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Patent Attorney. Electrical Engineer. Computer Programmer. Volunteer. Lecturer. Art Enthusiast. Human. Cat dad. (Former) dog dad. He/him. 🏳️‍🌈

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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
'The Vatican was so alarmed by the Pentagon’s warning that Pope Leo canceled his plans to visit the U.S. later in the year; “many in the Vatican saw the Pentagon’s reference to an Avignon papacy as a threat to use military force against the Holy See.”' newrepublic.com/post/208820/...
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Pentagon Threatened the Pope After He Criticized Trump
It was so bad that Pope Leo changed his plans to travel to the U.S.
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John Hudgens @johnhudgens.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
NASA’s Earth photos from Artemis inspired me to put this on today… 🙂 Getting lots of positive comments on it as I run errands…
Cloisonné pin similar to the NASA logo, but reads “NOT FLAT”, with “we checked” underneath l
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Andrew @novel-af.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
@vixx.bsky.social has repeated the false claims that Sony has obtained a patent in this story www.ign.com/articles/son... They haven't obtained a patent! An Examiner hasn't even been assigned to review it yet. This is just a publication of a patent application.
Screenshot of patent center showing that no patent has been granted and no examiner has been assigned.
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Andrew @novel-af.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
@manchesterwrites.bsky.social has repeated the false claims that Sony has obtained a patent in this story www.polygon.com/sony-ai-gene... They haven't obtained a patent! An Examiner hasn't even been assigned to review it yet. This is just a publication of a patent application.
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Sony patents AI-generated podcasts voiced by your favorite video game characters
Sony's AI-generated podcasts would have characters like Kratos and Aloy delivering news and making jokes at your expense.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Read the order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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#23 in United States v. Jefferson (E.D. Va., 3:25-cr-00160) – CourtListener.com
MEMORANDUM ORDER (Striking and Barring Future Use of Title; Providing Notice): This matter comes before the Court on the United States of America's (the "Government") Response to the Court's January 6...
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Here’s a good explainer we @lawfaremedia.org published earlier this year (by Aaron Zelinsky, John Connolly, and David Reiser) that covers a lot of these issues. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/stat...
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State Prosecutions of Federal Agents and the Presidential Pardon Power
State prosecutions of ICE agents may end up in federal courts, but any conviction would be beyond the president’s pardon power.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 08/01/2026
Almost like despite proclamations to the contrary, they are getting the message that they can use “vehicle as a deadly weapon“ as an excuse to fire on people
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tante @tante.cc · 08/01/2026
This should be a legal requirement for being allowed to sell networked devices. Bose open-sources its SoundTouch home theater smart speakers ahead of end-of-life
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 23/12/2025
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
NEWS: Congresswoman Joyce Beatty sues Trump to block the renaming of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Read the complaint: washingtonlitigationgroup.org/news/new-law...
Case 1:25-cv-04480
Document 1 Filed 12/22/25 Page 2 of 18
INTRODUCTION
This is a lawsuit to stop the unlawful renaming of the John F. Kennedy Center for
the Performing Arts ("the Kennedy Center"). Shortly after President Kennedy's assassination,
Congress designated the Kennedy Center as the sole national memorial to the late President within
the nation's capital.
Because Congress named the center by statute, changing the Kennedy
Center's name requires an act of Congress. But on December 18 and 19, 2025—in scenes more
reminiscent of authoritarian regimes than the American republic the sitting President and his
handpicked loyalists renamed this storied center after President Trump. This is a flagrant violation
of the rule of law, and it flies in the face of our constitutional order. Congress intended the Center
to be a living memorial to President Kennedy-and a crown jewel of the arts for all Americans,
irrespective of party. Unless and until this Court intervenes, Defendants will continue to defy
Congress and thwart the law for improper ends.
2. For decades, the Kennedy Center has served as a renowned hub for the arts in the
nation's capital. But when Defendant Trump entered office for his second term in January 2025,
he became fixated on controlling the Kennedy Center. In February 2025, in a norm-shattering
development, Defendant Trump ousted members of the Kennedy Center's Board of Trustees;
installed sycophants in their place; orchestrated the firing of the Kennedy Center's President; and installed Defendant Richard Grenell, who served in the first Trump Administration, to lead the Kennedy Center. In a stunning move, Defendant Trump even appointed himself to the Board, after
which his handpicked Board elected him as Chair. The ongoing politicization of the Kennedy
Center has had grave consequences for the institution. Major figures have broken their ties with
the Kennedy Center, and public reporting has found that nearly half of the Kennedy Center's
tickets now go…
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/12/2025
BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
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WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 22/12/2025
Sigh www.news9.com/ou-essay-rem...
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OU removes graduate teaching assistant after discrimination investigation
The University of Oklahoma has concluded an investigation into claims that a student was discriminated against by receiving a zero on an assignment for referencing the Bible. The University said the g...
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Omg Jacob is such a Bluesky user 😂💀
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
“.. in a group Signal chat, .. he wrote in part: ‘I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.’” @reuters.com #Chicago www.reuters.com/world/us/bor...
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
(And if you just want to read the texts that are the subject of these filings, you can read them here, via @lawfaremedia.org): www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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Signal screenshots
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Republicans are fighting to ensure that Americans in Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, and a raft of other red states pay DOUBLE what they paid before for healthcare.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/10/2025
Harmeet Dhillon (DOJ) publicly targeted this judge on Twitter a couple weeks ago.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
I understand this. Please tell me you do, too.
The image is an X post by user Joshua Reed Eakle from 20 hours ago, stating: "The end of due process for immigrants is the end of due process for citizens. Few understand this." The post includes a profile picture and a verified badge.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Having my brother around is fun bc I’ll be like “everything is bad! The future we were building is disappearing before my eyes!!!” & he’ll be like “hey do you think I could throw this grape through the ceiling fan, have it hit the ceiling, then catch it in my mouth?” & I’ll be like… “idk lemme see”
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Just so I'm clear: TV host says we should kill every homeless person? No big deal TV host says the right must "go to war" with the left? Pfft. TV host says the government is cracking down on critics? Well, the government cracks down on him for the criticism. Free speech, everyone.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2025
former CDC official Dr. Houry: "I first learned that the secretary had changed our CDC covid vaccine guidance on an X social media post. CDC scientists have still not seen the scientific data or justification for this change. That is not gold standard science."
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Kroger will lay off ~1,000 employees. In December, it announced $7.5B in stock buybacks – which juice stock prices, enriching shareholders and boosting CEO pay. Just so happens that Kroger's last CEO was paid 457x its typical employee in 2024. Textbook corporate greed.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
The amount of shit I got for this segment at the time was astronomical, and it was all from people who now stalk CVS employees to get them fired for insufficient online sadness. Cheering on political violence is both evil and not new, an outgrowth of an internet intentionally dismantled years ago.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
This you? Just two hours later?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2025
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
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NPR @npr.org · 11/09/2025
The teenager who opened fire at his classmates before shooting himself has been identified by authorities as 16-year-old Desmond Holly. He died at the hospital of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. via @coloradopublic.bsky.social
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Evergreen High School shooter identified by authorities
Authorities say the school shooter was radicalized by an “extremist network.”
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David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 11/09/2025
His former friend and political ally Rep. Joe Walsh said as much yesterday: bsky.app/profile/davi...
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
“Helsinki has not recorded a single traffic fatality in the past 12 months, city and police officials confirmed this week.” City engineer credits lower speed limits and smart design. I agree. #Helsinki #VisionZero
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Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death
A city traffic engineer credits the success to lower speed limits and smarter design.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion, after getting $1.2 trillion richer over the past year alone. Meanwhile, the rest of the country is getting squeezed by tariffs and high prices for groceries, utilities, and health care. The system is broken.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
NEW: The law is supposed to protect unaccompanied migrant children from being summarily whisked out of the country by ICE in the dead of night. But that didn't seem to matter on Labor Day weekend, when the Trump administration tried to do just that. My latest: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
The Judicial Learning Curve by Anna Bower on Lawfare
"District Court judges watch each other struggle with the Trump administration--and adapt."
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
I went away to write for a few hours and when I came back the [checks notes] United States Justice Department had oosted the equivalent of a notes app apology on 30% battery in airplane mode like a B-list celebrity circa 2016, what else did I miss??
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 05/09/2025
Sen. Warren Daniel (R–NC, District 46) was caught trading stocks right on the Senate floor. Didn’t even wait for a break. Playing the market on the taxpayers’ time…pure abuse of power.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
RFK Jr. rolled out that old chestnut again about how healthy Americans were in the 60’s, so here’s a fact check. In 1965: -42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now. -The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now. -Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Yale Law School never beating the “they don’t teach law at Yale” allegations
Q: On the Venezuela vessel strike, what legal authority were you guys working under?
JD VANCE: The legal authority is there are people who are bringing -- literal terrorists
-- who are bringing deadly drugs into our country
U.S. SENATE
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 02/09/2025
Sea Level xkcd.com/3135/
Comic. [Two people on shore looking at body of water] PERSON 1: Hey, where’s that big island we were looking at this morning? PERSON 2 with short hair: Oh, it’s underwater. The ocean’s depth here goes up and down by like ten feet every day. PERSON 1: What? PERSON 2: It’s because the planet has a big moon orbiting near the surface. It causes weird gravity effects. PERSON 1: *What???* [caption] People here are used to them, but tides are one of the weirdest and most sci-fi elements of life on Earth.
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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
The oldest fossil evidence shows that humans originated in Africa about 200,000 years ago and would have had dark pigmented skin to protect them from intense UV rays. So if you're a believer in "God," and believe man was created in his image... then it stands to reason that God is a Black man.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Republicans keep telling us not to "politicize" these shootings, but that's only because they understand that these shootings were entirely motivated by the political arguments they themselves have been making and entirely facilitated by the political campaign against gun control that they have led.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
👀 👀 👀
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Jake Scott, MD @jakescottmd.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Vaccines do not cause autism.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
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Julianna 💎 @batariangal.eurosky.social · 06/08/2025
Oh you absolutely useless wankers
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
If you say you don't like AI art and think people should just learn creative pursuits themselves (and I agree!!), then you have to like my eel animations when I post them, those are the rules. I haven't posted them yet but ****when I do****... Those are the rules!!
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/08/2025
As a physicist I can easily calculate time dilation from relativistic motion (time slows when you're moving fast) or proximity to a massive object (time slows in gravity) but I have yet to find a solution for emotional time dilation (the task takes five minutes to complete but six weeks to start) 🫠
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