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Joel Berger

@teknomantik.old-home.net
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Here for people, not "protocols." Nerdy guy with opinions, mostly that people should care about each other. Dad of two awesome young humans, sysadmin for the money, overly-distracted anime fan, baseball/hockey enjoyer. He/him. ⚾ #Rockies 🏒 p - #GoAvsGo

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Joel Berger @teknomantik.old-home.net · 28/09/2026
I think there's a huge win to be had for the first mainstream outlet willing to talk about how a ton of the current "AI safety" push is a combination of bizarre group delusion and a smokescreen to deflect regulatory eyes from the real "AI" threats like disinformation and deskilling.
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Joel Berger @teknomantik.old-home.net · 28/09/2026
Are battery-powered tools for professional landscapers a thing? Asking for me, currently choking on 2-cycle exhaust from whatever crew the townhome association hired to trim the hedges.
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Joel Berger @teknomantik.old-home.net · 28/09/2026
I think one of the most genuinely maddening things about politics on social media is the tendency in certain circles to hear of suffering in "red" states and just shrug and say "welp, they voted for this." Yeah, okay, some of them did. They're still human beings. Empathy is essential.
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Joel Berger @teknomantik.old-home.net · 26/09/2026
The Avs announced a Hello Kitty night with blind box plushies (home/road/third jerseys) and I don't think I've ever seen a theme night package I need so badly. #GoAvsGo
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ATTENTION BLUESKY! Annie says they are really hoping to boost the number of artists (crew, performers, creative teams, anyone) outside New York who are filling this out to get a broader sampling. If you are in the arts please take a second and fill this out!
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Joel Berger @teknomantik.old-home.net · 24/09/2026
Feeling this one again today. The Onion got in on it, and I wouldn't have been half as annoyed if they'd used a pic of anyone *other* than Kyle Freeland.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hey so uhhhhh that Boston Globe story about the lesbian bar relaxing its covid rules is an *absolute fucking hit piece* targeting the disabled, chronically ill, and covid-conscious and it would be great if folks sharing and joking about it could recognize that framing.
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Joel Berger @teknomantik.old-home.net · 23/09/2026
Hey @delauro.house.gov, great job standing up for your queer, disabled, and immune-compromised constituents.
Tweet by Rosa DeLauro (@rosadelauro):
trip cancelled, no one wanted to mask

Quoted tweet by Rosa DeLauro (@rosadelauro):
getting a group together to visit the weird lesbian bar in western mass dm if interested, can't talk here
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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 23/09/2026
please apply an extremely critical eye to any stories about Trouble With A Persecuted Demographic right now, k? k.
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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 23/09/2026
had reserved commenting on this because it felt very “look at the freak queers infighting,” especially at the same time as the boston globe running digital main-page transphobia. turns out that’s exactly what it is
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Joel Berger @teknomantik.old-home.net · 23/09/2026
Browsing job listings and came across something that's simultaneously interesting and worrying. Interesting: mixed IT support/infrastructure, SPAAAAACE but international/non-cleared, good match to my skills, really good pay for my area, fully paid health/dental/vision.
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Cliff Pervocracy @pervocracy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is a canary resuscitator, which miners would use to revive canaries that had passed out from toxic gas, because ideally not only do you care, you don't even leave the bird behind. just a little mining history and not at all a furious scream
A canary in a sealed box attached to an oxygen tank
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Narnia books as Isekai Manga
1. My Sweet Tooth Made Me The Villainess’ Slave
2. In Another World, The Dwarves Picked Me To Lead The Revolution
3. All At Sea With My Level 0 Sailing Skills
4. On A Mission In Another World And I Can’t Remember The Cheat Codes
5. That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Horse
6. Help! My Uncle’s In Love With The Demon Queen!
7. Reincarnated In Another World Just As The Game’s Ending
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026
Advocating against Talarico's new rightward tack on trans kids in sports and gender affirming care is not advocating for Paxton. It's advocating against Talarico's new rightward tack on trans kids in sports and gender affirming care.
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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 18/09/2026
the best thing TX lefty voters can do today is: - holler at Talarico to either get on board or shut the entire fuck up about trans people if he can't whole-heartedly offer support - make sure everybody knows KEN PAXTON SUCKS
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Joel Berger @teknomantik.old-home.net · 16/09/2026
Regardless of the subject, if your thread counter says 1/100, it's time to log off.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
GEFILTE PHISHING
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I keep seeing ChatGPT ads about Olds having chatty convos with the voice to text feature to help them do stuff on their phone and every single use case is just a thing you used to be able to just google before AI ruined Google
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Joel Berger @teknomantik.old-home.net · 16/09/2026
I know it's his first start off the IL, so is it reasonable to assume pulling Freeland after 50 pitches was the plan all along? #Rockies
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Joel Berger @teknomantik.old-home.net · 16/09/2026
Alf Hog and Tom Boobadil don't faze me, but based on the current topic I might actually have to mute Faine for the evening to avoid psychic damage.
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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
As a final note - which will be my only further comment to the folks ignoring what i've said to talk about how Trans people HAVE TO vote for the Democrats: Do you think that it's news to the queer community that the GOP wants us dead? Do you think that you are providing previously unknown info?
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Malachite Tigerbunny @malachitetiger.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
They always claim they're trying to persuade trans people that it's still worth voting for Talarico even if he doesn't backtrack. But they're so dedicated to persuasion that if they listen at all to what trans people are feeling, it's only to ridicule us for it.
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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I do not understand the folks furious at trans people for responding in anguish when the party that they've been told would protect them treats their existence as negotiable. I do not understand thinking trans folks have political power and responsibility where candidates have none.
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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I'm not even going to tackle the rest of this, I'm just shocked that anyone could accuse the Democrats of being "unflinching" about literally anything.
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Joel Berger @teknomantik.old-home.net · 14/09/2026
Hey @jamestalarico.bsky.social, do you see this? This is the way. Don't abandon trans people for votes you won't get anyway. Stand up and fight that much harder.
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Hey the reason us straight cis allies are LIVID about Talairico and Acton and others throwing trans folks under the bus is that gay marriage is next alongside women's rights and if you can't fight for our trans brothers, sisters, and thisters/throthers, you don't deserve to fight for anyone
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Catbus @catbus.phd · 12/09/2026
look if you want to improve Talarico's odds of winning, stop yelling at me for calling out his anti-trans bullshit and start yelling at him for adopting it I'm a nobody on a nothing website, he's the one harming his own chances with bigotry
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Mikel Reparaz @wikiparaz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
PAUL: What’s in the box? REVEREND MOTHER: Pain. [PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.] REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn,
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Micah @rincewind.run · 11/09/2026
Discworld QOTD, from Thief of Time 'Every society needs a cry like that, but only in a very few do they come out with the complete, unvarnished version, which is “Remember-The-Atrocity-Committed-Against-Us-Last-Time-That-Will-Excuse-The-Atrocity-That-We’re-About-To-Commit-Today!"'
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026
Anyone calling the refusal to compromise on trans rights a "purity test" can get into the bin as far as I'm concerned
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Lara @getupswinging.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Again, you didn’t answer my question. What other marginalized groups are you okay with them losing their rights? I have stage 4 cancer so I’m disabled. You good with Democrats starting to align with the republicans about social safety programs?
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Kocel @kocel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The thing I don't think dems who have lost Texas understand: ceding ground to Republican talking points doesn't win you voters. No one who thought you stood with The Trans Menace is going to vote for you even if you say you don't. They're fuckin' crazy. All you're doing is losing Progressive votes.
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Lt. Uhura @ltuhura.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Aaaaaand that's just one reason this Black woman can't endorse him with my full chest. Yes, there are now no better voting options, but, I wouldn't phone bank for him. I'll be there for his next Dem challenger though, unless they're just as awful.
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Joel Berger @teknomantik.old-home.net · 09/09/2026
Tapping the brakes here: I see nothing in this article indicating they've resumed plans to expand age verification globally. Does anyone else?
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Joel Berger @teknomantik.old-home.net · 06/09/2026
I hit on the second try two days in a row. I should have figured I was due for an ugly one. NYT-free Wordle at jon-e.net/wordle.html Alt text by wa11y.co
Wordle 1905 6/6

Line 1: 5th correct but in the wrong place.
Line 2: 3rd perfect, but 2nd, 4th and 5th in the wrong place.
Line 3: 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 5th perfect.
Line 4: Nothing.
Line 5: 1st, 4th and 5th correct but in the wrong place.
Line 6: Won!
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Happy Rice Truck Day to all who observe
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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"they blocked me and i never even said anything to them" buddy i have some bad news about how many people can perceive your behavior in a public setting
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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 02/09/2026
People involved in actual brigading don't give a shit what the rules are. People who don't want to let hateful, ignorant comments stand without pushback often DO care what the rules are—and they're left wondering if they'll get banned for "dogpiling" simply because they're pushing back on bigotry.
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Joel Berger @teknomantik.old-home.net · 02/09/2026
you just lost a series to the Colorado Rockies
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Paz Pardo @pazsays.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
BLUESKY CRAFT HIVE ARISE
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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Science has determined: - the Median Baltimore Orioles player - the Median Tampa Bay Rays player
HUNTER CORNMAN

Apple-cheeked blond oaf

Usually hits .218 but turns into Ted fucking Williams whenver he's facing your team

Attended Robert E. Lee-Strom Thurmond Secondary in South BiscuitvilleDAX DONK

Perpetually damp-looking ambidextrous sidearm knuckleballer with 0.95 ERA

Acquired by the Rays for $500 out of the Boat Repair Technical College of Alaska

The moment he’s owed real money he will be traded to the Yankees for a stack of scratch-off tickets
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Holy shiiiiiiit if you know anyone in North Carolina who may even know anyone who knows anyone who's been to an event by these people, get them to go get the rabies post-exposure prophylaxis shots RIGHT THE FUCK NOW, DO NOT WAIT, YOU CANNOT TREAT IT AFTER SYMPTOMS START
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ACLU @aclu.org · 28/08/2026
BREAKING: A federal court granted our emergency request to block USPS from implementing President Trump's order to restrict mail-in voting for the November election.
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Joel Berger @teknomantik.old-home.net · 27/08/2026
s'ocat
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
in a world of JK Rowlings be a Dolly Parton
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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/08/2026
telling that periodically someone would go "man dolly parton can't really be all that" and then they'd go look into it and come back with "actually she's even better than we thought"
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
When your timeline is filled with queer folks and brown/Black people singing the praises of and loudly mourning a 1940s-Tennessee-born white Boomer lady, welp. She was pretty goddamn extraordinary, you can assume.
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Joel Berger @teknomantik.old-home.net · 25/08/2026
Wise Democrats are looking hard at what makes folks like Mamdani and El-Sayed popular. Foolish ones are reheating the Jeremiah Wright smears from 2008 with Hasan Piker's name attached, but against their own party, in the general. (Say, anyone remember how the Wright controversy turned out?)
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