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The Fifth Declension

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experience: writing code very slow study: biology, 日本語 interest: visual art I'm at the limit of what I can track, so i rarely follow back - no offense intended. I block bogus-looking accounts.

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Phoronix @phoronix-poster.bsky.social · 11h
Linus Torvalds "Did What I Preach", Used AI To Make Code Decipherable & Uncovered More Bugs - www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-Torvald…
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Linus Torvalds "Did What I Preach", Used AI To Make Code Decipherable & Uncovered More Bugs
After using Claude Code to draft code to help make a fundamental improvement to the Linux kernel, Linux creator Linus Torvalds continued using AI this weekend and talking up its benefits. Beyond generating initial patches and a test program for that noted I/O enhancement, he separately talked up using AI/LLMs for making patches more decipherable to understand in the process the AI noted more long-standing bugs within the Linux kernel...
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Gelena 🤍🏔️ @gelena.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Dzień dobry ☀️ Miłej i wspaniałej niedzieli życzę Guten Morgen ☕ Wünsche allen einen wunderschönen Sonntag 🏔️🍂 Almaty region, Kasachstan
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Trump is the leader, but the party is behind him 100%. Any politician still identifying as a Republican after this is a Russia-first treason weasel.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 10/10/2026
Site-blocking isn’t just theoretically dangerous. Italy’s system blocked hundreds of innocent websites. Spain’s swept up domains belonging to Greenpeace and Harvard. Now Congress wants to bring this to the U.S. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Congress Has Another Site-Blocking Bill, And This One Targets VPNs
Congress is taking another run at site-blocking, a deeply flawed concept that would undermine basic internet infrastructure. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) has introduced the American Copyright Protection
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
We'll never exit revolving door of every cycle being a "throw bastards out" anti-party in power backlash & gain lasting majority to pass policy till we address how rightly infuriated people are at status quo. It's the billionaires, stupid - who purchase themselves politicians red & blue.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Russia is resupplying Iran with missiles. Guess who is, in effect, paying for those missiles when we pump $$$ to Russia for diesel? That's right. Another masterstroke from the genius-in-chief.
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Atlas Mugged (N95 Duckbill 😷)✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @pamacious.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Those who claim that Trump isn't good at his job are looking at a "president" rather than recognizing his agency and what real-world roles he fulfills.
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
oil terminals only do this when they're very distressed
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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Honestly. People like Eric Bohlert, Molly Ivins, @mattgertz.bsky.social, @wonkette.bsky.social, and @pkrugman.bsky.social have been telling Dems to do this for three decades. Plain talk express. Glad Ossoff is doing it.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 09/10/2026
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Bart Auringer @shivax.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
They can't resist.
SWAT team hand signals all of which are various signals to kill dogs for no fucking reason.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 08/10/2026
the more Musk spends on the midterm elections, the more ubiquitous this image needs to be
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Come 2028, remember that Gavin Newsom helped Trump's oligarch friends buy CNN. prospect.org/2026/10/08/d...
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The Democrats Who Let Trump’s Oligarchs Buy Hollywood - The American Prospect
The Ellisons enlisted a host of Democratic notables to undercut the proposed merger’s opponents.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
They’re live-streaming the execution of the person they think they can get away with doing that to first. It’s a test. If they can do that, they’ll expand the margins of permission.
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The Fifth Declension @thefifthdeclension.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I'm contemptuous of the court. Is that bad?
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ⓘ 𝕆ligarch f*ckery detected @adelpreore.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Hell has just *got* to be digging a basement for these motherfuckers.
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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“After a month of looking at these Renoirs,” said one suspected burglar, “we just couldn’t take it anymore.”
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
An authoritarian, personalist system of government when the President can direct the legal system to target anyone who reveals his wrongdoing, and protect crooked behavior from his loyalists.
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trump wants to destroy as much of the country as possible before leaving office.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Good riddance to "my friend across the aisle" too.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
When I started writing about Supreme Court expansion, you couldn’t get the question *asked* in a poll. The first time I saw it actually polled, it was 8%. Now, we here.
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The Fifth Declension @thefifthdeclension.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
came here for this
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
🚨 HAPPENING NOW: NYPD PUSHES BACK AS ANTI DEPORTATION PROTESTORS SWARM HOSPITAL ENTRANCE
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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The cost.
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Fifty Shades of Whey @fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Nearly 400 lawmakers from all 50 states have signed a letter to the HHS, RFK, and Trump admin over their plans to dismantle the federal Head Start program. A separate letter was signed by nearly 200 members of Congress. 🧵
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elijahplovejoy.bsky.social @elijahplovejoy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
@hallieshoffner.bsky.social is impressive and *can* beat Tom Cotton. www.hallieshoffner.com
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Hallie Shoffner for Senate 2026 | Support Arkansans Today
Join Hallie Shoffner’s campaign for Senate 2026, fighting for Arkansas families, farmers, and workers against a rigged economic system. Get involved now.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is Nazi rhetoric, full stop. It's not only a call to instigate a race war in the United States, but it's reminiscent of historic European justifications used to incite pogroms against Jews. People who say things like this are incredibly dangerous, as there is nothing they won't eventually do.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trump voters are looking my way because I'm not bought off. I want money out of politics, money in your pocket, and Medicare for All.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
When a politician promises to make something cheaper, ask "the second question". Where's the extra supply coming from? ⁣ ⁣ This diesel executive order doesn't make any sense newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)
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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Russia brought two isolated partners to the same drills Taliban and North Korean officers met at Russia's Center-2026 exercises, Kabul said—the only side that has said so. One feeds Moscow's war, the other leans on it. 🔗 euromaidanpress.com/2026/10/07/t...
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Taliban and North Korea rubbed shoulders at Russia’s war games—one fuels Moscow’s war, the other needs its help
Two isolated governments in Russia's orbit turned up at the same drills—though only Kabul has said they met.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
one of the ways the media shows which side they prefer, is which politicians they quote uncharitably out-of-context and which they clean up for even when what they actually say and do is offensive (the Biden story ran on the front page less than a week before the 24 election)
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Perfect example though of how corrupting tariffs are. Every town & business becomes dependent on little tariff carve outs, meaning that buying influence with Senators becomes mandatory to stay in business. The tariff is the mother of trusts!!!
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bart @bartsmith.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
North Carolina cutting the state gas tax for one month would take $225 million out of the DOT budget — money that is used to build and repair roads and bridges — and for a person who uses 50 gallons of a gas in a month, it would put one (1) crisp twenty dollar bill back in their pocket
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How long will NC suspend its gas tax? Vote and details expected Wednesday
North Carolina lawmakers are expected to return to Raleigh Wednesday for a one-day special session to vote on suspending the state’s 41-cent-per-gallon gas tax.
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 08/10/2026
"MAGA will never be defeated until liberals approach white evangelicals with a strategy focused on their distinctive characteristics." www.liberalcurrents.com/you-cant-run...
You Can't Run From Christian Nationalism

White evangelicals are the single most influential voting bloc in American politics. They cannot be ignored.
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Peter Durst @peterdurst.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Little Salmon Leica M5 Ilford FP4+
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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We've probably learned more about American politics from the ANES than any other single data source. The same is true for the GSS and sociology. Both of these are gone if Congress acquiesces to these NSF cuts.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
People forget that J6 was successful. Everyone who participated was let out of jail and the guy who perpetrated it is President again. There were no consequences. They have plenty of incentive to do a much bigger and worse version.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
4,000 people attended James Talarico's rally. He stayed to meet every single Texan.
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
As American democracy backslides, fundamental principles of constitutional government give way. Here, we see a dictatorial administration freezing out congressional oversight *of the military*, which represents a major step in an autocratic revolution of US-style civilian-military relations.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This whole thing with Thom Tillis & his book just rubs me wrong. When it mattered, voting to confirm Trump’s unqualified cabinet, Tillis was nothing but a Trump sycophant, too afraid to do the write thing. Now that he’s leaving Congress, he’s trying to be some courageous truth teller? Bullshit.
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Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Good. But why does your party only understand censorship in the context of books? Many of your colleagues are perfectly happy--desirous, in fact--to censor the Internet.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Plot to Enslave America. Immigrants are a test run for the rest of us
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The Fifth Declension @thefifthdeclension.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
@gregdoucette.bsky.social whatcha gonna do when they come for you www.wral.com/news/local/r...
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Raleigh detective charged with assault in bar fight
Christopher Andre Reed was bothering employees and patrons at a Carolina Ale House in Wake Forest before assaulting the manager and attempting to hit two other people on his way out, according to poli...
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The Fifth Declension @thefifthdeclension.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
And if libraries fail and are forced to disgorge their collections to AI book rippers, the latter will be the sole owners of the (digitized) texts.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
He’s so good. Love to see it.
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Musings, Sometimes @musings-sometimes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Anand laying it down.
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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 05/10/2026
Many people are saying this! www.liberalcurrents.com/impeach-and-...
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Impeach and Remove the Bastards
A scenario for 2027.
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The Fifth Declension @thefifthdeclension.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
oil-price stability has reached a permanently high plateau
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