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Tom Dedal @tomdedal.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

You might also want to look into The Amazing Digital Circus, not sure how deep into college age the core demographic for the show goes but there's a good chance it's gonna be one of the main things your students will pull comparisons from. It was very much inspired by the short story

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Tom Dedal @tomdedal.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

That's what adds an extra layer of weirdness for me. They could record and upload later, or run it outside of Zoom, it's just another layer of "can't be bothered to put any effort or care into this." There's still the issue of consent but they didn't even care enough to get that in the first place

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Tom Dedal @tomdedal.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

It's mind boggling. It's not even a religious issue, Mormons have been on board with vaccines for a long time, when the covid vaccine came out the head of the church (who had been a surgeon) told everyone to get vaccinated! But politics comes first now I guess

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Tom Dedal @tomdedal.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

If nobody wants to immigrate to a country, why would anybody want to be born in it? Talking birthrates is just pushing the problem onto people with no say in the matter

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Tom Dedal @tomdedal.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

It was so windy today that my kid gave up trying to ride her new bike after maybe 60 seconds. So naturally there's someone on the neighborhood Facebook group offering a $100 reward to anyone that finds the drone their kid got today

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Tom Dedal @tomdedal.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Every once in a while it'll catch a typo, but every other suggestion is shit like this. It'll parse some logic wrong and tell you to fix it by doing what's already there. It can't even read the docs and remember standard library functions that were added to the language two years ago. Just so dumb

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Tom Dedal @tomdedal.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Another big miscalculation was people not realizing just how loathed he was. People that were barely aware of him posted publicly and privately in support, thinking it was uncontroversial, and were met with huge backlash. They didn't care enough about him to want to take that kind of heat

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Tom Dedal @tomdedal.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Luckyyy, Utah's is still tied up in the courts, and so it's currently still a textbook example of gerrymandering. Every single district pulls out democratic voters from Salt Lake in the most obviously corrupt way possible

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Tom Dedal @tomdedal.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

They passed a similar ballot prop in Utah and the state legislature responded with "nah we're not gonna do that"

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Tom Dedal @tomdedal.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

The fuck did I just read That tweet alone should be enough for any jury to convict, anybody who could make that statement has gotta be guilty of something heinous my god

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stuart @stuartp.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

they ask politicians like Mamdani if they are communists but they never ask anyone if they are a fascist and that's all you really need to know

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Tom Dedal @tomdedal.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

With all the weird carve outs for finishing missions and having Israel's ceasefire start 12 hours after Iran's, it seems specifically designed for this. Israel doesn't even need to stop bombarding Iran for a second in order for them to claim Iran broke the ceasefire

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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

We have a madman in the White House who is actively trying to trigger total war. If Jeffries, Schumer, or any other Democratic leaders try to justify this, shrug indifferently, or write a strongly-worded letter and call it a day, they need to step down or be aggressively primaried.

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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

We’re announcing new legislation — the No Secret Police Act (SB 627) — to ban local/state/federal law enforcement, w/ some exceptions, from covering their faces when interacting w/ the public & require them to wear identifying info. The secret police behavior we’re seeing destroys trust & must end🧵

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Tom Dedal @tomdedal.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Purposefully not looking up stockfish so I can imagine an LLM trained to play chess shoved into the brain of a trout

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Micah @rincewind.run · 10/06/2025

the fact that people were told “today you are going to an elementary school to lie to teachers and kidnap kids” and didn’t immediately tell their bosses to go fuck themselves is all you need to know about why ICE should be dismantled

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mensrea @mensie.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

LAPD when they think nobody is watching

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Tom Dedal @tomdedal.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

In some cases John Williams didn't even stray that far from the source material, if you listen to the last two movements of Dvorak 9 you'll hear where he got his ideas for a couple soundtracks

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 09/05/2025

the neck gaiter pulled up over the nose is the SS uniform of the Trump regime

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

the thing I hate most about that rfk quote is that autistic lives have value and worth and beauty and dignity whether they are able to do the things other people do or not. no one is defined by ability or lack thereof and to frame divergence as lack is monster stuff, utterly godless

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Tom Dedal @tomdedal.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

And the other reason to mask, "I don't want to get other people sick," is just impossible for some people to even comprehend

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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 29/03/2025

my husband just sent me this

tumblr user nitewrighter says:
Me: I don’t get it. I thought I was doing a lot better than I was a few years ago. I’m like 10 times more on top of things than I used to be. How does everything feel terrible now?

The Tiny Me in OSHA-approved Hi-Vis Gear Who lives in my brain and pulls all the levers: Boss, it’s the fascism. You’re completely gunked up with cortisol due to the fact that your entire daily life is now underscored with a haunting awareness of the rapid erosion of your rights, dignity, and any and all social safety nets, and you’re also bearing witness to the most vulnerable people immediately being persecuted. This creates a natural stress response that basically means you’re going to continue having memory and organizational problems, as well as emotional imbalances.

Me: BUT I HAVE A BULLET JOURNAL AND I MEDITATE NOW.

Tiny OSHA Me: BOSS, THE FASCISM.

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Tom Dedal @tomdedal.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

We were already so obsessed, in high school kids were programming games into their graphing calculators

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Tom Dedal @tomdedal.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

The list of suggested materials just being all the things I don't bother cleaning up in the fall is really validating

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Tom Dedal @tomdedal.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Like the concept of an infohazard is interesting, but that's it. I can't imagine reading that and taking away "I guess I've gotta build the torment nexus," like do these people have no spite? Even in Pascal's wager I'd rather go to hell than worship a god that invented hell, just out of pure spite

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onion person @junlper.beer · 18/03/2025

they’re arresting people for performing abortions, they’re deporting people for liking pro-palestine posts on social media, they’re sending immigrants to forced labor camps in south america, we are living under fascism right now

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I can't remember the last time I saw an article just focus on this. Not that they've bent the truth or misrepresented a few facts a little, but that every single solitary thing that the GOP says on the topic is a stone cold lie with absolutely no basis in reality. ftw.usatoday.com/story/sports...

They're lying to you about transgender women and girls in sports
Michelle R. Martinelli
For The Win

They’re lying about transgender people in this world. They’re lying about what LGBTQ+ inclusion in society really means, and they’re lying about trans people in sports. They’re lying about a “transgender cult” and “transgender insanity,” about teachers indoctrinating kids with “transgender ideology” and about “making mice transgender.”

Right-wing activists, anti-trans bigots, many politicians, the president — they’re lying to you about many things but especially trans women and girls in sports. They’re lying about transgender athletes supposedly ruining women’s sports, and they’re lying about this being a ubiquitous “problem.”

They are deliberately and strategically lying about trans folks’ lives, about trans athletes and about their own disingenuous motivations for pushing these lies. They don’t care because they keep doing it.

Worse, it’s working.

They're lying about trans people, especially trans women and girls in sports, probably, in part, because the actual data doesn't support their arguments.
Yet several states have their own bans against trans athletes competing in sports consistent with their gender identity, despite expert estimates of fewer than 100 trans high school athletes nationwide. In 2022, Utah's Republican governor, Spencer Cox, vetoed an anti-transgender bill - it was eventually overruled by the legislature - and outlined his rationale. Along with the high suicide rates for trans youth, he noted that of 75,000 high school athletes in the state, four identified as trans and just one student was playing girls' sports. A whole state bill targeting four athletes, but really, one.

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Tom Dedal @tomdedal.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

We've even got pre-pre-planning over here

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Imagine saying “the sin of empathy”, the “wrongness of kindness”, the “mistake of love”, these dipshits are fucking Captain Planet villains. Demonic energy.

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Tom Dedal @tomdedal.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

I thought it was just a self-censoring way to say "groper" this whole time, like how they say "yahtzee" or "unalive" on TikTok. Feels bad that the most logical assumption was that the vice president is part of a group for gropers

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Sara Manns @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Elon Is Stealing From You. This isn't complicated or clever. He bought the Oval Office to direct taxpayer cash into his own pockets. Scooby Doo villain level stuff.

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Tom Dedal @tomdedal.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Unbelievably huge swing and a miss with the flat tax. This would double or triple the tax rate for lower income earners, and be a huge tax cut to the wealthy. What billionaire wrote this shit and thought they could sneak this in

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Tom Dedal @tomdedal.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

And just a reminder for anyone that needs it, this is so stupidly, deeply ingrained in our culture. Even when you can break through it and find the kindness to help others, don't forget to apply that empathy back to yourself. You also deserve a video game when you're struggling! Guilt free!

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Tom Dedal @tomdedal.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Thank goodness Google search can still get a decent "did you mean" out of my jumbled mess of characters half the time or I'd have to switch to voice typing

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 07/02/2025

the only people who benefit from this are child predators and i'd like dem officials to say so into a microphone

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Tom Dedal @tomdedal.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Art can't be functional, it must be object oriented

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Tom Dedal @tomdedal.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

That's my point though, systems like that all have version history, or at the very least a trash you can easily recover deleted files from. There's hardly any way to collaborate where all your files can just accidentally and completely disappear

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Tom Dedal @tomdedal.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

What's crazy is that even without source control, any method of doing a group project outside of passing a single computer back and forth is going to produce backups. Like, nobody emailed someone else some code at any point in the project? Did they send diffs over snapchat?

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Tom Dedal @tomdedal.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

What gets me is I just know they're gonna try to be like "I'm so sorry, how could I have known??" when literally we've been telling them for a decade. It was obvious but they were blind to it for whatever reason, they need to overcome that or they'll just miss the next thing too

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

The lying part is REALLY HARD when you are doing a job interview Like, you ask me where I see myself in 5 years? I am going to say I don’t know. Who knows what’s happening in 5 years. I certainly don’t know. Will there be a volcano where I live? Will there be an asteroid? IDEK

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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/01/2025

one of the most depressing realizations in politics is the day you understand that a lot of people would legitimately prefer to spend more money to make sure nobody “undeserving” gets a benefit than to make it accessible to everyone

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Tom Dedal @tomdedal.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

It's such a convoluted thing but makes sense in the way that & is "et", you take lb and put a slash through it (℔) and then get sloppy with the b until it's #

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Tom Dedal @tomdedal.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

It's such a double standard too, many of the most revered authors go out of their way to break the rules. The assumption is they're doing it on purpose, for some grand literary reason, and everyone else is fumbling around in the dark accidentally breaking the rules because they don't know any better

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