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Maxx

@vacant-and-bored.bsky.social
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Worrying and hoping for the future. We progressives are STILL failing to confront Trump's ongoing success in permanently destroying our democracy, choosing instead to hurt each other. Unrelated, I'm a firm believer in open-source.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
People forget that J6 was successful. Everyone who participated was let out of jail and the guy who perpetrated it is President again. There were no consequences. They have plenty of incentive to do a much bigger and worse version.
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Nicolas Tenzer @nicolastenzer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Twenty years ago, on October 7, 2006, Anna Politkovskaya was murdered by Putin’s henchmen. She had warned about the true nature of the russian regime and urged that it not be allowed to continue until it was too late. Western leaders chose to listen to the appeasers—or succumbed to corruption.
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Maxx @vacant-and-bored.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Friendly reminder that Claude reads your posts looking for thought crimes to report to the police
techspot.com
Florida woman used Claude as a diary, then Anthropic reported an entry to police
According to the arrest report, Carli Michelle Heller, of Bonita Springs, Florida, wrote on September 26 that she would attack the Sheriff's office. She later said that...
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yeah I think it’s fair to say that the political currents on twitter are right-wing fascism (fascist); reactionary centrism (fascist); and left-wing fascism (fascist)
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The future of the military is one computer shooting missiles at whoever it wants and thousands of soldiers who stand around looking sexy
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Sagittarius A* @sagastar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
he means black people with shaving waivers, because black folks physically can't do the clean shaven thing the way white people can without skin irritation. at least some portion of the time. why this is important to him is unclear.
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yep.
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Maxx @vacant-and-bored.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Newsom shows his support for pervert glasses
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Dale Chapman 🍁 @decmusicology.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Papa, tell us more harrowing tales of the Before Times, when people had to make 'friends,' and write their own emails" "Not tonight, my son, lest you fail to fall asleep"
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i predict that someone is going to make some money insider trading off of whatever this is
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Maxx @vacant-and-bored.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Huh. Makes sense.
theonion.com
Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI
WASHINGTON—Reflecting on the past fling and remarking how time had flown by, local golden retriever Daisy told reporters Thursday that she could not believe the guy she hooked up with 10 years ago was...
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Maxx @vacant-and-bored.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Big victory for Republicans. Half-tame non-problematic collared Yellowstone wolf targeted and successfully exterminated, along with some others.
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From the yellowstone community on Reddit: RIP SWEET BOY😭💔
Explore this post and more from the yellowstone community
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Glencora @glencora.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
That’s all Ivy schools do- you buy your cohort mates, not the teaching
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Many kids who go here will do well and this will be mistaken for the school’s approach being a success, when in reality it’ll be the one millionth confirmation that being rich and hanging around with lots of other rich people opens a ton of doors for you.
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Maxx @vacant-and-bored.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Trump's masked secret police still beating the shit out of our brown American citizens
cnn.com
ICE agents mistakenly detained US citizen in Chicago suburb, officials say | CNN
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents mistakenly detained a US citizen in a Chicago suburb Sunday morning, leaving him on the ground with various injuries, according to local authorities.
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Maxx @vacant-and-bored.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Trump gutted regulations for meat producers, and that seems to be paying dividends. 167,639 pounds of meat recalled
cobbcountycourier.com
167,639 Pounds of Meat Recalled After Bypassing USDA Inspection
Star Meat Delivery recalled about 167,639 pounds of meat products sent to a Georgia distributor after they were produced without inspection
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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
white male racist incels who hate people of color and trans people is apparently a much larger total addressable market than I estimated
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herbgreenberg @herbgreenberg.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
A friendly reminder and reality check if you own a stock that is up 10% one day, 20% the next, 15% the next, etc etc: It is not likely because you are smart. Have a good day.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 22/09/2026
If you want to know why Bluesky is cooked it's because in the past 24 hours, I've been told I'm doing Nativism, I hate Asians, I don't like immigrants, I'm MAGA coded, and that I'm like Nick Fuentes because said it's a problem that two decades of policies center white affluent transplants to NYC
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Maxx @vacant-and-bored.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Trump's new secret DHS checklist
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Maxx @vacant-and-bored.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
democracydocket.com
DHS created a ‘law enforcement voter integrity’ checklist, new filing reveals. Dems want to see it
The document raises more questions about potential Trump administration plans to use armed federal agents to disrupt voting.
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Alex Burch @alexkburch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Testing all maga cultists: (And credit to the person who created this)
On a scale from 0-10, how much do you like dogs?
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Maxx @vacant-and-bored.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
There are a huge number of 1%er Republican M.D.'s who voted for this. I hope you evil fuckers are happy.
nytimes.com
White House Moves to Take Control of N.I.H. Grants
Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually
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Maxx @vacant-and-bored.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES
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Maxx @vacant-and-bored.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Pete Kegstand is absolutely obsessed with other men's penises
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Walter MOONdale @dabenner.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
They better fuckin do it again
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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
wait truth social has polling before we do?
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Maxx @vacant-and-bored.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Trump killed 120 little girls so that he could jack up diesel and gas prices for his oil company buddies. And of course he's trying to stop the report showing that from ever coming out, especially before midterms.
bloomberg.com
Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.
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Invictus @tbpinvictus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
MAGA: Clock is ticking on giving me $2.5k now in exchange for my full $5k when we get it. (😉) What are you waiting for? No one interested in doubling their money?
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Under Trump, the IRS is refusing to release its usual annual estimate of how many taxes go unpaid. Gee I wonder why www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/b...
nytimes.com
Billions in Taxes Go Unpaid. Under Trump, the I.R.S. Won’t Say How Much.
The absence of the annual estimate on the tax gap could make it more difficult to assess whether more taxes are going unpaid since President Trump took office.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 16/09/2026
My summary of the AI apocalypse discussion. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...
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Maxx @vacant-and-bored.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
So this is interesting. Is Trump about to try to save the midterms by publicly going after his best buddy Putin instead of Iran? Gotta lookout for #1, protect himself from impeachment and prosecution, ya know.
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Maxx @vacant-and-bored.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Moderately surprised that Tr☭mp and Kegsie were this able to hide the damage that Iran has done to the USA.
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Maxx @vacant-and-bored.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Reposting just for the absolute truth of this.
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
49 days until midterms. Today’s Public Service Message — since we have a disingenuous dataming dasterdly oligarch trying to interfere with our elections AGAIN:
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WARNING:
votesafe.org
OFFICIAL PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT • DATA PRIVACY ALERT
This website is run by Elon Musk's America PAC and will collect and sell your personal information — including address, birthdate, phone, email, device and location data.
Protect your data. Use official government portals instead: Vote.gov and your official state election website.
For safe voter registration and election details, use only official gov websites.
Visit Vote.gov or your state's official election website.
• PUBLIC ADVISORY • Be cautious of third-party sites collecting personal data
• This notice is for public information and data protection
• No affiliation with government
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
(🧵History as reported by the NYT Euphemism Desk) Germany’s vision of a more robust national footprint was in tension with Poland’s border.
German troops in WWII
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New from 404 Media: humans are reading ChatGPT conversations. OpenAI has hired an army of contractors who read real ChatGPT users' chats. I've seen internal docs, the review system, and real user prompts. Sometimes they contain very personal and sensitive information www.404media.co/inside-proje...
404media.co
Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats
Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...
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Maxx @vacant-and-bored.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
heh.
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Maxx @vacant-and-bored.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I have hope that optimists like Propter are right. But I'm about 60/40 that the point of no return was 2024, because I believe American democracy has been fatally wounded. 2024 really was our last chance. We didn't have to worry about democracy itself being permanently injured in 2006.
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Maxx @vacant-and-bored.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Fundamentalist Muslims love the general hatefulness of the Republican Party, but are very sad that it doesn't love them back.
texastribune.org
Muslims at Texas GOP Convention told to leave party, country
Muslim delegates and attendees hoping to participate in the state Republican convention were shunned and rejected by members as they espoused themes of party unity ahead of the November election.
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 13/09/2026
You know, I gotta say that all these tributes to 9/11 in places who don’t think that I’m a Real American because I live in New York City sure ring hollow!
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Maxx @vacant-and-bored.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
TIL: Charlie Kirk believed that Hitler, Stalin, and Bin Laden are in Heaven
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Maxx @vacant-and-bored.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Absolute banger
youtube.com
Where There's a Whip There's a Way!
YouTube video by Misha Gurevich
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
we are taking all of your money and giving it to a couple dumb assholes, why dont you see how revolutionary that is
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 09/09/2026
All that being said, being against this tech because of the negative externalities, what it does to human labor etc are all valid reasons to oppose it and I share some of those views. I just think that saying the tech doesn't work isn't tenable anymore.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 09/09/2026
The alarms are all flashing red.
Screenshot of a thread on X by user Jacob Coxon (@hilbertspaess) detailing his resignation from Anthropic.
​The first post reads: "I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below."
​The second post reads: "Do not underestimate the power of this technology. These will soon be superhuman systems that can hack anything, revolutionize any field overnight, and acquire real power and resources. We have all witnessed the progress in each of these domains, and progress is not slowing."
​The third post reads: "The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt. If anything, many executives and senior researchers will couch their phrasing in the press to sound sensible - but I hear the same people express fear privately. No other human activity poses this level of danger."Screenshot continuing the thread on X by Jacob Coxon (@hilbertspaess).
​The first post reads: "A common response is 'if they truly believe this, why are they still building it?' At OpenAI, many have not deeply internalized the civilizational stakes. At Anthropic, the stakes are well-understood, but they are locked in a race to get there first - they believe no one else will act responsibly, so they must do it themselves, despite the risk."
​The second post reads: "Accepting this race and entering the 'endgame' is a hubristic gamble that should not be launched from a private company's Slack. Attempting to speedrun alignment should require extraordinary confidence that there are no better trajectories available."
​The third post reads: "I am optimistic about the potential for coordination. Warning shots like the Hugging Face attack have made pacing agreements between U.S. labs more viable. I don’t feel like we’re on track to prevent a global race, which may require costly actions such as a temporary ban on improving model capabilities."
​The fourth post reads: "If you are a lab researcher, I urge you to consider what the next few years will actually feel like. Do you want to kick off a superintelligent RL run without a rigorous understanding of its mind? Should you put your head down because 'it’s happening anyway' - or take this moment to call for different conditions?"
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Maxx @vacant-and-bored.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Trump giving women hush money for the 100th time
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It’s scary to think about how, in ~10 years, some unknown but small number of children are going to start having trouble thinking, then losing motor function, then being unable to to swallow or breathe, and then they will die. All because their parents didn’t vaccinate them against measles.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Happy 72nd Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.
Ruby Bridges, age 6Ruby Bridges flanked by three U.S. Marshals on the steps of her schoolNorman Rockwell’s painting depicting the event, “The Problem We All Live With,” originally published as a centerfold in the January 14, 1964 issue of Look magazine. Ruby Bridges talking with President Obama as they look at Rockwell’s painting while it was temporarily displayed at the White House in 2011.
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