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scott daGHOSTtino @scottdagostino.ca · 19h

Everyone’s mad at Danny Trejo for signing on to Ben Shapiro’s pro-ICE movie but now his son reveals how Shapiro’s team tricked an old man into doing this 😡

For anyone seeing this shit with my dad...

He was booked on a film, it's not pro-ice, it's not overtly pro anything. His agent described it as "a complicated story about a complicated time, where everyone looks bad except you, the hardworking Mexican shop owner who just wants peace.”

He jumped at the idea of playing a good guy.

About 2 weeks into shooting everyone, including us, found out Ben Shapiro was involved.

My 82 year old dad has never heard of Ben Shapiro, I had to explain to him who that is, and what kind of guy he is.

My dad contractually can't bad mouth him, the film, or walk away without being sued for breach of contract. He couldn't even release the statement he wanted to.

It's fucked up. He's handcuffed to this stupid project, and swaths of people have instantly turned their back on him without knowing any of the facts.

Ben Shapiro got Mexicans to abandon one of their heroes, got his own name to the top of google's searches, and made us look like angry fools lacking any nuance. He wins.

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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

300,000 tons is the equivalent of 93 million gallons of diesel. U.S. daily consumption? 160 million gallons. So 13-14 hours’ worth. Won’t really move the needle on prices in the market.

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 24/08/2026

Meat proxy (noun): “A person who forwards AI-generated text, code, or other output without reading, understanding, or validating it. The person acts only as a relay between the AI system and the intended recipient.” [sfisms.org]

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Meat proxy

A person who forwards AI-generated text, code, or other output without reading, understanding, or validating it. The person acts only as a relay between the AI system and the intended recipient.

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Margaret Morgan 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇦🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Letter (1962) from Bertrand Russell to Oswald Mosley, founder of the British Union of Fascists in response to Mosley's demands that they debate publicly.

22 January 1962
Sir Oswald Mosley,
5, Lowndes Court,
Lowndes Square,
London, S.W.1.

Dear Sir Oswald,

Thank you for your letter and for your enclosures. I have given some thought to our recent correspondence. It is always difficult to decide on how to respond to people whose ethos is so alien and, in fact, repellent to one’s own. It is not that I take exception to the general points made by you but that every ounce of my energy has been devoted to an active opposition to cruel bigotry, compulsive violence, and the sadistic persecution which has characterised the philosophy and practice of fascism.

I feel obliged to say that the emotional universes we inhabit are so distinct, and in deepest ways opposed, that nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us.

I should like you to understand the intensity of this conviction on my part. It is not out of any attempt to be rude that I say this but because of all that I value in human experience and human achievement.

Yours sincerely,

Bertrand Russell

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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 23/08/2026

younger folks I need you to understand yahoo was never good. there was never a yahoo era. it was like, altavista and then google. yahoo was like this mirage that had too much money for a while and did increasingly stupid shit with it

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Arren @neverbound.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

When it comes to presenting information, one person poorly dramatizing their speech is such a piss-poor method. Even worse: one person poorly portraying multiple characters — in fact talking to themselves. Worst gimmick ever. Make it stop

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I cross-referenced my database of candidates against credible voter fraud cases. GOP politicians are implicated at 50x–38,000x the general public's rate. Yet even if every American voted with the integrity of a GOP candidate, it still wouldn't come close to justifying making voting one iota harder.

Bar chart titled "Voter fraud among Republican politicians vastly exceeds the public's. That rate is still just 1 in 850." The chart shows that 0.118% of Republican politicians (17 out of 14,442 DIME candidates from 2016–2026) have been credibly implicated in voter fraud. This rate is represented by a tall red bar that dwarfs the microscopic rates for the general electorate, making the politicians' rate 50x to 38,000x higher than the documented rates for everyone else.

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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Is device addiction real? Yes. Are people who may have once read no longer reading? Yes. Is it "The Kids These Days" who we should blame and browbeat? No. Go look in the mirror.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 25/06/2026

Our games industry is people. Our studios are people. Our teams people, our games by people for people. Our games are made by people, in groups of people, in teams of people, making people things for people. The magic is people, and the people deserve so much better than all this. I am so sorry.

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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 24/06/2026

So like....I get that this makes Trump look bad and is him being a piece of shit. But the way Dems react to things, man. Whew. It's like everything is normal and this is the first time Trump is acting up. They're behaving like things haven't completely changed on every level, and it's weird to me.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 23/06/2026

Happy belated birthday to Octavia Estelle Butler, born June 22, 1947

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Geo-engineering seems to be forever an attempt to not do the very doable greenhouse-gas reduction things we can do, know how to do, are doing, but not nearly enough. To reject a proven, viable solution in favor of a wild gamble that could create its own catastrophes.

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Arren @neverbound.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Just gonna shout this into the void. Watching Strange New Worlds s2, got to e7 tonight. The Lower Decks crossover. By Grabthar's Hammer, this may well be the worst Trek episode since Beverly Crusher's ghost romance*. * That I've seen, that is. I noped out of Voyager after s1 and skipped Enterprise.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Hell of a Freudian slip. I *assume* he was thinking of the Baader-Meinhof Gang, a far-left terrorist group. Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a legendary and rightly celebrated anti-Nazi theologian & dissident.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 16/06/2026

The social internet got turned into a giant dopamine farm by a handful of companies who literally hired the same psychologists who design casino floor layouts, and the policy-makers just threw up their hands and said "guess we better ban kids from using the internet then"

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I generally don't like cross-posting from Twitter, but Mike Young absolutely nails how the US wound up with a resurgence of the flesh-eating screwworm decades after it had been eliminated.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

America spent a quarter millennium fearing the fate of Rome and still wound up with a populist demagogue demolishing republican symbols while building triumphal arches and a personal gilded palace and an arena to host spectacular blood sports in honor of his birthday.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 07/06/2026

There's something incredible about an academic paper using the Turing-completeness of goats in Age of Empire 2 to prove that attributing humanity to LLM's requires attributing equal humanity to hordes of Age of Empires 2 goats walking around. arxiv.org/pdf/2605.31514

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

RFK Jr: I terminated the COVID vaccines because it didn’t make any sense. COVID is gone. Note: From July 2024 to June 2025 in the US, COVID19 caused up to 450,000 hospitalizations and 53,000 deaths. COVID ain’t gone, shitbird.

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Up to 56,000 people died from COVID-19 or RSV last year

RSV was associated with 190,000 to 350,000 hospitalizations from July 1, 2024, to June 30, 2025, as well as 10,000 to 23,000 deaths, according to new CDC data.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

A good word to add to our vocabulary would be "lustration."

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

AI footage in the quote post. However it's a real fact, with real footage available (See my link below). Now people who believed it have a false image of how octopus act, and people who recognise it as AI question a real observed scientific fact. Utter bullshit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN9B...

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Female octopuses intentionally throw debris at harassing males

YouTube video by New Scientist

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 11/04/2026

It represents the best of us. It was a peaceful mission that constituted an international effort; the ESA was involved and built the service module, there was a Canadian astronaut onboard... It's a glimpse, even in dark times, of all we *can* be both as a nation and, more importantly, as a species.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

The USPS can't "run out of money," the sole question is the people in charge of the federal government believe delivering mail is worth funding the same way they already fund armed kidnapping gangs, concentration camps, and blowing up girls' schools.

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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

National Geographic Award winning photograph of the year. So beautiful. 🐝🐝🐝

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 04/04/2026

I think a lot of Bluesky users are in the demographic of “people who simply will stop using social media entirely if all the text-based social platforms that aren’t run by unrepentant Nazis (like this one) go away,” myself very much included

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David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Ouch. This one stings.

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

A staggering new finding from Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies: since 2001, the money left over each month for lower-income renters—after paying rent and utilities—has fallen 60 percent to a record low of $210. $210 left over for food, healthcare, childcare, and everything else.

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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

just this week: -- OpenAI killed Sora -- Disney subsequently cancelled its investment in OpenAI -- Wikipedia is now banning LLM-generated content ...tell me again how this is all "inevitable" and you have to "get on board or get left behind"?

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Discontinued FoOoOods! 👻🎃 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Gonna drop the gimmick for a second and explain, as a therapist. What you're describing is a phenomenon called Revenge Bedtime Procrastination. It's a subconscious habit that develops in which a person seeks dopamine-releasing behavior at night to exact "revenge" on the day which deprived them

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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Thread. I'm begging people to realize how much we've already given in just the past 25 years. I'm old enough to remember when surveillance wasn't ubiquitous and before ICE or the TSA existed. There was even a time when the average cop wasn't kitted out for full on urban warfare.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

2006 internet: RSS feeds, forums, communities of hobby blogs, where people post about interior design, fashion, and music for free 2026 internet: sponsored content, paid partnership, buy my merch, try my supplements, invest in my crypto, click link in bio to unlock the secrets of life for $30

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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

When you see the term Zio, remind that person the literal Grand High Wizard of the KKK David Duke coined that term. That if they want to say zionist just use that word. They do not need to use KKK slang. Most people are using Zio thinking it is just a short form and not a literal KKK term.

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Hayes Davenport @hayesdavenport.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

For about a year I've been working with some of the best reporters and editors in L.A. to build a brand new city news outlet. It launches tomorrow. Is it possible to operate a sustainable local journalism business in 2026? Let me know! lamaterial.com

lamaterial.com

Home | L.A. Material

News for Los Angeles.

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Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Truth rarely beats racism

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Mythic 🦊 @mythicalredfox.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads:

The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you.

And our governments are very much the same...

- Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

this kind of stuff is what the Internet was meant to be

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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

There are more instances of United States Citizens being detained by ICE than there are of illegal immigrants voting in elections.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

i don't care about any arguments against this. right now the sum total of my political advocacy is: crush the Republicans and make them pay. i don't care what comes after because until we do that nothing better is possible.

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 07/03/2026

most everyone who's written about this from a philosophy of mind perspective has also argued a definition of consciousness alongside it. tech guys post things like this without having "done the reading" so to speak because they believe other fields are beneath them. www.noemamag.com/the-mytholog...

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The Mythology Of Conscious AI | NOEMA

Why consciousness is more likely a property of life than of computation and why creating conscious, or even conscious-seeming AI, is a bad idea.

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