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Peter Nicholson

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writing and riding. and eating. lots of eating.

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Peter Nicholson @peterpen9000.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
If you're using Muse, you're not my friend. Pretty simple. Take some personal responsibility instead of mindlessly opting-in Meta's latest surveillance app
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
hey man just circling back
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
As much as one would like to imagine supporters of the AfD as passive victims longing for an alternative to neoliberalism, a left-wing alternative was available and was actively rejected. A near majority of voters chose a far-right party that plans to dismantle the welfare state, but also promises a national revival through mass deportations of the supposedly parasitic foreign masses that have been holding back the German people. The AfD made no secret of its aims and means, and for many this was the appeal. As historian Peter Fritzsche once wrote, “Germans became Nazis because they wanted to become Nazis and because the Nazis spoke so well to their interests and inclinations.”
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ACLU @aclu.org · 14/10/2026
One year ago today, the U.S. killed Chad Joseph and Rishi Samaroo, two Trinidadian men coming home after working on farms in Venezuela to provide for their families. They were both looking forward to being home. But, they never made it because of the Trump administration's illegal boat strikes.
theguardian.com
Families of two men killed in Trump’s military boat strikes sue US government
First-of-its kind suit filed by civil rights attorneys on behalf of families centers on 14 October strike in Caribbean Sea that killed six
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Scott Colom @scolom.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
She done lost her damn mind.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Y’all, I hate to rain on the dead bot parade, but the Yandex data center destruction doesn’t seem to have significantly impacted social media bots. I made temporal graphs of X posts about AfD around the time of the attack and there’s no sign of a sudden dip or residual impact on that conversation.
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
these companies need to be strangled to death with the full force of the regulatory state at the soonest opportunity
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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.
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Peter Nicholson @peterpen9000.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Still banging. Not quite Watchmen-level, but still very, very good.
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Peter Nicholson @peterpen9000.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Tern Vektron. Can't beat Bosch for reliability (and extensive dealer network if it ever does need service.) Gonna be more $ but totally worth it.
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Peter Nicholson @peterpen9000.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
@markharris.bsky.social I wish this wasn't a thread! So many of these sound so very good that they each deserve a post. (and thank you!)
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WIRED @wired.com · 04/10/2026
One of AI’s fiercest critics believes the doom talk is about founders making money, not saving humanity.
buff.ly
Timnit Gebru Believes There Is No ‘Existential Threat’ From AI
One of AI’s fiercest critics believes the doom talk is about founders making money, not saving humanity.
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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Priorities (from latest @adamtooze.bsky.social chartbook)
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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 14/09/2026
Twenty-five years after the war on terror began, the United States still hasn’t grappled with its legacy of torture or the law that enabled it. @nkorpett.bsky.social explains why criminal and civil law (mostly) failed to hold torturers accountable and why that failure matters.
lawfaremedia.org
9/11’s Legacy of Torture
Twenty-five years after the war on terror began, the United States still hasn’t grappled with its legacy of torture—or the law that enabled it.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 14/09/2026
Free newsletter: The idea that we're nearing the creation of AI systems that we can't control and that pose an existential threat to humanity is a lie and a distraction from the tangible harms and problems caused by LLMs and AI labs' near-unlimited resources. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-alread...
wheresyoured.at
https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-already-in-dangerous-hands/
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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 12/09/2026
I love Berkeley, people will build their entire politics around the idea that mitigating climate change requires radically restructuring the world economy, but they draw the line at a 12 story building a few blocks away or replacing some parking spaces with bike lanes.
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Peter Nicholson @peterpen9000.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Learned some things from reading this. In a week of constant repetitive ignorance from so many in politics & media, feels good to learn.
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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is the "Charlie Brown had hoes" of the center now. You didn't experience this. It didn't happen. This wasn't real.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Democrats should be at the microphone right now noting that this is a Hatch Act violation that they'll be pursuing in January. I don't care that the nation's become numb to this shit. It's still illegal and if Democrats should run against it and then act to crush it.
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Emma Silvers @emmaruthless.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
knuckle tattoos that say "nut graf"
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Electrek @electrek.co · 31/08/2026
Tesla driver who died when his car stopped on highway was using FSD/Autopilot
electrek.co
Tesla driver who died when his car stopped on highway was using FSD/Autopilot
A 43-year-old man died when his Tesla Model 3, stopped in a live lane of Interstate 4, was rear-ended by a semi. Florida troopers said they couldn’t explain why the car was stopped in the middle of the highway. Tesla’s own data can explain it, the car’s driver-assist system was engaged, but the company has sealed it. This is part of an ongoing Electrek series where we match unexplained fatal crashes with Tesla’s own redacted data on ADAS crashes. more…
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Peter Nicholson @peterpen9000.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
one of those days, I guess
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 15/08/2026
I’m less curious about how Jason Arday got his appointment at Cambridge than I am about how Noah Carl, who published in Nazi pseudoscience journal Mankind Quartetly, got his, and how Nate Cofnas, also fired for being a race science crank, got his.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 14/08/2026
Two married professors and their son are being held in ICE detention, despite being legal permanent residents and having no criminal records. All, apparently, because their mom/MIL was a translator for the Iranian hostage takers in 1979, before they were even born. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
thenation.com
One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
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Peter Nicholson @peterpen9000.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
@jamellebouie.net nails it, as he so often does. "The obsession with 'wokeness' that seems to monopolize the thoughts of America's commentary class is utter decadence." Well-worth 10minutes of your time: www.youtube.com/watch?v=46tp...
youtube.com
The pundits have completely lost the plot
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Peter Nicholson @peterpen9000.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Fair point!
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Peter Nicholson @peterpen9000.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
It's also not really about trans people, it's primarily about policing gender norms as a means of oppressing women.
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Peter Nicholson @peterpen9000.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Unfortunately, it's totally arguable that they were successful with Obama. Sure, not if you have a diverse diet of news sources, but if you exist in their owned ecosystem of amplification, you definitely think Obama was a seriously bad guy. (the racism def helps, too)
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Jenny Holzer @jennyholzer.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE IS ESCAPISM
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I dunno...I think it's time to stop interviewing James Carville.
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Peter Nicholson @peterpen9000.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Thinking back to Demi's quote the other day after she won stage 5: "I knew Kasia would go early, because she always goes early." 💀 Truly hope that's not the case today!
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
My ice-cold boring take that will definitely not go viral is that a primary result with a margin of victory of roughly 1 percent tells you precisely nothing about The Future Of The Party.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/08/2026
Don't look now, but the world has now installed 3TW of solar. Took 10 years to get from 100GW to 1TW. Less than 3 years to get to 2TW. Less than 2 years to get to 3TW. Analysts expect *9TW* by 2036.
bloomberg.com
The World Crossed a Major Solar Milestone. No One Noticed
The next phase of the boom may reveal a shift in who is gaining access to the technology.
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Elliott w/ 2 Ts @elot247.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
With a 50-50 Senate Schumer passed more progressive legislation than anyone since FDR, but you hated him anyway. American Rescue Act Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill Inflation Reduction Act CHIPS & Science Act PACT Act Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act USPS Reform Act Safer Communities Act 235 Judges
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Peter Nicholson @peterpen9000.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
PFP is an absolute legend. But if we truly demand equality in sport, the meme accounts are duty-bound to absolutely savage her TT position/ setup. Just the stuff of nightmares. #tdff
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
its very telling that the mainstream media narrative is that dsa has wacky and unreasonable positions when the republican party position is that abortion should be banned, latino families should be put in concentration camps, black people should be shot by cops and transgender people shouldnt exist
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Peter Nicholson @peterpen9000.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
jfc what is wrong with our country
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Maytera Marble @mayteramarble.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Data-driven Enterprise solutions
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 31/07/2026
this week I learned that the singularity is when a human being fails to air gap hacking software (either accidentally due to incompetence or intentionally for marketing and media exploitation purposes)
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Peter Nicholson @peterpen9000.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
ngl, while I was resigned to the idea that we'd screwed the climate for my kids and their future kids, I'm low-key grumpy it's ahead of schedule and going to cramp my style before I shuffle off this mortal coil.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 08/06/2023
if u do not have anything nice to say well sometimes u are not wrong
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/07/2026
this is “pete hegseth wants an all-white military”
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.
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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Don’t know who to credit for this. But it is how I feel.
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Peter Nicholson @peterpen9000.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
If you read one piece today (not just the snippet, but the whole piece) about that shit Platner and his enablers, please read this one.
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Kaili Joy Gray @kailigray.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
He just wants to understand the process? The process is he drops out and then lives the rest of his life in shame.
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Fanmogged. We’re being fanmogged.
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