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Maurice Meilleur

@mauricemeilleur.bsky.social
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Design researcher, typophile, coder, recovering political theorist. Available for Python/DrawBot workshops. I don’t speak for my employer and they definitely don’t speak for me

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 6h
This is a thing I find people alarmingly slow to realize: the goal is not to have a country without immigrants. The goal is to have a country full of immigrants who have no legal rights or personhood whatsoever and who any citizen can blow a whistle and have deported.
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Maurice Meilleur @mauricemeilleur.bsky.social · 6h
At this point I don’t put it past Hegseth to raffle off assignments to the squad detail
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Maurice Meilleur @mauricemeilleur.bsky.social · 11h
FFS just give him a binky already
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Maurice Meilleur @mauricemeilleur.bsky.social · 16h
Academics: Find yourself someone in your life who you wants you as badly as Cognella wants you
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 20h
You guys fantasize, a lot, about not having to pay for labor or be responsible for treating the labor source with dignity. So much of GenAI discourse is about a desire for ethical enslavement. And that does not exist.
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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 07/10/2026
I’d pay anything to be this comfortable on a flight, can you imagine
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justjokes247.bsky.social @justjokes247.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I wrote about John McPhee's nature writing. And about slowness, detail, and a kind of literary journalism that is disappearing along with the natural world it describes. thebaffler.com/latest/up-a-...
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Up a Creek | David Schurman Wallace
The Library of America completes John McPhee’s canonization as this country’s most important nature writer.
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
@CethanLeahy

Me: oh wow, this shop has everything my heart desires!

Spooky shopkeeper: yes, I will warn you... every item comes with a price.

Me: yes, I know how shops work

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Spooky Shopkeeper: The price may be more than you expect to pay.

Me: Yes, I know how US taxes work, too.

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Shopkeeper, increasingly exasperated: I'm trying to tell you that I'm evil and offering these wares with no regard for the harm they will do!

Me, also increasingly exasperated: I know what capitalism is too goddammit
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Maurice Meilleur @mauricemeilleur.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Where should I start reading China Miéville?
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 06/10/2026
IN THIS HOUSE, WE BELIEVE YOUR SPARKLING EYES AND BLOOMING CHEEKS MUST WITHER LIKE THE ROSE THE COFFIN, EARTH AND WINDING SHEET WILL SOON YOUR LIMBS ENCLOSE
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Maurice Meilleur @mauricemeilleur.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Raise your hand if you can think of something else you’d let Iran take out
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Trump suggests he would let Iran ‘take out’ Los Angeles or San Diego
Gavin Newsom calls comments ‘deranged and dangerous’ after president tells Nebraska rally: ‘They can take out a city’
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“Watson’s 1968 book, amid other slights & sexist language directed at Franklin, implied the flash of insight was his. Popular accounts still routinely suggest Franklin missed the significance of the photo. She never had a chance to challenge Watson’s dismissive narrative; she died of cancer in 1958”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026
i also read his op ed on originalism in the WSJ and i would love to know how presidential criminal immunity emerges from the structure of the constitution, especially when the literal authors of that constitution insisted that a president could he tried and even straight up executed
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Aaahh!!! bstract Tesseract @abstracttesseract.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
can't spell "gaius baltar" without "ai"
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LettError Type @letterror.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Fuck AI. In other news, the glyphset for LTR Kosmik has been extended to almost 3000 glyphs total. Apparently a great typeface for campsites, petting zoos, farmer’s markets, oatsy diary and all the delicious organic foods. LTR Kosmik is also an excellent alternative for bloody Papyrus in any design.
Black text on a white background, left lining. The text is animated by slowly cycling through the alternative shapes. It is not too intrusive. The text reads: "LTR Kosmik: A charming, textured, hand-lettered sans, drawn in three highly animatable versions. A nice lively choice for dialog and onomatopoeias: a bit quirky, very legible and instantly recognisable!! LTR Kosmik has a Regular and a Bold. Typoman sends his regards. License at LettError.com."
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28 Days Lehner 🪦 @danlehner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026
someone call up will smith we need him to do something
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.
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Maurice Meilleur @mauricemeilleur.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Why do they still let him in front of a live camera anymore, they could use a cardboard box skewered on a pool cue with a toilet-paper tube taped to one side and ‘CAMERA’ written on it with a Sharpie
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Maurice Meilleur @mauricemeilleur.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This smells like a divorce settlement condition. Paxton’s a piece of shit but honestly, fuck them both.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.
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Maurice Meilleur @mauricemeilleur.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Feels like not a day goes by that I don’t think of the distinction @timothysnyder.bsky.social made between the ‘gamers’ and the ‘breakers’ in the GOP. Rove is a gamer wringing his hands about the breakers—about their speed and methods, not their values and goals.
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Mad Dr. Jimbosaur, Espooky. @jimbosaur.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
screenshot from I Think You Should Leave of a guy in a hot dog costume standing in a clothing store surrounded by suspicious shoppers, who is loudly saying "we're all trying to find the guy who did this [drove the hot dog car into the store]" but his face has been replaced by Karl Rove
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Polarization Is Not the Problem" This paragraph says more about "both sides" journalism than just about anything I have read. Read the rest here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... By @lilymasonphd.bsky.social via @brizzyc.bsky.social
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Project MUSE -- Verification required!
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit
David Ellison • @ellisonskyd... 2h
What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first ho Show
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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Nancy 9/8/26
Nancy’s at school…. Her teacher asks her a math problem: if Nancy had three cupcakes, and Sluggo asked her for one, how many would she have left? Nancy’s reply is “three.”
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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves
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LettError Type @letterror.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On process, criteria and generative AI letterror.com/ai
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On generative AI at LettError.com
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Maurice Meilleur @mauricemeilleur.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I don’t condone violence, but it’s foolish to deny its existence and I think it might benefit Hegseth to consider how difficult it would be to eat solid ‘warrior’ food without, for example, teeth www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Hegseth confirms plan to cut 20% of US top military brass and rails at ‘beardos, weirdos and wimps’
Pentagon head hails military with ‘no fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals’ in anti-DEI rant
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Maybe time for those who don't experience this directly to return to this thread (which I posted when PTSD was being weaponized to relieve Graham Platner of responsibility for his actions).
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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Maurice Meilleur @mauricemeilleur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
‘Live your life so that you wouldn’t get shouted down at your child’s memorial’ is a maxim
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Maurice Meilleur @mauricemeilleur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🔥🔥🔥
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Maurice Meilleur @mauricemeilleur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Evidence that Demands a Kermit
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
To people who don’t believe that Kermit the Frog is real: What is the basis for your morality? Where does your moral standard come from?
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Maurice Meilleur @mauricemeilleur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Guess the checks didn’t clear? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Samuel Alito steps aside in a major climate case amid scrutiny over oil stock holdings
Decision from conservative justice comes before court hears case on whether fossil-fuel firms deceived US public
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Maurice Meilleur @mauricemeilleur.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Friction” is humans. There is nothing else to build systems for but humans. They mean a system built for human flourishing won’t survive and they might be right. But not because the agents are so good but because AI is politics.
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Maurice Meilleur @mauricemeilleur.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Paging George Hayduke
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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 27/09/2026
I think choosing Texas should be left up to the states
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Maurice Meilleur @mauricemeilleur.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
As Selina Meyer would say: as useless as a marzipan dildo. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/b...
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TV Networks to Resume Trump Coverage, Even as White House Excludes CNN
The White House TV pool went dark this past week amid a standoff between CNN and the president. Network leaders, however, believe an indefinite suspension may be untenable.
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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Opa war ein richtiger Freigeist -- der hatte keine demokratischen Scheuklappen, der konnte frei über den Rand der Republik hinaus denken. Du siehst ihn dort links im Bild neben den 8000 Männern, die genauso gekleidet sind wie er.
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Maurice Meilleur @mauricemeilleur.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ventriloquist acts must wreck these devs’ brains
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Lynchings and burning witches at the stake are just another face of crime that witches and people liable to be lynched should take precautions about. Here's a stylish iron collar to protect your neck and some flattering fire-retardant dresses.
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Sara Gibbs is Scary Enough Already @sararoseg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
He imposed Shania Law
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026
Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.
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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Every week, the Muppets have to put on a show to salvage a new institution: the Kennedy Center, the Supreme Court, the No-Mask Lesbian Bar, the Wonka Experience, Kozmo Dot Com (this has a time travel dimension, à la Quantum Leap), Cafe Loup in the West Village, democracy, the third season of GLOW
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Two lives that shine as one Morning glory and midnight sun Tiiiiiiiime we've learned to sail above Tiiiiiiiime wont change the meaning of One love Ageless and ever eveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeergreen
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 24/09/2026
"While Charlie Brown did once again accelerate toward the ball, miss it entirely as Lucy pulled it away, flip backward through the air, and land violently with a disquieting crunch, we do not believe that now is the time for a dramatic change in kicking strategy." buff.ly/X2RjqP5
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“Charlie Brown Must Stay the Course”: A Football Kick Autopsy Report by the Democratic Party
“While Charlie Brown did once again accelerate toward the ball, miss the ball entirely as Lucy pulled it away, flip backward through the air, and land violen...
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