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brutalism.space guy /// born, raised, and currently living in the beautiful Cascadia bioregion /// ask me about unionizing your workplace

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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Huge news! Charges against Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum, founders of the Drug User Liberation Front, have been stayed. Judge found parts of Canada's drug laws are unconstitutional and that the compassion club reduced the harms associated with the toxic drug crisis. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
cbc.ca
Judge tosses drug trafficking convictions for B.C. compassion club founders after constitutional challenge | CBC News
A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has ruled in favour of two harm-reduction activists convicted of drug trafficking who argued they were doing it to reduce the harms caused by toxic drugs.
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it's nate! @natescape.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Do you know how much has to have gone wrong for me to not like the internet
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...
appleinsider.com
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 28/09/2026
One wonders when, or rather if at all, the Europeans will ever show an ounce of spine and internal solidarity in response to Israel repeatedly, and illegally, expelling European diplomats from missions to a country that is not Israel and whose posts are not on Israeli territory.
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m w bowman @mw.brutalism.space · 25/09/2026
i guess i'm going to start bringing a drink to every interview. sounds like it'll be a very easy way of filtering out jobs where you're going to have to work with/for insufferable little dweebs like this guy.
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
we have control mechanisms for this. it's called The Law. these guys should be held personally liable for these harms. the suicides, the thefts, the intrusions into computer systems. they should be sued and prosecuted as appropriate. problem immediately solved
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m w bowman @mw.brutalism.space · 24/09/2026
it's certainly going to be interesting to see the gap in "intellectual dexterity" between the people who are all-in on cognitive surrender and the people who largely eschew LLM usage over the next couple years
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m w bowman @mw.brutalism.space · 24/09/2026
this has often been my pitch to people as to why they should learn about historical materialism. it inures you to so many annoying takes.
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Gabriel Kahn @gabekahn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
U.S. military sends top-secret F-35 parts by UPS from Australia. China intercepts package in Hong Kong, won't give it back.
bloomberg.com
China Is Holding Sensitive F-35 Parts Diverted to Hong Kong
The Chinese government has taken possession of potentially sensitive F-35 stealth aircraft parts that were inexplicably diverted to Hong Kong while being sent to the US from Australia, people briefed ...
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m w bowman @mw.brutalism.space · 20/09/2026
happy fat bear week to all who observe
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Ben S @bensh3.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The original Chongqing Station was a real vibe, sad to see it go
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 18/09/2026
A timely and informative fact sheet on Canada's announcement that it intends to align with the United Kingdom, France, Norway, Spain and Ireland (among others) in banning trade with Israeli settlements. Credit to @cjpme.org
cjpme.org
Canada’s proposed ban on trade with illegal Israeli settlements
CJPME Factsheet 252, published September 17, 2026: This factsheet addresses frequently asked questions about Canada's announcement that it intends to introduce a ban on trade with illegal Israeli sett...
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Incredible headline here (among other things)
theguardian.com
Texas police department ordered closed for failing to provide any benefit to community
Disbanding of department in Trinidad comes after arrest of a resident for posting about issues with local water supply
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m w bowman @mw.brutalism.space · 14/09/2026
visited one of my favourite places in the city over the weekend
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MotorWeek @motorweek.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Uhhh, we're gonna go with option 2 #MotorWeekRetro
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m w bowman @mw.brutalism.space · 09/09/2026
as promised, a new set from my excursion this past long weekend Arntzen Hall at Western Washington University (1974) full album: brutalism.space/sets/2026/ar...
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m w bowman @mw.brutalism.space · 09/09/2026
as promised, a new set from my excursion this past long weekend Arntzen Hall at Western Washington University (1974) full album: brutalism.space/sets/2026/ar...
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 09/09/2026
After years of company stalling, Blizzard workers win mega-contract that applies to all unionized teams aftermath.site/blizzard-union...
the famous orc statue outside blizzard's HQ in irvine, california
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m w bowman @mw.brutalism.space · 07/09/2026
went for a drive over the long weekend (without my film camera) and ended up shooting an impromptu digital set for the site. should have it up in the next couple days. here's a preview.
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Screamer Jim @screamerjim.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Happy Labor Day
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m w bowman @mw.brutalism.space · 06/09/2026
you ever think about how nice it's gonna be when everyone who's old enough to want to see an Elvis impersonator is dead?
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
One of those things you were pretty sure was true but now you have causal quantiative evidence in the American Economic Review: business schools trained CEOs to pay workers less in pursuit of maximizing shareholder value www.aeaweb.org/conference/2...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
"Besides being deeply cynical, Chomsky’s supposed pragmatism has not stood the test of time...We may have manufactured consent once upon a time, but America has long since transitioned to a post-manufacturing economy." Very harsh but worthwhile read. strangematters.coop/noam-chomsky...
strangematters.coop
Chomsky After Epstein - Strange Matters
Noam Chomsky – friend of Epstein, defender of dictatorships – was no model anti-imperialist. Can we do better?
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kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 30/08/2026
some of you forget that architecture has its own aims beyond serving as an incidental line item for technocrat utopias
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m w bowman @mw.brutalism.space · 29/08/2026
if my parents left me alone with that thing as a teenager i woulda beat it to death with a hammer tbh
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 29/08/2026
Frank Lowenstein, senior envoy on Israel-Palestine under the Obama administration, conceded in an article today published in the New Yorker that the two-state paradigm is basically dead and has been for years, rendering the same old rhetoric about supporting a 2SS fantastical without policy changes.
newyorker.com
New Maps Show How Israel Has Thwarted Hopes for a Palestinian State
The breakneck expansion of settlements in the West Bank has rendered American talk of a two-state solution increasingly irrelevant.
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 27/08/2026
People consistently argue more surveillance will reduce policing but we’re just not seeing that actually manifest on the ground, instead we get this.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Have you seen any reporting on how solar power generation in the USA is 5 times higher than it was in 2020 in mainstream outlets? If not, why do you think this is not being widely covered the same way other large technological changes are?
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Andy Yan @ayan604.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"McGill study demonstrates that restricting short-term rentals improves housing affordability" #Vanpoli #VanRe www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/cha...
mcgill.ca
McGill study demonstrates that restricting short-term rentals improves housing affordability
Municipal regulation of short-term rentals “is low-hanging fruit” that helps improve housing affordability, a new study by McGill researchers suggests. The study found that rents were relatively lower...
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I wish there was more interrogation of what "demilitarized" means in the context of a 2SS, because I think most people assume it means that Palestine won't have a million tanks and jets, and what it actually means is that the IDF will still be conducting operations at will in Palestinian territory.
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m w bowman @mw.brutalism.space · 25/08/2026
softest website on earth
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m w bowman @mw.brutalism.space · 25/08/2026
this is very much My Jam but the fact that Sheeler doesn't have an artist credit on the card feels a bit shitty tbh
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m w bowman @mw.brutalism.space · 23/08/2026
lmao
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m w bowman @mw.brutalism.space · 20/08/2026
the idea of "pro-AI" being a coherent ideological position is a fantasy. the term "AI" has at this point been over-prescribed to the point of meaningless. it refers to a huge constellation of unrelated technologies, and taking a position on "AI" writ large is reductive to the point of unseriousness.
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m w bowman @mw.brutalism.space · 18/08/2026
polling is a cancer on democracy and any attempts to delegitimize it should be applauded
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m w bowman @mw.brutalism.space · 18/08/2026
I went and paid my respects to the coolest place in Seattle this past weekend
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m w bowman @mw.brutalism.space · 18/08/2026
we absolutely cannot allow rob manfred to see this post
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Curb Your Malthusiasm @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
You guys talk about guillotines and just desserts for ICE and Musk and the Trump admin but when confronted with Castro who actually did that to the people who enslaved and raped his country for the previous 60 years you no longer have the stomach for it, makes ya think why that is
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m w bowman @mw.brutalism.space · 18/08/2026
if he tries really hard he might even make a movie as good as Tokyo Drift one day
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dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Fabulous terra cotta on Irving School, Berwyn, Illinois
Coppery-colored terra cotta 2-story wall on a school. The Art Deco design features stylized eagles with outstretched wings, a sun shining on flowers (my interpretation), and ground-to-roof fluted pilasters topped with two volutes and a disc. It's luscious.
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m w bowman @mw.brutalism.space · 11/08/2026
this is an astounding thing to admit the the public and then still expect them to take you seriously as a writer. like dawg you have rendered yourself functionally illiterate, why would anyone even be willing to entertain the idea that you can write anything of any value?
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Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
AI DATACENTER?
I'D RATHER BE AT THE GAY GUY
DATING CENTER
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
That's not true lol it's literally just free public art if you just leave it the fuck alone
bbc.com
Bristol artist Banksy's works cost taxpayers nearly £150k
FOI requests reveal Banksy artworks have cost taxpayers almost £150,000, with costs still rising.
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m w bowman @mw.brutalism.space · 09/08/2026
is that good
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m w bowman @mw.brutalism.space · 09/08/2026
this is basically me, though I can't say I've had to take any "extreme measures" thus far. I found a 2010 with very low mileage, no touchscreen, and a 6-speed manual. just gonna drive it until it disintegrates, which will take a very long time because it's a Honda.
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Tyler @okty.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
What's wrong babe you've barely driven your Subaru Troutback
A Subaru Outback painted like a trout
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m w bowman @mw.brutalism.space · 08/08/2026
i acquired a couple pairs of linen shorts a few months ago and have been wearing them whenever it's hot out. i am fully linenpilled now, 10/10 would recommend.
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m w bowman @mw.brutalism.space · 07/08/2026
if i was a religious leader, this is the sort of degeneracy i would be issuing fatwas against
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