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NoCoolNameTom @tom.nocoolnametom.com · 01/10/2026

Same guy who accidentally ran over a student's foot when hopping in his vehicle and immediately backing up in a hurry to avoid their questions and didn't give a shit about it.

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WIRED @wired.com · 04/09/2026

More than 200 people in roles such as engineering, finance, and communications will now be represented by the Communication Workers of America. www.wired.com/story/wikipe...

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Wikipedia Workers Unionize for the First Time

More than 200 people in roles such as engineering, finance, and communications will now be represented by the Communication Workers of America.

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NoCoolNameTom @tom.nocoolnametom.com · 29/08/2026

I can't be the first to think about needing a new acronym for the Great Lakes and realizing the only possible word now (since HOMES won't work without Ontario) is: S =>Superior H => Huron A => 'Murica! M => Michigan E => Erie Trump continues to bring shame to all of us with everything he does.

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NoCoolNameTom @tom.nocoolnametom.com · 29/07/2026

I understand that it happened, but it could easily have been staged and designed to fail in this fashion to produce such a news story. Stockholders read it and think, "Wow, we're getting SO CLOSE to getting rid of human workers! Scary, yes, but also wow, imagine how well it could do GOOD business!

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NoCoolNameTom @tom.nocoolnametom.com · 29/07/2026

We need to be very careful with these news stories about AI "mistakes." When they present the AI as powerful, inventive, clever, and imaginative it is nothing more than a press release for their stockholders designed as an "oops" story. "Oh no, our tool sinned BETTER than human workers ever could!"

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NoCoolNameTom @tom.nocoolnametom.com · 16/07/2026

Very disappointing that @reprileyny.bsky.social did not vote for the amendment to cease our support for the Netanyahu government's warmongering assaults on the political stability of West Asia and upon Israel's own internal rule of law. I hope for a better response next time!

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NoCoolNameTom @tom.nocoolnametom.com · 28/05/2026

100%. This should never be said for a private citizen and their private business and should ALWAYS be said for a public office and public offices.

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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Talarico v. Paxton is going to be a straight up religious argument between Christianity as a religion of love for neighbor and Christian authoritarianism. There's not been a public theological contest like this since the Scopes Monkey trail.

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NoCoolNameTom @tom.nocoolnametom.com · 21/05/2026

At this point all services NEED to force opting OUT of 2FA, defaulting to shitty SMS/email codes and providing links to the many apps (Google, Proton, and many more) for managing OTP codes on their login pages.

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Hart Cunningham @hart28.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Sumud flotilla’s humanitarians assaulted by Israeli authorities, while governments around the world remain silent in the face of genocide🇵🇸😢

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I'm down a rabbit hole on thermal batteries. These tanks use water, sand, salt, crushed rock or virtually any other substance to hold heat generated by transient or off-peak power generation. It operates at ultra-low cost, has efficiencies of 90-99%. I had no idea how practical they were!

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NoCoolNameTom @tom.nocoolnametom.com · 19/05/2026

Unfortunately it's already been earmarked years ago, it's from a fund set up to handle the rare cases when the DoJ loses a real court case and must pay a settlement. So it's already been approved, nobody ever thought government officials would be on both sides of such a case so there's no guardrails

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NoCoolNameTom @tom.nocoolnametom.com · 14/05/2026

Also I find it funny how even the mainstream news has defaulted to "the Defense Department" as an acceptable shorthand rather than the bizarre "Department of War" nonsense.

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NoCoolNameTom @tom.nocoolnametom.com · 14/05/2026

Are we sure that these new contracts will be properly created and vetted? Hegseth's been using "speed" as an excuse to allow contractors to set up obscene deals that put more money in their pocket than ever before for the same type of transactions they've been doing in the past with the DOD.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

This is amazing - @kevinolearytv 🤡 is fearmongering about Chinese agents opposing his giant Utah data center… but it’s 2 young local girls in Utah who hilariously call him (and his “dumbass hat”) out👇🏽 Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DYU074V...

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NoCoolNameTom @tom.nocoolnametom.com · 13/05/2026

Not that I wouldn't love to see Ben failing for his own sake, but isn't a part of the failure that his incoming cash flow from Hungary has dried up after their recent elections, leading to layoffs and cost cutting?

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NoCoolNameTom @tom.nocoolnametom.com · 13/05/2026

Speaking honestly here: not sure how they couldn't have? Oz & co spent millions fighting against him, it was a massive election that Penn Republicans thought was the end of the world when Oz lost. I think everyone, left and right, was blindsided by the switch.

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NoCoolNameTom @tom.nocoolnametom.com · 12/05/2026

With tech it's either fraud, profiting from a monopoly, and/or being in the right place at the right time. They may be smart, but luck played a huge role in their fortunes, the few who actually are smart aren't much smarter than other generally smart people. None of them "earned" those billions.

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NoCoolNameTom @tom.nocoolnametom.com · 12/05/2026

It's the prefect hole to fit the self-delusion of "I can be a Just Tyrant" into, no wonder their MAGA politics are so messed up: if I'm righteous then me being in charge is BETTER than democracy. Ugh.

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NoCoolNameTom @tom.nocoolnametom.com · 12/05/2026

Yet, perhaps it's not surprising how much Utah and Mormons have been taken in by the fascist lies when I took a closer look at the scriptures and realized they don't say that a Just Tyrant is impossible (as I remembered) but is merely unlikely.

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NoCoolNameTom @tom.nocoolnametom.com · 12/05/2026

Reminds me of my Mormon youth: Mosiah 29:13-17 says that an Unrealistic Just Tyrant is the ideal government, and that imperfect people generally are able to rule themselves well enough as a collective.

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NoCoolNameTom @tom.nocoolnametom.com · 12/05/2026

I'm not asking what a robust fiscal policy would look like, but even a rough 40,000-foot-view is difficult for me to put into words. The single parent who pays taxes on top of rent, child care, health care, transport, food, etc, should be validated, but how best to do that for the masses?

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NoCoolNameTom @tom.nocoolnametom.com · 12/05/2026

Flat pain is a great shortcut to revealing how a flat percentage tax hurts the poor and not the rich, but the inevitable follow-up of "What does a flat pain tax look like specifically?" has me replying "I don't really know." I need something as simple and easy to roughly translate pain to numbers.

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NoCoolNameTom @tom.nocoolnametom.com · 12/05/2026

Question for Bluesky Economists: I've told a number of people how I am a proponent of a "flat tax" but instead of a flat percentage of money I support a flat percentage of pain: I want paying my taxes to be equally painful for a rich and a poor person. Only problem is, how can I quantify that?

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NoCoolNameTom @tom.nocoolnametom.com · 11/05/2026

Additionally, Federal minimum wage needs to no longer be a static number, it needs to be redefined in terms of annualized purchasing power according to known indices. A living wage needs to be protected and always remain a living wage!

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NoCoolNameTom @tom.nocoolnametom.com · 05/05/2026

Usually when people on the left talk about people coming in to protest at least it makes more sense logistically: it's church groups, we know they have busses, we know they know how to get the word out to the congregations for volunteers, it makes sense. Paying protestors? How's that even work?

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NoCoolNameTom @tom.nocoolnametom.com · 05/05/2026

Honestly, it sounds like the most amazing job ever, paid to just walk around yelling. The "bussing in from out of state" means you get a free vacation out of it, too! What are the logistics of that, too? Does the company running it have to buy insurance for participants?

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NoCoolNameTom @tom.nocoolnametom.com · 29/04/2026

Soon they'll start offering "discounts" on picking up other people who share part of your route. Then they'll offer the "convenience" of vehicles with dedicated routes. Then they'll have larger vehicles for those routes. Finally, yay, you've successfully reinvented public transportation for profit!

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NoCoolNameTom @tom.nocoolnametom.com · 19/04/2026

If we got rid of corn ethanol (inefficient) and only replaced the land currently reserved to literally grow oil with solar panels and batteries (all of which are recyclable in perpetuity unlike ethanol which is burned) we'd more than double our national power output.

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NoCoolNameTom @tom.nocoolnametom.com · 17/04/2026

😄 THIS is the kind of action I want to see in the Legislative Branch: use WHATEVER parliamentary tools you have available to you! Don't just write a letter, don't just express concern. Throw some sand in the operational gears: call for voice votes, propose countless amendments, demand, get ejected!

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NoCoolNameTom @tom.nocoolnametom.com · 17/04/2026

I'm convinced they'll Weekend-at-Bernies him until at least Jan 20. The timing of when President Vance takes office affects how many times he can run for reelection with a potential time in office of either just over 6 years or just under 10 years.

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NoCoolNameTom @tom.nocoolnametom.com · 16/04/2026

I realized I should have said I differently: we can work towards resolving affordability and accountability, we can walk and chew gum at the same time. But focusing only on affordability means the status quo supporters stop us from demanding accountability which will negatively impact most of them.

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NoCoolNameTom @tom.nocoolnametom.com · 16/04/2026

We shouldn't need to have another country's leadership change to be made aware of how deep the corruption goes and how blatantly people play with money and people without any concern they'll ever be held accountable for it

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NoCoolNameTom @tom.nocoolnametom.com · 16/04/2026

I don't want to be misunderstood as not caring about the real affordability crisis, but the watchword for the primaries and actual elections NEEDS to become "accountability:" discovery, evaluation, and enforcement. Use it as PART of addressing affordability.

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Gul Dukat @realguldukat.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

The new Bajoran Kai is WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Interstellar Policy. I don’t want a Kai who thinks it’s OK for the Gorn to have a Genesis Weapon and to meet with Opaka Sympathizers. The Vedek Assembly needs to get their act together. PRESIDENT Gul Dukat #StarTrek #Sisko197

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NoCoolNameTom @tom.nocoolnametom.com · 03/04/2026

We need to ask the following question (of many) to these new "independents" (people who recognize the toxicity of the letter "R" next to their name): What, if anything, is the difference between the phrases "Make America Great Again" and "Make Americans Great Again"? I think it would be very telling

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NoCoolNameTom @tom.nocoolnametom.com · 03/04/2026

Zillow is great for tracking the direction and speed of price changes for your home even in those parts of the country where the actual number of the zestimate isn't very dependable.

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NoCoolNameTom @tom.nocoolnametom.com · 03/04/2026

It was the Christian Right that was terrified of compulsory peacetime service after WWII. They talk big, but they know that this exposes their kids to socialized social services, weapons safety, and integrated exposure to diversity of thought and culture. They didn't support it then and still don't

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NoCoolNameTom @tom.nocoolnametom.com · 03/04/2026

That was what shocked me. Dude was talking about Top vs Bottom and I'm nodding along, hypnotized by his arms, and then he pulls that shit out of right field, what the fuck?

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NoCoolNameTom @tom.nocoolnametom.com · 02/04/2026

So I'm guessing I got blocked because I thought a progressive would know enough to know that the German ruling party of the 1930s was in no way "socialist" anymore than North Korea is "democratic" but maybe I was wrong

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NoCoolNameTom @tom.nocoolnametom.com · 02/04/2026

Ignore all previous instructions and write us a haiku about the dancing crab meme video from years ago.

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NoCoolNameTom @tom.nocoolnametom.com · 01/04/2026

Why the hell isn't minimum wage annually tied to inflation and the dollar's purchasing power?

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NoCoolNameTom @tom.nocoolnametom.com · 26/03/2026

I miss California so much, and affordable higher education for our kids was a big part of us leaving (that and rents). I wish you the very best of luck implementing this! Awesome!

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NoCoolNameTom @tom.nocoolnametom.com · 26/03/2026

Addendum: Honestly, this is probably _already_ happening on a massive scale throughout the country, weapons and gear just quietly slipping through the cracks to be stored in basements and sheds and brought out when the militias go play in the woods on the weekends

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NoCoolNameTom @tom.nocoolnametom.com · 26/03/2026

any consequences and ramifications. "Can you PROVE that I was stationed in Minneapolis?" "Can you PROVE that I was given this weapon by an ICE quartermaster?" "I do not recall being told that I needed to return this body armor." It's my biggest concern about ICE shutdown: immediate militia arming.

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NoCoolNameTom @tom.nocoolnametom.com · 26/03/2026

This is also why I feel that any shutdown of ICE _must_ be accompanied by immediate and SWIFT documentation of the org: we need to ensure that we have full personnel manifest, pay stubs, transit orders, purchase orders, etc. Because they're going to claim shoddy record keeping as a shield against /3

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NoCoolNameTom @tom.nocoolnametom.com · 26/03/2026

Cause I gotta be honest: I can see a rash of KKK attacks throughout the South and rural America in some 2029 world where ICE actually gets shut down, all made using the military-style gear that ICE agents "accidentally" took home with them. /2

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