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Old Tehanu

@oldtehanu.bsky.social
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Writer. Science fan. Maps matter. Biology is queer af. Worked at MS & know stuff, Public Schools, & public transit. Gadfly. Eunoia. Just Say NO. No more Deadbeat Billionaires. Banner: 1982, me. Sry 4 typos. But FQ AI crap diction & syntax checks.

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Old Tehanu @oldtehanu.bsky.social · 1h
And it is a serious problem that zero of our sitting Congress understand even a fraction of this. Serious as in national security and life safety serious. It's not a small thing. It is a big fing deal.
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Regina Schrambling @gastropoda.bsky.social · 4h
This:
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Old Tehanu @oldtehanu.bsky.social · 1h
I am trying to keep inond that my own childhood was not documented with photographs, nor anyone before me. But facing a complete loss of the evidence of my children lives, it is small consolation. Fuck onedrive and Microsoftadjudication. make it my purpose to get their theft scheme adjudicated.
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Ben Franklin’s ghost @ben-franklin-ghost.bsky.social · 4h
They (GOP) know this to be true and it will always be true.
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leeks @anonleeks.bsky.social · 1h
we've been trying to tell you.....
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 3h
I would give anything to be able to vomit bees
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End Citizens United @endcitizensunited.bsky.social · 9h
For once, Ken Paxton is being honest: if it weren't for our broken campaign finance system, he'd have no shot. #UnrigWashington candidate @jamestalarico.bsky.social is running to reform our system and fight for Texans. Ken Paxton can't say the same. #TXSEN
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EnchanTRIS✨✨✨ @myobsexssions.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
Just applied to be a poll worker for Election Day. I know they’re planning to invalidate votes. And threaten ppl. Gonna put my Spanish skills to use and try to help the elderly. Just doing my part to try to help keep this damn country from eating itself alive.
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Jasmine @feistybunnygirl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Remember when they kicked an entire girl’s softball team out of the championship game because a player posted a private Snapchat where she was flipping off the camera? It’s funny how they never worry about ruining girl’s futures.
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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Black folks don’t hang themselves from trees.
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Derek gendvil @derekbshelby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Italy Shows How Amazon Can Be Forced to Bargain: Shut Down Its Distribution truthout.org/articles/ita...
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Italy Shows How Amazon Can Be Forced to Bargain: Shut Down Its Distribution
Amazon is huge and powerful, but Italian workers have shown it can be forced to negotiate. Could US workers do the same?
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You know what's messed up is this is like the fourth time in twenty years I've read this exact headline
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Old Tehanu @oldtehanu.bsky.social · 14h
I have a feeling they will regret how they are handling this. I bet they end up having to pay this woman millions in damages. Maybe more than any university has ever paid out to anyone, just because their response is so flagrant cruel and unlawful. And those rapist boys, and everyone on the texts,
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 15/09/2026
You're likely to hear more about DOGE in the coming days. Rightfully, you'll think "Hey weren't they disbanded?" No. And their ethos hasn't faded either.
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Sophie Hurwitz @hurwitz.bsky.social · 14h
Are you a nurse working in a hospital that’s using Palantir technology? Do you want to talk about how that affects your work for @motherjones.com ? Reach out on Signal at shurwitz.18–your anonymity will be protected
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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 18h
Hey hot take but I actually don’t give a fuck if expelling a rapist from school “ruins his future”
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John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · 15h
More talk needed about AI's crowding out of sectors we need for a sustainable economy. In addition to gobbling up energy and electronics supply chains (w big inflationary impacts), Big Tech is frenetically issuing bonds to finance its data centers, driving up interest rates for everyone else.
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AI hyperscalers are transforming debt
The sector’s huge capital needs are forcing companies and countries to rethink how they borrow money
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Antifa Macdonald @macdonald286.bsky.social · 15h
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/w...
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Trump Brought Venezuelan Gold to the U.S., but Refiners Won’t Touch It (Gift Article)
The administration is brokering deals in a notoriously corrupt industry, including one with a company that the United States deems a security threat.
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TaraT @tarat33.bsky.social · 15h
We simply can't go on like this. "...if human survival and economic resilience are important goals, so is a world calm enough to meet the needs of the human nervous system. We can’t keep on like this — it’s simply inhuman."
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Opinion | I’m Exhausted. You’re Demoralized. We Weren’t Built for a World Like This. (Gift Article)
A greatly underappreciated virtue of other presidents was that you could forget about them for weeks at a time.
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Steve Holcombe @steve-holcombe.bsky.social · 15h
"The U.S. neither amassed a stockpile of THAAD interceptors large enough to see it through a war, nor figured out how to build new ones fast enough to replace them as they are fired." www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
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The THAAD Delusion
The story of a missile system placed in a role for which it was never intended illuminates the broader challenges facing the U.S. military.
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Old Tehanu @oldtehanu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In further one drive nightmares.... onedrive removed all my backup files from external drives. I only found this out after deleting everything that I had downloaded from one drive. I thought I had one drive turned off completely. But apparently one of my three machines connected. Backups are gone.
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Old Tehanu @oldtehanu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's possible to hold politicians accountable. It just needs a little spine.
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Axios @axios.com · 28/09/2026
NEW: Florida asks for emergency order to halt ChatGPT development
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Florida asks court to impose guardrails on ChatGPT
Florida's attorney general says the company doesn't have the ability to properly regulate its own technology.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 28/09/2026
Raw milk 🧀 recall - Sierra Nevada Cheese Co. Graziers cheese has been linked to 13 E. coli cases in 9 states so far. While raw milk cheese is legal for sale if aged for 60+ days to reduce pathogen survival, the risk of illness is not zero, especially among immunocompromised people.
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Old Tehanu @oldtehanu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If even Mike is saying this, on Gox no less, he knows his goose is cooked. I want him to face consequences for everything he's been complicit in or conspired to do that subverting our laws and legal system. @warren.senate.gov @aoc.bsky.social
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Tired, leaky brain. @columbojones2.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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‘Rip the plaster off’: Andy Burnham sets out vision for universal free social care
PM says he will put proposals for NHS-style service funded by everybody into Labour’s next general election manifesto
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Old Tehanu @oldtehanu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Pokin @pokinpotentialppl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 28/09/2026
Just in case it wasn’t clear, when they say the U.S. Government’s paying for this, that’s YOUR taxpayer dollars they’re using. I’ll say this as many times as I need to: it is ILLEGAL to use American taxpayer dollars from the government to pay for candidates’ or parties’ political ads.
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Angry Donkey News @angrydonkeynews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Data center developer offers $10,000 checks to 4,500 households if the 1,300-acre facility is approved - locals push back over noise and 'bribe' concerns www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
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Data center developer offers $10,000 checks to 4,500 households if the 1,300-acre facility is approved — locals push back over noise and 'bribe' concerns
Report says that many residents are rejecting the offer due to fears of noise, falling property values, and mistrust.
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Old Tehanu @oldtehanu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It seems pretty obvious to me that raw milk based cheese would be extremely prone to all sorts of badness. I mean, it is aged unpasteurized milk. Then, goes through shipping and sits on a shelf for awhile. I had no idea anyone even made such a thing.
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Old Tehanu @oldtehanu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Just working on my October list. So, taking all the suggestions at the moment. I like science fiction and literary of almost any kind. Good thrillers (not sexist / bigoted stuff tho, of course). #booksky
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Old Tehanu @oldtehanu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you have a local coop or independent grocer, support them if you can. Kroger can't exploit surveillance pricing and other bad practices if we do not shop their stores.
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Old Tehanu @oldtehanu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yeah, the old tech culture was fun. Felt so neat to hook up that cassette player to a phone, etc. To haul the portable kaypro, like some kind of nerd badass. These guys are the ones that exploited all the fun work done by my generation and turn it into something awful and ugly.
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Stephanie Farr @farfarraway.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I've always been captivated by the "Freedom" sculpture on Vine St., of a figure breaking free of a wall in 4 stages, with the final figure on the sidewalk, arms outstretched and faced lifted. I think it makes our city more interesting, which is the most any of us who love Philly can hope to do. 🧵1/3
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Old Tehanu @oldtehanu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
No. I say No to putting old paintings in the fridge. And the rest. But especially the paintings.
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Old Tehanu @oldtehanu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Oooohhhh.... This is what I am reading as soon as I get my hands on it!
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 28/09/2026
💚 Looking for ways to support CDC staff? Check out @cdcmutualaid.bsky.social organized by CDC staff for CDC staff. Proceeds go to helping fired CDC staff pay rent and other bills. 💵 Donations: www.cdcresourceportal.org 🛒 CDC mutual aid store: cdc-mutual-aid-network.printful.me
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Mutual Aid Network Portal
From Gratitude to Action
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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 28/09/2026
Let's get this week started. 🎺
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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Old Tehanu @oldtehanu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I can't stop thinking about that poor young woman, who now faces decades of hellishness and a lifetime of trauma to constantly fight through and heal from.
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Jeff Drake @hatethedrake.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I slept on this book for TOO LONG. It is SO GOOD! Beautifully written and intricate like a puzzle box. @amalelmohtar.com & @maxgladstone.bsky.social knocked it out of the park with this one.
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ShannonB @shannonbuz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Don't have the raw data, but sounds about right.
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Life Advice
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 15/09/2026
How fast does government run? That’s up to you. This November, there will be 5 questions on your ballot aimed at making government work more efficiently for New Yorkers. Make sure your voice is heard. Register to vote by October 24th. Learn more about the ballot props by heading to nyc.gov/fast.
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🖌 Myandra sez: 🖍 Impeach the MF'er soon. We're waiting. @myandra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#VoteBlue no matter who.
Ossoff says we will restore checks and balances.
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Angry Donkey News @angrydonkeynews.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Let's make this a thing here....they are flaunting their wealth in your face Hungary to impose wealth tax on the richest people starting next year aroundprague.cz/en/news/hung...
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Hungary to impose wealth tax on the richest people starting next year
Starting next year, Hungary will introduce a wealth tax on people with assets exceeding 67 million forints — a measure that was one of the election promises of the Tisza party, which won a decisive vi...
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Have a first look at the cast of Billy Elliot perform “Expressing Yourself” IG: @londontheatredirect @billyelliotuk London, UK www.instagram.com/billyelliotu...
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