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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Beat rising gas prices with this one weird trick.

Yellow cargo bike with big yellow bucket in back in front of Shell gasoline sign showing gas prices fo 3.48 - 4.49.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/12/2025

this shit is just beyond parody, man

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 24/05/2025

The GOP budget: brought to you by the phrase “stop hitting yourself.”

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PirateProfessor @pirateprofessor.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Thought it was #AI. Turns out to be an honest-to-goodness not-so-distant relative of ours.

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PirateProfessor @pirateprofessor.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Now the White-Supremacist House is delegating #AI to dish its #racism on #CNN. The ChatGOP bot is actually an amazingly good rendering of a human creature - if you didn't listen to the words being spewed, you could almost be convinced brain cells generated them. youtu.be/grOoiSC0DnQ?...

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'Where is the evidence?': Blackwell presses DHS on claim of genocide on White South Africans

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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 16/05/2025

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first.

One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish.

Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points.

We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are.

Anelise Feldman
Freshman, Yarmouth High School
Yarmouth

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 16/05/2025

The international system is being destroyed.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

There’s always a tweet with these folks.

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PirateProfessor @pirateprofessor.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

They are not *his* foreign "concentration camps." They're his rental torture chambers. Why go to the trouble of owning?

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PirateProfessor @pirateprofessor.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Too subtle? It's remarkably hard to limit the list of victims in the first tower, to something that will fit in a meme. #tariffs #wtc #wtf #shitsunami

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PirateProfessor @pirateprofessor.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Plus, pushing the cultists to suddenly buy nazi chariots ( #Tesla ), which will make charging stations a sudden #maga mandate

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PirateProfessor @pirateprofessor.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Today, a bit of the 💩 from the shitsunami has washed up here in Switzerland. It's much worse in Africa, much worse in the US - please join in the outrage. Here's a New York Times article about Switzerland in the crosshairs, free for you until 19 April: kamu.si/la-suisse-da...

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PirateProfessor @pirateprofessor.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I was humming #BonnieRaitt while futzing around with #AI ( #Gemini ), then this happened: kamu.si/angel-from-m...

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Angel From Montgomery Conversation with Gemini

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PirateProfessor @pirateprofessor.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

#pambondi #bondibeach #signalgate Is there anything good that can be said about the new AG? "She isn't the one who shoots her dogs" is the best I can think of.

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PirateProfessor @pirateprofessor.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

to "Jews will not replace us", the Führer called the chanters "good people" to "Jewish space lasers" he hugs the bleach blonde bad built butch body then he launches a pogrom against Trans people. He's not anti anti-semitism, he's just choosing his cudgels where he thinks they'll do the most damage

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Trains Trams Tracks @trainstramstracks.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

New video showing a cyclist cycling over a Tesla Cybertruck parked in a bus lane.

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PirateProfessor @pirateprofessor.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Do you think the 🇺🇸 Führer: A) does not give a 💩 about the lives of people who are some combination of Black, gay, trans, or African, or B) actually rejoices in the deaths his actions will precipitate. NYT on Uganda (he calls "shithole country") for 2 week "gift article" period: kamu.si/nyt-uganda

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Where Being Gay Is Punishable by Death, Aid Cuts Are ‘Heartbreaking’ (Gift Article)

Uganda’s L.G.B.T.Q. population was already struggling to cope with the fallout of a harsh anti-gay law when the disruption of U.S. aid put people at even greater risk.

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PirateProfessor @pirateprofessor.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Nostalgic for the day when the Republican "Contract with America" at least had the implication that government contracts were binding.

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PirateProfessor @pirateprofessor.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Glum news from a corner of Congo where Kamusi collaborates with an indigenous group struggling to keep their language vibrant, despite assault from many quarters. I'm sharing this article with our partner in DRC, and offering it to you while the "gift" period is active. kamu.si/drc-m23

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Why Congo’s Vast Army Is Struggling to Fight M23 (Gift Article)

The latest conflict in eastern Congo has exposed endemic weaknesses in the country’s military, long known for corruption, extortion and abuse.

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PirateProfessor @pirateprofessor.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

American egg eaters, if you haven't been eating organic #eggs, you did this to yourself. Cheap eggs are factory farmed eggs. Factory farms are disease farms. The bird flu epidemic has always been a question of "when", not "woke". #birdflu

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PirateProfessor @pirateprofessor.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Remember when all the die-hards went to some motorcycle rally in South Dakota during #Covid without a vaccine and without masks? And found out it isn't so hard to die? Now we can truly Make America Great Again for everyone, not just the #maga maniacs

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ACALAN @acalan-au.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

The language technology platform for Africa that ACALAN is questing to implement, being revealed at the UNESCO #LT4all conference (Language Technology for All) in Paris. #indigenouslanguages

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PirateProfessor @pirateprofessor.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

The difference between this insane Führer and previous totalitarian autocrats is that now the entire fate of our species is at stake.

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PirateProfessor @pirateprofessor.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I wish wish wish I had the video chops to make an ad like this. You've seen billions of car ads, convincing u that cars r great. But nobody has money to put out ads like this, making the case that not cars is greater.

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PirateProfessor @pirateprofessor.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

No, no, this is a good move. The carbon from flying is truly a death knell for the future. By shifting some of those deaths to the near future, so you stop flying now, Musk is being greener than the wokest amongst us.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Never forget that when Seoul, Korea removed the Cheonggyecheon expressway in 2003 and replaced it with a restored stream, 1000 acre park and improved public transit, not only did it TRANSFORM the city’s public life and economic success, but the car traffic got better. The car traffic got BETTER.

Before image of massive car-choked at-grade and elevated highways in central Seoul.

After image of restored stream and hugely popular public park

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Still working to confirm this. The original poster of the screenshotted text took the post down, or at least no longer public. Trying to report on this & the impact but need confirmation. If you were on the Veterans Crisis Line & were fired/know someone who was, please reach out. signal: nslayton.12

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PirateProfessor @pirateprofessor.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Every American city needs to make similar investments, now. Air conditioning especially needs to get on renewables, as a huge cost of long term heating everything for short term comfort. Too late for Miami, its end is baked in.

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PirateProfessor @pirateprofessor.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

It is correct to call the Dear Leader "Führer". Just be careful to type your umlaut lest German speakers get upset. youtu.be/zL6wl2dgkuU?...

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Swiss Rail: German Speakers Only! CFF Suisse : Réservé aux Germanophones exclusivement !

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PirateProfessor @pirateprofessor.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Woke transgender carbon something something America something

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 15/02/2025

It's not just fdr. One of the things the epa did not long after it was formed was document the nation's pollution via photography. That can seem frivolous, but generations of Americans have no idea why the EPA was necessary. This broke a million views when we published it in 2017

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This is what America looked like before the EPA cleaned it up

A snapshot from America before the impact of the EPA and the effects of rules regulating clean water and air were felt.

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PirateProfessor @pirateprofessor.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

LinkedIn is such a toxically happy place. The UN posts about an imminent danger from the world's most powerful madman, and your only options are to like it or love it. #gaza #shitsunami #humanrights #un #unitednations

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PirateProfessor @pirateprofessor.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

We need more reporting like this. Remember when 🇺🇸 hated gays, except the ones we knew and cared for personally? Then along came Queer Eye, Will & Grace, Ellen, and now even the Führer doesn't mind the gays. Same with migrants - the ones we know, we'll probably like. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwYC...

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See where migrant workers live after working miles from Mar-a-lago

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PirateProfessor @pirateprofessor.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Missing from the calculation seems to be replacement of fossil vehicles with 🔌, which will increase ⚡️demand. Driving cars that are 1/4 the size of today's 🦛 SUVs would require 1/4 the wind turbines, at 1/4 the transition cost. Congrats to Lithuania in any case - if they can do it, we all can!

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PirateProfessor @pirateprofessor.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Gotta say, walking is gonna be the end of me. Almost $200/year for shoes, and then there are the rubber tips for my walking stick. Also, range anxiety about my cell phone battery for Strava and podcasts. Plus, by walking an hour to/from work with stops at grocery, don't have time to go to the gym.

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PirateProfessor @pirateprofessor.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Look, over there, it's a bright shiny object! #shitsunami

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PirateProfessor @pirateprofessor.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

How many years from now will we realize that we've already crossed the tipping point? We haven't even begun to turn this ship around. #climatechange

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PirateProfessor @pirateprofessor.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Absolutely. We have entered the Fourth Reich. This isn't hyperbole, the "Third Reich" was a nostalgia play for making Germany great again. Side note: as the video shows, when referring to the Führer, it is very important to get the umlaut right. kamu.si/swiss-rail-u...

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Umlauts and Honor in Switzerland

In Switzerland, the Authority is always right In 2021, I tried to look up the train schedule to Därligen, a village on a lake near Interlake...

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PirateProfessor @pirateprofessor.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

The last time I visited Manhattan (where I lived for years as an undergrad), I couldn't sleep for the street noise from the cars. People live like this? Now I live in an urban jungle, but cars have been minimized in the neighborhood. Lord, what a difference to our mental health.

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PirateProfessor @pirateprofessor.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

1. You have to scroll through kamu.si/chatgpt-dict... to where I ask for an image of each dictator. I guarantee you'll bust a gut with the AI response. 2. Can you name the six model authoritarians in the margins? #shitsunami #kennedycenter #art #culture #fourthreich #4thReich

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Teach You Backwards @teachyoubackwards.com · 09/02/2025

Where to start? The #AI error in an ad for AI The #Google hubris in changing a YouTube video in violation of its policies The adherence to #MUSA, the Make Up Stuff Algorithm, that is part of the AI and Machine Translation lifeblood detailed at kamu.si/tyb-musa

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Introduction: Into the Black Box of Google Translate - Teach You Backwards

Does Google Translate translate? You might put your faith in it. You might laugh at it. I studied it, for all its languages. This is the first comprehensive examination ever conducted of the world’s m...

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PirateProfessor @pirateprofessor.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

What 20th century European dictators took control of determining what constituted good art for their country? chatgpt.com/share/67a84f...

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ChatGPT - 20th Century European Dictators and Art

Shared via ChatGPT

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