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Tandy 400

@tandy400.bsky.social
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Wife. Cat mom. Grammarian. Writer of inane bios. Immunocompromised. Wear a mask. Tell your pet I said hi.

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ACM Ethics @acm-ethics.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Amazon Drivers’ Smart Glasses Are Going to Be an Image Problem
Coming soon up a garden path near you: an Amazon.com Inc. driver wearing smart glasses, almost constantly taking pictures and sending them back to the company to be analyzed by humans and fed into an ...
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Tandy 400 @tandy400.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's definitely the week after labor day, and I will not be told otherwise.
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s going to be pretty fucked up when this baby yeti starts telling people to kill themselves.
Subway display ad for meta’s muse ai product billed as “ai that gets it done.” The mascot is a little smiling fuzzy white puppet guy.
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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I don't love dunking on folks but it's so fucking funny to me that Trump was convicted of 34 felonies 2 years ago, faced no punishment, and went on to win the presidency a second time and journalists are still like, "hmm, I have an inkling that maybe he believes he's above the law for some reason."
Post from NYT reporter Eric Lipton 

"What an odd moment in United States history.

A U.S. president is running an overtly political campaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government.

Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit."
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 28/09/2026
Claude making a scientific discovery
Black-and-white three-part comic. In the first scene, one simple cartoon figure holds out a small round handmade-looking object and says, “I MADE THIS.” Another figure replies, “YOU MADE THIS?” In the second scene, the second figure is shown alone holding the object. In the final scene, that figure holds it proudly and says, “I MADE THIS”
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"why don't men wear more color." i only dress for the approval of dogs, who mostly see blue, white, gray, black, and brown in the way that we do, so i don't wear other colors.
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Tandy 400 @tandy400.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Unbefuckinglievable
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The end of citizens united.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This story brought me back to Kara, one of the mothers in my book, There Is No Place for Us. She was homeless with her four kids while driving for DoorDash. They had to pee in bottles so bathroom stops wouldn't make her late. After gas, she earned $6.50 an hour—75 cents less than the minimum wage.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
cuth pube
A sign that attempts to spell out "the Cube pub" by shifting the B in Cube down with the PU right before it and TH before the E.
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 26/09/2026
what in the fuck is going on
display of cinnamon toast crunch with a grotesque new Mascot close up of the monstrosity, a leering piece of cereal pulling a vile, bug eyed face
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/09/2026
NEW: The Clear Labels Act was designed to help patients and doctors see exactly where a medication was made. But experts say the law’s most critical provisions have been cut: “It's just a clear watering down of the original bill.”
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“A Clear Watering Down”: Drug Transparency Bill Stripped of Critical Provisions Ahead of Senate Vote
The bill was designed to alert consumers about where their drugs came from. After two major changes to the proposed law, experts worry it won’t be as effective.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"While death is obviously not the only bad outcome from any virus, if that virus didn’t kill you, you are left with survivor immunity. That’s something to be profoundly grateful for, not something to glorify and intentionally seek out." My latest
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“There is No Such Thing as Natural Immunity; There is Survivor Immunity.”
We should abandon the term "nature immunity." Professor Christopher Halkides came up with a wise replacement.
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 18/09/2026
I hate to spoil the kicker, but these spam king brothers are now promoting a new site dedicated to "human bloggers" and "human generated content" in an era of shoddy AI Reader, they are using it to publish even more AI slop
In any case, BBM’s zombie content mill flounders onward. It recently started promoting a new site called Sentient Blogs, which positions itself as a publication dedicated to human authorship in an era of shoddy AI content.

“A platform dedicated to supporting and promoting the work of human bloggers that create human generated content, not AI,” reads its about page, with its FAQ further promising that “we are confident that between our amazing authors who are writing on this platform because they share the same initiative and our [quality assurance] measures, the likelihood of AI content is very very low.”

To kick it off, Lachlan bylined a piece about his touchingly human experiences with fatherhood, writing that a “thousand dinners become a family culture. Repeated school runs become the background of a child’s childhood. Years of quiet effort become a marriage, a friendship, a body of work or a sense of being useful to other people.”

A disclaimer at the bottom, dissonantly, says it was “produced with AI assistance.” According to Pangram, it was 100 percent AI-generated.
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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Mr polka-dot wasp moth is always welcome in our yard Syntomeida epilais
Lovely dark moth with white spots and a bright red-tipped abdomen, slurping bidens albaThe creature facing you on the flower, long proboscis slurping
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/09/2026
Abortion bans make exceptions for ectopic pregnancies, but some people still don’t get care. One doctor told a woman intervening in her pregnancy could land him jail time, according to a lawsuit. “I felt like my life was a risk he couldn’t afford.”
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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I'm Uni :3 @unicouniuni3.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
He fell asleep in my arms with his tongue out, purring
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Genius. (Sound on 🔉) @nonewdatacenters.bsky.social
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 11/09/2026
bad news everyone. i wrote a program in qbasic that was just 10 KILL ALL HUMANS 20 GOTO 10 which means we are all going to die. does anyone want to give me 7 billion dollars
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/09/2026
AN URGENT EXCLUSIVE: Ahmed Soliman, the 30-year-old gay man ICE expelled in April to Equatorial Guinea, a country he has no ties to, was arrested this morning and cannot be located, his attorneys say. They fear he may be in one of EG's torture prisons. prospect.org/2026/09/11/i...
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Immigrant Trump Sent to African Hotel Prison Arrested After Speaking With Media, Lawyers Say - The American Prospect
Ahmed Soliman’s attorneys fear he may have been sent to one of Equatorial Guinea’s notorious torture prisons.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Thousands of immigrants did the hard, dirty work of clearing rubble and toxic dust and debris from Ground Zero. Many were undocumented laborers sent to work every day with no special PPE, and got cancer as a result. Now some of those same people are living in fear of ICE. www.npr.org/2026/09/11/n...
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They cleaned up ground zero. Now many are hiding from ICE
After 9/11, thousands of rescue and cleanup crews went to work at ground zero. They were exposed to toxic debris and experienced psychological trauma. Today, many say they live in fear of deportation.
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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟏𝐭𝐡, 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐦𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟐𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬. UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS 🦋 Approximately 6,000 undocumented immigrants were taken to ground zero to clean up the rubble. Many are suffering from cancer/other health issues because of the work they did & are now being targeted by #ICE.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
In the 25 years since 9/11, the United States has spent $8 trillion+ on wars that have taken millions of lives in the name of fighting "terror." Can you imagine if we had instead invested those funds here on climate, health care, housing, and education?
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
A Labor Day reminder: having a job is no longer enough to protect millions of Americans from homelessness. For many workers, the greatest threat isn't losing their job. It's that their job will never pay enough, never provide enough hours, never offer enough stability to keep them housed.
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Opinion | America Is Pushing Its Workers Into Homelessness (Gift Article)
The working homeless are casualties of our prosperity.
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is just to say... I have stolen the work that you spent years creating and which you were probably hoping would pay your bills But online sharing doesn't count It's actually a compliment So fuck you BTW, I'm a fan
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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 29/08/2026
I like the term "text extruder" to explain what LLMs actually do.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 29/08/2026
I LITERALLY explained Upton Sinclair and the phrase "every regulation is written in blood" to my students just this week
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/08/2026
DHS repeatedly said that an aggressive Chicago apartment raid was prompted by intel on a Venezuelan gang takeover. Records reveal the real story behind the raid: targeting alleged squatters with the landlord’s blessing. 👂 Listen to the full episode:
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The True Story of Why Immigration Agents Raided a Chicago Apartment Building
Podcast Episode · Paper Trail · August 20 · 42m
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 20/08/2026
Oh man, and the video doesn’t even have all of it. ADD THESE TO THE RECALL LIST: 🥖 Grand Central Bakery Potato Sourdough: METAL 🧊 Outshine Fruit Bars: GLASS 🐶 Oma’s Pride Canine Food: SALMONELLA 🥜 Prolon Almond & Cocoa Spread: UNDECLARED ALLERGENS 🫐 GreenWise Organic Frozen Berries: E. COLI
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
It only took 19 months for RFK Jr to turn the once safe US food supply into a game of gastrointestinal Russian Roulette.
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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 16/08/2026
uhhhhh
 investigation was originally developed for The New York Times, where it underwent eight months of editing, multiple rounds of fact-checking, and independent replication of the underlying methodology. The piece had a scheduled publication date when requests for comment were sent. It was only after the Times reached out to the subjects of the investigation for routine comment that the Elias Law Group, representing the DCCC and DSCC, sent a cease-and-desist letter demanding the paper not publish. Although the paper's fact-checkers and legal department later cleared the piece before sending out a second round of requests for comment, the Times ultimately decided to kill the piece.3:27
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The piece was subsequently slated for publication at The Bulwark, where it underwent additional fact-checking, data verification, and legal review. When requests for comment were sent to the subjects of the investigation, lawyers representing the Progressive Turnout Project and Mothership Strategies likewise responded with legal letters demanding that the article not run.
From there, publication was repeatedly delayed. The piece cleared successive rounds of legal review. When I asked for a committed publication date after months of delay, The Bulwark conditioned publication on my accepting an extensive rewrite prepared by its editors that, in my assessment, removed key empirical findings without explanation, introduced claims contradicted by the data and fact-checking record, and presented the subjects' legal defenses as my own conclusions. When I declined to publish under those terms, the piece was released back to me.
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Casey Drottar @caseydrottar.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The Brewers are up 22-0 over Seattle, and one of those runs came because Julio Rodríguez caught the second out and threw it into the stands thinking it was the third.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19/08/2026
Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government won’t say if any agents have been punished. (Published January)
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We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing
Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government ...
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Jen Rice @jenrice.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I am obsessed with this finalist in this year's Michigan “I voted” sticker design contest
Cat saying "I voted now let me sleep"
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 11/08/2026
"Today, everyone sees the name Taylor Farms and suddenly becomes the Hercule Poirot of the commode. You had our guacamole at noon. You experienced what you describe as a bowel emergency of unprecedented violence at 12:07. Case closed, you say."
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When You Really Think About It, Everything Makes You Poop (by Taylor Farms)
“Today, everyone sees the name Taylor Farms and suddenly becomes the Hercule Poirot of the commode. You had our guacamole at noon. You experienced what you d...
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 10/08/2026
"Diagnosis is uncomplicated menopausal transition. Differential diagnoses include perimenopause, estrogen deficiency-induced menopause, silent menopause, occult menopause, artificial menopause, and, less likely, mythic transformation."
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Clinical Notes from Medusa’s Primary Care Provider Who Suspects Menopause
“Diagnosis is uncomplicated menopausal transition. Differential diagnoses include perimenopause, estrogen deficiency-induced menopause, silent menopause, occ...
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John Pontoon, dissident revenant @johnpontoon.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I'm sick of "heat map" discourse from Republicans. Congratulations, jackass, you're popular in places where people don't live. Real shame you're talking about the government, a body that serves PEOPLE.
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Birthdate and name matches are causing US Citizens to get arrested in error by ICE as they board airplanes. This is the same level of rigor they're bringing to claims of fraudulent voting, and is obvious as an error-prone method to anyone who has taken an introductory stats class.
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👻👹 boo-rit 👹👻 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
i encourage all of you, regardless of your age, to not take this shit advice
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Gen Z job seekers should be willing to work for free, long hours, 'willing to do anything, says Squarespace
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BY ORIANNA ROSA ROYLE
July 20, 2024 at 3:00 AM PDT
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I deleted 18 years of posts from X in protest of Elon Musk buying that platform, but also because he started mining posts for AI training. I have left two posts up on Twitter/X, lamenting the loss and directing people to my Bsky account.
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
once again bemused by the right wing tactic of using "he has a cute wife who loves him" to attack socialists
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 09/08/2026
if they're drinking nounwine it's fantasy. if they're snorting a verb it's sci fi
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Tandy 400 @tandy400.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The RSL Atlante game is at hockey levels of fighting
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
something i’ve been thinking about is whether or not there’s a way to rightfully condemn anti-trans comments by people with a public profile without elevating their celebrity/importance + serving them on a platter to the right wing media ecosystem. the cycle is painfully disturbing and predictable.
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eddietg51-42.bsky.social @eddietg51-42.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are trans athletes in youth sports.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
My goodness please *listen* to this extremely wholesome story
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We asked a first grader to interview his hero: A bird scientist
NPR asked an aspiring scientist in Philadelphia to interview an adult who is living his dream about his career in conservation science.
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Tandy 400 @tandy400.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Actual footage of our apartment this morning (plus a full cup of water knocked over). Happy international cat day.
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Tandy 400 @tandy400.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Miguel Herrera being Miguel Herrera at the 22nd minute 🟥
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Miguel Herrera Saiyan Power Up
Alt: Miguel Herrera Saiyan Power Up
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Jennifer Crawford @ournewhomecoach.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I don’t want to Do mY OwN rEsearCh. I want really clever researchers to do the research because that’s what they are good at and correctly advise politicians and people in power to make the right decisions for the benefit of all of us. I’ll bring snacks.
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Mash @itismashagain.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
My entire life I’ve never called it the FIFA World Cup. I’ve always called it the World Cup. Fans don’t give a shit about FIFA. If national teams showed up for a World Cup tournament not held by FIFA we would all watch it. World Cup is the brand. FIFA is nothing.
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