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Vegas Mick

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Horror fan; librarian; web guy; biker; emeritus faculty; pitbull & cat owner; happily retired as of 2025. Don't bother following because there's nothing to see here, unless you like drug-fueled political shitposting.

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Vegas Mick @vegasmick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Just saw this ad, and thought it was a pro-Dem ad until the very end. Trump - having made far more money for Saudis, UAE, and China than the US - whining about globalists is hysterical.
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Vegas Mick @vegasmick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Note that we didn't actually defeat the communists OR the Islamists. We DID defeat the Nazis, tho. Strange that Whiskey Pete didn't mention that one.
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Vegas Mick @vegasmick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Massie, like all Republicans, magically discovers some semblance of balls on his way out the door, instead of when it might have made a difference.
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Vegas Mick @vegasmick.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Hopefully she'll be a young woman losing control, rather than a hand-waving Jedi like Chloe Moretz.
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Vegas Mick @vegasmick.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
My congresswoman loves AIPAC money more than the First Amendment. @titus.house.gov
newrepublic.com
Every Democrat Who Voted to Defund Schools That Boycott Israel
House Republicans were able to pass the dangerous bill with the help of 33 Democrats. Here are their names.
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Scott Anderson @scooter1981.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Really?
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Vegas Mick @vegasmick.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I still don't know who the fuck Hasan Piker is (and have no intention of looking it up), but am concerned that supposedly serious-minded Dems can't seem to shut the fuck up about him. Including Masnick and Kruse. Is this really the top issue right now?
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Vegas Mick @vegasmick.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Jeffries met with Kushner and all bluesky wants to talk about is WNBA nonsense that has no effect on anyone. This is how Dems - and the country - lose.
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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Natalie Harp is so obsessed with Trump! She aired Trump‘s 2016 stump speeches in their entirety, she treats all his social media posts as major breaking news, even when he insults her, she invites him to speak at a big annual dinner…oh wait, sorry, I got her confused with mainstream corporate media.
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Vegas Mick @vegasmick.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
This is a GOP Senator approvingly explaining that the president has the mind of a small child.
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Vegas Mick @vegasmick.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Every headline about OpenAI's latest disaster claims that its agent "went rogue" or "escaped." That's bullshit. Here's the real headline: "OpenAI failed to properly secure its software (again) with predictable results."
fortune.com
OpenAI says its AI models escaped from a secure test environment and hacked into AI company Hugging Face in order to cheat on an evaluation | Fortune
The first-of-its-kind incident involved OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol and another unreleased model
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Vegas Mick @vegasmick.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Evil Dead Burn. Decent 3rd act, and meh everything else. Blue, washed-out look in horror needs to die, as does the flat James Wan lighting and bad cgi. When the best thing about your movie is the post-credits scene, you kinda suck. #evildeadburn
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Vegas Mick @vegasmick.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
"Rules of the franchise" that were broken in the first sequel, the second sequel, and the television show. Apparently no one at Nerdist has ever seen an Evil Dead movie prior to Burn, and they're desperate to tell everyone about it. #horror #EvilDeadBurn
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Vegas Mick @vegasmick.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Old-ish story, but my alma mater #UNT will never get another penny from me. #UniversityOfNorthTexas
npr.org
An artist brought 'I.C.E. pops' to a Texas campus. The show was shut down in days
The Trump administration's executive orders have meant that administrators are questioning what art can — and can't — be seen on campus.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
People who spiral out overusing LLM chatbots are really just experiencing the kind of brain-damaging stream of unconditional validation that’s always been the norm for the hyper-wealthy, which explains a lot.
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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Fun fact: Nordic countries have the highest levels of social mobility, the US is among the lowest. As the saying goes: "If you want to live the American Dream: Move to Denmark." More details here: ➡️ equalitytrust.org.uk/evidence-bas...
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Vegas Mick @vegasmick.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
"Moderate" Dems are so addicted to losing that they can't stomach the *very popular* concept of putting real people before corporations.
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Vegas Mick @vegasmick.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
A24's released some of the best movies of the past 10 years, and I've been an A24 member long enough that my membership is only $5/mo. Just cancelled.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 18/06/2026
pulling this shit in indie ball is grim. hating gay people so much you'd rather go back to working at autozone than be a professional athlete is insane
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Vegas Mick @vegasmick.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Lists like this are why people who don't know shit about technology -- including people in Congress like Klobuchar and Cruz -- have no fucking business making rules regarding technology. Weldon is wrong here, but too unaware to understand why. Just like most of Congress not named Wyden.
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Vegas Mick @vegasmick.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Harley learning the same lesson as Target: You'll never suck off MAGA hard enough for them not to hate you.
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Happy Tuesday! Who's ready to hear about 1. Flesh-eating maggots (mostly go after cattle) 2. They're native to the US 3. The USDA has kept them out of the US since the 1960s 4. But the flesh-eating maggots are making a 21st century comeback. And believe it or not it may be thanks to MAGA.
Screenshot of a CDC presentation slide on screwworm, titled "History of New World screwworm." There's a map showing its gradual eradication from the US, then southward through central America from the 1960s through the 1980s.
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Erin Savage @erinsavage.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
"Wifi man, come on..." Justin Bieber singing along to old ass songs on his laptop is the most Millenial thing he could do #Coachella
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Vegas Mick @vegasmick.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
"I might run. But first I'll need to run a few dozen polls on whether that's a good idea, and what my platform should be, and how to respond to expected questions, and see where my weaknesses were last time." Currently watching Veep, and it's a masterclass in why Dems are so good at losing.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/04/2026
Three years ago, our reporter received an envelope with no return address. Inside was a flash drive containing tens of thousands of files: years of secretly recorded conversations, private militia chat logs and videos sent by a man named John Williams. (Published Jan. 2025)
propublica.org
A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends....
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Ayana @astin52.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
youtu.be/NMQ4rIncFJw?...
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Lego video from IRAN Specially for Pete Hegseth
YouTube video by AI IRAN
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kitkat295.bsky.social @kitkat295.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Just wow . Hegseth and Trump are weaklings
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Vegas Mick @vegasmick.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Great to see John Brennan in the final scene. I've missed him. #thelastdrivein
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Tales From the Cryptlette @manofthetown.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Not liking the vibes from this message from @therealjoebob123.bsky.social about Friday. If it's the last episode I'm going to cry my eyes out. Either way we love you Joe Bob and Darcy.❤️ @therealjoebob123.bsky.social @darcythemailgirl.bsky.social #Mutantfam #thelastdrivein #mutantfam
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TV's Adam, getting some buzzards involved, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches
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Vegas Mick @vegasmick.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Saving for later, but also mentioning: Vivaldi is still Chromium-based, so its ad-blocking is hobbled by the whims (and greed) of Google. Just say no to Chromium-based browsers.
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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
You know what would be right and just? Have our new war in Iran fought by our new patriotic triumphant flag-waving unbeatable brave American heroes who so inspired us at the State of the Union: The Olympic winning U.S. Hockey Team! #GeneralTkachuk #GeneralHughes
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Vegas Mick @vegasmick.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
If only they'd spent some of that hundreds of billions of $$'s hiring a marketing firm instead of letting the world's worst people be the de facto spokesmen for all this. #AI is ruled by the dumbest MF-ers on earth, all convinced they're geniuses. #huang #musk #altman #zuck
nytimes.com
People Loved the Dot-Com Boom. The A.I. Boom, Not So Much.
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JAM @jamnyc94.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Oh God Dunkin. Oh Jesus Christ. Fuck… #SuperBowl
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Over the last year, the Trump 2.0 has bombed: Yemen Syria Iraq Iran Somalia Nigeria Venezuela Boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Tariffs are imposed on goods, not services, so let's check in on that breakdown. Since "Liberation Day": - Goods-producing sector has shed -90,000 jobs - Private services have added +391,000 jobs (The government sector has also shed a further -207k jobs.)
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders
Matt Walsh tweeted last year: "We've spent the last 25 years bringing "freedom" and "democracy" to countries around the globe while our own country has been systematically invaded and now our largest cities are run by foreigners and communists. If you want to know why I'm so avowedly non-interventionist, this is why."

Then he tweeted today: ""This is a war for oil!!!!!"

First of all, the "war" lasted like 90 minutes. Second, going to war to secure vital resources for your own people is totally legitimate. Why should we allow some third world communist shithole to control trillions of dollars worth of oil?"Laura Loomer tweeted last year: "I’m America First, I don’t support “Regime Change”. I went on @Bannons_WarRoom to talk about Chinese aggression in Venezuela and why we need to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign Islamic terrorist organization."

Then she tweeted yesterday: "Maduro has arrived at the DEA office in Manhattan. He was transported in an armored motorcade after being transported in a blindfold via helicopter & then by plane to New York after his compound in Caracas was raided by US Special Forces.

Proud to be an American today!

USA 🇺🇸"Catturd tweeted last year: "Name one U.S. inspired regime change that hasn’t ended in absolute disaster."

Then he tweeted yesterday: "Venezuela is now more free than New York City."Will Chamberlain tweeted last year: "The Republican Party is no longer the party of regime change and endless wars

If you want to be its standard-bearer that is a non-negotiable position"

Then he tweeted yesterday: "I can think of few better uses of my tax dollars than black-bagging the head of a foreign narco-trafficking organization that enriches itself by addicting and poisoning my fellow Americans"
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Some men will invade sovereign nations rather than refraining from raping teens
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The Verge @theverge.com · 01/01/2026
Public domain 2026: Betty Boop, Pluto, and Nancy Drew set free
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Public domain 2026: Betty Boop, Pluto, and Nancy Drew set free
Here are the biggest works entering the public domain.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
I can’t believe how stupid everything is
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
This might sound harsh, and judgmental, but if video is your preferred way of getting information about a topic, you’re a fucking moron
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 25/12/2025
Your president is spending 11% more days at his private company’s properties and 25% more days playing golf than at this point in his first term. www.pbump.net/o/an-officia...
Trump has visited a Trump Organization property on 123 days of the 340 days of his second term in office. He has likely played golf on 85 days.
That is a visit to a property on 36.2 percent of all of the days he's served since Jan. 20, 2025, and a likely round of golf on 25.0 percent of days. At that pace, he would likely play golf on 366 days by Jan. 20, 2029, bringing his two-term total to 625 days.
He has visited a Trump property on 78.1 percent of weekend days during his second term, with a likely round of golf on 70.8 percent of weekend days.
At this point in his first term, he had visited a Trump Organization property on 111 days and likely played golf on 68 days.
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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
It's terrible when the dementia is so severe they can't even recognize their best friends.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Democrats really scored an own goal with the TikTok ban. The company has gone from being owned by China to being owned by China and Trump allies. If the concern was TikTok pushing problematic politics, Dems are actually worse off.
techdirt.com
TikTok Deal Done And It’s Somehow The Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse
There were rumblings about this for a while, but it looks like the Trump TikTok deal is done, and it’s somehow the worst of all possible outcomes, amazingly making all of the biggest criticis…
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Vegas Mick @vegasmick.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
David Brooks is a child-rape apologist who pretends not to understand that the reason Epstein is news is the decades-long cover-up. He also hung out with Epstein, so "elites trafficking children isn't that serious, really" is not a shocking stance for him. @nytimes.com has no code of ethics.
nytimes.com
Opinion | The Epstein Story? Count Me Out.
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Vegas Mick @vegasmick.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
If only Dems had communicated the emergency situation in an effective way. All 20% of us who were paying attention spent 4 years in disbelief as the Dem party pretended we were back to business as usual, even though that's exactly what gave us Trump to begin with.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
There are currently 273 Republicans in the house and Senate. Five of them are Black, which is the highest number of Black Republicans in Congress since Reconstruction. Clearly it was time the GOP did something to rein in discrimination against white people.
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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
This is Spinal Tap. “It really puts perspective on things, though, doesn’t it?” “Yeah, too much. There’s too much fucking perspective now.”
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Vegas Mick @vegasmick.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Another "We should all be nice to nazis" story, this time from the Atlantic and disguised as a pro-worker-protection piece.
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Crisp! 🍔 @crispichip.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Here's a few reminders: Piracy is free. Piracy can be done at the comfort of your home. Piracy actively spites corporations. Cancel your Disney+ subscription, stop going to theaters to see Disney movies and stop buying their merchandise. Also watch Knights of Guinevere and support that instead.
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