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the mjl (michael j leblanc)

@themjl.bsky.social
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Engineer. Musician. Wily Chaote. Full-Stack Acerbic Humanist. Bandcamp: thebellmechanical.bandcamp.com SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/the_bell_mechanical Musings: machinecelllab.blog Middle of Massachusetts. USENET refugee.

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Matthew Kay @mjskay.com · 20h
every 17-year-old boy who reads The Fountainhead will follow one of three paths: Eliezer Yudkowsky, Ron Paul, or growing the fuck up
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Cosimo Kramedici @slurmslurper.bsky.social · 6h
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 9h
one of the most important things you should learn from arguing online and other places is that the way to be open-minded is not to be more accepting of the outgroup -- rather you should be more willing to consider that the ingroup are clowns
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 13h
In 1977 ALEC GUINNESS told Michael Parkinson a story about a chance meeting with JAMES DEAN in Hollywood & having been shown Dean’s new car how he shared with the young actor a premonition that if Dean drove it something awful would happen. DEAN died in a car accident 71yrs ago today, aged 24.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 2h
— “You're not married, you haven't got a girlfriend and you've never watched Star Trek?" — “No." — “Good Lord." EXTRAS (2005) #RickyGervais #PatrickStewart
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1h
Want to know where Hegseth got this hypermasculine and toxic ethos? Look no further than Doug Wilson, the self-proclaimed Christian nationalist and spiritual advisor to the Secretary of Defense.
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Pete Hegseth dreams of holy war. Meet his spiritual adviser.
Doug Wilson preaches iron discipline and male dominance. One of his disciples runs the Pentagon.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 2h
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RFK Jr. says AI backs his anti-vaccine views. We checked—it doesn't.
AI is far from a perfect resource. But it seems to hallucinate less than Kennedy.
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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 1h
This man is doing more harm to the US military through screaming incompetence than most foreign adversaries could manage through the use of force.
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 2h
One month until midterms one month until midterms one month until midterms one month until midterms
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Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️ @shoshana.bsky.social · 2h
Marco Rubio announces that the US Passport won't be delivered in plain USPS envelopes, but in a white and gold box so that thieves know exactly which packages they should steal.
Marco Rubio announcing that the passport will come in a white and gold box and not a plain USPS envelope
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Leftbobgolfer🇨🇦 @leftbobgolfer.bsky.social · 10h
Looks awesome!!! supercarblondie.com/1960s-volksw...
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Canada man turned a rusty 1960s Volkswagen camper van into a helicopter by fusing it with a scrapped Airbus H125
This Canadian man created something truly awesome when he merged a Volkswagen camper with a scrapped Airbus H125 to turn it into a helicopter
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Dr Pop Culture USA @drpopcultureusa.bsky.social · 6h
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Dinosaur Bob @dinosaurbob.bsky.social · 6h
So…a confirmation bias machine?
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
renaissance painting when the renaissance is really fucking stupid
senator schmitt and his two idiot staffers after making a generational fuck up
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the mjl (michael j leblanc) @themjl.bsky.social · 4h
has Jake "Biden Bad" Tapper weighed in on this, yet?
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"I belong to a cult. Someone did some research that undermines the core tenets of my cult and came up with a catchy phrase that makes it harder to recruit more people to my cult. This makes me sad."
Screencap of tweet on X from @jackclarkSF (Jack Clark):

"stochastic parrot" was a mimetically-fit cognitive virus that spread from 2021-2025; it temporarily blinded many gifted people to the nature of AI progress, burning up crucial years in which they could have helped think through the response to the situation.
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 5h
How beautifully done
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 23h
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 22h
Imagine the front page outrage if 7 gay men drugged and raped a straight man for 7 hours. I expect the victim in that case would be believed without question. #Cornell7 #CornellUniversity #sexism #misogyny #VAW
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 8h
ROBIN WILLIAMS’ final scene on screen. What a privilege — albeit one infused with sadness too — for BEN STILLER. NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: SECRET OF THE TOMB (2014) “Smile, my boy. It’s sunrise.”
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 8h
They're moving on from trans youth towards advocating banning care for trans adults, just like we said they would.
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Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 7h
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 20h
GOAT OR BIRD????
This is even better than the
"what color is this dress" dress.
Goat?
or Bird?
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Dinosaur Bob @dinosaurbob.bsky.social · 8h
Holy shit this skeet has triggered the same subset of users who don’t want you to bring up that they had a Ron Paul phase before voting for Bernie.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Two Schmitt staffers realizing this might be their last day.
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Jimothy the Raccoon @jimothythe-raccoon.bsky.social · 12h
If Jimothy was a 2011 Ford Fiesta #jimothy #seattle #jimothyraccoon
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the mjl (michael j leblanc) @themjl.bsky.social · 8h
took. me a second...😂
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 21h
This playful cat completely made the window cleaner’s day. Original post
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 21h
The punishment for the disgusting Cornell rapists was to simply write an essay about their heinous crime whilst women can be thrown in jail for using abortion healthcare services. That’s the fucked up timeline we’re living in.
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the mjl (michael j leblanc) @themjl.bsky.social · 8h
I don't think many folks on here realize that the 'truth value' of this doesn't matter, one way or the other. For all Trumpers, this is now Real Truth(TM). And they will repeat it as such.
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Essence of RBG 🦋 @rbgprevails.bsky.social · 12h
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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 18h
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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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 23h
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the mjl (michael j leblanc) @themjl.bsky.social · 8h
Note to Self: Don't question Elon on the Ars Technica forums. They'll just downvote you into oblivion! 😂🤷‍♂️
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The moment Jack Smith realized Eric Schmitt was talking about the wrong game.
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Ed Wilson @distantdrums.bsky.social · 21h
youtu.be/Tf50D8H5TCE?...
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Sting Message In A Bottle Live Secret Policemans Other Ball 1981
YouTube video by SuperCobred
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Can’t Stop Twinkling 💕💚 @proftolson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Letting people get potentially tortured while you decide if it is actual torture is a hell of a position to take.
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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 29/09/2026
OpenAI Decisions API A Jev-clone on Luna. 150ms, pricing unknown thenewstack.io/openai-decis...
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OpenAI answers TypeSafe's Jev with a Decision API built on Luna
OpenAI's Decision API, built on its small Luna model, returns predefined answers with confidence scores in 150 milliseconds. Pricing is still unknown.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
The Trump regime's new AI assistant confirmed Donald is a convicted felon, Biden won the 2020 election, and Trump is in the Epstein files before it stopped answering political questions.
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Your genetics determine how you respond to treatment. A patients’ inherited genetics influence whether they benefit from CAR-T therapy or experience toxicity from the treatment. This is why no treatment is perfect for everyone. There is no "one cure" for cancer. 🧪 hms.harvard.edu/news/genetic...
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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Sleestak @sleestak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
and behold a pale horse. and the name that sat on him was death. and hell followed with him
cat on a statue
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Ryan Van Loan @ryanvanloan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Motherfucker, the rural blue collar workers here can't AFFORD to stay at home. Both parents work, they lose a huge chunk of one paycheck to daycare, but the small remainder keeps them floating from paycheck to paycheck. Get out of your fucking bubble. Honestly.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
CRUZ: Do you have any evidence whatsoever to believe that I and 20% of Republicans in the Senate will engage in destruction or tampering with evidence or intimidation of potential witnesses? JACK SMITH: No. We had powerful evidence that Donald Trump and his associates would
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the mjl (michael j leblanc) @themjl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
this, in a time of War... WTF?
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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jesus, what the fuck
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gg @ggold328.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
those guys behind him know they are dead men walking
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Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Klobuchar FTW here at the end. And Jack Smith maintains his composure throughout this charade.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One thing that’s interesting about this is that it shows that despite insisting the wokes overinterpet everything, conservatives are actually aware of and agree with their critics about how coded racist appeals work, they just like them bsky.app/profile/newr...
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