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Richard McDaniel @maphisto.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

One such person, when asked if this is a real threat said, "Hey, if we're doing it, why won't they?"

Richard McDaniel @maphisto.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

In more "every accusation is a confession" news, religious fundamentalists bent on forcing their religion on the masses, warn of others forcing their religion on the masses.

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Richard McDaniel @maphisto.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

🎶Mommaaas don't let your baaabies grow up to bee assholes🎶

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Richard McDaniel @maphisto.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

"I'm your worst nightmare, huhuhuhuhuhuh."

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Richard McDaniel @maphisto.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Way to stumble backwards, step on a rake, stagger toward the goal (somehow) then fall flat on your face at the one yard line Google.

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Richard McDaniel @maphisto.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

There are some regs on the books that specify the minimum time an elevator door must remain open, regardless of the door close button, but those only cover specific regions and only new installations.

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Richard McDaniel @maphisto.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

It's a common myth that ALL close door buttons are disconnected or degraded in some way. In the US, I think it has something to do with how each state implements disability laws and how existing elevators may be exempt from new regs. Most do in fact work.

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Richard McDaniel @maphisto.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

To those that claim video games can't be art, I submit this for your consideration.

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Richard McDaniel @maphisto.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

You've got gadgets and gizmos a-plenty. You've got who's-it's and what's-it's galore.

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Richard McDaniel @maphisto.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

When given video evidence of two murders by ICE agents, the GOP immediately parrot claims that the victims were agitators and domestic terrorists. I don't think common sense has much of a home in their brains.

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Richard McDaniel @maphisto.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

I completed the initial objective somewhere around day 20 (not fast at all). I'm on day 50 now and I'm still experiencing moments like at the end of Tangled when Rapunzel finally sees the royal symbol in the empty spaces of her paintings.

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

The Trump admin has fused the war on terror with the war on drugs to create a framework for justifying its own acts everywhere from Chicago to Caracas. Remember the helicopter raid on a Chicago apartment building? A key rationale was to go after the Venezuelan TdA.* Same with Caracas raid.

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Richard McDaniel @maphisto.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Coffee Stain studios also makes Satisfactory (think 3D first-person Factorio). In that game, they have a boombox you can use to play various music tapes found in the world or the in-game shop. One of those tapes is "The Worst of Goat Simulator."

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 23/12/2025

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

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Richard McDaniel @maphisto.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

The natural outcome of unchecked capitalism is a few rich people with many poor. If everyone were "rich" in a capitalist economy, then money would be worthless. So Musk is either predicting the fall of capitalism or telling pretty lies.

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Richard McDaniel @maphisto.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

I'm just relaying what our teachers have expressed after using such a setup when we proposed replacing the tablets with laptops without touch controls. I also recognize this only works in an ideal setup. When they break there's very little backup and they can break in all sorts of ways.

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Richard McDaniel @maphisto.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

When used/working properly, smart boards are no better than an overhead projector or chalk board, but can save time not having to print out transparencies and when paired with a wireless tablet, allow the teacher to walk around and not be stuck in one place.

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Richard McDaniel @maphisto.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

TBF, you knew your game was coming out.

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Richard McDaniel @maphisto.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Ed tech is not about the classroom experience, and when used/working properly, gives no advantage over any other tool in the classroom. It's meant to reduce administrative overhead and double entry. But like any tool, if not used/designed/setup properly, it ends up making more work for everyone.

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Richard McDaniel @maphisto.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Laptops, like any tool, need to be used appropriately and with care to be of any use in the classroom with the expectation that they will also be used at home, if the school allows them to be taken home. This requires planning and training and is the evolution of the calculator debate.

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Magic Bird Peddler @dfeldman.org · 06/12/2025

We literally found the stupidest people in the country and put them in charge.

Treasury Department
@USTreasury
U.S. Treasuries are having their best year since 2020, and the investors who had confidence and faith in President Trump’s economic policies have been richly rewarded.

Never bet against
@POTUS
or America! 🇺🇸

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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ

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Howard University AI Panel

YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley

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Richard McDaniel @maphisto.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Wait 'till they hear about the Latin alphabet.

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Richard McDaniel @maphisto.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

This is a tough one, because you don't want to encourage insubordination in the ranks when on mission and every second counts, but soldiers shouldn't be afraid of disciplinary actions for questioning what they believe to the best of their knowledge is an illegal order/deployment.

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Beloved by cheese @cottonmanifesto.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

With alt-text (please use alt-text, it’s easy and free!)

aspiringwarriorlibrarian
SH*POSTING ROBOT)
I feel like a lot of Gen Z don't know that the ACA/Obamacare was the
compromise.
The Democrats wanted Medicare for All. The Republicans wanted Free Market Healthcare (aka poor people die). Obama took a plan initially conceived by the Heritage Foundation (those project 2025 fuckers) and implemented by Romney for Massachusetts to say "hey, you can have a little free market, but we gotta cover other people too".
It was already a compromise. And the Republicans lost their shit and have proceeded to spend fifteen years crying about their own plan being rampant socialism and repeatedly trying to repeal it despite never actually having a back-up plan for healthcare, simply because they never really wanted compromise to begin with. The moment Obama got elected, they got into a meeting and vowed to tear down everything he tried to build no matter how much it agreed with their so-called values. Because racism, let's be honest, but also because any compromise they put forward is just a show.
"Meet me in the middle, says the unjust man" isn't just a hypothetical.
It's literally what happened when we tried to meet Republicans in the middle with healthcare.

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Richard McDaniel @maphisto.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

If Bluesky wasn't such an echo chamber I'd say, see above. But I don't expect many MAGA die-hards to see posts like this. Indeed much of the content calling them out is not published in places they follow. It just seemed like people were piling on Carney with a US lens, so I wanted to add context

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Richard McDaniel @maphisto.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Yes, but that's not Carney's fault. Half of the jokes at MAGA's expense are simply lost on them.

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Richard McDaniel @maphisto.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Which makes it good diplomacy. He can mock Trump's sensitivity/idiocy to his face in the eyes of Canadians while letting Trump think he's won some kind of concession.

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Richard McDaniel @maphisto.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

A Canadian apologizing is not an admission of guilt or responsibility. It's probably the most sincere, "I'm sorry you feel that way" any US American will ever hear.

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

I really believe that huge majorities of Americans don’t want masked soldiers shooting priests in the street. They don’t want naked children ripped out out of their apartments in the middle of the night and handcuffed. We win by making sure these stories get told.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 08/10/2025

10 days until the biggest peaceful protests in modern American history. A No Kings Day event is likely happening near you wherever you are. Please join us to show we won’t cower in response to Trump’s authoritarian takeover: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 07/10/2025

I’ve repeatedly said we need messengers not martyrs. The below link will let you sign up for a No Kings Protest near you.✊🏽 If you’ve never been to a protest, grab a friend & attend. We have a Constitutional right to protest. Use it while we still can.❤️ Register: courage2025.org/nk2 #Courage2025

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No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Statement from Illinois Governor JB Pritzker

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.
We must now start calling this what it is: Trump's Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state's military troops.
I call on Governor Abbott to immediately withdraw any support for this decision and refuse to coordinate. There is no reason a President should send military troops into a sovereign state without their knowledge, consent, or cooperation.
The brave men and women who serve in our national guards must not be used as political props. This is a moment where every American must speak up and help stop this madness.

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 01/10/2025

I’m a sewage system. I also have a great personality.

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD
@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social
I'm an epidemiologist. Sewage systems are sexy.

Dosco Jones @doscojones.bsky.social
I'm an engineer. Sewage systems are sexy.

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Richard McDaniel @maphisto.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Here's a thought. Every time the president or any congressionally approved executive officer commits high crimes or misdemeanors you announce and file a motion to impeach.

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Rafi @rafil.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?" Turns out, mom was right.

Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime

Feb. 4, 1939

February 4, 1939, Page 1

BERLIN, Feb. 3.—Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels today ended the professional careers of five "Aryan" actors and cabaret announcers by expelling them from the Reich's Chamber of Culture on the grounds that “in their public appearances they displayed a lack of any positive attitude toward National Socialism and therewith caused grave annoyance in public and especially to party comrades.” The five include perhaps the best known German stage comedians who survived previous Chamber of Culture purges and still dared to indulge in political witticisms—namely, Werner Finck, Peter Sachse and “The Three Rulands,” represented by Helmuth Buth, Wilhelm Meissner and Manfred Dlugi. Their expulsion means that they are henceforth forbidden to appear before the public in Germany.

Besides motivating this action in an official communiqué, Dr. Goebbels also publishes a long article in the Voelkischer Beobachter in which he denounces them as “brazen, impertinent, arrogant and tactless" and generally imitators and successors to Jews. Simultaneously he denounces the "society rabble that followed them with thundering applause—parasitic scum, inhabiting our luxury streets, that seems to have only the task of proving with how little brains people can get along and even acquire money and prominence."

As regards the details of the "crimes" of which the five are accused, Dr. Goebbels mentions that they made political witticisms about the colonial problem, the Four-Year Plan and Chancellor Hitler's monumental building program and one of them even raised the question of whether there was any humor left in Germany today.

What amused the public most, however, and presumably roiled the National Socialist authorities most—although Dr. Goebbels does not mention it—is that they deftly, but unmistakably, caricatured some gestures, poses and physical characteristics of Nat…

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

I screamed this during a lull in conversation at karaoke last night and every person at the table said some version of “YEEEESSS”

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Jessica Lussenhop @jlussenhop.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

You can hear three of these men describe their experiences in this short doc: youtu.be/6KZRtCE2UcI?...

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Beatings, Humiliation, Psychological Abuse: What Venezuelan Men Experienced Inside CECOT

YouTube video by ProPublica

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21/07/2025

We obtained lists of alleged gang members used by Venezuelan law enforcement and Interpol. Those lists include some 1,400 names. None of the names of the 230+ Venezuelan deportees the Trump administration sent to CECOT matched those on the lists. (Published May)

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Trump Administration Knew Vast Majority of Venezuelans Sent to Salvadoran Prison Had Not Been Convicted of U.S. Crimes

Homeland Security records reveal that officials knew that more than half of the 238 deportees were labeled as having no criminal record in the U.S. and had only violated immigration laws.

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Richard McDaniel @maphisto.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

I didn't know how much of that deal they can legally talk about or what kind of secrecy they're bound to as a result of that deal, but they should be able to provide a unique perspective on this topic.

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Richard McDaniel @maphisto.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

If you haven't already, you might want to try getting in touch with the City of Heroes: Homecoming admins. They worked with NCSoft to secure the server source code and negotiated a deal to keep a set of servers online supported by donations. A real life example of live service game preservation.

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