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Paul B. 🎳

@pb317.bsky.social
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Indianapolis, but not Indiana. Never a hoosier. Ever. I like to partake in sim-racing and pickleball and other worthwhile endeavors that I'm honestly not very good at doing.

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Sarah @sawcat.bsky.social · 10h
This is wild
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/10/2026
In Wisconsin alone, there were 39 private schools where every student used tuition vouchers during the most recent school year. Together, these schools educated 7,923 children and took in roughly $87 million from the voucher program. (Published August)
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At “Quasi-Public” Private Schools, 100% of Students Get Tuition Vouchers. There’s Almost No Accountability.
Private schools — even those that are heavily dependent on taxpayer funding — often operate without the scrutiny public schools are subject to. Following the money at one Milwaukee private school reve...
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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
okay i've taken this too seriously on its own terms. when a billionaire says "dictatorship is efficient" what he means is that it's easy to bribe.
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Happy National Hamburger Day @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There are 1000 reasons to hate generative AI, but the one that goes undetected is the complete and total destruction of humanity's core epistemological understanding of the world. Everything else is downstream of that, and the consequences are only going to get more horrifying if this isn't stopped.
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Paul B. 🎳 @pb317.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I very much enjoyed this.
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
republicans: we are nazis media: do democrats have a Hasan Piker Bin Laden problem?
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Mom for Ghoulberty👻 @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I've always marveled at how the satanic panic took place without social media's help. Traditional media was all aboard the stupid train.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A lot of liars really like to reference common sense. Too many cars driving too much in your city because of #CarDependency is the opposite of common sense. Polluting your air and fuelling #ClimateChange while limiting choices in how we can get around in cities is the opposite of common sense.
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Paul B. 🎳 @pb317.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hanlon’s Razor still undefeated. Yeesh.
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Paul B. 🎳 @pb317.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Racer Blue CC1 restocked and in my size? Don’t mind if I do!
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“We need an Ozempic for cars. They are growing at a phenomenal rate, wreaking havoc on roads, squeezing out smaller vehicles and endangering pedestrians. Like ever-hungry teenagers, cars in Europe are growing on average a centimetre wider every year.” Don’t repeat North America’s mistake, Europe.
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Britain’s cars and SUVs are growing bigger – but there is a way to stop this deadly ‘carspreading’ | Christian Wolmar
Larger vehicles crowd our roads and are far more dangerous to pedestrians. Let’s curb them before they do even more damage, says says transport commentator Christian Wolmar
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Richard Wayne Bowling @rchrdwynbwlngk100.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Why did Eric Schmitt fuck up his gotcha moment so badly? No one involved considered the possibility that Jack Smith attended a women’s basketball game. A MAGAt undone by misogyny. Not at all surprising.
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
kinda bullshit whenever the fever score 98. like come on. no it’s not
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Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Not you.
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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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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Glad about the result, but I don’t think it speaks well of us as a country that after two years of human rights violations, war crimes, naked gangster corruption, and contempt for the Constitution, he’s finally unpopular because gas got expensive.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They are playing in our faces
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 25/09/2026
Age verification is an egregious privacy violation, an inexcusable form of surveillance, and… it’s also voodoo bullshit that doesn’t work. It’s one of the reasons I’m proudest to support @eff.org, who have been leading the fight against the horrible practice for years: www.eff.org/issues/age-v...
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Age Verification and Age Gating: Resource Hub
Age verification (or age-gating) laws generally require online services to check, estimate, or verify all users’ ages—often through invasive tools like ID checks, biometric scans, or other dubious “ag...
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Justin Jest @justinjest.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
As we suspected:
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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
INSURANCE HOW DOES IT WORK
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If any of these guys spent 1 hour with someone outside of their ideological bubble they might have learned something. For example, if you think you can cut the deficit via personnel cuts, you are a fucking clown who does not deserve to be listened to. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/a-year-on-...
Musk seems to have genuinely thought the government was Twitter. This was one of the rationales for hiring him - he dramatically cut Twitter’s personnel and underlying costs, and no big deal! But one major difference is that unlike a tech firm, personnel for the federal government is a minor cost. Because federal employee salaries make up only about 5% to 6% of spending, you can fire a huge proportion of them, and barely put a dent in federal spending.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I wish there were a single sentence that could simultaneously encapsulate and explain every single problem we have in modern society.
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Josh Cowen @joshcowenmi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This was predictable and predicted. An entire chapter in my book The Privateers discusses this. It didn’t have to be this way. But when you design policy as a private school subsidy masked as student opportunity—and with no income caps—this is the exact result. www.indystar.com/story/news/e...
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Indiana school voucher use has flipped from low-income families to more high-income families
Participation shifted toward families making over $100,000 even as overall growth slows.
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
1) Every damn things he's built without Congressional authorization gets demolished on the first day. 2) Christ, he's like a 7-year old. "Oh yeah? Well MY arch is going to be a FORTRESS with GUNS and DRONES and LASERS, you'll be able to CONTROL THE WHOLE CITY from there."
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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
No one in national politics seems to even acknowledge that full system reformation is required, they can't see that the republic has already been lost, and as such they are the nails in its coffin. Ironically the only case for US restoration would be a sewer socialist campaign at fed level
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Paul B. 🎳 @pb317.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
That Aston Martin sounds so nice!
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
🔥 @ayman.msnbc.com : “Question — what is the approved way to support Palestinians? What is an acceptable method? Which protest is quiet enough? Which boycott is gentle enough? Which flag is small enough? Which act of solidarity is ineffective enough to earn your approval?”
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Every democratic candidate deciding to moderate on a social issue to 'take it off the table'
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Bob Cesca @bobcesca.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is astonishing. Needs to be a day one investigation next year.
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Evan @ereller.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Wakefield was ready to sell a “vaccine cure” and that’s why he needed the study saying they cause autism. A study that has never been replicated and proven wrong at every turn. Get yourself and your damn kids vaccinated.
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Paul B. 🎳 @pb317.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Even thinking about listening to this song gives me the goosebumps and now I feel compelled to share this live version and maybe give you some as well! Goodness… youtu.be/ijcaWabP9-8?...
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The Belair Lip Bombs - Hey You (Live on KEXP)
YouTube video by KEXP
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Paul B. 🎳 @pb317.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Get fucked, Weasley!
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
reporters werent “barred” from recording, the powerful people they are covering asked them not to record and they immediately complied and hid whats happening from their audience
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Saying cycling's rise has made life worse reflects how normalized and accepted the harms of car culture have become
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Imagine a Vice President of the United States getting a fact-check Community Note that the heckler was right and you are lying. These people just can’t stop lying.
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skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
talarico reminds me of how democrats spent years trying to "moderate" on immigration and getting nothing in return and now we have the best funded paramilitary force on the planet disappearing people across the country while running a system of concentration camps with no oversight
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
probably the most heavily debated "policy" in my lifetime was Obamacare and the result of it was not that any of the debates got resolved, John Roberts just randomly took a meat clever and excised like half the stuff in it on a whim. Who cares if that's how actual policy gets made.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
there is genuinely no point in debating federal policy since we've spent the last 20 years living in a world where we can no longer make it without 9 guys in robes rewriting it behind us
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Never stops hitting me the way everyone in mainstream discourse agrees that if we want to help people, we first have to convince Republicans, while everyone in mainstream discourse also agrees that Republicans do not have to convince any of us before they hurt people.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
underrated part of El-Sayed’s messaging strategy seems to be shaming journalists who ask dumb questions that play into right-wing frames. you can’t answer these in a way that satisfies them, but you can make it embarrassing enough that you impose a toll on asking.
Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "
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Paul B. 🎳 @pb317.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
SCORIGAMI!
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SCORIGAMI!
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matt | infovoy @infovoy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Exactly. "Sandbox" my arse. It's only the public and media's ignorance about how all things computer actually work that prevents the AI industry's mix of incompetence, Machiavellian profiteering, and techbro fanboy fantasy-think being obvious.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
He's been doing his "the real racism is calling us racists" bit since his first Senate ad. He's a student of Trump's dog-whistling. This theater is core to how he's trying to update Trumpism. I think we discount it because he's so repulsive, but it's the future of MAGA with trillions behind it.
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Are You A Racist?
YouTube video by JD Vance for Senate
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🍝pastapilled🍝 @pastapilled.myatproto.social · 13/09/2026
people really need to reckon with the reality that Harris' main strategy did not work, REGARDLESS of how many of those on the left did or didn't show up her goal was to get more republicans to vote for her. THAT PART did NOT WORK. IT FAILED STOP USING A FAILING STRATEGY
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Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"The whole “Oh no, our models went rogue” thing … When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy?" www.wired.com/story/one-of...
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One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’
Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 11/09/2026
it’s wild that the heritage foundation wrote in text that the assault on trans woman particularly in sports is their first step in their efforts to completely abolish all Title IX protections and liberals still don’t believe it’s about more than trans women in sports
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