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One individual, with the electrons in his hand, can bring down an empire. Go for it all! [Timothy Leary] Art is that which despite all gives hope. [Frederick Franck]

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 15/10/2026
This has only been accelerated by America's precipitous slide into oligarchy, which has exhausted the savings *and* the credit-card limits *and* the home equity of the majority of Americans, who increasingly can't afford to buy anything: dreamagainusa.org
dreamagainusa.org
The Climb: Wealth Inequality in America, to scale
Picture U.S. wealth as stacks of $100 bills: the median household’s is about 9 inches tall. The average top-1% household’s is 145 feet, and it keeps getting taller and taller…
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
I also don't think AI tools, more productivity apps, and/or software like AirTable are the solution to this increasing amount of digital executive dysfunction, because it overemphasizes individual effort over systemic changes and better government regulations. I also miss paper cruise planners. 😓
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thebobcampbell @thebobcampbell.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
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thebobcampbell @thebobcampbell.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Starting to think it could be our current monetary policy (raising interest rates to make it harder for “people” to borrow which should cool off the economy) is completely upended by extreme wealth (not income - wealth) inequality.
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🇵🇹 snipe, lixo tóxico ⭑⭒⭒⭒⭒ @snipe.lol · 12/10/2026
👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
Poster on a window that says:

AI DOES NOT FIX BAD DATA

It only makes the output faster, shinier, and more autonomous.
Data + Machine Learning = poop emoji

Data + Artificial Intelligence = shiny poop emoji

Data + Generative AI = rainbow unicorn poop emoji
Data + Agentic Al = 20 different styles of poop emojis

Garbage in, garbage out - now with better UX.
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thebobcampbell @thebobcampbell.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
A coworker use to call them “speed nuts” but everyone else calls them “cage nuts”? To each their kink I suppose.
A well photo of shiny, silver rack screws and cage nuts, laid out in an enticingly delicious manner. You just want to hold them in you hand. Yeah you. You know you do. 

Text: 
What is a rack mount screw? What you need to know about mounting”
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Just thinking about this as the state harasses Ilhan Omar over 40 year old paperwork.
washingtonpost.com
Elon Musk, enemy of ‘open borders,’ launched his career working illegally
Investors in Musk’s first company worried about “our founder being deported” and gave him a deadline for obtaining a work visa.
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
We've lived for so long with this mythology that sure, the wealthy can be cruel. But at least the cruelty has a point. Profit! I'd like us to open our hearts to other possibilities. Power doesn't just corrupt! It can also breed truly reality-distorting levels of incompetence.
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thebobcampbell @thebobcampbell.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Never has cookies in it
The cookie is a lie. Tin labelled ‘Danish Butter Cookies’, which, if found in an older person’s home, never, ever, has cookies in it. Dammit.
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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
I double-checked this on a couple of Xitter stat sites and it's true. Average views of the main AfD account dropped 90% and average engagement dropped by 60%. This is commercial social media for you: bots, damn bots and Russian bots.
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thebobcampbell @thebobcampbell.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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thebobcampbell @thebobcampbell.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
My man looks like the antichrist does a lecture tour talking about him and the dangers of believing what he says.
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thebobcampbell @thebobcampbell.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Obligatory ”staff are revolting!?”:
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 10/10/2026
❗️And here we are. Just like expected. A Ukrainian official claimed that during recent talks, US envoys Witkoff and Kushner threatened that Trump could cut off Ukraine from U.S. intelligence if it continued to ignore his requests to stop hitting Russian refineries, Axios tells. US denied. #Ukraine
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
No better case for the billionaire tax than how hard they’re working to defeat it
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The GOP cut funding to the IRS because *audits work* and they fundamentally don't believe rich people should have to play by the rules.
Line chart titled "Revenue per audit," subtitled "In-person audits, 2010-2014." It plots average revenue and average cost per audit by taxpayer income percentile, poorer to richer, from the 0–5th percentile to the top 0.1%. Source: Boning et al. 2023, "A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution."

Across the bottom half of the income distribution, revenue and cost track closely, both around $3,000–$6,000 per audit. Above the median, revenue pulls ahead of cost: about $10,000 vs. $5,000 near the 90th percentile, and about $17,000 vs. $8,000 at the 95th–99th. At the top, revenue jumps to about $31,000 for the 99–99.9th percentile and about $90,000 for the top 0.1%.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 06/10/2026
Hot news for the sea lion in my comments bothering everyone about how training data is fair use www.courthousenews.com/ai-training-...
courthousenews.com
AI training of copyrighted material not fair use: Third Circuit
Using someone else's "creative spark" to start a competing business runs afoul of copyright law, the panel found.
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thebobcampbell @thebobcampbell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
That’s what the waybackmachine folks saw coming and are >< just able to make work. Except, of course, the actual URLs are wrong, but there’s a chance the content is still there. Ish.
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thebobcampbell @thebobcampbell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Somehow I read this as ‘nonsensical’ nudes. And honestly, no surprise.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I think when we hem and haw about people going no-contact with their families and what it says about society, what we're often doing is revealing our own discomfort with seeing others starting to pull blocks out of the Jenga tower of Empire and refusing to suffer Just Because.
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thebobcampbell @thebobcampbell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Part of the problem is that our schools are economically oriented, rather than democratically oriented.
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thebobcampbell @thebobcampbell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The point here for me is that we use ‘meritocracy’ in reference to financial achievement, where we’re using a political term for an economic idea. Ideally, we would have a democratic government (-ocracy) with a meritorious economy (you have what you earn/create). Conflating the two does us no good.
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thebobcampbell @thebobcampbell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hold on, have you at least tried the basil pesto Oreos?
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Toroid @toroidal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Society is being shaped a little too much by a bizarre pseudo cult started by lonely neurodiverse kids reading ray kurzweil and misinterpreting utilitarian philosophy on internet message boards 25 years ago.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
i thought about this old tweet tonight and how nothing has ever aged better
@Merman_Melville • Jan 24, 2019
Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Know their names: Scott Kretzschmar, Scott Norris, Diego Sarabia, Gillio Lopes, Winston Lee, Johnathan Newell and Matthew Ingalls #Cornell7 But also, everyone in the group chat, the administrators, university, and DA. SHAME.
Cornell 7Disgusting chat
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thebobcampbell @thebobcampbell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Can someone staple this to the foreheads of all those Third Way nincompoops? All the people that told us to ‘just wait!’ for Merrick Garland? All the advisors who do nothing but chase poll numbers?
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thebobcampbell @thebobcampbell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Amazon, obvs
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thebobcampbell @thebobcampbell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If they* tank the USD and California prints its own money, I propose to nickname them Bearbacks and a design in accordance with the nickname. * fucking techbros
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thebobcampbell @thebobcampbell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I had a manager like this; she expected interviews to be this formal thing, only certain questions should be asked and only particular answers given. And then she’d joke about their (bad) answers after. She roasted me for having the audacity of asking personable questions of interviewees.
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thebobcampbell @thebobcampbell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This would explain a lot actually
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thebobcampbell @thebobcampbell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Disable my VPN? Just so I can visit your little website? Fuck you, zazzle.
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thebobcampbell @thebobcampbell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Jar of marshmallow fluff, aka the “fluffer” part of a “fluffer nutter” sandwich
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thebobcampbell @thebobcampbell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
He gets the special LL Bean and Harry & David catalogs weekly Sept-Dec.
Made you look! 

Harry & David catalog cover giving Playboy and Penthouse a run for their money. 

A golden pear half, looking like a fresh peach. You know what I mean. A spoon just had its way with it, dripping with satisfaction. A quip at the bottom states, “over 100 delicious ways to delight them”
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thebobcampbell @thebobcampbell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The only way to Own It All is to live forever.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
i've always wanted to visit iceland sure wish i hadn't been holding that monkey's paw when i said it
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thebobcampbell @thebobcampbell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Six tons of European butter!? No wonder!
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thebobcampbell @thebobcampbell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This in particular could hurt a lot of his supporters’ pocketbooks, and of course money is what makes or breaks politicians now, not ideology. (but he def deserves it for ideological reasons)
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thebobcampbell @thebobcampbell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Oh yeah, we definitely need to get back to trust-busting. But first, corporate/establishment/neolib Dems like Newsom have to go. Then make stock buybacks illegal - again. Then make stocks-as-loan-collateral illegal - again. Then close the C-suite performance-based bonus tax loophole.
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thebobcampbell @thebobcampbell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Ah, here comes the ol’ “we’ll loan you the money to apply (with interest , garnished from your paycheck) , no guarantees on the job but the loan is not forgivable” ploy.
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thebobcampbell @thebobcampbell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Ugh, I’m having Lisp flashbacks.
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thebobcampbell @thebobcampbell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Oh gee, what are the chances or either of those things happening!?
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thebobcampbell @thebobcampbell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
With any luck, this’ll backfire on Newsom and sink any chance of his 2028 or any future run for president.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
saw this on Instagram and it so perfectly encapsulated my rage
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being so fr when I say that transmisogyny has put feminism back like 50 years

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what i thought we had distanced ourselves from was the reduction of women to vaginas and wombs and the ability to bear children. i thought we had progressed past 'dresses are for women and pants are for men. i thought we progressed past the idea that someone is less of a woman if she does not adhere strictly to beauty standards. i thought we progressed past the idea that naturally being comfortable adhering to highly feminine standards is vulgar. but i (sarcastically) guess no one could have predicted that trans-exclusive feminism would be the downfall of all the progress we've made
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2026
i mean, just look at how the populists talked about the railroad barons and others like them. "The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes, unprecedented in the history of the world, while their possessors despise the republic and endanger liberty."
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Sad excuse for journalism: Big profile of DOGE lord doesn’t say a word about all the damage he did. And it was not an “ill fated cost-cutting effort.” It was a malignant, catastrophic attack on the government and its workers by arrogant and ignorant assholes. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
washingtonpost.com
He spent 11 months inside DOGE. Now he wants to set the record straight.
In his first major interview about his tell-all memoir, Tyler Hassen describes the culture clash surrounding DOGE’s mission and the backlash that followed.
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thebobcampbell @thebobcampbell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This whole anti-trans thing by Dems has got Third Way stink all over it.
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thebobcampbell @thebobcampbell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Huh?
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thebobcampbell @thebobcampbell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I’m serious when I say the people paying the Rs to do what they’re doing, are paying the Ds to run interference. Or at least step aside.
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 18/09/2026
The one and only Lynda Carter — Wonder Woman herself — is here at the Kennedy Center. WATCH: open.substack.com/live-stream/...
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