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@xander73.bsky.social
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Mostly void, partially stars 💫 Environmental Science/Philosophy/Psychology. Cinephile, and pop culture nerd 🤓 Lynchpin 🦉☕️🍩

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Good Morning Peeps ✌🏽 💙 Things that make you go FUCK YOU REPUKES 🖕🏼
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Starting a pointless trade war with our most reliable partner as a distraction from your failed war in Iran (that you launched as a distraction from your administration covering up the Epstein files) isn’t going to win you any votes.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Let’s go, Canucks! 💪🇨🇦
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A Republic If You Can Keep It @arepublicif.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
North Korea is good. Canada is bad. Coal is good. Solar is bad. Measles is good. Vaccination is bad. Child rapists are good. Childcare is bad. Pointless wars are good. Universal healthcare is bad. Anyone supporting the unrelenting chaos of the #GOP deserves zero respect. #RemoveTrump
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Bill Nye breaks down the Science of Skin Color and shows why Racism is Ridiculous.
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Pierre Polyester @canadian-critic.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
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Marc Riggsbee @marcriggsbee.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Heed the warning.
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Tuatha @tuatha.ie · 31/07/2026
This carved stone plaque was found in St Francis' Row in Cashel, and it is believed to be the sign for a tavern that was known as The Cat & Bagpipes, that once stood on the main street. It may date to as early as the 16-17th century, and offers a glimpse of Cashel's social life from centuries ago
A stone carving on a plaque, it features a cat playing the bagpipes.
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harpy @harpy.party · 31/07/2026
some crap i saw today
an eastern tiger swallowtail on a purple coneflowersome fuzzy grass seeds, morning light is shining through them showing the white seed fluff with purplish endsa pipeline swallowtail butterfly on a coneflower a bumblebee on some little flower I don't recognize, it's got pink and orange flowers and is pretty small for such a chunky bee.  her head is stuffed in one of the little flowers and an antenna is poking out
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Hey you. Yeah, you reading this. I hope your July is better than your June. I hope that thing you're worried about works itself out for the best. I hope they text back. I hope you find that $20 you forgot about in a pocket right when you need it most. I just really hope things for you get better.
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🔵 Xander 🔵 @xander73.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
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🔵 Xander 🔵 @xander73.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Absolute beauty and perfection.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Reminder... Any political party trying to make it harder to vote is sending a clear message — they can't win on their ideas alone.
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Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 23/04/2026
Penn & Teller have a history of spreading junk science, but this week they got back to their roots and are calling out the fact that a man is about to be executed because a cop HYPNOTIZED a witness skepchick.org/2026/04/penn...
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Penn & Teller & the Supreme Court & BS
Transcript: I’ll be honest–when I first saw this New York Times headline, I rolled my eyes: “Two Magicians Warn the Supreme Court About Junk Science.” The eye-rolling wasn’t because warning the cur…
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
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Michael Burns @michaelburns.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
lots of internet people are criticizing Contrapoints recent tweets but only one person is doing it via a reading of Earl Sweatshirt's recent Hot 97 interview with Mero. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZIG...
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Contrapoints vs Socialists (vs Earl Sweatshirt?)
YouTube video by Side Burns
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
😡😡😡😡
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Get it? See, it's funny 'cuz our President is a pathological liar who rarely, if ever, tells the truth.
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🔵 Xander 🔵 @xander73.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/de...
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Defend the Constitution: Military Must Refuse Illegal Orders
At a moment when public trust in democratic institutions is being tested, Congress must be clear that the use of armed U.S. servicemembers to advance a political agenda—whether through deployment, int...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Abolish the crazy thugs at ICE.
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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 20/11/2025
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
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🔵 Xander 🔵 @xander73.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
David Lynch
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
What he said: 💯 🎯
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 31/10/2025
Every church should be doing this, and if your church isn’t, you’re at the wrong church.
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🔵 Xander 🔵 @xander73.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
No kings
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror." ( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 15/09/2025
Truth bomb‼️ This man should be the one speaking on college campuses… “They’re planning for us to turn on each other and make this culture war a civil war. I am begging you, please, for the love of God, for the love of our neighbors… do not take the bait.” Watch
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Allen Dell @urgeoverkill.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in
Their waists and hands were tied together, forcing them to bend down and lick water to drink. The unscreened bathrooms contained only a single sheet to cover their lower bodies. Sunlight barely penetrated through a fist-sized hole, and they were only allowed access to the small yard for two hours. Detained by US immigration authorities for eight days, the workers and their families expressed shock, describing human rights violations and absurdities they could not have imagined as ordinary Koreans living in 2025.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
The Hatfields keep blaming the McCoys every time a Hatfield shoots another Hatfield.
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Waffles Mcgrawl @waffles-mcgrawl.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQY5...
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RFK Jr Must Resign
YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
www.bakerinstitute.org/event/scienc... Sept 9 with @michaelemann.bsky.social @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social @publicaffairs1796.bsky.social at the Baker Institute for Public Policy in HoustonTX
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Science Under Siege: A Conversation With Dr. Peter Hotez & Dr. Michael Mann | Baker Institute
From pandemics to climate change, the world faces deeply interconnected and critical challenges. Yet efforts to confront these crises are increasingly obstructed by a powerful, organized force: rising...
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
“None Of These Books Are Obscene”: Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida’s Book Ban Bill This is a big win for intellectual freedom and will have big implications in other ongoing lawsuits and future laws aiming to ban books. bookriot.com/penguin-rand...
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"None Of These Books Are Obscene": Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida's Book Ban Bill
In a major win for intellectual freedom, a judge rules against Florida law that led to removing hundreds of books from school libraries.
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🔵 Xander 🔵 @xander73.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
PIGS
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Mike G @goedharted.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
You literally can’t see the last three words of this story coming.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
"Let me be crystal clear: crime in DC is ending and ending today."
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 05/08/2025
Paul Dama left Nigeria after being kidnapped in 2018. His detention by ICE now feels like “a second kidnapping,” says his sister. “I felt like someone just sucked my blood, my air. Like, how do you live?"
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He fled Boko Haram and helped build an award-winning restaurant. Now he’s facing deportation.
Paul Dama left Nigeria after being kidnapped in 2018. His detention feels like "a second kidnapping," says his sister.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 29/07/2025
NASA has helped humanity touch the stars, been admired by generations of people around the world, and is the number one showcase for US technology and innovation. It is so incredibly devastating and myopic to dismantle it.
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🔵 Xander 🔵 @xander73.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Forever…🖤
Ozzy Osbourne Randy Rhoads
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🔵 Xander 🔵 @xander73.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
We need Colbert’s bold and frank commentary now as much as ever, and we need to stop corporations like CBS from cowing to political intimidation of this administration. Add your name to the petition to demand they reverse their decision and keep Colbert on air! sign.moveon.org/petitions/co...
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Keep Colbert on Air!
We need Colbert’s bold and frank commentary now as much as ever, and we need to stop corporations like CBS from cowing to political intimidation of this administration. Add your name to the petition t...
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 21/07/2025
NEW: Hundreds of NASA employees have filed a letter of formal dissent. "We are compelled to speak up when our leadership prioritizes political momentum over human safety, scientific advancement, and efficient use of public resources. The consequences for the agency and the country alike are dire."
The Voyager Declaration
Dear Interim Administrator Duffy,

In light of your recent appointment as Interim NASA Administrator, we bring to your attention recent policies that have or threaten to waste public resources, compromise human safety, weaken national security, and undermine the core NASA mission. We, the signatories of this letter, dissent from these policies, and raise these concerns because we believe strongly in the importance of NASA's mission, which we are dedicated to uphold.

Major programmatic shifts at NASA must be implemented strategically so that risks are managed carefully. Instead, the last six months have seen rapid and wasteful changes which have undermined our mission and caused catastrophic impacts on NASA's workforce. We are compelled to speak up when our leadership prioritizes political momentum over human safety, scientific advancement, and efficient use of public resources. These cuts are arbitrary and have been enacted in defiance of congressional appropriations law The consequences for the agency and the country alike are dire.
Our Shared Commitment to Dissentin� Opinions

We share a commitment to dissenting views in accordance with NASA Policy Directive 1000.0C,

NASA supports full and open discussion of issues of any nature (e.g., programmatic, institutional), including alternative and divergent views. Diverse views are to be fostered and respected in an environment of integrity and trust with no suppression or retribution. (NPD 1000.0C, Section 3.5.5)
Employees across the agency have raised concerns about recent actions to NASA leadership, yet we remain pressured to implement harmful measures. We choose to write to you directly because: (I) as Interim Administrator, you are the final step in the chain of Technical Authority, and (2) the issues we raise are agency-wide, rather than project-specific.
As defined in NASA Procedural Requirement 7120 5F, Formal Dissent is "a substantive disagreement with a decision or action that an indiv…•	We dissent to changes to NASA's Technical Authority capacities that are driven by anything other than safety and mission assurance. The culture of organizational silence promoted at NASA over the last six months already represents a dangerous tum away from the lessons learned following the Columbia disaster. Changes to the system of Technical Authority, as suggested would be made in the June 25th NASA Town Hall, should be made only in the interests of improving safety, not in anticipation of future budget cuts.
•	We dissent to the closing out of missions for which Congress has appropriated funding because it represents a permanent loss of capability to the United States both in space and on Eatlh. Once operational spacecraft are decommissioned, they cannot be turned back on. Additionally, cancelling missions in development threatens to end the next generation of crucial
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•	We dissent to implementing indiscriminate cuts to NASA science and aeronautics research because this will leave the American people without the unique public good that NASA provides. Basic research in space science, aeronautics, and the stewardship of the Earth are inherently governmental functions that cannot and will not be taken up by the private sector. Furthermore, NASA has a nearly threefold return on investment in economic activity, and supports national security by ensuring the United States maintains its lead in science and technology.
•	We dissent to NASA's non-strategic staffing reductions because they will jeopardize NASA's core mission. Thousands of NASA civil servant employees have already been terminated, resigned or retired early, taking with them highly specialized, irreplaceable knowledge crucial to carrying out NASA's mission.
•	We dissent to canceling NASA participation in international missions because in doing so, NASA is abandoning America's allies. To date, 55 nations have signed on to the Artemis Accords, and withdrawing support from missions with our long-s…We stand in solidarity with our colleagues at the NIH and EPA who have released similar statements concerning the administration's actions at their respective agencies.

We dedicate this letter to Gus Grissom, Ed White, Roger Chaffee, Dick Scobee, Michael J. Smith, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Judith Resnik, Gregory Jarvis, Christa McAuliffe, Rick Husband, Willie McCool, Michael Anderson, Kalpana Chawla, David Brown, Laurel Clark, and Ilan Ramon. Their legacies underpin every conversation about our shared commitment to safety and dissenting opinions at NASA.
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