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Gerald Jinx @smooshadin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Be real about the quality of your last McDonald's meal. Was it really worth the price? It's not good, it's not food, it actually makes us sick. Now they're using AI to price gouge you, in this economy? www.engadget.com/2272211/mcdo...

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McDonald's is reportedly using AI to "dynamically" price its burgers - Engadget

Its food isn't the only thing leaving a bad taste in customers' mouths.

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Gerald Jinx @smooshadin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If you hit your head, just bang your shin and rub it, problem solved! I'm just kidding, the science is actually pretty interesting. www.sciencealert.com/squeezing-a-...

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Squeezing a Leg Bone Helped Animals Recover From Brain Injury

At first glance, searching for a way to heal an injured brain in the leg makes little sense.

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Gerald Jinx @smooshadin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Amazon is paying for advertisements talking about how they partner with organizations in Seattle to deliver 6.1 million meals to those in need. But they STILL won't pay their workers a living wage.

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Gerald Jinx @smooshadin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The Flock contracts are with government agencies. Government agencies are bound by the Constitution. This is a Fourth Amendment violation. The government has been trampling on our right to privacy since the Patriot Act. This is decades of groundwork bearing fruit www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

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Hackers find encryption keys stored on stolen Flock camera despite company's denials — group extracts more than 27,000 clips, 1.6 million images captured in a span of 21 days from the device

Flock claims that images are only briefly stored on its cameras before being forwarded to the company’s servers, but a group of hackers determined that this wasn’t the case.

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Gerald Jinx @smooshadin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

There you have it. Robert Kraft got together with some billionaire buddies and said "no free speech in my stadiums." Then that little bitch Ed Sheeran, made sure he licked that boot as clean as he could. Ed can't stop for dead children, what about his fans, omg. www.themirror.com/sport/americ...

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Robert Kraft issues statement on Macklemore after he says NFL owner banned him

Robert Kraft says he will "not provide a platform for Jewish hate" after Macklemore announced that Ed Sheeran had him removed from his tour following Macklemore's Palestine comments

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Gerald Jinx @smooshadin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is why lawmakers like @gluesenkampperez.house.gov are not good enough to represent us. Reps like her, the ones too stupid or uninterested to understand the long term impacts of this administrations actions, are why American progress is being set back decades. www.psypost.org/federal-scie...

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Federal science funding cuts push young U.S. researchers to consider moving abroad

Abrupt cuts to federal science funding are threatening the American research workforce. A new survey indicates that early career scientists face severe professional disruptions, pushing many to consid...

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Gerald Jinx @smooshadin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"The IRS arguably holds Americans’ most sensitive information, more so than any other federal agency, and for the better part of 2025, it quietly handed over that information, to the tune of about 47,000 records, to the Department of Homeland Security." slate.com/news-and-pol...

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The IRS Gave ICE Some Information It Really Shouldn’t Have. There Will Be Consequences for All of Us.

The information taxpayers give the IRS is supposed to be for the IRS’s eyes only.

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Gerald Jinx @smooshadin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Amazon is paying for Ads in Washington to highlight how they're "partnering to build affordable housing in Puget Sound." so humane of Amazon right? Meanwhile, their employees still won't receive a living wage. What good is company housing you still can't afford? fortune.com/2026/09/13/a...

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Amazon workers on food stamps have tripled despite its record revenue—and it’s just the latest evidence of the new economy of shrinking labor shares | Fortune

“These are families that are really barely able to make ends meet,” one policy expert said. “And yet they are working, and they are working a lot.”

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Gerald Jinx @smooshadin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Just listened to a commercial for the NFL something pass on TV. For the low low price of only $30 dollars a month for 8 months...🤣We've really lost the plot.

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Gerald Jinx @smooshadin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Every "smart" device is just another way to harvest your data and sell it. We are the product, our information is constantly being bought and sold. Of course your TV is spying on you. So is Alexa, your Roomba, your phone, computer, tablet, smart glasses, etc etc. www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

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LG strongly denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true' — online investigation claims 216,000,000 TVs spy and record audio

TVs were also said to be recording, scanning local area networks, logging data, and recording audio while in standby.

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Gerald Jinx @smooshadin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Did Musk "fix" the 2024 Presidential Election? "Musk has previously criticized the documentary, calling it a “hit piece” on X in March 2023, shortly after the project was announced. Gibney responded at the time, “How would you know?” people.com/elon-musk-th...

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Elon Musk Claims New Documentary Falsely Accuses Him of Manipulating 2024 Election, Threatens Legal Action

Elon Musk’s attorney is threatening legal action over a new documentary that allegedly suggests the trillionaire manipulated the 2024 presidential election, PEOPLE has learned.

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Gerald Jinx @smooshadin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Amazon posting ads that say they've helped fund more than 10k affordable homes in the Puget Sound area since 2021 is pretty wild. They won't pay their workers a living wage though.

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Gerald Jinx @smooshadin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

For this administration "serious national security threat," just means not white. @gluesenkampperez.house.gov doesn't mind that though. I guess #WA-03 doesn't mind that much either.

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Gerald Jinx @smooshadin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

@gluesenkampperez.house.gov Could you imagine a country so morally bankrupt that their leader allows an attack, just for an excuse to start a war? Anyway #WA-03 I know you picked Marie to be the Democratic nominee for November. I'm done voting for Israel though. www.france24.com/en/middle-ea...

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UAE leader warned Netanyahu of Hamas attack days before October 7, says report

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faced strong backlash from opposition leaders on Tuesday after a report published by Haaretz newspaper said UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan warned…

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Gerald Jinx @smooshadin.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I'm not one to give relationship advice, but this seems like good advice. Especially in the current age of the "man-o-sphere." www.gottman.com/blog/an-intr...

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An Introduction to Emotional Bids and Trust

Turning toward your partner's bids for emotional connection builds trust in your relationship.

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Gerald Jinx @smooshadin.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

@gluesenkampperez.house.gov But keep voting to send our money to Israel Marie. I mean that's probably why you won the primary, and I'm sure the voters around here will be stoked to vote for you in November. It's nice to have a representative that's worried about American problems s/.

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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Charlotte Wainwright restoring and saving old/ancient books. www.wainwrightbookbinding.com

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 05/09/2026

Good news: he lost.

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Gerald Jinx @smooshadin.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"The US Constitution doesn’t provide a right to clean drinking water or accurate information from public officials, a divided federal appeals court ruled." This is really going to come into relevance as the impacts of climate change start ramping up. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

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Constitution Doesn’t Cover Right to Clean Water, Court Rules (1)

The US Constitution doesn’t provide a right to clean drinking water or accurate information from public officials, a divided federal appeals court ruled.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/09/2026

we have had extensive ratfucking campaigns run by foreign countries in support of the republican party and it is high time the world's liberal democracies got in on the ratfucking in the other direction it's an existential issue for them

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God @thegodshow.com · 02/09/2026

Thou shalt not use SHOCK GLOVES and ROBOT DOGS on HUMANS who just want to live in peace.

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is it, Nerds. Today the last chapter is live. SO if you've been waiting till the whole thing is out there to read The Sundered God, it's your lucky day. The whole thing is free online. www.crownsforgotten.com/2026/09/01/c...

A human man in dramatic and dark lighting with a dark background. Half his face is a skull. There's smoke rising in front of him (though it's unlikely that he can smoke well without proper lips).

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Gerald Jinx @smooshadin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Won't see this kind of innovation in America these days. Too many interested parties would lose money. www.worldfoodprize.org/en/laureates...

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2025: Hungria - The World Food Prize - Improving the Quality, Quantity and Availability of Food in the World

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Gerald Jinx @smooshadin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I'm so tired of every online entity "updating" their user policies and shit as another way to surveil us. I've been an adult on YouTube for years, all of a sudden they can't verify me and need a picture of my ID? Fuck that noise.

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Gerald Jinx @smooshadin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

What if aliens really visited ancient Egypt? Some of the Egyptians were like, "we'll go check it out, if it's chill we'll come get you." Thousands of years later they come back to this like, "What the fuck!?" Then decided not to contact us.

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Oh, uhh No Thanks Meme

Alt: Gene Wilder saying "Oh, uhh No Thanks" Meme

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Gerald Jinx @smooshadin.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This administration is intentionally shuffling the people ICE take into custody. If they're always in transit, they become difficult to locate, without the government having to commit perjury in court. This is why lawyers and family can't locate people taken by ICE www.reddit.com/r/ThatsInsan...

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From the ThatsInsane community on Reddit: The deportation machine is like a huge money laundering scheme

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Gerald Jinx @smooshadin.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

@gluesenkampperez.house.gov I think it's pathetic that our country is being run by abusers that demand everyone either take the abuse, or they'll abuse even harder. I think it's pathetic that we have lawmakers that only focus on corporate or AIPAC issues. What an embarrassment our leaders are.

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Gerald Jinx @smooshadin.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

This kind of America doesn't bother @gluesenkampperez.house.gov . It excites MAGA, and it's the kind of thing Stephen Miller jerks off to before he heads to sleep, and dreams of the Fourth Reich. What kind of Americans are we? Is this us? www.reddit.com/r/PublicFrea...

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From the PublicFreakout community on Reddit: ICE drag mom & teen daughter out of hospital room—in middle of being treated after car accident.

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Gerald Jinx @smooshadin.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I hope we realize that everything currently being done to minorities and immigrants in this country is simply a test run for their real plans. Flock violates our Fourth Amendment rights. www.reddit.com/r/SipsTea/co...

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From the SipsTea community on Reddit: Flock cares about their privacy, but not yours.

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Gerald Jinx @smooshadin.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The military propaganda machine is about to ramp up. Get ready to be dazzled by how well we're doing in Iran. Only the party line may be reported, anything else is punishable. apnews.com/article/star...

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Stars and Stripes editor says he has been fired for insubordination after doing interview

The editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes says the Pentagon has fired him as well as its publisher and a reporter.

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Gerald Jinx @smooshadin.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

You can, or rather you could, still see herds of wild horses all across the country. Oh well, I mean we can't just let horses run around doing whatever they want can we? www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopl...

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From the WhitePeopleTwitter community on Reddit: Trump is selling off America's wild horses to be slaughtered

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