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Ceej

@sarcastrix.bsky.social
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Attorney. Chemist. Former ballerina. Occasional dinosaur. The opposite of despair is not hope, it's action. Don't believe everything you think.

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Gabby Giffords @gabbygiffords.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Three little kids and a teacher were shot and killed at their school today in Bend, Oregon. Two more were injured. Our hearts are broken and we’re angry. It’s disgraceful that extremists keep blocking critical, lifesaving laws while kids die in their classrooms. America can do better. It must.
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Ceej @sarcastrix.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I, too, fall into the confirmation bias trap. I reposted one of the Russian bot stories that has no evidence backing it. www.snopes.com/news/2026/10...
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Did Ukraine's strikes on Yandex servers take out Russian bots? What we know
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said there were "fewer bots" online after Ukraine struck three of Yandex's servers.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/10/2026
Simply put, "termination of transfer" is the statutory right to void any contract you've signed to transfer your copyright to someone else. In the USA, the 1976 Copyright Act introduced a 35-year termination right.
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Docket_Rocket @docketrocket9999.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
#memes
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50501az.bsky.social @50501az.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
NO KINGS, Vote Early, October 17th Rally locations in Arizona. www.nokings.org#map
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Emily @emilydawn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
@hockeyviz.com I found some beautiful data viz for you
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Lizzy Tish @lizzy-tish.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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‘stina is a spooky spectral one 👻🧛🧟‍♀️🐈‍⬛🦇🎃🧟 @stinapag.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Periodic reminder not to put any IP you care about into a public AI.
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CatDaMaMa @catdamama.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It’s important for everyone to check their voter registration and go to reliable sites like vote411.org, iwillvote.com, or your state election boards. However stay away from Musk’s votesafe. org, which will collect all of your data info & share and sell your info including inference it makes…
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VOTE411
Election information you need. Brought to you by The League of Women Voters Education Fund.
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MIT Technology Review @technologyreview.com · 02/09/2026
No matter how fundamental an AI is to a discovery, when it comes to winning rights to an invention, it’s humans—and only humans—who can take the credit.
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When AI designs a drug, who gets the credit?
Patents can only name humans as inventors. For now.
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Dr. Christine Beavers @xtalgrrl.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
#MinCup26 is here and it's time to vote for your faves! (Or just choose by preferred space group, that's valid😂)
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Ceej @sarcastrix.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I really didn't think that approval would happen. Note the qualifying condition list is very broad. You probably qualify.
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Ceej @sarcastrix.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
RIP Dolly. You were a national treasure.
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Ceej @sarcastrix.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
@milesbabbage.bsky.social I think this will make you smile. youtu.be/RrVx7JSLAWs?...
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Heavy Metal Yodeling Maximum Yodel EXTENDED - The Institute of Quackology
YouTube video by The Institute of Quackology
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Ceej @sarcastrix.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
If you don't know what the Kessler Syndrome is, it has to do with the amount of space junk floating around out there and its tendency to make more junk by crashing into other junk. I encourage you to go to Wiki to read about it. While you're there, toss them a few bucks for being good stewards.
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Ceej @sarcastrix.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Nerd meme!
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Ceej @sarcastrix.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Gift link to an article on postliteracy. It's long. Read it anyway. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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The End of Reading Is Here
Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.
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Booooo-peep (scary arc 👻) @blopeep.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Your friendly reminder that the USWNT has won FOUR World Cups. And they had to go to the Supreme Court to get paid.
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Ceej @sarcastrix.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Sound on
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Arizona's Law @arizonaslaw.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
BREAKING: FIVE lawsuits have been filed challenging 5 of AZ Leg's 7 ballot referrals. They are all expedited cases, but the Superior Court process could take the next 4 weeks. (Then, AZ Supreme.) A list of all 5, with copies of Complaints, is live at: tinyurl.com/AZlaw2057
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Ceej @sarcastrix.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
This is a wonky title, but it explains the new proposed rule that allows any grant funding to be cut at any time for any reason, including activities on personal time.
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tabmcleod.bsky.social @tabmcleod.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/b...
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Bluesky Says Kremlin Is Hacking Its Platform to Spread Propaganda
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Blue in Cochise @blueinruralaz.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
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Save Our Schools Arizona @sosarizona.org · 14/05/2026
www.12news.com/article/news...
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Arizona's billion-dollar school voucher program under fire
State Auditor General -- who works for the GOP-controlled Legislature -- issues a damning report on lack of oversight and conflicts of interest in the ESA program
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Ceej @sarcastrix.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Another way to solve a population problem: immigration. How about we try that instead of increasing the burden on and power/ control over women? Go have your own babies and leave my uterus alone.
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Ceej @sarcastrix.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Full thread of banned books at Texas Tech as a web page: skywriter.blue/@cherrypoppu...
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Page by Dr. Jennessa Hester 🍒 | @cherrypoppunk.bsky.social
Texas Tech is starting to reveal which texts are banned under its new prohibition against "Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity" research. Among them are six books of the Bible: Genesis, Exodus, Le...
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Dr. Jennessa Hester 🍒 @cherrypoppunk.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
I haven't heard too many specifics about banned film texts yet, but I know of at least three: Alien (by Scott) The Silence of the Lambs (by Demme) ...and Bugs Bunny cartoons. Yes, really. And yes, it's because he dresses in drag.
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Bugs Bunny Roman Musical - Looney Tunes
Alt: Bugs Bunny Roman Musical - Looney Tunes
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Ceej @sarcastrix.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Got my shingles shot this weekend.
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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
now that's costume as art
Sudha Reddy in a black gown with opulent floor-length sleeves, a cape, and gold embroidery
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Ceej @sarcastrix.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Oh lawd, please save me from clients who want me to do something because their AI have them bad legal advice that said they could.
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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Congress is creating a national school vouchers program. Arizona already tried that, and it took money out of public schools and spent it on luxury goods instead of kids’ education. Swipe to see what happened — and what I'm doing to stop it.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/04/2026
Let’s all post it and see if they indict all of us.
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Ceej @sarcastrix.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
In other news, on Friday he fired the entire National Science Board. It's not formally announced. The board's website remains unupdated, still showing its previous membership and a quarterly meeting scheduled for May 5.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 26/04/2026
The Justice Department is attempting to shield DOJ attorneys suspected of violating ethics rules from oversight by state bar disciplinary bodies. bit.ly/4c741wB
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Justice Department Attempts to Shield Its Lawyers from Accountability for Misconduct
The department’s proposed rule restricting state bar ethics investigations of DOJ attorneys is its latest effort to dismantle checks on its abuses of power.
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Ceej @sarcastrix.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I got a call today from the CDC National Immunity Survey. Even if it's real/ not a scam, I'm not giving this administration 13 seconds of my time nor any more info about me than they already have.
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AL @jebushchrist.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
So there's a really important debate on civil liberties and national security going on on the House floor right now. It is shameful that it's taking place at this late hour of the night / morning. But I'm going to at least do something productive & try to explain here:
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Wikipedia @wikipedia.org · 15/04/2026
Wikimedia Commons has over 135 million freely licensed files. 🧵⬇️ (1/4)
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Ceej @sarcastrix.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
This article addresses something often overlooked in discussions of AI. Bias is in the data, yes, but also there is unknown, uncontrolled influence of the sustenance and structures of the program. Judge Schlegel (5th Cir.) Does a good job discussing it. judgeschlegel.substack.com/p/the-spice-...
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The Spice Must Flow, Part Two: The Hidden Hand Signals
Invisible Influence
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randy r. potts @thephatic.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Scopes Monkey Trial never ended
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Ceej @sarcastrix.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
BTW, your drug prices are about to double. apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com
Trump unveils 100% tariff on some patented drugs on 'Liberation Day' anniversary
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that could slap long-threatened pharmaceutical tariffs of up to 100% on some patented drugs from companies that don’t reach deals with his administ...
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Ceej @sarcastrix.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Final day to post your comment! Don't let the DOJ intercept and suspend state bar complaints without your objection on record.
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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Physicist Louise Dolan was born #OTD in 1950. Author of a foundational paper on symmetries and phase transitions at finite temperature, she received the @apsphysics.bsky.social's Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award for discovering uses of Kac-Moody algebras in field and string theory. 🧪 ⚛️ 👩‍🔬 Image: UCLA CWP
A portrait of Louise Dolan downloaded from UCLA's "Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics" page. She is seen from the side, smiling and looking down a bit and to the left of the camera. Dolan has dark hair that comes down just below her ears, and she is wearing a white knit top. She appears to be outside, but the background is out of focus.
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Ceej @sarcastrix.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
5 more days to let Bondi know you do not approve of her being the final arbiter of DOJ ethics. Post your public comment by April 6. www.regulations.gov/commenton/DO...
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Regulations.gov
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 30/03/2026
NEW: A big day for voters in a key battleground state! The Arizona Supreme Court refused to hear three anti-voting cases — blocking efforts to restrict mail-in voting, allow dubious hand counts and weaken early voting and election certification rules.
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In win for voters, Arizona Supreme Court rejects string of anti-voting lawsuits
Taken together, the high court’s rejections mark a significant victory for voting rights in a battleground state that has been at the center of repeated efforts to reshape election rules since 2020.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 28/03/2026
Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay
No more kings. Vimes had difficulty in articulating why this should be so, why the concept resonated in his very bones. After all, a good many of the patricians had been as bad as any king. But they were...sort of...bad on equal terms. What set Vimes's teeth on edge was the idea that kings were a different kind of human being. A higher lifeform. Somehow magical.
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Ceej @sarcastrix.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
My pet conspiracy theory is that Epstein introduced Melania to trump at the behest of the Russians through this zampolli guy.
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Lizzy Tish @lizzy-tish.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
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Ceej @sarcastrix.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
If you don't like the idea of feds lying to courts and presenting trumped up evidence to throw people in jail or execute them, this is your chance to say so. Here's where you can comment on Bondi's proposition to make DOJ attorneys immune from ethics violations. www.regulations.gov/document/DOJ...
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Regulations.gov
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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
We are very far from normal, my friends, but the language the judge uses here is shocking. Any other time, this would fly through legal commentators with a collective gasp. Here and now, it's a Monday.
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