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A secret third thing @secretthirdthing.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"chatGPT thinks I am a genuis" is just the modern version of "I think this stripper is in love with me"

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Mark Shellenberger @m-shellenberger.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Balisage Day 3 #balisage2026 I had a contractor in the house today, as well as internet troubles (as usual) so I missed several of the sessions.

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Mark Shellenberger @m-shellenberger.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Balisage Day 2! #balisage2026 Yesterday was deep and intriguing. I expect today to be even moreso.

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Mark Shellenberger @m-shellenberger.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

#balisage2026 Balisage: The Final Cut is starting! I'm going to split my comments by day into this thread...mostly for my own history and nostalgia in the future. If you are an XML geek I hope to see you there!

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Mark Shellenberger @m-shellenberger.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

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Mark Shellenberger @m-shellenberger.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

If the snippets from this article don't make you want to tax the rich ... You are a special kind of stupid.

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Mark Shellenberger @m-shellenberger.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

It was always a lie. The rich want company towns writ large.

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Mark Shellenberger @m-shellenberger.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I got a front row seat to this as a federal contractor. People I'd worked with for two years were losing it in meetings. My wife left federal service after spending her entire career there. The institutional knowledge lost is extreme. Take a look at Fed RFPs...they are replacing with contractors.

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Mark Shellenberger @m-shellenberger.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Did this guy read his most recent book? "For instance, as a lifelong Star Trek fan, it’s always bothered me that there is a presumed ‘responsibility’ within Star Trek shows to talk about social issues,” the writer added. “I just want to watch Romulans and the Federation shoot at each other."

gizmodo.com

Andy Weir Says Paramount Rejected His 'Star Trek' Pitch, Proceeds to Blast Modern 'Trek'

Given the 'Project Hail Mary' writer's past comments about his 'Star Trek' hopes, it's perhaps not hard to imagine why they were turned down.

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Mark Shellenberger @m-shellenberger.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

The US made a huge mistake when allowing the Confederacy back into the Union with no repercussions. Oh and the failure that was Reconstruction....

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Mark Shellenberger @m-shellenberger.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

My scam is going exactly the same. Love solar and electric. But I'm not getting bribes from the oil industry, so I'm probably not his target audience.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Radical extremist cleric issues angry new fatwa -->

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Mark Shellenberger @m-shellenberger.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Excellent question! This would require them to do their actual job, not their social media work that seems to be all republican congress does these days.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/02/2026

easy slogan for the next democratic presidential candidate is “i will reform the corrupt supreme court and repeal citizens united”

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Mark Shellenberger @m-shellenberger.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Almost set your watch by bankruptcy being the end result of take over by private equity. we are being bled dry by these vultures.

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Mark Shellenberger @m-shellenberger.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Undocumented immigrants are taking our jobs, using all the welfare, AND causing huge unemployment numbers when they are deported (millions? LOL)? These numbers are going to be horrible and, since the current Administration lies about everything, they are actually much much worse.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

If you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

A reminder that ICE hasn’t slowed down in Minneapolis at all. Outside of Minnesota, it might feel like everything has changed since Alex Pretti’s murder. But ICE hasn’t actually lost any power and they’re continuing to terrorize our communities.

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Sesame Street is now offering tips for parents on post-trauma comfort because the federal government is physically and mentally abusing our country's children.

Sesame Street Instagram:
Big Bird snuggling a smaller bird.
Offering comfort in Scary Times:
After a violent event, children of different ages will have different needs. These age based strategies can help them feel safer and more secure.

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Mark Shellenberger @m-shellenberger.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Department of Homeland Security was a disaster that the military industrial complex pushed through after 9/11. We've been moving toward an surveillance state for longer than that DHS needs be broken apart and their budgets decimated.

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Mark Shellenberger @m-shellenberger.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Only days away from an article about a 'good' ICE asshole. Expose them all. Make sure this is top of their resume, their social media, and their dating apps. No one who supported this administration gets away with it.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

KIMMEL, to the UK: “.. It may not seem like it, but we love you guys. .. We’re going through a bit of a wobble right now, but we’ll come around. .. Give us about three years.” @jimmykimmel.com

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Rudbeckia @rudbeckia.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Pissing Out Cancer, my comedy special produced by and formerly exclusively on Dropout.tv is now available for free and in full on YouTube. Thank you so much to Dropout for being chill and letting me write this into my contract! www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh5G...

youtube.com

Hank Green: Pissing Out Cancer | Full Comedy Special

YouTube video by Hank Green

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/12/2025

rfk jr wants to kill your kids, it’s really that simple.

nytimes.com

Kennedy’s Methodical 2-Decade Quest to Dismantle Vaccine Policy

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Mark Shellenberger @m-shellenberger.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Guarantee that Leavitt knows this is happening and knows why. Her brother is using these authoritarian tactics to remove his son's mother from his life. She was brought here as a child. This is her home. Make no mistake this administration has weaponized the government against us all.

bostonglobe.com

Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew detained by ICE in Revere; Brazil native came to US as a child - The Boston Globe

Bruna Ferreira, 33, was brought to the United States as a child in 1998. She is now in removal proceedings in Louisiana.

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Mark Shellenberger @m-shellenberger.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Another step toward 'proving' the government can't be trusted. These sites vaccines.gov, covid.gov worked and helped countless people find the tools they needed to stay healthy. This administration is tearing down the point of government...to serve the people of this country.

notus.org

CDC Quietly Turned Off Its Vaccine Search Tool. It’s Not Clear When It’s Coming Back.

“I have heard that they are planning to ‘update it’ and shudder to think what that will mean,” Demetre Daskalakis, a former member of CDC leadership, told NOTUS.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts." www.wcvb.com/article/karo...

REVERE, Mass. —
A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts.

The woman, Bruna Ferreira, has an 11-year-old son with Michael Leavitt, Karoline Leavitt's brother.

Ferreira migrated with her family to the United States from Brazil as a child and is currently in custody at an ICE facility in southern Louisiana.

Michael Leavitt released a statement, saying that his "only concern has always been the safety, well-being, and privacy of [his] son."

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 10/11/2025

Never forget who sold us out: Hassan King Cortez-Masto Shaheen Kaine Fetterman Durbin Rosen

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Who did this?!

A joke scientific paper with the title "Over 90% of children diagnosed with autism consumed breast milk and/or formula mileL a comprehensive cross-sectional analysis of the obvious"

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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 02/11/2025

On the other site, an 18-year-old Zohran canvasser described the legendary Wallace Shawn as "the actor who plays Dr. Sturgis on Young Sheldon" which is honestly adorable

Tweet from Ella Devi: canvassing for @ZohranKMamdani in the east village today and the actor who plays dr. strugis in young sheldon is in my canvassing group!!

Photo of Ella with another canvasser and Wallace Shawn

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Your pissed off grandma @anomaly100.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

This right here.

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Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

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Mark Shellenberger @m-shellenberger.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

My core belief about capitalism. In fields where working with other humans (healthcare, retail, food service, education, etc) is the main task, the pay and prestige is greater the further you are removed from those human beings. Think EMS and Nurses vs Surgeons and Hospital Admins.

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Mark Shellenberger @m-shellenberger.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

This dude, standing in front of the White House is starting to make the rounds on Bluesky. Here's the full version of the song. It has verses! www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUHo...

youtube.com

Trump's A Punk Ass Bitch (TPAB)

YouTube video by Steven Wilhelm

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Mark Shellenberger @m-shellenberger.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

It is an odd experience when new breaks and I know enough about it to immediately realize it isn't what it seems. Earlier this week the Library of Congress's (LoC) webpage of the Constitution was found to have Articles 8-10 removed. Immediately the internet was awash in people claiming fascism.

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Chris Hadfield @cmdr-hadfield.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Imagine starting a car that hadn't run in 21 years, that's 15 billion miles away in interstellar space. That's what the NASA team just did with Voyager's thrusters. People are amazing. jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-v...

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Mark Shellenberger @m-shellenberger.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Irving, Texas - 'They' are coming for you.

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Mark Shellenberger @m-shellenberger.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

I saw this and said 'of course they did', then I saw who posted it. The Onion, riding the razor edge between satire and our current reality.

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Mark Shellenberger @m-shellenberger.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Why would Walmart pass through the cost of the tariffs? I thought China was paying them. I'd be surprised by this attack on the largest retailer in the US except this guy is always inconsistent in his "reasoning" about his actions. I remember when leaders took responsibility for their actions.

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Mark Shellenberger @m-shellenberger.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

I visited Monticello 25+ years ago. The guide talked about how Jefferson was a farmer. I LOLed, for real. Got a dirty look. Went back just after Covid vaccines. The "Jefferson was a farmer" crap was gone and a significant exhibit about slavery was in place. Anyway, I love a good bonfire.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns

eight leatherbound books all titled "FERNS" volumes 1 through 8

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Mark Shellenberger @m-shellenberger.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

I say this many times a day, but WTF!? $8.25 million is couch change in the Federal government. Not that this has ever been about efficiency or waste, but it feels like just random darts at this point.

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Mark Shellenberger @m-shellenberger.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

"But I get my weather from The Weather Channel." I have news for you Sparky....they get their weather from governments, then they package it up all pretty and send some idiot to stand by the ocean in a hurricane for your amusement.

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Mark Shellenberger @m-shellenberger.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

While I enjoy hearing that GOP Senators are concerned about their political futures, I'll believe it once the critical vote is cast.

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