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smikes.bsky.social @smikes.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

So I just read Aristophanes /The Clouds/ and it was a banger, but I really struggle to think how its .. useful perspective could be used in today’s media environment

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Laura Woods @woodsiegirl.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

I once read a comment saying something like "if you choose not to laugh at farts, your life will contain less laughter but still the same amount of farts". I think about that a lot.

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

I'm muting this because there are only so many hundred times a guy can bear having the words "What in the ACTUAL fuck" in his mentions but I will note the original CTV article is fairly scant on details, this French interview has more details: www.noovo.info/video/je-me-... here's a rough summary:

Rough summary of the French clip:
• He was fishing on the Canadian side of the border, he's fished this lake for 40 years
• The USCG ship pulls up and says "turn off your engine", he complies.
• USCG says "you're on the American side", they start getting aggressive, yelling orders, talking about how they're going to impound his boat.
• He says he knows this lake and he's not on the US side but, hey, if you guys want to interrogate me, we can do it back on shore, not out here in the open water
• The USCG ship blocks his path back to the north, and begin pushing him backwards southward, toward the US side. The man believes they were trying to push him to the border so they could justify the arrest.
• It seems he tries to get around their boat to go back north. At some point their boats collide and the much larger USCG boat capsizes his fishing boat. He says he nearly drowned. As he was in the water, the USCG was more concerned with tying his boat to theirs than trying to rescue him.
• They detained him, took him to the American side, fingerprinted him, didn’t give him a phone call.

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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

I saw somebody on TikTok using the word 'slopper' as a slur for people who use ChatGPT, and that's a thing we should start doing.

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Drawing Doll @mathraptor.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

A reminder to any who think they aren't affected by any of these "porn bans" need to read up on history. Purges of purity like this led to the Comics Code Authority, and the demonization of Horror as a genre across all mediums. "Smut" to the fascist is a pretty wide net for anything they dislike.

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

The Ugly Laws, a series of state laws at the turn of the 20th century, banned disabled, mentally ill and unhoused people from public places. This + other eugenic law like forced sterilization and interracial marriage bans were such comprehensive body of legislation the Nazis studied and cited them.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

well how does that admission help anyone now senator

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smikes.bsky.social @smikes.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Executive orders aren’t laws.

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smikes.bsky.social @smikes.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

So here’s a thing. A contact (college friend’s spouse) just blew themself up on Facebook over .. the tone, I guess? .. of how my partner posted a news article. “I’m mad that you said, ‘your house is on fire’ instead of ‘excuse me, may I please tell you your house is on fire’!” Is my best analogy

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smikes.bsky.social @smikes.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Louder for the people in back.. Optimization requires stability, most processes never even get to the stage where they are stable. Even getting a process under control is distressingly rare.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

The leadership of Columbia University is contemptible Vichy scum. To its professors who stay: that’s who you choose to work for, the obeisance to totalitarianism you choose to promote? To students who stay: those are your values?

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

We’re at the part in the rise of fascism where the official Homeland Security account is posting neo-Nazi propaganda. Update your clocks accordingly!

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soonergrunt @soonergrunt.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

YOU ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE VERSIONS OF YOU THAT OTHER PEOPLE HAVE CREATED IN THEIR OWN MINDS.

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Jan Beta @janbeta.net · 23/07/2025

A viewer sent me an email, asking me to look over a schematic for an autofire circuit that he had a generative AI create for him. This is the circuit he sent me. It doesn’t make any sense. I sent him a circuit that works from an old magazine I used before. Don’t fricking trust AI with anything.

An AI generated circuit for a classic 555 timer IC based autofire. Many components miss connections, nearly everything is mislabeled, there’s a transistor that doesn’t make any sense and many more things that render this utterly useless.
It looks plausible at the surface if you don’t know how to read schematics but it won’t work at all (you would even have trouble building it in the first place).

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smikes.bsky.social @smikes.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

We are selling our home in Edmonton, Alberta; it’s close to the University of Alberta, so might appeal to faculty escaping the USA.. DM for the listing.

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Craig Gilmore @craiggilmore.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Trump's detention plans depend on ICE leasing (or buying) cages from states or counties. We need to monkeywrench those processes and destroy those cages -- or as @silkys13.bsky.social puts it, "Unbuild Walls" www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2213-u...

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Unbuild Walls

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Osama Dorias @osamadorias.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

To everyone affected by the recent Microsoft (and other) layoffs, you didn’t deserve this. Let’s be clear: the state of the industry right now is not your fault.

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

current projections: 1) mao 2) stalin 3) hitler 4) roughly a tie between leopold II and elon musk 5) winston churchhill 6) pol pot 7) idi amin

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

If I had said this last year, that Trump would try and deport US citizens in his first year, all Republicans and a nontrivial number of liberals and centrists would have attacked me for behind hyperbolic, and fear-mongering, and of having Trump Derangement Syndrome. And yet:

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Possum Acquainter @possumacquainter.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

bad news for Mamdani: i just imagined him shooting at my feet with two revolvers while shouting "dance! dance, ya varmint, dance!!" and then cackling so maniacally that his cowboy hat falls off. When will he go on TV to apologize for doing this

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smikes.bsky.social @smikes.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Jonathan Swift describing LLMs in Gulliver’s Travels: “by his Contrivance, the most ignorant Person at a reasonable Charge, and with a little bodily Labour, may write Books in Philosophy, Poetry, Politicks, Law, Mathematicks, and Theology, without the least Assistance from Genius or Study.”

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

We have to figure out how to take care of each other and fight alongside one another which means we have to actually, like, listen to each other.

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 29/06/2025

If you say that America is poised to institutionalize a police state - that the reality of concentration camps and regularized disappearances will become an ongoing facet of life - you'll still receive eye-rolls and clucked tongues. But that is not a possibility of this budget, it is the purpose.

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smikes.bsky.social @smikes.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Of course in America, there would be promotional merchandise for the concentration camp before it is even built.

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Aaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com · 30/06/2025

The correct response to someone who wears something like this is to cut them out of your life. Even if they're a member of your family. The only way through this moment is to draw lines and hold to them.

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Andy Birkey @andybirkey.com · 27/06/2025

I spent a decade writing about how these people were acquiring power and a lot of progressive leaders would come up to me and tell me I was wasting my time. I hate that I, and other journalists and activists, were right. But the warnings were there. And here we are.

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2025

friends, I am in a six hour call that’s supposed to be a high level overview of a certain embedded software runtime. The current slide contains a discussion of the garbage collection subsystem and heap management, and also a diagram of how an individual cell of static ram works with the […]

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Fascists talk about feminism to destroy trans people. They talk about equality to destroy diversity. They talk about fairness to destroy justice. Stop extending to fascists any benefit of the doubt, and withdraw it from any who insist on extending it. They are just two arms of the same beast.

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SnarkeeBeachGal @snarkeebeachgal.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

These daily ICE updates read like German Train Schedules from 95 years ago and just as EVIL. Don't any American dare say or claim, "We didn't KNOW". #NeverForgetGotForgotten

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Le Ca-ghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

As usual, @juliusgoat.bsky.social nails the discourse to a wall www.the-reframe.com/winning-the-...

And let's name the rarely mentioned "progressive purity test" that we're supposed to pragmatically abandon in the name of solidarity: The demand of this purity test is that we not compromise on universal human dignity and equality under the law. I suppose you could say that insisting on the rights of all people, including all trans people, is issuing a "political purity test." But why would you do so, while also ignoring the fact that those who refuse to enter the tent unless you push trans people out of the tent are also issuing a political purity test?

To me it seems what these "win the center" types are objecting to is not purity tests per se, but rather a negotiation over which purity tests we ought to prioritize over others, and who we ought to mean when we say "we."

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smikes.bsky.social @smikes.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Remember when there were bookstores? Thanks, bezos.

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marie @pyromance.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

if the state had wanted her dead, there would have been no way to stop our deranged president from babbling about her before

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Z 🌲 @znm287.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

We literally just had political assassinations. How do people forget that

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 29/06/2025

Mamdani must explain his tweet from 1740 BC claiming that Ea-nāṣir had "high quality copper"

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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

I feel like I'm losing my mind. Here is the transcript of what Zohran Mamdani actually said about the phrase "globalize the intifada." This is his "refusal to disavow it." This is what has people terrified. Just fucking read it. Source: podscripts.co/podcasts/the...

Q: So I wonder what you think about that, about the phrase “globalize the intifada” and what we've seen as some anti-semitism coming from the left-wing protesters.

A: The first thing as you were saying is anti-semitism is a real issue in our city and it's one that can be captured in statistics, the ones that you're citing. It's also one that you will feel in conversations you have with Jewish New Yorkers across the city. And I remember one conversation I had with a friend of mine after the horrific war crime of October 7th. He was telling me that he went for Shabbat services at his temple and he was facing forward when he heard the door open. And he turned back with a chill going up his spine because he didn't know who was coming in. And that's more than a year ago.

And then just a few weeks ago, I had a conversation with a Jewish man in Williamsburg who told me that the same door he would keep unlocked for decades is one that he now locks out of a fear of what could happen in his own neighborhood. And I think that this is something that has to be the focus of the next mayoral administration, is not just talking about it, but tackling it. And these are the conversations that have informed our commitment around increasing funding for anti-hate crime programming by 800% in our Department of Community Safety.

To the question of language that's being used. I am someone who I would say am less comfortable with the idea of banning the use of certain words and that I think it is more evocative of a Trump style approach to how to lead a country. And-

Q: Does that just make you uncomfortable? Like the phrase globalizing intifada. And like the phrase from the river to the sea, does that make you uncomfortable? Or do you think-

A: Okay, those are different. Those are super different.

Q: They're not really.

A: Those are like different genres.

Q: I'm sorry, I'm asking so wrong. Then they're not really different to me. And to some people they are not different.

A: I know people for whom those things mean very different things. And to me, ultimately, what I hear in so many is a desperate desire for equality and equal rights in standing up for Palestinian human rights. And I think what's difficult also is that the very word has been used by the Holocaust Museum when translating the Warsaw ghetto uprising into Arabic because it's a word that means struggle. And as a Muslim man who grew up post-911, I'm all too familiar in the way in which Arabic words can be twisted, can be distorted, can be used to justify any kind of meaning. And I think that's where it leaves me with a sense that what we need to do is focus on keeping Jewish New Yorkers safe. And the question of the permissibility of language is something that I haven't ventured.

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Gabrielle @gabbklein.myatproto.social · 29/06/2025

Idk if this is true, but either way Princip should absolutely fuckin not become the next mayor of NYC.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 29/06/2025

I genuinely cannot believe how many Democrats are spending their energy on destroying Mamdani when the GOP is trying to turn ICE into a full on secret police by drastically raising their budget

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smikes.bsky.social @smikes.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

This is a good time to remind everyone that the US is not party to either of the UN conventions regarding statelessness.

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Three👁️Eyed👁️Devil👁️ @anarcish.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

“Independence day is canceled because of fear of secret police raids” is really a level of on the nose political symbolism you just can’t make up.

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smikes.bsky.social @smikes.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

This is a toughie. Trying to appeal to conservatives actually a better way to spend time, because conservatives *might* have principles.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

cannot imagine a bigger waste of time than trying to appeal to moderates

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 29/06/2025

I mean, look, if Mamdani actually had invented time travel, went back in time and invented Twitter so it existed six years before it was created, to tweet about something that happened when he was 9 yeas old, with a picture of him at age 33, well... then maybe it's something to talk about...

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Data Against Fascism @dataagainstfascism.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

It's Disappeared in America Day (Jun 26) and we will post the names of the disappeared every hour. Some persons have been released. Know that for each name we DO know, there are likely 10,000 we DON'T. We ask for the neighbor snatching to end and for the return of those unjustly deported. Solidarity

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Robin Stevenson @robinstevenson.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Here is the OG Pride Puppy (plus some alphabet book his person wrote). SCOTUS decision likely coming tomorrow morning 😬... so pleeeeease share all your favorite pride puppy photos with me tonight!

A blue roan spaniel wearing a rainbow pride bandana, sitting on a deck chair in the sunshine, with a copy of the picture book Pride Puppy beside him.

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