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Caleb Alexander @readingcabbage.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Introduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians you've seen live! Powerwolf Dragonforce Sabaton Gloryhammer Alestorm Rob Zombie KISS Meat loaf Korn Three Doors Down

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Caleb Alexander @readingcabbage.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

How I feel about the bluesky vs Twitter discourse.

A screenshot of a post with the text "people b saying things so definitively. like man i think it depends."

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Caleb Alexander @readingcabbage.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Admin insiders trying to do Polymarket manipulation.

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Caleb Alexander @readingcabbage.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Real illustration of the absurdity of the cloture role in the Senate today. There's clearly majority support for authorizing Trump's actions in Iran but Congress can't actually authorize it because majority support *isn't enough.* The "Article I crisis" is the cloture rule in the Senate.

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Caleb Alexander @readingcabbage.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Feel like there's a disconnect when interpreting a phrase like "the AI writes 99% of my code" where one side equates it to vibecoding (the coder doesn't know what the change is doing) and one side means "I did not literally type the characters."

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Caleb Alexander @readingcabbage.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Feel the same way about incel speak honestly (mog, -oid, - maxxing). Maybe this is just me getting old.

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Caleb Alexander @readingcabbage.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Thinking about this today for no reason at all.

Screenshot of a Tumblr post with the text:

"I don't want to read this" is totally valid.

"This is disgusting to me" is totally valid.

"I don't want to read this because it is disgusting to me" is totally valid.

"I don't think anyone should be allowed to read or write this because it is disgusting to me" is authoritarian.

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Caleb Alexander @readingcabbage.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

I live in a place where the *highway* has a kind of congestion pricing (lanes you pay to use that cost more depending on traffic). It's not that hard?

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Caleb Alexander @readingcabbage.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

The people in the comments insisting that they have read a bunch of books, none of whose titles or authors they can recall, is crazy to me. I couldn't name every of the half dozen or so books I read in the last year, but I could name at least one!

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Caleb Alexander @readingcabbage.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Microblogging platforms structurally resist nuanced discussion on any issue. Their proliferation is a substantial contributor to dumbing down of the discourse.

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Collin Pearsall @cpearsall242.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.

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💥Alex.W💪🏾💥 @jokeb0i.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄

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Caleb Alexander @readingcabbage.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Once upon a time I would have put "independent redistricting" on a list like this. Disturbing that today that feels like pre-emptive unilateral disarmament. Although, feels like a similar kind of logic could extend to a lot of these proposals...

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Caleb Alexander @readingcabbage.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

On the one hand, I agree that lots of websites have become awful to use because of ads. On the other hand I use an adblocker (uBlock Origin w/Firefox) so I never experience this. At some point consuming the web this way is a skill issue.

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Caleb Alexander @readingcabbage.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Super cool how there is ~no remedy for fourth amendment violations like this!

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Honestly, one of the great American poems. Arguably the great American poem.

Text of "The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus:
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

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Internet Dad @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 21/10/2025

Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.

STEREOGUM: People my age, we talk about how we were lucky that we didn’t have social media growing up, and there’s no record of all the dumb shit we said and did. You didn’t have social media, but everything you said and did in those years is on record, and you’ve got to live with it now. That’s tough.

VIOLENT J: And the amount of gay Juggalos out there is really surprising. I think about them doing their research and getting the old records, getting excited about it, and getting their hearts broke or something, you know? I tell my daughter, “For the rest of your life, when your friends ask why your dad said that, say it’s because your dad was a fool. Don’t defend me. Say I was a fool then, but I’m not now.” There’s no excuse. I was going with the flow, and that’s the very thing we preach against — being a sheep. And that’s what I was doing.

https://www.stereogum.com/2083804/icp-interview-juggalos/interviews/weve-got-a-file-on-you/

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Caleb Alexander @readingcabbage.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Now imagining a world where blacksky or some other PDS alternative to bluesky becomes big enough to be a threat so they block the whole provider at the relay level. Speed running defederation.

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Caleb Alexander @readingcabbage.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Even granting Bluesky/ATProto can achieve the decentralization they want, why doesn't this end with all the problems Mastadon has? "Yea you can see A's posts on AppView X but not Y and you can only see B's posts on Y, but not X." Bluesky is currently Twitter but wants to be a Mastodon instance?

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 24/09/2025

i think this picture, from a public promo stream for a video games starring one of the most popular comic book characters of all time owned by the disney corporation, should be used on every single story about storefronts taking down lgbt content

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Playing FF Tactics for the first time? Here’s a tip. Go to Mandalia Plain. You’re gonna spend 5 miserable hours having all your characters power up like goku next to a terrified bird or have them throw rocks at each other until they’re max level. This is the best game ever made btw.

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 08/11/2024

Finally: remember to take care of yourselves. There is a long road ahead, but we’re in this together.

Quote: “As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the thing that is left to us, in a bad time. I shall get up Sunday morning and wind the clock, as a contribution to order and steadfastness.

Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say, the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society — things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed, sometimes rather suddenly. It is quite obvious that the human race has made a queer mess of life on this planet. But as a people we probably harbor seeds of goodness that have lain for a long time waiting to sprout when the conditions are right. Man’s curiosity, his relentlessness, his inventiveness, his ingenuity have led him into deep trouble. We can only hope that these same traits will enable him to claw his way out.

Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.”
E.B. White (1973)

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

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the kiracken🏳️‍⚧️ @kiraculous.net · 11/09/2025

congratulations to charlie kirk on becoming a good fascist

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Caleb Alexander @readingcabbage.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

This is my hot take but abolishing the filibuster by any means necessary needs to be prority #1. If Republicans do it to pass a shitty continuing resolution, it's win-win.

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 06/09/2025

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

theatlantic.com

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Never been more sure there is something awfully damning about Trump in the Epstein files. He's crashing out.

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one dozen bats at a keyboard @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

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🍓🍒𝕱𝖗𝖊𝖉 𝕯𝖚𝖗𝖘𝖙 & 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝕯𝖎𝖆𝖒𝖔𝖓𝖉𝖘🍎🍉 🔜 🤕😔 @seconddeath.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

posting this bc if I see one more doomer take im going to kill someone with hammers

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Caleb Alexander @readingcabbage.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Really getting a preview of what a world without universal injunctions could be like with the AEA litigation. It's not good!

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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 11/05/2025

tomorrow's my bday and as such kitsune tails in 25% off only on itch itch.io/s/152818/kit... not only that but if you pay a single extra dollar for the bundle you also get the prequel, kitsune zero!

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

My latest for @liberalcurrents.com We need to stop listening to commentators who spent a decade being arrogantly wrong about the fascist threat www.liberalcurrents.com/trump-alarmi...

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Trump ‘Alarmists’ Were Right. We Should Say So.

Commentators who got it wrong wouldn’t listen, won’t learn, and can’t lead.

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Caleb Alexander @readingcabbage.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

I think Maine Governor Janet Mills had the correct response, "See you in court."

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Caleb Alexander @readingcabbage.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

This post seems confused. If a shutdown *does* give the executive all of these powers... why did you vote for one? Did you want Musk and Trump to have sweeping powers to fire federal workers? This past is a defense of passing the CR but that's *not* what senator Whitehouse voted to do!

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Caleb Alexander @readingcabbage.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Maybe it's my own perception but it's crazy how much American political dysfunction is traceable to arcane procedural rules of the United States Senate.

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

Video obtained by CNN shows the rear landing gear of the jet buckling and the right wing shearing away in a fireball after the plane landed hard on the runway.

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Caleb Alexander @readingcabbage.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

A phrase I think we are going to hear a lot in the coming years: "arbitrary and capricious". www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children.

Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything.

“Are you feeling all right?” I asked her.

“I feel all sleepy,” she said.

In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead.

The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her.

On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

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Ama Wyrdsdottir @amawyrdsdottir.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Elon Musk claims it’s a crime to publish the names of the engineers who work for him who have access to systems they shouldn’t. Here they are: Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran. Come and arrest me.

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Brad Reed @bwreed.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran

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✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 06/11/2024

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The scene from the Boondocks where Huey, dead-eyed and tired with bags under his eyes asks Granddad: “Granddad, what do you do when you can't do nothing, but there's nothing you can do?”

Grandad: “You do what you can.”

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Caleb Alexander @readingcabbage.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

As we learned in the Trump treason case Section 2 renders Section 1 of no effect beyond whatever laws Congress has already passed.

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Caleb Alexander @readingcabbage.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

This is so crazy. 1). This is happening because people like Schumer voted in favor of it. He literally voted Yea on this outcome. 2). This is happening because of a bill passed by Congress. If you want more time, pass another bill! It is literally within Congress' authority to fix this!

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

LMAO. Elizabeth Prelogar just threw her phone across the room.

Wednesday, January 15
11:12
NBC News Exclusive

Biden administration looks for ways to keep TikTok available in the U.S. if a ban set for Sunday goes into effect

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