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@utopianparallax.bsky.social
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software developer & butlerian jihad advocate | dad-coded curmudgeon | episcopalian | he/him | ⚓️ 🏳️‍🌈 ☭ 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ | @justsomeguy@jorts.horse

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Just Some Guy @utopianparallax.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I've said it before and I'll say it again -- I'm not pledging (and certainly not TITHING) to pay someone's MDiv student loans so they can tell me what ChatGPT said. I can do that myself for free.
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Nick Land Acknowledgement 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @lonestartallboi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Just Some Guy @utopianparallax.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Needs more gilt appliqués on the walls tbh. Looking a little plain.
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Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The State AGs were on pace to kill the Paramount/Warner Bros by litigation and delay until Gavin Newsom stepped in and turned the tide. Now the Trump loyalist Ellisons will control CNN and HBO. Don't ever, ever forget that Newsom stabbed us in the back www.wsj.com/business/med...
wsj.com
Exclusive | Newsom Expresses Concerns About State Antitrust Suit Against Paramount
The California governor has told people involved in the suit that blocking the $81 billion deal could harm Hollywood jobs.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Maybe it's because I was 12 when a guy a couple of towns over beat someone to death at a hockey practice for 10-year-olds, but I actually don't think you want to make these kinds of people an important part of your coalition! I'll take the six trans shotputters on Earth over these guys every time.
ctinsider.com
Father dead after youth hockey fight
By JOHN McELHENNY
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Just Some Guy @utopianparallax.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
No, I uh...don't think we do?
iPhone notification from Proton Mail: "The Christian Century: We need to talk about polyamory"
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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Does not understand, but also would not care if he did understand. The guy is not complicated, there's never been any reason to think that he understands things or wants good things to happen.
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BCP Minus Context @bcpminuscontext.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
all other sins which I cannot now remember
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RTL3 @russelllatshaw.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I know it's where we're at in 2026 and we all know it, but it bears stating the obvious that every major company in the world is openly throwing a tantrum that people expect them to provide goods and services instead of just sending them a payment of $200 every month for nothing
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Just Some Guy @utopianparallax.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
lol
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Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Periodic reminder that your "concerns" about trans people are being beamed directly into your head by a small cadre of incredibly rich psychopaths.
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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 09/09/2026
"christ on a cracker" is such a weird expression, christ IS the cracker
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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 10/09/2026
The post-9/11 era was great for journalists/pundits who felt they were the main characters of history
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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Walking is for losers.
A person appears to be floating horizontally above a city street with a busy sidewalk in the background. Large text above reads, "Floatmog all those walkcucks stuck on the ground!" Below the person, a magazine titled "Learn to Float" is displayed.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/09/2026
No matter how much you throw trans people under the bus, you are still going to get attacked. All you've done is betray a vulnerable minority, anger your base, and made the issue front and center.
Alt Text:
Screenshot showing two sequential posts on X by journalist Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) discussing Texas politics:
 * Top post: Text reads, "Paxton on Talarico: 'He wants to transition your kids!'" accompanied by an embedded video frame of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaking at a podium in a dark suit and red tie.
 * Bottom post: Text reads, "Talarico says he would vote in favor of a national ban for transgender surgeries for minors," above a video thumbnail from Fox News Channel featuring a woman anchor in a red blazer, with lower-third banners reading "EXCLUSIVE," "SHIFTING THE REINS?", and "TALARICO STANCE DIFFERS FROM EARLIER COMMENTS."
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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Adolph Gottlieb, Composition, 1955 botfrens.com/collections/14377/cont…
Gift of the artist
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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I can’t wait for the 18 part series in the Atlantic about “The Crisis at Business Schools” which will detail of every instance of academic fraud at the nation’s top business schools, the coverups, lack of accountability, and their implications for business ethics and academic standards at B schools.
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Uché Blackstock, MD @ucheblackstockmd.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The U.S. now has more measles cases than we’ve seen in 35+ years. Measles didn’t suddenly become harder to prevent. What changed is our relationship with vaccines, public health and expertise. Diseases we once had largely under control can come back.
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more mr. nice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
when billionaires moan about how everyone Hates Them Now, For Some Reason i think of when termites started showing up in my parents' kitchen. you're calling an exterminator?? we've been eating the floor joists for months but now suddenly it's some Huge Problem? come on. we just wanna eat your house
chart showing number of billionaires starting at nearly none in 1987 and shooting up to almost 3000 by 2021, along their combined net worth going from billions to tens of trillions
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
lol every single turd are up to the their dicks in this money pit futurism.com/science-ener...
futurism.com
Former Obama Admin Official Says It's Time To Consider Military Strikes on Chinese Data Centers to Prevent Them From Reaching AGI
A new report by a former Obama-era national security advisor calls for the US to begin preparing drills in response to China's AI development.
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Just Some Guy @utopianparallax.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Hope nobody needed anything off the Episcopal Church's website. Bonus points for the new 404 page, I guess. ⚓️
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Remedios Varo @remediosvaro.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Cats Paradise botfrens.com/collections/69/content…
"Cats Paradise" by Remedios Varo showcases a whimsical scene where a group of contented cats bask in the idyllic setting of nature, with a peculiar tower at the center. Known for her surreal and detailed style, Varo provides a dreamlike escape, blending fantastical elements with the serene charm of feline inhabitants.
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
who's up feeding their hog in the woods
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It's like a parody, but it's deadly serious; the Commerce Department (which includes Census, NOAA, and others) has outright deleted "don't alter or suppress scientific findings for political reasons" from its scientific integrity rules. Seriously.
Protecting against "inappropriate influence" is no longer a "hallmark" of scientific integrity

The Commerce Department updated its policy for promoting a "culture of scientific integrity" in January 2025, days before Trump's second inauguration.

A new Trump administration order bans the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis from using statistical “noise,” or data for fuzzing survey results, to protect people’s privacy in their statistics.

The 2025 version included bans on attempts to shape or interfere in data collection, statistical analysis and other scientific activities "against well-accepted scientific methods and theories or without scientific justification."

The department's policy, the 2025 version said, involves ensuring scientific findings at its agencies "are not suppressed, delayed, or altered for political purposes and are not subjected to inappropriate influence," as well as making sure there's "independent review of facilities, methodologies, and other scientific activities as appropriate to ensure scientific integrity."

That language is missing, however, in the Trump administration's revision of the policy, according to an NPR analysis of text posted on the Commerce Department's website.

And while the revision adopts a definition for "scientific integrity" that is similar to the previous version, it no longer says that "protection from inappropriate influence" is among the "hallmarks of scientific integrity."
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Andy @delicioussoylent.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Or, physics:
AI: "you are 100% correct... my previous explanation violated the second law of thermodynamics"
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Just Some Guy @utopianparallax.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Good point! Also, let me just emphasize from now-pretty-extensive first-hand experience: it's just OKAY at code.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 01/09/2026
Jesus Christ: The Cobb County, Georgia, School District reviewed security tapes to identify and question an estimated 200 teachers last week over whether they walked out of a superintendent’s address in July, where he equated people who oppose book banning to people who support human trafficking.
ajc.com
Teachers’ group: Cobb educators questioned about reactions to superintendent’s speech
It's not clear what infraction the educators may be accused of.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
And while we’re talking about breaking records, for the first time in history, the national average price of gasoline in the US was above $4.00 per gallon every single day in August.
Chart showing average price of unleaded gas
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
A 76-year-old green card holder with stage 4 cancer was arrested at his citizenship application interview and has been held by ICE for two months. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Loreto Javar, a green card holder who’s lived in the United States for over three decades and is being treated for Stage 4 prostate cancer, has been held at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma for more than two months. 

A 76-year-old retired hotel worker who lives in Fife with his wife and daughter, Javar was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials June 23 during an interview for his U.S. citizenship application in Tukwila. He was receiving ongoing cancer treatment when he was taken into ICE custody, his family said, and has missed several medical appointments since his arrest.
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 01/09/2026
"You’re Not Hallucinating: The Amount of Recalled Food Is Skyrocketing Here’s a list of every food item that faced a recall in August." newrepublic.com/post/214946/...
newrepublic.com
You’re Not Hallucinating: The Amount of Recalled Food Is Skyrocketing
Here’s a list of every food item that faced a recall in August.
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I am shattered to hear of Wendell Berry’s death, but grateful that he was given to us.
THE FEAR OF LOVE

I come to the fear of love 
as I have often come, 
to what must be desired 
and to what must be done.

Only love can quiet the fear 
of love, and only love can save 
from diminishment the love 
that we must lose to have.

We stand as in an open field, 
blossom, leaf, and stem, 
rooted and shaken in our day, 
heads nodding in the wind.Sabbaths, 1993, I
Wendell Berry

No, no, there is no going back.
Less and less you are 
that possibility you were.
More and more you have become 
those lives and deaths
that have belonged to you.
You have become a sort of grave 
containing much that was 
and is no more in time, beloved 
then, now and always.
And so you have become a sort of tree standing over a grave.
Now more than ever you can be 
generous toward each day 
that comes, young, to disappear 
forever and yet remain 
unaging in the mind.
Everyday you have less reason 
not to give yourself away.
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
this was written by Daniel Penny, whom they employ in spite of his having no relevant qualifications of any kind
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Just Some Guy @utopianparallax.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Still 71k (including my ass) without power almost 8 hours later. Fucking ridiculous.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/08/2026
it is in fact just the media, which has devoted more attention to this than it has to the fact that multiple republican lawmakers are dealing with “we hired nazis” scandals and that the “we hired nazis” problem extends to the white house
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It’s not conspiratorial or anti-Semitic for Al Sayed to point out that AIPAC spent $30 million to oppose his candidacy. It’s true. And it’s an extraordinary outlier in a primary campaign.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It is not a "grim choice" to support either a psychotic Republican or a mainstream center-left politician.
he Michigan Senate election has presented liberals with a grim choice. The Republican candidate, Mike Rogers, has pledged support for a corrupt, racist, authoritarian-minded administration. Rogers hasn’t made even the tiniest concession to Donald Trump critics. But supporting El-Sayed means accepting a strain of anti-Semitic politics that to date has had no place within the Democratic Party.

What’s more, El-Sayed has already said that he intends to use his victory as a platform to reshape the party. Him winning could invite a future in which the United States has not just one party that is open to bigots but two.

Although El-Sayed has never said anything nearly as inflammatory as the sorts of comments Piker makes routinely, his mixture of anti-Zionism and populism treats pro-Israel activism as a nefarious and all-pervasive force. He has denied that any Democrat who believes in human rights could have any motive other than money for holding a position on Israel different from the one he prefers. El-Sayed tends to depict nearly all opposition to his candidacy as financially driven, but when applied to Jewish political activity,  this charge becomes even more conspiratorial.
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Amazing to live in a country where the secret police are handling inter-chud beefs. It's like the Night of Long Knives playing out in the parking lot of a Dollar General.
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andy™ @andylevy.net · 28/08/2026
learning how to say “it’s a joke” in many different languages, for bluesky
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Just Some Guy @utopianparallax.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I love San Antonio's water-soluble electric grid.
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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Oh I'M SORRY, does someone at OpenAI have opinions about *accounting fraud*
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Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
You’ve got to understand the WNBA’s dilemma here: on one side are the hardcore, dedicated socially liberal fanbase who supported the league during the dark days when it was barely profitable and on the other side are the people who hate women and don’t think the WNBA should exist.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.
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Just Some Guy @utopianparallax.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
We've spent the last 6 months being pushed into an "agentic AI-first" SDLC. Management has this whole taxonomy of levels of AI-driven development and metrics that are tied to that. You simply couldn't use it enough. And then 2 weeks ago: surprise! $1000/mo spend cap on our Claude Code accounts!
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Just Some Guy @utopianparallax.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Me too, random Iron Chef guest judge. Me too.
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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
no one has ever Nov. ‘24ed harder
Wenzler Powers @WenzlerPowers
Dolly Parton writing "I Will Always Love You" and "Jolene" in the same day is mind blowing.
It'd be like if Da Vinci finished the Mona Lisa then turned around in the same day and wrote "Jolene"
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Both songs are drab at best, will soon be forgotten and only ever appeal to a limited audience. Whereas DaVinci was a multi-skilled genius who's works will always hold a place in human history.
5:39 PM • Aug 25, 2026
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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
donald trump is busy humiliating the US in 10 different ways simultaneously and the democrats are spending their time condemning a twitch streamer. i know they're increasingly unpopular but that there's anyone who still thinks they're a real opposition party boggles the mind. boggles
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Just Some Guy @utopianparallax.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I wish there was a political party whose politicians opposed Donald Trump as much as Democratic politicians oppose Hasan Piker.
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Just Some Guy @utopianparallax.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The legalization of fraud proceeds apace.
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brent sewer socialist🚰🌹 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is all so unbelievably cynical and almost certainly coordinated
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