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Carol @pilgrimsoul.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The wealthy are afraid of paying their fair share. As a retiree who will not be withdrawing anything close to $500,000 per year, I will absolutely get a tax break with Amendment 87. If I were the uber wealth, the increase on my post $500k would not hurt me. I'd be proud to fund CO awesomeness.
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Carol @pilgrimsoul.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Meta's enshittification of the internet is ongoing.
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Carol @pilgrimsoul.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Make community theater and the school theater projects the must see events to attend and enjoy in your town.
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Carol @pilgrimsoul.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Once built, data centers require maybe 6 tech-trained people to keep them running. This does not provide employment for the community. Tax credits further impoverish the community.
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Carol @pilgrimsoul.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trying to put another brick in the idea of AI sentience.
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Carol @pilgrimsoul.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Start thinking now. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
bookshop.org
The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial Intelligence—Before It's Too Late
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNational Indie Bestseller"[Doctorow] resembles the great rock critics of an earlier era, a high-tech Greil Marcus or even a Lester Bangs." —Stephen Marche, The New ...
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Carol @pilgrimsoul.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Depowered? Sexual violence? Hmm. Some conversations to consider. bsky.app/profile/ebha...
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Carol @pilgrimsoul.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
No touch. No human warmth. No feeling the vibration in the chest of the voice. No feeling the child's squirm of pleasure or boredom. No synchronized breathing as you fall asleep with your child in your arms. We have already run this experiment. www.popsci.com/1950s-experi...
popsci.com
These 1950s experiments showed us the trauma of parent-child separation. Now experts say they're too unethical to repeat—even on monkeys.
Harlow’s monkey experiments proved a pivotal turning point in animal research, scientific ethics, and our understanding of primate attachment.
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Carol @pilgrimsoul.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Interesting framing and last line. Almost makes me consider retrying McCarthy. Almost "Through this telling of McCarthy’s life, Daugherty has begun the work that one hopes literary biography can do: unearth the story of how the art escaped the confines of the flawed life that yielded it."
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Carol @pilgrimsoul.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
By being embedded in the Mag7 debt, they are in the To Big To Fail when the bubble bursts. We lose jobs and retirement funds and they get bailed out with taxpayer money. You know, by our unemployed, poor, desperate selves.
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Carol @pilgrimsoul.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Hey Colorado, Let's vote NO on this proposition. Why? *Because we mind our own damn business. *We don't bully a tiny percentage of people with invasive laws. *We leave parents and healthcare professionals to decide how their kids can live their best lives.
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Carol @pilgrimsoul.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Words vs deeds. Hmmmm? Whether Amodei is self aware enough to recognize it, or if it is a marketing niche to win the IPO war, it is his long running schtick (a contrived and often used bit of business that a performer uses to steal attention).
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Carol @pilgrimsoul.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
And Amodei is merely performative about "safety" to differentiate himself from Altman after he lost the OpenAI power struggle. If he was serious, he would shut down Anthropic rather than trying to beat Altman to the IPO. Money, power, and the need for recognition drive them all.
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Carol @pilgrimsoul.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"By reducing royalty rates on oil and gas leases, he cut into the revenue the government and taxpayers received from those lands." Burgum stealing from the American people to make his rich cronies even richer. Don't despair. Use your vote & elect Dems in the House & Senate. Start somewhere.
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Carol @pilgrimsoul.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Kleptocracy is escalating.
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Carol @pilgrimsoul.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
They are in a race for money and power, trying to annihilate the competition along the way. First, any startups not funded by the Mag7, and eventually each other.
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 28/09/2026
“Same goes for the claims that these companies are already profitable… [essentially] the companies are claiming that they are so cool that their profitability can only be measured using a novel, secret form of mathematics.” www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
thenerve.news
Cory Doctorow: AI’s big beasts aren’t really scared of their products. They’re scared of their competition
The US giants would love to stop battling each other and be protected from China – and they might have hit on just the narrative to make that possible, writes our tech columnist
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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/trump-bans...
anntelnaes.substack.com
Trump bans CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from White House
and continues his attacks on our Free Press
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Carol @pilgrimsoul.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ignoring the inhumanity, they make the case for their bottom line. Sociopaths.
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Carol @pilgrimsoul.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The conservative wing of the Roberts court is engaged in the same voter suppression project as Project 2025. Federalist Society for the anti-democratic win!
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Carol @pilgrimsoul.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Experience note for #4: Don't wait until it is too cold to run the rented wet saw tile cutter outside. The water freezes. The workaround involved hanging plastic sheeting in the kitchen. Practice run for a serial killer who was into vivisection? Bathroom turned out great.
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Carol @pilgrimsoul.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Poor Trump. The wee lad just wants to play with his necropolis projects. International trade and relationships are just SO hard.
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Carol @pilgrimsoul.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Or the AI hallucinations have broken contrainment and is affecting the wetware.
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Indivisible Colorado @indivisible-co.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
noprop137.com/opposition Vote NO On Prop 137 To Protect Colorado's Land, Communities, And Tax Dollars!
Vote NO On Prop 137 To Protect Colorado's Land, Communities, And Tax Dollars
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Carol @pilgrimsoul.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
youtu.be/sirJa_OltKk?...
youtu.be
Christine Lavin - Bald Headed Men
YouTube video by MBFonz
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Carol @pilgrimsoul.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I still have an original edition. It lives on my shelf with rubber bands around it to keep the pieces together. I found it in a gas station kiosk in Winnemucca, NV on a Girl Scout trip from Wyoming to San Francisco. I read it while we drove and passed it to the other girls. We read it to each other.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Once again, this was how the Economist characterized the American economy on Election Day in 2024. We had a country on the brink of stunning success, but the Republicans knee-capped it with trade wars and real wars of their own choosing.
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Carol @pilgrimsoul.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Beware the defenestration express.
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Carol @pilgrimsoul.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Are they adding to today's problem by feeding emissions because their economic growth plan is to cash in on carbon extraction? Get rich feeding the problem and then get richer "fixing" it.
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Carol @pilgrimsoul.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Kleptocracy. Give our public lands to billionaires so that they can become trillionaires. Privatise the profits and socialize the costs.
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Carol @pilgrimsoul.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This many out for a bathroom break? We need universal single payer healthcare to support these poor folks with UTIs and incontinence and our poisoned food supply.
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Carol @pilgrimsoul.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Verify that it has Faraday capabilities. To escaping signals.
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Carol @pilgrimsoul.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Donations.
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Carol @pilgrimsoul.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
We've seen this ego before. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germani...
en.wikipedia.org
Germania (city) - Wikipedia
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Carol @pilgrimsoul.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Reminds me of something. What is it?
Black and white photo of Hitler's architectural  master plan for Berlin.

It includes a massive arch.
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Dark Forest Press is Motoko Kusinagi Stan account @darkforestpress.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Become ungovernable.
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Carol @pilgrimsoul.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Poor wee lad.
static.klipy.com
Salem Black Cat Filing Nails
ALT: Salem Black Cat Filing Nails
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Carol @pilgrimsoul.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
In Colorado Springs, we know to follow the money. Anschutz and Common Sense Institute are misleading readers by not disclosing. This leaves us with no choice but to distrust the Gazette and ensure we VOTE AGAINST the multiple CSI funded ballot issues. Use your vote & bust billionaire greed.
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Colorado Times Recorder @coloradotimesrecorder.com · 02/09/2026
Climate change is already here, but that's not going to stop Advance Colorado from trying to speed it up, Logan says.
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Carol @pilgrimsoul.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Indeed. Are they selling the ghost of Christmas past an A I hallucination?
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Andrew Wommack is a Christian nationalist faith healer who calls for Christians to have dominance over non-Christians. Victor Marx’s campaign for Governor has focused on returning Colorado to Christian leadership after eight years of Governor Jared Polis, who is Jewish.
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Carol @pilgrimsoul.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
For a vision of how well this would go, check out "Masque of the Red Death" in @doctorow.pluralistic.net's collection, Radicalized.
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Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Satan's greatest success was convincing people he didn't exist. Trump/GOP's most impressive accomplishment has been persuading the elite media that their corruption, violence, and race hatred is uninteresting, and thus ingnorable.
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Carol @pilgrimsoul.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
In addition to @bcmerchant.bsky.social , i'd add @doctorow.pluralistic.net
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Carol @pilgrimsoul.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Goose the market, increase his personal wealth before things go pear shaped starting Monday.
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Carol @pilgrimsoul.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Is it, really? The wee lassie does "something" every Friday to goose the stock market and his personal wealth, and by Monday things are very different. Gullible much?
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Carol @pilgrimsoul.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
AI is a lose-lose scenario for us NPCs. 1. AI does as they promise CEOs: It replaces pesky workers. The stock market makes a killing and our local economies crash. 2. The AI bubble bursts. The stock market crashes and the economy crashes. Either way, we lose.
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Carol @pilgrimsoul.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Nope.
static.klipy.com
Nope Movie Horse Riding
Alt: Nope Movie Horse Riding
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Carol @pilgrimsoul.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dear WaPo journalists, JOURNALISM 101 RULE: If someone says it’s raining, and another person says it’s dry, it’s not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out of the fucking window and find out which is true. Sincerely, Human Americans
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Carol @pilgrimsoul.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Colorado is Imagination Library strong. Join us. www.imaginationlibrarycolorado.org/history-miss...
imaginationlibrarycolorado.org
History & Mission | ImaginationLibraryCo
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