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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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PSL_4Loko @psl4loko.bsky.social · 2h
The ruby red part of Alaska is the same as it is in California: suburbanites (by Alaskan standards) and rural...ites. The latter demo's non a rounding error but macho dudes with trucks, camo, desk jobs, and indoor plumbing who've never split wood? That's the R base.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 6h
Rep. Delia C. Ramirez has introduced a bill that would abolish not just ICE, but the DHS altogether, repealing the 2002 law establishing the agency and replacing it with one focused on protecting civil and human rights.
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Rep. Delia Ramirez Introduces Landmark Bill to Abolish DHS, ICE, and CBP
The Department of Homeland Security was established in 2002 as part of the Bush administration’s war on terror.
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Jody Avirgan @jodyavirgan.com · 12/10/2026
Shoutout to the sales rep in Oregon who sold the slot, didn’t say a word, and kept it moving.
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PSL_4Loko @psl4loko.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Sub shingles for an MMR booster and that was my Wednesday. On Sunday I felt like shit. So much so I bailed on my regular 24mi bike ride to work and drove instead.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Any Democrat suggesting that there is any political mission other than bringing all elected Republicans to justice for their participation in an insurrectionist hate group needs to be booed and hissed without cease until they can be fired at the next available opportunity
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
There is absolutely no viable path forward for this country that doesn’t hinge on extreme accountability for everyone involved in this administration. They’re going to whine about politicization and credulous media types will echo them, but the thing is, they’ve committed tons of obvious crimes!
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 09/10/2026
nationalize everything Elon Musk owns.
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PSL_4Loko @psl4loko.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I know you're not soliciting advice and if it's unwelcome I'll delete. An easy bike ride helps leg day recovery more than you'd ever believe. Keep up a good cadence with minimal torque on the pedals and just tool around for 30-45min. Gets the blood flowing with no meaningful loading.
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PSL_4Loko @psl4loko.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is a huge benefit. I ride a bike to work but I can always (usually, we don't find it as we ought) take the light rail home *with my bike* if I can't handle the 24mi return ride after a 12hr shift. That's a ton of flexibility and a second car my wife and I don't need.
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Olena Halushka @halushka.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Let me make this very clear. Diesel prices have spiked because of Trump's war against Iran. Ukraine has nothing to do with it. But by buying russian diesel now, Americans will be helping fund the murder of Ukrainian children in their beds. Congratulations, folks.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
How fast will this come to a public school near you
A U.S. charity in Gaza is worried that teachers at its schools might stray from a curriculum it says promotes peace and tolerance, so it plans to record classroom conversations and use artificial intelligence to flag speech deemed “hateful” or “inciting.”

The plans laid out by the founder of the Gaza Children Village in a webinar last month have elicited ethical, safety and privacy concerns from some Palestinian and advocacy groups and at least one of the charity’s partners.

There is no indication the charity intends to share its classrooms’ recordings with anybody else, but fears about the potential misuse of surveillance technology are heightened in Gaza after three years of war. The Israeli military has used AI to sift through intercepted communications and find suspicious speech, including to identify targets for strikes.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is Nazi rhetoric, full stop. It's not only a call to instigate a race war in the United States, but it's reminiscent of historic European justifications used to incite pogroms against Jews. People who say things like this are incredibly dangerous, as there is nothing they won't eventually do.
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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Your typical nativist is *just* smart enough to realize that the government is never going to let them fulfill their dream of being a slaveowner and the Gulf State model is their favorite among the alternatives they think they can actually get.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 07/10/2026
This is a big deal and a functioning press would treat it as a massive scandal grinding routine business to a halt. Compare the years of east coast sour grapes over the “censorship” of Obama not granting Fox News an interview in the 2010s to the silence in US media over this direct state censorship.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 05/10/2026
i got advertised to on instagram for a radiation sickness kit to have on hand in case of nuclear disaster and i think they are really overestimating how much i want to continue living in that scenario
radiation kit with potassium iodine, prussian blue and ondansetron
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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"‘But I’m Not From Ghana’: ICE Targets Longtime New Yorkers for Third-Country Deportation" -- www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/10/05/t...
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'But I'm Not From Ghana': ICE Targets Longtime New Yorkers for Third-Country Deportation
Immigrants with protected status who've lived in the city for decades are finding themselves swept up, shackled and threatened with expulsion.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
He cheated on her and he protects pedophiles but she’s going to vote for him anyway because oppressing the rest of us matters more.
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PSL_4Loko @psl4loko.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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soonergrunt @soonergrunt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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 · 04/10/2026
I checked again today. I have been purged in Alabama before. Everyone check!
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PSL_4Loko @psl4loko.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I think that's a deliberate choice by industry to create space for bad faith arguments and ambiguity. I use neural nets and kahlman filters at work all the time. Critical parts of the industry for decades. Now people call it AI along with the company's chatbot. Makes conversation hard.
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PSL_4Loko @psl4loko.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've read this one before! I genuinely think there needs to be a caveat to Baen as a professional publisher from a certain point on. If you're publishing Kratman you may still be a real publisher but... like... you're a real publisher publishing Kratman.
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PSL_4Loko @psl4loko.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You could also give students a sense of scale by showing Rocky Reach Dam in Wenatchee, WA (~1300MW nameplate), Big Bend Power Station south of Tampa, FL (~1800MW nameplate now, but ~1200MW at construction on 1,500 acres), and the Astoria Converter Station on the NYC side of the CHPE.
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PSL_4Loko @psl4loko.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Seriously! I hate that Truman's speech from '52 stays relevant. bsky.app/profile/psl4...
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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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PSL_4Loko @psl4loko.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Reading your Skeet I thought "This sounds like the folks at LA Taco would know". Lo and beglory! lataco.com/birria-soup-...
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Are These Birria Soup Dumplings Worth the Hype or Just Another Stunt Dish Made For Instagram? ~ L.A. TACO
Two SoCal restaurant greats, Burritos La Palma and Paradise Dynasty, have joined forces to create birria xiao long bao. But does it work?
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PSL_4Loko @psl4loko.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Caveat: His September 9th interview sucked but his record in the House didn't, so I'll hold out some hope.
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PSL_4Loko @psl4loko.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Sounds like Talarico gets it. bsky.app/profile/psl4...
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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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PSL_4Loko @psl4loko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Looks like Beshear knows what's up. bsky.app/profile/psl4...
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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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PSL_4Loko @psl4loko.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I wouldn't DQ anyone but I'd subconsciously think less of them if they were slurping or otherwise being indecorous. Nerves make people fumble stuff like that so I don't bring a drink. I wouldn't think twice at a meeting or informal affair though.
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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-...
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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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