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PSL_4Loko

@psl4loko.bsky.social
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Grid Ops nerd (BA and a TOP again, thank goodness), public power enthusiast, and basic-est of bitches. He/him. 4Loko should make a PSL flavor. Occasional submarine and infrastructure opinions. Bike commuting is best commuting.

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soonergrunt @soonergrunt.bsky.social · 4h
Go out now, like today, to your state government's website and find out whether or not your voter registration is current. Especially if you live in a red State, you have to assume that they're doing everything they can to take away your ability to vote.
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 5h
I checked again today. I have been purged in Alabama before. Everyone check!
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Epstein emails show he literally advised *all* these freaks, over decades, up til his death, on how to use transphobia as a wedge to make their expected victims more vulnerable Dems could have just not accepted Epstein's framing of trans rights as an essential part of being viewed as electable
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Allison Hantschel @allisonhantschel.com · 01/10/2026
A bunch of people, for example, thought they were voting for Donald Trump to save their farms and stop war in the Middle East. Is that what you mean? If not, just say the N word so we know what's going on and can get on with ignoring you.
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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.
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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 01/10/2026
i'm gonna (try to) sleep now we can't fix everything right now, however righteously enraged we are but if we are lucky enough to wake up tomorrow morning, there are a lot of things we can do to help keep as many of our people alive and safe as we can we will do those things
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Gosh, why wouldn't people want to visit the country that's disappearing and trafficking human beings every day
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Breaking character: I hate to use this account for political strategizing but the ball needs to get rolling on this....when Dems take the House they've got to focus on impeaching Hegseth. He can be be blamed for the Iran war plus he's a drunk and a criminal.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age.
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PSL_4Loko @psl4loko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The plea deal was a day. He did 30. Neither the plea deal nor the sentence the judge imposed required Adam Hoffman to register as a sex offender. Trump endorsed Paxton after this story broke and was circulated widely.
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Eric Champnella @echamp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Dear Maine Democrats -- Here's your new commercial. You're welcome.
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PSL_4Loko @psl4loko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Like Truman said: "The people don't want a phony Democrat... they will take a Republican before they will a phony Democrat"
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Oh and there’s a nonzero chance they were programmed to do this to push the issue of the government bringing in AI development in order to help mediate their giant financial problems and gain more power and control. Cool stuff, really. Not at all problematic.
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This seems fine, I can’t think of any reasons why we might need counterterrorism expertise right now
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026
This piece includes a list at the bottom of further reading on the intense weirdness that has sprung up around the US AI industry, and you can find even more weird little AI guy reading here: semble.so/profile/fain...
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weird little AI guys (by Faine Greenwood) — Semble
View Faine Greenwood's collection on Semble
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026
Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 26/09/2026
I think she's just mad that she can't take bribes from military contractors in exchange for handing them tens of millions in taxpayer-funded contracts to build defective products that the military will never use anymore www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
propublica.org
The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A rich person can never be held accountable. Therefore, a rich person must never make a societal decision
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 25/09/2026
IN MINNESOTA.
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PSL_4Loko @psl4loko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
All cops need to wear the old military police dress up stuff: chrome honor guard helmets at all times. The chrome helmets are to keep the alien 5G mind rays out. I of course would have a hat with a foil liner like Tim Pool.
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“I’m a single issue voter and that issue is Lysenkoism”
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PSL_4Loko @psl4loko.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'd be the guy at the meeting before the brief explaining that deferred maintenance on the emergency generators means the equipment scheduled its own downtime. Now we don't have enough generation or batteries and 2 shots of the ion cannon may cause a blackout due to underfrequency. Aka an extra.
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.
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The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people.
A building.

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maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 18/09/2026
Imagine if, instead of regulating drones (which we did!), we instead decided to let drone companies self-regulate, and ALSO dedicated tons of money and time to "problems" like "what if, in 1000 years, hyper-intelligent dogs learn to fly drones into mailmen." This is what we are doing with AI.
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Moss Elixir @sorryforlaughing.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
BTW this area including Joliet’s forecast to get up to 5” additional flooding rains through Monday. However the auto body shop I was in yesterday’s piped-in talk station had a host screaming “climate change isn’t real, ARGUMENT OVER!” in between the Black Rifle coffee ads so that’s that for that.
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PSL_4Loko @psl4loko.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The whole speech is good, but this part in particular is particularly relevant now. www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/publ...
A screenshot of a section of the linked speech by former President Harry Truman:

I've seen it happen time after time. When the Democratic candidate allows himself to be put on the defensive and starts apologizing for the New Deal and the fair Deal, and says he really doesn't believe in them, he is sure to lose. The people don't want a phony Democrat. If it's a choice between a genuine Republican, and a Republican in Democratic clothing, the people will choose the genuine article, every time; that is, they will take a Republican before they will a phony Democrat, and I don't want any phony Democratic candidates in this campaign.

But when a Democratic candidate goes out and explains what the New Deal and fair Deal really are--when he stands up like a man and puts the issues before the people--then Democrats can win, even in places where they have never won before. It has been proven time and again.
We are getting a lot of suggestions to the effect that we ought to water down our platform and abandon parts of our program. These, my friends, are Trojan horse suggestions. I have been in politics for over 30 years, and I know what I am talking about, and I believe I know something about the business. One thing I am sure of: never, never throw away a winning program.
This is so elementary that I suspect the people handing out this advice are not really well-wishers of the Democratic Party.
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PSL_4Loko @psl4loko.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The whole speech is good, but this part in particular is particularly relevant now. www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/publ...
A screenshot of a section of the linked speech by former President Harry Truman:

I've seen it happen time after time. When the Democratic candidate allows himself to be put on the defensive and starts apologizing for the New Deal and the fair Deal, and says he really doesn't believe in them, he is sure to lose. The people don't want a phony Democrat. If it's a choice between a genuine Republican, and a Republican in Democratic clothing, the people will choose the genuine article, every time; that is, they will take a Republican before they will a phony Democrat, and I don't want any phony Democratic candidates in this campaign.

But when a Democratic candidate goes out and explains what the New Deal and fair Deal really are--when he stands up like a man and puts the issues before the people--then Democrats can win, even in places where they have never won before. It has been proven time and again.
We are getting a lot of suggestions to the effect that we ought to water down our platform and abandon parts of our program. These, my friends, are Trojan horse suggestions. I have been in politics for over 30 years, and I know what I am talking about, and I believe I know something about the business. One thing I am sure of: never, never throw away a winning program.
This is so elementary that I suspect the people handing out this advice are not really well-wishers of the Democratic Party.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 17/09/2026
Do NOT vote for anti-transgender Democrats. www.erininthemorning.com/p/the-guide-...
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The Guide To Anti-Trans Democrats In The 2026 Elections, By State
These are the Democrats that LGBTQ+ people may wish to avoid this election cycle.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026
It really is worth remembering just last year the conventional wisdom on immigration was that people supported mass deportation to such a degree people should be cautious in opposing the Trump administration snatching people and sending them to CECOT.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026
Standing up for Kilmar Abrego Garcia was framed as an obvious mistake and an example of progressives letting unreasonable principles and posturing leading to bad politics. All of this was written and published.
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
What I really fucking love about Hot Fuzz is that it is a rare piece of artwork that unapologetically defends liberal modernity. A representative of the impartial, uniform rule of law & depersonalized state beings justice to a lawless, backward community run by a wretched clique of local grandees.
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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 15/09/2026
i'm looking at plane tickets currently and i gotta say it feels just a little bit bad to know that the prices are currently 2x what they otherwise would be because our rapist pedophile president decided to murder and maim tens of thousands of people but hey at least they got to make epic meme videos
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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"You see, the problem with all these foreigners is that they can't assimilate to our American Way of Life," the far right says about immigrants of color wearing cowboy hats, flashing Longhorn signs and hooting and hollering "Hook 'em horns" at a football game It's always been just White Supremacy
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026
Combatants are hunting civilians from the sky with small drones more than ever before - and the international community isn’t doing enough to stop it. My latest on the ways we can protect civilians from drones, written with Nathaniel Raymond of @hrl-yalesph.bsky.social :
foreignpolicy.com
The Laws of War Must Change for the Drone Age
Hunting civilians from the sky is growing disturbingly common.
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PSL_4Loko @psl4loko.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Seeing ChatGPT ads with boomer actresses talking to a very convincing voice and hoooooo boy. LLMs are gonna surpass slots real quick like.
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David Weiskopf believes in you @dave.bzky.team · 14/09/2026
A statistic that haunts me because it is 100% true and shocking and useless in advocacy precisely because it is true and shocking: Policy that enables a 1-car lifestyle rather than 2 is equivalent to giving a family a $25,000 annual pay raise.
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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Heres the full story taskandpurpose.com/news/dc-guar...
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Guardsman faces felony charges for pulling gun after grooming standards argument
A National Guardsman mobilized to Washington, D.C., is facing felony charges after pointing his firearm at a fellow guardsman.
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I love re-upping this: for decades the main library at UCLA had the generic name University Research Library because the person most responsible for getting it built was an English professor named Hugh G. Dick and the university refused to name it after him.
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
microdosing not getting a big task done by not doing the smaller, otherwise attainable subtasks
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Michael Stahlke @michaelstahlke.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
They didn’t even rate a hull Homan
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Academician Prokhor Zakharov @shake1n1bake.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Admiral Hyman G Rickover, father of the nuclear navy with a speech containing the tweet:

@pukicho
I dont care if you're neuron divergent i need you to go to fucking War
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 08/09/2026
Typical Southern California rearview mirror bullshit.
A rearview mirror with a sunset behind it where there is a rearview mirror with a sunset behind it where there is an orange Horizon and pink clouds
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PSL_4Loko @psl4loko.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Housekeeper at a military hotel during a major multinational exercise. I spoke a bit of Japanese so always got the floor with the JSDF folks. They got issued instructions and petty cash for tipping as tip culture in Japan is basically the opposite of the US. I made a killing.
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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Germany's AfD rejects compulsory or mandatory vaccination. Same policy as Poilievre and Canada's Conservatives, same policy as MAGA and RFK Jr. It's not a coincidence that extreme RW parties all sing the same tune when it comes to vaccinations.
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🎃heeeeere's johnny🎃 @ozarkobscura.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
in case there was any doubt about them being a) liars and b) evil...
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🎃heeeeere's johnny🎃 @ozarkobscura.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
local arkansas ai fuckery: google wants to build data center. entergy (power corp) says "google will pay to build new infrastructure & power plant to facilitate." guy foias info. google is paying 1/3 of the bill; the rest will be passed on to locals. ENTERGY SUES THE NEWSPAPER FOR PRINTING THIS.
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Entergy blows a fuse over mistakenly shared documents revealing who’s paying data center bills - Arkansas Times
Attorneys for Entergy are making legal threats against journalists and an FOI-wielding citizen over revelations that Google will not be covering all infrastructure upgrade costs for data centers after...
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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️
8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.
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