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@silverboots.bsky.social
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in my next life i’ll be a bass player. designer & tired person. left twitter early, have missed you all a lot.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 15h
they are stealing billions from us in order to build data centers in our backyards in order to run machines designed to take our jobs and ultimately enslave us
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 18h
People casually using genAI instead of their own creativity or capacity for thought genuinely feels like a huge values difference now, on a very fundamental level. We do not hold the same things to be important or worthwhile.
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ah lads @popeurbanfox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
god grant me a big stick to change the things that can be changed with a big stick
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silver @silverboots.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’ve been doing it wrong! 😳
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.
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silver @silverboots.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Was Rolling Stone this adamant about country music fans who avoided listening to “Cowboy Carter”? Were *they* also deemed deserving of a scolding, or no? 🤔
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silver @silverboots.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My thoughts re : The List 1) True Detective S1 should be ranked higher 2) I am the world’s worst TV watcher, I have seen only a fraction of these shows
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Russell Vought cannot be given the power to decide what science is funded. He knows nothing about science; in fact, he seems to hate it and everyone who does it. And he has all of the worst characteristics of humanity. The Republican Congress is a fucking disease.
arstechnica.com
Russel Vought will reportedly be given veto power over all NIH grants
Pending move comes over the objections of the NIH director.
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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 19/09/2026
people are always saying anti-AI arguments don’t understand the full nuances of the technology. which is correct. but only because it stole everyone’s work, exists solely to get you fired, has made the entire internet unusable and has been forced on everyone without consent
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Symbols matter. White House isn't a palace. Kennedy Center is for the general public to enjoy. We don't have a triumphal arch in DC because that's imperial. We don't put the president's face on money because it's monarchical. It's about tearing down everything that says we're a democratic republic.
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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 18/09/2026
Looks like somebody told Trump about the Defense of Greenland agreement between the United States and the kingdom of Denmark, from April 27, 1951. avalon.law.yale.edu/2...
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The very first line is a lie, and we all know it. *None* of this was ever designed to help us, which is why it hurts us and we hate it. It really is that simple, but the media simply cannot bring themselves to say it.
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The humans are rejecting the machines that were supposed to help them | CNN Business
Touchscreens and self-checkout machines were designed to help customers. But restaurants and retailers are ditching them to humanize stores and attract workers.
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Matt Lyon @mattlyon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
RIP Peter Max
Cover artwork for Voice Vol 51 No 8, 8 November 1971. Illustration of a large white head in profile within a cloud shape overlaid with a figure jumping over an orange mountain on the horizon, body bent horizontally forward in line with the outstretched right leg. Four small figures in the foreground on green under the mountain. White stars trail the cloud to the right. The whole illustration takes up the bottom half over the cover on black, the upper half is black with the title and date in white centred at the top.Psychedelic illustration from 1969 showing  a large head in profile with a smaller head in profile on top. A small figure exits the open mouth of the lager head in a jumping motion. Blue and white stripes radiate from behind with a paper curl top-right revealing white stars on a black backgound. An abstract flower sits at each bottom corner.
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silver @silverboots.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
One of the artists who set me on my own creative path. Safe journey to him.
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silver @silverboots.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“Piddington”?! Seriously???
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
All AI generated content can do is waste your time. It is, in this sense, stealing your life, the precious finite time you have on this earth from you, every second you are forced to interact with it, forcing you to look at its meaninglessness. It is a mindless vampire.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Trump can't run for president again, so why in the name of God does he have a political slush fund of $850M and growing -- that's he's still hoarding even as the GOP is poised to lose control of Congress? Does he have a scheme to take it with him? My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
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We don’t talk enough about Trump’s $850M pay-to-play slush fund | Will Bunch
Why does a POTUS barred from running again have nearly $1B in campaign funds? What will he do with the money?
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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
How far we've fallen that the reaction to a President of the United States straight up bribing voters is "Well, he probably won't pay it" instead of "Holy shit, a President of the United States is straight up bribing voters!"
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silver @silverboots.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
BIG HORSE
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Democrats should assume they need to flip five seats now. He'll never be reelected, by either party, but we're stuck with him until 2029. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/u...
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Fetterman Praises Trump in Video Broadcast at Republican Convention
The appearance of a Democrat lauding the policies of an administration that his party is claiming has made life harder for Americans was a stunning turn and a boon for President Trump.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
pay living wages for all workers. tax the shit out of billionaires. happy labor day.
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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Election deniers didn’t get that way because election experts were dismissive. Anti-vaxxers didn’t get that way because doctors were mean. Climate deniers didn’t get that way because scientists were arrogant. You need to understand sympathizing with them helps their numbers grow.
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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Write it on the blackboard a thousand times: they will have to demolish the ballroom, the arch and so forth. They will have to make a show of it. You will get the usual sons of bitches saying we don’t do that in this country. We do now. That is not emotion, it’s politics. To do less is dereliction.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
"we will abolish ICE and we will TEAR DOWN THE BALLROOM" should be the kicker of any speech any prospective dem nominee gives for the next two years
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The correct Democratic position on every issue is “I will undo everything Donald Trump has done, I will destroy everything he has built, and I will impose consequences on him and everyone who helped him do it.” No negotiation. Rip it all down.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Trump wins on the shadow docket to proceed with the ballroom. Just another mess a Democrat will have to clean up if we're ever allowed to have a free election again. Destroying whatever monstronsity Trump puts up and restoring the East Wing must be a First 100 Days priority for the Dems.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
"Destroy the Ballroom" Dem primary stage litmus test is back on the table.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Honestly if I was a Dem presidential candidate I would be touting that fact that we could pay for some of my policies by charging people for the opportunity to destroy some of the crap Trump has done. You could raise *millions* from destroying the ballroom, brick by brick, alone.
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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The proper response from anyone who doesn’t directly work for Trump to every proclamation and EO is “LOL go fuck yourself.”
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Nor will it end at ethnic cleansing. A machine built to eat people will keep eating people. Those who run it will always find a new category of unwanted humans.
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John Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
An executive order, Trump's favoured dummy spit, applies only to the executive branch of the American federal government, such as cabinet departments, and not to cartographers, geographers, Canadians, the sane.
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silver @silverboots.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
YOU ARE TAKING THE WRONG ONES
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TarZangief @tarzangief.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"Neutral in the culture war"
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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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silver @silverboots.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
NOOOOOOOOOOO this year SUCKS
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silver @silverboots.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Things I thought were posh as a kid: Coffee Whipped cream Cable TV Dishwashers Air travel
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
this court must be dismantled or reformed or whatever you want to call fixing something that’s irretrievably broken. in the meantime, start making a plan to vote in person if you need to.
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US supreme court rules Trump can proceed with crackdown on mail-in voting
Justices’ ruling comes after lower courts had blocked president’s election order ahead of November midterms
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 24/08/2026
Fuck the Supreme Court and do whatever it fucking takes to vote in this election. Have a plan and a back up plan because the GOP plan is to keep you from voting.
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This is your periodic reminder that the Supreme Court has had a Republican majority for longer than I have been alive (I am 51 years old) and only court expansion would immediately end the MAGA right's hold on the court and its use of the court to destroy democracy.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 23/08/2026
He took food away from poor families while building a fucking golden ballroom with our money. And those who could stop him did not.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 21/08/2026
All of the LLMs stole from me. Most of the big "A.i." billionaires are horrifying right wingers. Consumer-facing generative "A.i." "writing" and "art" tools deskill people, cheat kids out of real education, spread falsehoods and disinfo, and violate privacy. So no, I ain't using that shit.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 22/08/2026
They said straight up they wanted to disenfranchise women and people of color. They said they wanted to dismantle the federal government. And the likes of Thiel funded them for building the plans on how to do it. And _nobody cared_ when this shit was pointed out. People thought you were crazy.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Dependency is the goal.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The vandalism and desecration of the White House isn't just vanity and it's not trivial. It's caesarism, as in literally what Julius Caesar did to the symbolic architecture of civic republicanism. Our national iconography matters and allowing the disfiguring of it to persist is a substantive harm.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I know there are lot of people who think voting does nothing to stop fascism, but I do notice that one group who seems to think voting does something to stop fascism are the fascists, who are trying to prevent it as much as possible.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
On the bright side, Trump is handing the Democrats running in 2028 the easiest applause line ever when they promise to take his name off everything he personally and gratuitously put it on.
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
idk man i just don't think the question is "is ai (claude, chatgpt, etc) useful?" more than it's "can we use ai ethically / safely" and the answer to the latter is no
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