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Mine’s basically right but dull as ditchwater. My favorite bit is it thinks it’s likely I live in San Francisco, while simultaneously obviously Amazon knows my home address.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 5h

Nothing to worry about all good

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 5h

This reads like an onion headline.

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 5h

Yup. Just before the turn of the millennium there was loads of it.

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 6h

My guess is that the VPN blocks some sites and services, and that would potentially include services that do tracking, and mailing list services are probably managed by services that do tracking.

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 6h

I'm guessing they didn't renumber it because lots of other bits refer to other sections via the previous numbering.

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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 05/10/2026

The horror stat remains true: The average American household is closer in net worth to Jeff Bezos than Jeff Bezos is to Elon Musk.

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 10h

Fuck’s sake, Cait. I’ve done nothing. What more do I need to do?!

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 10h

Right?! I’m a white man too?! What am I doing wrong?!

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 10h

Well done. Must be doing something right.

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 10h

No, they need to be banned outright. Not the ads, the businesses. They're only here because they're exploiting a loophole by calling themselves "markets" when literally everyone knows it's gambling.

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 10h

Totally me in thirty years!

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 10h

To be fair Soho gays are pretty uncouth.

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 10h

Now I’m going to mute you and get on with my day because I don’t need your petulant and misplaced anger directly in my face at 8.30am. Maybe you could save *some* of your anger in future for the parts of the country that throw their queer people on the street instead.

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 10h

… as it should be for all of us, but framing the Bay Area’s inability to meet its housing needs as an attack on my community who are literally fleeing here for a better life is … fucking insane. Also: www.realtor.com/advice/hyper...

realtor.com

Oakland Built Only 14% of Its Housing Goal—And Market-Rate Construction Has Nearly Stalled

Market-rate housing construction in Oakland has nearly stopped. The city issued building permits for only 110 market-rate units in all of 2025.

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 10h

… attacking your neighbors for having a *slightly* worse home building programme than Oakland, rather than applauding us for doing a hell of a work to help refugees from the rest of America, to be startlingly tone deaf and insulting. I understand that affordable housing is a priority for you…

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 10h

I have many responses for you here, including ones based upon being a gay man who grew up as a queer kid during HIV/AIDS in the late eighties and is more than familiar with the plight of queer refugees looking for a better home, and I’ll be honest I find your decision to spend your time …

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 22h

very tired of being told it is the responsibility of urban democratic voters never to risk possibly maybe by chance seeming less than respectful of rural red state life and then watching thousands in nebraska cheer on the president joking about a nuclear strike on me and millions of my neighbors

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 20h

Also, if America’s cities were so goddam awful, the people who lived in them would move out. And San Francisco wouldn’t have the second highest property prices in the US, only after Manhattan. The truth is most city dwellers in America have *zero* interest in moving to rural Republican areas.

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 20h

I believe the stat is that 40% of all homeless youth is LGBTQA+ - we’re over-represented 4x+ precisely because assholes in “Real America” throw their own flesh and blood out on the streets or treat them so appallingly they feel they have to run away.

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 20h

This isn’t actually accurate. Most of the rest of the world follows US politics far far far far far more than Americans follow anywhere else. And they do so because America is insanely powerful and run by the insane.

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 20h

You are entirely right we need to build more housing, but yelling at us because we are imperfectly taking on the responsibility of looking after refugees from the rest of America seems to me to rather be blaming the wrong damn people.

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 20h

Look, no offense, there are very clearly problems in cities like San Francisco with building homes, but it’s a bit rich yelling at us for not looking after queer kids (who we literally *do* look after) and who have been thrown out of their states.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 20h

This is 100% accurate. 100%. San Francisco is a literal destination for kids thrown out by far right parents. Many end up on the street. The good news is they’re among the easiest to help because on the whole they’re not addicts or mentally ill. They’re just desperate for a home.

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I mean there’s a fairly substantial causal relationship between those two

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You guys talk about how weird it is British people measure weight in Stones but you guys measure butter in *sticks*.

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

He doesn’t. Also he lies. Which it is is hard to know.

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A Kb is a metric klb, right?

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Don’t know who to credit this to, but it cheers me up!

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Sure. Counter-counter example, pointing to things they think are bad is *literally all Republicans do* and they’ve managed to win elections for Trump twice.

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Of course it’s not the only thing we should do, but a good part of campaigning for a better world is showing people the problems with the current world and the words of the people who want to make it worse.

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I bring this up because people are endlessly talk about how we shouldn’t draw attention to bad people doing bad things. But that’s what the Stonewall riots were about. That’s what the reaction to Rosa Parks was about. That’s what the anti-apartheid movement was about.

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Every single political movement and fight for civil rights has been built around drawing attention to awful people and awful acts and the fight against them. Amplifying good people will not help us fight against those who want to take our rights.

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I just a telegram to the same effect

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Stand Up America @standupamerica.com · 05/10/2026

Samuel Alito just said he decides every year if he will retire. If he goes next summer, the Senate elected this November will confirm his replacement. Vote to flip the Senate and block Trump from appointing another enabler to the Court.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Very saddened to say I won’t be able to headline Tim Pool’s student event in Chicago this week. I unfortunately have other plans.

Hi Katherine,
Timcast Media is partnering with the Chicago Thinker to host a student event in Chicago on October 9 at 4:00 PM.
The event will feature a one-on-one conversation with Tim Pool followed by a live student Q&A. To create a dynamic and balanced dialogue, we are specifically seeking a featured guest to represent a left-leaning perspective.
Timcast Media will fully cover and arrange all travel and accommodations.
Thank you in advance for your consideration.
Sincerely,
[REDACTED]

Hi Lisa,
Sorry, I'll be too busy slamming my hand in a car door that day to talk with Tim. Hope you understand.
Kat

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yeah I had one at university in ... 1994? And that's just gone forever. And then another on my btinternet hosting from around 1996, which I really liked and is also gone forever as far as I can tell. Very frustrating.

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yeah, I've been looking around for my very very oldest stuff, but I can't find it at all. A few things lost forever. But everything else I'm gradually bringing back if I can (some with the most embarrassing stuff edited out).

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

... and that I have a plan to remove people's posts if they no longer want them up there.

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Some of you out there who remember Barbelith will be stroking your bearded or unbearded chins and wondering if I'm planning to get that up again in some form. Short answer - yes. I just want to make sure it's completely static and has absolutely no private information ...

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

One use of AI I have no trouble with is restoring lost online projects. You can tell it to go and look them up on archive.org and then rebuild them in a new location. Also fixing legacy stuff. Do you have a whole bunch of archives that are in the wrong format or are broken? Get an AI to fix them.

archive.org

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

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