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Nick Hanley @nickhanley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hegseth would’be been in that group chat 100%

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Nick Hanley @nickhanley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The solution is clear. We must put Pornhub in charge of military cybersecurity

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Nick Hanley @nickhanley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

God to all the people praying for him to smite Trump: “I’m trying my best okay?! You all look like ants from up here. Do you know how many old fat golfers in MAGA hats there are in Florida?”

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Nick Hanley @nickhanley.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

“I am not complicit,” he said complicitly.

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Nick Hanley @nickhanley.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Seriously. I just made that mistake a few weeks ago and had the worst panic attack of my life.

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Nick Hanley @nickhanley.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

What’s to stop the snipers in the sniper post from just mercing the millionaires as they roll up to the bunker, and then taking it for themselves & their families?

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Nick Hanley @nickhanley.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Do you score it if you’ve ever heard a song by the band, or do you only count it if it’s a band w/ at least one song you listen to semi-regularly?

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Nick Hanley @nickhanley.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

No surprise to see the petition includes signatures from a lot of the most insufferable people you stumble across in WaPo and NYT opinion columns

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Nick Hanley @nickhanley.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I think the jury is in on whether doing eugenics and racist pseudoscience is bad, but then again I don’t have a PhD in terrible facial hair

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Nick Hanley @nickhanley.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

This is how I learn Maus and Garbage Pail Kids were created by the same person?!

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Nick Hanley @nickhanley.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

As a test, my manager tried asking it to tell her how many meetings she had scheduled in the next two weeks. It told her she had zero meetings upcoming. She has at least 15 publicly visible on her Teams calendar.

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Nick Hanley @nickhanley.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I was in an “Intro to Agents” meeting earlier today. Every example of ways to use an Agent they offered was, “you can train it to summarize meeting notes and prioritize your outstanding tasks by urgency.” None of it was relevant to my daily work at all.

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Nick Hanley @nickhanley.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

My day job is payroll contributions processing. I am, unfortunately, a spreadsheet person. AI isn’t useful to me at all. I can’t use it to automate any of my workflow because we can’t give it access to our databases that contain sensitive P.I.I. info.

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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention

My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.

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Nick Hanley @nickhanley.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

LA’s best new restaurant is hiding inside a little house in Silver Lake, and when I find it I’m going to kill it with my hook hand

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Nick Hanley @nickhanley.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Pretty sure they recognize the choice and just prefer tyranny. Very similar to how the pro-business centrists in the Bundestag chose to form a coalition with the ascendant Nazi party because they viewed Nazis as pro-industry and Communism as the larger threat.

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Nick Hanley @nickhanley.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I really hope they’re found liable and forced to pay damages, the threat of liability payouts for every heat death, every out of control fire, every unusually strong hurricane is maybe the only thing that will ever cripple these companies or force them to change.

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Nick Hanley @nickhanley.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Would kill everyone I know to get a Mel Brook’s version of the Odyssey starring Gene Wilder

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

El Sayed: "When it comes to trans rights, this is the right to get the health care that you need...It’s the right not to be discriminated against by your government because of who you are. Because what tends to happen is they come for theirs, then they come for yours"

The idea that we can assent to the taking away of anybody’s rights, and think that somehow the government won’t come for all of our rights, is itself the problem. And, look, I don’t need people to understand how they use their rights. I just need people to agree that the government shouldn’t be able to take any of our rights. I put my face on the ground thirty-four times a day, David. Most people don’t understand why I do it. I don’t need them to understand. I just want to have the right to do it. And when people decide that they want to take away my right to do that, I’ve got a problem.

Now, I hope that everybody’s going to show up and say, No, no, no. You can’t stop that person or that community from reflecting and praying as they choose. Similarly, when it comes to trans rights, this is the right to get the health care that you need. That’s really what it comes down to. It’s the right to be who you are. It’s the right not to be discriminated against by your government because of who you are. Because what tends to happen is they come for theirs, then they come for yours, then they come for theirs. And at some point you live in a society where rights are negotiable, and that is not the America I was born in. It’s not the America I know and love. It’s not the America I’m going to allow somebody like Donald Trump to give us.

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Nick Hanley @nickhanley.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Breaking news: Classicist hates modern thing that is cool and popular

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I like to believe that Martin Sheen got the role of Jed Bartlet because of this

Martin Sheen in Spawn speaking with flatulent clown played by John Leguizamo

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Nick Hanley @nickhanley.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

This is going to bomb so hard the UN is already drafting a binding non-proliferation agreement for it

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Nick Hanley @nickhanley.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Personally, I’d much rather live in this world than the one we have now!

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/07/2026

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The ICE murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo deserves the same fury as Renee Good and Alex Pretti

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Nick Hanley @nickhanley.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

As a lifelong Californian, this is the first year I’ve ever wished I lived in NYC

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Nick Hanley @nickhanley.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

If Kubrick made the movie today, this guy would be the head of the DNC

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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

WATCH: Chris Hayes looks at how Elon Musk’s assault on USAID became one of DOGE’s most devastating legacies—and why Musk is now trying to rewrite the record.

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Hayes: Musk wants you to forget his deadly DOGE legacy

YouTube video by MS NOW

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Nick Hanley @nickhanley.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Dr. Manhattan if he was the Strait of Hormuz: “It is June 19th 2026… I am closed. It is June 20th 2026, I am open. It is June 21st 2026, I am closed. I am tired of Earth. These people. I am tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives.”

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Nick Hanley @nickhanley.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

It’s got what plants crave!

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Nick Hanley @nickhanley.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Credit where credit is due: Toxic cesspit that could be easily cleaned up with proper application of known solutions is a pretty accurate reflection of America in 2026

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Nick Hanley @nickhanley.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Has it? By whom? Link me the study, I’ll read it.

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Nick Hanley @nickhanley.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Firearm related injuries are the leading cause of death for people aged 1-19 in the United States. www.congress.gov/118/meeting/...

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Nick Hanley @nickhanley.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

But also, yes, if we did ever find ourselves in a situation where the government was truly committed to annihilating us, all the guns in the world aren’t going to save you from the full force of the U.S. military and police state. That’s a fantasy

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Nick Hanley @nickhanley.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Nobody died in the Belfast riot and that would almost certainly not have been the case if people on both sides of the riot had been armed with AR-15s and Shotguns

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Nick Hanley @nickhanley.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Which, if you look at countries where guns are strictly controlled, is just a fact. Lower murder rates per capita, lower suicide rates per capita, lower rates of violent crime per capita and gun deaths aren’t the leading cause of mortality for children.

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Nick Hanley @nickhanley.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I mean, the original question was whether the possibility of defending yourself from a Belfast style riot means the 2nd amendment is good actually, and my argument is “No, we’d all be safer if citizens didn’t have a legal right to own guns & it was illegal to manufacture or sell them here.”

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Nick Hanley @nickhanley.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Sure, but the 2A is also ultimately the main reason we have 45,000 gun deaths a year in this country. So is the level of deterrence created by access to guns worth the cost?

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Nick Hanley @nickhanley.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Which was my original point about the historic disparity in who the 2nd amendment protects. When marginalized political groups try to exercise their 2nd amendment rights in an organized way, the state changes the rules to criminalize it. So it’s not really useful as a tool of liberation.

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Nick Hanley @nickhanley.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

If politically marginalized people owning guns was a real threat to state power, the state wouldn’t let them own guns. Imagine everyone in Belfast had the same opportunity to own guns that we have in the U.S. would the body count on both sides of the mob have been lower or higher do you think?

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Nick Hanley @nickhanley.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Not really. There are plenty of countries today that don’t give citizens a baseline right to guns that have much lower murder rates per capita, much lower suicide rates per capita, and where gun deaths aren’t the #1 cause of child mortality across all demographics.

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Nick Hanley @nickhanley.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

If the pogrom is backed by the government, then the 2nd amendment will be a legal shield for the people doing the pogrom, not the people defending themselves from it.

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Nick Hanley @nickhanley.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I fear all it really means is that the people doing the pogroms will arm themselves in anticipation/fear of their targets being armed. It’s a vicious escalatory feedback loop anyway you look at it.

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Nick Hanley @nickhanley.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Though i do agree, or at least hope, that maybe the paranoid gun culture in the US and the uncertainty of not knowing which households will be packing and which won’t be, might delay the likelihood of a Belfast style riot here.

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Nick Hanley @nickhanley.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

If we reach the tipping point into fascist pogroms, then the first acts of spontaneous violence might be defended against by owning a gun, but as soon as a young white guy doing a pogrom gets killed, the police and the forces sympathetic will mobilize to crush the ones who stood up to the mobs.

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Nick Hanley @nickhanley.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Aside from the increased suicide/accidental death risk. I think the other compelling argument against this “here’s why we need the 2nd amendment” idea is that there is a clear historic disparity in who gets to claim “reasonable fear” and who the right to self-defense actually protects in America.

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Nick Hanley @nickhanley.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

If the richest person on Earth is using his influence to condemn millions of the world’s most vulnerable children to death by famine & disease, and to foment pogroms and racist counterrevolutions at home and abroad, maybe he shouldn’t get to stay the richest man on earth.

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