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your friendly neighborhood chicana punk grandpa queerdo.

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raycorrigan.bsky.social @raycorrigan.bsky.social · 8h
"events almost got us to armageddon, not caused by “rogue, superintelligent AI”, but by government reliance on error-prone systems that are marketed by their manufacturers as being close to superintelligent." @emilymbender.bsky.social & @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Worry about credulous idiots...
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
renaissance painting when the renaissance is really fucking stupid
senator schmitt and his two idiot staffers after making a generational fuck up
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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Four Chevy Tahoes do not cost $4.5 million. The vehicles themselves ran about $600,000 combined — roughly $150,000 each. The remaining $3.9 million bought something far more interesting: FalcoNet, an Israeli-built surveillance app”
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New from 404 Media: when you upload images to Copilot, they're not private. Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users' prompts/images, according to internal docs we got And they're horrified at what they're seeing. Bombarded with requests to make sexual AI images www.404media.co/humans-readi...
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Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified
Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI...
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erica @tacoxcore.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
another wild friday night
an exhausted merle dog with big pointy ears lying on the floor next to a champagne-shaped chew toy.
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erica @tacoxcore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
it is a disgrace what has been done to education at all levels in texas
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erica @tacoxcore.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
pupdate: we settled on echo for her name, a nod to her ears and the fact she has to do everything her big sister does. what a pair!
two dogs smiling at the top of brown stairs. on the left: a young, merle colored, medium sized dog with big ears, a toothy grin , and her head tilted to the right. next to her, a senior red and white chow smiles looking to the side.
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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
this is fantastic and I learned something new
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 21/09/2026
ICE shot a DoorDash delivery guy.
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Attorney: Austin man shot by ICE agent was making DoorDash delivery
A Venezuelan man shot by an ICE agent in Austin was making a DoorDash delivery, his attorney said. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, was later released from the hospital into ICE custody.
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 18/09/2026
Share if you agree
Fat little chihuahua puppy (maybe?) looking extremely round and smiling lying on a tan fleece blanket
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Read @timothypmurphy.bsky.social piece on Bo French, the horrific bigot who is poised to be top regulator of Texas oil and gas industry, of which he has no experience, and the Lone Star state’s rising tide of Islamophobia www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Bo French wants Texas to be the new Rhodesia. His opponent just wants to keep the heat on.
How a regulatory agency you've never heard of became a test case for Republican extremism.
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erica @tacoxcore.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
we’re adopting this pup this weekend! she’s a sweetie, very curious, and looks a bit like a mashup of a fruit bat and a wolf. skinny thing. we’re struggling with name ideas so any ideas welcome! cc @darthbluesky.bsky.social
A happy merle coated dog standing in a yard. She has black splotches around her eyes and big, alert, pointy ears.
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A. Marmot 🌱 @aminus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
BREAKING: a whistleblower has just quit company wikiHow, warning that within ten years, advanced wikiHow illustrations may kill us all
wikihow tutorial illustration with a man in baseball cap and pink shirt partially crouching, hands on thighs, and pivoting counterclockwise as shown by red arrows. Caption reads, "how to discretely get your balls unstuck from your thigh"
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erica @tacoxcore.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
menopause sucks so bad, i just burst into tears imagining my dog might feel like i’m trying to replace her simply because we’re meeting another dog. hormooooooonnnnnneessss 😫
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my good bitch 💎 @clozilla.cryptoanarchy.network · 09/09/2026
jessica lange from american horror story saying your liberation is bound up with mine you stupid slut
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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 08/09/2026
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
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DoctorTheopolis @drzaiusbaltar.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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404 Media @404media.co · 08/09/2026
404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime.
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A Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over
404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime.
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erica @tacoxcore.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
pay the pup tax! here’s my viejita
a red and white (more white than red these days) senior chow chow smiles at the camera with a slight head tilt
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erica @tacoxcore.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
bumping again for any touring #musicians
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erica @tacoxcore.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
musicians who have toured japan: any advice for someone currently planning/booking first japanese tour? all insight welcome and appreciated.
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Spooky Hair Forever @sansculottestoo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Lots of people say shit sucks right now and, you know what? They’re right. We’re all taking a beating. But you need to hang in there. Especially you, reading this right now. We need you. We’re gonna fight through this together. All of us. And we need you to be there when we start serving it back.
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Big Spooky ColBosch @colbosch.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Per capita, cops kill more people than any other demographic in this country. Well, except for felony murderers, which they should be treated as.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
“An analysis of ICE and Border Patrol agents who committed sexual or violent offenses against women and children found an alarming pattern: 86% charged with or convicted of sex offenses, more than half targeted children, and many remained employed for decades despite red flags.”
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 30/08/2026
Remembering Fred Hampton born Aug. 30, 1948, assassinated Dec. 4, 1969 by Chicago police and the FBI
Fred Hampton speaks
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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
any statement like ‘Gen z have no literacy/cannot write/spell/communicate’ that is not also coupled with ‘their means of learning has been eradicated by tech fascism and government removal of funding’ is not worth listening to or boosting. the kids are living under the regime we allowed
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Homo-theory? yum @fruitlewds.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
somewhat motivated by everyone’s response to Dolly and Tim Curry passing to remark: if you were moved by them be what moves you. Be kind, generous, make weird fucking art, help people, sing bawdy songs and do drag
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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.
Miss Piggy and Dolly Parton in fancy dresses posing together photo of Tim Curry surrounded by muppets, smiling for a photo. A quote from curry is added “it didn’t go very well. It didn’t survive the shoot. She felt I wasn’t being faithful to her” it’s him discussing his ill fated affair with miss piggy
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erica @tacoxcore.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
money is imaginary!
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Liz Renzetti @lizrenzetti.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"The study was the first to show that misogyny was not an isolated prejudice, but a robust, cross-cutting predictor of violent extremism. "The number one thing predicting whether or not somebody is going to hold extremist attitudes is whether they think violence against women is acceptable,"
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Broken Frontier @brokenfrontier.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Last week at Broken Frontier… Love and Desire in the Promised Land: The Private Lives of Israelis and Palestinians – Salomé Parent-Rachdi and Deloupy’s Deeply Human Account of Relationships in a Region Torn Apart by Conflict. www.brokenfrontier.com/love-and-des...
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Love and Desire in the Promised Land: The Private Lives of Israelis and Palestinians - Salomé Parent-Rachdi and Deloupy's Deeply Human Account of Relationships in a Region Torn Apart by Conflict – Bro...
In our latest Fantagraphics at 50 article we look at 'Love and Desire in the Promised Land: The Private Lives of Israelis and Palestinians'.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
"Liam Tadeo was due to start kindergarten this week when his father was put in handcuffs after a traffic stop in Austin, Texas, on August 16, according to video … Footage shows federal agents walking his father in handcuffs while Liam, in tears, holds his father’s hand.” #AbuseofPowerWatch
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Caryn Rose @carynrose.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Just learned that the great Richard Lloyd has been diagnosed with cancer. GFM here : www.gofundme.com/f/help-richa...
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Donate to Help Richard Lloyd Fight Cancer, organized by Sean Seymour
I've organized this fundraiser for Richard Lloyd, my friend and bandmate in the Richard … Sean Seymour needs your support for Help Richard Lloyd Fight Cancer
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erica @tacoxcore.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
one of my bands has a gig at a gay sex shop for a pride party tonight. looking forward to this one!
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Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 19/08/2026
also thinking about how this is another class-entrenched way to bully? like its literally like 'the richer the bully is the more they can harass' which is always true, but this is more obvious than usual
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erica @tacoxcore.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
how weird we’re not grateful for being put in concentration camps
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erica @tacoxcore.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
“challenging democratic norms?” yes, fascism will do that. jfc these spineless takes.
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erica @tacoxcore.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
help out an indie artist! i’ve bought some things from this shop (patches, stickers) over the years and the art is really cool!
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EFF-Austin @effaustin.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
“It says that they will only use the data to provide Flock services to the customer... but what are Flock services?” Welch said. “Providing the Flock services to the customer may still implicitly involve data sharing between multiple police departments.”" cbsaustin.com/news/local/p...
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Pflugerville City Council delays Flock camera contract vote amid privacy concerns
Pflugerville city leaders are reconsidering whether to continue using license plate reading cameras from Flock Safety, postponing a vote on a new contract after
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naye🕸️ @naye.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Setting up a recurring donation, no matter how small, could literally save this organization from having to shut down and stop saving lives.
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erica @tacoxcore.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
“”For smaller officers or weaker officers or older officers, I think it has a great advantage” because it can produce faster takedowns and shorten confrontations, he said.” faster takedowns for the murder squad, that’s where we should spend our money what a joke
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Adrienne Ghaly @aghaly.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
“one of the surest strategies for amassing autocratic power is… deliberate deliteracy: the destruction, restriction, & monopolization of the infrastructures that make mass literacy possible. Thiong’o’s vivid phrase “colonizing the mind” is not metaphorical…cerebral territory is a space of conquest”
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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
"In theory, the orifice class could decide to stop stealing, cheating and maiming. The problem is that for every plute who realizes that the cheapest way to keep the guillotines off his lawn is to play fair, there are three more who lack the executive function to stop cheating."
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
“Tuberculosis, a bacterial disease that spreads through the air, is considered such a serious public health risk that there are state laws specifically related to controlling it. The law makes clear that 'investigation is not optional'...” coloradosun.com/2026/08/07/a...
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Dr. Allison Wiltz @allyfromnola.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
“If a white man wants to lynch me, that's his problem. If he's got the power to lynch me, that's my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it's a question of power.” — Kwame Ture
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erica @tacoxcore.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
new (perhaps peak) “am i clumsy or am i just middle-aged?” moment: i sprained my thumb making tea.
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Josh Hinkle @hinklej.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
RESULTS: Just days after @kxan.com Investigator Grace Reader broke news that Leander ISD’s police department faces a state probe over hiring and staffing issues, the district has placed its police chief on administrative leave. READ MORE: tinyurl.com/5a5un6tc #KXANinvestigates
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Leander ISD police chief put on administrative leave amid KXAN investigation, state probe
Two days after a KXAN investigation about the Leander ISD Police Department, the police chief has been put on administrative leave, KXAN has confirmed.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 06/08/2026
Flock has justifiably received tons of outrage, but Axon (and a bunch of other companies) are also purveyors of mass surveillance. Canceling a Flock contract and replacing it with an Axon one is just changing your flavor of authoritarianism.
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WhiteRoseAFA @whiteroseafa.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
static.klipy.com
Beaker Says Hello Meeps
ALT: Beaker Says Hello Meeps
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
In addition to having no experience in immigration, their website shows Ilya Shapiro (!) and disgraced former law prof Joshua Wright (!) as Senior Counsel. I don't think this massive contract was awarded to give immigrant children effective, zealous advocacy. burkegroup.law/our-team/
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Our Team - BURKE LAW GROUP, PLLC
Our Team
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