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Rich Zahradnik

@rzahradnik.bsky.social
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Shamus-award winning mystery writer. Mentor kids in newspapering. For my novels: www.richzahradnik.com For the newspaper: pelhamexaminer.com

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Rich Zahradnik @rzahradnik.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Don’t get buried in Britain.
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Rich Zahradnik @rzahradnik.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
No no no Budapest! You have great beer. Don’t do this.
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
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‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
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Rich Zahradnik @rzahradnik.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Tough one for the Trumplings. In the meter of Orwell (four legs good, two legs better): Threatening rabbis bad, imams good. apnews.com/article/syna...
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Alabama man charged with threatening rabbis, imam and others in multiple Southern states
Federals prosecutors have charged an Alabama man with making threatening calls and texts to multiple rabbis, an imam and others in the South, including telling one that “I want you to die.”Jeremy Wayn...
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Rich Zahradnik @rzahradnik.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
New Meta AI god’s hot shit analysis of firing people: “By reducing the size of our team, fewer conversations will be required to make a decision, and each person will be more load-bearing and have more scope and impact,” Mr. Wang wrote in the memo circulated to employees.
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Rich Zahradnik @rzahradnik.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Will this Epstein story push the Epstein story out of the papers?
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Rich Zahradnik @rzahradnik.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Meet the new Klan recruiting initiative. apnews.com/article/refu...
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Trump sets 7,500 annual limit for refugees entering US. It'll be mostly white South Africans
The Trump administration is restricting the number of refugees admitted annually to the United States to 7,500 and they'll be mostly white South Africans.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
“Mom, what’s for Thanksgiving?” “We’ll find out when we get to the soup kitchen. Jeffrey Epstein’s ballroom isn’t going to pay for itself.”
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Rich Zahradnik @rzahradnik.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Accuracy, the new career breaker
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Rich Zahradnik @rzahradnik.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
The Media Capitulation Index: Chicken heads indicate levels of capitulation from vulnerable to pure propaganda at 35 media companies. The only 2 to get stars for independence were Bloomberg and Netflix. I’m now going to subscribe to the paid version of Bloomberg. www.freepress.net/who-owns-media
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Who Owns the Media
Who owns the 35 most powerful media companies in America? The Media Capitulation Index shows how these conglomerates came to dominate the U.S. media landscape. Using a chicken scale, Free Press rates ...
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Rich Zahradnik @rzahradnik.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Time to raise some private money from big corporations and, without planning or historical approvals, tear this puppy down again. apple.news/Ae0VLV-j8TDi...
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A Confederate statue toppled in Washington, D.C., in 2020 has been reinstalled — NPR
A statue of Confederate general Albert Pike, which had been pulled down during the Black Lives Matter movement, has been put back up in Washington, D.C.’s Judiciary Square.
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Rich Zahradnik @rzahradnik.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Perfect-ly done…
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 84th day out of the last 96. 12 days of work in over 3 months. With full pay and benefits. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
It’s subtle if nothing else.
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Rich Zahradnik @rzahradnik.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
With the East Wing as precedent, tearing down Confederate statues and other obnoxious monuments can now be done without planning or historical approvals. Private money can be used in this endeavor. Who wants to start a Kickstarter?
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Rich Zahradnik @rzahradnik.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Tomorrow I start playing Canadian things. Any suggestions?
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
We haven’t forgotten, no matter how many distractions you throw our way.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
A conspiracy theory I have is that people put hot sauces like Tabasco on everything not so much for the pepper as they do for the benefits of adding vinegar to a dish and that’s what they should be focusing on and recognizing. This conspiracy theory has not gotten traction due to “lack of interest”
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Rich Zahradnik @rzahradnik.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
When did rude become considered the same as brave?
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
This is an actual quote from White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt to HuffPost reporter S.V. Dáte.
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God @thegodshow.com · 20/10/2025
Got buried in the news this weekend, but President Jesus said the F word on CNN at like 2pm in the afternoon. The next day he posted a poop-filled scat video, but tell Me more about the dignity of the office of the presidency.
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Rich Zahradnik @rzahradnik.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
The right answer
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Rich Zahradnik @rzahradnik.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Nailed it
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Rich Zahradnik @rzahradnik.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Unexpected real world developments can mess with your writing.
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Gilly @gillyarcht.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
We’ve never needed the Pynchon/Gibson/Simpson nexus more than this particular year. Plus, here’s the gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/b...
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William Gibson, Lisa Simpson and More on Their Favorite Pinch of Pynchon
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Edwardian butt-plug. Certain leaders today should look into this decidedly no-nonsense design.
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Rich Zahradnik @rzahradnik.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Re: Trump’s cartoon of self. I will help fund strapping him into a fighter and catapulting off it a carrier. In any direction.
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Rich Zahradnik @rzahradnik.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Started receiving The Free Press. Only guess: They’re using the Paramount+ list. You have been warned. Unsubscribe!
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
The war zone in Portland is out of control.
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Rich Zahradnik @rzahradnik.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Need to make up their minds.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
This is potentially a massive story. Did DOJ plan for survivors? Do they have sufficient evidence to prosecute? What is US jurisdiction to prosecute? Where will they go next? When is their court date? Will they be indicted? Held at Gitmo? Returned to Venezuela? Be Epsteined?
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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
"The sin of empathy"
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
The reason they're coming after this place is because they can't control the people on it and it drives them nuts.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 17/10/2025
Remember our mantra: Don't Engage, Just Block.
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Rich Zahradnik @rzahradnik.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
I’m rooting for John Bolton. Feels weird.
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Rich Zahradnik @rzahradnik.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Take it. Would mean a 100-fold improvement in the customer service experience.
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Boomer - Release the Tapes @boomer1956.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Oh, the more it changes, the more it stays the same, And the hand just rearranges the players in the game. --Al Stewart, "Nostradamus"
Picture of soldiers in front of Big Cypress Lodge, a pyramid-shaped hotel in Memphis, Tennessee. Text says

It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis.

It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis.
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Rich Zahradnik @rzahradnik.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Ha
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Rich Zahradnik @rzahradnik.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
If ever there were a this, it’s THIS.
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Rich Zahradnik @rzahradnik.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
It’s Saturday. Rosie’s in my office. I’m not.
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Rich Zahradnik @rzahradnik.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Saved, so far, by the third branch.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...
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Virginia Senate leaders express “unequivocal opposition” to Compact
The letter calls upon the University to immediately cease consideration of the Compact, and if not, the state will work to negatively impact the University’s funding.
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🎀FANCY🎀 @fancysplace.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
🎀🎀
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Rich Zahradnik @rzahradnik.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
@greatdismal.bsky.social, from today’s NYT’s op-ed. The Turing Authority? “Mr. Painter mused about the possibility of an A.I. version of the International Atomic Energy Agency, which conducts monitoring and verification for uranium enrichment around the world.”
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Opinion | The A.I. Prompt That Could End the World
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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system. I am not fearful — I am fearless. We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..
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Rich Zahradnik @rzahradnik.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Brendan Behan knew what he was talking about
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Rich Zahradnik @rzahradnik.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Dublin the night before Steelers-Vikings.
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