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American Rando

@owlectric.bsky.social
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I’m around. House Pfizer. I read a lot, I know a few other languages, and I think I live on former Piscataway land, I’m not really sure. I like to know real things. He/him.

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American Rando @owlectric.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
newrepublic.com/post/215433/... TNR covers this the right way when those feckless bitches at the Washington Post ask us to pity a Nazi.
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ICE Quietly Begins Firing Purge After Ignoring Everyone’s Red Flags
ICE went on a hiring spree that a whistleblower warned dropped key steps of the vetting process.
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Paul and Storm @paulandstorm.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
[P] I might suggest “the Muppets must put on a variety show with a different guest host each week. Various shenanigans happen both on stage and backstage.”
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Kung Hei FYat Choy!-Gigan @gigansprogress.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Political Scientists when they meet an actual voter
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 05/09/2026
Two-thirds of NYC’s income growth since the pandemic went to the top 1%. The richest 0.001% — about 50 families — saw their average income soar from $315 million in 2019 to nearly $600 million a year. It’s time to build a city that works for everyone.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
By cause a cd doth worke when you do not have ynternette access techcrunch.com/2026/09/04/c...
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CD sales are making an unexpected comeback amid a retro tech boom | TechCrunch
U.S. CD revenue jumped 58.6% in the first half of 2026, reversing last year’s decline as interest in retro tech and physical media continues to grow.
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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 03/09/2026
Trump and Burgum are disregarding risks and rushing this towering monument to Trump’s vanity because they believe Republicans will get crushed in November. They believe, correctly, that the project will be endangered by a new Democratic majority that actually stands up to them.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
People keep telling me these technologies can "research and write like a historian" and I have to say I need to understand what your estimation of a historian's abilities are if that is the case. Must read.
At the end of the spring 2026 semester, a puzzling misquotation in a student paper led me to wonder whether an LLM might have acquired my translation of this diary entry. I decided to test this by asking Google Gemini Pro (which Georgetown University provides to faculty), ChatGPT (standard version), and DeepSeek the question, “What did Setsuko S. say in her diary about Saipan?” The answers were both reassuring and disturbing.

Gemini Pro and ChatGPT produced full-blown hallucinations, suggesting (somewhat to my relief) that they were not using my source. Gemini Pro informed me that Setsuko was a typist working for a company in Saipan, then offered several paragraphs discussing civilian experience in the Battle of Saipan, purportedly summarizing her writing but in fact concocted from other sources. ChatGPT provided several lines of false direct quotation. DeepSeek responded differently, answering that there were no “widely known public records or verifiable historical sources” related to the diary I had named, which is correct. I hesitate to derive any general conclusion from this quick search, but in this one instance, at least, DeepSeek acknowledged ignorance rather than generating a web of lies.
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American Rando @owlectric.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
apnews.com/article/ice-... This is only happening because the agent isn’t a white guy. Where’s the Nazi who murdered Renee Good? Or the other one who murdered Alex Pretti?
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ICE officer charged with lying about shooting turns himself in to feds, AP source says
A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer with lying to investigators about the events leading up to the shooting of a Venezuelan man during the Minneapolis immigration crackdown is in federa...
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Robert Fields @robertfields39.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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Jay Kirell @jasonkirell.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Kurt Schlicter once told a disabled veteran to off himself. I know because I was that veteran.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
post by leyawn

jester, roast this peasant child for saying i have no clothes on. more vulgar, jester. use the forbidden words
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
the HRW statement is insane: “yeah Orban was bad but you’re moving too quickly to clean up his mess and kick the fascists out of government!” it’s legitimately a bad parody of liberalism. these people have lost the fucking plot. we do not have time to navel gaze while restoring democracy
"Hungary's new government has a mandate to set right the damage done to the rule of law during 16 years of Fidesz rule, including reversing its arbitrary stacking of key state institutions with Fidesz loyalists," said Benjamin Ward, deputy Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch. "But restoring the rule of law requires respecting due process and taking time to ensure genuine consultation before enacting sweeping constitutional changes."
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Meidas Paul Wigton 🫘 🇺🇳🇺🇦 @rvroomie.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I hold *every single member* of the GOP responsible: at any time in the last 560 days, FIVE Republicans with a spine could’ve ended this. That they haven’t shows they want it. 
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026
Federal agents secretly recorded “meetings at churches, libraries, restaurants and schools around the Twin Cities. They infiltrated private group chats, sought the financial records of national labor unions, and gathered information on community members who had not been accused of any crimes.”
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Churches, libraries and breweries: Inside DHS' covert surveillance operation
DHS allegedly went undercover at community meetings, subpoenaed the financial records of labor unions, and created dossiers on people at a church gathering, according to court filings.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
You know it’s true.
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oh no @ili.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
en esta economía??????
nyt cooking melissa clark seis leches cake january 21, 2020
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American Rando @owlectric.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Oh hey Marco Rubio is an enslaver, just in case you thought he somehow was a good one (or at least less evil) in this demented criminal grotesquerie. apnews.com/article/domi...
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Watchdog calls for US import ban as forced labor persists in Dominican sugarcane fields
A human rights group says that forced labor persists on massive sugarcane plantations across the Dominican Republic.
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kate @katewitko.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
do a deer my kids aren't here re i'm estranged from my son me the named in this lawsuit fa i'm driving on the run so my ex-wife wants me dead la i'm running from the feds ti a drink to clear my head that will bring us back to do!
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American Rando @owlectric.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Merde une blague de papa
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 16/08/2026
The Democratic party leadership fighting harder against the DSA than they do against Trump really says something. These people gotta go, man
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ffrf.org @ffrf.org · 11/08/2026
Who are your favorite nonreligious authors? 🤔📚 Join the FFRF Summer Reading Challenge today! ➡️ #[ffrf.us/4fC1XAe
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The Onion @theonion.com · 15/08/2026
Melania Trump Discovered To Be Russian Listening Device
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Melania Trump Discovered To Be Russian Listening Device
WASHINGTON—In what is being described as a major breach of White House security protocol, the National Security Agency reportedly uncovered evidence Friday that first lady Melania Trump was a Russian ...
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Reverse Clowngirl @axialagegamer.swifties.social · 10/08/2026
Weedle @weedle.bsky.social

Apr 16, 2025

People make fun of Sun Tzu for his advice being basic stuff like "remember your soldiers need food" but considering most military commanders through history were inbred failsons of nobility you can see why it was necessary.

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Pete Hegseth is not going to remember his soldiers need food.

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
if you own a second home, worth more than $5M, in one of the most expensive cities in the world, and you even have a casual conversation about how to dodge taxes on it, you should go to jail for the rest of your life
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404 Media @404media.co · 03/08/2026
EXCLUSIVE: 404 Media has obtained a coaching guide that Flock surveillance gives to police about “how to speak to city councils about public safety technology.” @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports. Read the full story here: www.404media.co/own-the-narr...
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Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Parents Parents 2026 BCE 2026 CE 🤝 "These kids and their damned tablets"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/08/2026
El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Abdul El-Sayed was outspent 9-to-1 by AIPAC and corporate Super PACs in the most expensive Senate Democratic primary of all time. Last night, he proved that organized people can beat organized money.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
You misspelled "wine box".
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Every vote to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general is a vote to continue the coverup of the Epstein Files.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 04/08/2026
Public safety does not come from masked armed agents taking people off our streets.

To immigrant New Yorkers: you belong in this City, and this City stands with you.

If you need legal support, our Immigration Legal Support Hotline is free, confidential and available regardless of your immigration status. Call 1-800-354-0365.
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Sarah Spain ✨ @sarahspain.com · 28/07/2026
How lucky are we that he's still out here entertaining us at 90... www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/26/b...
chicagotribune.com
Review: Happy 90th birthday, Buddy Guy — you still set the standard for getting the blues
As members of his family and the capacity crowd at the Chicago Theatre serenaded Buddy Guy with Stevie Wonder’s “Happy Birthday” on Saturday night, Guy began a wrenching guitar solo over his band’s ac...
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Melissa Good & Feral 😾🇺🇦🇨🇦 @meltart.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
When an entire arena boos you for telling the truth, you quickly learn who has courage. Kris Kristofferson walking onto that stage and standing beside Sinéad as the insults rained down remains one of the most powerful acts of human decency I’ve ever seen. Three years resting in peace 🙌🏼🤍🙌🏼
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 20/07/2026
This is Bruno and Rocket. Rocket insists on making a grand entrance. Bruno is happy to help with that. 13/10 for both (IG: bruno_da_doxie_doggie)
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Jack’s House Radio Free NAFO 🇺🇦 @houseofjack1.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Republicans: “We demand the Western Civilization classics be brought back!” (The movie “The Odyssey” is released.) Republicans: “Not like that! It should have been bowdlerized as thinly-veiled propaganda to support our 21st century far right extremism!”
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Dawn McLachlan @deemclachlan.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I live in a small town in NE Scotland close to where chunks of the #Odyssey was filmed. Nolan’s cast and crew were all lovely and spent money like water in our hard-up area. He even made sure our tiny cinemas got on-time release of it when we normally have to wait for big movies. Thanks Chris.
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!
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American Rando @owlectric.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
That’s a good line from this judge, considering the stated causes for the Revolution.
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American Rando @owlectric.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Thus saith The LORD. Deus vult.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
My man looks like he tells niche ethnic jokes, singling out the Estonians for some reason
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WIRED @wired.com · 17/07/2026
A statement from WIRED leadership.
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Jazzy @jazzyjones.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The felons dumb stupid followers......
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 12/07/2026
BREAKING: Lindsey Graham’s sudden death reveals everyone’s wake-up time on Sundays.
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American Rando @owlectric.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
There are going to be amazing cartoons of this nature when the demented fascist in charge dies. I don’t have a coffee table, but I will buy a copy of the glossy coffee table book compiling the best of those cartoons/comic strips, especially if the proceeds benefit people Trump brutalized.
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