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Rob @rcgiff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

am I missing something or is “gee wow we had no idea it was doing that, it must have developed Will and Intention all on its own!” just the laziest lie to cover directed hacking and data theft

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Joseph @moonmoneyismine.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Moe is our leader 🫡

An image of The Three Stooges (Moe, Larry, and Curly), saluting, in front of an American flag. Shemp is suspiciously absent 😒, posted on Instagram from the official Three Stooges account and Officialc3entertaint.

The text says “The Three Stooges are honoring and remembering all those who lost their lives in the 9/11 attacks. We salute all of our first responders and military personnel who stepped up to the protection of the city. We’ll never forget and make sure to honor them every day.”

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𝕃𝕦𝕔𝕒𝕧𝕚 ⓘ Rude 🐈 @lucavi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

amazing things are still happening

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The idea that classrooms are chiefly spaces for product testing, and that it is irresponsible pedagogy not to enforce this, is both cynical and vile, and “fuck off” is a cogent response from any professional educator to any non-teaching salescreep or tech-but-not-subject-matter expert who voices it.

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Rob @rcgiff.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

hey man this sucks shit

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Explaining the broad strokes of Seth Harp's "The Fort Bragg Cartel" to a furiously nodding A-Rod.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 08/05/2026

all my friends in higher education love to complain about having to use the awful grading software, but now that someone's doing something about it you're just complaining about NOT being able to use it? some people are never happy

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

This is excellent, and especially thrilling because it's the first thing I've read on this topic that gets past its supposed inevitability to assess what AI ed tech is actually like, and what it actually does. www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...

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What Will It Take to Get A.I. Out of Schools?

“I find myself speaking with my kids about A.I. in the same terms that we might discuss a creepy neighbor who lives down the block,” Jessica Winter writes. Read her report on the push for A.I. in educ...

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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

the most depraved art is "sad returning soldier" films. you should feel bad! your redemption arc can't come in your hometown.

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Rob @rcgiff.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

fuck you do your job get off your ass and throw whatever sand you have in whatever gears you can find and if you can’t think of one useful way to do that then take the one productive option left to you and throw yourself in the Potomac so someone with balls and half a brain can take your place

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Rob @rcgiff.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

(to the tune of Femininomenon by Chappell Roan) Feminine Papa John

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Rob @rcgiff.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

we assign this shit to 9th graders with learning disabilities if the great gatsby is too hard for you maybe it’s time to end it chief

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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this War might last for "a very long time."
Generals and military scholars will tell you that eight or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history - which is no doubt true - but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a wartime economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed.
That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks.

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

there are people going out in the freezing cold and literally putting their lives on the line in defense of their communities and the multicultural secular society they believe in. not interested in what some online wannabe dnc consultant type wants to tell me what is and isn't possible now

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

One court decision, two different headlines. Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?

US court allows ICE to arrest and pepper-spray peaceful protestors in Minnesota

Appeals Court Stays Restrictions on Federal Tactics in Minnesota
The Eighth Circuit granted the Trump administration’s request to block, at least for now, a lower court’s injunction limiting how federal agents interact with protesters in the state.

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ceej @ceej.online · 07/01/2026

"what are we going to do with 20,000 ICE agents if we abolish ice" well to start with I think we should all literally spit on them in public for the rest of their lives

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 28/12/2025

english degree: good luck getting a job, buddy! AI can replace you coding degree: good luck getting a job, buddy! AI can replace you film degree: your deep knowledge of behind the scenes stories from Who Framed Roger Rabbit will delight and entertain coworkers in any field for decades to come

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 26/12/2025

[doing backing vocals for Sam Cooke] Science Book

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Rob @rcgiff.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

look you can question her ethics and her taste in men, but you can’t question her prose stylings

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

What last night proves, above all else, is that centrist Democrats like Zohran Mamdani, Bernie Sanders, and AOC can work together with moderate Republicans like Abigail Spanberger and Gavin Newsom to push back on MAGA fascism.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 19/10/2025

me: ugh god you know how you make plans for friday night but then friday night gets there and you don't want to do it and it feels sooooooo good to cancel? my liege lord Daimyō Nobunaga (unsheathing katana): even a dog understands loyalty. She whose word is not bond does not deserve to live

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this

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JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

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Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Perfect example of how the Neocons paved the way for Trump. 2002: Everyone's favorite Neocon resister Bill Kristol argues that it's "unfair" to worry that the president will use the war on terror to settle scores and fight imaginary enemies 2025: Trump designates Antifa a domestic terrorist org

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Emily Yoshida @emilyyoshida.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

The uniting theme of the supposed age of AI and the M&A/private equity apocalypse is that the world is controlled by people who literally cannot imagine ever deriving joy or meaning or satisfaction from any activity or pursuit for its own sake if it doesn't make money.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

November 17, 2021 www.mypanhandle.com/news/local-n...

MANKATO, Minnesota (AP) - Charlie Kirk stood 80 miles from where George Floyd was murdered, faced an overwhelmingly white audience, and declared he was going to say things "no one dares say out loud."
What followed was an avalanche of aspersions and debunked claims about Floyd, the Black man whose death at the hands of a
Minneapolis police officer set off a global reckoning over racial injustice and broad calls for change. But the white conservative agitator had a counter view: Floyd was a "scumbag," he said, unworthy of the attention.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

idk if you've seen this south korean editorial that ran a few days ago. google translate version scorched my eyebrows www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...

Maga is fundamentally a populist white racism.
The slogan "Make America Great Again" is more accurately described as "Make White
America Greater." The fact that the tariff policy insisted on a 50% tariff only on steel and aluminum stems from the concentration of these groups in the Rust Belt.

The massive crackdown on illegal immigrants at the Hyundai-LG Energy Solutions joint venture plant in Georgia must be understood in this context. The scenes of our workers being chained and escorted away were reminiscent of the dragging of African slaves in the 18th and 19th centuries. The
Department of Homeland Security boasted of
"the largest single-site raid in history," and Immigration and Customs Enforcement even brazenly released footage of the raid, which was highly violating human rights, as if to boast of their "achievement."

Far-right whites may have secretly rejoiced.
Even politicians like the Georgia governor and local lawmakers, who had been active in attracting factories, have shifted their stance and sympathized with their grievances. This is likely because it's difficult to ignore the anti-immigrant sentiment of native Americans. Like the McCarthyism that swept through American society in the 1950s, irrational madness dominates American society. The recent visa issue, which could have been resolved diplomatically with advance notice from an ally, is difficult to explain beyond political maneuvering. The fact that they mobilized helicopters and armored vehicles for show, as if they had been caught, is difficult to explain.

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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

If all my friends called me a pedophile in my birthday book I'd probably kill myself too

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Rob @rcgiff.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

this is true and fine but I am also a K-12 educator and I’ll say it’s okay to snub them too

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Rob @rcgiff.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

this 4th I’m flying the American flag upside down because no theaters in this godforsaken beach town are showing Jaws on its 50th anniversary

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Rob @rcgiff.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

I would so easily settle for *smart* opportunism from the Dem establishment. This moment is there for the seizing! I don’t really care what you believe in your heart! Go out and do some popular shit!

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Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

" The boyfriend" looks dead. The girls are finished. The spaghetti and meatballs swarm with flies. What happened here.

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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 13/06/2023

bowser is insanely wealthy for a turtle

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

there are so many thoroughly antisocial behaviors that would shock and disturb you coming from any other human being but are completely standard for cops

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Everyone contributes to the movement in the ways they see fit. Some get teargassed and shot with rubber bullets by rampaging cops, others offer notes online re: how the people getting gassed/shot might seem less deserving of getting gassed/shot to the general public. It's a coalition.

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erinscafe @erinscafe.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

interesting to note that 400 protesters have monopolized all of LASD’s enforcement power because they tried to help ICE arrest half a dozen guys working at a Home Depot if you’re scoring on efficiency, the protesters are winning

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Lol just heard the NPR story about the DOGE guy who lost his job when he said he was surprised at how hard it was to find inefficiencies in the federal govt because he came from Silicon Valley where companies always have lots of people sitting around doing nothing

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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

If this is even remotely accurate, Elon Musk and Donald Trump have killed more people in several months than the Iraq war killed in a decade

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

i saw yoda fall off a bar stool and when he hit the floor a box of good & plenty candy under his robes went scattering everywhere. he was crawling around trying to pick it all up and the bouncer was yelling at him thinking it was drugs but stopped once he realized. everyone just kinda watched

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Rob @rcgiff.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

very regular assignment I found on my school’s printer

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Rob @rcgiff.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

very regular assignment I found on my school’s printer

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

when the videos of monkeys being surprised by magic tricks came out some people were like “it’s not funny that’s actually traumatic and upsetting to the monkeys” and i think of it every time i see a guy sincerely talking to ai

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Rob @rcgiff.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

is there a mechanism to issue a one-time-only “it’s okay to do The Business Plot” waiver

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Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

To protect our kids, teachers and school employees, every school needs a plan for what to do when ICE comes. People can have different roles -- alert colleagues, take video, call attorneys, alert the parent network, demand warrants

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Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

🧵Masked ICE thugs attempted to abduct the school nurse at Cooke Elementary School, located in the densely populated Adams Morgan section of DC. Workers at the school intervened, demanding a warrant and holding up their phones and ICE scurried off without making their arrest.

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