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Will Dickeson

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I like my punks real and my gangsters fake

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 13h
I'm increasingly frustrated that people who are anti-AI aren't being taken seriously, and taking a page out of my thoughts on why the anti-trans backlash got as far as it did I'm starting to think the anti-AI side isn't extreme enough.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 9h
This is sexual violence as a form of terrorism. It is political violence and it is chilling and horrific, and AOC was absolutely right to be terrified that the goons (now pardoned) laying siege to the capital would rape her if they found her. Small changes won't fix this. FLIP THE TABLE NOW
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Will Dickeson @willdickeson.bsky.social · 7h
I cannot understand this at all.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 7h
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Government of New Brunswick @govnb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Public input sought in review of natural gas development www.gnb.ca/en/news/n-b.2026.10.publ…
Promotional poster with the logo of New Brunswick at the top, featuring contour lines in various colors. The text reads, "Share your perspective on natural gas development." A website URL is provided: GNB.CA/NaturalGasReview.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 19/09/2026
Like this gives the Saudis a content veto power over EA, Bioware, Paramount, CBS, Nickelodeon, Showtime, and BET, and if the newest merger gets approved they’ll also have content veto power over HBO, CNN, the whole WB universe, Discovery, TBS, TNT, plus the PGA and ATP. It’s pretty stunning.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 19/09/2026
It should be illegal to buy a company with debt and then sell it off to a foreign owner, but that fight was lost long ago. Anyway, now the Saudis own a truly distressing portion of American entertainment, from Hollywood to Video Games to Sports. This is not neutral behavior. Anyway.
arstechnica.com
FCC lets Paramount sell 49.5% equity stake to Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Qatar
FCC rejects concerns about repressive governments buying influence over CBS owner.
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Will Dickeson @willdickeson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sorry to hear of The Mighty Sparrow's passing. My father-in-law's all time favourite: youtu.be/V3mtU__WSo8?...
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YouTube video by Mighty Sparrow - Topic
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Vernon Reid @vurnt22.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yesterday, one of the world’s greatest singer songwriters, the undisputed King 👑 of Calypso, & pioneer of Soca, The Mighty Sparrow of Trinidad & Tobago 🇹🇹, has gone on. Everyone with a Caribbean background knows his name, and many more besides. Rest In Power to the GOAT 🐐.
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Will Dickeson @willdickeson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I think I overdid it this weekend:
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Will Dickeson @willdickeson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
why can't we itmfa? i can't ignore judges and laws: why should that toxic weirdo?
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Will Dickeson @willdickeson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
this is the way. i never want to hear directly from him again, and i decided that long, long before he was just a racist caller to fox news.
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Will Dickeson @willdickeson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I cannot believe I saw this song live in 2026: open.spotify.com/track/2hitsK...
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Our House
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young · Deja Vu · Song · 1970
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Will Dickeson @willdickeson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
GROSS
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Will Dickeson @willdickeson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
it's almost as though elections have consequences, and electing a buffoon can't work
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Lorren 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️🦩 @lorren13.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
👇👇👇
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Will Dickeson @willdickeson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"And in that moment, I was a marine biologist!"
static.klipy.com
George Constanza: I Said, 'Easy, Big Fella.'
ALT: George Constanza: I Said, 'Easy, Big Fella.'
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Will Dickeson @willdickeson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Yesterday, I shared some reasonable ideas for Harvest (well, maybe a DJ isn't that reasonable), but my favorite idea for someone for Harvest who isn't necessarily reasonable but isn't necessarily impossible: Sufjan Stevens
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Will Dickeson @willdickeson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Graham Nash might have been the single greatest Harvest show of all time
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Will Dickeson @willdickeson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Magnets, How Do They Work? (ICP Meme)
ALT: Magnets, How Do They Work? (ICP Meme)
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Will Dickeson @willdickeson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
itmfa
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Will Dickeson @willdickeson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I haven't heard anyone tell me that there's no good option in the 2024 election in a couple of years now. But I used to hear that all the dayumed time.
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Will Dickeson @willdickeson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
itmfa
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Will Dickeson @willdickeson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Harvest lunchtime show was all set to be great, before the stage lost power.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It's genuinely fascinating that the US president keeps announcing that he just flat out doesn't know what trade is, he legit doesn't appreciate the concept of exchange and instead views economic activity through the lens of a dragon attempting to maximise its gold hoard to sit upon.
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John @johnlk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Real "Since the beginning of time, man has yearned to destroy the sun" vibes from the stuff the AI people were initially saying.
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Will Code For Pizza @markshatraw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
AI's initial sales pitch was "we are providing capital with the final weapon in their war on labor" and that didn't seem to appeal to the labor side of the political spectrum, for some reason.
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Will Dickeson @willdickeson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I'm attending Showing Up for Racial Justice's event, “How to be antiracist in the authoritarian age: a conversation with Ibram X Kendi” - sign up now to joi www.mobilize.us/surj/event/1...
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How to be antiracist in the authoritarian age: a conversation with Ibram X Kendi · Showing Up for Racial Justice
How are authoritarians able to win over so many white people? And convince them that they’re better off with fewer rights and economic instability? And what will it take to beat them at their own game...
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Will Dickeson @willdickeson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I just got an AI to concede to me that mushrooms are, in fact, smarter than Trump.
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Rosella Melanson @rosellam.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Sept. 11, 1973 - U.S.-backed coup in Chile, led by General Augusto Pinochet, ousted and led to the death of Chile’s democratically elected pres., Salvador Allende. What followed was a brutal, 17-year dictatorship by Pinochet.
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kuriVAIM 👻 𓃠 @kuriva.im · 26/10/2023
h/t @9mmballpoint.bsky.social
3-panel comic.

Me in 2003 (sitting at a school desk, with acne and an "American Idiot" t-shirt): "Everything is Bush's fault."

Me in 2013 (in college I guess, empty pizza boxes and a laptop with Occupy and anarchy stickers): "History is a vast web of political, economic, geographic, and social factors that are all constantly shifting over time. There are always deeper layers and new perspectives, so we have to view it as a complex system instead of looking for easy narratives about heroes and villains."

Me in 2023 (with a coffee cup and full beard, pencil in hand at a drawing desk): "Everything is Reagan's fault."
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Trump wasn't kidding when he told his cult followers to "cheat" in the midterms. What some might think are "jokes" are trial balloons to see if he'll get pushback on his crimes.
stopthepresses.news
Stop saying Trump is joking when he’s not
Will he rig the midterms? Seek an illegal third term? We need to take him seriously
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This story is a perfect example of how broken reporting of the mobs roaming Britain's streets now is - and the political response. What would have been the appropriate response if this hadn't been a sports team? Trash the hotel? Force them out into the street? What about other people staying there?
bbc.co.uk
Group entered hotel of Pakistan cricketers mistaken for migrants
Protesters congregated at a Portsmouth hotel after false rumours that a coach of migrants had arrived.
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Will Dickeson @willdickeson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I never use them, but I would...if I got an employee discount.
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Will Dickeson @willdickeson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It's not called irrational conservatism without reason
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Will Dickeson @willdickeson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Goodness knows he's dumb as a stump on policy. It's just a shake down because he thinks he can. Why does the bully take the other kid's lunch money?
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Will Dickeson @willdickeson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I continually have white replacement theory or anti-vaccination content shoved at me.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"there certainly is a crisis of violence against women in this country, but point out that more than 90% of perpetrators of rape and sexual assault in the UK are known to their victims; anyone serious about preventing this violence would not start with the spectre of recently arrived refugees."
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Why does the hard right have such a high tolerance for domestic abusers in their midst?
The ‘stop the boats’ narrative is increasingly presented as if it stems from a concern for women’s safety. This is just the laundering of thuggery
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
SHOUT-OUT to Political Cartoonist extraordinaire & Member of the Order of Canada Michael de Adder, who routinely does a far better job of holding this administration accountable than the corporate media. Thank you for your attention to his brilliant satirical wit! 🙏 (also: 🤣)
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
How would you feel if you did nothing wrong but were fitted wth an ICE ankle monitor because you happened to come from one of Donald Trump's "shithole countries"? You might feel dehumanized. You might become despondent. You might do what this poor young man did.
springfieldnewssun.com
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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Will Dickeson @willdickeson.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
If I pay to subscribe to your media outlet, I'm not going to allow ads in my browser.
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
"In the final week of testing, the phrase 'sh*t show' was used by multiple people to describe the process..." We have an election system that works, and Trump wants to blow it up and install one that is basically designed to fail. www.cnn.com/2026/09/01/p...
cnn.com
USPS whistleblower says system for Trump mail ballot rules could fail at multiple points | CNN Politics
The US Postal Service effort to develop a sweeping new system for verifying mail ballots has invited a host of IT concerns among agency officials, with some describing the process internally as a “sh*...
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Richard Reeleder @nbdatapoints.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Russian organizations are attempting to covertly influence the Alberta referendum. Fake websites, fake influencers on social media, all feeding into the conspiracy mindset of separation supporters. thewalrusca.substack.com/p/the-russia...
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Will Dickeson @willdickeson.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
these two girls more qualified for his job than he is
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Will Dickeson @willdickeson.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Incompetent bigot.
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Will Dickeson @willdickeson.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
it's almost like the people who said there was no good choice in 2024 can go straight to hell
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Will Dickeson @willdickeson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
In 2019, Spotify added listens to my account for random dance pop acts I'd never heard of. When I contacted them about it, they mollified me with two or three free months of premium. I wouldn't even remember this incident, except that I can't even listen to my Top Songs 100 playlist. They made it.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 30/08/2026
A reminder that Google Maps allows you to alert it to mistakes it made and suggest fixes.
The "Fix an address" screen in Google Maps showing a "pin" on "Lake America"The form to fill out a false address, with me typing in "Lake Ontario"
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Winterink @winterink.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Think bigger: announce that Canada will no longer enforce certain American intellectual property.
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