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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/08/2026

They disinvented the VCR. You might think that the reason we don't have VCRs anymore is because VCRs were supplanted by DVDs, PVRs and streaming, but that's not the case. They had it in for the VCR from the very start, and they never stopped trying to kill it. Eventually, they succeeded. 1/

A 1960s family living room in which a mom, dad and two kids are mesmerized by a cabinet-style TV. The image has been altered. The TV has an early 1990s VCR atop it. The TV screen is displaying a cross-sectioned human head with brains and spine on display. A huge fist has materialized in the room, with bloody spiked knuckle-dusters, smashing into the VCR. The oil painting over the sofa has been replaced with a pulp image of a male head, its cranium removed and replaced by a dome. Inside the dome is a red eight-segment VCR clock, displaying 12:00. The background in the painting is a tangle of cassette tape. The whole image's colors have been boosted, giving it an overexposed look.

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lesquid.bsky.social @lesquid.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Revoking participation in DMCA 1201 would greatly weaken the hold that the tech-bros have over us by opening our economies up for competition. In Canada we adopted DMCA under a previous round of tariff threats by the USA. Maybe it’s time we review everything we’ve conceded under duress.

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Senator Martin Heinrich @heinrich.senate.gov · 25/08/2026

I’ve wanted to visit the Boundary Waters for most of my life. After four days of paddling a canoe I barely scratched the surface. We paddled, we camped, I even caught a Northern Pike. I can’t imagine copper sulfide pollution ruining this wilderness. We're gonna fight this.

Senator Martin Heinrich and Julie Heinrich paddle on the Boundary Waters.

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Families for Safe Streets @familiesforsafestreets.org · 24/08/2026

THREAD🧵🧵🧵 An underride crash, demonstrated in this video, is a particularly violent crash in which a car skids underneath a trailer, instantly severing the passenger compartment. The story of Marianne Karth underscores why we need to address this.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

New from 404 Media: we solved which AI company is buying massive shipments of rare books, scanning and destroying them to train AI. We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...

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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects

A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it

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Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 06/08/2026

Honored to have helped submit this amicus brief to SCOTUS. In it, we essentially argue that climate change is real, that it has real costs, and that there are well-established climate-economic methods to calculate these costs (ahem, gwagner.com/synthesis-scc).

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Lia @liamendez.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Got mad. Made a thing. Zines are not a crime. Drawings made by hand with a Pentel pocket brush pen, and edited digitally. ✍️ 🚫🤖

An illustrated graphic set against the backdrop of USA flag colors. It depicts two blank zines, a craft knife, a bone folder, and a sharpie pen with the words "First Amendment. Come and take it."

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

The image here borrows its title from Grant's 1868 presidential campaign slogan, "Let us have peace." Here's what Frederick Douglass had to say about that sentiment.

In the language of our greatest soldier, twice honored with the Presidency of the nation, “Let us have peace.” Yes, let us have peace, but let us have liberty, law, and justice first. Let us have the Constitution, with its thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments, fairly interpreted, faithfully executed, and cheerfully obeyed in the fullness of their spirit and the completeness of their letter.

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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Why the European left should always be pro-AC: - Ceding this popular issue to the right empowers them; in power they'll gut climate action far more than any AC "emissions." - AC runs on solar. Breaking news: The sun shines when it's hot. - AC saves lives. HEAT PUMPS FOR ALL! (AC is a heat pump...)

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

YIKES: The OPM is proposing new NDAs for federal workers, this means scientists cannot talk about their work. They can't share their data, or talk to journalists. But it's still open for public comment! Comment by June 26. www.regulations.gov/search?filte...

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 22/06/2026

Air-to-air heat pump is air conditioning my home; drawing on power generated by solar panels; which also charge domestic batteries, which can keep powering the AC at night time. I can thankfully cool my home in this weather without importing any electricity, in fact I’m exporting excess to the grid.

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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 15/04/2026

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

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Cross-laminated Tinder @nickhasthoughts.com · 19/05/2026

green energy tech feels like the only bright spot in the world right now, this rules

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Bikes are fun! @khsponsel.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Some joyful news is most welcome

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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

NEW POSTER: The Road Lobby loves when it’s hard for us to walk or bike to school, work, to get a coffee or some milk. Their profit depends on it. On everything far away, on car dependency, on convenience and choice being illegal. #UrbanTruth #1HourCityConspiracy

“The road lobby loves when it’s hard for us to walk or bike to school, work, to get a coffee or some milk. Their profit depends on it.”

1 hour cities are the conspiracy. 15 minute cities are the truth.

Via the Urban Truth Collective.

#CarDependency

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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 20/04/2026

From “The Simpsons” house genius John Swartzwelder, interviewed in The New Yorker by Mike Sacks

It's the only way I know how to write, darn it. But I do have a trick that makes things easier for me. Since writing is very hard and rewriting is comparatively easy and rather fun, I always write my scripts all the way through as fast as I can, the first day, if possible, putting in crap jokes and pattern dialogue-
"Homer, I don't want you to do that."
"Then I won't do it."Then the next day, when I get up, the script's been written.
It's lousy, but it's a script. The hard part is done. It's like a crappy little elf has snuck into my office and badly done all my work for me, and then left with a tip of his crappy hat. All I have to do from that point on is fix it. So I've taken a very hard job, writing, and turned it into an easy one, rewriting, overnight. I advise all writers to do their scripts and other writing this way. And be sure to send me a small royalty every time you do it.

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Dutch Cycling Embassy @dutchcycling.nl · 15/04/2026

For a leading art institution in Amsterdam, charging lithium-ion batteries indoors was not an ideal option. By placing a Powershelter charging unit in an exterior staff area, they created space for employees to commute sustainably without adding fire risk near artworks. Read more: buff.ly/A9w51fU

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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

“The Bullshit Asymmetry Principle, also known as Brandolini’s Law, states that the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.” Useful article. As we look at solutions though, our priority is demanding upstream leadership. #UrbanTruth

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Bullshit Asymmetry Principle

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.” - George Bernard Shaw.  Shaw’s warning seems more pertinent than ever, as we face growing amounts of misinform...

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

“Google has created a misinformation crisis. Studies have shown that people tend to trust what AI tells them without question…Another experiment found that users still listened to AI when it gave them the wrong answer nearly 80% of the time—a grim trend the researchers dubbed “cognitive surrender.”

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Bikes are fun! @khsponsel.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

All foods are either a sandwich or a stroganoff. Taco=sandwich Open-faced sandwich=stroganoff

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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

The time to do something is now, and we must act.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

The remarkable Artemis II mission isn’t making me more passionate about Mars. It’s making me more passionate about Earth.

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

youth mobility = adult relaxing I'm in this fight to do less more often.

graphic of a cup of coffee

prioritizing youth mobility is prioritizing adult relaxing

When kids can walk/roll safely and independently to school, you can enjoy some peaceful time to yourself.

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Tern Bicycles @ternbicycles.com · 01/04/2026

Saving money on gas starts with smarter alternatives to owning a car. With an e-bike that can handle groceries, commutes, and school drop-offs, you can transition to a one-car family, using it for daily trips and saving thousands each year. #risinggasprices #gasprices #cargobike #ebike #SaveMoney

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Bunch Bikes @bunchbike.com · 01/04/2026

We're on it! #cargobike

"Meet your new minivan" ad with subtext "Fuel it up for $7 per year"

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Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield @agdanrayfield.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Read our statement on today’s executive order limiting vote by mail. #orpol

“Oregonians have been voting by mail for decades. It’s safe and secure. Even the president does it. Vote by mail increases access to the ballot which is a cornerstone to our democracy, and we’ll use every legal tool available to us to fight this and protect Oregonians’ right to vote.”

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Bikes are fun! @khsponsel.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

We should abolish the Senate and make the house be 695 seats (the cube root of the population), w/20yr term limits. Then expand the supreme court to 21 seats w/21yr term limits.

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

less is more. newest from @urbantruth.bsky.social

Graphic with photo of Oslo pedestrian streets filled with people. Text says “fewer cars equal more business“ with the line at the bottom saying “every so often less is more.” Ad poster created by the Urban Truth Collective.

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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

“What gas prices?” Better cities create choices. #UrbanTruth

Image of people riding in a busy protected bike-lane on a street that also has space for buses and cars. Mobility freedom comes from mobility choice. Text in graphic is the same as in the post. Graphic by the URBAN TRUTH COLLECTIVE.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

I’ve been saying for months that this Paris election to pick @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s successor is the most important city election in the world. Over 34 years advising cities, I’ve seen inspiring cities either take their success to the next level, or go backwards, in moments just like this. #VOTE

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Bikes are fun! @khsponsel.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Buy up land rights for a high speed rail corridor from Sacramento to Vancouver BC, building stations and dedicated rails.

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Bikes are fun! @khsponsel.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Nuremberg 2.0 can't happen soon enough and it needs to be publicly broadcast.

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Bikes are fun! @khsponsel.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Hell, thread and woven fabric are a more important technology than AI

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g @gnk.nz · 17/02/2026

Poster:

"If you’re unemployed, it’s not because there isn’t any work.

Just look around: A housing shortage, crime, pollution; we need better schools and parks. Whatever our needs, they all require work. And as long as we have unsatisfied needs, there’s work to be done.

So ask yourself, what kind of world has work but no jobs? It’s a world where work is not related to satisfying our needs, a world where work is only related to satisfying the profit needs of business.

This country was not built by the huge corporations or government bureaucracies. It was built by people who work. And, it is working people who should control the work to be done. Yet, as long as employment is tied to somebody else’s profits, the work won’t get done."

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Bikes are fun! @khsponsel.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

In cycling, throwing your bike is tantrum behavior. Well, I got hit by a pickup truck and tossed 25ft. Somehow didn't break any bones, but the bike was toast. "FUCK THIS SHIT!" [Picks up bike and chucks it into a tree, full force. Walk off the road, sit in the grass and call 911 for an ambulance]

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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

✅ Raised crosswalks function as speed tables that physically compel drivers to slow down. ✅ This places pedestrians higher in the driver’s field of vision, while signaling a pedestrian-priority zone. ✅ They create a seamless, barrier-free path for all users by maintaining a level surface.

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Bikes are fun! @khsponsel.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Billionaires are everything wrong with our world right now. We need to fix the system so no one can hoard that much wealth ever again. youtu.be/b1vFgUi4frU?...

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Epstein Isn’t an Aberration. He’s an Inevitable Outcome - Barry's Economics

YouTube video by Barry's Economics

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

"Here, finally, is a worthy use of the NIMBY impulse that is so easy to activate for worse reasons." Friends, you can use that. I highly recommend going full Karen for the right reasons.

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John Freeman @johnfreeman.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Art by Iranian cartoonist Mana Neyestami | www.instagram.com/neyestanimana

Art by Iranian cartoonist Mana Neyestami | https://www.instagram.com/neyestanimana

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Le Ca-ghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Pitched @anthonymoser.com's Kirby Frame Theory and also his amazing essay "I Am An AI Hater" to a roomful of rhetoric faculty and grad students last night and they ate it up, as is correct

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I Am An AI Hater

I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 03/02/2026

"This guy is clearly a monster, but he's a well-connected and well-resourced monster so I'm going to let it slide" is the universal lapse in judgement here among elites, and it's a huge issue that seems to be getting missed even though it's so damning of the culture around them.

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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

"We were ahead until all the votes were counted, then we lost." Yeah man, sometimes elections work like that. It's why baseball games don't just end when your team is up in the 8th inning. Losing in the 9th doesn't mean you were cheated, it means your team stinks.

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