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skryptical @skryptical.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Lana is right again. beige.party/@Lana/117356...

Lana@beighe.party (Mastodon) said: "I just want to point out that the MAGANazi party tried the culture war bullshit with Zohran Mamdani. They tried, and it failed.

They tried the socialism thing. He waved it away by leaning harder into workers rights.

They tried the trans thing. He waved it away by leaning harder into trans rights.

They tried the immigration thing. He waved it away by leaning harder into immigrant rights.

The lesson here for Centrist Democrats is simple. You don't fight Nazis by giving up ground to the Nazis. You fight Nazis by leaning harder into the wind and standing up for individual rights."

skryptical @skryptical.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Rogers’s new [stop the war] ad comes just six weeks before he faces [wildly popular progressive, quick-witted and charismatic] Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed, who has strongly condemned the war."

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skryptical @skryptical.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I see a sad Adam Ant wannabe.

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skryptical @skryptical.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Now that the strategic reserve is in the military minimum range, Trump has ordered emergency offshore drilling in California to feed the US military. Something something pipeline. www.energy.gov/articles/sec... oilprice.com/Energy/Energ...

Truth Social post today by @realDonaldTrump

THE WHITE HOUSE
President Trump Unleashes Oil Production on the West Coast with the Defense Production Act
• Signed an Executive Order enabling the Department of Energy to use the Defense Production Act to restart the Sable Pipeline.
• The Secretary of Energy will issue an order today that results immediate production of 50,000 barrels of oil per day, increasing offshore oil production in California by 550%.
• The pipeline will unleash 20 million barrels of oil equivalent per year to meet urgent Department of War needs to supply 50 military installations on the West Coast.
• The order preempts radical California climate laws, ending California's coordinated regulatory attacks on American energy dominance.
1.71k ReTruths
5.7k Likes
Aug 02, 2026, 9:22 AM

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skryptical @skryptical.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Tineye.com seems to indicate it's a meme now but originated in 2021 June 4 probably created by the sablesides tumblr account for pride jackets, from the link text. The link is dead now.

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skryptical @skryptical.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I hope someone sent you this. It's probably going to be useful for a long time.

A shitpost graphic signed by https://velvetshark.com/ with 18 circular logos of varying complexity, one of the splat-asterisk type being very similar to Kurt Vonnegut Jr's illustration about 60 years ago. Illustration is dated 2025 April 10.

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skryptical @skryptical.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Because neither Trump nor JDV control Bibi, now The US must divorce Israel if they hope to exit the forever war in time to salvage the world economy before elections.

Genocidal speech posted on X by the national security minister of Israel June 19 threatening Lebanon. Not worth repeating.

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skryptical @skryptical.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

What Pelley said is the interesting part of this story. www.rawstory.com/cbs-scott-pe...

New statement from Scott Pelley:
There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.
The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS.
"60" has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects.
Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.
The waste is heartbreaking.
Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.

For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I've been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done.
Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.
At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to "keep up the good fight." Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.
I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.
Scott Pelley

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skryptical @skryptical.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Jared, Jared. They mean we need more flags on our vehicles, clearly. And we can do this! We can also embroider "Free America" on American made hats💡 We can make our own flags, too, with the thick rainbow lines or thin green lines. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 Here's another good one to consider from a NMK march.

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skryptical @skryptical.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Even more good news on vaccines. They seem to train your immune system in a way that guards against dementia. Shingles vaccine is most strongly linked to this benefit (which is recommended for everyone 50+ in the US). Women are more at risk from shingles AND dementia. arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

A study published in Nature Communications this month by researchers in California went further. They compared dementia rates among nearly 66,000 people who received the Shingrix vaccine and over 260,000 unvaccinated matched controls. The researchers found that the vaccinated group had a 51 percent lower risk of dementia compared to the unvaccinated controls.

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skryptical @skryptical.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Screenshot of Henry Martinez x-twitter account with one post, 2 words. Cole Allen. Allegation: In 2014, NASA published a paper and "Henry Martinez" was an author, he is a chief engineer at Lockheed Martin. Allen worked at JPL/nasa as an intern. Occam's razor says time travelers don't oracle post.

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skryptical @skryptical.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

On the web, the ALT text description interaction design is clunky and hard to use. The explanation and buttons are too far apart. The flat, small buttons don't look like buttons even though they have a + added to try to compensate. The edit pen dead-ends at a photo editor UI. #BlueSky #a11y #ux

Screenshot of editor showing how the small black lozenges standing in for buttons disappear visually on black images. These flat ovals appear on the opposite side of the images from the explanation of why you want to add alt text descriptions, ensuring that people are looking in the wrong place for the action. More-familiar edit icons edit the photos instead, making it easy for people to struggle to find the alt-text editor entry point.

Instead, Bluesky could simply display text fields or put an <add description> button above the informational text that opens the editor. Extra points for making that an edit-all so you don't have to pogo-stick in and out of editors for each photo in a post.

A more elegant fix would be to use the edit pencil icon to lead to a combined ALT editor and photo editor, eliminating the HTML jargony and unfamilar (+ ALT) entirely.

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skryptical @skryptical.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

It looks a bit chaotic over there these days even for them. (Headlines from yesterday's federated network trending news feditrends.com) I am not looking forward to vibe-coded spreadsheets. What a nightmare.

Microsoft brings Xbox back, scraps Microsoft Gaming
THEVERGE.COM • 3 SHARES • 14 SOURCES

Microsoft offers voluntary retirement to long-serving employees
THEVERGE.COM • 2 SHARES • 11 SOURCES

Microsoft launches "vibe working" in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
THEVERGE.COM • 0 SHARES • 15 SOURCES

Ex-Microsoft engineer blames Azure problems on talent exodus
THEREGISTER.COM • 1 SHARES • 12 SOURCES

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skryptical @skryptical.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Jon Stewart says he thinks it's him in the image. Bsky algo might disagree, having served up Robert Reich:

The disgusting "blasphemous" Trump Jesus image with suggested follows below, showing Robert Reich looking more like the guy on the deathbed than Jon Stewart.

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skryptical @skryptical.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Seems suspiciously over the top. How many are doing this today? Carlson-Bannon-Russia aligning?

Tim Pool @Timcast@birdsite
After reading all the replies to my tweets I have come to realize that I have been wrong about everything
Trump is demonic and a Mad King, I should have seen it sooner.
Israel has been controlling everything the whole time, I was blind.
I apologize and hope that moving forward you will still consider reposting me on X and buying my coffee
7:39 AM • 10 Apr 26 • 201K Views

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skryptical @skryptical.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

When you bring your clutched pearls to an imminent potential nuclear conflict perpetrated by a madman and you can't even address evil by its name. Authorities of every kind obsoleted themselves today. Shame.

MTN
MeidasTouch@meidastouch@threads.net
posted image of Pope in white clothing smirking into the camera, hands folded in front of his groin, with a large crucifix around his neck and a tiny white cap.
4/7/26, 12:21 PM
"TRULY UNACCEPTABLE": Pope Leo XIV
just delivered one of the clearest moral rebukes yet of Trump's dangerous and psychotic war rhetoric. And it couldn't come at a more important time.
"Today as we all know there was this threat against all the people of Iran. This is truly unacceptable," the Pope said, warning that attacks on civilian infrastructure violate international law."

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skryptical @skryptical.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Black Man Spy substack.com/@malcolmnance warcast daily today showed a terrain map of the crash area in Iran (image). It's inside a series of steep mountain ranges you can see on the left side of the country. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...

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skryptical @skryptical.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

The livable cities and places where salaries are highest are not the same places sometimes. Here, Portland ME, Bellevue WA, and San Ramon CA are the best bets for good places to live. Richmond maybe. The others are too dry and hot, too cold, or too hostile to outsiders, IMO. Maine is lovely & cold

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skryptical @skryptical.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Before DHS was formed in response to 9/11, the airlines ran their own security. The airline CEOs backed Trump, who pulled their revenue out from under them by repelling international travelers almost completely.

illustration of a tardigrade playing a microscopic violin.

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skryptical @skryptical.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

"in 4 hours" is the relative timestamp on this article.

Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism

| Rutger Bregman by Rutger Bregman • in 4 hours

As a historian, l've studied the major consumer boycotts of history.

We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman

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skryptical @skryptical.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

This? If you're the ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent, you are the news.

Screenshot of Twitter bio of Jonathan Karl
@jonkarl

ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent. Author of "RETRIBUTION: Donald Trump and the Campaign that Changed America" - Order here: bit.ly/43PjGNN
Washington, DC
jonathankarl.com
Joined August 2008

Tweets 21,227
Following 1,196
Followers 310,422
Likes 5,869

Post:
March 2: 'Pres Trump told me tonight the US had identified possible candidates to take over Iran, but they were killed in the initial attack.

"The attack was so successful it knocked out most of the candidates," Trump told me. "It's not going to be anybody that we were thinking of because they are all dead. Second or third place is dead."'

March 2: 'In another phone call this evening, President Trump told me this about the death of Ayatollah Khamenei:

"I got him before he got me. They tried twice. Well I got him first."

That’s a reference to what US intelligence believes was a plot to kill Trump in 2024.'

RT @Khamenei_fa (Feb 28) Image: Illustration of bombs falling and a shadowy figure with a glowing sword, its tip like a snake's tongue. Words in Persian.

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skryptical @skryptical.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

The American left's Save America Movement saveamericamovement.substack.com/p/icymi-we-a... (not to be confused with the .com site, which is information control through home schooling nonsense)

Pink panel truck as billboard with Melania movie poster image says "Make f*ck get green card"

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skryptical @skryptical.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

The Uncle Sam poster is my favorite of the bunch, but generally I seem to like the use of obvious AI for political cartooning.

When Fascism came to America, no one crawled on their bellies and kissed the boot more willingly than those who once defiantly shouted "Don't Tread On Me" @stonekettle.bsky.social [White men doing just that.]

A woman standing in front of a line of 3 ICE SUVs as if holding them at bay with her phone camera; which mimics the famous Tank Man photo of Tienanmen Square.

Hegseth sitting on the Iron Throne like King Joffrey, but the throne is made of liquor bottles instead of swords.

Satirical poster showing Uncle Sam: "I want you [unintelligible letter-shapes]" (A response to Hegseth's requiring the US military "to use AI".

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skryptical @skryptical.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

What's with the hair on these sons of gentry?

Two other elite scions with the same uncanny, foreheady, vaguely vampirish look as the accused.

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skryptical @skryptical.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Tacoma, a Washington State port south of Seattle, saw this container ship today. Another view is in the Reddit comments: www.reddit.com/r/Tacoma/com... An altered color image for people who can't see anything interesting in the first photo (red/green): imgur.com/HnM87Uu It's a birthday card but...

A container ship seen sideways with containers shown on end. The square ends spell rEnEE in red containers surrounded by green containers with 6 blue ones on the bottom where they ran out of green.

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skryptical @skryptical.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

I saw this answer right after reading that question.

K. Chen@tznkai.bsky.social
"parents linked arms to block the school entrance"

QP:
Brendan Nyhan •@brendannyhan.bsky.social •

A teacher literally shaking as she describes the threat from her own government to the children she teaches www.theatlantic.com/ politics/202...
Bauer, who is 49, struggled to maintain her composure as she described the day early this month when ICE showed up in force outside her school. Agent had been circling the school since December, seemingly learning its routines, and they arrested some parents just before the winter break. But this time, agents leapt out in riot gear and began entering the apartments just across from the school, where many students live.
"We had to lock down and keep the kids inside, and parents linked arms to block the school entrance," Bauer said. "We had a student who was looking out the window and saw them break into his apartment and just sobbed,
'That's my house. That's my home.' And we shut the blinds, but it was too late."
Bauer has been a teacher for 25 years, a period that has included a rise of school shootings and the drills that have become common to protect against them. "But I never thought it would be our own government we had to protect the kids from," she told me. "We kept them physically safe, but they saw what happened."
As she spoke, Bauer's hands were trembling. She held them up and smiled weakly. "I don't think I've stopped shaking for two weeks," she said.

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skryptical @skryptical.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

ICE is losing hearts and minds, and you don't need a college education to understand why it's evil. bsky.app/profile/rinc... The table put back together, because.

Image of tabular data about ICE approval by various slices of young US voters. Strongly disapprove runs from 41%-72%. See quoted skeet for NYTimes link to more accessible data from this poll.

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skryptical @skryptical.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

The winner (derogatory) of the election was the majority of people who couldn't be bothered to care whether we ended up with a president who likes ultraviolence and ethnic cleansing.

Pie chart: US Presidential 2024 Voter Distribution.
Non-voter 93,440,400 (38.1%);
Trump 75,888,881 (31.0%);
Harris 72,876,600 (29.8%);
Third Party 2,614,009 (1.1%);
Notes:
Data from 11/14/24
Estimated 97.1% of the total vote counted
6 of the 7 swing states had increased voter turnout. Sources:
Axios, Cook Political Report

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skryptical @skryptical.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Barely pronounceable. But the algorithm seems fond of your avatar:

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skryptical @skryptical.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

This is why I can’t support @npr.org anymore. I will support my local public broadcasting station though, because they have figured out how to report on the Trump regime. NPR thinks this will save them extortion money probably.

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skryptical @skryptical.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

This chart was posted last night by @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy. I would add that the Zombie phase can confer brand loyalty and provide a community of enthusiasts for the next wave of new-product experiments. Ideally open-sourcing can continue maintenance that users need.

A line graph with 3 lines on it: Gartner Group Hype Cycle curve, Cumulative Consumer Adoption S-Curve and artistic use. The X-axis is not labeled, but it represents the relative number of users. Y-axis is time.

The timeline is broken into 3 phases, first NEW MEDIAL PHASE (artists using technologies, companies discussing potentials), CONSUMER COMMODITY PHASE (engineering maturation of hardware and business model or content, artists less interested unless work dealing with the "everyday"), and the ZOMBIE PHASE (mainstream obsolescence, mature technologies available at no cost, reuse by counterculture)

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skryptical @skryptical.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

I was hoping this wasn't real but it sure looks like it was shot at the same scene as yours.

A photo appearing to show Donald Trump groping Bill Clinton when they were both a bit younger. Both are red-faced and laughing for the photographer.

Post by Sean II @sdhaeus2.bsky.social Nov 14 2025: I didn't need ten to find out that this wasn't just a joke.

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skryptical @skryptical.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Vetnamese mossy tree frog Theloderma corticale

A comically lumpy green and brown frog perching on someone's fingertip

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skryptical @skryptical.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

www.realclearpolling.com/polls/approv... news.gallup.com/poll/696722/... GOP still love Trump (91%!) but independent and democratic folk are at 33 and 6 percent approval, according to Gallup. This fight to oust the kleptocrats will come down to voter turnout, as usual.

President Trump Job Approval graph shows him going negative in the polls in March and continuing downward. Disapproval graph shows a line of mountains ascending to the right with a near-vertical jump to 55% in early November. Approval is at 41%, down 15 points from January.

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skryptical @skryptical.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

A helpful visual aid on neo-nazi symbols. CW for Germany and survivors.

20 neo-nazi symbols are shown on a poster called "Public Warning: most Nazis don't wear swastikas. Familiarize yourself with these symbols and keep your eyes open: Know your enemy! Symbols include specific runes, crosses, one skull and crossbones in 3D 3/4 view, a few specific sun symbols, not-equal sign, and the numbers 88, 14, 92, 18.

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