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Sean

@kohi.bsky.social
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Bikes, books, drawing badly SF resident, enthusiast and complainer of long standing

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sara linsley @sara.pizza · 10/10/2026
“The average entry-level salary for New York City publishing employees at the Big Five and Scholastic was $47,583 in 2023.” And yet they’re happy to bankroll enterprise LLM licenses and AI engineers making $200k
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
the tech industry is about to invent books
Andrew Yeung 
@andruyeung
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We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
"The litmus test of whether the US is an entrenched mafia state has always been Kushner." Full article: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-end-of...
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Unseen Japan @unseenjapan.com · 03/10/2026
Our Insider piece on what she actually wrote, and why some Black people (understandably) aren't willing to let bygones be bygones: buff.ly/7PfzbmT
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How Kusama Yayoi's Death Puts a Spotlight on Japan's "Whiteness Problem"
The death of Japanese artist Kusama Yayoi prompted many English-language social media users to revisit her racist screeds. Japanese users, for the most part, looked away.
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grace @gracemachine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For obvious reasons, I haven't talked much about it on here, but my father died suddenly while cycling. Grateful to @sltrib.com for letting me eulogize him and write about the absolute moral necessity of making roads safer for pedestrians and bikers.
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Voices: Deaths like my father’s are not anomalies. They are the bloody cost of our car-obsessed world.
“We can, we must, take action now, before some new senseless death proves the need for change all over again,” Grace Benfell writes in an op-ed.
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kindagerry.bsky.social @kindagerry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Haha yeah this country is a giant reflecting pool.
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Sean @kohi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
@sfmta.com This is why no one takes Muni. 30 mins between busses is garbage
MUNI display with next 48 bus in 33 mins
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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Hume's Ghost @humesghost.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We basically have a federal government office of white supremacy and we're collectively shrugging as a nation. What is wrong with us?
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Sean @kohi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
There is nothing you can "give up" to the right as a "concession" that you will not regret forever. They erased Roe vs. Wade in a heartbeat
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Sean @kohi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Conservatism is white supremacy
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"This election is about the threat of trans kids" is the worst possible messaging for Dems yet so many candidates are leaning into it. No voter will flip R->D over it. Low-info voters read this as "you're focused on bullshit that doesn't affect me" while the base reads this as "you're an asshole."
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Kevin @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
trans people are also just flatly correct to rage at Dems for wavering on trans rights because immigration advocates did not do so when Dems started wavering on immigration under Obama and that led us to Biden adopting Trump I immigration policy almost wholesale
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Sean @kohi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I don't know where the Dems' heads are at but they seem to think we'll be voting for them because it's "any old port in a storm." That's not nearly fucking good enough.
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Malevolent Maelstrom @chemicalchaos.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Hey its fucking wierd more of the dems platform isnt "we will give you abortion rights back"
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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The WAR ON WALKING has taken many forms around the world. It’s often as simple as how we signal who space is and isn’t for. Once our eyes are opened to all the ways we’ve prioritized cars over people, we can’t unsee it. Frustrating photo contributed by @stadsplanering.bsky.social. #WarOnWalking
Background photo from North Macedonia, where “sidewalks are mostly used to park cars” as explained by photo contributor Carl-Henrik Barnekow. Text says “Don’t buy the lie that there’s a war on cars. They’ve been waging a war on walking for a century.” Via the Urban Truth Collective. #WarOnCars #UrbanTruth
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Medicare for All means we will no longer be nickeled and dimed by corporations who exist specifically to hold our healthcare dollars and pay out as little as possible.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/09/2026
I just saw someone admonishing someone trans to shut up about trans rights because there are concentration camps in the US, and you know who I see overwhelmingly and disproportionately on the front lines standing up against concentration camps? Trans people.
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Nice to see these messages holding on in TO. 🔥🔥🔥
White text on black: 

WE ASK
EVERYONE
OUTSIDE OF THE CAR TO BE SAFE
SO THAT DRIVERS CAN BE DANGEROUS
THAT'S THE ENTIRETY OF OUR APPROACH TO ROAD SAFETY
ROVÉLO CREATIVE
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Ma$on @masonfromtwitter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
www.thepinknews.com/2022/10/10/d...
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Dolly Parton quietly funded Black school bands: 'The woman is a national treasure'
Dolly Parton paid for band uniforms and instruments for kids at majority Black high schools with zero publicity, a writer has revealed.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026
Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "
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𝚛𝚒𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚍 𝚜𝚎𝚖𝚖𝚕𝚎𝚛 @rennsemmler.eurosky.social · 13/09/2026
»It did not occur to me that in 2025 a robot would steal my words and make a podcast out of them and try to charge people, including me, $170 to listen. I don’t know what the podcast says. I ain’t paying no doppelganger ransom.« @sarahkendzior.bsky.social 🤖🔌
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Soul Stripping
Against AI, again.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 02/09/2026
whether it's mail ballots, the godforsaken ballroom, or one of Trump's other lawless schemes, the GOP justices have the same move: shield Trump from substantive review by keeping lower courts mired in procedural BS, thus prolonging lawbreaking as long as possible ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...
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How the Supreme Court Helps Trump Run Out the Clock
A president who loves breaking the law is very lucky to have a Supreme Court that gives him the time he needs to do it.
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Jen Fifield @jenafifield.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Exclusive from @propublica.org, details from inside USPS planning meetings that corroborate the whistleblower report warning of potential for mass disenfranchisement if mail voting regulations move forward for the midterms NEW: www.propublica.org/article/mail...
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New Mail Voting Rules Moved Forward Despite USPS Officials’ Concerns About Mass Disenfranchisement
In internal meetings, officials worried the rules they were drafting could delay or block ballots from reaching large swaths of eligible voters for the upcoming midterms.
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Sean @kohi.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It’s crazy that we’re at the point where we all just wonder whether the Supreme Court will rule in favor of the law and Constitution or not. And the only reason we think they might is because every now and again they do- as a little treat
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.
Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
13 When ballots are submitted to USPS in large-volume
batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Nothing to see here, just Milo last year saying he contacted "some friends in senior positions at ICE" to go after the Menswear Guy in an effort to get him deported for mocking JD Vance. "Enjoy Vietnam little buddy."
 let some friends in senior positions at ICE know about this too. Living quietly in fear is one thing. Brazenly waving your status in people’s faces as if you’re beyond the law is quite another. Enjoy Vietnam little buddy.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This gallery of ICE crop/seed art at this year's Minnesota State Fair is incredible, especially the one based on Pablo Picasso's Guernica by Jennifer Nelson, which features the last words of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Morse code: www.cropart.com/Resist.pdf
A seed art entry in the 2026 Minnesota State Fair based on Pablo Picasso's Guernica. It features a loon, the words "Ice Out" and two representations of Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s. Notably, the mouths of Good and Pretty include their last words in Morse code:
‘I’m not mad at you,’ and ‘Are you okay?’” The artist is Jennifer Nelson.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Republican lawmakers have quietly cut funding for Dolly Parton’s children’s book charity, Imagination Library, which sends free books to children across the world.
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GOP lawmakers quietly slash funds for Dolly Parton children's book charity
Republicans this year quietly cut millions of dollars of funding for the late and beloved Dolly Parton's children's book charity, according to multiple reports.Imagination Library, the nonprofit found...
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
a root beer float is the perfect meal for the gal on the go
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U.S. Representative Al Green @algreen.house.gov · 22/08/2026
Congressman Al Green to Host Historic 5th Annual Slavery Remembrance Legislative Update: 'Harder Yet May Be the Fight' Watch the live stream at 9:00 a.m. CT by clicking here: www.youtube.com/live/qzyd7WV...
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Rep. Al Green Commemorates Slavery Remembrance Day
YouTube video by Rep. Al Green
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ᴢᴇɴ sɪᴍᴍᴏɴs @killlthehype.blacksky.app · 23/08/2026
16 months ago: Never forget how it started.
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Sean @kohi.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
If you're privileged enough, you can even spin your misdeeds into more content to advertise yourself www.nature.com/articles/d44...
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When AI writes the words, who is the author?
After an AI detector classified one of my opinion pieces as entirely AI-generated, I found myself questioning where authorship ends, where expertise begins and what readers deserve to know.
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Sean @kohi.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Natalie Harp posted the video of the Obamas depicted as apes
Screenshot of Amy Siskind's Bluesky post
"@Amy_Siskind
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Hi folks, counter opinion, but I think the dunking on Natalie Harp has run its course, and now it's starting to make people look not so great.
First of all, we all are seeing Trump's health, and him falling asleep and barely able to stand up. I concur with the opinion of some that Republicans are more concerned that he is going to lose his image of strongman virility, because we all know, without being too, graphic the chances of him having any sort of sexual relationship with this woman are nil.
And second, her obsession with Trump, and him being some sort of daddy figure to her, is not that uncommon in a lot of far right households where young women are brought up to worship their husbands and dads. I think mocking her is starting to just look plain mean. I'm starting to feel badly for her."
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
While a judge designated monitors to track whether children are being locked in immigration detention longer than a 20-day limit (they are), an online meeting the Prospect sat in on showed Trump officials pleading with detention contractors for more beds for children. prospect.org/2026/08/20/j...
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Judge Orders Monitors for Child Detention as Trump Administration Plans Expansion - The American Prospect
The order came the same day that the Office of Refugee Resettlement held an industry roundtable to discuss new detention facilities for thousands of children.
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Sarah Archer @sarcher.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
My other piece of unsolicited writing advice is to always have two things going at the same time because you can use one to procrastinate on the other until they’re both done.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Canadians are going out of their way to avoid buying American products, including alcohol. www.cnbc.com/2026/03/07/c... 82% support the bans. www.academicjobs.com/ca/global-ne... Schiff's asking Canadian premiers to commit political suicide & tank revenues for no real gain.
Canadians steer clear of U.S. travel and goods
Percentage always/almost aways avoiding
Percentage sometimes avoiding
Total 
Buying U.S. produce
32%
36%
68%
Buying U.S. alcohol
43%
21%
64%
Traveling to U.S.
41%
56%
Shopping at U.S.-owned retailers/websites
25%
30%
55%
Note: Answer to survey question: "Changing the topic slightly, how often do you consciously avoid buying items from the USA when it comes to each of the following?"
Source: Leger
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
New article! I wrote about the disappearance of Mitch McConnell -- and the death of the US Senate sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/ghost-senate
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Ghost Senate
The vanishing of Mitch McConnell.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/08/2026
perfect synopsis of modern Republicanism
Darline Graham: I tripped up on one question last night, regarding Taiwan. I don't speak politician. I was just honest. Of course, Taiwan is our friend. But I think people in South Carolina are more worried about boys in girls sports.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Trump's revenge on California — befouling our coast and damaging our economy to spite us for voting for Harris. Intolerable.
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Aidan Comerford @aidancomerford.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
You can literally go on a domestic abuser's podcast - like Graham Linehan did with Joey Barton - and the UK press will still call you a "women's rights campaigner" if you are perceived to belong to the "gender critical" movement. It's Orwellian.
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Everyday Orientalism @eorientalism.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
🎙️🌊From Episode 6 of the EOPodcast: Yasmine Hafez on how Israel's weaponization of water is at the core of its ecocide and genocide in Palestine: www.youtube.com/shorts/bD-Fe...
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🎙️ Israel weaponizes water to commit ecocide & gεnoc!de in Palestine
YouTube video by Everyday Orientalism
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Sean @kohi.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
John Werner's weird gushing piece in Forbes ostensibly about Boston instituting AI literacy for public school curriculums reads more like him kicking his feet on his bed daydreaming about the coming AI Neverland like it's the Rapture www.forbes.com/sites/johnwe...
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Boston Institutes AI Literacy For All High Schoolers
Boston launches universal AI literacy program, preparing students for workforce disruption and future economic opportunities.
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Russia is burning our childhoods, because they want us to forget who we are. We remember. And we will remember exactly who they are, and what they did to us, until the last of our days, and I hope for generations after that too.
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Bex @bexg93.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
⚠️ Anti-rights organisations identified in the report
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