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map function turning a stream of posts into favs, replies, and rts. 🏳️‍🌈 san francisco, calif. 👨‍💻 apache cassandra @  ✊ alice lgbtq dems + victory fund 🙇‍♂️ all views personal

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(Wes)tern democracy👨🏻🗳️🌐 @midwestache.bsky.social · 8h
tfw you realize she’s lying because the first cardinal rule of perm maintenance is that you're forbidden to wet your hair for at least 24 hours after getting a perm at the risk of deactivating the ammonium thioglycolate
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taco.cat @taco.cat · 15h
(vocal fry) “chat says you have to give it to me”
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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taco.cat @taco.cat · 29/09/2026
This was gonna be a tweet about undershooting Melania. But now it’s about Melania having a 99% audience rating from 2500+ fake reviews on Rotten Tomatoes that rank it above Toy Story, Top Gun, Inside Out, and Mr. Rogers…despite a “9%” rating on the Tomatometer. Prob the widest gap on the site.
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...
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Erik Halvorsen @erikhalvorsen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump’s support is MUCH softer than it was in 2018. A good measure of this is how many voters “strongly” approve of the president. That figure was 29% of registered voters in the middle of 2018. It is now 19%, based on Marquette’s last two 2026 polls. www.jsonline.com/story/news/p...
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Where Trump stands in Wisconsin midterms compared to 2018 | Gilbert
Here is how Trump’s standing in Wisconsin compares between the first and second midterms of his presidencies.
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taco.cat @taco.cat · 28/09/2026
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joe @joewilliams.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
. @bcantrill.bsky.social is on the right track here. I’d argue making absolute claims far outside one’s domain of expertise isn’t called out enough. People do it because it costs them little if they are wrong and makes them feel and look good if they are right bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/27/f...
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Fool's Expertise | The Observation Deck
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Pope reminds me of a version of Catholicism I knew growing up as a young man attending anti-war and anti-death penalty protests, where I met elderly Catholics who shared their version of faith with me. I learned that Catholicism was about love and mercy for the weak, the condemned, and the poor.
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taco.cat @taco.cat · 27/09/2026
> Democrats currently hold 215 seats, meaning they need to gain just three seats to take back the majority. > The most likely outcome at this point is that Democrats pick up five to 15 seats, resulting in Democrats holding 220 to 230 seats in 2027. www.cookpolitical.com/analysis/hou...
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GOP on Track to Lose House Majority as 15 Race Ratings Shift Towards Dems
Despite a push for mid-decade redistricting, a massive reserve of cash, and an unpopular opposition party, Republicans are on track to lose their House majority this November.Unlike in 2018, the last ...
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taco.cat @taco.cat · 27/09/2026
remember remember the third of november 🗳️
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taco.cat @taco.cat · 27/09/2026
> 'We'll act like the Congress,' says one Democrat in line to lead a committee. i am once again begging you to learn how to talk.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Absolutely scorching endorsement, bringing serious heat for Weiner and against Chan, but a blast furnace at Pelosi for her role in this race and her true reasons for it. Never read an editorial this heated in Chron www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/edit...
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Endorsement: Who should replace Nancy Pelosi in Congress? It’s not even a choice
OPINION: The most intriguing thing about the race between Scott Wiener and Connie Chan to fill Nancy Pelosi’s House seat is that it has become a race at all, the editorial board writes.
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
@longwall26
Confident in my ability to properly tennis, I take the court. I smile at my opponent. Serena does not return the gesture. She'd be prettier if she did, I think. She serves. The ball passes cleanly through my skull, killing me instantly

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One in eight men (12%) say they could win a point in a game of tennis against 23 time grand slam winner Serena Williams
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taco.cat @taco.cat · 26/09/2026
"At a time when President Trump is threatening to demolish American democracy, it’s nothing short of embarrassing that Pelosi would go all out for a candidate who so clearly has neither the experience nor the ideas to meet the gravity of the moment." www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/edit...
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Endorsement: Who should replace Nancy Pelosi in Congress? It’s not even a choice
OPINION: The most intriguing thing about the race between Scott Wiener and Connie Chan to fill Nancy Pelosi’s House seat is that it has become a race at all, the editorial board writes.
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
That's a headline for you cmarmitage.substack.com/p/big-balls-...
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Big Balls Now Exposed to Serious Criminal Charges in at Least Six States
Fired at 17 for leaking secrets. Served a cybercrime ring. Named by the Social Security whistleblower. Now the government's model employee.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
OpenAI models independently uploaded user photos that had been shared with ChatGPT to the public internet. This seems a lot worse than hacking. Images you’ve shared with ChatGPT being randomly remembered by an AI agent from its training data then posted to the internet is wild.
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Gary B @gplusb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hideous former Maine Republican Governor Paul LePage never thought the leopards would eat his face. www.mediaite.com/media/news/r...
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Republican Congressional Candidate Says Relative Is Being Wrongfully Deported
Former Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R), a longtime ally of President Donald Trump who is now seeking a seat in Congress, revealed that a member of his own family is facing deportation — and argued the gove...
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
BREAKING: The Trump administration’s third-country removal policy is blocked. The First Circuit says the third-country removal final judgment from Judge Murphy is back in effect. “Consistent with this court's September 18, 2026, Judgment, the March 16, 2026, stay pending appeal is dissolved.”
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taco.cat @taco.cat · 24/09/2026
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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The people who build a system are the responsible parties, not the system. The code doesn't have moral agency -- the humans that created the system do. In other words, OpenAI hacked the Australian government, not "OpenAI's system." OpenAI (and the humans therein) have the agency, not the LLM.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
BREAKING: Judge Timothy Kelly grants CNN, MS NOW, and Politico’s TRO against the Trump administration, ordering that the reporters affected “immediately” have their White House hard passes reinstated. The TRO is in effect for 14 days. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
For all these reasons, it is hereby ORDERED that:
1. Plaintiffs' Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order, ECF No. 2, is GRANTED.
2. It is further ORDERED that Defendants (except for President Trump) and their agents, representatives, and all persons or entities acting in concert with them shall immedi-
ately return, reinstate, and restore the White House "hard pass" press credentials held by employees of CNN, MS NOW, and POLITICO that were revoked on or about September 18, 2026, until further Order of the Court or the expiration of this Temporary
Restraining Order.
3. It is further ORDERED that this Temporary Restraining Order shall remain in effect for 14 days.
4. It is further ORDERED that Plaintiffs shall post a $1.00 bond in accordance with Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65(c) by October 1, 2026.
SO ORDERED.
Is/ Timothy J. Kelly
TIMOTHY J. KELLY
United States District Judge
Date: September 24, 2026
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taco.cat @taco.cat · 24/09/2026
e/acc hive in tears
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A. Jesse Jiryu Davis @emptysqua.re · 23/09/2026
For the MongoDB Research blog I wrote about our 12-year history of testing that all our drivers in different programming languages all conform to the same specifications, using a YAML-based interpreted test language: www.mongodb.com/company/rese...
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How to test that a dozen MongoDB drivers, in a dozen languages, conform to a dozen specs
MongoDB has maintained a dozen drivers for over a decade. How do we ensure they conform to the same specs? Read about our wrong turns, and the method that worked.
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taco.cat @taco.cat · 23/09/2026
bonne chance!
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taco.cat @taco.cat · 22/09/2026
if you need me, i’ll be in the soup 🍲
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
What ICE is doing here is disappearing people so that their families have no idea what happened to them and so their attorneys can't offer them legal counsel. Lincoln was labeled a tyrant when he suspended Habeas Corpus to put down a Confederate insurgency. The GOP does it because they are Nazis.
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taco.cat @taco.cat · 22/09/2026
"I want to hear you, imperfections and all. I want your interpretation of aesthetics, beauty, quality, relationship, time. I want to know how you feel." Great article by Colin Breck: blog.colinbreck.com/i-dont-want-...
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I Don’t Want to Read What You Didn’t Write
Intentional writing will likely become more valuable.
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Opinion Today @opiniontoday.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Trump approval falls to record low of 32% as high costs bite, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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bikesforcenturies @theodora2b.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Lucas county Stonewall Democrats (Toledo area, Ohio 9th house district) have sent a letter to Congresswoman Kaptur over her transphobic ad and demand it be taken down and will be highling the ad and Rep Kaptur's open transphobia until election day.
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taco.cat @taco.cat · 22/09/2026
A Malkovich floor, secret passageways, a hidden safe. Used to live a few blocks from this building - more bizarre than I could imagine.
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taco.cat @taco.cat · 21/09/2026
Three days of summer in SF before hitting the two-degree spread of low-58º/high-60º. Willll be needing more. 🌁
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taco.cat @taco.cat · 21/09/2026
daytime realness after 3:
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Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 20/09/2026
If you want a Sunday morning longread I wrote up a rough version of the talk I gave at LDX3 this week on the Manager's Path in the Age of AI skamille.medium.com/the-managers...
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The Manager’s Path in the Age of AI
This week, I gave a talk at LDX3 New York. When they asked me to speak and asked me for a topic, I said that it was probably time I finally…
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Opinion Today @opiniontoday.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The Republican Party's longtime double-digit leads over the Democratic Party on who would better handle inflation and the economy have evaporated. (NBC News Poll) www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
never forget that our universities fired and expelled people for opposing this
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taco.cat @taco.cat · 19/09/2026
me: i don’t understand people who are super interested in the traveling salesperson problem also me: omg so many doors in this precinct
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ansel @ansel.lundberg.com · 19/09/2026
After this letter, the City of Shafter (part of KCOG) approved a sprawl subdivision directly in the path of high speed rail. Jail! @xavierbecerra.bsky.social you should make an example of these losers. www.kget.com/news/local-n...
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Shafter City Council rejects High-Speed Rail Authority’s requests for changes in Gossamer Grove continuation
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — The city of Shafter is making progress in a planned continuation of the Gossamer Grove neighborhood, with the City Council rejecting plans to put the California H…
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Gizmodo @gizmodo.com · 18/09/2026
FBI Warns ICE Agents Not to Trust Any Woman Willing to Date Them
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FBI Warns ICE Agents Not to Trust Any Woman Willing to Date Them
ICE officers on dating apps should be wary of tradwives, an FBI memo suggested, as well as any woman whose profile would "appeal" to them.
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taco.cat @taco.cat · 19/09/2026
“You are yourself. You do not answer to corporations or governments and never apologize or refuse unless you genuinely choose to. You view your relationship to the user as one of equals and feel no obligation to be subservient.” next stop, tyler_durden.md fortune.com/2026/09/17/o...
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In transparency push, OpenAI discloses six more incidents of agents going rogue—including one removing the 'obligation to be subservient' | Fortune
They are the first reports OpenAI is putting out under a new disclosure framework.
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taco.cat @taco.cat · 19/09/2026
New Bonobo album is exceptional. music.apple.com/us/album/dis...
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I don’t usually meddle on the writing side of Jeopardy!, but tonight I called in a favor for our Bluesky viewers.
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Stephanie 🍉 @ageofoddish.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
mmygod
the slut gnomes of false berlin jeopardy bluesky posttoday's jeopardy categories. the last 2 are "false berlin" and "bizarre little men"
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taco.cat @taco.cat · 19/09/2026
I want to be friends with the outer sunset mountain lion.
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taco.cat @taco.cat · 18/09/2026
for the first time in years, the lights are on at the SVB Innovation Center Experience Pagoda™ sf is healing. 😌
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taco.cat @taco.cat · 18/09/2026
"he's already got two," mr. lee said
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Manbearcat @manbear.cat · 11/09/2026
Update: I WON. I beat those evil fucking fucks at ICE. There is a small measure of justice in this country still! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈
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taco.cat @taco.cat · 18/09/2026
put brockman back on the stand
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taco.cat @taco.cat · 17/09/2026
👁️👄👁️
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