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Ryan Smith

@pseudonymblusky.bsky.social
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Programmer, when my dogs allow it. Designer/Developer/Pro-toe-typer at @loreforgegames Prime War Fox Experiment He/Him

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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 5h
Whoa, one of the pedophiles responsible for the GOP's political power just died. No, not that one, the other one. No, not that one, the other one. No, not that one, the other one. No, not that one, the other one. No, not that one, the other one. No, not that one, the other wgntv.com/news/chicago...
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Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert dies at 84
Former U.S. House Speaker John Hastert has died at the age of 84 from natural causes.
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mcc @dryad.technology · 20h
Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My son's first football match makes for a heartwarming, heartbreaking affair. www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
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Séamas O’Reilly: Am I a soft, overprotective dad bringing his own childhood traumas to bear?
My son doesn’t yet have proper football trainers, since we, his miserly parents, haven’t yet committed to such accoutrements
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 22h
[A parody of MR ROGERS’ NEIGHBOURHOOD, in which the kindly Mr Rogers takes us to see local things in his town.]
 
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MR ROGERS’ NEIGHBOURHOOD

MR ROGERS:

Hi there

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Today, I’d like to take you to visit some of my neighbours… 

[He puts his coat on to leave his house]  

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At a wonderful local event,
 
[We see the cute toy-town diorama of his village famous from the TV show. The camera pulls out…]

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The Data Center protest.

[The camera has pulled out further and now we see a huge DATA CENTER at the edge  of town]. 

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MR ROGERS [joining a crowd protesting outside the Data Center]:

The Data Center is an enormous, windowless, endlessly humming building outside of our town

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…Which has tripled energy prices, drank all the water, and created four jobs.

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[to camera, as if kindly explaining to the viewing children]:

Four jobs! Golly!

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LADY PROTESTOR [probably NAOMI KLEIN, holding a sign]:

In a way, the Data Center is kind of a vivid metaphor for a future we feel locked out of!

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MR ROGERS [to camera again]:

A metaphor.

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That’s something that lets us clarify our feelings about something else. 

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LADY PROTESTOR:
How do you feel, Mr Rogers?

MR ROGERS:
I feel like bringing down the government!

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MR ROGERS [now holding a sign and protesting]:

It’s good to have neighbors.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6h
it's such a perfect example of what is actually alito's hallmark as a justice, shoddy, sub-undergraduate thinking dressed up with five dollar words.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 17h
You know. I don’t think that there is any more crucial component to contextualizing & meeting our current set of problems than understanding this.
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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 15h
Gather ye 'round and I will brook no bullshit from this ramble I had often asked 'How's our boy Luigi' doing, in reference to Luigi with the Italian last name I can't spell...who shot and killed in broad daylight on the streets of NYC, the CEO of the worst insurance company ...who's decisions kill
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Dmitri. #freeLink @momus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
the most predictable consequences ever: Strikingly, every single one of the many smart glasses videos we found were captured by teen boys — and their bad behavior was overwhelmingly directed at girls.
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Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Terrorize Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools
Teen boys are using Meta's AI glasses to harass and bully victims -- overwhelmingly girls -- at middle schools and high schools.
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J.M. Hardin @jmhardin.bsky.social · 16h
"Part of what confused the data before this was a notable subgroup of our population that were both chain-smoking and very heavy coffee drinkers. This made it look like there were risks related to coffee that should have actually been attributed to smoking."
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 16h
for reference, in the Dobbs opinion, Alito was like, women generally don't _plan_ to get an abortion, so how could they have a reliance interest in abortion? which is kind of an extension of 'you want health insurance? what, you plan on being sick?'
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 15h
All prisoners should have the right to vote while in prison
Norman Rockwell's Freedom of Speech
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.
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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
new wolfenstein looks like shit
its pete hegseth splaying his arms christlike at a podium with all sorts of americana bunting thats got a distinct fash aesthetic
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Any suggestions for middle grade books with arab protagonists? My kid just said they dont like being arab because "we're always the bad guys."
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Gespenst MK-VII @callgespenst.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
tweet from @topherflorence

peanuts is a cool comic cause the babies are always unsupervised in a dirt field saying stuff like "suffering is the cantaloupe in the fruit salad of life" and then the dog does a skateboard trick
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It’s interesting how the standard bearer for the party whose message used to be “Democrats suck because they just buy votes by giving people free stuff” has decided the closing message for the midterms will just be “how many more checks do we have to send you in order to earn your vote?”
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Meanwhile, in Children-Are-Private-Property country....
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 03/10/2026
I worry in the next few years we're all going to have to have some patient, complicated conversations with older or less media-engaged relatives who see the le epic trump takedown posts but do not stuff like this about who Gavin Newsom Really Is
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Buy Mass Effect The Board Game! @ithayla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
theft machine motherfuckers always advance the story that's most convenient for them our machine is sentient! but owning it is not slavery it's trained on all of human knowledge! but copyright laws don't apply to us it will revolutionize labor ! and we need trillions of your $ to keep it going
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
1. Tonight at Gillette Stadium, Zach Bryan, one of the biggest country music artists in the world, wore a Free Palestine shirt onstage. Gillette Stadium is owned by Robert Kraft, who pushed Ed Sheeran and his promoter to drop Macklemore from his tour. Bryan isn’t just a major country artist.
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Commander Sterling @commandersterling.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I guarantee you AI won’t kill us all. The claim’s a projection of reckless rich buffoons who can’t wait to be the only humans alive, openly fantasizing about a cull. Again. I’ve never been scared of AI, but the megalomaniacs forcing it on us are terrifying. I can’t guarantee they won’t kill us all.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
~Approximately no one in the general public knows because the leaders of the R1 research universities - whose budgets, programs, & personnel are entirely or significantly dependent on federal funding - have been totally absent from the public square in explaining & collectively protesting this.
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That Queer Skeletal Writer @falcc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Elon Musk is the complete encapsulation of the libertarian philosophy. No identity documents, deregulated diarrhea, pedophile, never faces any consequences, massively racist, conspiracist, produces nothing but CSAM and Co2, immune to courts, unpleasant to be around. He's the whole package.
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
WOAH. Of course. Conscious existence isn’t an endpoint, a peak, a pinnacle, a god given gift. It’s a workaround, a bodge, a fudge, the best we could manage. That’s why Darwin broke humankind’s brain. We’ve not really recovered, I don’t think. Our lived reality is a will-this-do?
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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2026
remember when every company was like "we're gonna make a leaderboard for uses the most AI" until someone looked at their budget
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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 02/10/2026
As I said in June 2024 www.wheresyoured.at/rotcombubble/
I believe we're at the end of the Rot-Com boom — the tech industry's hyper-growth cycle where there were so many lands to conquer, so many new ways to pile money into so many new, innovative ideas that it felt like every tech company could experience perpetual growth simply by throwing money at the problem.

It explains why so many tech products — YouTube, Google Search, Facebook, and so on — feel like they’ve got tangibly worse. There’s no incentive to improve the things you’ve already built when you’re perpetually working on the next big thing.

This belief — that exponential growth is not just a reasonable expectation, but a requirement — is central to the core rot in the tech industry, and as these rapacious demands run into reality, the Rot-Com bubble has begun to deflate. As we speak, the tech industry is grappling with a mid-life crisis where it desperately searches for the next hyper-growth market, eagerly pushing customers and businesses to adopt technology that nobody asked for in the hopes that they can keep the Rot Economy alive.
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Nic 🍉 @nml-dc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
That's not genAI, that's computer programming that's been around since the 90s. My dad is a computer scientist who developed the non-linear algorithms for it, using mammograms. GenAI bros want us to think it's all the same so we think positively of their crap, but one is actual science.
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Adam P Knave @adampknave.com · 02/10/2026
All you fucks going on about how we have to support this transphobic, piece of shit, sentient wad of hair gel still yapping? Because holy fuck, this chump has not been and will not be a viable candidate. Find someone better or else. It really is that simple.
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Waschesalon Grammy Campaign Manager @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Texas is basically saying it wants to encourage fraud as a matter of public policy and you should keep that in mind whenever you see a large firm incorporated in Texas
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Ryan Smith @pseudonymblusky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Excited for new Talking Heads album
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Most of the commentary about this concentrates on how it's just an asshole move. And it definitely is. But it's also a violation of ADA
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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
i love this so much
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ballpoint pen, watercolor, colored pencil, a little crayon, and charcoal pencil. 

Our guy pulls up deep in the forest on his 2-speed bike. He’s flanked by tall dark trees and his path is blocked by a massive spider. He lets the Big Fella know it’s on. “Big Fella,” he says. “I fixed my 2-speed. You still wanna race.” Reader, you know Big Fella wants in on that action. Next slide.Against a starry night sky we see silhouettes of Big Fella and our man racing down a hill. It’s unclear in the drawing who will win but Big Fella is likely about to pull away.
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Eleanor Morton @eleanormorton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Tourguide welcomes you to autumn in Scotland youtube.com/shorts/jTSiu...
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tourguide welcomes you to autumn in Scotland #craigthetourguide
YouTube video by Eleanor Morton
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"revenge for Nixon" explains a rather significant amount of GOP skulduggery in the 21st century www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
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Exclusive | Decades After Watergate, Justice Department Reviews Whether Nixon Got a Raw Deal
A revisionist historian went to the DOJ headquarters to present his case that the former president and his associates weren’t treated fairly.
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Dr. NerdLove @doctornerdlove.com · 01/10/2026
As part of my overall gig as a dating coach and advice columnist, I read a number of subreddits about dating and relationships as a way of seeing what’s in the zeitgeist and what issues come up regularly and how people respond to those issues.
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’s not a cover . It’s a continual plan that people including @unbreaking.org have been tracking for over a year and that was in Project 2025 Everyone got comfortable with being anti DEI And even when Hegseth says it they avoid it unbreaking.org/issues/equal...
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Equitable Federal Workforce: Timeline — Unbreaking
Documenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.
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david. @david.uncensored.zip · 01/10/2026
They come in regular envelopes so they cant be easily id and stolen.
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Also, and I cannot stress this enough, you can do both. The sheer ability of people to hear "Voting matters" & interpret that as "I just personally ordered you to never volunteer or donate to a cause ever again. And the only way to break the spell is complain" It's a monument to human ingenuity.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender
The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals
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Liz Bourke @hawkwinglb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
So getting involving in volunteering with a youth group last year (and showing up to the inaugural Parents' Association meeting at my kid's primary school this year) is being a real eye-opener for how much unpaid work is involved in making a community where community events and shit can happen.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Elon Musk is not an expert on the future of warfare, and he shouldn’t be leading a US taskforce on the topic. The Trump administration’s attacks on, e.g., civil servants and DEI are inextricable from its attacks on expertise in general.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 01/10/2026
Going to be honest this might be my favourite headline of the AI bubble
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
among other things, musk is the #1 donor to the Republican Party in 2024 and 2026, now appointed to a board where he can steers contracts to his businesses. Bought and sold. Thieves.
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This tech is based on stolen labor, then I reject it. This tech intensifies racism, sexism, and class exploitation, then I reject it. This tech exploits workers in the Global South, then I reject it. This tech exacerbates env & climate problems, then I reject it. All these rationales are valid!
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."
Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.
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devon giehl🐀ratmaker @devongiehl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
made a sandwich with this bread before i realized its smug ass was covered in mold. fuck you, bread
a slice of wheat bread with a mold pattern that looks infuriatingly like a smiley face. this bread is a piece of shit
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Ross A. Lincoln @rossalincoln.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
He's right. Dems literally campaigned on "Trump is WAY weaker than us on the border," while media outlets prioritized "oh Trump only means BAD GUYS" denials whenever something he actually said broke containment. Dem voters outraged by this were smugly told that Dems had no choice because 'polling'
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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