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McNeely 🐀 Rat Verified @mcneely.online · 15h
@hockeyviz.com finally looked at Flyers season projection and I gotta say I don't believe it. No way our power play is as good as -2% 🫠
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McNeely 🐀 Rat Verified @mcneely.online · 30/09/2026
Be the change you wish to see
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McNeely 🐀 Rat Verified @mcneely.online · 29/09/2026
Again, the shift in the tech industry over the last decade isn't that the workers became fed up with liberalism and the left, but that the bosses did.
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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Again, I will keep saying that it doesn't have to be this way. I believe we *could* have ai assistants that are more secure. But that's not what's happening. Not because they're fundamentally bad, but because the people building them don't want that.
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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I can understand why the features of a supposed AI assistant are compelling. I kinda wanna try it too. But I know too much about how these things work. Do not give a cloud-based agent access to your shit. Especially one from the big tech companies.
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McNeely 🐀 Rat Verified @mcneely.online · 29/09/2026
"The Eagles rank No. 31 in the NFL in three-and-punt percentage. (That’s technically an improvement from last season, when they were last.)" Oof
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McNeely 🐀 Rat Verified @mcneely.online · 29/09/2026
Honestly the most shocking thing about the Toronto - Columbus trade-a-palooza is that Toronto didn't try and sneak in trading their 2027 1st round pick again
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Alex Lawson @alaw202.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Socialism is much more popular than Trumpism.
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McNeely 🐀 Rat Verified @mcneely.online · 26/09/2026
Having gone to IUP I will always think of the crosswalks in Indiana when I think of bad Jimmy Stewart impressions. "Ahhh this is Jimmy Stewart. The street is safe for crossing"
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McNeely 🐀 Rat Verified @mcneely.online · 26/09/2026
Yuengling and crab fries are necessary airport expenses right?
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A rich person can never be held accountable. Therefore, a rich person must never make a societal decision
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McNeely 🐀 Rat Verified @mcneely.online · 25/09/2026
Amazing summary 👏
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McNeely 🐀 Rat Verified @mcneely.online · 25/09/2026
Finally caught the Flyers highlights from last night. First impression is that the youngsters look good. Great to see Michkov Knuble and Luchanko in the highlights. Hoping for big seasons for all of them this year 🤞
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The Bi of Hormuz @joshstein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A lot of people seem to make the mistake of thinking "well, if this slows down LLM development and deployment, then that's great," but the problem is what's not happening when the x-risk nonsense takes center stage. We ultimately neglect real risks and harms in the space right now.
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
What’s your fake starwars academic paper
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McNeely 🐀 Rat Verified @mcneely.online · 22/09/2026
One of the most powerful things that sticks out in my memory is when our senior engineer, employee number 1, went off and called bullshit on the motivational speaker saying we were all just at work for the paycheck and we should be honest about that. A job is a job no matter how clean your hands.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Not sure if they're cowards who don't want to take him on or if they're complicit in taking money from him and people like him, but it's staggering. Standing up to Elon Musk should be an easy layup for any Democrat.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
show us the three existing applicable regulations or penalties you’ve enforced before you propose a new solution challenge:
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McNeely 🐀 Rat Verified @mcneely.online · 18/09/2026
@charlieoconn.bsky.social do you think it's fair to describe the Flyers front office strategy as a mix of Vegas' "be in on every star" with Carolina's "a high floor team w/great depth can win" approach?
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McNeely 🐀 Rat Verified @mcneely.online · 18/09/2026
While I agree with the sentiment here, I do think it's important to point out that "people making a measly 300k" are mostly at your BigTech companies. Tech workers exist outside of these companies and they are also not adequately represented by heads of the Nerd Reich
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The court filing dug up by @kint.bsky.social is the most They Admit It i have ever seen in my life www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...
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‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
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McNeely 🐀 Rat Verified @mcneely.online · 18/09/2026
Fine I'll do it. I will volunteer to eat the chocolate so that Michkov doesn't have to. You're welcome Flyers fans. I make this sacrifice for Matvei and you
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McNeely 🐀 Rat Verified @mcneely.online · 18/09/2026
Lots of people mistake solidarity tests, with purity tests. We see you making these mistakes.
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"No one is going to vote for a Democrat because they came out for a trans sports ban. No one is on the fence being like, "If they just came out for a trans sports ban, then I would vote for them. I don't think that person exists," says @evanurquhart.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2154...
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 17/09/2026
Hey @kenmartin.bsky.social, you've never returned my phone call about this. At the DFL state convention in May, you told me Democrats absolutely should not be doing stuff like this and you wanted to know if it was happening. It's happening. My phone number hasn't changed.
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David Brody @dbrody.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Sitting federal judges almost never give interviews to the press about the administration of justice. At most you get vague book talks or law school lecture series, and even those are predominantly from SCOTUS justice. This is a Paul Revere-level ringing of alarm bells for the rule of law.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
In the 1970s and 80s it was standard for conservative Republicans to defend South African apartheid up until the tide had fully turned against it in the 1990s. We might think of the "anti-apartheid GOP" as a short interregnum, after which the GOP has now returned to its pro-apartheid roots.
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McNeely 🐀 Rat Verified @mcneely.online · 16/09/2026
AARP is proud to present the "How to spot the hotdog man" your coming to a city near you. Sponsored by Hatfields famous Hotdogs
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McNeely 🐀 Rat Verified @mcneely.online · 16/09/2026
I won't pretend to believe that all of these NeoCons are out here talking in good faith but it's pretty bleak that even they are talking about the Nazification of the GOP
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McNeely 🐀 Rat Verified @mcneely.online · 16/09/2026
Lots of interesting signings by the Caps and Devils this off-season. I can't pretend I'm super knowledgeable about any of the guys they signed (and still recalibrating contract value in my head) but the Metro division looks like it will be a very close race this year.
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McNeely 🐀 Rat Verified @mcneely.online · 16/09/2026
I was raging about this over the weekend whenever their ads came on during the football game and my wife just shook her head at me like I'm the crazy one for wanting to have standards.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026
Trans rights is inherently a bodily autonomy issue. Just like abortion rights is. We can't have gender equity or reproductive freedom without trans rights. Full stop. You can yell at me and make up shit that you claim I've said if it makes you feel better. I don't care. I'm right. And you know it.
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
NEW: Hackers cut down a Flock camera, dumped its internal storage, and shared the files w/ WIRED and 404 Media. It includes thousands of videos and logs showing how the device took images of 50,000 vehicles in 21 days The code reveals in new detail how Flock tracks the vehicles and people.
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Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera. Its Data Shows How the System Really Works
A hacker collective pulled down a Flock camera and dumped its data. The files included thousands of videos and logs showing that the device captured 1.6 million images of 50,000 vehicles in 21 days.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Here's a graphic illustrating their "rigged election" strategy:
A circular flow diagram on a blue background titled "Rigged Election" Strategy (in the center, in pink text). Six white text boxes are arranged in a ring, connected by light-blue curved arrows pointing clockwise, indicating a repeating cycle. Reading clockwise from the top, the six steps are:

Repeatedly say elections are "rigged"
Change laws to make it harder to vote
Muddy the waters: confuse voters & suppress votes
Seed & amplify rumors that echo "rigged election" refrain
Contest results (you don't like)
Sow distrust in democracy

The arrows loop back from "Sow distrust in democracy" to "Repeatedly say elections are 'rigged,'" showing the cycle as self-reinforcing.

Center text: "Rigged Election" Strategy
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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
And of course OpenAI and Anthropic are running with it too. Rogue AI narratives easily let them off the hook for their sloppy (and embarrassing) development decisions. While also making it look to their eager investors like they're inventing god...
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“This should be unthinkable for the son of the president. End of story.” A Russian oligarch close to Putin bankrolled Don Jr.’s wedding. www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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McNeely 🐀 Rat Verified @mcneely.online · 11/09/2026
Working on a theory about how we have flattened SV, Vulture Capital, and tech bros into one thing that has become completely subsumed as the Tech Right when it's really a systemic issue with the top of those structures at these institutions.
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McNeely 🐀 Rat Verified @mcneely.online · 11/09/2026
@ceaubin.com when Rudy dies do we get a TGS episode?
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McNeely 🐀 Rat Verified @mcneely.online · 11/09/2026
Some of you might have heard about Omarchy or Linux lately in the news and been curious about it. Omarchy and DHH are well known in a niche community, but not broadly so sadly we need to talk about it. "Omarchy should not matter. But sadly it does. As a power grab." tante.cc/2026/09/11/p...
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Power grab
Omarchy should not matter. But sadly it does. As a power grab. If you don’t know what Omarchy is here’s the short summary. David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of RubyOnRails, owner of a software busines...
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McNeely 🐀 Rat Verified @mcneely.online · 10/09/2026
I absolutely understand strategic voting and the idea of the lesser evil. But the risk in taking these stupid "centrist" stances is that you end up alienating the very constituencies you critically NEED to win. Just take a principled stance and stop trying to triangulate. Be a leader.
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Zeb Larson @zeblarson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Ok, military historians, I'm interested in books and articles on attempts to hold members of the military accountable after committing war crimes OR purge officers connected to an old regime. Successes, failures (de-Nazification), etc.
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
AI chatbots have democratized billionaire brain worms by allowing everyone—not just the very rich—to experience total insanity-inducing sycophancy
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/09/2026
Since when is it the business of the federal government to dictate the private healthcare decisions between families and their doctor.
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McNeely 🐀 Rat Verified @mcneely.online · 09/09/2026
Everyone on here is talking about working out and I just wonder where you all get the time
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McNeely 🐀 Rat Verified @mcneely.online · 09/09/2026
The sports guys are dunking on the stupid stuff the CTO has said in my timeline. That seems bad!
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Ham @drrehaminator.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"I'm too talented to need shortcuts" goes so fucking hard.
youtube community post from Huggbees that discusses why he does not and will not ever use AI in his art
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
We woke up thinking about the long shadow of all the workers’ wins and even their losses. We made it free to watch the short documentary that dominated my life this year. Happy Labor Day. vimeo.com/1224659811/7...
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Power to the People, Y'all [Happy Labor Day]
Power to the People, Y’all is a character-driven documentary that explores aging, legacy, and resistance through interviews with five founding members of the Winston-Salem Chapter of the Black Panther...
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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 08/09/2026
Or this by @polphilpod.bsky.social www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalism-d...
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Liberalism Did Not Fail, Conservatism Did
We are moving from an ideologically multipolar world, to a bipolar one.
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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Republicans are out here gamifying CAMP OF THE SAINTS and the New York Times is devoting resources to scandalizing the way Mamdani is promoting the things he’s fixing
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Ross Macfarlane @rossmacfarlane.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
If you haven't yet, read @katz.theracket.news's excellent biography of Smedly Butler, "Gangsters of Capitalism," about the "fighting Quaker" who became one of the most revered generals in the Marines before becoming a pacifist who decried the US' wars of exploitation to protect corporate interests
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Gangsters of Capitalism — Jonathan Myerson Katz
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