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Rodger Raino @rraino.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

@nytpitchbot.bsky.social There's a Ted Nugent joke somewhere in Natalie Harpootang

Rodger Raino @rraino.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

@kqedforum.bsky.social I think trying to make the robot appear humanoid must limit what it can do. Perhaps a swarm of tiny drones would fold my sheets better.

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Rodger Raino @rraino.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

@ericidle.bsky.social The last half of this is pretty Python-esque

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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Everything trump touches DIES.

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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

We are the ONLY country on Earth where *some* people believe that this is what a functioning President looks like.

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Rodger Raino @rraino.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

@kqedforum.bsky.social I got rid of my car last year & having Waymo available was a big reason I was able to do so. I feel safer with Waymo driving than w/ myself or friends - all fine drivers, but humans are easily distracted

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/05/2026

Trump’s Truth Social posting over the last hour or so is completely batshit insane. Get a load of this nonstop nuttery.

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Angeliki T. 💎 in NYC @ellinidata.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Chinese newspaper cartoon (Today... 😂 )

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Rodger Raino @rraino.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

@joshtpm.bsky.social I bet this guy has got some great carpentry tips to share

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Rodger Raino @rraino.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

@pulmyears.bsky.social Hey Paul, could you suggest to your music bio writing pals that it appears nobody has written one about the very deserving Raymond Scott. Writes the WB cartoon soundtrack, pretty much invents electronic music, hires Bob Moog (!) to work in his lab - the man needs a bio

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Maggie @courageousgirl2.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

THIS is TRUMP!

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Rodger Raino @rraino.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

@petersagal.bsky.social why during pledge does my station play an old clips show instead of the brand new show you also made I get either show will pause for pledges But I'd rather hear SOME of the new show than NONE of it What is the rational? I turn off the radio for the rerun Counterproductive?

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Rodger Raino @rraino.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

@kqedforum.bsky.social Silicone Valley is full of folks who mistake being lucky for being smart Elon Musk is a prime example

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Rodger Raino @rraino.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

@pbsnews.org Amy's 1st Newshour chart showed Trump's APPROVAL @ 53% That don't seem right 53% disapproval sounds more likely?

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Rodger Raino @rraino.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

@kqedforum.bsky.social Seems to me that having billionaires threaten to leave CA is a big selling point FOR the tax

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 09/01/2026

SHOCK CELL PHONE VIDEO: Renee Good's final words to her murderer: “That’s fine dude, I’m not mad at you.” ICE agent Jonathan Ross after shooting and killing her seconds later: “Fuckin’ bitch.” Via Alpha News

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Rodger Raino @rraino.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

@kqedforum.bsky.social In my 70's me & my siblings all find that when you struggle to retrieve a word, actively trying to remember makes it harder. But if you just move on, the word will pop into your head on its own20 or 30 seconds later.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

This message hits hard.

Graphic with a blue background and large white text reading “DEAR AMERICAN FRIENDS.” Below is a screenshot of a post explaining that Canada does not have CBS, that a “60 Minutes” episode aired normally in Canada, and stating that Canadian networks are not subject to U.S. government interference. The post ends with “We’re not under a dictatorship. You are.”

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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

The only thing ChatGPT ever does.

Andrew Kadel @DrewKadel@social.coop

My daughter, who's had a degree in computer science for 25 years, posted this about ChatGPT on Facebook. It's the best description I've seen.

Something that seems fundamental to me about ChatGPT, which gets lost over and over again:

When you enter text into it, you're asking "What would a response to this sound like?"

If you put in a scientific question, and it comes back with a response citing a non-existent paper with a plausible title, using a real journal name and an author name who's written things related to your question, it's not being tricky or telling lies or doing anything at all surprising! This is what a response to that question would sound like! It did the thing!

But people keep wanting the "say something that sounds like an answer" machine to be doing something else, and believing it *is* doing something else.

It's good at generating things that sound like responses to being told it was wrong, so people think that it's engaging in introspection or looking up more information or something, but it's not, it's only, ever, saying something that sounds like the next bit of the conversation.

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Rodger Raino @rraino.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

@kairyssdal.bsky.social Just heard your latest fiber segment Here's another perspective I'm in SF, short walk to Open AI, heart of tech universe We can't get fiber either, DSL or cable are the only options (cut cable over a decade ago, so DSL it is) As far as I can tell fiber will never come

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Rodger Raino @rraino.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

@fetterman.senate.gov You sir are a short sighted fool Please retire ASAP Go Away you self serving idiot YOU SUCK!!!

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Rodger Raino @rraino.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

@kqedforum.bsky.social I can't attend a No Kings because I'll be driving down the coast So I've printed some posters to tape on my backseat windows If I can't go to the protest I can at least bring a bit of the protest with me NO KINGS!

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

The word that keeps running through my head about this administration (among others) is "adolescent." These are people with a little boy's idea of what sounds manly.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance. Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn. We have been sent here to fight for people.

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Tom Moore @thmoore.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Small point about the coverage of Hegseth’s stupid convening: Trump has not “renamed” the Department of Defense something else. He *calls* it that. If I started calling the president “Adolf,” one would not say that I had “renamed him Adolf.” He has no more authority to rename DOD than I do him.

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Rodger Raino @rraino.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

When I first saw this without sound I thought it looked perfect for Yakety Sax Sound on & sure enough...

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

One way to stop being compared to “secret police” would be to … make any effort, literally any, to have ICE act LESS like secret police! We know how to have standard uniforms and identifiable insignia. ICE chooses to not use those, refuses public requests to identify themselves—and wears masks!

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

There’s only one person he cares about.

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

It's long past time for people to fully accept that the right simply does not care about being called hypocrites. To them hypocrisy is a weapon to be used against their enemies who feel embarrassed if they are revealed to be inconsistent. They feel no such shame themselves.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Lots of misinformation going around about ICE in Chicago including this post below showing masked agents. IT'S AN OLD VIDEO. Listen to local experts like @unraveledpress.com. Don't re-post clips without double checking to see if they are accurate. If you don't know for sure, don't share.

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Holy fuck, NO. THIS FOOTAGE IS THREE MONTHS OLD.

Stop.

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This post shows video of ice putting someone in a car. It is a 3 month old video. the post reads: ‪Kye‬
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BREAKING: In Chicago, Illinois—U.S. citizens protesting ICE were dragged into vans by masked federal agents with no badges and no warrants.

People screamed: “Who are you? Where are you taking them?”

This is authoritarian control in real time.

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Rodger Raino @rraino.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Yeah They do the same when Trump lies and it gets framed as "without evidence"

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Marko Silberhand @markosilberhand.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

. THIS is one of the biggest problems of our time . . . ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ .

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Rodger Raino @rraino.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

@kqedforum.bsky.social Elton & Bernie sorted this out half a century ago "Mars ain't the kind of place to raise you kids In fact it's cold as hell"

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

They hate vaccines not because of any knowledge or experience they’ve had with vaccines, but because it’s a useful vehicle for otherwise-shapeless anti-establishment resentment, directed against people they enjoy attacking (experts, the educated, diverse institutions of higher ed, foreigners, etc.)

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