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TKarney

@pecunium.bsky.social
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I'm just here for the Gemütlichkeit I write things (sporadically www.patreon.com/Pecunium) I make things (yarn, woven goods, minor woodworking). I take photographs (and teach photography). Welcome to my place

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Kevin J. Maroney, he/him @womzilla.bsky.social · 5h
Celebrated Arthur's birthday by watching COYOTE VS ACME, and let me just say David Zazlav should rot in hell.
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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 3h
What if someone else deals with the shells(
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 5h
Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.
, it's
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have some personal news to share with you.
Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I feel deeply that we should have salad tonight
This year has been challenging in many ways, and I have immense gratitude for the kindness and support of family, community, and people like you who have continued to stand by me through everything. It means the world, and I wanted you to be among the first to know that squash is in the oven and kale is in the fridge.As many of you are aware, ve been navigating one of the most challenging periods of my day while waiting for dinner.
Facing baseless federal hunger brought on by not eating since lunch, fighting for the working kids of this country, and now caring for a mean toddler and helping him grow up in a world that isn't always easy. But it has also reminded me exactly why I do this work and who I do it for.
I will never stop working to eat dinner. I will never stop fighting for what is right, even when there is also some feta in the fridge. And I will never stop being so very thankful that you are by my side in this important work and that there is tahini in the pantry for dressing
With love and gratitude,
stop to end
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 5h
Congress *can* discipline a president. They can sack his incompetent cabinet secretaries, refuse to confirm anyone who isn't competent and normal, pass laws to constrain his freedom of action and if necessary bully the judiciary into enforcing them.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 5h
I don't necessarily expect it, but the best thing that could come out of this mess - thin gruel for the human suffering it has entailed, but nevertheless - would be a resurgence of an assertive Congress, willing to use its power to discipline the president, to bend the executive (and SCOTUS).
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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 8h
When I tell people I research and teach military ethics, the response I often receive is "that's an oxymoron, isn't it". I reflect on the importance of teaching ethics to militaries, and outline some concerns, in a new essay. www.ethicsandinternationalaffairs.org/online-exclu...
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The Ethics of Military Ethics: Teaching Right and Wrong to People Trained to Kill
Military ethics education today must contend with the potential negative effects of the increasing prioritization of speed and optimization in war, and the ways in which this sidelines the experience ...
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 11h
The rather baffling entry for “X” in The Merry Cobler and His Musical Alphabet (ca. 1800). See the other 25 letters here: buff.ly/1QGXAjR And more examples of how the letter “X” has been treated in alphabet books here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/x…
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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 7h
This is why people say the moderate solution is guillotines. hammerandhope.org/article/trum...
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Trump’s Deadly Invasion of Memphis
A Black city tried to rein in abusive policing. Then Trump’s task force arrived.
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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 8h
This is presented as a libertarian freedom (the freedom to access and use information), but it doesn't have any corollary to freedom _from_ having one's data or information used for instrumental ends. If you can be observed by a machine you were basically asking for it, and who could be blamed?
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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 8h
The software profession, an immature field marked by repeated ethical violations, has no such guidelines about the proper use of public data about subjects. It instead has foundational myths (specifically "information freedom") that say that you cannot do any wrong by using data if you can see it.
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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 8h
This is at the root of what is "wrong" about surveillance as a social practice. It isn't necessarily about a state doing the surveilling, or the surveilling of private behavior. It's the nonconsensual grabbing of an affordance of another person's life and using it towards one's own ends.
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Hell-a Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ (alleged transsexual)(spooky) @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 8h
One of my favorite things about the internet is that if you use it correctly you can surround yourself with inspirational, deeply creative and intelligent people who make you want to be a better version of yourself and it RULES
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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 10h
This isn't State Sponsored Terrorism... It's State Run.
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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 12h
Is it possible for people to not think through the implications of their words? Yes. But your metric is mens rea applies to person A for what person B does, in the event they used emotionally overblown rhetoric. Not a model you want, because everyone does things which could be crimes that way
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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 12h
They didn’t. They may have been accessories after the fact, but that’s not the same. And pretending whom the target is would change how I see it is, to be blunt, offensive as hell; because it’s an accusation I support terrorism.
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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 12h
Also compared billionaires to hearts “if you said it’s terrible the heart gets all the blood, well it pumps for the rest of the body, and billionaires move money through the economy” Riggght. That’s why they have billions, because they spend it.
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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 12h
The second was really dishonest. Implication was recorded noise was actually an airport, and (my favorite), “if you don’t want to live near a data center, don’t sell your farm,” as if the folks living there *all* sold a bit of land to Grok.
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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 12h
Fox is on in this waiting room. So much dishonest rhetoric. Insurance companies deny claims because they are overregulated. Data Centers aren’t that loud, and “you signed up for that” AI is going to make nuclear power safer.
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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 14h
Nah. The acts are what make the terrorism, not the target. So, same facts; different target? I have the same opinion of the case.
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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 17h
No, it's not. And yes, IMO they should be pardoned, they're morons not terrorists AFAICT.
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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 17h
One more time: If you are moving something to hide it from the FBI, who is coming to execute a warrant, because you think it will harm you for them to find it ... that is a real crime *even if the thing you are moving is totally innocuous* Anarchist zines. Buzz lightyear poster. *Doesn't matter*
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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 14h
Had a dream which is so me. Was yelling at police recruits for atrociously unsafe firearms handling. They did not appreciate it, and I didn’t care. So much withering scorn. Even my dream self knew it was gonna come to blows; and did not give the smallest of fucks.
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maddy varner @regret.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
We reported on the FTC's agreements to not enforce three auto dealers' court-ordered requirements not to engage in unlawful credit discrimination last week. Weird that this keeps happening! www.wired.com/story/ftc-st...
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FTC Strikes Deals to Ignore Unlawful Credit Discrimination
The agency signed agreements to not enforce parts of three federal court orders against auto dealers accused of discrimination—and didn’t notify judges or at least one of its coplaintiffs.
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404 Media @404media.co · 17h
Senator Bernie Sanders, Representative Ocasio-Cortez, and Senator Jeff Merkley introduced the Ban Flock Act on Friday, which would stop federal agencies from using automatic license plate readers.
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Lawmakers Introduce Multiple Laws to Curb Flock After 404 Media Coverage
Senator Bernie Sanders, Representative Ocasio-Cortez, and Senator Jeff Merkley introduced the Ban Flock Act on Friday, which would stop federal agencies from using automatic license plate readers.
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 19h
But that doesn’t take away the quality of the first few series, before the show lost touch with its central concept. We need to normalize the headcanon.
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 19h
I don’t think that has ever happened to me, come to think of it. I have a really strong capacity for slicing out the bits of something that I like and being happy. The Last Detective and Jeeves & Wooster had two seasons each, the last Star Trek release was Galaxy Quest
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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 16h
"I guess it was a good day to run a marathon" (yes, he's "self-coached" but he ran competitively in college, and incorporated that into how he built his regimen: which takes nothing away from his achievement; might even add to it) citiusmag.com/articles/cit...
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Who Is Vincent Mauri? Meet The Self-Coached Shoe Store Employee Who Ran 2:05 In His Marathon Debut - CITIUS Mag
Self-coached and unsponsored runner Vincent Mauri joins the CITIUS MAG Podcast to share about his journey to debuting in 2:05:53 at the Glass City Marathon.
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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 17h
Yeah, there are also very specific facts to this case which make it not very useful for authors/artists, like how ROSS was spinning up a competitor to Westlaw by using Westlaw's summaries...
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 16h
every time i get DMs from friends about discourse on the other site, i feel like we're entering two very different dialects of English
The entire Malfoid saga, complete with the revelation that multiple RW chuds on this website are actually quite gifted fan fic writers, should give you a glimmer of hope that the arts can be reclaimed from decades of Progressive mediocrity.

There is a yearning for something greater. As one of my followers wrote to me in a DM, this is a fantastic sign for the future.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 06/10/2026
Good(?) news: A Nevada county will pay $1.6 million to settle a lawsuit filed by a woman who spent two years in prison for a stillbirth before her conviction was overturned. Her son’s ashes were returned to her as part of the settlement thenevadaindependent.com/article/she-...
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Imaginary Thomas and the No Such Things @imaginarythomas.com · 17h
My man looks like Uncle Fester just joined the Bored Ape Yacht Club
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Mykael Wyvern — 🔮🧙🏻‍♂️🐉 @wyvern.bsky.social · 16h
i'm not saying its likely or anything, but didn't enjoy seeing this headline right after your thread:
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Trump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over 2 decades
The decision not to invite observers from the OSCE puts the U.S. alongside Russia and Belarus, while the Justice Department prepares to deploy its own poll monitors.
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Tamara Keel [Scary Remix] @tamslick.bsky.social · 20h
To be fair, Michael Tracey did once get his ass kicked by a little old lady’s index finger.
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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 16h
These are what Kavanaugh Stops really look like. Domestic Terrorism; by agents of the State.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 16h
In NJ, they did something similar with an lead organizer during the Delaney Hall uprising. Dumped him in the middle of the Meadowlands (an old mafia dumping ground, for those who don't know) with no phone in the middle of the night.
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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 17h
Not really. His argument is "Capitalist Democracies are so stable the world will stop having tumult". Deeply unserious.
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Fukuyama predicted that philosophy and art would end at the end of history and this made me dismiss him as a serious person.
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Manhattan Bird Alert @birdcpk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Central Park's Barred Owl perching in the Ramble. 🦉 🧡
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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 17h
Pretty sure you missed the piss-taking in his reply.
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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 17h
Facebook is gonna Facebook, until we ban their practice of making "shadow accounts" of everyone on the web. gizmodo.com/metas-muse-i...
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Meta's Muse Is Collecting Information on Everyone in Your Life
Meta’s AI agent creates profiles of people in users’ lives even if they don’t use Muse.
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Over 150 yrs ago, George Perkins Marsh urged his readers to consider the disastrous environmental effects of deforestation, over-mining, and other human actions. Read more about this remarkable thinker and his extraordinary book, Man and Nature (1864) publicdomainreview.org/collection/m...
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Andrew Alden @geology.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Buildings like this -- timber and adobe -- are the ONLY ones where you should run to a doorway in an earthquake.
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Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is wild.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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We'Re All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This Tim Robinson
ALT: We'Re All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This Tim Robinson
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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 17h
Someone's bishop needs to have a talk with him about the moral teaching of The Church, in re Capital Punishment.
Extracts from wikipedia:

Modification to the Catechism (2018)

Recourse to the death penalty on the part of legitimate authority, following a fair trial, was long considered an appropriate response to the gravity of certain crimes and an acceptable, albeit extreme, means of safeguarding the common good.

    Today, however, there is an increasing awareness that the dignity of the person is not lost even after the commission of very serious crimes. In addition, a new understanding has emerged of the significance of penal sanctions imposed by the state. Lastly, more effective systems of detention have been developed, which ensure the due protection of citizens but, at the same time, do not definitively deprive the guilty of the possibility of redemption.

    Consequently, the Church teaches, in the light of the Gospel, that "the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person", and she works with determination for its abolition worldwide.

Fratelli tutti (2020)


In his 2020 encyclical Fratelli tutti, Pope Francis repeats that the death penalty is "inadmissible" and "there can be no stepping back from this position".

 "The firm rejection of the death penalty shows to what extent it is possible to recognize the inalienable dignity of every human being and to accept that he or she has a place in this universe.

On 9 January 2022, Pope Francis stated in his annual speech to Vatican ambassadors: "The death penalty cannot be employed for a purported state justice, since it does not constitute a deterrent nor render justice to victims, but only fuels the thirst for vengeance".

 Dignitas Infinita, released on 8 April 2024, states the death penalty "violates the inalienable dignity of every person, regardless of the circumstances" and that "the firm rejection of the death penalty shows to what extent it is possible to recognize the inalienable dignity of every human being"
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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Got a very lovely reader email today about my least-known work, HAVE YOU EATEN -- a novella told in recipes, about how we nurture each other through impossible times. I love this project so much and I'm touched that folks are still finding it.
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Have You Eaten? (The Full Series) - Reactor
The complete serialized novella from Hugo Award-winning author Sarah Gailey, in which a fractured group of undesirables work together to nurture and nourish each other while navigating a dangerous wor...
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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 17h
Figure out how your MOS/role can go off the rails; and what sort of thing indicates it's happening. And incorporate that sort of thing into training, because you fight like you train. (had a case where that started, in a training demo; and I bailed out, then told everyone why)
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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 18h
So you’re inviting people to shitpost.
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John McKenzie @jwmckenzie.bsky.social · 18h
One peril of being ensconced among like-minded decision-makers is that you grow accustomed to winning arguments without successfully rebutting your adversary. Without practice, the capacity to rebut diminishes as well.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 19h
Justice Alito devotes an entire chapter of his new book to the emergency docket—and to responding to people like me (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”). As I explain over at “One First,” it … didn’t go well: www.stevevladeck.com/p/256-so-une...
In the pre-publication galleys to his new book, So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country, Justice Alito spelled my last name inconsistently. This is, I suspect, the pettiest possible point on which to open in discussing a Supreme Court justice’s new memoir, and I would never have mentioned it except for the fact that inconsistency turns out to be the organizing feature of the chapter in which I (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”) repeatedly appear.The central inconsistency of Chapter 8, which is devoted to the emergency docket, is structural: Rather than tackle the subject holistically (as one might expect in a book), Alito mashed together the speech he gave five years ago at Notre Dame Law School with a “postscript.” The former was deeply flawed even at the time (among lots of other things, Alito repeatedly insisted that there was “nothing new” about the Court’s behavior on emergency applications during the first Trump administration and COVID); and the latter tries to move the goalposts away from the specific phenomena to which critics like me have actually objected.The result is to leave readers with a disjointed, inaccurate, and misleading sense of what the debate is even about—to say nothing of how the Court’s own behavior since September 2021 (including Alito’s) has only further undermined the already-flawed claims Alito made back then. Somewhere between the galleys of Alito’s book and the final product (which hits bookstores today), someone apparently figured out that my last name should be spelled the same way (and correctly!) throughout. The other, more significant inconsistencies were, apparently, harder to fix.
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