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Now What?? @mraulston.word.expert · 5h
Sam sees a ghost...
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 6h
ID.me harvests personal data as a gatekeeper to public agencies—which have no business requiring citizens to use a for-profit intermediary. buff.ly/UFRX0u2
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Identity Crisis - The American Prospect
Citizen access to public agencies is a basic public function. Why does government contract out the process of verifying identity to a for-profit monopoly company?
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 6h
The service members were left to seek their own medical treatment. trib.al/cLKQe1P
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Soldiers Wounded in Iran Say DOD Made Them Get Their Own Treatment
The service members were left to fend for themselves.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 6h
Everything you’ve been told about lethal injection is a lie. Death by drugs is brutal—and designed for political optics. Christa Pike’s failed execution pulled back the curtain.
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Everything you've been told about lethal injection is a lie
Death by drugs is brutal—and designed for political optics. Christa Pike's failed execution pulled back the curtain.
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Now What?? @mraulston.word.expert · 10h
It's all rape culture. A lack of consent, threats of 'bad things happening', deprivation of the basic necessities of life, and costantly being lectured we should "just lay back and enjoy it" Rapists are running this country and trying their damndest to run the world.
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Now What?? @mraulston.word.expert · 16h
The amount of pollution from burning oil facilities (pipelines, storage, tankers,etc) being released into the air and water is an obscene crime against humanity. Our planet is being destroyed by rich men's games.
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Now What?? @mraulston.word.expert · 18h
But only the unfrosted logs or you'll get dia-beet-us.....
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Now What?? @mraulston.word.expert · 18h
He was on @arimelber.bsky.social last night, defending this vote because his committee colleagues voted it out unanimously, therefore he supported it. Ari did not push back and ask him point-blank why he put party over country to vote for a Fox News host with zero qualifications to lead DOD.
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Now What?? @mraulston.word.expert · 05/10/2026
@arimelber.bsky.social is letting Thom Tillis pretend he is one of the 'good ones" when in fact, he is a facist enabler.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Mike Caruso, Palm Beach County Clerk of Courts, and pedophile said he still intends to win his election for Clerk and Comptroller after being arrested in August for molesting a male relative under the age of 5. He’s been endorsed by the GOP. amp.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
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Palm Beach GOP endorses candidate accused of child sex abuse
“I maintain my innocence and remain a candidate for Clerk of the Circuit Court and Comptroller,” Mike Caruso, facing child sex abuse charges.
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Now What?? @mraulston.word.expert · 05/10/2026
Stealing the land AND the water.... www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10...
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What is ‘Herod’s Pool’, and why is Israel developing it in the West Bank?
Israel is developing a reservoir on land in the occupied West Bank, with water syphoned off from Palestinians.
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Now What?? @mraulston.word.expert · 05/10/2026
My husband has that in hos truck. I hate it.
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Now What?? @mraulston.word.expert · 05/10/2026
He cannot win in the Redneck Riviera. I'll let you guess why....
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Now What?? @mraulston.word.expert · 05/10/2026
You've got to kill a few people to kill a whole bunch more people... These jackasses are raping the planet and killing people NOW. They should be tried for crimes against humanit.
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Now What?? @mraulston.word.expert · 05/10/2026
Every one of these tech bros should be prosecuted for the immense harm they are causing. This whole telling us we just have to accept that they are going do whatever they want to us without consent is straight-up rape culture.
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maraleia @maraleia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is a fucking crime.
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Now What?? @mraulston.word.expert · 05/10/2026
LinkedIn is such performative nonsense. So pompous, arrogant, and empty. However, I have a client who's been with me a long time who found me there and in these precarious times, I'm leaving no stone unturned. Not even potty training thought leadership.
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Now What?? @mraulston.word.expert · 05/10/2026
Im looking for a couple of new business relationships as the company I do a lot of work for was acquired by a VC and I'm nervous about being jettisoned. Went on LinkedIn to look at jobs and discovered it's still full of people posting about leadership lessons learned from potty training. So cringe
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Now What?? @mraulston.word.expert · 05/10/2026
Obvs none of the absolutely reprehensible things he's done while in office have anything to do with why he's a losing loser.....
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Now What?? @mraulston.word.expert · 05/10/2026
Candidates who should NOT run because the grassroots will not support them: Harris Emmanuel Newsom Candidates most likely to run and be supported by the DNC: Harris Emmanuel Newsom
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Now What?? @mraulston.word.expert · 05/10/2026
#Tallahassee RSVP: www.mobilize.us/leoncountyin...
Information about the screening of the documentary "Bad Faith" October 22nd in Tallahassee, Florida
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Wilber was finally able to undergo surgery on Thursday—11 days after he was shot. “When ICE can shoot a man in the back and then barely give him any medical treatment and let him suffer, there’s a reason for that because we have gotten to a point where we see people as less than human.”
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Austin man has surgery 11 days after being shot by ICE agent
The surgery on the Venezuelan national, who has been in custody since his Sept. 20 run-in with an immigration officer, removed the bullet lodged in his back.
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Now What?? @mraulston.word.expert · 05/10/2026
The Annual Crow Confabulation has begun. They are fairly solitary during the day in spring and summer but at this time of year, they begin assembling into what seems to be family units to carry on their Crow Business. The lone crow who comes to my house to be fed now brings six crows along.
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Now What?? @mraulston.word.expert · 05/10/2026
The movie "Frogs". Saw it with a bunch of older kids from the neighborhood- I was maybe 6 or 7 - and it gave me nightmares about both frogs AND movie theaters...
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Now What?? @mraulston.word.expert · 05/10/2026
It could be "jackass" but from behind....
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 05/10/2026
Children living safely with families are being picked up by ICE and referred to the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which places them in shelters or foster care. These shelters were designed for new arrivals, not settled kids—and the children are struggling badly.
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“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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Now What?? @mraulston.word.expert · 05/10/2026
I don't understand how the average person looks at what is going on in America and thinks "I'd be better off if my government also slashed the safety net, committed crimes at an unprecedented scale, rounded up people with unaccountable police, and lied about all of it, all the time." WHUT?
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Henry Snow @henrys.now · 05/10/2026
"unlike my main competitor I specifically believe our products justify some suffering" is not very good marketing
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Now What?? @mraulston.word.expert · 04/10/2026
Rage bait is their jam......It's the audience MSNow et al caters to And it changes exactly nothing.
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Now What?? @mraulston.word.expert · 04/10/2026
They're all cos-playing the Mean Girl from high school...
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Now What?? @mraulston.word.expert · 04/10/2026
The name-calling is so obnoxious....
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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 30/09/2026
Amazon is ramping up its program to give delivery drivers smart glasses. The device captures still images constantly from the moment the driver leaves his van and walks to your door, potentially thousands per shift. You can’t opt out www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Amazon Drivers’ Smart Glasses Are Going to Be an Image Problem
Coming soon up a garden path near you: an Amazon.com Inc. driver wearing smart glasses, almost constantly taking pictures and sending them back to the company to be analyzed by humans and fed into an ...
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Now What?? @mraulston.word.expert · 04/10/2026
And now.....the Plague....
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Now What?? @mraulston.word.expert · 04/10/2026
Jack Smith. American Hero.
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Tristan Crane @tcrane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Loren's work was the some of the first times I encountered images of transgender men, and it changed the course of my own life and my own art. I'm so glad people are still sharing his story.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Just on normative grounds, it is bad, bad, bad not to give people opt-out options of any government automation process. The point is to change the default, not to compel participation.
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Now What?? @mraulston.word.expert · 04/10/2026
I have no use for a rape apologist.
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Now What?? @mraulston.word.expert · 03/10/2026
I read the article written by Cornell student journalists and text of the lawsuit. She was a freshman, not old enough to drink legally (though Moonies served her anyway), in her first semester. She made bad choices involving drinking made by legions of young ppl. Rape is not a valid consequence.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If you’ve read about TN this week, please take a moment with this piece if you didn’t read it when we published it: It’s an investigation into the execution team Alabama has put together. It’s officers with a history of violence who choose each other. Eye-opening to what happens in executions.
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In Alabama, Prison Guards Accused of Violence and Misconduct Carry Out Secretive Executions - Bolts
As Alabama keeps details around the death penalty hidden, an investigation into its execution team raises questions about how incarcerated people are treated in their final moments.
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Now What?? @mraulston.word.expert · 03/10/2026
Replacing Alito is incredibly motivating for Dems....he may well regret announcing....
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IYKYK 🌮 @nisslbody.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026
As the article mentions, Oregon had issues with child deaths among members of the same religious sect. The solution was to roll back religious exemption laws so parents could be prosecuted for withholding lifesaving treatment, and their other children could be protected.
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Now What?? @mraulston.word.expert · 03/10/2026
Getting drunk and high is NOT PUNISHABLE BY RAPE. Your comment is an encapsulation of the rape culture ethos. If a frat bro gets drunk, do the other frat bros have a right to sodomize him and text their friends to come participate?
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Now What?? @mraulston.word.expert · 03/10/2026
apnews.com/article/deng... #Florida
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Florida's dengue outbreak is now the largest in the continental US in decades
Florida is experiencing its largest dengue outbreak in decades, with over 250 locally acquired cases reported this year.
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Now What?? @mraulston.word.expert · 03/10/2026
davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/the-infini...
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The Infinite Money Trick
Guarded skepticism about AI product releases
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Now What?? @mraulston.word.expert · 03/10/2026
A makeup kit for the 3+ set, purchased at the giant bin of Amazon returns store.
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Librarian by Day 🏳️‍🌈 @librarianbyday.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Thinking of creating a similar program? I think this www.librarian.net/notoai/ and this teenlibrarian.co.uk/2026/08/20/c... would provide helpful guidance and resources.
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How to disable or avoid intrusive AI
One of the biggest questions I get at Drop-In Time at the library (besides "what is taking up all my cloud storage?") is how to disable or avoid intrusive AI that shows up where people don't want it. This is a guide for people who would like less intrusive AI in their tech environment. Maybe you lik
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 03/10/2026
but really, this post is just me reaffirming that I am not interested in whether they can do math because the primary function of LLMs is to help centralize, justify, and validate power, and they are doing that successfully already
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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 02/10/2026
Elon Musk's xAI on Friday persuaded a US federal appeals court to halt Minnesota's first-in-the-nation ban on AI-generated fake nude images as the technology and social media company pursues a lawsuit alleging that the law is unconstitutional.
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US appeals court blocks Minnesota's AI 'nudification' law for now in XAI lawsuit
Elon Musk's xAI on Friday ​persuaded a US ‌federal appeals court to halt Minnesota's first-in-the-nation ​ban on AI-generated ​fake nude images as ⁠the technology and ​social media company pursues ​a lawsuit alleging that the law is unconstitutional.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Unbelievable. Except totally believable. We utterly fail at elite accountability in 🇺🇸, & elite universities have been at the forefront of that since Iran-Contra, repeatedly offering sinecures to the authoritarians. It's why all the things keep happening time & again: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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Now What?? @mraulston.word.expert · 03/10/2026
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10...
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Israeli barrier cuts off water to West Bank Palestinians before elections
Residents of Ras al-Ahmar say Israeli restrictions have cut access to water, animal feed, healthcare.
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