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@redshiftsinger.bsky.social
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🍊🏴‍☠️ Crew for life baby. Ex-twit. Singer, keytarist, plant nerd etc. 30+, Any pronouns

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Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 4h
Except not really.
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Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 4h
Every time a Republican gets elected President, the economy crashes. Then a Dem gets elected, starts fixing it, but people with the memory span of a goldfish get mad that everything isn’t perfect yet and vote for another republican.
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Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 4h
The most important thing to understand is that the pain will increase the longer it’s put off.
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Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 4h
Calling his brain pumpkin mush is an insult to pumpkins
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Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 4h
Or me, a random asshole who doesn’t even watch ed zitron?
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Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 4h
Enough “threatening”, impose an actual fucking consequence already!
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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 17h
it seems to shock the New Zealand government that Peter Jackson, Taika Waititi, and the Conchords etc all emerged from the same city in the same span, which coincidentally is when Wellington rent was dirt-cheap and there were heaps of empty industrial buildings around
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Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 4h
Cute!
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earthy @earthinmywindow.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 22h
Artists and musicians used to get the train to London (now £300) to live in a squat (now banned) go on the dole and learn their craft (now sanctions if you don’t job seek) maybe do some gigs (music venues have closed as rent was too high)
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 8h
⚡️ 'Planned operation' — Zelensky confirms Ukraine's Starlink access not fully restored. Zelensky called the restrictions a "planned operation" targeting Ukraine, noting that Starlink speed limits remain in effect in Ukraine but not in EU countries.
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'Planned operation' — Zelensky confirms Ukraine's Starlink access not fully restored
Zelensky called the restrictions a "planned operation" targeting Ukraine, noting that Starlink speed limits remain in effect in Ukraine but not in EU countries.
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James Andrew Smith @drsmith.bsky.social · 8h
The AI companies are founded on the principle that consent is dead. Think about that for a minute. What is to stop the same AI companies from taking your house, bank account and pension? If consent is dead then the safety net around you goes away. www.computerworld.com/article/4234...
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Microsoft knows it robbed publishers to train AI. It just doesn’t care
Internal documents show Microsoft executives and employees sounded the alarm about intellectual property theft for years. One exec called it ‘the largest theft of labor in human history.’
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Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 4h
A fun side note: doggo’s handler introduces him with “I use he/him pronouns for him, but he’s a dog and does not actually care.”
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Ryan Moore 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 @rpmoocat.bsky.social · 8h
I only started using an ad blocker this passed year. It was the result of frustration at the absolute unusability of virtually any webpage. The underlying issues of the targeted ad landscape are far more grave to users, as Cory Doctorow points out in the following thread.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 9h
This company used the ad system to locate targeted individuals and serve "zero-click malware" that took over their computers and phones without them having to take *any* action: citizenlab.ca/research/how...
citizenlab.ca
Exposing AdFection: How Discover-Tech Turned Targeted Ads Into a Pipeline for Zero-Click Mercenary Spyware - The Citizen Lab
This is the first-ever public confirmation of zero-click mercenary spyware delivered via targeted ads. We call the technique AdFection, and show how it was used to infect devices at Al Jazeera with Ca...
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Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 5h
One time the dog alerted on me, I ended up getting the onset of visual aura literally two seconds before I parked in my driveway. At a speed and trajectory I could finish those last two seconds of correctly in my sleep. Which is way better than having to pull over and wait it out halfway home!
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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 7h
good news: EIGHT CAPYBARA BABIES
two mom capybaras with their maybe babies
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 6h
I’ve been thinking about this post and the cognitive and moral perils of abstraction and data-ification. What it does to us when we look at humanity from above. And as ever I come back to my fav ever GK Chesterton passage from his Father Brown short story The Hammer of God
After a moment he resumed, looking tranquilly out over the plain with his pale grey eyes. “I knew a man,” he said, “who began by worshipping with others before the altar, but who grew fond of high and lonely places to pray from, corners or niches in the belfry or the spire. And once in one of those dizzy places, where the whole world seemed to turn under him like a wheel, his brain turned also, and he fancied he was God. So that, though he was a good man, he committed a great crime.”
Wilfred’s face was turned away, but his bony hands turned blue and white as they tightened on the parapet of stone.He thought it was given to him to judge the world and strike down the sinner. He would never have had such a thought if he had been kneeling with other men upon a floor. But he saw all men walking about like insects. He saw one especially strutting just below him, insolent and evident by a bright green hat⁠—a poisonous insect.”
Rooks cawed round the corners of the belfry; but there was no other sound till Father Brown went on.
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Darrell | Building Better Men @buildingbetter.bsky.social · 6h
Request your mail-in ballot today if you haven't yet. Check those deadlines—some states are strict about postmarks versus arrival times. Don't risk it. #Midterms2026 #GOTV
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 7h
Thousands of dead children: the remarkable effects of Elon Musk's cancellation of US foreign assistance policy.
nytimes.com
Opinion | I’ve Worked in Congo for Decades. I’ve Never Seen an Ebola Crisis Like This.
This outbreak was detected late, giving the virus a head start.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 8h
Yes, the Internal Combustion Engine is dead. It is being replaced with EVs around the world, except for the US, which is become an automotive technology backwater—thanks largely to Trump
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
your next dive into the horror tingleverse in coming... RAINBOW CAPITAL BY CHUCK TINGLE from @tornightfire.bsky.social with cover art by cassie vu. support human art AND treat yourself to a future gift by taking a moment to preorder here us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
cover of RAINBOW CAPITAL by chuck tingle with art by cassie vu. yellow background with the title on top and author name below. there is a womans face neck and shoulders looking at the viewer but her face is split horizontally and the top have is missing. various crimson sea creatures our bursting out of the top and twisting a round making vague shape of hair and the rest of her face. tagline is 'execution is scalable'
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Lydy @lydy.bsky.social · 6h
Just to riff on this for just a moment: science fiction is full of really cool images. Lunar colonies, Martian landscapes, big big rockets, sandworms, blasters, vibroknives, chip heads ... but the thing that always held the story together was how human beings interacted with those BDOs.
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Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 5h
So yes, in this case the problem is people not being grownups about it. And that ties in directly with people hand-waving the fascism because “but but all this other COOL stuff!”
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Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 5h
There’s nothing inherently fascist about a car that does a kickflip, it’s just a showy bit of nonsense that no one more mature than the average 12yo is going to cream themself over.
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Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 5h
So being a condescending ass? But yes that is exactly why people are annoyed with OOP: his weird insistence that $30k isn’t a consequential amount of money to, y’know, *most* people.
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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
I was sick as a dog this week but when I surfaced I was able to work on an essay about why Portugal is dooming itself if it adopts anti-trans measures. Why? In order to oppress a minority, you have to destabilize society for everyone.
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Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 7h
I feel like the bigger danger than whatever Alex is trying to scaremonger about is thinking that just because something looks flashy, it has substance!
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
We could actually really use some more support - it's been really slow lately and I'm getting a bit nervous. May try to throw together a more organized campaign in the next week or two, but for now I'd love it if you'd join or share.
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Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 7h
He brings the plant.
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Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 7h
He means “you can’t blame me, I’m the most special boy and it’s my birthday, I’m a special little birthday boy”.
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Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 7h
Yes Vicky, for all 6 years of your adult life so far it really has in fact been urgent to vote for anyone but the blatant fascists. The argument that voting for the least-bad candidate matters will always be made because it will always be true. Hope that helps and hope you grow up for real soon.
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Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 7h
“But it’s cooooool! Sure it’s functionally useless and not what anyone actually uses a car for, and would cause problems if anyone actually did this on the road, but it looks cool and that’s the most important thing” is a deeply immature stance to take, yes.
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Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 7h
Definitely need more than three people, I’ll also join the study. I suspect they’re not gonna have a terribly difficult time finding volunteers to get up to a statistically-significant sample.
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Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 7h
But but this chart of lotto winners after 5 years shows that lotto winners tend to be bad at managing money and end up broke again. That is definitely generalizable to the entire population, it’s not like it’s a heavily self-selected sample or anything!
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Micah @rincewind.run · 16/10/2026
the important thing to know about every republican candidate who is pretending they will be an independent voice and not a rubber stamp for trump is that they're all lying
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Cracked Lemonade @crackedlemonade.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Peep how surveillance culture forces you into a situation without consent and then when you ask for something more reasonable, they freak out and do bullshit like this
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Flipboard Culture Desk @culturedesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
Oopsie daisy! An AI agent that was granted access to the server of a Swedish TV production company has deleted the entire edited version of the upcoming series of reality show "The Challenge." It's now been pushed to 2027, weeks before it was due to premiere. Here's @Gizmodo with the details […]
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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 16/10/2026
No wonder some banks are getting twitchy about the idea of letting AI agents anywhere near their customers' accounts...
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Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 8h
I know a service dog (alert type) who started spontaneously alerting on his handler’s partner’s migraines as well, and now also alerts on *anyone’s* migraines. He’s sent me home from social stuff a few times now, and he’s always right.
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Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 8h
Are you arguing for some reason?
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Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 13h
Apparently my shitty neighbors got a new sound system and have to play it at full bass until 1am or so. 😒
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Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 13h
Like bro that is not a statistically representative sample of the population, that is a very self-selected sub-demographic!
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Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 13h
He thinks “lotto winners don’t typically change their lives long term” means “windfalls are meaningless” and not “people who play the lotto tend to be bad at managing money” lmao
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Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 13h
You posted this instead of engaging with a real source that you were provided, Matt.
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Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 14h
Oh, you’re getting your “info” from “AI”. That explains why you’re so confidently yet spectacularly wrong.
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Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 14h
Why are random people on the internet always running their mouths about how a sun equivalent to or greater than most people’s entire yearly income is inconsequential? It’s called “calling the bluff”, sweetie.
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Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 14h
If $30k got dropped in my lap right now, I could make a major life change that I’ve been trying to make work out. Money is THE complicating factor. If I suddenly owed a $30k debt, it would wipe out my savings and it would take a decade of good luck to recover.
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Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 14h
Lotto players are not a statistically representative sample of the population. They are self-selected for certain traits that involve their ability to manage money wisely.
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Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 14h
Again, “people who play the lottery” is not a representative sample of the general population.
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