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Ron Oakes (He/Him)

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Software Developer/SF fan/TTRPG Player/Con Runner/Self-published Writer.

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Ron Oakes (He/Him) @ronboakes.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Exactly: We need Section 230. It is what protects free speech on the Internet. It is not what threatens it (and Sen. Wyden should know). www.ms.now/opinion/sect...
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Opinion | Section 230 is the best protection we have against Trump’s war on free speech
Sen. Ron Wyden: Thirty years ago, I co-wrote Section 230. Without it, goodbye retweets, Reddit mods, Wikipedia editors and curated feeds on Bluesky.
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Ron Oakes (He/Him) @ronboakes.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
This is not a dog whistle; this is being openly racist. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...
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Trump Posts Video Portraying Obamas as Apes
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Ron Oakes (He/Him) @ronboakes.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I have encountered this myself, even though I have mostly traveled with pets while moving between cities for relocation: In 2008, we had to leave Sam with my brother because the host hotel for Denvention 3 wouldn't let him stay with us, but would let us keep Rocket with us. wapo.st/4t9jOCM
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Hotels have an anti-cat bias
Cat owners who attempt to take their pets on vacation often encounter canceled rentals and “pet-friendly” policies that are anything but.
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Ron Oakes (He/Him) @ronboakes.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
The current administration is 100% attempting to suppress the media with this move, in addition to protecting one, very specific form of Christianity which, FWIW, does not match what Jesus taught according to the bible: Gift Article from the NYT www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
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Federal Agents Arrest Don Lemon Over Minnesota Church Protest
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Ron Oakes (He/Him) @ronboakes.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Am I being cynical to wonder if the Hyundai battery plant was targeted because it was for vehicles that don't burn God's Holy Petroleum? NYT Gift Article www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u...
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South Koreans Swept Up in Immigration Raid at Hyundai E.V. Plant in Georgia
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Ron Oakes (He/Him) @ronboakes.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Not a surprise, but this proposal from the Heritage Foundation is heteronormative and racist 🐂💩 (Wapo Gift) wapo.st/4p44mG3
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The group behind Project 2025 wants a ‘Manhattan Project’ for more babies
A draft position paper from the Heritage Foundation proposes massive revisions to U.S. economic policy to encourage heterosexual married couples to have more children.
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Ron Oakes (He/Him) @ronboakes.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Parents, leave the state of Florida NOW. They want to kill your children, even if they are not LGBTQIA+ Explore this gift article from The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
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Florida Says It Plans to End All Vaccine Mandates
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Ron Oakes (He/Him) @ronboakes.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
The EFF confirms what I suspected about DearLeader's AI orders: He wants the government to have even worse LMM biases: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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President Trump’s War on “Woke AI” Is a Civil Liberties Nightmare
A new executive order called “Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government,” released alongside the AI Action Plan, seeks to strong-arm AI companies into modifying their models to conform with the Tru...
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Ron Oakes (He/Him) @ronboakes.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Wyoming is putting bounties on websites that parents (read ultra-conservative) parents find "obscene" From the EFF: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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From Book Bans to Internet Bans: Wyoming Lets Parents Control the Whole State’s Access to The Internet
If you've read about the sudden appearance of age verification across the internet in the UK and thought it would never happen in the U.S., take note: many politicians want the same or even more stric...
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Ron Oakes (He/Him) @ronboakes.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Border Patrol arrested firefighters as they were battling a wildfire
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Ron Oakes (He/Him) @ronboakes.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
BrainWorm wants to make me healthy by making the lying liar in my head louder, which will do the opposite. But he’s bought into the same lie as the not a Church of Scientology, that they are evil. 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
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Ron Oakes (He/Him) @ronboakes.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Well, apparently, if you work for the federal government, you don't have the right to criticize the federal government: (Gift Article) wapo.st/45C4h4U
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FEMA employees put on leave after criticizing Trump administration in open letter
About 180 current and former FEMA staffers sent a letter on Monday to members of Congress and other officials protesting the agency’s leadership and direction.
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 26/08/2025
So I took over GMing for a bit and the adventure hook is that somebody taught all the parrots in this region the verbal component to magic missile.
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Ron Oakes (He/Him) @ronboakes.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
BrainWorm's HHS/FDA will create a COVID epidemic because of their AntiVax DNA. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...
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F.D.A. Approves Covid Shots With New Restrictions
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Ron Oakes (He/Him) @ronboakes.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Key quote: “I have determined the business need is higher than the security risk associated with this implementation..." Social Security is *NOT* a business. NYT Gift: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
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DOGE Put Critical Social Security Data at Risk, Whistle-Blower Says
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Ron Oakes (He/Him) @ronboakes.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
It takes a lot of work... It needs to be done: wapo.st/4oRuxjd
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Inside the $7M project to save Frank Lloyd Wright’s iconic masterpiece
Inside the three-year, $7 million project to keep water out of the 1930s home designed by the legendary architect and built atop a waterfall.
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Ron Oakes (He/Him) @ronboakes.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Dear Leader wants our next election to be total chaos he can exploit: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08... (NY Times gift article, which may go to breaking news)
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Trump Says He Wants to Get Rid of Mail-In Ballots
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Ron Oakes (He/Him) @ronboakes.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
The path for Democratics to take back our country is through progressive ideas, not aping the fear-based talking points of the MAGAits: open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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Bread and Butter and Hope
It’s not just Mamdani
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Ron Oakes (He/Him) @ronboakes.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Apex predators appear to be important to the entire ecosystem. Man managed livestock herbivores are not. Let the wolves live and find other ways to keep your cows and sheep safe. (Gift Article) wapo.st/4oe7Fdv
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Since wolves’ return, Yellowstone’s aspens are recovering, study finds
The researchers found a 152-fold increase in sapling and young-tree density.
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Ron Oakes (He/Him) @ronboakes.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Don't make DearLeader look bad if you want to keep your job. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...
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Live Updates: After a Weak Jobs Report, Trump Says He’s Firing That Agency’s Commissioner
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Ron Oakes (He/Him) @ronboakes.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
🤬DearLeader and his sycophants in Congress: cpb.org/pressroom/Co...
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Corporation for Public Broadcasting Addresses Operations Following Loss of Federal Funding
WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations following the passage of a federal rescissio...
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Ron Oakes (He/Him) @ronboakes.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
It is historically inaccurate to play down or exclude two presidential impeachments in an exhibit that covers the other two and the near-impeachment. Yet another example of DearLeader being a dictator with a fragile ego. wapo.st/3HhfyxU
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Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American history museum
A temporary placard, on display since 2021, described the president's historic impeachments. Officials said the exhibit was restored to an earlier version following a review of legacy content.
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Ron Oakes (He/Him) @ronboakes.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
This is pretty scary. First of all, many or most regulations are written in blood, not that the greedy uberwealthy like to believe that. Second, letting badly trained LMMs that probably have worse biases than the humans who control them decide what to cut makes it worse. (WAPO Gift) wapo.st/3U2q3bs
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DOGE builds AI tool to cut 50 percent of federal regulations
The U.S. DOGE Service is using a new AI tool to eliminate federal regulations, aiming to cut 50 percent of rules by the first anniversary of President Donald Trump’s inauguration.
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Ron Oakes (He/Him) @ronboakes.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
DearLeader may want his pedophilia and relationship with a sex trafficker to go away. But it is distracting folks from other horrors, most of which he is also complicit in, if not the cause of: open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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Three critical stories that are getting buried by Epsteingate
We have little or no chance of rectifying the most serious wrongs if we’re captivated by the most exciting.
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Ron Oakes (He/Him) @ronboakes.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
DearLeader is sending non-criminals to be tortured in El Salvador, and then exchanging them for *ACTUAL MURDERERS* 🤬🤬🤬 Explore this gift article from The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/w...
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American Convicted of Murder Is Freed by Trump From Venezuela Prison
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Ron Oakes (He/Him) @ronboakes.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
DearLeader and Co. are trying to destroy the world because they are in bed with big petroleum and the people who believe that we should power the world with God's Holy Petroleum Explore this gift article from The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...
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E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change
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Ron Oakes (He/Him) @ronboakes.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
The Supreme Court is allowing DearLeader and the wrasslin' executive to dismantle the Dept. of Education. Well, I guess folks like me who needed an IEP to get through school are now hosed. And folks with even greater needs are even worse off: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...
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Trump Administration Live Updates: Supreme Court Clears Way for Dismantling of Education Department
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Ron Oakes (He/Him) @ronboakes.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Book Lovers Unite (literally): www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Hundreds form human chain to help Melbourne’s oldest bookshop relocate after more than a century
Literature lovers braved wintry weather to pass thousands of books from Hill of Content’s original Bourke Street premises to its new home
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Ron Oakes (He/Him) @ronboakes.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
This upcoming (9 days now) series has been receiving some negative press in furry spaces, because AMC+ has done a poor job of saying it is about Furries policing our fandom. This 12-minute preview hopefully will clear that up. @dogpatch.press is the first individual seen. youtu.be/iGtZMxBemmQ?...
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First 12 Minutes Preview | The Furry Detectives: Unmasking a Monster | Premieres July 17 | AMC+
YouTube video by amc+
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Ron Oakes (He/Him) @ronboakes.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
This supports what I've been suspecting: Camp Mystic and others have been a risk for a long time due to having put their cabins in areas at high risk of flooding. And climate change makes flooding more likely: wapo.st/44qDc2w (Gift Article)
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See how FEMA maps reveal camps’ flood risks
Many camps in the Guadalupe river region are adjacent or are partially inside high-risk flood zones, according to maps from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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Ron Oakes (He/Him) @ronboakes.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Church stands by call to execute gay people: “I will not apologize for preaching the Word of God.” www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/church-… The layman who made the claims used the term "Sodomite" (1/3)
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Ron Oakes (He/Him) @ronboakes.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
More good news for pet parents: Owning dog or cat could preserve some brain functions as we age, study says www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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Owning dog or cat could preserve some brain functions as we age, study says
Fish or bird ownership showed no significant link to slower cognitive decline in study with implications for ageing societies
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Ron Oakes (He/Him) @ronboakes.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
The right wing, as shown by our current administration, *hates* education. Robert Reich has some thoughts on why: open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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Why They Hate Education
What Trump, Vance, Stefanik, and Viktor Orban have in common
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Ron Oakes (He/Him) @ronboakes.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
It probably isn’t good that when I read about something like this happening near Coeur d’Alene, I immediately wonder if anti-government extremists or white nationalists are involved. But the area is too well known as a hotbed for them not to make me suspicious. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/u...
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2 Firefighters Killed in Idaho Sniper Ambush, Officials Say
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Ron Oakes (He/Him) @ronboakes.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
DearLeader and Co. are so hell bent on convicting and deporting the person they got caught publicly sending to the El Salvador torture camp mistakenly that they are letting an actual violent illegal immigrant stay. wapo.st/40i4Ttt
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Star witness against Kilmar Abrego García was due to be deported. Now he’s being freed.
Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes is a three-time felon released early from federal prison to a halfway house in exchange for testifying against Kilmar Abrego García.
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Ron Oakes (He/Him) @ronboakes.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
We're Number 7! The Albuquerque International Sunport ranks 7th in this list from the Washington Post: wapo.st/4kkmfgs
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The 50 best airports in America, ranked
Find out which U.S. airports travelers love most, based on reader reviews, transportation data and our own expert analysis.
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Ron Oakes (He/Him) @ronboakes.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
But we still have to go through security theater to get onto our flights: ground.news/article/door...
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DoorDasher Drives Onto Tarmac at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport, Exposing Security Flaw
Newly obtained video shows a DoorDash driver’s attempt to deliver food to a customer at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport last month not only breached perimeter security but also failed to trigge...
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Ron Oakes (He/Him) @ronboakes.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I suspect that the fact the SBC just decided to officially take action to legally prevent people from getting married because their narrow interpretation of scripture says it’s wrong happened during pride month is mostly a coincidence, due to the scheduling. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/u...
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Southern Baptists Call to Overturn Supreme Court Ruling on Same-Sex Marriage (Gift Article)
The nation’s largest Protestant denomination was motivated by conservative Christians’ success in reversing Roe v. Wade.
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Hourly Foxes @foxes.hourly.media · 10/06/2025
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Ron Oakes (He/Him) @ronboakes.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
More evidence that the current (miss)administration only cares about the rich and the white: sourcenm.com/briefs/feder...
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Federal efforts to revoke buffer zone around Chaco Canyon prompts delegation letter • Source New Mexico
In a new letter to U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, New Mexico’s congressional delegation chastised federal efforts to revoke a 10-mile buffer zone for oil and gas development around Chaco Culture...
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Scott Edelman @scottedelman.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Not what I want to see the morning I'm about to head off for an airport.
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Hourly Foxes @foxes.hourly.media · 02/06/2025
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Ron Oakes (He/Him) @ronboakes.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
"Porpoise Song (Theme from 'Head')" has to be the most unexpected Carole King, Gerry Goffin song in my entire collection.
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Ron Oakes (He/Him) @ronboakes.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
If you are a good person, especially a good person with a trans individual in your life, you cannot give any money to JKR: www.advocate.com/news/jk-rowl...
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J.K. Rowling uses Harry Potter wealth to fund anti-transgender organization
This is where "Harry Potter" profits are going.
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Hourly Foxes @foxes.hourly.media · 30/05/2025
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Hourly Foxes @foxes.hourly.media · 30/05/2025
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Do. Not. Disturb. The. Mysterious. Ancient. Rune-inscribed. Skull-adorned. Ring. Found. In. The. Idyllic. Countryside. Seriously, there's a whole book about this. And movies. Long ones!
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Ron Oakes (He/Him) @ronboakes.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Streamlined fox!
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