since there are so few others willing and able, has been hiring away local cops, which infuriates the departments by causing manpower problems and is, ironically, removing the worst of the worst from their ranks.

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John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

@ddayen.bsky.social on the "perverse and irrational" private credit deals financing the AI boom, w "huge mismatches between the life cycle of the assets being funded and the amount of time it will take to pay them off." prospect.org/2025/11/19/a...

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The AI Bubble Is Bigger Than You Think - The American Prospect

It’s not just OpenAI that looks overhyped. There’s a whole mountain of sketchy financial engineering underneath.

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Of all the terrible things Roberts has done, this was the most shocking stat: "the right-wing majority has used the shadow docket to uphold Trump’s actions roughly 90 percent of the time, repeatedly bailing him out of any obligation to follow the law"

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor

Polymarket tweets: "BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani to require all New York elementary school students to learn Arabic numerals."

Laura Loomer replies: "You know things are bad when you can't tell if this is real or a joke.

Dear God. It's real. Isn't it?"

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Restaurant advocates have warned that if every supplier insisted on being paid for ingredients, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry

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Ken Tidwell @kgcab.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

What's the scoop on your Xmas games? I've not seen one before!

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Ken Tidwell @kgcab.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

New Zealand north island is like this.

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Ken Tidwell @kgcab.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

These sorts of prints were included in the Japanese print exhibit at the Legion of Honor museum in San Francisco. They were kept in a side room with an ID checking guard.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Administrators at Indiana University baselessly fired the student media director and ordered the student paper to cease its print edition, so it'd sure be a shame if this excellent digital front page were to be widely shared today issuu.com/idsnews/docs...

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 01/10/2025

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Mike Johnson continues to refuse to swear in a Democrat who won in a landslide.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

*mournfully shooting off a tshirt cannon into the sadly cheering funeral crowd*

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

This story feels like it’s going to have huge repercussions

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Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 15/09/2025

A totally serious commitment and not at all extended in only one direction.

Tweet from Greg Abbott:

This is what happened to the person who was mocking Charlie Kirk’s assassination at Texas Tech.

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Tweet from Greg Abbott: I just signed a law protecting free speech on college campuses.

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Ken Tidwell @kgcab.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

I liked it a lot. Starts super slow but gets rolling in the second half.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

#SCOTUS all-but overruled a unanimous, 90-year-old precedent through an unexplained "administrative" stay this morning, and that's only the second-most-problematic thing it did before lunchtime.

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Matt McDermott @mattmfm.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Nothing sums up America under Republican rule like turning a place of history and strength into a strip mall food court.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Reality has a liberal bias, it seems.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Big Oil donates to his campaign...Trump hands out tax breaks and guts clean energy funding. Fraudsters donate to his Super PAC...Trump hands out pardons. Airlines donate to his inaugural fund...Trump cancels a rule requiring them to refund passengers. Everything is for sale.

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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Britain's running on empty after years of neoliberalism and austerity - more tax cuts and more cuts in public spending would turn the UK into a ghost town. #r4today

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Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

The @nytimes.com ran a whole story about the murder of Venezuelan civilians on a ship as if it were a military matter and we were at war with Venezuela. It was a crime. The story never mentioned that Trump ordered a criminal act and the Navy followed an illegal order. This is a major event.

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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

So Texas is going to invade Illinois

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Under Dr. Oz, Medicare is launching a pilot program that will use AI to determine whether patients would be covered for certain procedures. Companies running the program will be paid a share of the savings from rejecting claims. Who in their right mind voted for this? No one.

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 01/09/2025

Don't forget about the DRM-free Humble Bundle from Tor (with Murderbot, Witch King, and more), benefiting World Center Kitchen. The donation is now at over 58,000. It would be awesome to get it up to $100,000. www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...

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Humble Book Bundle: Martha Wells' Murderbot and More by TOR

Fall in love with Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series—the engine behind the hit AppleTV adaptation—and help support World Central Kitchen.

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Ken Tidwell @kgcab.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

You got a Winsome in there!

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

This seems weirdly unsustainable at first, but it's OK because we're building a Dyson sphere around the solar system to host it.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Jesus Christ. If your credit isn’t frozen at all three bureaus, I would strongly consider doing that now

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

id be slightly less angry at dem leadership saying theyre only interested in throwing political punches on “kitchen table issues” if they were currently out there landing punches on “kitchen table issues”

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