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@thatdobson.bsky.social
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I write and do other things but I’m mostly here to have the weird fun convos about technology and people They // Them // Theirs

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baba bear @thatdobson.bsky.social · 9h
white nationalism always tries to portray itself as some deep esoteric understanding of history that you just haven’t read enough to understand and then will vomit a historical bullshit like this. Yes, noted unified pillars: Judea, Athens, and Rome. Each one a HUGE fan of the other.
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Caroline Baxter @convergingriskslab.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Pausing my AI/NATSEC commentary to share this with a personal take, stated as clearly as possible: This is fucking barbaric and should feature prominently and permanently in every US history textbook. We will never wash away this stain, so we better learn from it. www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...
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Inside the Texas courtroom where toddlers face immigration judges | CNN Politics
Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.
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baba bear @thatdobson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The thing about the "The other 50 did NOTHING" that young men really need to hear is... If you're actually doing the work of being a better man w/ regards to gender and feminism you're never gonna be on that group thread to begin with. But you have to make sure no one you know is on there either.
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baba bear @thatdobson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tag yourself, I'm Kris Novaselic getting ready to ride these coattails just to flip what little cred I have left in my 3rd act by making a hard right turn
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Which is why this quote, reported shortly after Trump's victory, remains one of the purest expressions of the ethos of his support: bsky.app/profile/qjur...
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The deep truth of contemporary reactionary politics is that, though they mouth dismissal of postmodernism, feminism, CRT, & intersectionality, they actually believe in all of it but simply want to liberate their exercise of the relevant forms of arbitrary power from any iota of guilt.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In practice, AI literacy doesn’t start with building the tool for your personal use. It starts with understanding yourself as a collection of tasks who should subcontract those out to a machine. Almost no regular person’s life currently exists as such.
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Firkinho Gaucho @pastaben.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
i’m at the catholic church i’m at the ambient show i’m at the combination catholic church and ambient show
the lights during drumloop’s set in a cathedral in bk
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baba bear @thatdobson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Medicare for 18 and under and 50+ feels like an easy lay up. Your “able bodied working” group can still knife fight for employment tied benefits and we protect the most at need. And a generation later everyone realizes “Wow, life was great when I was a kid and had single payer healthcare!”
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Liz @ilisabat.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The idea that political messaging needs to incorporate a narrative of community is not unclear or wishy-washy, and the success of the no kings protests are due in no small part to the fact that it taps into centuries of American mythology.
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baba bear @thatdobson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In this house we Stan Live Laugh Love Spyro
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baba bear @thatdobson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
James Gunn is furiously digging through Warner storage assembling a Swiss Guard level of Acme weaponry as we speak
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 23/09/2026
The short-sightedness of "guaranteeing film-industry jobs" is clear: the merger will produce job losses here in L.A. anyway. People caught up in layoffs won't be fooled by fig-leaf campaign claims that state Dems' deal 'protected Hollywood.'
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baba bear @thatdobson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
NYC Fancy Bartender With Two Cents: Prestige media occupies like 40 square blocks of reality (Lower Manhattan) that was beginning to be occupied by the graduates who’s brains were cooked from the pandemic leaving them terminally online, at the same time their racist friends felt comfy to shout slurs
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Honestly, it's one of those crosses the line twice type things that go so far, it becomes funny instead of offensive. Yeah, we killed thousands of people, caused an energy crisis, and destabilized an entire region. But do you really want your kid to have a stuffed shark and programmer socks?
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baba bear @thatdobson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Beginning to realize the Mesa Community College Professor who taught Bio 101 bemoaning the fact he wasn’t allowed to use CRISPR tech on his kid might not have been an outlier, but rather the median academic of the 21st century.
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Glencora @glencora.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Italian fascists half-assing it and thus semi-sabotaging German Nazi by sheer incompetence is very traditional
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olive consumer @machete.gay · 19/09/2026
It is, in this way, not that different from Thelema, the various more fringe spiritism movements of the 1800s, or indeed the great variety of mystery cults of antiquity. These closed social spaces are accelerators for increasingly fringe and often antisocial beliefs.
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baba bear @thatdobson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Antithesis: “Spare, Morrison, Mulligan”
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baba bear @thatdobson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
OH HELL YEAH EVERYONE'S DOING GREAT IN THERE
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baba bear @thatdobson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
WE GONNA DOG WALK EM
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Calvin Lin @calvinloveinternet.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The best part of being an artist is that you can just draw whatever dumb idea comes to your head at 1am
A scene parodying the Neon Genesis Evangelion scene of Asuka and her Eva unit getting pierced by the spear of longinus. In this scene, Linguini and Remy from Pixar's Ratatouille take the place of the EVA unit and Asuka respectively. Linguinis eye is pierced by a fork version of the spear and Remy is depicted in an inset where he is grabbing his eye and screaming like the anime. There are anime subtitles at the bottom that say "AHHHHHHHHH!"
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
When they eventually make a movie about this time, please don't put the male politicians in good suits. IMO, the ugly, low rent tailoring should be part of the story.
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baba bear @thatdobson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Tag yourself. I’m Albini smoking two packs a day and mumbling something about being a plumber while my friend tops everything he’s ever made before this.
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EROCY @erocy.world · 12/09/2026
you actually can’t meet my smoking hot girlfriend because she lives in canada, she can’t visit for safety reasons
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Clipping @clppng.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I only felt a “shared bond” immediately after 9/11 by participating in the largest protest movement in the history of the world as every representative democracy marched off to war
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baba bear @thatdobson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Hey Siri, play “Many Men”
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baba bear @thatdobson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Sorry, this has stuck in my craw way too long, but holy shit everything is vacation bible camp coded with these guys forever, huh?
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baba bear @thatdobson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I’m honestly fixated on this essential belief to the doomer theory of AI that any sufficiently intelligent thing kills anything that challenges it. Like, that’s a toddlers and dogs level of intellect, my dude.
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baba bear @thatdobson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is EXHAUSTING
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baba bear @thatdobson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
At some point y’all gonna realize that eating up the “AI is going to kill us all” is just the other side of the “AI will fix the world” shit sandwich. Speaking from the other side of the “Good media makes good people” disruption, quit pretending YOUR commodity is that powerful.
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baba bear @thatdobson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It’s pretty arguable actually that demanding STEM guys dabble in the humanities is how we got into all this nonsense. Like, I dunno if Peter Thiel would be doing a circuit tour on the Great Thunberg as the antithesis of the West if he hadn’t of read Heidegger.
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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 06/09/2026
some trans women are spreading a study on trans hiring discrimination and reading it as "if anyone in the hiring process is aware you're trans, you're pretty much done," and I'm sorry, but that's just not true and it's harmful to spread (and I don't think the article actually says that)
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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 06/09/2026
You can actually control your personal media and information environment. You don’t actually have to subject yourself to face-rolling in a stream of far-right propaganda every day and then spending the day talking about and sharing it with other people. You won’t be missing anything if you stop.
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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 03/09/2026
things went off the rails when left of center people internalized that it was wrong to vigorously defend higher education because surely it must be just as important and valid to not get higher education
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
the position of the Trump administration and the Supreme Court is that Jim Crow is not simply permitted by the 14th Amendment: it is mandatory as a matter of constitutional law www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/b...
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Schools Giving Aid to Minority Students Could Lose Tax Exemptions Under Trump’s New Rules (Gift Article)
The Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools.
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baba bear @thatdobson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I know I'm probably in a queue longer than Katz's here, but when the time comes... I wanna do it.
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baba bear @thatdobson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
@graphei.bsky.social I think you and I can bully Em into making this happen.
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baba bear @thatdobson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
You told America my son’s cousins were eating dogs you heinous lil worm
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 31/08/2026
this is about the huggingface thing, right? it's going to sting but over-anthropomorphization of chatbots responding to one another is going to keep happening until we accept the hard truth that "ability to post" is not itself indicative of human intelligence
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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
apes together strong
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
It’s mind-blowing that we have literal white nationalists in the White House carrying out unfathomably cruel, abusive, white nationalist policies, and the punditariat has spent the last two weeks debating if some people were too intemperate after a Black man was murdered by cops six years ago.
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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 25/08/2026
It’s fine, you can’t change the name of anything referenced in “Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”, it’s a legal document
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baba bear @thatdobson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Okay, @pastaben.bsky.social I’m ready when you are
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Z. Mann Zilla, Semi-Pro Goofball @pandangit.com · 26/08/2026
If we really want to honor Tim Curry's memory, then we have to publish like 8 different obituaries, each with a different and entirely plausible cause of death.
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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
At least Tim Curry outlived Mitch McConnell
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
tim curry was a legend. every performance of his was (slowly realizing that the only thing i really knew him from was the wild thornberrys) smashing
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tim Curry was not the 80-year-old Home Alone 2 cast member we were asking for.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
the horse was cooking with this one
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