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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The Original Sin of politics was the invention of the passive voice, when Adam and Eve ate of the Tree of Vague Unaccountability. Wild how all those violent ICE agents just … got hired … and deployed … somehow. Who can possibly say how? It’s all a mystery.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Hard not to notice that Democrats who are doing the best are the ones who are leaving this whole civility-and-norms, we-go-high, we-need-a-strong-Republican-Party bullshit behind and are simply giving Republicans exactly what they all ought to get at all times, which is undisguised contempt.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

What fresh hell of a framing is this?? "alleges the groups are advocating for the long-debated practice of jury nullification" Long-debated?! It's literally part of the our founding origin story: the Zenger trial in 1735! It's not "debated"! It's a fundamental core REASON FOR THE JURY AT ALL.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

This is the sort of seemingly attempted murder that seems to me could arguably get around sovereign immunity claims. In a county that recently elected someone on the reform-DA side of the line. I don't think Sean Tende is a Krasner or a Moriarty, but he's still on the "progressive" side of things.

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tlariv @tlariv.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Okay, #ClevelandGuardians fans, what is it with the John Denver?

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

You know what? Good. We have spent years making the state killing of people both seemingly antiseptic and invisible. This makes the brutality of the state killing in our name naked and undeniable. They think they are being macho edgelords. I think it will horrify more than anything.

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Pentagon says it will livestream firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter

The execution would be the U.S. military’s first execution by firing squad since World War II.

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Everybody has to coordinate with Starlink because SPACEX CONTROLS ORBIT. That's against the Outer Space Treaty. Your engineering challenge, SpaceX, is to provide your services with fewer satellites. Not yell at everyone else for having satellites too […]

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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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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

"please don't give root to the text generator" shouldn't need to be on the rules list... but here we are.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hold up, I'm confused, probably because I'm nauseous. The passports aren't for visitors, they're for citizens. I don't need to be welcomed, because this is actually my home. On a visa, this would make sense, tho still be tyrannical. On a passport, it's incoherent.

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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"

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Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge

Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Please give these journalists their flowers.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Too young to legally consent to sign a contract. But old enough to consent away where they want to live to be shipped someplace random by a government that hates them. In a just world, Hollad would need to annex half of Belgium to find room for the expanded Hague prison thus all calls for.

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Will this help stop the FCC from approving any destructive, poorly planned idea SpaceX pulls out of their collective asses? No, they will approve literally anything. But will these public comments help make a basis for future legal action, as well as provide writing points for any journalists […]

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

[incredibly depressing, satellites] As you look up and admire the beautiful moon over the next few nights, remember that a US-based company has clearance from the FCC to launch a satellite that will be about 4x brighter than the full moon, and moving across the sky at Starlink speeds. And they […]

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Chicagoans Who Bike @chiwho.bike · 27/09/2026

Today was the vigil for Juan Martin Márquez, killed in a hit-and-run on Archer & Laramie a few days ago. The vigil was organized by @bikelaneuprising.bsky.social, who placed a ghost bike at the intersection he was killed.

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Adam Shostack :donor: :rebelverified: @adamshostack.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@kralcttam/11733670… We've replaced the bureaucratic impediment to rapid action, Stanislav Petrov, with an LLM as part of our strategy of "aggressively identifying and eliminating bureaucratic barriers to deeper integration."

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kralcttam ☕️ @kralcttam.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Happy Stanislav Petrov day! Today marks 43 years since Petrov decided to wait for confirmation before escalating a missile alert up the chain of command in the Soviet Air Defense, preventing nuclear war. A hero for not trusting automated systems fully […]

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

SCOTUS delenda est. It is democracy, or SCOTUS. They have made it very clear that there is no other choice. Expand it, reverse its worst opinions, and then ruthlessly strip it of jurisdiction. Don't trust an expanded SCOTUS in the long run.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon. many more here: www.newscientist.com/author/tom-gauld/

Image: A graph with lots of red dots clustered together in a curve. The are all looking upwards at a single red dot wearing sunglasses.

Caption: Mike was an outlier and would probably be excluded from the study, but all the other data points secretly thought he was really cool.

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Jess👾 @jesstheunstill.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

[Uspol election] How is it that abortion rights isn't even a key issue being talked about in this election?

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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 23/09/2026

Having top secret components shipped directly to a hostile nation is obviously keystone-kops shit, but everything in these last four paragraphs seem even more damning to me www.politico.com/news/2026/09...

From Politico: A Government Accountability Office report from 2023 found that more than 1 million F-35 spare parts have gone missing in the past five years. The watchdog agency concluded the department hasn’t been able to review spare part losses worth tens of millions of dollars because Lockheed controls the information.

“The F-35 Joint Program Office does not track or enter these spare parts into an accountable property system of record that would enable it to capture and store real-time changes to property records,” the report said. “The prime contractors maintain this information.”

Spare parts shortages mean the fighter jet is often grounded. While sustainment costs have continued to increase, the F-35 has not met performance goals and performance “has trended down,” according to a GAO report from this year.

The program is on track to be the world’s costliest, and the Pentagon expects to spend almost $2 trillion over the course of its lifespan.

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CM Harrington @octothorpe.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Oh HELL YES! Nile Rodgers and CHIC do "Let's Dance" www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxDrmAiJyRQ

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

The news woman says: "... and protests that turned violent ..." The footage shows a crumpled car with half a dozen bullet holes in the door. The footage shows police holding batons with helmets and body armor walking backwards through the dusty Texas soil. A coordinated maneuver. But they do […]

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“So the bottom line is Trump doesn’t do the show anymore.” “Yeah.” That time Dave Letterman said Trump stopped doing the show unless he apologized for calling Trump “racist” — and Dave wouldn’t do it.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 16/09/2026

Just had an interesting discussion with the 23yo on the subject of: if an attack substantially similar to 9/11 happened tomorrow, would the US response be any more wise or judicious than it was to 9/11? What do you think?

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tlariv @tlariv.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Back in the early '90s a guy I knew was applying for an FBI job, and apparently the Bureau asked at least one of his references whether to his knowledge my friend had ever engaged in bestiality. This was one of his law school professors, which raised a whole slew of questions. It seems that the […]

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

That's like saying a pickpocket got into a "property dispute" with the person whose wallet he stole. The Kennedy Center's name is established by STATUTE. A judge MANDATED that his name, put up illegally and--again, in violation OF THE LAW--be taken down. Come ON, @apnews.com. This is NUTS.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Great start, but QI should be abolished for everyone. If only bc it’s bad policy. But also? It’d be a well-earned middle finger to a SCOTUS—not just this one, but decades of them—that have willfully impeded holding crim legal actors to account.

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Bonus happy goats: a neighbour dropped off a bucket of apple peels. The goats like the apple peels so much they mostly ignored the geese, who also really liked the apple peels (but you'll notice the goats gave the geese a wide berth: geese are jerks)

A farmyard with a whole bunch of goats of many sizes and colours eating from a pile of apple peels on the ground. They are all making space for 3 white geese to grab some of the apple peels too. The sun is shining and the grass is green, and there are some chickens and farm buildings visible in the background.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

i think this is the best epitaph for bin laden i have ever seen

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Chad :mstdn: @chad.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Starlink’s Signal Leakage Is Threatening Radio Astronomy’s Most Critical Frequencies #space #spacex #starlink www.gadgetreview.com/starlinks-sign…

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

I still lurk on the r/London subreddit and came across this hilarious piece of activist art which turns a bin into a "smart glasses amnesty bin" that apparently is just across the Ray Ban store. 💅 www.reddit.com/r/london/comments/1w… #pervertglasses

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Tyrone Slothrop @slothrop.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

On this day in 1973, the Chilean army, backed by the CIA, overthrew the democratic government of Salvador Allende. They installed a dictatorship that lasted until 1988. Thousands were killed and disappeared. Keep this is mind when you hear USians talk about freedom and democracy […]

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 10/09/2026

"McClatchy, whose titles include The Miami Herald and The Sacramento Bee, executed its most severe layoffs in years on Thursday, cutting newsroom staff at some papers by upwards of 40%." I don't know if democracy can survive this death of this industry. www.poynter.org/business-wor...

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McClatchy cuts more than 90 staff in its most severe layoffs in years - Poynter

At least 13 papers — including The Miami Herald, The Sacramento Bee and The Kansas City Star — lost reporters

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Time for @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social to call him out for lying about 9/11 again. Time for everyone to do the same.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 06/09/2026

Silicon Valley's effort to destroy democracy is the biggest story of our political moment. Beware of those who have nothing to say about it.

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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

As a former professional football player, I can confidently say that this essay is incorrect from every conceivable angle, and contributes heavily to the culture of toxic masculinity that still infests high schools and colleges across the country.

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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 05/09/2026

RE: stefanbohacek.online/@voyagers/1172… The interstellar space probe Voyager 1 was launched on this day 49 years ago, and is about to reach 1 light-day from Earth on November 18. science.nasa.gov/mission/voyager/wh… […]

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/09/2026

I know I keep yelling about this, but fuck, look at it. That's potentially some of the most valuable land in the country, located directly between two light-rail stations in a growing, prosperous city, and we're just going to leave a FUCKING GOLF COURSE there. It's such a travesty.

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