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Just some cishet white guy on the internet. Software developer, HEMA amateur, art lover, occasional traveler, sometimes writer, often reader, liker of many posts.

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zach @extrafabulous.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
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Man, standing on a cliff in front of a lighthouse: I am a lighthouse keeper 
man scrubbing wall of lighthouse: I keep her bricks nice and clean 
Man turning off the power to the lighthouse at night: I turn her light off at night so she can sleep 
Man cleaning up shipwrecked bodies off the shore in front of lighthouse: I clean her Beach every morning
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endeavorance 🕊️ @endeavorance.camp · 27/09/2026
I’ve spent the past eight or so years trying to explain to people just how unhinged the valley tech scene has become. Saying “literally a cult” sounds like an exaggeration, but people don’t realize their little chatbot app is run by people who are in a sex and/or death cult (depends on the day)
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Mining Orca @miningorca.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Day 2 of drawing Deadlock every day until Yoshi finally drops the big patch. Rem's handling it better than we are. #deadlock #rem #fanart
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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
this is fantastic and I learned something new
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Imagine agreeing with the Dems who say we need to better train ICE officers therefore they will have better aim
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Ajuna Soerjadi 🌸 @ethicsofai.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
For real!! Comedian Micky Overman says it like it is. Generally the only people even entertaining the thought of evil AGI are men. Women are too busy fixing the ACTUAL problems of AI, like idk, the way it automates, reproduces and exacerbates misogyny and makes all our lives worse...
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Dinosaur Comics! @qwantz.com · 18/09/2026
when you think about it, writers are really mean to people who, on top of everything else, don't even EXIST yet www.qwantz.com/index.php?co...
T-Rex: Sherlock Holmes, who was the world's greatest detective but complete rubbish at baking, sighed.

T-Rex: His latest cake was, once again, complete rubbish!T-Rex: He was BEYOND frustrated. He'd TRIED using his detective skills to deduce why his cakes sucked so bad, but even so, they only ever told him why THIS cake sucked (he accidentally used a cup of baking soda instead of a teaspoon) and not why the NEXT cake would suck.
Dromiceiomimus: They always sucked for a completely new reason?
T-Rex: They ALWAYS sucked for a completely NEW reason!!
Utahraptor: Surely at some point he'd run out of new ways to ruin cakes?
T-Rex: You'd think!

T-Rex: "But sadly there are SO MANY WAYS to ruin a cake," Sherlock sighed, as he put his batter into the oven on the top rack instead of the centre one, which would, 40 minutes later, burn the cake's top while leaving the bottom underdone.
Utahraptor: Sherlock, no!!
T-Rex: He can't hear you! He's fictional!!
T-Rex: And he's having the WORST DAY of his FICTIONAL LIFE - and to make matters EVEN WORSE, the WHOLE WORLD is going to hear about it, because I'm writing it down and publishing it all!!
Off panel: Nooooooo
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Shout out to everyone who said it was just a temporary distraction and not a central organizing principle of modern fascism.
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Elon Musk’s PAC makes transgender people its multi-million-dollar midterm target
America PAC is attacking Democrats in four competitive Senate races as the trillionaire prepares to spend at least $100 million helping Republicans.
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 03/09/2026
Hegseth pauses busy schedule of inspecting soldiers’ scrotums to make weird comments about Canadian teens’ bodies
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Hegseth pauses busy schedule of inspecting soldiers’ scrotums to make weird comments about Canadian teens’ bodies
WASHINGTON D.C. - Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has posted disparaging comments about female Canadian Air Force cadets, all while maintaining his busy schedule of personally inspecting the testicles o...
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♿ hiding from plagues - Always masked - N95 or bust @smollestbunny2.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Remember when the panama papers came out and journalists were murdered for it and then the public memory holed it
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026
No. www.fastcompany.com/91597829/fit...
“It’s pretty much the command center of your family, where you integrate all the health data from your family, safety information, and other coordination tasks, and the system is highlighting what’s most urgent that the family needs to see, view, and act on at that moment,” Park says.“Park offers an example of a note a user might use the Luffu Link’s voice logging button to add to the system: Mom was really agitated today as I gave her her medication.
“That’s an actually important psychological observation about somebody. But am I going to bring out my phone, fire up an app, and log that on the go when I’m harried or busy with other tasks?” he says. “This is really meant to capture things in that moment. Even for yourself, it’s like, Hey, I’m feeling this way as I do this or do that.””

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“Fitbit’s founders designed a wearable for the whole family”
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https://apple.news/A5nlYd445TWCAKN-fEUexLg
This material may be protected by copyright.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Every Republican candidate and elected official must immediately condemn Republican influencer and activist Catturd for this terrible opinion, since those are now the rules.
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root @freshroots.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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Bits @bitshammer.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Yeah. That's a thing unfortunately. Right up there with people reading satire as an endorsement for worst media takes you can make.
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Nate Pentz @natepentz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
There is so much amazing crop art this year at the Minnesota State Fair focused on the resistance to the ICE occupation we faced, this one in particular had me choked up.
Crop art with a whistle text says 

I can't keep doing this 
I have to keep doing this
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🦷👁️Alex Rochon👁️🦷 @alexrochonva.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The most charitable way I can think to describe this sad, sad week is that there are more good, beloved entertainers in the world that we give credit for, and they vastly outnumber the worst of us.
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DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 27/08/2026
The original ‘COYOTE VS. ACME’ protestor has finally revealed their identity. (Source: www.instagram.com/reel/Dchqf9Q...)
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The rapid way in which this has just become an accepted daily feature of American politics, rather than an immediate presidency-ending scandal, is yet another reminder that @tompepinsky.com was right a decade ago, despite all the people who didn’t want to hear it then & still don’t now.
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Life in authoritarian states is mostly boring and tolerable
Americans have an overly dramatic view what the end of democracy looks like.
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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Adapting to climate change without ending the fossil fuel industry.
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Katt @sarcastickatt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
We gotta get gaudier for Dolly, and weirder for Tim.
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Scott "KaiserNeko" Frerichs @kaiserneko.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tim Curry was an inspiration, an icon, and huge player in many of the works that have inspired me. I was always struck by his immense charisma, remarkable charm, and stellar comedic timing and delivery. From Rocky Horror Picture Show to Clue to Muppet Treasure Island... Rest in Peace, you legend.
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TarZangief @tarzangief.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"Neutral in the culture war"
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Ryan Dunlavey > NYCC table L-24 @ryandunlavey.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I was just talking to a friend today about Dolly Parton's Imagination Library - new books every month, totally for free, for kids ages 1-5. My son was part of the program - this is a copy of the letter that came with his last book, right after his 5th birthday.
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Bits @bitshammer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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Tyler Walpole ➡️ NYCC @tylerwalpole.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
We're back, baby! I've been dying to share this art I created for the MotU Secret Lair! I was absolutely in love with the He-Man cartoon when I was a wee-tot, so this was a very special assignment for me. #mtg #secretlairmtg #motu #skeletor #mastersoftheuniverse
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poorly drawn cats @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
made a silly video because i couldn’t stop thinking about what would a siren sing to a cat
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Democrat Cats @democratcats.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Morning Meerkittens
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Darci Meadows, Published Author @saintwalker98.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Captain Picard with a speech balloon implying he's saying the repost
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Yes, but also, every media outlet's journalists should be at the Capitol asking the <Republicans> - John Thune & Mike Johnson & the Chairs of the House & Senate Foreign Relations committees - why they are standing by & doing nothing while He destroys our closest alliances: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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Bits @bitshammer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
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Peter Fobian @peterfobian.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social when he's asked if he supports DSA: "I'm trying to pass the legislation my voters actually want" Hakeem when asked of he supports medicare for all: "no"???
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
One of Iain Banks’ Culture novels, but I don’t know how I’d choose which individual one. On Use Of Weapons, Matter, Consider Phlebas, The Algebraist, Excession, The Player of Games, The Hydrogen Sonata; I mean they’d all be stunners
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 15/08/2026
At a family gathering recently: ME: It’s the ADHD. BROTHER-IN-LAW: Yeah, I get you all got that. Sounds rough. BIL’S DAUGHTER, CURRENTLY GETTING HER PSYCH DEGREE: ….Dad. She spent the rest of the evening quietly muttering diagnoses of her father to me. It was great.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Do it
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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
1989: U.S. EPA publishes report on reducing methane emissions from livestock 1992: “Beyond Beef” book published urging people to reduce beef consumption by 50% 1992: Industry attacks this book and launches the “Beef. It’s What’s for Dinner” PR campaign
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Katie (the other one) @kayfabegamergirl.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Thinking, as I often do, about this tumblr post
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WIRED @wired.com · 14/08/2026
The agency signed agreements to not enforce parts of three federal court orders against auto dealers accused of discrimination—and didn’t notify judges or at least one of its coplaintiffs. www.wired.com/story/ftc-st...
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FTC Strikes Deals to Ignore Unlawful Credit Discrimination
The agency signed agreements to not enforce parts of three federal court orders against auto dealers accused of discrimination—and didn’t notify judges or at least one of its coplaintiffs.
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Really glad @polphilpod.bsky.social is making this argument at length at @liberalcurrents.com The fascists really do believe what they say. That’s part of what makes them so dangerous. www.liberalcurrents.com/fascists-rea...
Imagine you think-as Elon Musk clearly does-that all of human civilization is dependent on maintaining pure-blooded white people as a significant portion of the world's population, and keeping them in charge of, and the overwhelming majority within, its most powerful states. What political agenda would follow from that?
Well, if that were true, then a demographic purge of those states would be desirable. Ethnic cleansing of that scale
is not possible with our existing political systems, so those systems would need to be done away with.
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Will Koehler @willk3d.com · 13/08/2026
To recap: No we didn't, but also we did, I don't remember her, but I remember she was fired for reasons, reasons I won't say, also she's a liar, not about what she said (which is true) but was said too soon (rude) we were just about to tell everyone ourselves (after they bought the game)
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The Count of S 🇧🇲🖼️✍️ @thecountofs.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 13/08/2026
tfw you have no idea that conservatives have been saying since the 1970s that if you have accessible and pleasant comms people, then "objective" journalists are easy to manipulate into thinking power and the disempowered are equal.
a bsky post from Eric Lipton NYT reading: 
One you might find surprising. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt & members of her team have been extremely helpful in responding to questions I raise. Regardless of public facing commentary, privately they are willing to engage and address questions. And I have appreciated that. Thank you
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A.G.Willow | comms open @handle.invalid · 13/08/2026
My (silly joke) version of this is "everyone has one Big Stupid Epic inside them, one with 20+ characters and multiple countries and the story ends in a Big Stupid War. Every 16 year old that attempts to write their BSE will learn many things very quickly. Mostly that it's a LOT of work to write"
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🦕Isaiah Cole Torre🦖 @isaiahctorre.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
A bit late with this, but I needed some time to get it just right. It's the least I can do to honor the memory of a man whose work helped shape who I am. Sam Neill, we'll all miss you. Rest easy, Dinosaur Man. #RIP #SamNeill #AlanGrant #JurassicPark #ArtTribute
Scene of Alan Grant laying back and resting alongside an anatomically accurate Triceratops horridus (with the color palate of the original Jurassic Park Trike) on a grassy hill under a magnolia tree in bloom. In the background, a herd of Parasaurolophus come down to a lake to drink while two brachiosaurs wade in the water.

Superimposed orange cursive text reads: RIP Sam Neill (1947-2026)
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TBSkyen @tbskyen.com · 11/08/2026
Your work will be called "porn" the moment it is convenient to power to define it that way. Solidarity is our only useful option.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
You’ll never guess when we were obsessing with everyone Suffering From Inflation™️
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BetsyBel @betsybel.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
As a person with an uncommon name pairing, I found out that someone with my name was being pursued for school loan default. School I definitely didn’t attend, different age, different FULL name, different birthday, but they called me for several years. Not like ICE
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Funny thing after September 11: I kept getting stopped at the airport b/c somehow the government confused me with a blind, Irish terrorist. And even after they confirmed that I was not in fact, a blind Irish terrorist, I kept getting upgraded to first class to sit next to the U.S. Marshal.
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