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Taylor Sloan

@taylorsloan.me
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Flight medic, podcaster, and maker. Occasional writer of things and taker of photos. Neurodivergent. Just trying to be chaotic good in a neutral evil world. 🏴 Friend to 🇵🇸🇮🇪☀️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 (he/him) 👨‍💻 taylorsloan.me

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Taylor Sloan @taylorsloan.me · 05/10/2026
Signal boosting this for obvious reasons, but also… if you are queer and neurodivergent, I would urge caution regarding getting a formal diagnosis. Countries like Australia, New Zealand, and Canada reject residency visas for diagnosed autistic people.
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futuredadOfTwo🙋🏻‍♂️ @lacroixboi.dadguy.pro · 20/06/2026
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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Whoa, one of the pedophiles responsible for the GOP's political power just died. No, not that one, the other one. No, not that one, the other one. No, not that one, the other one. No, not that one, the other one. No, not that one, the other one. No, not that one, the other wgntv.com/news/chicago...
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Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert dies at 84
Former U.S. House Speaker John Hastert has died at the age of 84 from natural causes.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
this is not a problem you can fix with calm, reasoned debate. you can't even fix it by improving people's lives with policy. there is no clear, proven, non-violent solution to this issue. finding one is the most significant problem of our age.
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jay, god's most perfect princex @jaythenerdkid.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
why pay for school photos when, for the low, low price of feeding your own child's sensitive personal information to a machine that churns out child sexual exploitation imagery, you could get a bunch of photos of a creepy waxwork simulacrum of your child instead?
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Charlotte Moore-Lambert @charlottereads.com · 04/10/2026
hard not to respect any person who clocked Rowling’s work as “stylistically ordinary, imaginatively derivative, and ethically rather mean-spirited” in 2004
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Possum Every Hour @possumeveryhour.io · 04/10/2026
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy
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Reece @thiccreese.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Agents like Muse are trying to convince us they’re just a cute little guy who lives in your pocket, and definitely not an always-open portal into the servers of a major surveillance company,” says @jathansadowski.com. My weekend report for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/meta-m...
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Meta’s Muse Is Adults-Only. Why Does It Look Like a Kids’ Toy?
Meta says Muse is just for adults, though its cuddly, Labubu-like mascot—and upcoming Tamagotchi-style AI device—may be disarming for users of all ages.
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
SpaceX just launched the 14th Starship test flight, and it's now successfully in orbit for the first time. This is an amazing achievement, and I absolutely detest how Musk has ruined this sort of thing both for me and for humanity.
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Dr David R Brake @drbrake.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I can't understand why this hasn't turned into a huge news story (perhaps it is going to?) The NYT has laid a trail for others to follow here... AI research, heavy LSD use, hugely wealthy men abusing their power and... effective altruism?! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/t...
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The A.I. Party House Where Networking Has a Dark Side (Gift Article)
Group tech houses have proliferated across the San Francisco Bay Area in the artificial intelligence boom. One of the most prominent has also racked up an extensive police record.
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Taylor Sloan @taylorsloan.me · 27/09/2026
This is genocide. Full stop. There is no other or better word for it. There is no nuance. They have and are continuing to level an entire city and kill its inhabitants so they can repopulate it with their ethnoreligious group.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 27/09/2026
Wishing the diamond cartel a very pleasant fuck you youtu.be/xrg6QCGzQGc
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Why Diamond Prices Are Falling So Fast
YouTube video by CNBC
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The Hard Times @thehardtimesnews.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Weird! This ICE Agent’s Dates Never Return From the Bathroom Right After He Explains What He Does for Work thehardtimes.net/blog/weird-t...
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Weird! This ICE Agent’s Dates Never Return From the Bathroom Right After He Explains What He Does for Work
Modern dating is hard, even hellish a majority of the time. The emotional labor of countless swiping and dead ends on dating... Continue this tale
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Taylor Sloan @taylorsloan.me · 20/09/2026
Oh, so we’re just doing US Robot Command from Horizon: Zero Dawn now?
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alexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
if you don't support trans rights, you are a loser
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UAE Exotic Falconry & Finance𓅃 @falconryfinance.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The worst part of working at McDonalds was when they ordered me to kill a bus full of children and would lock me in the freezer for the rest of my life without a trial if I refused.
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/09/2026
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
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‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
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Taylor Sloan @taylorsloan.me · 17/09/2026
I stopped supporting anything @asavage.bsky.social and @tested.com do over this. The hypocrisy from some people is unbelievable, especially people like Savage who have been outspoken supporters of queer and women’s rights.
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Possum Every Hour @possumeveryhour.io · 17/09/2026
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Halloween Reminder 🎃
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Financial Times Editor: You get those photos of that mom who likes chatbots too much and her poor kids FT Photographer: Sure did boss, real fuckin reckless and oblivious, just like you asked FT Editor: First of all, I love it
Financial Times, 8 hours ago: a very thin blonde white woman holding an apple cheeked white toddler on her hip as she uses a laptop happily in a bougie kitchen as her tween daughters climb on the counters and one of them is dancing on the counters in her bare feet and since the mother is talking to a Chatbot, the mother doesn't see this and is perfectly okay with it, apparently 

And the headline reads "it's a total game-changer:" AI enters the household
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I support cities ripping their Flock cameras out but I lowkey think a huge part of why cops have been largely okay with cities abandoning it is that the service is effectively a honeypot to entrap domestic abuser cops into leaving a paper trail of their crimes.
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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Alex Pretti's Father: "That's how we found out — watching it on TV. Watching our son be shot 10 times on TV, in the back, trying to help somebody…with a camera in one hand, and his left hand empty in the air."
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Taylor Sloan @taylorsloan.me · 23/08/2026
Sometimes even the most well-meaning statements age like milk. #CBS #FoxNews #BariWeiss
A bumper sticker on a car that says “Fox News is NOT cbs” with “NOT” capitalized for emphasis.
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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
We are all dogs locked in god’s hot car
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Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Flock takes their privacy very seriously. But the ethical gray area in surveillance technology works both ways. Under no circumstances should elected officials or public servants enjoy an expectation of privacy when spending tax dollars to attend a surveillance lobbying event.
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
400 library workers begin their strike Monday after endless months of trying to negotiate with management. Already the anti-union propaganda machine is calling the library workers entitled. The LIBRARY workers. You don't staff the desk at the free stuff store because you're greedy.
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Taylor Sloan @taylorsloan.me · 21/08/2026
In this current political climate, might I humbly recommend to you not trying to get one of your one-year-old’s first words to be “kite.”
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
1) All the meds involved in a transition (estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, GnRHs) are generic so not really moneymakers for anyone involved 2) If you're worried about the profit motive in health care distribution then I have an idea you'll just absolutely love
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
STOP GROWING FUCKING LETTUCE IN THE DESERT THIS IS ACTUALLY A VERY EASY PROBLEM TO SOLVE
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 17/08/2026
"AI" has existed in its current form for barely four years and the fact that it's jammed up the cognitive development of an entire generation that fast (and that there's a specific overclass of techofascists who are deeply thrilled about this) is a big damn red flag. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/u...
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What Do Students Lose When They Stop Writing? (Gift Article)
Educators are worried that many students can no longer write essays without A.I. And it’s costing more than just grammar skills.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 17/08/2026
This is IT! “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy” drops tomorrow (8/18) 1st week sales are crucial to success. So: Give the tech fascists hell, make “The Nerd Reich” sell! Big things coming! Be a part of this moment—please buy it wherever you get your books.
Cover of the nerd Reich book coming August 18
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Taylor Sloan @taylorsloan.me · 13/08/2026
If we do one thing as a generation differently than our parents, let it be that we did not let this absolutely vile piece of shit pass with the peace and dignity they afforded Henry Kissinger.
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Cross-laminated Tinder @nickhasthoughts.com · 10/08/2026
“Higher taxes or school cuts” is exactly the choice they want you making after they’ve hollowed out public schools and encouraged school choice and charter schools—the coalition is so fragmented now. This was their plan all along. They hate your kids more than they hate taxes.
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Taylor Sloan @taylorsloan.me · 31/07/2026
Imagine ever apologizing to a billionaire transphobe for anything ever. So embarrassing.
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GroovyShelly @groovyshelly.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Epstein files aren't worth seeing or discussing, but Fauci's personal diary...? THERE's our new distraction. I'd listen to this remarkable woman.
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Old DeuTaranomy🧶⚒️ @kindofstrange.com · 29/07/2026
We could all learn a little lesson from Jimothy.
A flyer style image with Jimothy the short spine syndrome raccoon in Seattle featured in a star image. Next to him is text. 

At the top it reads 'A friend is struggling and you're not sure what to do? Think: JIMOTHY'

Text below:

Just listen
Invite them to talk
Meet them where they are
Offer support
Take concerns seriously
Help connect them to resources
You don't have to have all the answers

A small logo for Johnson county Mental Health is in the lower right hand corner.
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Taylor Sloan @taylorsloan.me · 30/07/2026
I’m glad my parents and in-laws aren’t the kind of people to do this, but if you have kids and friends/family who think AI is cool, you might want to give them a clear ‘no’ to doing this with your kid’s likeness/name. www.wired.com/story/boomer...
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Boomers Can’t Stop Gifting Their Grandkids AI-Generated Slop Books
Parents are getting fed up with garbled bedtime stories that feature characters based on actual photos of their children.
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Taylor Sloan @taylorsloan.me · 30/07/2026
A consequence of #ClimateChange that I am baffled we aren’t talking about in the US is tropical diseases moving north. It’s already happening in Europe. And now we only have a shell of what our disease surveillance used to be.
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Taylor Sloan @taylorsloan.me · 30/07/2026
Aw man. This sucks. RIP. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...
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Glen Hansard, Oscar-winning Irish singer-songwriter, dies aged 56 in motorcycle crash
Frontman of chart-topping band the Frames had huge success as the star of 2007 romantic drama Once
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
“Hey there’s a deadly virus going around, let’s not stand close together and let’s wear a little mask like a doctor does for a little while, if we all do it at the same time it’ll help” “YOU’RE RUINING MY LIFE! I HATE YOU!”
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Is anyone more cartoonishly pathetic than the weak little babies yelling at Fauci The saddest YOU’RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME toddlers who just couldn’t fuckin pitch in like everybody else
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Economist/YouGov poll ask "Should the U.S. arrest Netanyahu if he comes here?" 49% yes 27% no Men: 46% yes 35% no Women: 52% yes 21% no White: 47% yes 21% no Black: 53% yes 13% no 18-29: 58% yes 17% no yougov.com/en-us/articl...
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Half of Americans think the U.S. should arrest Netanyahu if he comes to the country
Nearly half of Americans think that Benjamin Netanyahu is guilty of war crimes in Gaza, twice as many as think he is not guilty
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Taylor Sloan @taylorsloan.me · 29/07/2026
We literally had the youth pastor from the local baptist church come and teach abstinence-only education at my *public* high school in Indiana, and yeah… this is a step in the wrong direction from even that.
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The Hard Times @thehardtimesnews.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The President of the United States Meets With Trump at the White House thehardtimes.net/breaking/the...
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The President of the United States Meets With Trump at the White House
WASHINGTON — After a few-month stint at his vacation home in Israel, the President of the United States, Benjamin Netanyahu, met with... Read the full masterpiece
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/07/2026
Trump is every reactionary psychopathology laid bare. I once thought, back in the mists of 2015, that people would see this--see the reactionary psyche for what it is--& be repulsed. But lots of people see it & experience it as validation, as authenticity or honesty. "I share that psychopathology!"
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
FYI there is no "real" reason why Rome "fell." Its power waned for the usual, mundane reasons: widening gap between rich and poor, inability to maintain infrastructure, incompetent leadership, pointless wars, endless persecution of marginalized groups who performed vital labor, etc.
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Taylor Sloan @taylorsloan.me · 27/07/2026
Hello there. #prayingmantis #insectsofbluesky
Juvenile female praying mantis hanging upside down from a window sill.
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