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Mike Fennelly

@swizzlebeef.com
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Carbon-based biped.Not easily surprised by new technology (NPR, 2010). Renaissance Nerd. Guitarist. Former mailman.

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 9h
Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon
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Rev. Deral "FreeLink" Fenderson @fendersonia.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Tonight’s featured artists
Pharoah Sanders.

The Night Terrors.

The Sorrows.

William S. Burroughs.

Dr. Dooom.

Kool & The Gang.

Minutemen.

Blue Oyster Cult.

The Fall.

Monty Python.

Naked City.

Unwound.

Sun City Girls.

Sifl & Olly.

The Sisters Of Mercy.

The B-52s.

Heaven 17.

Booker T. & The MG's.

The Orb.

The Conet Project.

LL Cool J.
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Rev. Deral "FreeLink" Fenderson @fendersonia.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It’s Wednesday night so I got a radio show going live (pre-recorded) at the top of the hour! Two hours of your time wasted, FOR FREE and with no efforts on your part! 10-Midnight EDT Won’t you join us?
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Listen - WUVT: Radio for Everyone!
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is the vice president's guy, no? This should be every headline, it should lead every newscast and EVERY REPUBLICAN SHOULD BE ASKED ABOUT IT.
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Noah J. Nelson, Spooky Cat Enthusiast 🎃 @noahjnelson.com · 07/10/2026
Also: Props 41 & 42 are deceptively written to look like they support Prop 40 (billionaire tax) when in fact, they will nullify it.  Tell all your friends who support prop 40 to not make that mistake.
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Mike Fennelly @swizzlebeef.com · 04/10/2026
Fighting to stay awake so I can play a set in 20 minutes, but caffeine will keep me up until tomorrow morning at this point. Can anyone make me 23 again please?
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
News: “Racehorse Renamed Due to Apparent Hitler Reference” Me: Ok, must have been subtle News: Austrian Painter Me: 😳 News: He had an alternative name Me: Thank heaven News: My Struggle Me: 🫪 News: His sister is named New Order Me: ”Apparent”???!
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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Advice for my younger friends: if you want to encourage yourself to stay healthy and functional, to exercise and eat well... ...pick a couple of motherfuckers you really want to outlive.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 22/09/2026
The Milwaukee Bucks signed a jersey patch deal with ULine today. ULine owner Richard Uihlein is a GOP megadonor who funded statutory rapist Roy Moore after news of him having sex with multiple girls broke, the rally preceding 1/6, and candidates that support a national abortion ban, among others.
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NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks Sign Jersey Patch Ad Deal With Uline
The Milwaukee Bucks are shifting their jersey patch deal to Uline, a packaging materials company based in the NBA team’s home state, from electronics maker Motorola.
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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A couple went on a Fox News podcast and claimed the state of #Massachusetts took away their teen because they won't help the teen transition. But it's actually because the father was charged with beating and threatening to kill the teen and the mother was charged with witness intimidation.
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Mass. parents' story about child's gender transition complicated by court records
Joseph Kutzko was charged with assaulting the child in January 2025, not long before the child was removed from the family’s home. Mother Arlene Kutzko was charged with witness intimidation in connect...
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Help request—I received this image from a person filing for unemployment in Missouri. The ID verification asks "Are you of Haitian heritage?" I've been unable to confirm additional info w the state or find others who saw it. Any info, reach out: Signal: marisakabas.04 Email: marisa@thehandbasket.co
screen from Missouri ID verification. under Ethnic Origin it asks "Are you of Haitian heritage?" with options "Yes, No, I do not wish to comment"
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Ayloss @infinitedreamscape.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
As antifascist groups are getting persecuted worldwide, we need to remember that anti-fascism is not just a culture, but praxis first and foremost. We need more of this and also coming from within the metal scene. Don't let NSBM shitheads do their work in the dark; expose them everywhere.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 18/09/2026
ICYMI, Ken Paxton demanded Adam Hoffman, a lawyer who statutorily raped a boy, be given 29 years, 11 months, and 29 days less jail time than a Texas resident who transported a box of zines that contained constitutionally protected content opposing ICE. The judge sentenced Hoffman to 60 days instead
reason.com
Texas man gets 30 years in prison for transporting 'anti-government' pamphlets
The case stems from a violent anti-ICE protest, but critics say the government's prosecution threatens First Amendment rights.
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monarch of ashes @cephalopod.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
very funny to pretend that bluesky takes toxicity seriously when their lead engineer is openly posting like this lol
@katelynburns.com: Literally do not have tome for that every month. That's just not how humans work.

@why.bsky.world: You’re a podcast host, you have enough free time to talk to the latest chatbot every so often

@katelynburns.com: you think I do my podcast full time?

@why.bsky.world: Well I assumed “freelance journalist” was just a euphemism for unemployed “influencer” so yeah

@katelynburns.com:  Lol

@why.bsky.world: Claiming to be a journalist while refusing to do some pretty basic research is some clown shit
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Mike Fennelly @swizzlebeef.com · 17/09/2026
Stage is set for @onelinedrawing.bsky.social tonight - stoked for a loud show?
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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Blanket reply to everybody who’s sent this story to me for comment today: Take a beat and send it to ten of your male friends instead
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Media Diversified @writersofcolour.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A HMRC official was sacked because he was caught on camera saying he gives wrong information to black and brown people when they call for advice in a bid to sabotage them. He was a member of the far right group Patriotic Alternative. How many more?
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The Booooobarienne @thebarbarienne.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"I'm glad he's dead and I hope this email makes someone mad" needs to become a meme immediately.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is happening all over the country. And again, the billionaires who claim to be about a healthy democracy—not many I grant you—could invest in journalism instead of campaign ads and dark influencers. But they don’t.
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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
THREAD 🧵 This week, Elon Musk's America PAC launched hundreds of anti-trans ads, part of a $100 million midterm spend. In 2024, a Musk-funded PAC ran antisemitic ads reminding Muslim voters that Doug Emhoff is Jewish. That's not a coincidence.
Screenshot of an article headline reading, “Elon Musk Targets Democrats on Transgender Issues in Key Senate Races.” The subheadline says a political group associated with Musk is running attack ads against Democrats in Texas, Ohio, and Iowa.Screenshot of an article headline reading, “Antisemitic Ads About Doug Emhoff Target Muslim Voters in Michigan.” The subheadline says a Republican-linked group appears to be running ads reminding Muslim voters of Kamala Harris’s pro-Israel views and her husband’s Jewish faith.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
heather mac donald is one of the biggest racists in the public sphere, what a disgrace this is
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Senator Roger Marshall is up for re-election (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u...
It was Easter weekend in 2007 when a police car pulled up to Joe Vasquez’s home in rural Kansas.

A doctor had filed a lawsuit against him and his wife over an unpaid $4,561 bill from her emergency hysterectomy three years earlier. They had missed a court date, and the doctor’s lawyers asked the court to issue an arrest warrant.

The police took the couple into custody as their grandchildren prepared for an egg hunt, Mr. Vasquez said. They spent two days in jail before their son could borrow the money to post bond.

“We had no money to pay,” said Mr. Vasquez, now 68. At the time, his wife was working at a manufacturing plant and he was on disability, he said.

The doctor who sued the couple was Roger Marshall, now a senator from Kansas. Mr. Marshall, a Republican who is seeking re-election this fall, filed lawsuits against more than 700 patients with outstanding bills during his decades-long career as an obstetrician-gynecologist, according to a New York Times analysis of Kansas court records.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 08/09/2026
hm
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Giselle Fernandez/GZ Fern (they/them) @gzfernvo.com · 05/09/2026
The AI slop app “Talkie AI” illegally stole my voice & MANY coworkers’ voices, and is actively profiting off of our stolen work. Good news is the App Store banned em! Bad news is Google Play hasn’t replied to a single DCMA takedown request. If you use this app, please stop now. It’s harming us. 💔
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Tom Wallach @mdwallach.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I want to make sure everyone in the city is aware that SUNY Downstate operates a large and extremely skilled LGBTQ and gender affirming care clinic, and we have repeatedly reiterated our intention to go to jail before we stop.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 04/09/2026
Oh my god, this is AWFUL
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WhiteRoseAFA @whiteroseafa.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Nazi salutes in the ring and a Nazi flag outside the ring. That's fine for a sanctioned sporting event in the state of Florida in 2026.
The night delivered what the marketing promised. Jewish Breaking News reported, and footage circulating widely online shows, Miller performing Nazi-style salutes, a cornerman in a “FCK Israel” shirt, and a melee after the decision between his entourage and people in the crowd. Patrick Clark, the former WWE performer who boxed on the undercard, posted video he shot himself inside the Kia Center showing attendees raising a Nazi flag in the stands. BoxingInsider reviewed the footage. The flag is there. The salutes are there.
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Mike Fennelly @swizzlebeef.com · 31/08/2026
Introduce yourself with ten acts you've seen live The Replacements P.E.E. Botch Ida Drive Like Jehu Makem & Clancy Fugazi Public Enemy Mission Of Burma The Neighborhoods
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Superchunk @superchunk.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
These fucking bootlicking dipshits
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Kind of surprised not a single outlet wanted this. Maybe the interest is gone and this is just what America is now. Lots of photographers asking me about southwest Florida though!
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donoteat @donoteat.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
some guy walked into the lab with a big thought bubble over their head that read "today i am going to make dimethyl mercury" and then went and fucking did that. unbelievable
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Worcester's Implacable Books is run by TERFs and platforming TERFs. Shun them.
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
ICE has fallen out of the headlines but July marked the largest number of migrant detentions ever on record. Five migrants have died in ICE custody in the last two months. It's also currently impossible to legally migrate to this country, as 100% of visa applications have been paused.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
a million pieces/segments sneering at hasan piker and the co-chair of the DSA, meanwhile a republican congressional candidate in upstate new york named peter oberacker is the grandson of an actual nazi germany soldier and his former staffer was part of the 'i love hitler' young GOP group chat
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William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The US is targeting the anarchist collective that hosts the popular Noblogs wordpress platform as terrorists. This is truly batshit (as are their various obvious lies about Rose City Antifa etc). This is a HUGE attack on basic free speech. www.state.gov/releases/off...
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Designation of Autistici/Inventati as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist - United States Department of State
Today, the Department of State, in partnership with the Department of the Treasury, is announcing the designation of Autistici/Inventati as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. Autistici/Inventati...
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The official U.S. Department of Education Twitter account posted, then deleted, a video positively comparing Trump to Hitler. Captioned “No one does it like us” with a tiger emoji, the video opens with a scene from Darkest Hour wherein Winston Churchill refers to Hitler as a tiger.
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Mike Fennelly @swizzlebeef.com · 25/08/2026
Okay, I have just read the first seven Dungeon Crawler Carl books twice in the past two weeks (one sleepless burnthrough and one to see what my brain skipped over) and I'm seriously to the Discworld "I don't want to finish this because then it's over" point. Recommendations, plz?
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Mike Fennelly @swizzlebeef.com · 25/08/2026
Near (sorry @onelinedrawing.bsky.social )
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Of all the things that never happened, this never happened. FFS, you need to provide written documentation to have them give acetaminophen or ibuprofen 🙄🙄🙄
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Jenny Judge @jennyjudge.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
How rude... (Actually interesting tho. Apparently much of our contemporary hell-related imagery comes originally from 12th c. Irish knight who, upon falling into a drunken stupor after a massive bender in Cork, had a vision of hell that he later related to others) www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
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Does the road to hell begin in Cork?
How one man's drink-induced unconscious trip in 12th century Cork reshaped how the Western world imagines eternal damnation
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Late Night Anti-Fascists @latenightafa.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
NEW and also WOW Aug 19 2026 - Brevard County, FL Deputy of the Year (Michael Fultz) Quits After Internal Probe Found Flock Abuse, Gun in Sex Acts, Nazi Salute Photo, Racial Slurs
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Deputy of the Year Quits After Internal Probe Found Flock Abuse, Gun in Sex Acts, Nazi Salute Photo, Racial Slurs - The Space Coast Rocket
Brevard's 2025 Deputy of the Year resigned as Sheriff Ivey moved to fire him. Internal probe cites a gun in sex acts, a Nazi salute photo and a Flock search.
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Shecky @shecky.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Kevin passed about an hour ago. The time to find his cats a home IS now, and I'm not one step closer to finding it. Please, friends.
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 19/08/2026
his patrons stabbed a gay man to death right in front of his little novelty cop bar you can smoke in and this is what he goes down for
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
it was a generational fumble for the dems to pull back on letting coach tim, our gentle midwestern uncle, stand in front of a mic and express disgust and bewilderment at what an absolute grab bag of misfit freaks this admin is. this is weird! these people are fucking weirdos!!! it’s yucky!
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evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
amazon being so secretive we gotta apple airtag a book shipment to see that they’re buying and destroying them for AI but also having this on the warehouse front door:
Symbol for Amazon’s VGT3 operation which depicts a T rex with its mouth open over an open booky
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 15/08/2026
It’s official: the Nerd Reich podcast is getting banned from YouTube….the week of my book launch! Incredible timing, since I’ll be all over the media next week talking about tech fascism. They can delete my account. They can’t stop my work. Buy the book: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
Screenshot of email: Your YouTube Account will be disabled in 7 days
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ashley (birthday month) 🕸️ @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
holy shit mary
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
how is this worse than I expected
Power cable linking UK and Ireland now passes near Bronze Age human burial remains instead of fictional grave on Welsh beach
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