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Torberg M. Tonnessen @tmtonnessen.bsky.social · 17h

Yeah, dude, that's exactly what we want.

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Kelly Kennedy @kellyskennedy.bsky.social · 20h

Umm. What? “Three U.S. soldiers were awarded Purple Hearts for their efforts assisting fellow service members despite their own injuries after a missile attack hit their air base during Operation Epic Fury.”

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3 US soldiers awarded Purple Hearts after March missile attack on Saudi Arabia base

Sgt. Xavier Jones, SSgt. Kalob Mitchell and Spc. Nicholas Cabo were awarded Purple Hearts after a missile attack on Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia.

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STEMthebleeding @stemthebleeding.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

And I maintain that's the point. Not to convict Trump's enemies, but to destroy the DOJ's credibility so that future administrations can't get subpoenas or warrants to investigate them. Everytime they get caught lying, the likelihood a future DOJ can get a subpoena on Trump's lackeys goes down.

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Kinggath Creations @kinggathcreations.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

ALL three of our #Skyrim Creations are now on #PlayStation! 🏆 Trophy friendly. Special featured Creator BUNDLE for a limited time: ⚓️ East Empire Expansion 🥁 Bards College Expansion 👻 Sigil of the Fallen

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Valentin Zessinthal :: Endless River @varietyofdogs.com · 08/10/2026

A COMPUTER CAN BE NEITHER HORNY NOR SAD THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NOT MAKE "ART"

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Jen in Motion @jeninmotion.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Likewise, if someone told me "Jamie Raskin just wants to prosecute every Republican b/c he's hiding his own crimes" after I finished laughing I'd be like "no, he's a Con Law guy, you absolute piece of shit, he's mad that you have corrupted it, you moron, you criminal shit baby."

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Hey, lawyers, is it good when the judge opens proceedings by channeling Queen Victoria?

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I wonder what would have happened if folks had taken seriously the rise in political violence and threats against women, trans, Black, and antifascist organizers and figures back when we were all getting swatted and sent photoshops of ourselves beheaded

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.

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Gwrach Gymraeg @cherylmorgan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Dear people at #FantasyCon who are looking up our books on Amazon. The paper editions are cheaper here than online. The ebooks are the same price but Amazon doesn’t get a cut so the author gets more money.

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 08/10/2026

This is a moral atrocity and it needs to be loudly condemned as such. There is a reason that democracies *don't* do publicly televised executions (and why many don't execute people at all): it inculcates and rewards bloodthirst, which corrupts the spirit and corrodes the foundation of the polity.

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Torberg M. Tonnessen @tmtonnessen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Anyone care to guess which of those neighborhoods had a lower socio-economic reputation? Or perhaps draw any inferences about differences in racial makeup of the neighborhoods?

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Torberg M. Tonnessen @tmtonnessen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

If I had to guess, they see Hampden as a nicer place to use to draw people in. When I was a teen, we moved from Brooklyn to Staten Island. My mother *insisted* we moved into the Westerleigh neighborhood, even though when I looked at a map I could see us *just* inside the "border" of Port Richmond.

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Blinkie @meemawblinkie.northsky.social · 09/10/2026

This. Fellow white people, we've got our own house to clean. Don't pontificate on other communities just because it's easier than having awkward conversations with your white friends and relatives.

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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 09/10/2026

there’s a lot of actually sensible curiosity about the minutiae of a US state-sponsored execution—who does lighting? are there ads? is there chat? who’s on crafts? is it multi cam? this is the actual banality of evil & if you are asked to facilitate this it is your task to instead stand in its way.

courtney love lies bleeding says:

who's gonna be the first company to sponsor that televised execution?
i am fascinated by the idea of ad breaks and what the cost will be.

emily blight says:

this is the actual banality of evil shit. the person who provides the facilitator guide in an interactive pdf. is there a crafts table? someone will set that up.
you should not be one of these people.

zoë “baddie proctor” quinn

there's gonna be a guy who does the sound check for the first livestreamed state execution. they'll probably have someone stand where the guy is gonna be shot to death by the state so that they can make sure the lighting, color, and framing is "correct" when people watch a man die.

some producer, probably within the next month, will decide if this man's death is a single camera setup or if they're going to do multi camera and if there will be
commentators. They probably have to design what will cover the faces of the shooters or look at headshots if there's no coverings at all

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Torberg M. Tonnessen @tmtonnessen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

In 1996, George Carlin joked about putting executions on pay-per-view to slake the country's bloodlust and help balance the budget. "You think that would get big ratings? In this sick fuckin' country!?" And now here we are, 30 years later, living down to the satirical. youtu.be/3PffIB7fn9A?...

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George Carlin - Capital Punishment

YouTube video by CarlinFan

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Eric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.

Screenshot from this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/us/politics/fort-hood-execution-streamed-public.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HVE.Rw7O.Sj-0_s5YONzL&smid=nytcore-android-share

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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Extremely good example not just of how much these guys lack any understanding of "art" or "human imagination", but also what I think of as Homers Shortcut --

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drewinbalt.bsky.social @drewinbalt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It is commonplace to be *intentionally* swerved at, squeezed into the curb, cut-off, aggressive tailgating, close-passed, etc. Many of us have had things thrown at us. This is all violence and it’s happening to every cyclist just trying to get from A to B (even the “safe” ones).

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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 09/10/2026

Dear staff writers at regional news outlets: If you write a story based on our reporting, please include a link back to our work. We are an all-volunteer newsroom, and those links help new readers find us!

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The phrase that explains a lot of what is happening today is "increasingly weak and desperate." That doesn't make anything less vile, and it doesn't mean things are less dangerous - they're very not. But this is what is happening.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

they did the thing

an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Thank heaven someone finally asked the question: "How do you define socialism?" Because this REALLY ISN'T IT. Sheesh. "Socialism" to Vance is -- random things I hate.

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Jen in Motion @jeninmotion.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

One of the weirdest things about this era is that it's a bunch of the least cultured, least interesting white power male supremacists who claim to defend "the West" and what they're really defending is their right to see Lara Croft's anime-sized titties with no pushback.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

what if -- check me here -- the State didn't have the right to take people's lives

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Torberg M. Tonnessen @tmtonnessen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Been seeing the same thing with movie releases the last few years: Friday release date, but lots of showings available the evening/night before.

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I strongly doubt Adobe is freaking out over this. For many reasons. First, the breathless post notwithstanding, the project probably didn't 'decompile' anything. (At least if the AI followed the instructions it was allegedly given.) It's an attempt to rebuild Adobe from observed functions.

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In other news, I spent a couple hours learning about the math involved in large language models and I AM SO MAD! IT IS LITERALLY JUST SPICY AUTOFILL IDKY I THOUGHT THE DIP$h!+s IN MY OLD PROGRAMMING CLASSES WOULD BE SMARTER THAN THEY ARE THEY ARE LITERALLY JUST WORSHIPPING A REFLECTION OF HUMANITY

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Jen in Motion @jeninmotion.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Everyone at work stares at me like “that’s a thing?“ Me: “children this is why faculty don’t like that AI feature can you be less stupid?”

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 05/10/2026

There is a bleak sort of pleasure in telling people who bring up AI in casual conversation, “Actually, I’m one of the authors AI stole from. Not an exaggeration. The judge ordered them to send me a check.” It hits them different when it’s a real person saying it.

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Torberg M. Tonnessen @tmtonnessen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The Season 1 DVD set for SNW includes Balance of Terror as a bonus.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Imagine how fucking rotted a person's brain has to be to submit a 50,000 line pull request and not perceive that what you are doing is *incredibly* embarrassing and antisocial. A vibecoder can no longer notice they're greeting people by spraying hot dogshit all over the place.

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Arif "Felonious Munk" Shahid @feloniousmunk.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026

I check my voter registration once a quarter. Probably because i couldn't vote for so long (felon.) Here is your periodic reminder that "felons can't ever vote" is untrue in the majority of states. If you are a felon and want to vote, check your state laws. Outside of KY/IA restoration is possible.

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Torberg M. Tonnessen @tmtonnessen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I think I have a new addition to the "if I were to win the lottery" pipe dream.

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I have been a guest at conventions where, during the pre-con walk through, my handler has pointed out the bar and mentioned how some guests are "more fun" and "get asked back," then names only men. Because a lot of female guests aren't comfortable hanging out around alcohol with strangers.

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Kirsti Miller @kirstimiller30.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I bought a six-pack of donuts when a guy next to me said, "You shouldn't eat donuts." I replied, "My grandparents parents lived to be 100." He asked, "Did they eat donuts?" I shot back, "No, they minded their own fkn business."

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clarissapotter.bsky.social @clarissapotter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I’ve recently realized that as a woman who grew up in the 70’s, I’m not sure women my age even know what consent is. We were expected to resist, and boys expected to, at a minimum, badger us into it. So I don’t think we knew whether we wanted sex or not. It was super confusing.

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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This mass surveillance tech is unconstitutional even if it’s used “properly.” Unsurprisingly, though, it’s often abused. Here’s our tracker of just the reported incidents of ALPR abuse: ij.org/the-ij-datab...

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The IJ Database of ALPR Abuse - Institute for Justice

The Institute for Justice has cataloged more than 200 incidents of ALPR abuse, including romantic stalking, wrongful stops and detentions, non-law enforcement use, and other types of misconduct.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/10/2026

my dude you flew a stop the steal flag outside your house

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Andrew Rothstein @asrothstein.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Shame on the NYT for describing the Trump admin withholding $1.4 BILLION in allocated research funds as a “creative way to work around Congress.” This is not creative, it’s open defiance of Congress and is doing immense damage to “basic” science research.

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Administration
Trump Accounts
Doubts About Hegseth's
Some National Science Foundation divisions pulled back research proposals in order to comply with White House guidance to carry over funds. Alex Kent/The New York Times
By Adam Sella, Christopher Flavelle and Irena Hwang
Oct. 2, 2026, 2:41 p.m. ET
The National Science Foundation, one of the biggest sources of federal research funding, withheld $1.4 billion that Congress had intended for research over the course of the past year, according to internal data reviewed by The New York Times.
The extraordinary move - holding back about one-fifth of the N.S.E's primary research budget — is the latest sign of how the Trump administration is finding creative ways to work around Congress.
Lawmakers from both parties have consistently opposed White House-led proposals to cut funding to major science agencies, including the N.S.F. and the

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Julia Goolia @juliagoolia9.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Not an active duty senior military leader in the room.

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Loving South Park continually using ableist slurs, anti-trans humor, AI imagery and the continual idea that “small penis makes you less of a man” as humor that everyone loves. But they say “Trump bad” so it’s ok right?

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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

lol one of our website designers used our organization's entire monthly claude credits yesterday and now half the company doesn't know how to do their jobs. it's october 2nd.

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STEMthebleeding @stemthebleeding.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It honestly wouldn't surprise me if between November and January Republicans front-load as much funding to ICE and DOD as they possibly can so there's nothing for Democrats to challenge. The fact of the matter is that Trump will still have a veto, and it takes more votes to override than remove.

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