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Gregory Boyce

@techstoa.bsky.social
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Software engineer. Linux and open source. Anti-Fascist independent. Writer. I try to share meaningful lyrics, because I think they're important. medium.com/tech-stoa

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Thank you so much to @zackpolanski.bsky.social for inviting me onto his podcast. We talked about critical issues the media & political establishment is ignoring such as the extraordinarily dumb & dangerous UK defence deal with Peter Thiel’s Palantir
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Zay Crescendo @zaycrescendo.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Could you please amplify? 🫂
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst. It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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The Great AI Bubble
Yes, it's a bubble. And yes, it's going to burst.
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Gregory Boyce @techstoa.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
It's as though they consistently refuse to do the right thing if it might look bad for them.
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Zay Crescendo @zaycrescendo.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Good morning! I'm still 27 short to be able to stay sheltered due at noon. Could you please amplify? I might have to go to the hospital today again but hoping I don't. Much appreciated, and I hope you all have a safe and peaceful weekend full of love. Details in comment below, and pinned post.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Americans still don't realize how bad it has gotten and how much worse it is going to get. Immense destruction, pain and suffering, and we're not even at the tip of it.
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Zay Crescendo @zaycrescendo.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
True allyship means listening to and learning from Black, Indigenous, and anti-racist Latine folks, POTGM who have had no choice and been involved in community, social justice, racial justice, environmental justice movements, etc. for survival. 2 Part Thread 🧵 1/2 (next)
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Gregory Boyce @techstoa.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
It's easy to believe something when you're always right about it.
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𝓥𝓲𝓻𝓰𝓲𝓷𝓲𝓪 𝓗𝓪𝓵𝓵 📎 @virginiahall32.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Trump: I don't think we're gonna necessarily ask for a declaration of war. I think we're just gonna kill people. Okay? We're gonna kill them. They're gonna be, like, dead.” I told you Shitler was jonesing to kill people.
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Gregory Boyce @techstoa.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a Government, which we might expect in a country without Government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer.
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Gregory Boyce @techstoa.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one:
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Gregory Boyce @techstoa.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness possitively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.
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Gregory Boyce @techstoa.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
"Common Sense" by Thomas Paine "Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins.
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Gregory Boyce @techstoa.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
"It’s time for a return to local community, because our institutions are going to tear each other a part." - Nov 4, 2020
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
He first threatened sanctions on Jan 19 if Russia didn’t cease fire. He has threatened to impose them many times since then. It is now Oct 17. He has done nothing.
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Gregory Boyce @techstoa.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
There's a lot of right wing condemnation or it going on over on Twitter. Not in the way you'd hope.
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Gregory Boyce @techstoa.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Not every single. There's a growing movement to build platforms for communities, run by the communities. I'm working on it myself, and I've met a number of other people with similar ideas.
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Zay Crescendo @zaycrescendo.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Zay has been in and out of the hospital and UCC with LC complications. They have been trying to reach a week or two goal since their hospital discharge to stay housed. 43 would at least cover today due by noon. Any aid is appreciated, including amplifying. VM & CA: ZayCrescendo PP: Zay88
Zay has been in and out of the hospital and urgent care with long cov¡d complications and has been trying to reach a week or two since their hospital discharge to stay sheltered, food, and necessities.

450 weekly rate is the cheapest vs the 80 daily rate. 43 would at least cover today due by noon to remain h0used. Any aid is greatly appreciated, including amplifying.

C@sh App: ZayCrescendo
V3nmo: ZayCrescendo 
P@yPal: Zay88
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Here’s an idea for a reporter: Gather some retired cops or MPs together and show them how ICE handles hecklers and protesters. I guarantee you’ll get some amazing copy. Especially if your outlet lets you reprint profanity.
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Zay Crescendo @zaycrescendo.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
I ended up losing shelter at noon and am still 27 short to get re-housed. Please read the details in my pinned post, and please spread the word if you have the extra energy. Many thanks in advance.
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Gregory Boyce @techstoa.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
So, stupid question. Why are we wasting an increasing amount of finite resources to generate artificial scarcity?
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
For our entire lives the state has been slowly conditioning us to accept dehumanization and unrestrained violence. It's the carceral state. Intentional scarcity and poverty. The exploitation of people around the world and within our borders. Designations of "criminal" and "terrorist."
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Zay Crescendo @zaycrescendo.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
I'm still short 11 to be able to remain hauzed due at noon, and still urgently need to cover copay for a prescription, and food. If you could please amplify my pinned post I'd wholeheartedly appreciate it.
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Zay Crescendo @zaycrescendo.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
I'm unfortunately short 18 still to be able to stay housed due at noon. Please amplify my pinned post. Thanks in advance.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
It's 20 Fucking 25, we're staring down the barrel of full-blown fascism, and centrist Democrats are STILL talking about Bill Clinton, Sister Souljah, and the need to "moderate" the party and make nice with the fascists. I can't do this. I literally can't. I'm going to scream.
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Gregory Boyce @techstoa.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
He wasn't convicted for his attempted coup. He was impeached, but the Senate failed to convict. He never faced trial by the judicial system.
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Gregory Boyce @techstoa.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
It is though, in a bipartisan way. It's just not supposed to be.
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Gregory Boyce @techstoa.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
We are transmitters, not originators.
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Gregory Boyce @techstoa.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
And then the hands are part of the lived body – or, put more conventionally, are the vehicle of the mind, which is in turn the product of all the other minds that have interacted with it, from Beethoven and Michelangelo down to every encounter of our daily lives.
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Gregory Boyce @techstoa.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
or greyness, or stoniness lies not in the mountain or in my mind, but comes from between us, called forth from each and equally dependent on both; as music arises from neither the piano nor the pianist’s hands, the sculpture neither from hand nor stone, but from their coming together.
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Gregory Boyce @techstoa.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
That is true of perceptual qualities, not just of values. If there is no ‘real’ mountain, for example, separate from one created by the hopes, aspirations, reverence or greed of those who approach it, it is equally true that its greenness,
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Gregory Boyce @techstoa.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
One way of putting this is to say that we neither discover an objective reality nor invent a subjective reality, but that there is a process of responsive evocation, the world ‘calling forth’ something in me that in turn ‘calls forth’ something in the world.
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Gregory Boyce @techstoa.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
The fact that a place is special to some because of its great peace and beauty may, by that very fact, make it for another a resource to exploit, in such a way that its peace and beauty are destroyed. Attention has consequences.
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Gregory Boyce @techstoa.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
From "The Master And His Emissary" by Iain McGilchrist: Attention is a moral act: it creates, brings aspects of things into being, but in doing so makes others recede. What a thing is depends on who is attending to it, and in what way.
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Gregory Boyce @techstoa.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
I remember the moment when Joe Biden said he'd be ok with losing because he knows he did all that he could. Even after 4 years of failing to focus on justice and anti-corruption.
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Gregory Boyce @techstoa.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
youtu.be/V_PNyYPR46E?...
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Michael Parenti "The Corporate War Against Democracy" Portland, Oregon 9.14.02
YouTube video by The Michael Parenti Library
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Gregory Boyce @techstoa.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
We have more guns than people in this country. Any suggestions for who should go collect them from armed people?
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
The national Democratic Party has forgotten how to fight. But in this critical moment, we need fighters — not folders. We need a Democratic Party that is a little less Washington and a little more Texas.
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ShantyMinister @shantyminister.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Well isn’t this lovely. Opera star sings Habanera (from Carmen) in the airport (?) What a terrific voice. #opera I don’t care if they’re staged, we need more profl free public #music and #art.
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Gregory Boyce @techstoa.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
youtu.be/TZOoT8AbkNE
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This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Never before in our history has one man exercised such unbridled discretion affecting the lives of so many of us, while simultaneously preventing others — Congress, the courts, the American people — from having a say or even knowing what he’s going to do next. This is what dictatorship looks like.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
This isn’t bad luck or coincidence or predestination. This is our choice. To live in a nation where our leaders teach hate, and military style guns are everywhere.
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Mark Bechtel @markymark757.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
30 FEMA employees wrote an open letter to President Trump complaining FEMA is not operating the way it should because of the person who Trump made FEMA Director is extremely inexperienced. They were all placed on administrative leave today. .Deadline WH, MSNBC
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