Reposted by @steve-rino.bsky.socialDr. Amy Acton @amyactonoh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The polls are open, Ohio!! Vote early between today and November 1. Head to actonforgovernor.com/vote for more information. 30746188
Reposted by @steve-rino.bsky.socialIf Books Could Kill @ifbookspod.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Episode 56: Why Men Love Bitches In 2002, a writer revealed the new rules of bold, confident 21st century women: Dress modestly, don’t put out and never, ever ask him to do chores.podcasts.apple.comWhy Men Love BitchesPodcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · October 5 · 1h 12m 3843224
Reposted by @steve-rino.bsky.socialBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/09/2026One of the less remarked-upon aspects of atheism is how it changes the way you see sunsets. If you believe in an omnipresent God, then sunsets are one of God's intentional creations, which means that the beautiful colors refracting through the darkling sky were *chosen* to produce that effect. 214842
Reposted by @steve-rino.bsky.socialSean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This from a man who has asked his son to monitor his on-line porn consumption. 1303420689
Reposted by @steve-rino.bsky.socialJustin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 17/09/2026static.klipy.comThe Simpsons: We've Tried NothingALT: The Simpsons: We've Tried Nothing 711442232
Reposted by @steve-rino.bsky.socialThe Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 16/09/2026OK. So I asked Gemini Pro if what it does is "reasoning." Then I asked it for its chain of thought. Then I asked it this. (Claude Opus produces something generally similar.) 1611520
Reposted by @steve-rino.bsky.socialMatt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online. 485297767668
Reposted by @steve-rino.bsky.socialViktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Reporter: Is it true the president is working with Satan? Mike Johnson: Who? Reporter: The bad guy from The Bible Mike Johnson: Not ringing any bells 1173292
Reposted by @steve-rino.bsky.socialMorgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Goodnight 🌙 322545
Reposted by @steve-rino.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/09/2026My man looks like a Teddy Ruxpin doll programmed by the Heritage Foundationthedailybeast.comJD Vance Called Out Over Hypocritical Racist DogwhistleThe vice president’s remarks about America becoming “dirtier” sparked fierce backlash. 3406055818
Reposted by @steve-rino.bsky.socialJos te Lintelo @joslint.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Mafia. Arrest them all. www.reuters.com/legal/transa... "Since taking over as Shell CEO three years ago, Wael Sawan has shifted focus away from renewables, seeking better returns in oil and gas projects." 026170
Reposted by @steve-rino.bsky.socialBenjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 10/09/2026Votesafe dot org is an Elon Musk–run data vacuum, and under no circumstances should you click on it. 6492238
Reposted by @steve-rino.bsky.socialThe Onion @theonion.com · 09/09/2026Nation’s Smart Toilets Begin Counting Down theonion.com/nations-smart-toilets-… 352033240
Reposted by @steve-rino.bsky.socialBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Nailed it. 5420111
Reposted by @steve-rino.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/08/2026My man looks like King of the Hobos 3482
Reposted by @steve-rino.bsky.socialTed McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 24/08/2026refuting every claim anybody makes is not in fact how science, or any discipline, works discarding approaches that have proven fruitless or wrongheaded, not stopping to re-litigate them every time someone digs up a junk data set or a retracted article they wish were true, is how disciplines move 3486134
Reposted by @steve-rino.bsky.socialBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/08/2026Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Born on technology's third base; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/08/21/w... #Pluralistic 1/ 2337
Reposted by @steve-rino.bsky.socialDavid Pakman @davidpakman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Some seem to think this Natalie Harp thing is just about yet another of Trump’s affairs, but it’s way bigger. The person closest to Trump, with the most control over him, appears to lack even a basic security clearance. 36439102
Reposted by @steve-rino.bsky.socialBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026In the summer of 2013, two esoteric, technical, incredibly important texts were published within weeks of one another: the first is the Snowden leaks, which revealed a system of global, pervasive digital surveillance. 1/ 14852429
Reposted by @steve-rino.bsky.socialThe Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social · 11/08/2026This man is unfit for office and a danger to every living creature on earth. Any news org, editor and journalist not communicating that clearly is sanewashing him and enabling his harms. h/t @atrupar.com 27642130
Reposted by @steve-rino.bsky.socialBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 08/08/2026Hardly a day goes by without my getting email from someone looking for ways to do good with tech. From computer science students thinking about post-grad careers to seasoned coders with decades of experience, there's an army of hackers looking for a way to turn their expertise into public goods. 1/ 10580223
Reposted by @steve-rino.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/08/2026If you're a cis person insisting that the prospect of trans children playing youth sports is not only "a problem" but in fact one of the biggest problems we currently face as a nation, I'd be happy to introduce you to literally a million other things that should be worrying you more. 1125330862
Reposted by @steve-rino.bsky.socialPhillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 02/08/2026The idea that the Russia-Ukraine War and the US-Iran War are merging into one global conflict is perplexing. The US is siding with Russia even as Russians help Iranians kill American soldiers. So the new global war would have to involve the USA helping others kill Americans. 55454150
Reposted by @steve-rino.bsky.socialGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 30/10/2025When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.” 22294213186
Reposted by @steve-rino.bsky.socialFrancis Chubb @francischubb.bsky.social · 10/07/2026If anyone wonders what I mean when I say that I want a “humane digital future”, please read this thread: 0124
Reposted by @steve-rino.bsky.socialBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 10/07/2026"AI safety" is a key piece of the AI hype, pulling focus away from AI's shitty economics, substandard outputs, and failure to do the jobs it takes from human workers, and shifting that focus to the idea that AI is so *powerful* that it constitutes an existential risk to the human race. 17/ 37313
Reposted by @steve-rino.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/06/2026John Roberts' Constitution forbids any attempt to proactively ameliorate racial discrimination and racial inequality, but permits open racial discrimination as long as there is a facially neutral explanation available, even if it isn't remotely plausible. This, my friends, is "Colorblindness." 382952876
Reposted by @steve-rino.bsky.social🅼🅰🆁🆃🅸🅽 ✪ @martinthered.bsky.social · 23/06/2026I have a friend who bought two tickets for the 2026 World Cup Final on July 19, 2026. The idiot didn’t realize that he’s getting married on the same day. If anyone wants to go in his place, it’s at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York. The bride’s name is Mary, everything has already been paid for. 2224449610
Reposted by @steve-rino.bsky.socialDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 21/06/2026"The Americans can't get the slime out of their capital's monument pool and will arrest you for touching it," sounds like the sort of lie they'd tell us in the Soviet Union so we'd stop bitching about bread lines. 104129882965
Reposted by @steve-rino.bsky.socialSanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Old Soviet-era jokes are going to get a revival: Q) Do you have any bread? A) No, we don’t have any fish, the shop without any bread is across the street. 418035
Reposted by @steve-rino.bsky.socialJames Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 17/06/2026When we win, the first bill I’m filing is a comprehensive anti-corruption package: Overturn Citizens United Ban corporate PACs and super PACs Ban members of Congress from trading stocks Once we defeat the most corrupt politician in America, we can defeat this entire corrupt system. 1106334588387
Reposted by @steve-rino.bsky.socialPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 18/06/2026“Now Ross Douthat’s scoring off of me” 511384136
Reposted by @steve-rino.bsky.socialMike 🇨🇦 @unifiedtheory.bsky.social · 16/06/2026static.klipy.comAlfred Hitchcock's Guillotine 'Work Out'ALT: Alfred Hitchcock's Guillotine 'Work Out' 0881
Reposted by @steve-rino.bsky.socialPetra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 06/06/2026found a little buddy and brought her to a nice flower shrub, but why are her wings so mangled? :( #invertebrate 8152301351
Reposted by @steve-rino.bsky.socialbleddwgan @radekllundain.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Introduction to Racist Incitement Foundations of Smearing Advanced Studies in Bad Faith Practical Studio: Fascism 051
Reposted by @steve-rino.bsky.socialRuth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 06/06/2026After his oversight visit of Delaney Hall, Senator @kim.senate.gov shared that he was not allowed to speak to any of the detainees, adding that if he spoke to any of them, the oversight tour would be over. He also said the GEO Group official leading the tour barely answered any of his questions. 316971
Reposted by @steve-rino.bsky.socialBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/06/2026One of the best ways to evaluate your own understanding of a subject is to attempt to explain it to someone else. Through explaining things, we discover how much of the "totally obvious" world is actually full of ambiguity, mystery and contradiction. 1/ 513843
Reposted by @steve-rino.bsky.socialJon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social · 05/06/2026The President of Kazakhstan calls Donald Trump… 731794679
Reposted by @steve-rino.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 05/06/2026The thing about the left needing a positive vision for masculinity to counter the right is … they don’t have one either. Their whole thing is “don’t be a woman” as arbitrarily defined by whatever they consider feminine. Apparently some people find this admirable and wish to imitate it 1463807677
Reposted by @steve-rino.bsky.socialJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19/05/2026I'm not going to pay a fucking fascist so I can go on his site and have my reasoned rebuttals to Russian bots buried by an algorithm 331800198
Reposted by @steve-rino.bsky.socialKeith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 06/05/2026mercantilism: failed capitalist free market: failed planned economies: failed we are not repeating the mistakes of the past, no we are instead moving in a bold new direction with the Centrally Unplanned economy. all decisions will be made by a guy who has no idea what's going on. 281182250
Reposted by @steve-rino.bsky.socialGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Took a video of this cool shell formation on my beach walk. If all of you repost it as many times as you can maybe some journalists will see it and do something about it 19767203243
Reposted by @steve-rino.bsky.socialShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 22/04/2026I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals 46102222359
Reposted by @steve-rino.bsky.socialMorgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 21/04/2026The SAVE AMERICA ACT is a VOTER SUPPRESSION ACT and all Americans should know the truth!!! 17552182
Reposted by @steve-rino.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21/04/2026You know who else famously used paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups? The Justice Department. 673468846
Reposted by @steve-rino.bsky.socialGil Durán @gilduran.com · 20/04/2026The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X. I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!). So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place. 313136864133
Reposted by @steve-rino.bsky.socialRabidWeaselFreddy @rabidweasel.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Everyone knows it's J Edgar Boozer 11213
Reposted by @steve-rino.bsky.socialLeah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 16/04/2026“Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth.” ~ Pope Leo 723058694
