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Greg J.

@sindisil.bsky.social
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Just doing my best to do my best. Proud Minnesotan, born & bred. Father, husband, programmer (lately Rust, but many years of C and others), handyman, reader, gamer, art & music lover. he/him, but they/them is fine, too.

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mollypeonies @mollypeonies.bsky.social · 6h
The @startribune.com used this tweet by Tom Emmer as a "reliable source" in its crime reporting. Regardless of what the investigation finds or the still-racist framing cops will use, this is dog whistling by a public official so loud it needs to be its own story about racism in MN politics.
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ChelseaNH @chelseanh.bsky.social · 6h
This is Hamilton Nolan's framing of elections as the choice between enemies and cowards - you elect cowards and then work them to get them to deliver what you want - rather than the eternal disappointment of savior politics. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/how-to-thi...
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How to Think About Politics Without Wanting to Kill Yourself
There are Enemies, and then there are Cowards.
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 7h
Gray Ezo squirrel from Hokkaido Island, Japan
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Paper and Ink @paperandink.bsky.social · 8h
Our tiny lake does a thing every year on this weekend. I was working , but these are our neighbors and friends. Love it.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 14h
Labor's share of income just hit an all-time low. That means for every dollar a company brings in, workers are taking home smaller and smaller slices. Income keeps shifting to the owners. With @svaneksmith .bsky.social newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…
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ʟᴜɪs ʜᴇʀɴᴀɴᴅᴇᴢ ⚡ @beetlenaut.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Jazzpunk themed Pentode-O-Lantern
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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 7h
Oldest sis spent a long weekend with us, got to introduce her to the Smol-ticid, Ms Neonella vinnula 🧡 #EmotionalSupportSpood #Arachtober
Tiny dark orange jumping spider with little yellow-tipped palps and stripy legs The little stripy lass, looking away from you The tiny lass, 1.5mm long, navigating the vast dunes of a human hand
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 7h
Stop putting off that thing you wanted to do
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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 7h
Well aren’t you just adorable, chickadee neighbor? #birds 🌿
A gray bird with a black cap and black and white face perches on top of a bare branch looking off to the left.
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mollypeonies @mollypeonies.bsky.social · 9h
Wow, @startribune.com. This is absolutely irresponsible and needs an immediate retraction. Refuting your own headline right in the story.
Police: Shooting at Eden Prairie homecoming game was gang-related
Police did not specifically say that Somali gangs were involved, but Rep. Tom Emmer and others posted on social media calling the incident a “Somali gang crime.” This summer, Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher issued a public warning of what he described as a surge of violence involving Somali gangs.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 03/10/2026
First time catching a sunset in a squirrel eye. Might make this a thing.
The vertical eye of a squirrel with the reflection of the sun setting over trees in the distance and the reflection of the tree in the foreground
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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 16h
Random find in the unpublished data: A pretty little unnamed crater on Mars filled with sand ripples, about half a kilometer across, seen by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in July.
A circular impact crater seen from directly above. Inside its steep banks its bowl is filled with sand blown into a pattern of ripples.
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404 Media @404media.co · 16h
The "AI Torture Chamber" has opened an upsetting and absurd window into the effective altruist obsession with "model welfare." www.404media.co/someone-tort...
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Someone ‘Torturing’ LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet
The "AI Torture Chamber" has opened an upsetting and absurd window into the effective altruist obsession with "model welfare."
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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 19h
1) Alito revealing this now is an attempt to rally Republicans in Trump states where Dems lead for Senate. 2) He’s the most partisan R on the court—highly likely he steps down in the lame duck if Dems take the Senate. 3) Doing number 2) makes court expansion even more likely if Dems win in 2028
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 19h
Trump corrupted America's most innovative institution, the National Science Foundation, by stealing $1.4B mandated by Congress for research. 🧪 🧵
A photo of Trump in front of the U.S. National Science Foundation entrance, overlaid headline that reads "Trump admin stole $1.4B for world changing science against the will of congress", with a Stand Up for Science logo beneath it.
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Lea Leander @lealeander.bsky.social · 19h
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3 Billionaires Have Largely Funded Republican Nominee for Wisconsin Governor (Gift Article)
Under its current rules, Wisconsin has not had a race in which a small number of donors have made up such a large share of a campaign’s funding.
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 20h
You'd think that the Democratic party would be making hay over their opposition's biggest donor fighting to let his bot keep making revenge porn.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 19h
The administration has found yet another way to fuck with solar power.
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The USDA just made it way harder for farmers to get grants for solar
Even farmers who were already promised funds from the REAP program may never get them under the Trump admin’s new restrictions. Some are suing.
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EmKay K-A @mkettleson.bsky.social · 18h
Nah, it’s okay … there’s no security breach in having POTUS muse about war and foreign policy choices with Grok … I’m sure the employees & models that have access to conversations will not share his musings … I’m sure none of them will try to make money from top secret info …
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Heyyyyy Reactor finally let me write about middle grade science fiction, fantasy, and horror! I got a MASSIVE list for you. reactormag.com/middle-grade...
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Middle Grade SFF for Young Readers — And the Young at Heart - Reactor
Stories featuring mysterious spellbooks, dysfunctional robots, and so much more...
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 18h
we are watching the destruction of the last vestiges of the education system at the hands of big tech futurism.com/future-socie...
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The Tech Industry's Aggressive Push to Integrate AI Into Schools Is Turning Into a Disaster
Tech giants like Google are pushing AI into classrooms at an alarming rate, with horrifying results on student cognition.
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ryman @rymancurtis.bsky.social · 18h
look if i was making a right wing astroturfy group called wake up saint paul targeting homeowners in saint paul, i would at least bother to make the banner image on my website an image of a home in saint paul instead of minneapolis
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 19h
My investigators have confirmed the Trump administration is hiding interview documents it conducted with some of Epstein’s banks, and there could be more. There’s no limit to how far Scott Bessent, Kash Patel and Todd Blanche will go to continue this cover up.
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Rep. Joe Neguse @neguse.house.gov · 20h
Under Republican control, the House has only been in session for 72 days this year. Literally just 26% of the calendar year. It is absurd.
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We don’t do the Daily Mail, but as a public service, here is someone with far too much money being attacked by an owl.
Princess Beatrice's friend Alice Naylor-Leyland is attacked by rogue owl during chaotic photoshoot.
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Maine Newsroom @mainenewsroom.com · 21h
10/3 Yes, Maine Congressional candidate Paul LePage really did describe Social Security as “welfare, pure and simple" #maine #MEpolitics
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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A federal district court just held that police use of Flock cameras without a warrant violates the Fourth Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
constitutionally collect this information about one car-and its driver-by
following that vehicle on public roadways over a month. But this leaves the
question of why is it the government's business where everyone goes all the
time? The government cannot go snooping through our personal lives and
business without an adequate basis to do so. That is what the Supreme Court
has said since its decision in Katz through its decision in Chatrie this year,
nearly sixty years later. It is not too much to draw the line at indiscriminate
mass surveillance.
No doubt, ALPR technology comes with remarkable benefits that the
Court cannot ignore. But the Fourth Amendment requires courts to draw a line when the cost is too great. Alaniz's search in just the ALPR system
provided him with more than 50 individual records of Kyle's whereabouts
across the country for an entire month. The Court finds that because the
ALPR systems Alaniz used to search Kyle's historical location information
intruded on her reasonable expectation of privacy in the whole of her physical
movements, it was a search under the Fourth Amendment. Based on the
information in the record, the only reason Alaniz conducted that search was
because he saw her license plate was from California. That search was not
supported by probable cause, and it was done without a warrant in violation
of Kyle's Fourth Amendment rights. That search also has a nexus to the
remainder of the traffic stop because Alaniz began following Kyle's car while
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Eli Friedman @elifriedman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"'In what world would the police learn from the victim that she had literally been gang-raped' and not elevate those allegations to the district attorney, Ms. Hochul said." A world in which the police report to a university president who was appointed by a wholly unaccountable group of rich people
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Hochul Rebukes Prosecutor’s Handling of Cornell Case
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Don’t get complacent. They’re still going to try to cheat. Check your registration. Vote early if at all possible.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026
"It could chill rights of contractors to make political contributions" -- unearthed footage shows Susan Collins in 2012 fighting to protect contractors from having to disclose political contributions (we recently learned she was under investigation for a pay-to-play scheme involving a contractor)
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I Completely Agree, Coach!
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Parkscope Joe @parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is insane.
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NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV's Al encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah's team then privately lobbied the pope's advisers "to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously." Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Naomi Klein Is Spot On.......
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You reach the Gates of Hades & find them guarded by this: (📷: USFWS)
Spooky Season has officially begun, and we’re kicking things off with a three-headed ferret.

OK, technically it’s three black-footed ferrets, but October calls for a little imagination.

Once thought to be extinct, black-footed ferrets are one of North America’s rarest mammals. At the National Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center, staff work to breed and recover these endangered little creatures and return them to the wild.

Cute? Absolutely. Three-headed monster? Only in October.

Photo by USFWS
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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 02/10/2026
Political text: Did you know the midterm election is Nov 3? Me: Did you know in-person early voting in NC starts on Oct 15 and I’ve got that entire day blocked off in case I need to stand in line for six hours?
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FiftyPlusOne.news @fiftyplusone.news · 02/10/2026
New Trendline: Where do voters stand on the most consequential ballot measures this year? We dig in to all the latest polling on taxes, voting, transgender issues, and more. blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/where-do-v...
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Where do voters stand on this year’s biggest ballot measures?
Plus, polls on war, the Supreme Court, and paranormal activity.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 02/10/2026
Donald Trump might believe he’s going to overcome his historic unpopularity by sabotaging the midterms. On October 17, millions of Americans are taking to the streets again to make it clear that’s not happening. Please join us for the next No Kings Day.
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No Kings
For more than a year, millions of people have come together to send a clear message: in America, we have no kings. Power doesn't belong to billionaires, strongmen, or politicians who think they're abo...
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Ted Cruz called the FBI on me @weareronin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This little suggestion on top of my hamburger helper box is how I know we are about to have a Great
Depression part 2
TRY WITH
HOT DOGS
INSTEAD OF GROUND BEEF
TRY WITH
HOT DOGS
INSTEAD OF GROUND BEEF
HAMBURGER
HELPER
CHEESEBURGER MACARONI
WITH REAL CHEESE
PER US CUP AS PACKAGED
NET WIT 550Z (1559)
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C.R. Denis @crdenis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Monday: a $15b Iowa steel plant that has "already started building." No permits, no land purchase, no financing. Wednesday: a $50b Korean pipeline investment. Seoul says it only agreed to start talking. Two deals in one week that exist as announcements. The press event is the product.
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Vince Mpls @vincempls.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Oct 2-7 1939: In a direct reaction to the bitter 1934 Teamsters strikes, Minneapolis business leaders hold "Century" celebrations, jumping the gun on the city's actual centennial by 15 years. Civic organizers used the success of this event as a blueprint to launch the Aquatennial the next summer.
Nicollet Avenue in downtown minneapolis dressed in patriotic bunting, signs read "Minneapolis Century" and "World Center of Flour Milling", even though the city had fallen from the world leader 9 years earlier. The parades and street closures were intentionally anti-labor
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Left Of Center Orange Hater @leftocorangehater.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 28/09/2026
The University of Michigan’s monthly consumer sentiment survey shows that Americans today feel worse about the economy than they did during either the Covid-19 pandemic or the 2008 financial crisis.
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Gas, mortgage rates and inflation send Americans’ view of the economy to near record lows
“This is the danger for the Federal Reserve and the nation. This is what can truly shift spending habits and lifestyles,” said economist Heather Long.
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Important story. Google Pushed AI Into Schools—and Even Students Say It’s Gone Too Far
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Google Pushed AI Into Schools—and Even Students Say It’s Gone Too Far
The risks of cognitive and emotional dependence, along with falling test scores, are fueling a backlash.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yeah, so what happens with our only job growth when a trillion dollars in Medicaid cuts begin to kick in?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026
CNN on the last jobs report before the midterms: "It came in cold -- surprisingly cold. Job growth weaker than expected, unemployment unexpectedly went up, and paychecks aren't keeping up with prices. This was disappointing all around."
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Exit polls showed that 75% of truckers voted for Trump in 2024. Now they are struggling to survive.
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 02/10/2026
They spend all this time and money defending Richard Nixon but can’t prosecute the men in the Epstein Files?
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Directing DOJ to slow-walk politically damaging decisions until after people vote would be a major scandal under any normal administration. Here, it’s just Friday.
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Christopher Hennessy @thealtchris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The incomparable @doctorow.pluralistic.net ! news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
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Digital life doesn’t have to be this way — Harvard Gazette
The writer and activist Cory Doctorow wants you to be mad about tech monopoly — but not blindly terrified of AI.
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