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p.sparrow (Patrick)

@pmsparrow.bsky.social
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New England Academic Librarian that savors all things food, drink, music, literature, history, and culture. "Jest on. Know thyself."

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Adam Christopher @adamchristopher.me · 05/10/2026
Mac users on mac OS 27 - we can get our disk space back and remove Apple AI! Somebody has made a tool: www.macrumors.com/2026/10/05/a...
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Mac Users Reclaim Storage With New Apple Intelligence Removal Tool
A new open-source tool is making waves in the Mac community by helping users reclaim valuable storage space taken up by Apple's AI models. Called "RemoveMacAI," the tool disables Apple Intelligence on...
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p.sparrow (Patrick) @pmsparrow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Packing 1,500 apple cider doughnuts into a ChevyBolt EUV for a fundraiser is officially beating my record for packing out a car. Moreso than when Tom, Graham, Chris, and I packed out my Mazda3 when we recorded The Cortège
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
“…Muse can be easily prompted to compile dossiers on Facebook and Instagram accounts belonging to members of vulnerable groups – including undocumented immigrants, transgender teachers, poll workers, Iranian dissidents, and women who said they had ordered abortion pills in states with abortion bans”
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Dox for Me, O Muse
Muse AI can leverage Facebook data to build lists of people in vulnerable groups on request for ordinary users.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
While waiting for Trump to enter the signing of the US-Denmark-Greenland agreement at the UN, they chose “Send in the Clowns” as the background music. Yes, it’s real.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible
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p.sparrow (Patrick) @pmsparrow.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Who at the FBI hasn't fucked a goat during rush?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/09/2026
PATEL: The previous regulation automatically disqualified any individual who participated in either side of it KENNEDY: Either side of beastiality? So you disqualified the animal? P: Well, we have great canines, but we're not going to disqualify them K: I'm trying to understand why you did this.
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The Hard Times @thehardtimesnews.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Survey Finds Most Americans Can No Longer Afford Living in a Van Down by the River thehardtimes.net/culture/surv...
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Survey Finds Most Americans Can No Longer Afford Living in a Van Down by the River
MADISON, Wis. — A new survey found that the poverty crisis in the U.S. is even worse than many experts thought, with... Continue reading this gem
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p.sparrow (Patrick) @pmsparrow.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Learned about RISD's unofficial mascot Scrotie and their genital themed sports teams last night. I'll be taking a kid to a campus tour soon and all of a sudden I NEED them to get in.
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p.sparrow (Patrick) @pmsparrow.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
When you have a local punk house's calendar synced to yours you never know what surprises you'll have on your lock screen.
A screenshot of an Android phone lock screen with a calendar announcement for "Gay Cum Daddies" at Cold Spring Hollow in Belchertown, MA.
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Andromeda @ulveheksa.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Questionnaire by Wendell Berry
Questionnaire by Wendell Berry

1. How much poison are you willing to eat for the success of the free market and global trade?
Please name your preferred poisons.

2. For the sake of goodness, how much evil are you willing to do?
Fill in the following blanks with the names of your favorite evils and acts of hatred.

3. What sacrifices are you prepared to make for culture and civilization? Please list the monuments, shrines, and works of art you would most willingly destroy.

4. In the name of patriotism and the flag, how much of our beloved land are you willing to desecrate? List in the following spaces the mountains, rivers, towns, farms you could most readily do without.

5. State briefly the ideas, ideals, or hopes, the energy sources, the kinds of security, for which you would kill a child. Name, please, the children whom you would be willing to kill.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026
If buying isn't owning then piracy can't be theft. Any reasonable corporation knows that.
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Two of Miss Piggy's most iconic co-stars gone, this world is trash.
Dolly Parton in a great jean jacket and Miss Piggy in a purple satin top and white boa and cowboy hat. What more do you need?Miss Piggy as Benjamina Gunn and Tim Curry as Long John Silver in _Muppet Treasure Island_
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p.sparrow (Patrick) @pmsparrow.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
For the second day in a row, another absolutely wrong 80 year old. RIP
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Dan Savage @dansavage.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Not the obituary I wanted to read today. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
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Tim Curry, Outlandish Star of ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show,’ Dies at 80
The three-time Tony nominee terrified audiences in Stephen King's 'It' and was a prolific voice actor as well.
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p.sparrow (Patrick) @pmsparrow.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Driving from Vermont to Tallahassee I only saw one dumpster truck. I come back to New England and immediately see one. Are there more Massholes on the road driving them or is it just a matter of scale and proximity that I always see one in MA?
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p.sparrow (Patrick) @pmsparrow.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Biological weapons are a much bigger threat to the planet than nuclear weapons.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 29/07/2026
Frontman of chart-topping band the Frames had huge success as the star of 2007 romantic drama Once
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Glen Hansard, Oscar-winning Irish singer-songwriter, dies aged 56 in motorcycle crash
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p.sparrow (Patrick) @pmsparrow.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Reading Mark Lanegan's memoir and getting to the recording of Sweet Oblivion in Chapter 7. I didn't know that Don Flemming produced that album and I am now wiping my spilled tea off of my desk.
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🏴🚩 Trans Kafka (any pronouns) 🍉🍉🍉 IS A REAL HUMAN PERSON! @alexpetrovnia.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
AI can target drone strikes via cell phone call data AI can generate extremely detailed nonconsensual deepfake porn AI can trap people in states of unreality AI can read bumper stickers on your car from hundreds of feet away these are priorities for AI developers you should hate AI
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. www.notus.org/national/ame...
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Suspicion and Doubt at the National Civics Contest
America’s finest young scholars competed to mark their country's birthday. It led to a disputed finish in the age of mistrust.
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p.sparrow (Patrick) @pmsparrow.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Love my Rep.
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Mary Hayes, who lives close to where the shooting happened, said the man lived nearby with his wife and daughter.

“I watched a wife fall to her knees looking at her husband’s dead body on the ground,” Hayes told the AP as she held a piece of cardboard with “No ICE Stop ICE” written on it. “I watched a little girl crying with a little pink backpack on because she’s never going to see her father again.”

The Colombian Embassy said it is in contact with U.S. authorities and “working to formally confirm the individual’s identity and nationality.”
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p.sparrow (Patrick) @pmsparrow.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Bluey PJs.
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Spencer M Ross @srossmktg.com · 07/07/2026
If you want to avoid these AI generations of your Instagram posts, without switching your account to private, you’ll have to dig into the app’s settings. Open the Instagram app, tap your profile, and then tap the three lines in the top-right corner of the screen. Then, scroll down to the Sharing and reuse tab. Here is where you should see a section labeled Allow people to use your content on Instagram and with AI features on Meta, with a toggle for Posts and one for Reels.
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p.sparrow (Patrick) @pmsparrow.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
So happy that I deleted my account last year.
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p.sparrow (Patrick) @pmsparrow.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I thought that Cybertrucks were ugly enough as-is, but to adorn one with a butcher's apron? Yikes.
A dumpster on wheels with a Union Jack on the back traveling through rural Vermont.
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David Noll @david.noll.org · 18/06/2026
Yes, a treaty of Versailles should do the trick.
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p.sparrow (Patrick) @pmsparrow.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I thought it was bad enough yesterday when a librarian at a top tier university made the blanket statement that libraries shouldn't consider ROI's for books, but today seeing a $3k+ 3-user ebook license for Kolb's Experiential Learning made their statement all the more laughable.
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Jon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
They removed CD/DVD drives from PCs. -Made physical media harder to buy and use. -Removed expandable storage from phones. -Pushed us into streaming subscriptions. -Made always-online normal. -Made unlimited internet necessary. -Slowly raised the price of everything. Ownership quietly became renting.
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p.sparrow (Patrick) @pmsparrow.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Envisioning a modern gnostic gospel where the demiurge is AI. Would the Logos then be the AI's creator and Sophia the one that teaches how to do things for one's self?
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alexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
if you are "using AI for writing," you are not writing. i do not know how to make this any simpler
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p.sparrow (Patrick) @pmsparrow.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Randomly remembering Slim Goodbody and the Adventures of Insideout Boy on Nickelodeon in the 80s and trying to explain them to my kids. What was the deal with visible anatomy (sans-reproductive organs) in children’s programming during this period of time?
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Ep01: Inside Story: Heart and Circulation - Lubba Dubba
YouTube video by Slim & Grandpa Goodbody
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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Colbert guest hosted a public access TV show in Monroe, Michigan a day after the Late Show ended. Guest star: Jeff Daniels Special appearance by: Eminem Musical director: Jack White Genius. youtu.be/jJTXB5uT_C4?...
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Only In Monroe --- May 22, 2026
YouTube video by Stephen Colbert
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p.sparrow (Patrick) @pmsparrow.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
They keep having the most brilliant second act. Can’t wait for the full album!
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 18/05/2026
“Instead of student loan forgiveness we’re doing a coup forgiveness program”
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
They're stealing billions of your money to pay off violent right-wing psychos while doing everything in their power to spike gas up to $5 a gallon, make groceries into a luxury and hand the country over to the oligarchs who want to permanently replace you.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
There is a statue of author Alex Haley in East Knoxville, TN. Knox County just removed Roots from all school libraries.
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Alex Haley’s “Roots” to be removed from Knox County Schools libraries
KNOX COUNTY, Tenn. (WATE) — Alex Haley’s book “Roots” is included in an updated list of book titles to be removed from Knox County Schools libraries. The schools previously remove…
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 08/05/2026
Photo by @nicolehester.bsky.social for The Tennesseean www.tennessean.com/picture-gall...
Caption via The Tennessean: 

Rep. Justin Pearson D- Memphis attempts to attend a Senate Committee meeting and is denied entry by the Sergeant at Arms on the second day of special session concerning redistricting at Cordell Hull State Office Building in Nashville on Wednesday, May 6, 2026.
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p.sparrow (Patrick) @pmsparrow.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
I am still hung up on Atlas Obscura letting a person pronounce Tatooine as Tat-oo-nin. The podcast AI transcript even has it as Tatunin (which is why human transcriptionists and fact checkers still matter btw). They also pronounced Mos Espa as Los Es-va… I guess this is how one murders a geek?
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p.sparrow (Patrick) @pmsparrow.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Yesterday's Star Wars edition of the Atlas Obscura podcast was a disappointment. Why have people cover Star Wars if they obviously aren't fans? And if they are fans, why did they butcher the pronunciations?
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
An Atlanta suburb learned Flock was using livestreams from a children's gymnastics studio, a pool, and a playground in sales pitches to other cities. Residents are furious but the city renewed its contract with Flock anyway: www.404media.co/city-learns-...
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City Learns Flock Accessed Cameras in Children's Gymnastics Room as a Sales Pitch Demo, Renews Contract Anyway
Residents of Dunwoody, Georgia are furious about the city's surveillance contract with Flock. Do their elected officials care?
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p.sparrow (Patrick) @pmsparrow.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Will AI fatigue lead to a renewed interest in live theatre and music(al) performances due to a need to experience something authentically human?
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
running to the Nazi website to complain that people were being mean to you for hitting the red carpet at Nazi Prom
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I'm currently getting mass cancelled on Bluesky for simply being at the WHCD. You cannot make this up
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Gothamist @gothamist.com · 19/04/2026
Mamdani and Obama make first joint appearance at Bronx child care center gothamist.com/news/mamdani...
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Mamdani and Obama make first joint appearance at Bronx child care center
The two Democratic leaders discussed Mamdani’s affordability-focused vision for the city, including universal child care.
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Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
did Dropkick Murphy just produce a music video where they chase down members of Patriot Front and fuck them up? "Retribution won't be pretty, so shut the fuck up and take a seat." WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A0Z...
Still image from a music video that appears to show actors dressed as Patriot Front members putting up racist propaganda. The actors are wearing blue shirt, brown pants and white face coverings which is the standard uniform of Patriot Front. A still from the music video appears to show actors dressed as Patriot Front members getting chased by a group of people shooting fireworks at them.
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Abby @arobertswrites.com · 15/04/2026
Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.
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Matt Royer 🤘🏼 @mattroyer.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
You know I knew that Door Dash woman looked familiar
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