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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 · 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 email contact on their website is mlogan[at]midaic[dot]com. Across the street, at 864 S. Mississippi / State Hwy 3 is another business, Logan & Sons Co, Lawn and Rental Services. Its principal address is also at the DQ. cc @atrupar.com, @juddlegum.bsky.social

Google Maps screenshot of Logan and Sons Lawn and Rental Services in Atoka OK

Google streetview screenshot showing Logan Lawn and Rental on the left and, facing it, the Dairy Queen

Bizapedia screenshot showing Logan and Sons LLC’s business address as 853 S Mississippi Ave — the DQ

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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 foreground

Photo showing four workers standing in front of a Mid-America Industrial Coatings trailer

Detail 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.com

Screenshot 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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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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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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Ted Byfield @tbfld.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I really like this. It reminds me of the one and only thing I’ll ever quote from Woody Allen — but, then again, everything reminds me of it.

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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

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 · 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 · 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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Ted Byfield @tbfld.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Ariana Grande sharing an NYC anti-ICE hotline is 🔥, and it reminds me how much I miss Teen Vogue. Will someone please give @versharma.bsky.social a major platform again?

Screenshot of Ariana Grande sharing a graphic that says: NYC

NYC DEPORTATION DEFENSE HOTLINE

IF YOU SEE

ICE

SNAP A PICTURE AND

CALL OR TEXT

+1 (229) 304-8720

GIVE US AS MUCH INFORMATION AS POSSIBLE!

WE WILL ALERT THE NEIGHBORHOOD!

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Ted Byfield @tbfld.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Jared’s master plan for Gaza

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Ted Byfield @tbfld.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Another ICE challenge coin, front and back

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Ted Byfield @tbfld.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

If RFK Jr pulls this off, “big pharma” will respond strategically by moving *everything* related to vax R&D out of the US for good. Not temporarily, *permanently* — because our entire electoral system will become an existential risk to the corporations themselves. 1/2

Screenshot from the Wash Post: {{{ Opinion
How REK Jr. plans to bankrupt vaccine manufacturers
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants to flood the vaccine injury compensation program to hurt vaccine access in the U.S.
Today at 6:30 a.m. EST }}} LINK: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/01/15/rfk-jr-vaccines-autism-vicp/

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Ted Byfield @tbfld.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Apparently, no one has ever typed the phrase. #neologism

A screenshot of a Google search for “queering laundry”, which — to the extent that Google’s UI now does so — shows no hits.

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Ted Byfield @tbfld.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Knopf won most of them, but what they did next was brilliant — and should be seen as a high point in the history of book design. Passages the CIA won were left entirely blank: as you read the book, the text just stops, sometimes for pages. But passages the CIA *lost* were set **in boldface**. 5/x

Title page:

The CIA
and the Cult
of Intelligence

Victor Marchetti
and John D. Marks

INTRODUCTION BY MELVIN L. WOLF

Alfred A. Knopf New York 1974

A sample page spread showing large deletions and a few boldfaced sections.

Another sample page spread showing one large deletion and a few long boldfaced sections.

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Ted Byfield @tbfld.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

It never occurred to me — maybe because I’m a white guy? — that this bizarre drive to snatch people off the street and ship them to random foreign places has less to do with the Global War on Terror than an inverted fantasy reenactment of enslaving people.

Screenshot from Xitter with an illustration and the following text: {{{ Orville Etoria, a Jamaican national who'd lived in New York for nearly 50 years, was shackled and put on an ICE flight to Eswatini. ‘It helped me imagine how the slaves might have felt, going to another land in shackles and chains,’ he said.” The article: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/12/01/disappeared-to-a-foreign-prison

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Ted Byfield @tbfld.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

This leaves out the one company that’s literally *demolishing* the White House: ACECO. Architects, planners, developers, and governments should boycott them into dust.

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Ted Byfield @tbfld.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Seems like boycotting ACECO, the contractor that’s actually demolishing the White House, should be a thing until they go bust.

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Ted Byfield @tbfld.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Maybe this will help people to understand what Trump is doing news.artnet.com/art-world/do...

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Ted Byfield @tbfld.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

EXPOSED SECRET LEFTIST TECHNOLOGY FOR RUSING RIGHTISTS INTO HANGING FLAGS THAT LOOK NORMAL BUT HAVE A SWASTIKA WHEN SEEN THROUGH A “WOKON” CAMERA

Screenshot from Emily Brooks, “Republican says ‘ruse’ that ‘obscured’ swastika in American flag targeted GOP offices,” The Hill, 10/16/25:

{{{ Rep. Dave Taylor (R-Ohio) said Thursday that the swastika inside of an American flag pictured in his office this week was "indistinguishable from an ordinary American flag to the naked eye," and that his office was targeted as part of a "ruse" that sent the flag to multiple GOP offices.

"New details have emerged from a coordinated investigation into the vile symbol that appeared in my office. Numerous Republican offices have confirmed that they were targeted by an unidentified group or individual who distributed American flags bearing a similar symbol, which were initially indistinguishable from an ordinary American flag to the naked eye. My office was among those that were subjected to this ruse," Taylor said in a statement on Thursday.

News broke Wednesday of a junior aide for Taylor being pictured in a video conference call with an American flag with red stripes altered to form a swastika posted in a cubicle in the background. Taylor initially called the image "vile and deeply inappropriate," and said that Capitol Police was investigating the matter.

The Hill has confirmed that a similar American flag with a swastika was delivered to at least one other House GOP office earlier this year, which discarded the flag, but has not confirmed that the swastika was not visible to the naked eye. The Hill has not seen or inspected the flag.

Fox News first reported that the swastika over the American flag may have been an "optical illusion" that becomes clearer to see in a video or still image, and that other GOP offices received them. }}}

A meme based on John Carpenter’s 1988 film They Live. It’s square, and divided into four squares. The two on the left show (top) the actor Roddy Piper looking with a shocked example over a pair of sunglasses, and (bottom) Piper looking through them. On the right, there are two photos from the office if Rep. Dave Taylor (R, Ohio): a normal US flag pinned to a bulletin board (top), and a US flag with the red stripes twisted into a swastika in the middle (bottom). The meme refers to the recent event in which Taylor’s staff claimed that a flag sent his own and other reps’ offices was “indistinguishable from an ordinary American flag to the naked eye” but, by some unexplained means, merely appeared to have a swastika when photographed. Or something like that.

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Ted Byfield @tbfld.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

We hear lots re artificial *intelligence* but little re artificial [other cerebrations] — so I looked up AG Care, AG Empathy, AG Wisdom. Nada. Yes, lots of ppl would arg affective/social phenom aren’t on the same plane as “intelligence.”Their args would mostly be: *lots of others made the same arg*.

Screenshot of a Google search for "Artificial general care" showing an extended AI overview, because there aren’t any serious results:

{{{ "Artificial general care" is not a standard term but rather a conceptual
merging of two distinct fields: Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
and healthcare or elder care. The phrase describes the potential for
highly advanced, human-level Al to provide broad, adaptable, and
empathetic care services, as opposed to today's task-specific "narrow
Al".

This concept is still largely in the theoretical stages, as true AGI has not
yet been achieved. Nonetheless, it represents a vision for a future
where Al systems are deeply and seamlessly integrated into the care
ecosystem, both for the elderly and in general healthcare settings.

How artificial general care could function
An artificial general care system could provide holistic care by
coordinating numerous existing Al-powered tools and learning to adapt
to a patient's specific and evolving needs. Examples of this advanced
care include:

• Real-time health monitoring: Devices worn by a patient could use
Al to monitor vital signs and detect anomalies. A true general care
svstem could interoret these sianals to anticinate health crises.
More -" }}}

Screenshot of a Google search for "Artificial general empathy" showing an extended AI overview, because there aren’t any serious results:

{{{ "Artificial general empathy"

Al Overview

"Artificial general empathy" refers to the capacity of an artificial
general intelligence (AGI) to not only mimic human empathy but to
comprehend and respond to emotions across various contexts and
domains with a depth and subtlety comparable to humans. Unlike the
narrower, rule-based "artificial empathy" seen in current chatbots, AGI
with general empathy would theoretically integrate complex cognitive,
emotional, and motivational facets of empathy. •
However, the concept is speculative and highly debated, with no
consensus on whether it is possible or even desirable.
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here. And it's more attuned than humans ...
People also ask :
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Can artificial general intelligence have emotions?
What is the Al empathy paradox? }}}

Screenshot of a Google search for "Artificial general wisdom" showing an extended AI overview, because there’s only one result:

{{{ "Artificial general wisdom"

ResearchGate
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6 days ago — Artificial General Wisdom. - and, eventually, if it'll ever. get to that, a future hi[...] conscious. Artificial Super Wisdom . Convergence of ...

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Ted Byfield @tbfld.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

“Highest Quality 24 Karat Gold” is 🔥, since karat is a quality measure. Aside from labs, there’s no higher karat (24K = 99.9%). 1g of gold leaf covers ~1/2 square meter. Oval Office has ~203 sqm walls, so gold-leafing *the entire room* = ~400g, or ~$50K. Plus say ~$5k for plastic ornaments. 👍🏼

Screenshot of a Trump tweet (or whatever):

Donald J. Trump
@realDonald Trump

Some of the highest quality 24 Karat Gold
used in the Oval Office and Cabinet Room
of the White House. Foreign Leaders, and
everyone else, "freak out" when they see
the quality and beauty. Best Oval Office
ever, in terms of success and look!!!
President DJT

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Ted Byfield @tbfld.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

This is an adorable image of an imaginary landscape in sherbet colors, with flowers, little animals, and a sun.

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Ted Byfield @tbfld.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

This is a cute image of a kitten

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Ted Byfield @tbfld.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

The #NYT deserves #Pulitzer in the category of Both Sides Journalism for this #RFK headline.

Screenshot of the NYT website in mobile format:

ANALYSIS

[HEAD] Kennedy, Rejecting Data, Fuels Distrust of His Own Agencies

[DECK] Critics say Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is jeopardizing public health by promoting suspicions about the institutions he oversees. He says he's pursuing transparency.

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Ted Byfield @tbfld.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

My hunch: Trump’s use of title-casing is a useful indicator of his madness. The More He Does It, The More Delusional He Is.

[Tweet by] Maine @TheMaineWonk
4h
The Mad King honestly believes that
Executive Orders are law.

[embedded “Truth”]
Donald J. Trump
@realDonald Trump

Voter I.D. Must Be Part of Every Single Vote. NO
EXCEPTIONS! | Will Be Doing An Executive Order
To That End!!! Also, No Mail-In Voting, Except For
Those That Are Very Ill, And The Far Away Military.
USE PAPER BALLOTS ONLY!!! President DJT

107 ReTruths
303 Likes
8/30/25, 9:49 PM

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