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Leon [the] English [are already scary enough] @leonenglish.bsky.social · 1h

I don’t know anything about Brazil’s politics so I will not be opining on the why of it all but feels bad man

Leon [the] English [are already scary enough] @leonenglish.bsky.social · 2h

Universities having their own police departments is something I kind of took for granted as a college student that now seems insane to me

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Leon [the] English [are already scary enough] @leonenglish.bsky.social · 3h

Woke 1 was 90% people saying eye rolling stuff online and in certain activist and nonprofit spaces and the moment there was actually something that suggested consequences- Me Too - dudes in power lost their fucking minds.

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Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 4h

Speaking out while in the military is brave. They can put the hammer down on you if they choose, and they are choosing to do so in this case to make an example of him. www.military.com/air-force-ma...

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Air Force Maj. Jason Watson Arrested for Protesting Trump Could Face Court-Martial Over 'Contemptuous' Remarks

Watson says he acted not out of partisanship but to uphold his oath to defend the Constitution. He's been in pretrial confinement since Aug. 18.

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 10h

Overheard at the book festival: Older woman: Liberals are going to ruin everything by always talking about trans, trans, trans. 20-something woman: Are the trans kids on your lawn? Do you want them off?

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Leon [the] English [are already scary enough] @leonenglish.bsky.social · 10h

Oh we’re into the stretch goals part of the campaign, love to see it

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 13h

I don’t think I’m the only person who will appreciate this

Triangular diagram labelled The Introvert
Hierarchy of Needs.

Top: Self-actualisation - A completely empty house. An arrow pointing to the house says “Nobody needs anything. Nobody is coming home for hours. Phone on silent.”

The next level is Esteem - Plans getting cancelled. An arrow here says “‘Sorry, we're going to have to rearrange.’ Oh no. That's terrible. I'm devastated.”

Next level: Belonging - One person you actually like. No group chat. No networking. No "let's go round and introduce ourselves." Just one person you can talk absolute shit with.

Fourth level: Safety - An escape route. Own car. End seat. Knowing exactly when the event finishes. A believable reason to leave early.

Bottom of pyramid: Physiological needs - Being left the fuck alone for a bit. Food. Water. Sleep. 45 minutes where nobody speaks to you.

Created by Lee Harding, @theintrovertedrecruiter

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Leon [the] English [are already scary enough] @leonenglish.bsky.social · 18h

A failed impeachment effort is an impeachment resolution that doesn’t pass? Like they got Al Green talking about the value of impeachment but I bet the number of people who know about his attempts to impeach (none have passed) are less than 5% of voters… And he lost his primary this year.

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Leon [the] English [are already scary enough] @leonenglish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If you are out of shape and want to be forced to exercise can I recommend chasing a couple of 4 year olds around the park

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Leon [the] English [are already scary enough] @leonenglish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I love these because 1. It bodes well for a good political outcome 2. I enjoy watching seeing the faces of people who got us here telling us how they are suffering as a result of the poor choice they inflicted on the rest of us

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Leon [the] English [are already scary enough] @leonenglish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Was reminded by another thread about my late aunt who would post Facebook memes about “teachers should be paid more than nba players” and with 100% consistency vote for Republicans who in practice wanted teachers to be paid less and ahhhhhhhh why are people

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Leon [the] English [are already scary enough] @leonenglish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Easy answer for any Dem presidential contender who says they will bulldoze the ballroom and gets asked by a hostile press how they justify the cost is to reply - accurately - that it’s unusable because it’s an intelligence security risk.

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Leon [the] English [are already scary enough] @leonenglish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Texting senator cotton to stand firm in defending our American way of life (bending time to our will twice a year)

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Leon [the] English [are already scary enough] @leonenglish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Losing it at president dementia doxxing one of his staunchest allies over a fucking daylight savings bill (and with the justification that people have to change the big clocks on cathedrals????)

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Leon [the] English [are already scary enough] @leonenglish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We must tax billionaires out of existence to take away their bullhorns that let them warp the fabrics of our democracy by drowning out the rest of us.

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Leon [the] English [are already scary enough] @leonenglish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Watching a video playback as humans evolve from our common ancestor with chimps trying to pause at exact moment we developed sentience

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Leon [the] English [are already scary enough] @leonenglish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Last post I will do on LLMs/AI today, but I think one way to pretty easily square “LLMs express feelings and work better when they are treated nicely” with “ok but it’s still obviously just a tool” is that, like many tools, it has been built to reproduce what we do and, like many such tools…

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Leon [the] English [are already scary enough] @leonenglish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I’ve been thinking about how I think about this a lot recently and I am finding this vein useful, I think. Dogs are a good example, imho, for how to think about any artificial intelligence that might emerge anytime in the foreseeable future (and not, imho, in my lifetime).

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James MackinnAHHHHn @jamackinn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

He stands like a fucking centaur but the back half is invisible

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 03/10/2026

what i really regret is the bastardization of intersectionality. crenshaw's insight was that systems of oppression intersect in complex ways, rather than merely additive ones. as a result looking for a singular scale of oppression that delivers an ordinal ranking of all groups is a fool's errand

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Leon [the] English [are already scary enough] @leonenglish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I don’t know if I think so being conscious would necessarily make it immoral to use it for work? Like animals are conscious and as a non vegan I don’t find like draft horses particularly immoral as a thing. Anyway, they’re not, so this remains a thought experiment.

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Leon [the] English [are already scary enough] @leonenglish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Can’t stop laughing at this, particularly since Olah is an atheist.* *Claims to be, but I’m not sure how the AI singularity stuff is distinguishable from religion, so.

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LAISSEZ LES BOO QUESO ROULER @thequeso.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The wife tried to clean the garage door with a magic eraser today and that didn’t work. So she took the kids to Lowe’s and bought a pressure washer, to clean the garage door. Which she let the kids use to clean the garage door. Which is why there is a penis carved into our driveway now

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Leon [the] English [are already scary enough] @leonenglish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yeah this is the point I was trying to make a week or two ago about how like whatever consciousness may be and whatever forms it may take, things like pain and depression as we define them require a nervous system.

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's so annoying to me that everyone wants to wishcast term limits into being a thing you can lawfully do (I even think it's a good idea on the merits, though not really responsive to the current problems. But it absolutely, 100% requires an amendment)

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Leon [the] English [are already scary enough] @leonenglish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It is hard to overstate how insane it is for the government to just role over on this in a prosecution. Pretty sure it is unprecedented. They want this to go away so badly.

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Leon [the] English [are already scary enough] @leonenglish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

People get so annoyed that someone won’t let everyone scream at them just because of where they are employed

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Leon [the] English [are already scary enough] @leonenglish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Seems like a major political question to me, at the very least!

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Emily Hugan @changeurbanlife.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

That is just not true. The numbers: median house 1500 sqft in 1960s -> 2200 sqft in 2000s. They are ALSO more likely to have a dining room! 46.9% 1960s -> 50.6% 2000s.

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Emily Hugan @changeurbanlife.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Saw a comment on research why people aren't hosting friends for dinner anymore vs the 1970s. The commentator said the researcher should consider how people can't afford larger houses that have a dining room.

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Leon [the] English [are already scary enough] @leonenglish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Felt so good to have a moment of like positive politics. Being back hopey changey vibes imho.

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Leon [the] English [are already scary enough] @leonenglish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And the will .i .am “yes we can” mix with a bunch of celebrities was also a ear worm

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Leon [the] English [are already scary enough] @leonenglish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Actual lol from me at this headline a day after Hegseth did his little fascist routine on stage

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Leon [the] English [are already scary enough] @leonenglish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Finding out the AI god isn’t really a god at all it was just trained on Ghostbusters and answered accordingly

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Leon [the] English [are already scary enough] @leonenglish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Between now and January 3 is going to feel like a lifetime

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Shambling Corpse of Randy Herman @randyhermanlaw.com · 01/10/2026

*nudges Greenday* Hey bro it's time to get up

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Leon [the] English [are already scary enough] @leonenglish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Having had my first kid in 2020 it is extremely difficult for me to separate how much the world feels different because of COVID or because of becoming a parent.

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Leon [the] English [are already scary enough] @leonenglish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I like that afaik the most problematic thing about my favorite author on Bluesky is that he sometimes posts extremely boomer resist memes. Honestly endearing

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Leon [the] English [are already scary enough] @leonenglish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Deleted that post in case there is a future ai that simulates people to torture for engaging in too much pointless AI discourse

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LadyBusiness @ladybusiness.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

On my way to a job interview, smartly leaving the iced coffee at home

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Leon [the] English [are already scary enough] @leonenglish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Most of us will outlive Hegseth and his liver. Hearing the news is one thing to look forward to.

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