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Eternal killjoy/wet-blanket. Secularist. Compulsive reader. Ageing software engineer. mastodon.online/@vpt

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Vpt @vpt.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
It is slow. But then there's the relief of 43% being done...
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VoteHub @votehub.com · 09/10/2026
On Supreme Court term limits: Sen. Susan Collins: “Absolutely not. I’m sure that Troy wants to pack the court.” Troy Jackson: “I wouldn’t have to pack it if you didn’t put in Kavanaugh."
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
If you're wondering what the real threat to "election integrity" is, it's billionaires.
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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 07/10/2026
Thousands are protesting across India against changes to voter rolls that have stripped millions of their right to vote. Indian authorities need to release all detained for peacefully protesting, stop suspending internet services, and investigate complaints of police abuse.
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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Goddammit. The contempt these people have for everything wondrous and good and *human* is so grotesque.
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Granuailynn @granuailynn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
⤵️ bsky.app/profile/whit...
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
1. Tonight at Gillette Stadium, Zach Bryan, one of the biggest country music artists in the world, wore a Free Palestine shirt onstage. Gillette Stadium is owned by Robert Kraft, who pushed Ed Sheeran and his promoter to drop Macklemore from his tour. Bryan isn’t just a major country artist.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 19/09/2026
From ovations in Venice to death threats in Israel: the extreme responses to NAZA documentary
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From ovations in Venice to death threats in Israel: the extreme responses to NAZA documentary
As Gaza documentary wins cinematic acclaim, its directors face vitriol in Israel amid a febrile election campaign
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Vpt @vpt.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A vote for Asagiite is a vote for class. Unlike #Quartz, #Asagiite isn't a "pick me".
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Jim Swift @jimswift.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The cruelty is the point. Shame on this administration and shame on the people who voted for this. www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/spring...
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Springfield Haitian student takes his own life after being fitted with ICE ankle monitor, advocates say
A 20-year-old Wright State student took his own life on Interstate 70 out of anguish over a required ICE ankle monitor, according to local community advocates.
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Vpt @vpt.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Lake America. So weak. Absolute loser shit. So embarrassing and small and foolish. The sort of idea a drunk asshole has right before he falls off the roof and onto a picket fence.
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Vpt @vpt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is awesome, Dr Christiansen.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
They lie about the progress of the war. They lie about the conditions of the troops. They suppress independent reporting. Welcome to Trump's and Hegseth's military. wapo.st/3UsenSA
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Pentagon fires Stars and Stripes leaders who criticized DOD’s interference
The Defense Department earlier this year railed against the publication, which has long enjoyed editorial independence, as “woke.”
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Vpt @vpt.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
😒
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NevereverDave.bsky.social @nevereverdave.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
"In my case...a misogynist witch hunt. In Arday’s case, a racist lynch mob. That’s not hyperbole. I have chosen those words carefully. ....Human behaviour is now expressed in the material and virtual worlds. ... They prompt real emotions, real consequences, real violence. It’s just bullying."
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Vpt @vpt.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Huh? Poor thing is probably already ashamed of its inadequacy and here you are making it worse for it....
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Vpt @vpt.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I'd call them swine but that would be an insult to swine.
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Vpt @vpt.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The cruelty is the point.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 11/08/2026
They’ve really latched on to the idea that claiming someone was “trying to run them over” is their get-out-of-jail-free card for murdering people in their cars
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 10/08/2026
If it looks like an Amazon delivery and drives like an Amazon delivery, then it's an Amazon delivery, right? Not according to Amazon. Big companies like Amazon have built a vast network of subcontractors who deliver their packages while shielding them from accountability.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"Don't stay on twitter so long you stop believing in sunscreen" sounds like an idiom people 200 years in the future will be using but won't remember what it means
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Sir Gary Pike Ved-acharya Eurasia वाले💙🇺🇦 🇮🇳 @pikewala.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Caste system and untouchability is so ingrained in Hinduism, that when you protest against untouchability, Brahmans claim that you are anti Hindu
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Vpt @vpt.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
NOW!
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.
To O’Mara, the diet is not just a temporary means of losing weight but a way to eat for good. He has been doing it for 10 years, and credits it with turning his life around. At one point in our conversation he pulled up the Bristol Stool Chart, which ranges from Type 1 (“separate, hard pellets”) to Type 7 (“watery, no solid pieces”). O’Mara is consistently delivering Type 4 (“smooth, soft, like a snake”), with pointed ends, indicative of healthy rectal function, he told me. “When you start eating healthy, you don’t need toilet paper,” he claimed. “Animals in the wild have no residual stool on their anus.” He described a proper bowel movement to me this way: odorless, wipe-free, over in three to seven seconds and “nearly orgasmic.”

“I could have a bowel movement behind a sheet at a dinner party in the corner of the room,” he said, “and nobody would know.”
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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
DO IT Seriously. DO IT. Trump and Vought are actively and viciously trying to turn US science into what it was in 1950s USSR. DO IT
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 29/07/2026
Just wanna say that I don't care if you consider yourself "left." If you're a tankle supporting genocides around the world that don't violate your narrow conception of harm, gaslighting victims, and coming here to demind my time & paternalistically engage with your colonial self, I'm blocking you.
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Vpt @vpt.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Oh good lord. They're after our 401Ks
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Rakesh Khanna @blaftrakesh.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
My mad hope is that the momentum can push beyond local issues and bring some logic and reason to the rest of the world, too. Mira Nair's son is sitting in New York being called the moral leader of America. What else can young Indians do? Can cockroach become vishwaguru?
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.
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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development
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Vpt @vpt.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
It'll be rather funny if it turns out that on average the white soldiers have lower levels or something. My guess is, they'll junk the "initiative" in a jiffy.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
congraulations to Argentina for somehow being such a despiacble team of unlikeables and xenophobes that they suceeded in getting Indians rooting for an English football team today
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 14/07/2026
After a cost of more than $1 billion, the Everglades concentration camp has been removed from the airstrip where it once stood.
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Alligator Alcatraz is no more. Tents, cars, signs disappear from airport site
“Not much left but a couple of trucks and a few contractors standing around,” pilot Ra Schooley, who took aerial photos Sunday morning, remarked.
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Vpt @vpt.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Happens to the best of us...
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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Roman Space Telescope - Rotate to Vertical Technicians and engineers inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at Kennedy rotate the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to vertical using precision handling hardware. Credit: NASA/Sydney Rohde (Rocz) images.nasa.gov/details/KSC-... #Roman 🧪🔭
Technicians and engineers inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida rotate the agency’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to vertical Thursday, June 25, 2026, using precision handling hardware. Named for NASA’s first chief astronomer and “mother of the Hubble Space Telescope,” the Roman Space Telescope will offer a field of view at least 100 times larger than Hubble’s, resulting in deep, sweeping explorations of the cosmos
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
For those who have forgotten the past 40 years: Tax cuts for the rich ...don’t trickle down Boosting military spending ...doesn’t bring peace Slashing regulations ...doesn’t create jobs Folks, we’ve seen this all before.
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I've reported on Musk for around 8 years. I've co-authored a book on him. I don't think folks understand the rate of his wealth accumulation. Shortly after he helped elect Donald Trump in Nov 2024, his net worth was around $350 billion. That net worth has nearly tripled in less than two years.
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Vpt @vpt.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Spy game / Tinker tailor soldier spy
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Vpt @vpt.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Ah. Splendid thanks.
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Vpt @vpt.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Or are the dishes too small?
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Vpt @vpt.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Sorry for a potentially stupid question, but couldn't they use satellites for it?
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 29/05/2026
It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.
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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Once again: German universities were the envy of the world before the Nazis rose to power and took an ideological wrecking ball to the entire enterprise. If you want to know how long it took for German universities to recover… they haven’t.
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hayden johnson @haydenjohnsonn.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
you idiots! comedy is not about joy or building community or challenging systems of power! comedy is about teaching 14-year-old boys slurs and making sure women know if i don’t like their bodies! it’s called pushing the boundaries and doing it makes me very profound!
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Joshua Failé @joshuafaile.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Elon Musk’s SpaceX was receiving government funding long before it began rendering services—the development of its entire business was largely based on government contracts/subsidies (as was the case with Tesla). And, no matter how you spin it, that is not an example of “free market” capitalism.
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Elon Musk’s business empire is built on $38 billion in government funding
Government infusions at key moments helped Tesla and SpaceX flourish, boosting Musk’s wealth.
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Vpt @vpt.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
We don't like getting cornered maybe.
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Andy-Luke @andy-luke.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Monday election update: 1 Reform councillor fired, 1 Reform councillor ran away, and 1 Reform councillor might not exist. Waveney Valley's George Alexander Jonathan Boyd is an AI generated image. No A-V, no sightings, no trace except for agent's address. Why aren't the news media all over this?
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Vpt @vpt.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Dang. Do try to catch it if possible, the next time... It's nothing very grand but quite nice in its own way. I had no idea of Caroline Herschel and the challenges she overcame those and documented a bunch of comets nor of William Herschel's part in helping her until I went there...
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