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Richard Gorrie

@richardgorrie.bsky.social
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Historian and educationalist. One foot in the Eighteenth Century and one in the 21st. Ouch. Keep It Complex.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 13h
Some of what is driving AI safety concerns: • Increasing pace of development • Increasing multi-agent coordination • Increasing bad behaviors like cheating and strategic deception • Increasing situational awareness leading to hiding of bad behavior • Decreasing chain-of-thought monitorability
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rahanks.bsky.social @rahanks.bsky.social · 8h
Look at the actual messages they held up that no one could read in the moment. Don’t mention Atlanta, don’t mention basketball, don’t mentions Hawks. The entirety of the questions were made up bullshit, designed to look like a gotcha that did not in fact exist.
Sign with text messages that reference a seat number only.
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Jim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 9h
If you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 10h
It's inconceivable to me how someone who lost in a free & fair election can incite an angry mob to attack his own government, (the very definition of treason) & be allowed to run for any office ever again.
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Susan Perri @perri4health @perri4health.bsky.social · 6h
Thank you @ossoff.bsky.social for caring. My family live a crisis away from disaster everyday. My son suffers from cystic fibrosis , I have stage four cancer. We know what it is like to struggle to pay for hospital bills. People need to look around them and find people who are struggling and care
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AshfromEnfield @ashfromenfield.bsky.social · 15h
Oh come on … sing it with me 😉😘
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Sam Brunson @smbrnsn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Any judge--sorry, immigration judge, not real judge--who requires a 2-year-old to represent themself and then deports them deserves to lose their license. And also rot in hell.
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 18h
3.7–3.9 million tonnes of pesticide active ingredients are used worldwide every year — more than double the amount in 1990. Most of us never see the fields. But this invisible flood is saturating soil, water, pollen, and nectar. Our food system is being quietly poisoned at industrial scale.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13h
Donate to his Super PAC? He'll pardon your crimes. Donate to his Super PAC? He'll appoint you to a government position. Donate to his Super PAC? He'll grant you favorable regulatory rulings that help boost your bottom line. We must not become numb to this blatant corruption.
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Indie Aut. Stuart Miller📖✍️🤓 Believe in yourself & your potential @stuartmiller1.bsky.social · 13h
Posted by @thedemcoalition.bsky.social "Every time Trump tries to derisively call the Democrats "communists," the media needs to point out that this man absolutely loves communist dictators #ResistTrump" MAGA = Communism, "Greatest Threat to America" aka "Enemy Within" IG: thedemocraticcoalition
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 13h
The site's question-and-answer function confirms that President Donald Trump's name is in the Epstein files and that Democrat Joe Biden beat him in the 2020 election. It says federal officials did not find widespread fraud in that election, as Trump says constantly. to.pbs.org/4yZmkO8
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WATCH: Trump launches AI-powered government website America.gov
The president said the site is “glamorizing” the federal bureaucracy — but it doesn’t agree with him on many key issues.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 14h
This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇
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Nigel Swedenborg 🍁🌻 @nigelswedenborg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Canadian media had no problem hounding Justin Trudeau out of politics, but it consistently treats conservative politicians like Poilievre, Smith, Moe and Ford with kid gloves.🤔 #cdnpoli #abpoli
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 13h
When Biden tripped, the media replayed it, analyzed it, and talked about it for months. When Trump falls asleep in the Oval Office every day, networks don’t even cover it. It’s only on social media. Same presidency, very different media coverage.
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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 13h
I would note that Andy Burnham's plan for electoral reform in the UK seems to involve putting a specific proposal before the electorate with a commitment to implement that proposal.
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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 13h
For the sake of actually doing electoral reform, this is probably a superior approach to what Trudeau did in 2015, which was to essentially promise to implement whatever came out of a study (while the PM himself had misgivings about proportional representation).
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 13h
This is why I am walking miles for the Young Center this month against my husband. Because babies should never, ever have to face this kind of thing.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 13h
WHERE ARE YOUR LEGS?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 23h
Google Maps alone cannot show you the full scale of the destruction in Gaza. 💔😢💔😢🤬🇮🇱🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🇮🇱♾️
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🇺🇸🇵🇸🇮🇱 Israeli settlers raided the home of 78-year-old Palestinian-American Mustafa Zaatar in the West Bank village of Abu Falah, setting three of his cars on fire and trying to break in while he and his wife were inside. He watched the attack on security cameras as neighbors confronted the
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Dave Smith getting emotional on Piers Morgan… Israel destroyed 330,000 buildings including hospitals and schools. And that no one from Israel will be held accountable. 😢🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 23h
Sometimes you just have to stop what you’re doing and listen. Unfortunately selective deafness from governments that should know better, has led to what history WILL record as genocide. Even since the ceasefire, which is in this situation a cruel sick joke, more Palestinians have been murdered
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
THIS 👇 HERE.......
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Marco Rubio: "Anything that had a chance of making money in Cuba was controlled by the Cuban military and the Cuban communist party to line the pockets of a handful of individuals at the expense of the entire country"
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The U.S. owes $40 trillion in debt. Everyone has an opinion about why. But there’s one question you almost never hear asked: Who’s actually getting paid?
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Blue Tsunami #NoKings @bluefuture.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Even Republicans are admitting it.
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suzette sommer @suzette.bsky.social · 23h
EXACTLY. What about the Budapest Memorandum!!?? Why doesn’t our media ever bring THAT up!!?!?!
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suzette sommer @suzette.bsky.social · 23h
KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · This is abhorrent, we should be coming to their side!!
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Tim Hannan @timhannan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Every single day there’s something from the Trump regime that would end anyone else’s Presidency. I’m sick of this fucking bullshit.
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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 29/09/2026
In 2027 Seattle's minimum wage will be $22.14 per hour. That's more than THREE TIMES the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour—a rate that hasn't been raised since 2009. And yet somehow we're not the jobless wasteland orthodox economics would predict. Weird.
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Seattle announces 2027 minimum wage
The minimum wage in Seattle will increase 3.9% next year.
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Love2026 @love2024.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
He could not keep a secret if his life depended on it.🖕
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Loved being at @waynelawschool.bsky.social in Detroit on Friday for the Wayne Law Review Symposium to Examine Oligarchy, Power, and the Rule of Law Knowledge is power & the more we learn, the better prepared we are for the battle!
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My favorite part of when Senile Satan falls asleep in the Oval Office is that they keep talking to him as if we can’t see he’s in a coma. 💤
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Amid outcry, NY prosecutors have reopened the criminal investigation into the 7 Cornell gang rapists, a case that was covered up 2 years ago. These assholes would’ve been punished if they had written “free Palestine” instead of “free p*ssy.” Cornell leadership should be investigated too.
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suzette sommer @suzette.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
He’s a creepy freak. Wonder if he’s got a storage unit under a fake name. 🤨
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Putin’s reward for bombing hospitals, schools, apartment buildings, public parks and museums and killing children is to get invited to the G20 Summit by Marco Rubio.
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Douglas Reyes-CeroÑ @dreyesceron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Star Spangled Banner being played by the Mariachi Herencia de Mexico band before the Bears-Eagles game in Chicago on Monday Night Football was a deeply cool thing to see tonight
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So Jimmy Kimmel had his wife parody Natalie Harp on his show. She played his unhinged assistant. It was as ridiculously funny as you might imagine.😅
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alexjungle.bsky.social @alexjungle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
BBC interview with kids in 1966 predicting the year 2000. Quite accurate is it? Also do you observe the fluency of the children? Nowdays they would speak with ah, oh, okay, whateva.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026
Katie Phang breaks down one of the most disturbing pieces of evidence in the new Cornell sex assault lawsuit: an alleged fraternity Snapchat message referring to the plaintiff as “free p***y upstairs.” Phang zeroes in on another detail: someone apparently photographed the Snapchat from another phone
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If you are bitching about the 8 trans athletes in the NCAA, but are staying silent about a woman being gang raped for 7 hours, you don’t give a shit about women.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Acosta: This is a Category 5 fuck-up of epic proportions. It is likely to go down as the worst presidency that we have ever witnessed in this country’s history. That tops the first administration that ended with an insurrection.
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Dr. DaShanne Stokes @dashannestokes.com · 28/09/2026
Your reminder that there is a felon in the White House identified in the Epstein files as a rapist, there has been no investigation, and the files are still being hidden in violation of federal law.
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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There's something special about a man falling asleep on live television three minutes after calling his predecessor "Sleepy Joe."
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mariaevajarrous.bsky.social @mariaevajarrous.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Now they're calling in a misappropriation 🖕👎
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