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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Trump doesn’t force people to do bad things. All he did was show people they could get away with being horrible if they really wanted to, and a lot of powerful people decided they didn’t need to pretend anymore. Especially those in influential positions who could push back but did not.

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Arturo Lei @thenoblethunder.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Using AI at work for spec-driven development (SDD) feels like using the One Ring from Lord of the Rings; first, you're using it to hide from orcs, but then, you end up using it avoid awkward social situations and also it corrupts your soul.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 02/08/2026

if you hated covid "lockdowns" try long covid

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

remember the conservative plan for schools: 1) elite secular academies for the wealthy, 2) religious instruction to brainwash the middle class and 3) a prison-like rump public school system to discipline the lower classes into mindless servitude

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Birthright citizenship is going to be the new Roe v Wade in the sense that Democrats need to win more elections than they lose in perpetuity to protect it, because Republicans are not making the mistake of appointing another Justice who will uphold it, ever

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

a heavily armed paramilitary force with legal immunity is occupying a city and going door to door kidnapping non-white adults and children in furtherance of an explicitly white nationalist political project

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

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Arturo Lei @thenoblethunder.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Why is he bowing to the lamp as if it were worthy of veneration?

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Conservatives love AI because it's far easier to abuse a population that can't read, can't write, can't think, and can't tell what's real

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 07/12/2025

without birthright citizenship in the united states, you don't have a democracy and you don't have rule of law. revoking birthright citizenship gives fascists free rein to purge the country of literally anyone they don't like. it opens the door to atrocities and mass murder. i am not exaggerating.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 20/11/2025

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

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Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression

The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

If you keep lowering your standards to “win” against the other side, eventually you’ll just be on the other side

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

It’s still not too late to start wearing a mask. Covid is surging. Hundreds of kids are in quarantine for measles. Public health has been gutted and healthcare is on the chopping block. A well fitted respirator protects you and those around you. You’ll get sick less & make public spaces safer!

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley." www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Chicago Tribune: Greeley, who was born at Illinois Masonic hospital and is adopted, carries a copy of her passport just in case she runs into federal agents.

“I am Latina and I am a service worker,” Greeley said. “I fit the description of what they’re looking for now.”

During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she “doesn’t look like” a Greeley.

“They said this isn’t real, they kept telling me I’m lying, I’m a liar,” Greeley recalled. “I told them to look in the rest of my wallet, I have my credit cards, my insurance.”

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 28/09/2025

We don't, there will be a new (and hopefully better) normal after this, that said, for the rest of our lives we'll have to be aware a non-trivial number of neighbors and fellows voted for actual fascism, and that's always going to be a bummer

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

You’re much closer to becoming disabled or homeless than you are to becoming rich and wealthy. It’s not a moral failing. It’s not something you can “try harder” your way out of. We need robust social supports & safety nets to ensure everyone is properly cared for.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

One stark marker of how much our society has devolved in just a few years is Bob Iger personally got on a call to convince us to let Disney/HULU make the 1619 Project. That America no longer exists.

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Arturo Lei @thenoblethunder.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Oh hey, it's the 155th anniversary of the Breccia di Porta Pia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture...

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Capture of Rome - Wikipedia

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

OK folks. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is meeting on Friday to discuss Covid vaccines. If it is possible, I do recommend getting a Covid vaccine before then. I know due to out of pocket costs and prescription requirements in some states it is easier said then done.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Science is collaborative, this is ensuring that *no one* will want to collaborate with US scientists. Why, why on earth would you go through all that effort working with an American only to have the research grant ended or paper killed because it got flagged by a fucking Nurgle acolyte?

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

This science story has everything: - a superheroic scientist who has the condition she is battling to drive work on - a riveting scientific breakthrough story (I was gasping) - an absolute gutpunch about whether her work will be defunded www.science.org/content/arti...

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Driven by the pain of endometriosis, this scientist is uncovering clues to its causes

Katie Burns is helping reveal the immune system’s role in the long-neglected disease

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 04/09/2025

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 08/01/2025

As I wrote last week: "As other information sources fall, Wikipedia’s stubborn independence becomes more vital than ever. The attacks from [the right] aren't just about an online encyclopedia — they're part of a broader assault on any information source that refuses to be controlled."

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

they think they can just erase trans joy and trans freedom. they can't. they can make things a lot harder and more painful. but that joy and that freedom is not theirs to take and it is incumbent on all good people to say so.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 28/08/2025

This country’s top scientists & doctors are quitting in droves, signing public letters of no confidence, & were attacked by a conspiracy theorist. It is so dangerous for national security to have our federal health agencies who are tasked with protecting Americans in this state. RFK Jr must resign.

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

I wrote an op-ed on the world-class STEM research ecosystem in the United States, and how this ecosystem is now under attack on multiple fronts by the current administration: newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-an-awar...

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I’m an award-winning mathematician. Trump just cut my funding.

The “Mozart of Math” tried to stay out of politics. Then it came for his research.

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

NEW: Inside the culture of fear that has taken hold within Smithsonian museums in D.C., as White House officials wage an authoritarian-style censorship campaign to “ensure alignment” with Trump’s preferred version of American history. "Everyone is so scared." www.huffpost.com/entry/smiths...

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'Everyone Is So Scared': Inside The Smithsonian As Trump Attacks Art, History

A culture of fear has taken hold at the prestigious D.C. museums as White House officials “ensure alignment” with Trump’s preferred version of American history.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

You know, I’m not surprised that the people who have been bringing us “alternative facts” for like a decade now are planning to share fake jobs numbers and tariffs numbers and Smithsonian museum exhibits but it does scare the shit out of me how much they’re intent on destroying our shared reality

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Arturo Lei @thenoblethunder.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller in 7th grade Honorable Mention: 1984 by George Orwell and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley also in 7th grade. Yeah, when it came to reading selection, 7th grade was wild

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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

It’s also sickening to watch Silicon Valley market their mediocre AI product as “PhD’s in your pocket” when their pals in the White House are destroying the institutions that mint actual human PhD’s

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Arturo Lei @thenoblethunder.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

As someone who has some things set in Italian, I had to try this out. I asked in Italian how many b's are in the Italian word for "blueberry" ("mirtillo"), and it correctly said zero. However, I asked in Italian how many b's are in the English word for "blueberry", and it said 3.

ChatGPT Output for two questions asked
- The first question asked in Italian is "How many b's are in the word blueberry?" but the question concerns Italian word for blueberry
- The second question also asked in Italian is the same but for the English word for blueberry

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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 05/08/2025

Dealing with law enforcement can be stressful, so it’s important to know your rights before you’re face-to-face with ICE agents. While there’s never any guarantee that law enforcement officers will follow the law, here’s what they can and can’t legally do to you and what you can legally demand. ⬇️

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What Are My Rights During an ICE Raid?

Immigration law can be tricky, but here's what you should know.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 05/08/2025

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

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Arturo Lei @thenoblethunder.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Not a strong reaction and another Star Wars-related memory, but when I saw Episode II: Attack of the Clones, some teenager in the theater yelled "It's the Hitler Youth" when the Jedi younglings first appear with their training sabers and little helmets, and that has stuck with me for some reason.

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Arturo Lei @thenoblethunder.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

I went to see The Force Awakens on opening day, and people cheered and clapped when the Falcon appeared; the crowd also roared and went wild when main characters from the original trilogy appeared. Except for C3PO. No cheering for C3PO.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

"WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations" cpb.org/pressroom/Co...

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Arturo Lei @thenoblethunder.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

I wonder if working with bad or antiquated video game UI has in some way made me prepared to work with badly designed non-gaming software. Like, after having played the original Fallout and X-COM with their wonderfully clunky UI, I don't think Microsoft Teams doesn't seem that bad.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 22/07/2025

The problem with saying “history will remember” is that we are deciding right now whether there will be people in the future We are also deciding right now whether to train people to be historians Also, once it’s history, it’s too late

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/07/2025

simplest explanation is that the court conservatives believe trump is sovereign and thus free of all limits on his authority

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 12/07/2025

The important thing to understand about the current state of affairs is that Andreessen hired a partner at the most influential VC firm in the tech industry solely on the basis that the man strangled a Black man to death in my neighborhood.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

It doesn't matter if they are ever coming for you. It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/07/2025

if Trump were actively trying to impoverish and deskill the united states for the sake of our competitors, what would he be doing differently?

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Kat Volk @katvolk.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

So much this! There’s nowhere else in the world for the majority of the proposed cuts to be absorbed. Space science will just be worse

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

ICE *already* can't meet their detainment numbers without rounding up children, veterans, people born in the U.S., people with no criminal records, people at immigration hearings, plus academics and visitors with valid visas. So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget? The answer is: you.

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