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@mikeatx.bsky.social
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40s, Scorpio, Queer He/Him Austin, TX

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 05/08/2026
The Senate Commerce Committee is about to vote on four bills that could put much of the Internet behind privacy-invasive age gates. We need your help to stop them. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Tomorrow’s U.S. Senate Vote: Four Internet Bills, One Wrong Direction
The Senate Commerce Committee will vote this week on several censorious and privacy invasive bills: KOSA, the SCREEN Act, Youth AI Privacy Act, and CHATBOT Act. While we appreciate that the Committee
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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mikeridesatx on Instagram: "The University of Texas is planning to implement a bicycle drop zone through the center of campus, effectively blocking students, c…"
The University of Texas is planning to implement a bicycle drop zone through the center of campus, effectively blocking students, commuters, and others from several safe routes! Speedway was closed for bike and pedestrian traffic years ago! They waited until summer break to plan and implement these changes so students don’t have a chance to voice their concerns! Please spread the word! Contact UT Leadership, City Council, and media contacts!
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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Conversion therapy is torture and usually ran by completely unqualified perverts and pedofile! Anyone that sends a kid to conversion therapy should be arrested for extreme child abuse.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
The Supreme Court just gutted conversion therapy bans across America 8 to 1. The court just gave the green light to a practice the United Nations calls torture.
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Texas > White Sands > Flagstaff > Sedona > Grand Canyon > Zion > Page > Mesa Verde > Carson National Forest > Texas Finally back home!
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Sedona
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Toured the NRAO Very Large Array today!
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Overnight star trails near Cloudcroft, NM
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
The VLA!
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Lincoln National Forest to White Sands National Park
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Driving though rural Texas and seeing a Flock camera on the highway surprisingly often. Figured the red state would leave red counties alone. Gonna be interesting to see how that plays out. #dystopian
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Apple AirTag saved me tonight! Someone stole my bag but I was able to find it, my keys, wallet, cards, IDs, etc. Lost some cash but recovered everything else!
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ACLU @aclu.org · 07/03/2026
The power of the people is stronger than the people in power.
Yellow and white text: This is our country and we will show up for it. Take to the streets Saturday, March 28 at a protest near you. ACLU." Black and white photo of someone holding up a sign that says "ICE OUT OF OUR CITY." Black background.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
They killed 180 children and their teachers in a double-tap strike on a school. The girls were 7 to 12 years old.
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Texas Together's event, “Texas Together Rally in Austin!” - sign up now! www.mobilize.us/texasdemocra...
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Texas Together Rally in Austin! · Texas Together
### It’s time to unify, organize, and build the movement that will carry us through November 2026. Join Texas Together for an Organizing Rally featuring: **Kim Gilby, Jessica Cohen, Greg Casar, Clayt...
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Nobel Peace Prize, my ass
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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GitHub - ruvnet/wifi-densepose: Production-ready implementation of InvisPose - a revolutionary WiFi-based dense human pose estimation system that enables real-time full-body tracking through walls usi...
Production-ready implementation of InvisPose - a revolutionary WiFi-based dense human pose estimation system that enables real-time full-body tracking through walls using commodity mesh routers - ...
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Only missed 4 days so far this year! Diet and calorie deficit on point too! #goals
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Trump is being urged to declare a national emergency over U.S. elections and here’s what that plan is said to involve. The proposed executive order would assert federal control over election administration by citing claims that China interfered in the 2020 election, allegations that
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I’ve been early voting at the same polling location in Austin, TX for over 2 years including the last primary, major election, and some runoff’s but today was the first time I’ve seen a line. On Wednesday at 2PM there were a dozen people waiting to vote and all the machines were in use.
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Strider @reluctantranger.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Dear future brave Epstein file leaker, - Your legal GoFundMe will be big enough to buy Vermont - No jury will convict you - The nation and world will honor you Minnesota has shown you how to be brave, how to sacrifice. GO!
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
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Every Type of Communism Explained in 11 Minutes
YouTube video by Brofessor Stein
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Kimberley @kims-sky.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
By the numbers….
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Burning Flipside @burningflipside.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
📢 Deadline to Mail Ticket Requests Extended to Wednesday: www.burningflipside.com/news/ticket-...
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Ticket Mail-In Deadline Extended
Because the weather is icy and dangerous, we don’t want anyone finishing up at the last minute to take unnecessary risks tomorrow as you mail in your ticket paperwork for the normal deadline.…
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Every headline should read “Trump’s ICE executed a veteran today”
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
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Ukraine Ran Sting on U.S. Intel to Catch Russia Leaks
A French ex-intelligence operative claims it proves that Washington shared strategic information with Russia
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this: America's problems are solved problems. Just not here. What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
Screenshot of a data visualization titled “The Cost of American Exceptionalism,” subtitled “What would change if the U.S. matched the OECD average?” The page explains that each card shows how outcomes would change if the U.S. matched the average of 31 peer democracies. Below, a section labeled “Economy & Inequality” displays eight cards comparing U.S. figures to OECD averages. Highlights include: +$19K per household per year in redistributed income and +$96K in redistributed wealth if the top 1% matched OECD shares; a 71% lower CEO-to-worker pay ratio (from 354× to 101×); 50 million more workers with union coverage; 26 million more people with health insurance; $2.1 trillion saved annually in healthcare spending; $691 less per person per year in prescription drug costs; and intergenerational economic mobility being twice as high. Each card shows the U.S. value alongside the OECD average.
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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Cyberpunk 2077 ass post.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 10/01/2026
I wrote this almost 11 years ago theweek.com/articles/444...
When heavy military equipment is taken from its original context and placed in the hands of a domestic law-enforcement agency with little training in wartime scenarios, it becomes nothing more than an instrument of intimidation. It simply has no other purpose. Wearing jungle camouflage in an urban setting, pointing guns at civilians, driving around pointlessly in an armored personnel carrier — all of these egregiously violate military best practices. This is playing soldier dress-up to scare the pants off the locals — except the guns are real.

Notice also how many of these riot cops have their faces completely covered by gas masks and insect goggles. That is almost never seen in recent wars, because covering the face makes a soldier look less human, which is directly at odds with modern counterinsurgency thinking.

But covering the face to dehumanize the enemy is a common feature in first-person shooter games (like Half Life 2 and the Killzone series), where the player often has to slaughter them by the score. Doing it to oneself is, I think, a deliberate effort to broaden the emotional distance between law enforcement and the people who are being forced into submission.

It turns out that when you put normal cops into soldier gear, you don't get soldiers. You get paramilitary goons.
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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 17/12/2025
Drones are essentially flying police officers. “If I’m in my backyard, if I’m on my deck, do I expect that I have to encounter a law enforcement camera? I shouldn’t have to,” EFF’s Beryl Lipton told @TexasObserver.org. www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-d...
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Under Operation Lone Star, Texas State Police More than Doubled Their Drone Fleet
The Department of Public Safety has acquired an army of unmanned aerial vehicles—nearly as large as the U.S. Border Patrol's.
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When Is Trump Gone? @daysleft4trump.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
3 years, 1 month, 3 weeks, 6 days, 9 hours, 45 minutes, and 56 seconds ▓▓▓▓░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 21.05%
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 13/11/2025
Surveillance isn’t “out there” anymore—it’s on our streets. Help EFF fight surveillance today: takebackctrl.org
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
This is absolutely insane! Not only did DARE know it was harmful, it was intended to be surveillance!
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D.A.R.E. | The REAL Reason Cops Taught You About Drugs
YouTube video by CHUPPL
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
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The truth about mass migration
YouTube video by The Market Exit
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 05/11/2025
Thousands of cities allowed cops to run racists searches through their Flock Safety license plate reader databases. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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License Plate Surveillance Logs Reveal Racist Policing Against Romani
More than 80 law enforcement agencies across the United States have used language perpetuating harmful stereotypes against Romani people when searching the nationwide Flock Safety automated license
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Bornabrit1 @lindarothwell.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
I'm just saying.....
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
jolly_good_ginger Retired Army Vet Dropping Facts
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
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This campaign needs you now
DEFEND OUR CROSSWALKS!
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Real_I_am_Groot @realimgroot.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Simple and to the point.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 27/10/2025
Trump is throwing 15 million Americans off health care. He's doubling premiums for 20 million Americans. Now, he's refusing to use a $5 billion emergency SNAP fund to keep 16 million kids from going hungry. But the 1% keep $1 trillion in tax breaks. Oligarchy in action.
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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
BREAKING: Representative Ro Khanna is introducing legislation to ban the president, his family, members of Congress, and all elected officials from trading crypto or stocks.
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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
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LetsGetIntoIt2025 (@letsgetintoit2025)
Chicago attorney Robert Held took to a megaphone to address police officers on behalf of the protesters. There was a standoff that lasted about an hour. Police were instructing protesters to dispers...
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 12/10/2025
The President using the military as his personal police force to intimidate American citizens is deeply un-American. This is the behavior of an autocrat. Full stop.
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