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William Bruce McIlvaine

@redsky68.bsky.social
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Rock music journalist and magazine editor. Unapologetic progressive. Live in New York with my wife, the novelist PJ McIlvaine. Love blues, Southern cooking, film noir, classic American literature. Blog at lifeisascreendoor.wordpress.com.

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Marie 🇨🇦 @pawbaby2.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This meme really asks one question: Is this the America you want? Because November 3rd is when Americans get to answer. Remember what you’ve seen. Remember what’s at stake. Then vote.🔵 #USDemocracy #RisingBlue
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Churlayla 86.47 @churlayla.bsky.social · 7h
The Scots provide many options:
Scottish insults for Donald Trump 

After his 2016 Brexit tweet about Scotland, some of the ones recorded in the ensuing Scottish pile-on included “cockwomble,” “incompressible jizztrumpet,” “shitgibbon,” “cocksplat,” “mangled apricot hellbeast,” and the magnificent “toupéd fucktrumpet.” 
Arnold Zwicky's Blog
Other collections preserve these gems:
“You weapons-grade wanker”
“You wankmaggot”
“King Fucktwaddle”
“Orange bawbag”
“Tangerine roaster”
“Witless cocksplat”
“Clackwanker”
“Gobshite” 
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And then there's Scottish comedian Janey Godley's wonderfully economical protest sign:
“TRUMP IS A CUNT.”
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Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social · 21/09/2024
If you vote legally, he's going to jail.
Trump on Truth Social: "If you vote illegally, you're going to jail."
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 15h
today in depressing takes, like "the war with iran probably isn't going to end"
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The Return of the Cutting-Off Way
Structural changes are driving us towards a more chaotic world, defined by "neither peace nor war, but conflict."
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 23h
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So you know previous waves of technological fabulism the tech companies threw a little loose change at social behavioral research and user interface experience. whats interesting about AI interesting is that they aren’t even pretending to care about how people use the technology.
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Meidas Ian @lordye.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Can you read this MAGA?
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“Tesla, activate the floating feature.”
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SHRED @tshred.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Jess Piper Fan Page 💙 📚 @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🤣🤣🤣 @brexitbin.bsky.social
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Al Toth @atoth99.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Thanks for the shout out Patty💙💙
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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Researchers already say humans are likely to reshape themselves to be better understood by chatbots, service robots, etc in a sort of existential drift... nautil.us/are-you-in-d...
Drawing of one child on laptop in shadow of AI chat, another child reading a book with an imaginative shadow of landscape, animals, planets, rocket. 

"The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers."  Sydney J. Harris
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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MayhemMel! @melindameyer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You paid a sexually confused hillbilly to be groomed as a white nationalist power leader. But you chose JD and your nazi experiment has fallen flat as he has no leadership skills and the personality of an empty picture frame. Who's bad at being "bad" Peter? I'd say all of you are.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Marie 🇨🇦 @pawbaby2.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Who else is way past impeachment and wants REAL accountability? 🙋‍♀️ I do. Who’s with me? #USDemocracy #RisingBlue
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 333: If one project is flagging, try working on another. It may just give you the momentum to need to get the first one off the ground…
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 24/09/2026
🎯: Trump is the imperfect figurehead of a corrupt cabal of plutocrats and ideological fanatics [who seek to] collapse the democratic order globally, replace it with great power spheres [and] courtier states. Collapse the democratic order domestically, replace it with a right-wing autocracy.
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Michael Banach @m1db.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Rigged Elections is the current GOP Big Lie they keep pushing it But all Voter Fraud is GOP Voter Fraud
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Shortcake @shortcakesrevenge.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
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Shortcake @shortcakesrevenge.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Good morning Bluesky! 😂
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Scott Perkins @cali6887.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Here I am joining Matt Seybold's American Vandal podcast along with Rutgers' Lauren Goodlad, editor of Critical AI. It was recorded at a gathering Twain scholars. Loved this deep conversation connecting Twain and AI (and Hot Type). www.theamericanvandal.com/p/critical-a...
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Critical AI & The End of Mass Media (Vandal Live @ Elmira College)
with Lauren M.E. Goodlad and Jeff Jarvis
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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
OK I've reached the end of the thread and came out with 9 new tracks bringing me to a total of 98 Songs About Bob Dylan. Better than I expected, honestly! Pretty confident we can get to an even 100 before too long.
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You Say You Love Me And You're Thinking Of Me
Songs about Bob Dylan
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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William Bruce McIlvaine @redsky68.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-qua...
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Trump’s Quadrangle of Doom
It’s going to get worse.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Long after Trump is gone from office as the most despised, unpopular, and disastrous president in US history, the stink of Trump will remain forever on Republican politicians and appointees who backed him every step of the way, even when they try to claim they were independent.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Art of the Deal is buying fertilizer from a Putin-aligned repressive dictator and paying to ship it 6,000 miles from his landlocked and sanctioned country so you can teach Canada a lesson.
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William Bruce McIlvaine @redsky68.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
. . . and this. www.aljazeera.net/news/2026/9/... #Trump #DJT #Orangeturd
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مقارنة حادة مع بايدن.. كيف تفاعل أمريكيون مع مشاهد ترمب بالبنتاغون؟
أثار ظهور ترمب في لقطات يبدو فيها وكأنه يغالب النوم في ذكرى 11 سبتمبر/أيلول سجالا رقميا ومقارنة ببايدن، وسط دفاع من أنصاره اعتبروا أن ملامح التعب ناتجة عن سفره المباشر لحضور المراسم.
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William Bruce McIlvaine @redsky68.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
These days Trump seems to have only two expressions: this . . . #Trump #DJT #Orangeturd www.rawstory.com/white-house-...
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Trump fumes as judge 'sadly appointed by Trump' will hear new lawsuit
President Donald Trump lashed out Monday after CNN, Politico and MS NOW sued his administration over its decision to bar their journalists from the White House.The case was assigned to U.S. District J...
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William Bruce McIlvaine @redsky68.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Happy 79th, Stephen King! BOTD, September 21, 1947. www.britannica.com/biography/St...
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Stephen King | Biography, Books, Movies, TV Shows, & Facts | Britannica
Stephen King is an American novelist and short-story writer whose books are credited with reviving the horror fiction genre in the late 20th century. His books gain their effect from realistic detail,...
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
And a malignant narcissist is a narcissist who ends up trying to destroy everything he hasn’t contributed to and isn’t entitled to. ht: @narceducator.bsky.social
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Jonathan @jonathansocials.com · 19/09/2026
Dismissing AI guardrail concerns as a 'hoax,' Trump's 'AI Force' and 'czar' plan reveals his real issue isn't regulation, but who controls it.
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Trump plans to form 'AI Force,' appoint 'AI Czar'...
Read full story....
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Tallgirl6234 @tallgirl6234.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Hilarious but so painful at the same time
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A hilarious summary
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steve3797.bsky.social @steve3797.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Claude the Irregular Dragon (TM) @ruprecht-monkeeboy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Texans have voted to screw themselves for 30 years. Can they finally grow a brain?
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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Killer first graf from Brian Goodman in this essay on Hungary for @thedriftmag.com www.thedriftmag.com/the-last-day...
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The Last Days of the Danube Institute | A Report from Postliberal Budapest
By Brian Goodman. In the wake of Viktor Orbán’s defeat, Budapest’s postliberals face end times.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"What it means to be human, to be poetic, to be a meaningmaking animal: we can imagine our world differently+so can change it. GenAI cannot imagine or originate anything, cannot depart from what it was given, + so cannot change" ever wise @bradleyfest.bsky.social www.boundary2.org/2026/09/brad...
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Bradley J. Fest–Teaching Without Computers
Teaching Without Computers Bradley J. Fest   In a moment, I am going to talk about despair. But let me be clear: What I have to say in the following is not about frustration, burnout, or stress; it is...
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Sarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"The generation of young people coming up on the right are not your father’s conservatives. They are Trump’s heirs, and they are here to stay. And if we want to save America from MAGA authoritarianism…It’s going to mean tackling this entire movement." plus.briantylercohen.com/p/exposing-t...
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Exposing the Rot at the Core of MAGA
Even after Trump exits the scene, his heirs are here to stay. And they have some dark plans for America.
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Mary Peltola @marypeltola.com · 17/09/2026
Half of Congress is made up of millionaires and billionaires. That's not what our system was designed to be – it was designed to reflect the American people.
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William Bruce McIlvaine @redsky68.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This proves my point. www.salon.com/2026/09/18/m...
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Mike Johnson's is the GOP's top scaredy-cat
Facing an impeachment vote on Pete Hegseth, Johnson fled Washington. We should have seen it coming
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Red Riccardo @redriccardo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Dudes been prez for last two years.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
No Big Deal, Just Armed Troops and FBI Outside a Kindergartener's School in DC Because nothing screams "land of the free" quite like a tactical perimeter around story time.
No Big Deal, Just Armed Troops and FBI Outside a Kindergartener's School in DC
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Al Toth @atoth99.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The God Particle just got spooky at a distance.
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Scientists make 'spooky' discovery with the Large Hadron Collider – and it sounds like something straight out of science fiction | BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Physicists confirmed quantum entanglement occurs even among some of the heaviest and most fleeting particles ever created.
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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I guess I want politics to be a "background issue" as far as my daily operations are concerned. I want to be aware of what's going on, I want to be informed to make good voting decisions, but I don't need to hear about the president and 20 senators every goddamn day. I want to return to living.
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