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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.latinsky.app · 6h

Sharing for absolutely no reason.

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Karen “the good kind” @kpsinging.bsky.social · 15h

lol 😁😂

A meme that shows someone screaming EUROPE
“WHY CAN'T YOU JUST USE THE METRIC SYSTEM?”

THE U.S.A.
“A ZACHARIA IS ONE-HALF OF A SCARAMUCCI!”

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Orion Kidder @orionkidder.bsky.social · 10h

Just like with health insurance, if it's that hard to get what you have a right to, then the function of the system is to withhold and not grant access.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 11h

there's no reason for any line at any polling place. we are a massively wealthy country; voting is extremely important. providing sufficient voting facilities should be a baseline expectation of everyone in a democracy.

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Orion Kidder @orionkidder.bsky.social · 10h

To these people, the point of political office is corruption. It's not a fringe benefit. It's what they came for. Take it away, and they wouldn't bother being involved at all.

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Orion Kidder @orionkidder.bsky.social · 10h

We need open-source social media, controlled by the users. They're a public utility at this point. It's long past time. We cannot have our ability to communicate, especially between government and the people, throttled by private companies.

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Orion Kidder @orionkidder.bsky.social · 12h

Even if it worked. Which it does not. That's a stupid, useless, *dangerous* thing to do with a car. He's a child.

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Inequality Media Civic Action @imcivicaction.bsky.social · 12h

Billionaires would rather do this than pay taxes.

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Orion Kidder @orionkidder.bsky.social · 12h

Go talk to your president and your conservative party. We're supplying the pressure. Go use it.

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Jennifer Liao @averagejenn.bsky.social · 14h

All you Libby users borrowing digital books and audiobooks through your library cards, you can set your preferences to human authors and artists ONLY. Click the middle button at the bottom, then "Content Controls" under Settings. You'll find "AI Contributions" there. Click in to it to make changes.

Libby menu interface showing Content Controls: AI Contributions with the Hunan authors only and Human narrators only options selected.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 21h

AI shouldn't be able to fire you, fire a weapon, or deny you healthcare.

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Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Goddamn: "We have an affordability crisis because we have a corruption crisis. We have seen for the last five decades, since the late 1970s, corporate special interests, billionaire mega donors buying politicians, and then those politicians in both political parties...

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Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Will you look at this. He got there. Hell yeah: "Powerful people are using small minorities in our community to distract from their corruption. The only minority destroying America is the billionaires."

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Zant Balisong @phlashdark.bsky.social · 16h

Y'all should know the play by now. They start off with whatever seems the most socially acceptable kink to cry bloody murder over, then it's just a hop and a skip and a jump to everything suddenly being criminalized. Kink content is important. Even the kinks you don't like. Remember that.

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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 13h

the decision has been made to revert “the arts” as a category of human activity to the sole province of second sons and daughters of wealth. no funding for arts degrees at state schools. it’s a toy for rich people again. pricing the poors out of human expression is a feature and not a bug.

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Orion Kidder @orionkidder.bsky.social · 13h

And then went on the offensive, saying she's a survivor of sexual assault--implicitly by one of "those people"--and therefore, you're not allowed to call out her rank bigotry.

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Rumneek Johal @rumneeek.bsky.social · 15h

ICYMI: BC Conservative leader 1) Stood by his campaign manager with (MULTIPLE) Islamophobic posts 2) Ignored Muslim community calls to condemn Islamophobia 3) Says he "doesn't tolerate hate" but keeps candidate who likens 2SLGBTQ+ community to pedophiles

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Orion Kidder @orionkidder.bsky.social · 13h

If a "paperwork error" really can cause that much debt, then your healthcare system is a horror show. Signed, a Canadian

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Orion Kidder @orionkidder.bsky.social · 15h

I'm a lit professor. I weep at their inability to grasp these texts. They are not, by and large, *subtle*.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 20h

He's also ruined "grok," using it as he does for an LLM that fundamentally fails, on multiple levels, the entire concept of "grokking." But this is the Billionaire Way, naming shit for things in their favorite books in ways that the original authors would likely look on in horror

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Orion Kidder @orionkidder.bsky.social · 15h

It's a testament to Freddie Stroma's acting ability that he was able to make an explicit psychopath *sweet*.

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Orion Kidder @orionkidder.bsky.social · 16h

There's a conservative bias at outlets like the NYT, specifically bc they're terrified of being perceived as biased towards Democrats/liberalism, so they take conservatives' word for it and overcorrect. It's obvious and maddening.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

In my Stop the Presses newsletter a few months ago, I used a hurricane metaphor to explain why it’s wrong for major media to report on Trump’s authoritarian symptoms but not diagnose the disease. www.stopthepresses.news/p/the-media-...

Imagine a hurricane approaching the coast. News organizations report that winds are increasing, heavy rain is starting to fall, barometric pressure is dropping, people are being urged to evacuate and shop owners are boarding up their windows. But the news outlets carefully avoid using the word “hurricane.”

They might tell themselves, “We said there was a big storm coming and people were urged to leave. Everyone should have figured out it was a hurricane.”

But that’s not human nature. It’s human nature to think, “We can ride this out. It’s a big storm – but it’s not a hurricane.”

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Orion Kidder @orionkidder.bsky.social · 16h

As you said, the New York Times treating this moment like it's "normal," but it very much is not. Here lies the New York Times, dead of a thousand self-inflicted wounds.

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Orion Kidder @orionkidder.bsky.social · 16h

It's a pity he didn't hear you. He claims to side with truth but considers it "partisan" to speak it. He says avoiding it is the way to keep his sources and his conservative readers, but to what end? To keep avoiding the truth?

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

This morning I re-watched my video argument with the NY Times' Patrick Healy, and it's clear that the Times believes if it says explicity that the Trump regime is assaulting democracy, that would undermine its work to investigate how the regime is assaulting democracy. What an absurd position.

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Orion Kidder @orionkidder.bsky.social · 17h

Oh! I didn't know. She'll clearly just slink back into that vacuum of humanity.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 17h

this is why Epstein is a massive story whereas Trump actually being liable for rape is a mere side issue not to be pursued over any length of time.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 17h

the NYT believes that the only valid criticisms of Trump are those from the right. they present that as unbiased or uniquely truthful, but of course it just means that you're privileging the perspectives of Nazis. that makes you less insightful, not more.

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Orion Kidder @orionkidder.bsky.social · 19h

Working for Trump is akin to a pivot to Christian rock: once you make that shift, you're in an alternative media universe, and you're never coming back. This woman will have a career in fascist propaganda if she wants it. I hope there's enough of a thread of integrity left in her that she doesn't.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 19h

Mac Glocky does it again with a System of a Down style Party In The USA, this should not work but it does www.youtube.com/watch?v=cosT...

youtube.com

if System of a Down wrote "PARTY IN THE U.S.A." by Miley Cyrus (feat. @TenSecondSongs

YouTube video by mac glocky

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 20h

Somebody said "They voted for racism and got poverty" The thing is... social scientists and economists have been saying for the last 50 years Racism is austerity

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Orion Kidder @orionkidder.bsky.social · 20h

Oh I see! That sounds like it could be fun.

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Orion Kidder @orionkidder.bsky.social · 20h

[hears stairway to heaven]: yawn [sees psychedelic imagery]: hm [the queen in sixties mini-skirt]: hang on [Aslan is a bunch of stars]: I see what you're doing If Gerwig is swapping tedious Anglican theology for a mashup of 1910s England and psychedelic rock, I think I might be here for it.

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Orion Kidder @orionkidder.bsky.social · 20h

The whistle robs it of awe.

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Orion Kidder @orionkidder.bsky.social · 20h

Well, see how that goes I guess. I wouldn't trust my system to a chatbot, but I wish you luck.

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Orion Kidder @orionkidder.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

You know what would truly make us energy independent? The wind farms and solar panels that the "free" market is actually investing in because they yield returns. Not the rusty old pipelines that private money refuses to invest in. You putz. (Carney, not Mr. Robertson, here.)

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Orion Kidder @orionkidder.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Open for business. Everything must go. It's not a nation or even just a country. It's shipping container full of unprocessed resources we stole from the First Nations.

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Orion Ussner kidder @orionkidder.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

A thought occurred to me tonight. Authoritarians, according to research and everyday observation, either want to bow down to a fuhrer or *be* the fuhrer. For them, it's one or the other. Hence, how they fight like cats in a bad. Also, hence Trump's slathering obsession with Putin and Kim.

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Orion Kidder @orionkidder.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

In that case, FWIW (free advice is worth what you paid for it), you might want to look at the Gnome desktop environment. It comes with Fedora and Debian. It's a lot like OSX, except IMO executed *correctly* rather than turned into a mechanism for extraction.

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Orion Kidder @orionkidder.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

I made the switch from Mac, and it's much better over here. There are fewer conveniences, to be clear, but it's also never going to demand that you give it a credit card number of sign up for a service just to access your own computer.

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Noelle @finallynoelle.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

So we fly a pride flag in our front yard in a very conservative neighborhood and it’s been there for the last few years. Someone put this in our mailbox and my goodness…

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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

y'all... 🤭😭

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Also important to note: Papa Ellison’s Oracle, which co-owns this, is one step above junk bond status. If the market sneezes wrong this whole house of cards crashes to the ground.

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Orion Kidder @orionkidder.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

And honestly, release them weekly.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

*extremely tired voice* "Make TV shows of 10-20 episodes a season ... *sigh* ... that come out on a yearly basis *lays down on the ground, stares into the sun* ... of 5+ seasons." There. There. Theerrre is your solution.

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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One fun thing about being in the faculty union is you get to hear what administration tells the STEM faculty and what they tell the humanities faculty. Turns out we're both too expensive and costing the university money and can't be afforded. Just for completely opposite and contradictory reasons.

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