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Travis

@travis.social
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Hi I’m Travis. I’m a lefty full-stack dev in Virginia. My friend and I run cheerfulghost.com. You may recognize me as @nottravisnewman on Twitter

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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 24/09/2026
in the age of AI, making art is a radical act
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Travis @travis.social · 28/09/2026
I strive for this
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
You can’t have it both ways. You can’t be “It’s simple math, vote blue no matter who, grow up” and ALSO believe you are fighting fascism by making calculations as to who’s expendable. The world we’re in now demands more from us. More from everyone.
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Travis @travis.social · 19/09/2026
This is alarming and you need to read it. This is only the beginning. It WILL get worse when more and more of these fake articles get generated. What even is shared reality if we are fed hallucinations as news?
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Hallucinating AI robots wrote an article in one of the largest English papers in the world saying I quit writing to become a gardener. I did not! Instead, I wrote about them. Read on: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/i-wandered...
A fake AI generated article about me in the July 2026 Times of India. No i did not quit writing to become a gardener, as they claim!
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zach @extrafabulous.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Travis @travis.social · 10/09/2026
This feels too on-the-nose
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 26/08/2026
[A green frog on a black background.]
"YOU WOULD REPOST A FROG"
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Travis @travis.social · 04/08/2026
I see this and I think, @bhaalspawn.bsky.social must see it
A cloudy eclipse with two light rays showing, resembling the Quake II logo
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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Liberals: well there were valid concerns about trans people but now the case is decided, the fight is over, and that's that The Trump regime:
Releases:
Supreme Court Bolsters President Trump’s Push to Eliminate Transgender Insanity
- The White House.
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Travis @travis.social · 25/06/2026
static.klipy.com
Dj Fun Times Grooving
ALT: Dj Fun Times Grooving
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KM @sudox.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
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Travis @travis.social · 05/06/2026
The economist is getting destroyed in the replies. And it’s deserved.
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i.d.i.! inc. @indaindica.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
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Zombytrope @zoeytro.pe · 13/08/2025
There are 3 kinds of Bluesky user: 1. Was just kicked in the head by a horse 2. Raised in Plato's cave where they were only shown 2010s tumblr posts 3. Normal
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Travis @travis.social · 17/05/2026
I remember as a kid being very disappointed when I found out what vanishing cream does.
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Travis @travis.social · 15/05/2026
Fred, Wilma, Barney, Betty, Pebbles, and Bam Bam
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Travis @travis.social · 13/05/2026
This is barbaric. There’s no interpretation of trans folks that makes them a dangerous political group. Trans rights are not a threat to you
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Päivi Butcher AuDHD @finnattentive.eurosky.social · 01/05/2026
#FuckGenAI
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Travis @travis.social · 10/04/2026
I feel like Bluesky never got a good algorithm going for the home feed and twitters is just getting worse. We are in the “everything sucks” portion of the web
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𝙾𝚙𝚑𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚊 @highnessophelia.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
The dumbest motherfucker you know loves AI.
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Travis @travis.social · 19/02/2026
This isn’t about discord but it could be about discord
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Travis @travis.social · 12/02/2026
So @germnetwork.com is finally widely released and you can put a button on your profile. Anyone using it? I tested it a bit in beta but it would be fun to actually DM someone with it.
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Travis @travis.social · 19/01/2026
This is one of my favorite jokes in a long time. I’ve been thinking about it for a couple days now. Just randomly cracking up at the loud suitcase
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Travis @travis.social · 30/12/2025
Nobody could say “sheeiiiiiit” like this man
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Travis @travis.social · 08/10/2025
AI “art”
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 07/10/2025
A someone who has written extensively about the eugenic roots that permeates those who claim to be building so-called artificial general intelligence, I'm here to tell you to please NOT compare criticism against corporations claiming to build a machine god, with eugenics. The audacity.
if you're writing a sentence that sounds like eugenics but you go "oh that's fine to say because it's not a real person" (whatever that means) you may want to consider what made you okay with saying that.
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Travis @travis.social · 07/10/2025
Ew no
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Travis @travis.social · 05/10/2025
You ever unfollow someone who is amusing, insightful, kind, interesting, or all of the above, who just posts sooooo much it dominates your feed?
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Travis @travis.social · 02/10/2025
Singal uses a platform to harm people. Maybe adjust the TOS
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Kirk’s ‘memorial’ getting a live coverage on The Guardian is a great example of how the right gets automatically framed as the default political movement to be ‘understood’ while the victims of that same movement never will never get the same amount of coverage
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Travis @travis.social · 13/09/2025
@moderation.bsky.app get your house in order
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 26/08/2025
macklesufficient on tumblr: "almost peed my pants today when my bf told me about this dude in his hometown who dressed up like ryan gosling in Drive every day (including driving gloves) but did not own a car. bf was like "yeah we called him Walk""
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Mitth'jedi'silk Sultan @mitthjedisilk15.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
As an American AND having family who owns guns I was dying even before I got to the picture on the bottom🤣🤣🤣357mm handgun I was all, the fuck do you own, the big bertha?
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Dog with Glasses Plushie @dog.labeledrude.online · 29/06/2025
Arch linux is like the distro for the sort of people who use Linux
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17/06/2025
One month apart.
A screenshot of a Wired article by Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra, published May 14, 2025, with the headline: "CFPB Quietly Kills Rule to Shield Americans From Data Brokers."
A screenshot of a Wired article by Lily Hay Newman, published June 16, 2025, with the headline: "Minnesota Shooting Suspect Allegedly Used Data Broker Sites to Find Targets' Addresses."
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Travis @travis.social · 16/06/2025
Twitter has been filling up with Doctor Who content for me lately. Anybody over here? @mitthjedisilk15.bsky.social you ever watch? I think you’d love it
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Travis @travis.social · 12/06/2025
The @washingtonpost.com is cooked. No longer equipped to be the “paper of record,” it is a shell of the respectability it used to feign.
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Travis @travis.social · 30/04/2025
I absolutely adore Ed Zitron and hate OpenAI but listening to Ed say the same things about AI week after week is taxing. We know it’s bad, but there are other things in tech to talk about
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...
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'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects
A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
you know what would drop the number of assaults of ICE agents to zero? abolishing ICE.
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Calvinball Congress @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
I just KNOW she fucking hates that she picked a vp that was so much better at this than her
Walz calling out Harris
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Adebayo Afolabi @debayoorr.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Every time I scroll through Facebook, I wonder how people believe half the nonsense being shared. The misinformation is wild!
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Travis @travis.social · 17/03/2025
TIL the CEO of Brave was also a Covid denier during the height of the pandemic. x.com/NotTravisNewman/status/190103…
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Travis @travis.social · 16/03/2025
I need some leftists to understand the side of privacy so that privacy advocate twitter isn’t full of absolute shitheads
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Travis @travis.social · 16/03/2025
I quietly judge people who say “ijbol”
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Travis @travis.social · 15/03/2025
Fighting for privacy is a never ending fight. So is fighting bigotry. You’ll have to decide for you which is more important, but the Brave browsers will never touch my devices and the homophobe who made it can fade into obscurity for all I care.
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Travis @travis.social · 15/03/2025
Bill Burr is going to hate when he becomes an icon for the left x.com/upholdreality/status/19007059…
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Travis @travis.social · 13/03/2025
Ha! I just read Brave called the cryptobro slop browser made by a homophobe and. Yeah. Good explanation of why I don’t use it. That and its chromium and engine monopolies suck. Sorry I can’t credit the original, the app died right when I hit quote tweet and I can’t find it.
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