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Ted Byfield

@tbfld.bsky.social
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Ex-academic, ex-artist, editor/writer (EU research network grants 🎯), Open Syllabus co-founder, nettime mod 25 yrs. I “worked at the intersection of” when it was a red-light district not a venn diagram. Deep South 🔁 Deep North. More: counter.ink

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Ted Byfield @tbfld.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Ted Byfield @tbfld.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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Ted Byfield @tbfld.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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Ted Byfield @tbfld.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
On the left: A [Toronto] Globe and Mail Headline, “Trump threatens tariffs on Canada over wildfire smoke.” On the right: a screenshot from The Simpsons of a hand holding a newspaper with a picture of an old man and the headline “OLD MAN YELLS AT CLOUDS.”
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Ted Byfield @tbfld.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Permanent Daylight Savings Time is for losers. The US should DSTMaxx by jumping ahead three hours — maybe more. Let’s show those globalamers what True American Innovation looks like.
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Ted Byfield @tbfld.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
[1/x] I cobbled together a chronodiscography of pretty much everything Abdullah Ibrahim ever recorded, or at least as close to that as you can get on Spotify. open.spotify.com/playlist/092...
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Abdullah Ibrahim, chronodiscography
Playlist · otherorsomeone · 315 items
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Ted Byfield @tbfld.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
1971 anti-war spot by Clergy & Laymen Concerned, excerpted from Help Unsell the War — 13 TV Spots on the Internet Archive ( archive.org/details/moti... )
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Ted Byfield @tbfld.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Trump doesn’t behave erratically to distract *us* — we don’t even exist. In his mind there’s only one person, which is why he’s the audience of one. He’s desperately trying to distract *himself*.
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Ted Byfield @tbfld.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Let it be known from this moment on as the ARC DE TRIOMPHALOS
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Ted Byfield @tbfld.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
The subcontractor that’s actually painting the Reflecting Pool, Mid-America Industrial Coatings, uses a Dairy Queen as its business address. cc @atrupar.com, @juddlegum.bsky.social
Cropped image of the partially painted Reflecting Pool, showing a contractor's equipment in the foregroundPhoto showing four workers standing in front of a Mid-America Industrial Coatings trailerDetail from the Mid-America Industrial Coatings website, showing their contact info as Mid-America Industrial Coatings
853 S. Mississippi Ave.
Atoka, OK. 74525
Phone: (580) 239-8479
Email: mlogan @midaic.com
https: //coatings.rhinolinings.comScreenshot of a Google Maps search for 853 S. Mississippi Ave.
Atoka, OK. 74525, showing a Dairy Queen
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Ted Byfield @tbfld.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Someone brought ole Dick down from the attic and plugged him — and he still worked! If that ain’t Made in the USA quality, I don’t know what is.
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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
A young chap has just been in asking about William Gaddis and Robert Musil. a) Nature is healing b) it was like meeting 1990s me
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Ted Byfield @tbfld.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Let’s decide right now whether to call this the Arc de Défaite, the Arc de Débâcle, or the Arc de Déroute. If we work together, we can make that the name *everyone* uses.
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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Dems are devoted to the long term abolition of their own base.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Americans, this is going to sound like a meme, but please get the Dems to explicitly announce that Alberta will not get any deal from the US should they seperate and/or be annexed
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Ted Byfield @tbfld.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
I just made this for @jfisher.bsky.social, but I don’t understand how it hasn't been made a thousand times before
A Spiderman meme, in which four Spidermen are all pointing at each other. In this iteration, they’re all labeled “LEFT.”
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Julie Phillips @julie-phillips.com · 27/03/2026
@tbfld.bsky.social look who's becoming an umarell
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Ted Byfield @tbfld.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
On a certain level, it’s kinda funny that Trump *tried to start a world war* — by demanding that all our allies jump in — and failed. Kinda.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
i can't believe a representative of the Vatican openly pondering whether someone should be burnt at the stake in 2026 and my answer is, "Yes absolutely, do it slow." legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/03/1...
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Editing the Blue-Gray Lady @nytdiff.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Change in Abstract
Before: Amid a war with Iran, rising gas prices and a government shutdown, the president detoured on a trip to Memphis to visit the king of rock’s mansion.
After: President Trump mused about whether he could beat Elvis Presley in a fistfight and used a golden Sharpie to sign a replica of one of the singer’s guitars.
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Ted Byfield @tbfld.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Someone used the phrase “thinking the unthinkable” around him. Translation: Trump and his advisers are starting to debate nuking Iran as an exit strategy. My guess: it’ll take the form of a “surrender or we’ll nuke you” ultimatum.
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Ted Byfield @tbfld.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
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Ted Byfield @tbfld.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
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Ted Byfield @tbfld.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
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Ted Byfield @tbfld.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Getting trippy
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Ted Byfield @tbfld.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
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Ted Byfield @tbfld.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
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Ted Byfield @tbfld.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
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Ted Byfield @tbfld.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
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Ted Byfield @tbfld.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
If I were a betting man, I’d say there’s a x>30% chance this becomes a nuclear conflict. Israel won’t do it directly; my guess is Netanyahu manipulates Trump into dropping a nuke on Iran — not a major city and as a “surrender-or-die” ultimatum. There’s more to say, obv, but that’s the TLDR.
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Ted Byfield @tbfld.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
[1/x] Cutesy clicktivism like "#DraftBarron" just reveals how shriveled and trivial our political horizons have become. Do I really need to point out that there isn't a draft *and we don't want one*? No.
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Ted Byfield @tbfld.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
I see lots of liberal noise about how Trump’s actions are illegal, but beyond that everything seems like woolly ideas between Gnome Underpants Theory (1. collect underpants, 2. ???, 3 profit!!!) and the Magic of the State. I think we should call this South Parkio–Taussigian School of Jurisprudence.
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Ted Byfield @tbfld.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
“forensic dystopianism” 💅🏼 #neologism
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Ted Byfield @tbfld.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
BEHOLD THE METASPLAIN
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Ted Byfield @tbfld.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Trump is President AI slop: he says this that sound like things an actual president would say.
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Ted Byfield @tbfld.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
#Altman ’s arg about the cost of “training humans” bugged me, and I just figured out why: it escalates #OpenAI ’s liability to the level of reparations. They didn’t just steal entire libraries of literature, they also stole the cost of training *all* the humans who wrote, built, and maintained them.
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
April last year Iran signed a security treaty with Russia. This means one of two things was bound to happen 1. Russia would attack Iran 2. Russia would do nothing when some one else attacks Iran
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Ted Byfield @tbfld.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
This morning I helped partner to crystallize her work over this sabbatical year. It’s a project called “Extending the Sabbatical: Moving from Theory to Practice.” What do you think?
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Ted Byfield @tbfld.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Apparently, those kids in Quakertown who were attacked by the police chief on Friday morning are *still* being held in jail three days later by — wait for it — the police! Sounds like someone’s police department needs a little oversight — say, from the PA Office of State IG’s office.
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Ted Byfield @tbfld.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
You know what’d be a good party platform for the Dems to announce? That they’ll disregard as corrupt any Epstein-related immunities, pardons, clemencies and/or commutations issued while Trump is pres. That’d clarify things. If we had a real opposition party they might just do it — but we don’t.
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Ted Byfield @tbfld.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Before we get carried away with YAK — Yet Another Kennedy — let’s ask Schlossberg whether he thinks RFK Jr has committed any crimes and, if so, how he should be punished.
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Ted Byfield @tbfld.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Found, w/ the caption “Marco Rubio in charge of making 1st contact with UFOs after Trump Orders Disclosure”
AI-generated image of Marco Rubio wearing a Marvin the Martian costume
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Ted Byfield @tbfld.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
In 1991, the editor of Tennis magazine called Trump a “jock-sniffer”: someone who “feel[s] somewhat bigger by hanging around with athletes of celebrities”
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35K views · 211 reactions | This | Peter Singer
This
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Ted Byfield @tbfld.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
If you actually *read* the dox w/ "sulfuric acid," there’s contextual evidence vendors needed it for the kind of plumbing issues you get on a private island — a sea water reclamation system. 6x55G drums = Costco size for the ultra-wealthy. But real investigators would try to audit how it was used.
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Ted Byfield @tbfld.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
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Ted Byfield @tbfld.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
🔥🚨🔥 #Epstein Helper lets you automatically search the DOJ's Epstein files library, download matching docs, extract text (w/ OCR for scanned pages), and run comprehensive analysis using a local Ollama LLM — all through a browser-based UI and a local LLM. 🔥🚨🔥
github.com
GitHub - artmedlar/epstein-files-analyzer: a handy little ai-fueled utility for searching, downloading, and analyzing files from the epstein collection at the US department of justice. designed and p...
a handy little ai-fueled utility for searching, downloading, and analyzing files from the epstein collection at the US department of justice. designed and particularly suited for searching for a s...
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Ted Byfield @tbfld.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
[1/x] It seems that #Epstein ’s old pilot was arrested in Brazil a few days ago www.youtube.com/shorts/jqEC5...
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epsteins pilot arrested in brazil #epsteinfiles #trump
YouTube video by NeighborhoodFoosOfficial
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Ted Byfield @tbfld.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Take note: The #DoJ is surveilling and analyzing what legislators look into in the #epstein papers — presumably in support the DOJ’s ongoing coverup.
Screenshot from “Photo shows Bondi's prepared papers,” cnn.com (2026-02-11). It says: 

During her testimony, Justice Department Attorney General Pam Bondi
was seen with a document listing out Democratic Rep. Pramila
Jayapal's "search history" of Jeffrey Epstein documents held by the
DOJ.

Lawmakers this week have been allowed to review unredacted
versions of the Epstein documents maintained by the Justice
Department.
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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Someone in Congress needs to sponsor the Pretti-Good Act of 2026. It would: 1) remove immunity from any federal agent who willfully and intentionally violates the constitutional rights of a civilian; 2) prohibit any federal agent from pretending to have a judicial warrant if they don’t, from
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Ted Byfield @tbfld.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I figured when Condé Nast shut down Teen Vogue they’d also shut down the @teenvogue.com account, but they didn’t. 🌞 Thanks for leaving it around so people can use it to get the message out! 👊🏻 👊🏼 👊🏽 👊🏾 👊🏿
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