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The one gen AI product I would never disable and would probably pay money for is a browser plugin that draws Dracula Flow hair on every photo of Andrew Tate I have to look at

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How are there so many beloved BBC journalists who look exactly like this and are also wildly racist pedophiles? At least I only have to learn about them when they die, but that seems to happen every couple of months now.

Photo from the Guardian of a jowly man with messy white hair.

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This kind of moderation action makes it clear that these American companies aren’t at all concerned about complying with European laws. They know they will never face consequences for this shit. Why make changes that could impact your business when a meaningless gesture works fine?

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Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 22/07/2026

Substack has started withholding a small number of Nazi accounts in Germany, which is good, I guess! What’s not so good is that you can still view the publications that these Nazi accounts own, you can find them in search, and you can even subscribe to them.

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Damn, I only got past the “That username has been taken” check. It makes sense that a Twitter interface has two entirely different validation mechanisms that show up on opposite sides of the screen though.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 20/07/2026

there are a lot of things about our current cultural moment that are extremely depressing but the extent to which the right tried to canonize charlie kirk and managed only to turn him into a meme (derogatory) is genuinely encouraging

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Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 19/07/2026

Just deleted a post because I don’t want to contribute to the spread of disinformation in any way, but fingers crossed the event at issue will actually happen soon and we can celebrate properly.

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Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 19/07/2026

Hmm, damn, I guess I need to delete this.

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Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 19/07/2026

Moon’s apparently saying it’s the end (I haven’t confirmed).

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You could deactivate that old Twitter account, or (for a limited time) you could change your screen name to one that’s presumably linked from thousands of US government web pages and pretend to be a US government agency for a few days until you get suspended. Seems like an easy choice!

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This is America, wtf is that u doing there

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(I’d grab it myself but unfortunately I don’t think I have a spare account at the moment. If anyone does please go for it!)

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The best part: the old screen name is available for anyone interested in impersonating a federal agency (I just checked).

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Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 16/07/2026

If you want to get mad about some shit the US government did that isn’t murderous or fascist but is just nonsensical and fucking stupid, the National Labor Relations Board account on X recently changed its handle from “@NLRB” (which it had had since 2009) to “@NLRB_Board”.

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In general I find it annoying to run into Americans in Berlin, but last night I saw some Waschbären here for the first time, and I felt really proud of these little guys, just climbing around on abandoned buildings, not really assimilating, causing problems for our German hosts

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Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 08/07/2026

Unfortunately I don’t have a photo of the whole thing, but this poster for KitKat Club is probably the most offensive example I’ve seen in Berlin.

A woman dressed in black holding a white cat in a sunflower field, facing a farmer with his back to us. There’s another woman in the background.

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Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 08/07/2026

I’ve listened to a few Ashley St. Clair interviews, and IMO the one Brian Reed did last month is by far the most responsible, even though Reed is a normie journalist I often disagree with. I don’t know why leftists in media default to deference so often when talking to formers, but it’s a problem.

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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

perhaps we should view nazi tattoos as disqualifying from here on out. i kind of assumed we'd already view them as disqualifying but was unpleasantly surprised so maybe from here we could all agree not to downplay nazi tattoos since they seem pretty indicative of broad disregard for human dignity

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Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 30/06/2026

Productive morning in Berlin: picked up my new Aufenthaltserlaubnis at the Ausländerbehörde and happened to ride past a burned out car (the first really good one I’ve seen in a year or two).

A parked car that has burned. The windows are broken and the trunk and hood are partially open and damaged.

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Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 24/06/2026

I don’t think “thank you sir for only shooting me in the kneecap” is a useful approach to take with these motherfuckers

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I hate those too! But they don’t block visibility to the same degree, they generally aren’t operated by corporations for profit, and in my experience they’re slightly less likely to be driven by assholes.

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There are enough cars as it is, we don’t need the motherfuckers in the bike lane too

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I would probably get deported by Amazon

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It’s amazing how much even in a city like Berlin the experience of being a pedestrian or cyclist is made more dangerous and just generally shittier by the government’s insistence on subsidizing Amazon in every way possible.

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Sure, I know it’s one of the privileges of living in Europe that I get to hate these things as much as I do.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I would learn German and get my German citizenship solely to be able to vote for a politician who would pledge to get these fucking vehicles out of our bike lanes and off of our sidewalks. Fuck Amazon, obviously, but also fuck every other company doing this shit.

A photo of an electric Amazon delivery vehicle that is essentially a small car but that seems to be allowed to use bike lanes and block sidewalks in Berlin for some fucking reason?

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I'm gonna get on my high horse. Civil society folks with huge followings – lawyers, academics, think tank staff – follow & share random, anon accounts that *solely* steal video and text. ICE car crash. Date? Location? Source? None of it? It's decontextualized. Making it 10x harder to follow-up!

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Travis is raising an aspect of what I'll call "news rot"– pseudo news dressing itself up as journalism. Is text/video stolen? (Lifted and de facto claiming authorship.) Screenshots are too often altered. People pester y'all to post sources and links not to be cops but to make content checkable.

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No tweet screenshot there so you’re safe

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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 19/06/2026

Not a fan of jail in general but I’d make an exception for these motherfuckers. In the meantime I’d settle for making them easy to block

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hey does anybody need a project

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We need a labeler for every account on here that has ever posted BREAKING on a tweet screenshot.

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I’m just yelling at the people eating the urinal cakes

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This is Bluesky, so you might hope that at least the engagement farming Substack guy puts alt text on the screenshots he posts of random shit he finds on Twitter. But no, of course he fucking doesn’t.

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Arguably the best social media site on the Internet and this place is the information hygiene equivalent of a truck stop toilet.

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