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Richard Hardack @richardhardack.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

At the corner of dystopia and super-irritation, San Francisco.

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Richard Hardack @richardhardack.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

@weratedogs.com. Not sure about this one--he claims to be a mixed breed.

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Richard Hardack @richardhardack.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Food repo man should be the fastest growing sector of employment in the US economy.

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Richard Hardack @richardhardack.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

AI is primarily a way for corporations to tell people to talk to the hand, except there is no hand (or it has eight fingers).

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Richard Hardack @richardhardack.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Very excited that the White House is bringing this guy back to serve as communications director and head of the Ministry of Truth. m.youtube.com/watch?v=98MN...

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Martin Short as Nathan Thurm 1985 Special

YouTube video by CrazyFunVideos

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Richard Hardack @richardhardack.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Every billboard within a 20 mile radius of San Francisco.

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Richard Hardack @richardhardack.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

A cautionary photojournalism narrative in two parts.

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Richard Hardack @richardhardack.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

My predictions about how this administration would use AI to elide all accountability, including for murder, have proven depressingly accurate-- revistascientificas.us.es/index.php/ES...

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THEY WILL REPLACE U.S.: AI AND THE HALLUCINATIONS OF CORPORATIONS | Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos

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Richard Hardack @richardhardack.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

For those of you who hate corporations and advertising, a corpography of corporate personhood, and other delights corporations have foisted on us.

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Richard Hardack @richardhardack.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

A lot of AI was harmed in the writing of this publication.

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Richard Hardack @richardhardack.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

The contents of this message,&all individual letters contained herein, are the sole property of the sender. Unauthorized use of these letters infringes copyrights the sender holds w/the US Govt. Convenient payment plans &mortgage refinancing are available if you want to use these registered letters.

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Richard Hardack @richardhardack.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

In addition to calling each of you 10x a day to tell you about this new & exciting offer, I’m posting a discount link for my book, Your Call is Very Important to Us: Advertising and the Corporate Theft of Personhood,which is being republished in paperback by Bloomsbury (after its corporate takeover/

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Richard Hardack @richardhardack.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

If any tech oligarchs were culturally literate, they'd name a chatbot Pierre Mennardd GPT.

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Richard Hardack @richardhardack.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

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Richard Hardack @richardhardack.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Glory be to the bomb. It's from a horribly cheesey 1970 sequel to a fine first film (originally written by a French sociologist), but it's only a matter of hours before Hesgeth cites this prayer in his next sermon. m.youtube.com/watch?v=vDQE...

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Planet of the Apes - Nuclear Bomb Worshipers

YouTube video by Top Clips

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Richard Hardack @richardhardack.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Trump is now threatening to send the navy to blockade the Holy Sea.

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Richard Hardack @richardhardack.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I long for those simpler times when polymarket was just a Bay Area dating site instead of a death cult casino.

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Richard Hardack @richardhardack.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Kensington/Berkeley No Kings. Bonus points for occupying the Exxon station.

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Richard Hardack @richardhardack.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Australian pub culture can be a little hard to decipher.

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Richard Hardack @richardhardack.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

It should really have a slot machine handle.

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Richard Hardack @richardhardack.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I just heard that the trump's latest travel ban bars healthcare plans from entering the country.

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Richard Hardack @richardhardack.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

We generally underestimate the intelligence of birds and overestimate the intelligence of the right wing.

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Richard Hardack @richardhardack.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

www.openculture.com/2022/01/toni.... This is a prophetically accurate list. We're at step all of them all at once. #8. "Criminalize the enemy. Then prepare, budget for and rationalize the building of holding arenas for the enemy-especially its males and absolutely its children."

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Toni Morrison Lists the 10 Steps That Lead Countries to Fascism (1995)

Note: Toni Morrison's speech begins around the 38:30 mark. The term fascism gets thrown around a great deal these days, not always with high regard to consistency of meaning.

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Richard Hardack @richardhardack.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Decades ago, before Silicon Valley, there was a cartoon (Herb Caen related?) of a train conductor dressed in a Gestapo-adjacent uniform, announcing, "velcome to Palo Alto. Please haf your papers in order." Seems as widely predictive now as the Simpsons.

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Richard Hardack @richardhardack.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

"War is peace." The FIFA Ministry of Truth.

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Richard Hardack @richardhardack.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Wow, Spinal Tap is all over the Epstein files.

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Richard Hardack @richardhardack.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

@pamthur.bsky.social. Sadly, Pierre Robert has left us, but WMMR seems to have reached Berkeley.

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Richard Hardack @richardhardack.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Ice agents are basically the droogs at the end of A Clockwork Orange, criminals and sociopaths who otherwise would be on probation, now given badges and guns.

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Richard Hardack @richardhardack.bsky.social · 18/10/2025