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Random tech worker and progressive independent | Posts are my own.

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social · 5h
People freaking out about imaginary rogue text bots, meanwhile this is what your government is sending out to hunt brown people Brown people are always the test bed before it comes for the rest of y'all, so don't do anything about it and see what happens I guess
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 1h
This man continues to victim blame. “Morally wrong, disgusting” but not rising to the level of “a crime” makes it utterly clear that he thinks the victim is a willing participant. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/n...
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D.A. in Cornell Case Hopes to Speak to Accuser as He Weighs New Evidence (Gift Article)
District Attorney Matthew Van Houten said a woman’s report to police in 2024 saying she had been raped at a fraternity did not support a criminal case. But he said he is now reaching out to her.
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Holly @whollyhell.bsky.social · 1h
‘I told my son about Cornell. He didn’t even know what “pussy” meant, and so I told him. I told him everything. He was very upset. But I think if my daughter has to walk around knowing she could be a victim, my son has to know he could be a predator, if only by his silence.’
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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 1h
"The electrification of road freight is emerging as a structural force that could undermine long-term oil demand across the world." Yeah it is. gift link
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China Has an 18-Wheel Answer to Soaring Global Diesel Prices
Around a third of trucks sold in China this year will run on electricity, furthering Beijing’s goal of bolstering energy security.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1h
"A general warming trend is expected because of rising greenhouse-gas emissions, but this sudden heat spike greatly exceeds predictions made by statistical climate models that rely on past observations."
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Climate models can’t explain 2023’s huge heat anomaly — we could be in uncharted territory
Taking into account all known factors, the planet warmed 0.2 °C more last year than climate scientists expected. More and better data are urgently needed.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 20h
Free newsletter: When will the AI bubble burst? When the money runs out. Raising debt for AI data centers is becoming untenable, infrastructure break-even points keep getting further away, and many of VC's AI investments look like dead money. www.wheresyoured.at/dead-money/
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Nashville Scene @nashvillescene.com · 28/09/2026
Scene staff reporter Eli Motycka was removed from the guest list for Peter Thiel's Nashville Antichrist lectures — and he's not the only journalist who was. 🧵
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 28/09/2026
“We have a cult of radicalized billionaires who believe it is their destiny to rule the 21st century…They know our system is for sale…not only in San Francisco but in Washington.” Read @esksf.bsky.social on how tech oligarchs bought San Francisco. missionlocal.org/2026/09/san-...
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San Francisco's wealthiest have unprecedented control of city politics
Our city fathers (if you like them) or oligarchs (if you don’t) have never been richer, more brazen or faced weaker opposition
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Lexington Herald-Leader @kentucky.com · 29/09/2026
Lexington police say officers used their Flock camera database to try to find a car tied to a road rage case. It led them to the home of Samuel Penn, who had nothing to do with the incident.
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Lexington police used Flock cams to find road rage suspect. It led them to an innocent man
Lexington police say officers used their Flock camera database to try to find a car tied to a road rage case. It led them to the home of Samuel Penn, who had nothing to do with the incident.
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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As ceasefire negotiations faltered and U.S. casualties of the Iran war mounted, the Trump administration on July 7 announced the conclusion of Operation Epic Fury But since then, more U.S. military personnel have been injured and killed than in the 18 weeks of OEF theintercept.com/2026/09/28/i...
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U.S. Has Suffered More Casualties In Iran Since the Conclusion of Operation Epic Fury
The Trump administration’s attempt to rebrand its faltering forever war hasn’t slowed the mounting toll of U.S. casualties.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is true: I look at Labour's neglect of higher ed in the UK - a complete own goal that made the country worse off and undermined a major export industry.
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New article! On access journalism, AI replacements for people, and Trump's latest attack on freedom of the press: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/gutting-th...
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Gutting the Fourth Estate
The US media were willing cogs in Trump’s machine. Now he’s tearing it down.
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 28/09/2026
I hope we’re all learning a lot about the ontology of terrorism and its function within domestic politics today. Schrödinger’s Plot.
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior)
My father died six months ago today. I wrote this while he was dying. https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-empty-stage
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Atlas Mugged (N95 Duckbill 😷)✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @pamacious.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"𝘐 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺, I thought as I drove home. 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘐’𝘮 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘦. However, since Bluesky already has people thinking I’m a killer, I can risk it."
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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
More on this later, but it feels like a community putting a lot of effort into creating a cognitive callus against the threat of work that undermines a chunk of their world-view: bsky.app/profile/emil... >>
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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“I will do it tomorrow,” said Toad. “Today I will take life easy.”
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026
The source of that danger is financiers, and they are motivated by a mix of solipsism and a belief in *other people's* solipsism. For them, the most exciting investment hypothesis is that "hell is other people": locusmag.com/feature/comm... 39/
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Commentary: Cory Doctorow: Hell Is Other People
“So this is hell. I’d never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the ‘burning marl.’ Old wives’ tales! There’s…
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026
Bosses *hate* the fact that they can't turn their plans into action without first having a series of ego-shattering confrontations with workers who actually know how to do things, who insist that those plans are illegal, stupid, impossible or will kill people: pluralistic.net/2026/03/12/n... 27/
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Pluralistic: Three more AI psychoses (12 Mar 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Atlas Mugged (N95 Duckbill 😷)✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @pamacious.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Why have the world's wealthiest investors been so eager to hand over *trillions* to finance this bubble?" —Cory Doctorow
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Atlas Mugged (N95 Duckbill 😷)✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @pamacious.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
and offset their massive financial messes. We need restrictions, regulations, and safety, but not in the hands of these megalomaniacal bubble stakeholders. IMO they all should be indicted for negligence, fraud, and endangering the public. It's a start.
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Atlas Mugged (N95 Duckbill 😷)✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @pamacious.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Billionaire investor whose company can't even get a grip on their security vulnerabilities says what? The "move fast and break things" AHs ran without rails and now they want to put rails behind them and shift the financial burden of the AI bubble popping away from themselves.
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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
There are lots of ways to answer this and one of them is that studying history makes you a better citizen and our public universities have an obligation to produce good citizens. History education is essential to a republican model of government. Engineering is not.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
We had to wait for the....NEW YORK POST to write about this. Y'all know there is so much more where this came from but journalists don't want to dig and people are terrified to speak to any journalist seeing the type of reporting they've been doing
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
All these elected officials do is go on cable news to blab about problems we know really well because they dedicated decades of their lives to not solving them.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Maine Republican Paul LePage **then**: “The enemy right now, the overwhelming majority of people coming in, are people of color, or people of Hispanic origin.” www.nytimes.com/2016/08/30/u... Paul LePage *now*: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/u...
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Paul LePage, a Trump Ally, Says a Family Member Is Being Deported
The former Maine governor, a Republican running for Congress, said the Trump administration is seeking to wrongly deport his son’s father-in-law, who has a work permit.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Tucker and MTG and Massie and everyone in their little fetid cesspool are providing an incredible service to the fascists. They're supplying a post-Trump radicalization structure that will quickly paint Trump and MAGA as a betrayal and forward fascist ideas under a newer and "truer" facade
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Chef Nova @chefnova.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The emperor's new clothes was a teaching moment fhat so many missed.
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Julia Dilliard💙🐴🇺🇦#Resist. DM's are blocked. @juliadilliard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Exactly. We've known from the time of his 1st campaign and early 1st term, exactly who & what he is. And, instead of treating him like the malignant narcissist and pathological liar that he is, the media and the Republicans have normalized him.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Joe Walsh Is Right......
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Atlas Mugged (N95 Duckbill 😷)✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @pamacious.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If you didn't learn this in school either, you are not alone.
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Atlas Mugged (N95 Duckbill 😷)✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @pamacious.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I don't think the United States should invade Cuba. This, to me, sounds like a bad idea. www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-gro...
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U.S. military lays groundwork for potential action around Cuba
Some units would "possibly [be] needed in 90-120 days," according to an internal Army message reviewed by CBS News.
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John Cusack @johncusack.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Watch it substack.com/@naomiklein/...
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Naomi Klein (@naomiklein)
But is it fascism? Do they really yearn for apocalypse? Isn't that polarizing? Shouldn't we be nice to them? We made a short video so folks can hear the religious, tech and ethno-nationalist end tim...
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
New interview! On media complicity, DOD danger, oligarch influence, and Don Jr’s corruption. Bonus: If you want to watch me burst into laughter and lose my composure for the rest of the interview, skip to 20 minutes! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQmQ...
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THESE TWO IDIOTS ARE A PROBLEM FOR TRUMP (feat. Sarah Kendzior)
YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show
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Jason Rosenbaum @jasonrosenbaum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i don't mean to sound like a luddite, but just call the restaurant yourself or go online. it's really not that hard
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Atlas Mugged (N95 Duckbill 😷)✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @pamacious.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Genocidal Coach Taylor," (Hegseth) who said "it's not about ideology, but a belief..."🤡 These religious extremists can demoralize a team faster than a plague of mosquitoes: they're insufferable, suffocating, and they exist in an alternative reality.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
As intentional precarity and exploitation grow and capitalist contradictions explode, you're going to see so many "centrists" and "resisters" embrace this shit with open arms. It's already happening, but the way the political environment shifts is going to make your fucking head spin.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So, when Tucker or any of these fascist fucks comes along with a critique of Trump, it provides an out for centrists. There's more deniability. Suddenly, fascist ideas aren't fascist ideas, they're actually common sense and centrist, not to mention the "redemption narrative" they absolutely love.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's disgusting watching people buying into the "Tucker Carlson is making sense?!" bullshit and it's probably time to wrap our heads around the fact that the people susceptible to this are unconsciously fascist curious and just need the ugly delivered to them in an "acceptable" package
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The recent arrest of Clavicular on rape charges shows that misogynist beliefs become misogynist actions. This *should* be obvious, but in the world of "cancel culture" hysteria, it's not. Unsurprisingly, MAGA is painting him as the real victim. www.salon.com/2026/09/25/c...
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Clavicular's charges shows the real danger of MAGA manhood
Long before his arrest for rape, the looksmaxxing star built a brand based on contempt for women
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Greatest trick AI leaders have pulled is convincing many people—especially influential people in govt, media, and business—that their software is intelligent, independent, yet never culpable. Humans build it, humans deploy it, but no one bears responsibility for the things that happen when they do.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"When faced with skyrocketing pesticide and nitrate levels in its drinking water supply, the city of Munich, Germany bypassed expensive chemical treatment plans and chose a radical path: they tackled the contamination at its very root." via Thefarmacyreal www.facebook.com/permalink.ph...
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
‘We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.’ This is a CEO openly confessing to a level of acquired mental indolence that, were he not coddled 24/7 by an army of paid underlings, would make him incapable of living independently and feeding himself. He’s fine with it. Your kids won’t be.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary.
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
The reason they keep running the same play is they keep getting exactly what they want.
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CJ_(insubordinate) @crj4189.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Late Stage Capitalism - A nuclear arms race in fraudulent billing and claims practices. Remind me again why nationalized healthcare is "too complicated."
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PinkTweets @pinktweets.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Don't forget to send $9.25 to Dolly's Imagination Library imaginationlibrary.com
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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wild 🤔
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