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Sean McKeown

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Life is an endless series of contextual ethics problems. Then you die.

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Sean McKeown @sifuabs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Reposting now that the phones are open: some asshole decided he should hunt down and release the name of Jane Doe in the Cornell lawsuit, and if you're a NYER, instead of trying to dox him back or wishing harm on him you can pick up the phone and help those consequences happen to him more directly.
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Sean McKeown @sifuabs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Reminded for no particular reason at all of my "Michael Tracey is human garbage" story, one time he tried his "debate me!" sctick on @andreachalupa.com after an episode of Gaslit Nation and I made sure to turn up at the same time so she wouldn't have to be alone with him in a public space.
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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 30/09/2026
like i say every time this comes up, the term for what awaits survivors who go through the official system (cops, rape kit at the hospital, the hell of a trial where you as the victim get to be cross examined by yr rapist’s defense) is called “the second rape”
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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
remember how michael tracey (human worm) reacted when graham platner was found out? @marisakabas.bsky.social and @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social and i remember! it was fucking disgusting
Michael Tracey @mtracey

Good luck being a heterosexual male Democratic candidate anymore with even a whiff of anything but the most pristine romantic/dating history, because wherever you might fall on the party's ideological spectrum, the minute you hit national notoriety, the knives are coming out hard
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One weird trick for getting Democrats to take bold, decisive action: Manufacture a sex crime

5:30 AM • Jul 8, 2026 • 444.3K ViewsMichael Tracey
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Everyone must accept that American political affairs will be fundamentally dictated by a constant parade of rape claims — always and everywhere, rape rape rape — but also, you must not ever think too critically about it, or you will be declared as complicit in the constant raping
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The defenestration of Platner is one for the ages.
Received the highest Dem primary vote in Maine history less than a month ago. Then, BOOM: skeevy PR operatives get everyone to scream RAPE!!!! — and switch off their brains — and now Party chieftains get to pick their own nominee
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I love whenever I mention this, someone always has this "oh my god, WHAT" reaction! Citations: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32324159/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42240520/ Screenshot is from second paper. Primary author on both (Afrin) is basically THE most knowledgeable person in the world about MCAS.
An alternative perspective, now called "consensus-2" [25, 50] (Table 1), emerged almost simultaneously but regards MCAS as prevalent (approximately 17-20% of the Western population) [15, 51] and commonly presenting with diverse manifestations stemming from diverse profiles of aberrant release of MC mediators with very diverse effects [52, 53].
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is crazy! How may direct, urgent warnings were there? www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
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Egypt’s Warning to Israel
Cairo’s intelligence chief visited Tel Aviv shortly before October 7 with a dire message about Gaza.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Trump's foreign policy is not isolationist. On the contrary, his ideologues want to build an international empire run by far-right political movements who serve American crypto, mineral and tech companies, many with links to the president. Read more here: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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Empire of Grift
Far-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction.
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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Re-upping this thread on extensive anti-confederate resistance in the South since I'm again seeing "the South" again used as a blanket term for the horrific antebellum oligarchic social order that no shortage of people in the actual region hated and fought.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This man has gotten more done in 9 months in office than most politicians achieve in their ENTIRE CAREERS all with that extreme good-muppet energy and that's why everybody else can't stand him because he gets it done, has receipts to back his words, and then just moves on to the next.
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 23/09/2026
THREAD: CNN et al. v. Trump et al. underway Judge Timothy Kelly says he's giving 15-20 minutes to each side. "I have to start with the DC Circuit precedent that exists." He mentions he took up the Acosta case, and was surprised by precedent giving journalists pre deprevation due process rights.
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monstrous_gloss @monstrousgloss.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I think about this scene from Andor a LOT and repeat this phrase to myself often: "Power doesn't panic."
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"some investors are voicing increasing skepticism about the growth expectations for data centers and the risks associated with their build-out, forcing industry executives and their advisers to recalibrate their plans" www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/b...
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Wall Street Is Growing Skeptical of the Data Center Boom (Gift Article)
Several companies tied to the data center industry have delayed their initial public offerings amid the increasing public backlash to these energy guzzling facilities.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 19/09/2026
Happy Caturday from Mr. Jekyll, chief porch appreciator.
Grey cat lying upside down on the corner of a gray porch.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 19/09/2026
Something I've learned from recent visits to political Washington is that everyone has a Trump impression (very much including those on the right)
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
No wonder these AI companies are worrying about human extinction via AI created biological pathogens: They’re starting their own wet labs.
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EXCLUSIVE: Anthropic quietly sets up biology lab as it ramps AI drug program
At a time when fears of AI are gripping the public, the startup has built a wet lab — or ​place for physical experiments — in the San Francisco Bay Area, two people familiar with the matter said.
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Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 19/09/2026
the look of a man who knows it’s pizza night and is ready to collect the cheese tax
Indy, cutest dog in the world, sits on the living room carpet, dappled golden hour sun filtering through his soft blonde fur
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The Enigma of Amandagara Fault @amandalafrenais.com · 18/09/2026
Ravioli is such a perfect little goblin
Photograph of an orange cat looking up.
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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Cheryl has made a fine point. I, nor other safety professionals, have really said much about general safety precepts as they relate to AI, as opposed to the bullshit artist millenarian cultists that are happy to do so at length. One of the reasons is "These tools are an active detriment to safety."
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Sean McKeown @sifuabs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Was asked my opinion about the current US political mess and I had to misquote @greatdismal.bsky.social - the fascism is already here, it's just not evenly distributed yet.
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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
lololololol OpenAI is about to get fucking WASHED storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Exhibit Public Redacted Memorandum of Law – #1977, Att. #1 in In Re: OpenAI, Inc. Copyright Infringement Litigation (S.D.N.Y., 1:25-md-03143) – CourtListener.com
LETTER addressed to Judge Sidney H. Stein from Davida Brook dated September 17, 2026 re: Public, Redacted Version of News' Plaintiffs' Memorandum of Law. Document filed by Daily News LP, The Center fo...
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Sean McKeown @sifuabs.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Saw a "Make Accountability Happen Again" sign at #occupywallstreet #OWS2026 today.
Several cardboard signs on the steps of Zucotti Park on S17, the 15th anniversary of the first day of Occupy Wall Street.  Signs in the background say "you were born without the shame gene" and "make mermaids not war," but the one I have focused on says "Make Accountability Happen Again."
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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 16/09/2026
It seems like this is a good time to tell you all why LLMs are never, and can never be, conscious.
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I'm back, I missed you all. Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult. I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?) (alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory)
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✨the glitterati✨ @glitterati.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
hahaha holy shit
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Sean McKeown @sifuabs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
THAT IS NOT WHAT A DOG-AND-PONY SHOW IS YOU FUCKING FUCKWIT!
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Sean McKeown @sifuabs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Worth noting: tomorrow is an FOMC decision day, and it's largely expected that there will be an at-least 0.25% Fed Funds rate hike announced at 2pm that will make Trump shit a brick and declare war on his own Fed chair. And if the Fed doesn't do that, the bond vigilantes go to war with him instead.
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 16/09/2026
It’s D&D night and so much has gone on that I despair of recording it all for posterity. The big boss had Vicious Mockery on tap. I have insulted the party at inordinate length.
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Sean McKeown @sifuabs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
What a cruél night, to have eyes and be able to read.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Humans are reading your ChatGPT chats. Just like humans are behind your food delivery robots and various other applications of automated technology. Usually underpaid humans in other countries.
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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
OK, I will go for one brief bit of the complaint. But literally ONLY because several people unrelated to the case, including my old high school classmate (and the DM of the first AD&D campaign I ever played in) @johnannese.bsky.social assure me I must watch the video.
In January 2019, I registered a more complete document, which outlined the entire world of the wereshark. Exhibit E shows the copyright registration. If the court were to request the document from the Copyright Office, they will see that it describes the wereshark in detail once more. In 2021, I finally managed to acquire steady employment, and I was able to film a short film. In October 2021, I filmed Wereshark: Neptunerise, a short film about my wereshark monster. I published it on January 12, 2022, where it remains today (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJJreoPuSx4).
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Jeremy Diamond ☕️ @dmnd.me · 14/09/2026
This thread hits but I think this is the most concrete bit to grab onto. For a long time there was a labor narrative that you could skill up and get a better, safer computer or email job. Now you’re trying to sell millions of people who want to work 9-5 indoors that it’s the trades?
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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
we won! the court just declared the Brooklyn Democratic Party's attempted coup null and void in a victory for democracy and common sense, Justice Jill Epstein finds that outgoing District Leaders had no right to change the rules after an election they lost iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewD...
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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
big news out of Brooklyn today
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Sean McKeown @sifuabs.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Today in useless thoughts I can do absolutely nothing with: TL;DR Swinton would be a fun drag name.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/09/2026
good answer from gallego but someone needs to tell him about the four-in-hand knot
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Sean McKeown @sifuabs.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The 25th anniversary of 9/11 is also the 25th anniversary of me saying the stupidest, most regrettable thing I have ever said. I have direct documentation from my now-defunct Livejournal, reminding me that yes, I absolutely used to be a fucking dumbass. ("Used to" is doing a lot of work there.)
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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Can't believe it's been 9 years.
Ted Cruz liked a Cory Chase threesome stepmom scene on 9/11/2017.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Musk is already underwater in polls and if Democrats lean in they can make him even more toxic. He's declared open war on you all and is pushing a toxic, destructive, racist agenda. Maybe it's time to push back? I don't know, I'm just spitballing here.
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Sean McKeown @sifuabs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Thread, in which KB suffers and reports back so you don't have to. Don't forget to tip your masochist!
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
thread/follow
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allison steele, organic human person @trulyaliem.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
we did it. i am so fucking proud of my colleagues and comrades for this historic victory. so much love to the bargaining committee and our mobilizers who made this happen. i am *proud* to be a rank-and-file member. aftermath.site/blizzard-uni...
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After Years Of Company Stalling, Blizzard Workers Win Mega-Contract That Applies To All Unionized Teams
"Really strong" layoff protections are just the tip of the iceberg for a contract that covers 1,900 workers
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Em, midly @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I wish the symbolic 9/11 wasn’t what it is, because it’s made it so hard to engage with the real tragedy and the everyday heroism it brought out in people.
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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I cannot describe the brokenness I felt reading this from the Haaretz piece. The hostages were betrayed by everyone; Israeli leaders, the diaspora leaders & their orgs, the entire pro-Israel industrial complex, and by far and away the millions of people who cried "hostages" to support a genocide.
"He told me that in the first stage, they had no problem releasing all civilians without anything in return," Mashharawi recounts. "I swear, those were his exact words: all civilians, without anything in return. They had only one condition: They wanted us to bring in an agreed-upon mediator as quickly as possible, so that negotiations could immediately begin over everything else – the release of soldiers and officers in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, and then the issue of the blockade on Gaza."
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Making Sense of That Big Story Saying Netanyahu Was Warned About Oct 7 talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/makin...
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Making Sense of That Big Story Saying Netanyahu Was Warned About Oct 7
The Israeli daily Haaretz published a big and consequential exposé today alleging...
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 08/09/2026
The original Ha'aretz investigation is a must-read 🎁🔗 www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Netanyahu got an explicit warning before Oct. 7. He didn't brief security chiefs
In September '23, UAE President bin Zayed called Netanyahu to deliver a harsh warning. Netanyahu did nothing. An extensive investigation, conducted for a new book, reveals the PM's failures surroundin...
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 07/09/2026
I would like to preface this entire thread by saying it is vanishingly unlikely that it is aliens. So Native Plant Guy texts me to ask if I want to see a UFO. Obviously the answer is yes. I put on my shoes and go outside. There is a very bright object hanging in the air south-southeast.
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Sean McKeown @sifuabs.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Boxcat.
Ripley, a three-year-old female void cat, sits in a shoebox and gives me The Big Eyes.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
this is perhaps the greatest actor that could ever have been cast as Jack Reacher, the ultimate masculine man. the right wing would LOVE to have this guy but he just wants to sing showtunes and tell Donald Trump to fuck off
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dave wagner @davewagner.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
his one brain cell is entirely focused on stealing his sister's dinner. nothing on earth can stop him. no processing power is wasted on dignity, consequences, or the fact that he was fed twelve seconds ago. he is a specialized supercomputer designed solely for dinner crimes.
an orange and white cat has his paws crossed, concentrating intensely
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