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Reagan Kelly

@reagank.phd
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Bioinformatics Ph.D. interested in data visualization, web development, history, cats, and LEGO. He/him

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Chris Palmer @noncombatant.org · 21/09/2026
In 2004 I saw Yudkowsky give a talk in which he said that when we upload our brains into the cloud and enter machine heaven, we will be able to taste the tastiest possible potato chip. That was his positive vision of the Singularity. I know it sounds made up, but he did say it.
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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Reagan Kelly @reagank.phd · 04/09/2026
Someone is incredulous that I’m still working
A mostly white cat with buff and grey spots and blue eyes, sitting on a desk in front of monitors and next to a keyboard
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Ken Paxton has spent his entire career as a public servant, and he currently makes $153,000 a year. On this salary he has acquired 15 homes, and all the trappings of luxury, including a $41,000 watch.
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 30/08/2026
Aside from having its meaning bastardized, the discourse on the colloquial Woke is so frustrating because it’s not like this is the very first time right-wingers have been like Oh No, People Care About Oppression. We do this over and over and over.
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Not a fan of Hasan Piker but he's a guy who streams monologues to a small audience. Elon spends hundreds of millions of dollars trying to get Republicans elected and was for weeks the second most powerful member of the federal government, but oddly Republicans are rarely grilled about his views
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Reagan Kelly @reagank.phd · 13/07/2026
“Verify your age” My first college email was on a VAX system
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Reagan Kelly @reagank.phd · 26/06/2026
Shouting it from the rooftops until my voice is ruined
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Reagan Kelly @reagank.phd · 25/06/2026
The idea of “visibility” isn’t something neutral that society gets an opinion on. It’s a person living as they actually are, something no one else gets to define for them. Calling it a mistake isn’t contrarian, it’s depraved
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Reagan Kelly @reagank.phd · 25/06/2026
Those who are under their mid-40s may not remember that Slate was originally conceived as a contrarian endeavor. Setting aside whether that was ever useful, this is a really disgusting example of that genre.
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Reagan Kelly @reagank.phd · 25/06/2026
Rashida Tlaib said something about these yesterday, but I haven’t heard any other politicians talking about this. It’s such a straightforward miscarriage of justice - the charges are bogus and the sentences intended to stifle opposition to the govt - that if they don’t call this out, what will they?
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 25/06/2026
I wrote about the Prairieland defendants and the urgency of opposing the extreme sentences handed down on Tuesday. And they likely will not be the last.
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The Prairieland Sentences Are a National Emergency
A federal court has punished Texas ICE demonstrators with decades in prison. This is dark news not just for them but for anyone who may want to register political dissent.
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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
it took decades of cultivated belligerence and stupidity to get to this point—a fox new hosts and a millionaire contractor who now runs the domestic security state, agreeing that loyalist mobs terrorizing belfast just want to be irish
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Strahan Cadell 🇨🇦🇻🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱 @quincunctial.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
The rioters hate the notion of a free and independent Ireland. They are happy to kill, and many are even willing to die, to prevent a free and united Ireland from existing. The rioters consider themselves as British first, not Irish.
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David Dixon @dixondaver.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
"Unionist paramilitaries want to be Irish and want Ireland back" might be perhaps the stupidest take on this situation possible.
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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
LEGO Architecture - Sagrada Família up for preorder at LEGO Store ($799.99 - 12060 pieces) buff.ly/tKGp395 #ad
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 02/06/2026
Incredible! Scientists receive a rare standing ovation after announcing that a new treatment can double the survival time for pancreatic cancer, the deadliest cancer which was once considered “undruggable.” When we fund and support science, we can achieve anything! (Video: Dr. Wish Dhillon)
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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
all claims barred by statute of limitations, the jury finds
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Reagan Kelly @reagank.phd · 30/04/2026
They came up to him with tears in their eyes and said “Sir, you’ve just passed our dementia screening test, the only person ever to do so. You are the only person in the world who doesn’t have dementia”
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Grant Brisbee @grantbrisbee.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Imagine a doctor acting like this in real life toward you. Just locking eyes and saying "You are the healthiest and smartest person I've ever seen. I truly can't believe it. I've never seen it both in the same person like this before," in the most serious doctor voice imaginable without blinking.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
How bleak is it that the *best case scenario* is that he is just engaging in his most ambitious bit of market manipulation yet and will call it off ("we have reached a great deal, a tremendous deal, to save Iran") at 4:30 pm after shorting everything and watching the market tank
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Reagan Kelly @reagank.phd · 16/03/2026
Has he made the batshit claim that he wrote about Osama Bin Laden attacking the WTC a year prior to it happening previously? I don’t think I’ve ever heard that one before
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
for the youths who werent around for the iraq installment - dont believe anything the govt says about progress - no the democrats dont have to say getting rid of the baddie was good and therefore they have to support the war - the war needs to be ended - the media is not your ally and they love war
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ceej @ceej.online · 04/02/2026
An account you control, @PagliacciDaClown, has been suspended for the following post: "Who up doing clown shit, lmao? I'm thinking about ending my own life." Our moderation policies aim to encourage healthy discourse. For an example of a user we think exemplifies this spirit, see @PagliacciDaClown
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Doesn't matter how they enter the right wing ecosystem - whether it's through red pills or worrying about "gender ideology" - eventually they're raving about race and IQ and how they have to kill inferior cultures to save the west
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
As it happens, Alex Pretti apparently had a carry permit. THAT DOESN'T MATTER, because he *didn't draw a gun.* Even had he possessed an illegal gun, this would still be murder. His alleged gun is a DHS red herring; it doesn't matter. We do not need to debate it one way or other.
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Elisabeth R. Anker @libankerdc.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Trump & Vance’s agents saw tens of thousands of people — of all ages & races — come out *in below zero temperatures* to protest their tax-funded violence, their murder of their neighbor. And the very next day, they executed another one. What can Americans conclude from this?
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More like I-ACK @mumbly-joe.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
so what you're saying is they're murdering people in these concentration camps and covering it up
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
That's a photo of someone being tortured
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/01/2026
It’s notable that the president can go on TV and be a total gutter racist, and somehow this isn’t news in the slightest. Says a lot about the sickness of American society right now.
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Reagan Kelly @reagank.phd · 02/01/2026
I’ve hated the word hallucination for these kinds of errors since I first heard it. It isn’t hallucinating because it doesn’t have a brain, and the errors themselves are less like hallucinations and more like confabulations - plausible-sounding answers made up on the spot to fill in gaps.
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Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
An AI chatbot does not have PERSONHOOD. It has no agency. It cannot meaningfully apologise. It cannot speak on behalf of another. It cannot speak for itself; it has no self. Stop asking it for quotes for articles. Stop printing its quotes.
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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 02/01/2026
I cannot emphasize enough that the attempts to anthropomorphize an algorithm is a fundamental act of journalistic malpractice and an intentional act to shield the people responsible for this. It's fucking shameful.
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Reagan Kelly @reagank.phd · 02/01/2026
As I was saying earlier - Grok is not a person, and it can never make any kind statement about anything
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Reagan Kelly @reagank.phd · 02/01/2026
Grok doesn’t *say* anything, it produces a string of statistically likely words in response to a prompt. In this case, the prompt came from a user, not the company. This isn’t an official statement, it’s just an LLM writing a post in response to a request. Why are you treating it like it’s real?
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
The media needs to stop writing headlines like “The CDC changes course on vaccines and autism” and “The CDC defends measles response”. NONE of this is coming from legitimate scientists at the CDC. ALL of it is coming from RFK Jr. Every such headline is causing further harm to public health.
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Reagan Kelly @reagank.phd · 13/12/2025
Look, I get it. You want to speed, everyone speeds. The problem is saying “This dangerous thing isn’t really that dangerous” because you don’t want to *feel bad* about it. You’re not a bad person! You’re just in a hurry, and you’re a better than average driver (just like ~80% of people on the road)!
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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 08/12/2025
The President of the United States unilaterally levied a tax on all of us and is redistributing our taxes to a core segment of his supporters.
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 31/01/2025
classic Loony Tunes have much to teach us about class solidarity
Bugs and Daffy standing by a tree, sign reads DUCK SEASON, then RABBIT SEASON then ELMER SEASON, and they both glare ominously off camera
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Monica Carol Miller @monicacmiller.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
We need libraries for so many reasons. www.11alive.com/article/news...
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Georgia Public Libraries generate $3.75 return for every dollar invested, new study finds
Georgia's public libraries generated $1.06 billion in services in fiscal year 2024, supporting 5,488 jobs and producing $3.75 of value per public dollar.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Sanders: The wealthiest people on earth are pouring hundreds of billions into research and development for AI and robotics. You think they’re doing that because they’re thinking, “Oh man, this is going to be something that will improve life for working people, for low-income people.”?
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Reagan Kelly @reagank.phd · 12/11/2025
What in the absolute fuck is wrong with the bsky team? They aren’t serious if they count this as “wishing harm on someone” but changed the rules to let Jesse Singal off the hook. Add in the Rude label debacle and I question if they’re competent to do the job. Burning every bit of goodwill users have
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 05/11/2025
"'They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,' [Mamdani] said in an interview with MSNBC last week." This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.
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Mary Jones @tlachtga.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
“Learning the native language of this country, the near-extinction of which was part of the brutal suppression of English colonialism, is basically like joining the Taliban” is quite the take.
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 25/10/2025
america is a country with mandatory holocaust education in 26 states and whose media is saturated in wwii dramas and documentaries. the internet likewise is overflowing with nazi memes ongoing the last 20+ years. imo anyone claiming they don't know the totenkopf is a nazi symbol is full of shit.
pepe in an ss officer's hat with a totenkopf
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