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Tom Froh

@tomfroh.bsky.social
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Charming rube. Fiction writer. PhD. Free Substack: tomfroh.substack.com Website: tomfroh.com

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ceej @ceej.online · 17/10/2025
my baby has spent the whole week walking around with her hands behind her back like one of those little old italian men who stand outside construction sites. on occasion she’s let out a sigh so world-weary it makes me consider the possibility of past lives
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frankenstein monster 🔒 @villein.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
i have to be the only acolyte in the inner sanctum not in roughspun vestments for some reason
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Grobian Syboe @grobiansyboe.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Every night the same beautiful dream. I am a French inventor, living and working assiduously during La Belle Époch, and my creation is finally complete. The “Aero-Vélo”, the world’s first flying bicycle. I am doing the final adjustments before gravity weds me, irreversibly, to the ground far below.
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ceej @ceej.online · 26/10/2025
when you masturbate you’re participating in an unbroken chain stretching back hundreds of thousands of years to the very first humans who stood in awe under the vast mystery of an unpolluted sky and retreated to their caves and hollows to yank pud to horny cave paintings. every stroke a holy mystery
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I'm supposed to be gathering berries in a forest but instead every day robots attempt to seduce me to get to one of my credit cards
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
this is the output of a profession that believes that adhesion to raw technicality is the height of reasoned analysis
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
I think body slamming one of these DOGE guys through a table when they show up at your little part of the Department of Agriculture that weighs cows would actually have an impact
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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
I'm glad that America is doing real classic end of empire stuff. A king who is visibly losing his mind declaring a war based on a dream he had. Greedy courtiers feuding over access to the treasury. Some looks are timeless.
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ceej @ceej.online · 22/02/2024
gritting my teeth and commanding every muscle in my body to relax through sheer force of will
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A hot dog hollers @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
In the WK discord, a bunch of people kept talking about which Pokémon they wanted to fuck, so a mod locked them all in a quarantine zone and they can’t get out until they finish a tier list of the Pokémon they want to fuck the most and I’ve been cry laughing all night watching them
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
That was a good speech. Big. Small. Specific (Bourbon) and broad. Good speech. Canada is not generally a country of these kinds of speeches so it’s hard to pull off.
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woodlandgiant.bsky.social @woodlandgiant.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Were you told you'd "search for American gold and shed no tears?" If so, you may be entitled to compensation.
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Greg the Sorcerer @gregthesorcerer.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
thought it would be funny to watch some Roadrunner cartoons on acid but ten seconds in we're all silent out front of the tv, awed by the desolate beauty of these desert landscapes and struck by the emptiness of the world. should these two lone living souls not seek solace in one another
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Ah damn it turns out this whole political system relies on false assumptions about how big of an asshole someone could be
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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
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End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Now that I've made peaceful revolution impossible it's time to sit back and enjoy my wealth and power with no adverse consequences
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Grobian Syboe @grobiansyboe.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
I am going to the big city today, so I might see a rat. I hope I do.
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Kalvin the Reindeer @kalvinmacleod.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
[playing poker] FRIEND: I’m all in ME: [yearning for this type of commitment since we first met] me too, man, I’m all in too FRIEND: um, a pair of kings ME: you bet we are
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Guys I’m beginning to think all of this isn’t about fairness in women’s high school sports
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Can’t be said enough: the right in Canada bleated on for years about patriotism & people not being proud of Canada, of wokeness, reconciliation, statue removal, etc as the problem. Then they are first to lay down in front of a foreign strongman who makes them half chub horny. It was all bullshit.
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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
This senator's viral clapback to the fascists dragging him to the gallows is giving us life
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
"Our politics revolve around the idea that scarce resources mean keeping people out. We are utterly unprepared for a world in which perhaps the scarcest resource will be people." - @polgreen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/o...
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Opinion | Migration Is Remaking Our World, and We Don’t Understand It at All (Gift Article)
Migration is central to our politics and our world, but nobody really understands it.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 29/01/2025
OpenAI right now
Scene from The Princess Bride where Vizzinni says "You're trying to kidnap what I've rightfully stolen"
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there
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ceej @ceej.online · 23/07/2024
WHAT is UP guys, Gregor here, welcome back to the channel: HUGE vlog today about how I woke from troubled dreams, and found myself transformed in my bed into a horrible vermin, but first let me tell you about today’s sponsor, NordVPN,
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azteclady @azteclady.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Regulations, like labor laws, are written in blood. Adding chalk or plaster of Paris to flour killed people until that was regulated. Lead in paint. Asbestos. Arsenic. Not letting children work with limb-chopping machinery. Blood.
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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Almost 20 years ago, a doctor on TV was asked, "Isn't 12 a little early for a kid to be deciding to transition?" And her response was, "It's old enough for them to decide that it's not worth living anymore if they can't." That was the only argument I ever needed to hear about gender affirming care.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 29/01/2025
so weird how you can make it to the top of our exquisite meritocracy and still find yourself all alone and repetitively slamming a mouse button for 17 hours like a rat in an addiction study
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
bring back shame
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
We're finally dismantling the federal government! Sure hope it doesn't serve essential functions that I've taken for granted my whole life
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Markydoodoo @markydoodoo.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
There was a fire at the yankee candle store. 12 dead, 45 injured, 1200 soothed.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/01/2025
I'm so sorry I can't stop laughing. OpenAI, the company built on stealing literally the entire internet, is crying because DeepSeek may have trained on the outputs from ChatGPT. They're crying their eyes out. What a bunch of hypocritical little babies. Cry more, freaks. www.ft.com/content/a0df...
OpenAI says it has evidence China’s DeepSeek used its model to train competitor
White House AI tsar David Sacks raises possibility of alleged intellectual property theftOpenAI says it has found evidence that Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek used the US company’s proprietary models to train its own open-source competitor, as concerns grow over a potential breach of intellectual property.
The San-Francisco-based ChatGPT maker told the Financial Times it had seen some evidence of ‘distillation’, a technique used by developers to obtain better performance on smaller models by using outputs from larger, more capable models. This allows them to achieve similar results on specific tasks at a much lower cost.
OpenAI declined to comment further on details of its evidence. Its terms of service state users cannot “copy” any of its services or “use output to develop models that compete with OpenAI”.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Definitely becoming a believer in that good times weak men shit tbh. These people think shit just appears in front of them by magic. Clean water comes out of your tap, ratshit absent from your cereal, and your Amazon package at your porch all by magic. Do whatever you want and it will keep coming
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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Senator: (posting on bluesky) The president told his supporters to prepare for the “Night Of One Thousand Screams.” Might I suggest he instead hold the Night Of One Thousand Bipartisan Discussions Of Job Creation Opportunities
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Truckstop Vigilante @brenthor.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I love socialism, and to a much lesser extent, socialists.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Earlier this month I went to Las Vegas and saw the bleak and lonely AI-managed world of the future at the Consumer Electronics Show. I wrote about that, and other possible futures, and a neat soft-serve machine I'd love to have in my home. defector.com/the-future-i...
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The Future Is Too Easy | Defector
LAS VEGAS — There is something unstable at the most basic level about any space with too much capitalism happening in it. The air is all wrong, there’s simultaneously too much in it and not enough of ...
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holden m. accountable @noahs.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
having read through this I think my politics are now whatever will harm these people the most, physically and mentally
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Down Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I disrespect this situation
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
The logic of disaster capitalism is to provoke crises & profit from them--fx, by privatization or buying assets at fire-sale prices. Finally, sabotage of NIH/NSF satisfies the MAHA & Project 2025 ppl who want to politicize science & kneecap universities. Wins for Trump's backers: loss for us. 5/5
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/01/2025
i am constantly hearing that the left is elitist but if it is elitism to stand up for basic values of citizenship and decency against a bunch of cruel dumbasses who have no greater ambition than to tell bad jokes and hear the braying laughter of their dumbass friends, then i am an elitist
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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Cool new PNAS paper by Prof Carter Smith @uwsafs.bsky.social, about how ecosystem restoration enhances human wellbeing fish.uw.edu/2025/01/beyo...
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Beyond despair: how can ecosystem restoration enhance human wellbeing?
Ecosystem restoration has historically had a very ecological focus. However, while teaching a special interdisciplinary class during her time at Duke University, SAFS Assistant Professor, Carter Smith...
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ceej @ceej.online · 29/02/2024
draping the modesty cloth over my sinful washing machine, so that god need not gaze upon its frothing, sensual innards
amazon product image for some sort of cloth covering for a washing machine
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ceej @ceej.online · 27/01/2025
Obviously there’s an entire new team of more competent devils surrounding him this time but as I’ve said before Trump is 100% predictable and will always do the exact thing you expect him to the second you push one of his blinking red buttons
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Gregory A. Hargreaves 🎃 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
"[A] democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism—ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power." - FDR (1938)
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a man stands at a podium with microphones that say wor on them
ALT: a man stands at a podium with microphones that say wor on them
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Me: We need to defuse this bomb before it takes out this whole city block My partner King Solomon, whom I hired for his wisdom in difficult situations: Let's cut it in half Me: You know what this is actually a good cautionary tale about non-transferable skills
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