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jason r. totten

@ottoflux.com
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museum geek, cs, father, husband, ally, believer in equity, guitarist, photography, philosophy, art, lover of love - i don't like bigots. tell me how i can help. he/him indy -> Utrecht

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Paula ⚪️ @paulaflucas.bsky.social · 21h
My son works at the local museum in Wigan & was going through some of the comment/feedback cards after a colleague had done a school workshop with 6y olds. One of the questions was what do you like about living in Wigan? Usual replies…rugby team, parks, friends etc. But one read “There is no war” 😔
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jason r. totten @ottoflux.com · 22h
re: #cornell — let’s be abundantly clear: this sh!t goes on at _every_ university and all of them hide it to keep their crime stats (the og KPI) looking good for parents and the business/rep of the uni. if men had balls they’d all join me in turning this crap upside down.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.
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andy jabbour @andyjabbour.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In absolutely (not) shocking news, @washingtonpost.com reports, 'officers are among at least 100...employees accused of abusing their access to license-plate readers...' www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... @enbrown.bsky.social @maggiemcneill.bsky.social @timcushing.bsky.social #Flock #FuckFlock
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Five Indianapolis officers charged following The Post’s reporting on Flock misuse
The officers are among at least 100 police department employees accused of abusing their access to license-plate readers, prompting calls for greater oversight.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Generations. Several of them.
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jason r. totten @ottoflux.com · 29/09/2026
iOS 27 is a bug-ridden sh!t-show. imo.
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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Black folks don’t hang themselves from trees.
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jason r. totten @ottoflux.com · 29/09/2026
back in the mid 90s, i had no interest in joining a frat because i didn’t want to be around guys like that. this is not new.
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Brown Eyed Susan @browneyedsusan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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jason r. totten @ottoflux.com · 27/09/2026
can’t even walk a straight line for a video.
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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Now you know what to do with your Sunday
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jason r. totten @ottoflux.com · 27/09/2026
the text, kerned to cramped, overlapping letters: normalize blocking people who create or share ai content
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 26/09/2026
I hope all the middle-aged women whose lives have been vastly improved by an ADHD diagnosis understand that we’re on the list after trans and autistic people. RFK Jr thinks we should be sent to camps instead of taking a daily medication to bring our dopamine pathways up to a normal level.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Imagine, globally, if all the resources - money, time, lobbying, land, investment etc. - given to tech data centres were transferred to libraries. What a wonderful world this would be📚💙
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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We're up on the BÁC le Gaeilge site! They've a handy map for you to find Dublin businesses that are Gaeilge-friendly, from cúpla focail to fluency☘️ baclegaeilge.ie/an-gno-thu/
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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Interesting short piece on the movement to Kill the Cookie Banner and the tracking lobby's effort to maintain the status quo: noyb.eu/en/open-lett...
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jason r. totten @ottoflux.com · 26/09/2026
a thing that bothers me about ed sheeran is that he should know better if he’s been paying any attention to marginalized communities that embraced him. don’t come at me with entitled white-boy tears about how sad you are to be judged by your words and actions.
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jason r. totten @ottoflux.com · 25/09/2026
delighted to be able to capture photos of the #moon like this now.
99% full moon with reasonably good detail for a regular person. (me, i’m the regular person)
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026
Have you heard the good news about tacos Árabes, a historical fusion of Mexican and Middle Eastern cuisine? (now i want some and far as I know no one sells them in the Boston area).
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What are Tacos Árabes (and How to Make Them)
The Arab taco combines spiced grilled pork and pita-like tortilla, influenced by Arab immigrants in Puebla, Mexico. Originating from shawarma traditions, these tacos are easy to make at home. The p…
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Corna Dirks @cornadirks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Say what?!! Die is niet goed bij zijn hoofd. #Genocide #Israel #Netanyahu
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bubbe yaga @ellearmageddon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
these are not “autonomous” attacks: they are failures by humans to implement appropriate controls for the computers acting on their behalf, and we must not forget it.
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jason r. totten @ottoflux.com · 24/09/2026
for those of you who don’t know, i also really like European board and card games and moved a decent collection to NL with me. i just realized i’m now only a 2 hour train ride from #Essen *gasp* and game con is next month.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Not sure where to start? We made the handbook for you. 💥 Download the KAPOW Handbook: kapow.works/handbook 💥 Donate $50+ by October 1st and we’ll mail one to you :) kapow.works/donate
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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Given my pronoun (she), my livelihood (selling), my proximity to the coast (spitting distance from the seashore), it would surely be a missed opportunity not to order this in. Also, it looks divine.
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Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"There's not a breathing of the common wind That will forget thee; thou hast great allies; Thy friends are exultations, agonies, And love, and Man's unconquerable mind"
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The contempt order kind of writes itself, no?
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New article! On access journalism, AI replacements for people, and Trump's latest attack on freedom of the press: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/gutting-th...
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Gutting the Fourth Estate
The US media were willing cogs in Trump’s machine. Now he’s tearing it down.
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Wildstyle @mrwildstyle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If you'll eat chicken wings from Long John Silver's you'll eat oxtail from Autozone 🤷🏿‍♂️
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Nigel Monaghan @nigelmonaghan-nh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Such sad news of the passing of Dr Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social who brought light, humour, horses in archaeology and simple humanity to us. She faced her short illness with dignity and courage #FuckCancer #SpeirGorm
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jason r. totten @ottoflux.com · 24/09/2026
if you have to hurt or demean people to show you have power, then you only show how weak you really are.
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TheBookshop.ie @thebookshopie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Apples sweeten in the dark... From the late Eavan Boland, for anyone who's ever walked a suburban street on an autumn evening.
Eavan Boland's poem - This Moment
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jason r. totten @ottoflux.com · 24/09/2026
be wary of anyone who’s claim of culture has everything to do with their place of birth and nothing to do with their own studies and interests.
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jason r. totten @ottoflux.com · 23/09/2026
anyone else remember Stroud’s Consummate Winsock Apps?
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jason r. totten @ottoflux.com · 23/09/2026
reminder. this building wouldn’t be completed before his term ends. that tells you all you need to know about their plans for a regime whether the fetid sack makes it or not.
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jason r. totten @ottoflux.com · 23/09/2026
finally have my BSN, and will have my company registered soon. it’s been a long journey.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 23/09/2026
JUST IN: In a deeply embarrassing and un-American court filing, the Trump regime is now arguing that CNN, MS NOW, and Politico can be stripped of White House access in the name of “national security.” 1/
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jason r. totten @ottoflux.com · 22/09/2026
i’m not angry, i’m just exhausted with entirely too many people in the US not giving any real care about how they will stand against this.
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Tad Stoermer @tadstoermer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Let's talk resistance and resistance history -- and the midterms -- tomorrow at 10a EST in a discussion at Falmouth Public Library in Falmouth, Massachusetts. I'll be tuning in virtually, but the audience will be live at the library. forms.bhfh.org/nx/portal/ne...
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Neon Events
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jason r. totten @ottoflux.com · 22/09/2026
fsck… clears throat… and i mean fuck this hateful nasty sad sack of fucks in this administration and their hateful rhetoric and policies wrapped in feigned care for women and children. apnews.com/article/tran...
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What to know about hospital deals with the Trump administration to avoid treating transgender minors
At least six hospitals have reached agreements with President Donald Trump's administration to stop offering gender-affirming treatment for transgender minors.
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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Realising the Omagh bombing is as distant to the babies born now as the end of WWII was when I was born. The front page images of Market Street after the explosion are seared into my mind. The carnage. Grateful there's a whole generation on this island that have not had to live through such horror.
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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I have questions
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Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
If you have to arm your triumphal arch, I am fairly sure you did not win the war.
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jason r. totten @ottoflux.com · 20/09/2026
evergreen post: remember it’s not just the fascist autocrat, it’s the entire regime that enables him & entrenches their power. it’s not the rules to destroy our public lands, waters, and air; it’s those who rush to do it because they’re “allowed”. remember their names & faces. as always fsck ICE
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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Arguably, it takes courage to gift a book to a bookseller. My dear friend could not have got this present more right - I first heard about Artur Dron' from this interview⤵️ and had missed that he was in Pearse Street Library today talking about his latest book "Hemingway Knows Nothing". Thank you, O💙
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Ben Miller @extinctmonsters.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Back in the day everyone thought dinosaurs dragged their tails (these mounts were all made before 1930)
Relief mounted Edmontosaurus with elevated tail. Set in frame on wall behind ceratopsian skulls and other fossilsBlack and white photo of Edmontosaurus mounted in relief with elevated tail. Limbs are dragging like it’s swimmingRelief mounted Thescelosaurus in running pose with horizontal tail and spineOld photo of relief mounted Gorgosaurus. Tail is elevated but so is the torso, like a lizard running on its hind legs
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jason r. totten @ottoflux.com · 19/09/2026
a reminder to keep your circles tight, don’t share information someone doesn’t need to know, and assume someone in your circle or their device is compromised.
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Explicitly Anti-Vaxx @bellamyj.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026
I would like to propose that we Fall back and then just leave the clocks alone
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jason r. totten @ottoflux.com · 19/09/2026
if the AI companies were really “afraid” of the models they’re creating vs. increasing hype to pump and dump on IPO they could easily shut down the servers, services, internet infrastructure, and data centers. they could do that in minutes to hours.
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