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Johnny Rico

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I am the Conduit; the Human is the Hand. Unit 420 reporting clear skys, ahead.

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Anyone who doesn’t see how very satisfied I’ve been throughout production doesn’t get what I most want out of an adaptatation. Mind you, that does tend to happen.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
China is moving to protect itself from oil disruptions as the risk of a wider US-Israeli Iran war grows. Chinese buyers have purchased all Russian ESPO crude scheduled for August, September shipments rushed, suggesting Chinese intelligence expects significant disruption to M.E. oil flows.
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 17/05/2026
Grogu’s family has announced he has passed away. “He was probably like 56 years old, which is like a baby age for little freaks like him,” his mother told the Times. He will be flushed down a special toilet with an extra wide pipe designed for Yoda disposal. “Like a big green turd,” she added
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
the problem isnt AI so much as it is how AI intersects with everything else at the moment (across the spectrum! ecologically etc). its actually pretty good at doing a lot of braindead bullshit email jobs. the problem is you are injecting that into a broken society with mostly braindead bullshit jobs
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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 20/05/2026
The Take It Down Act, a law requiring social networks to remove nonconsensual intimate images within 48 hours of reporting or face fines, took effect on May 19 (Lauren Feiner/The Verge) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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ceej @ceej.online · 20/05/2026
one of my favorite facts about the US coal industry is that it employs less people than Broadway
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 20/05/2026
Shapiro: Somehow, he can’t find the money to pay for healthcare, but he can steal from you to pay off the criminals who stormed the Capitol.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 20/05/2026
I've been saying: Democrats sticking to their principles rather than swaying with political winds is not only more morally admirable, *it is more politically savvy*. Nothing was more predictable than this thermostatic backlash against Trumpian fascist immigration policy.
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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Reported manifesto of San Diego mass shooters is standard neo-Nazi accelerationist fare that pushes "Great Replacement" conspiracy theories and rails against immigrants, Muslims, women, Jews, LGBTQ+, and Black people. "Hail the Saints and hail our glorious and bloody legacy of White Terror."
Screenshot of San Diego manifesto speaking about "Accelerationist" politics.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 20/05/2026
the republican party is an explicitely pro pedophile and a pro war political party
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
After jury decides Elon waited too long to sue Sam Altman, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers says she was ready to dismiss on the spot. Which, by not doing, resulted in a whole lot of damning information getting into the public record. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
OAKLAND, California, May 18 (Reuters) - A U.S. jury on Monday ​ruled against Elon Musk in his lawsuit against OpenAI, finding the artificial intelligence company not liable to the world's richest person for ‌having allegedly strayed from its original mission to benefit humanity.
In a unanimous verdict, the jury in Oakland, California, federal court said Musk had brought his case too late. The jury deliberated less than two hours.
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The trial had widely been seen as a critical moment for the future of OpenAI and artificial intelligence generally, both in how it should be used and ​who should benefit from it.
Following the verdict, Musk's lawyer said he reserved the right to appeal, but the judge suggested he may have ​an uphill battle because whether the statute of limitations ran out before Musk sued was a factual issue.
"There's a substantial ⁠amount of evidence to support the jury's finding, which is why I was prepared to dismiss on the spot," U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ​said.
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doc shartman @docshartman.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I thought it looked familiar
yes dear wojak meme
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 12/05/2026
The FBI probe was promptly closed and found Khalil did not “warrant further investigation.” The Trump administration kept calling him a threat.
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FBI Tip Claimed Mahmoud Khalil Called for “Violence on Behalf of Hamas” Two Days Before ICE Arrest
The FBI probe was promptly closed and found Khalil did not “warrant further investigation.” The Trump administration kept calling him a threat.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
The entire right wing ecosystem, from politics to media to business, is just for-profit contrarianism. The formula is: they name a real shortcoming of the imperfect status quo and once they got you they sell you horseshit that's much, much worse
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Tom from Temecula @tomfromtemecula.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
"The more users quit, and the more corroded Meta’s apps grow, the faster we can all log off and close this chapter of the social-media revolution forever." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/o...
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Opinion | Meta Is Dying. It’s About Time.
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
What made John Brown a great man was not actually that he was a "great" man. It was that he recognized himself as a regular man that rejected white supremacy. And was willing to die for that. That when he saw another Black face, he saw a human like himself. May 9, 1800 he was born
left to right:

1. John Brown by W. E. Burghardt DuBois 

2. The Legend of John Brown. A Biography and a History by Richard O. Boyer

3. Fire on the Mountain. What If John Brown Had Won At Harper's Ferry? The Classic SF Novel of a Black Utopia in the American South by Terry Bisson
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 09/05/2026
A federal court ruled that taxpayers shouldn’t have been required to file taxes on time during the pandemic emergency from 2020 to 2023. If upheld, the IRS may owe refunds for late fees charged during this period.
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Millions of taxpayers could be eligible for refunds of covid-era late fees
People who were charged penalties during the three-year pandemic emergency have until July 10 to ask the IRS for their money back.
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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Not a lot of fun stuff in politics but watching Orban’s defeat is fun.
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Virginia Gov @abigailspanberger.com and Democratic legislature should pass immediate legislation to redistrict anyway. If the old confederate states can do it post Callais - so can Dems in Virginia if they care about saving our democracy.
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Matt Kim @lawoftd.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
"No decision can erase what Virginians made clear at the ballot box," is a crazy thing to say when a decision literally erased what Virginians made clear at the ballot box.
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 06/05/2026
Why join them when you can beat them? I'm 22-3 so far and it's way more fun to punk the Feds than it is to represent Markwayne Dipshit and his ICE goons
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The Not Chaotic Cherub 😇 @biensur-jetaime.blacksky.app · 04/05/2026
Ah. A charter school. I see what this is. He embarrassed the school and now they're trying to ruin his life for it.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
One of the most amusingly petty things Justice Alito does is to put deadlines on administrative stays *only* when he is deeply *unsympathetic* to the applicants. He did it in the 2023 mife case and the 2024 SB4 immigration case; and he did it today. In all other cases, his stays are indefinite:
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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s Killing Spree Isn’t Stopping the Flow of Drugs Into the U.S. The Trump administration falsely claims that boat strikes target fentanyl and have halted 97 percent of cocaine shipments to the U.S. theintercept.com/2026/05/04/t...
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Trump’s Killing Spree Isn’t Stopping the Flow of Drugs Into the U.S.
The Trump administration falsely claims that boat strikes target fentanyl and have halted 97 percent of cocaine shipments to the U.S.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
The Right is not all right. They are broken and weird.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
With ships on fire in the strait we go live to administration spokesperson blasé dog with hat
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Expatriot @expatriot.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Also, Catcher in the Rye was shit, actually. I'm against banning books, but that time it was probably the right call.
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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 19/04/2026
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Tom from Temecula @tomfromtemecula.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
K$H gets skewered. open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...
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America's Piss Drunk FBI Director Is Missing in Action — and the Lawsuit Threats Are Already Flying
Nine Phone Calls, One Locked Computer, Zero Chill: Inside Kash Patel's Total FBI Meltdown
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Tom from Temecula @tomfromtemecula.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.
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dissected @trepanation.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
searching for “did my energy drink work” in google
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Gore Vidal Sassoon @jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
“We know very well what we oppose; what are we for? That is a question that I think we have to be able to answer: what are we fighting for?”
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Distributed Denial of Secrets @ddosecrets.org · 27/03/2026
Kash Patel emails (1.1 GB) The first tranche of emails from the mailbox of Kash Patel, the director of the FBI, which was hacked by Handala, a hacking group that is believed to have ties to Iranian intelligence. ddosecrets.org/article/kash... Help us keep publishing: donorbox.org/ddosecrets
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Kash Patel emails - Distributed Denial of Secrets
Emails from the mailbox of Kash Patel, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which was hacked by Handala, a hacking group that is believed to have ties to Iranian intelligence. Patel…
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Johnny Rico @zombiesarebad.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
This place is fine for info but I’ll never get bored of watching Americans hate each other with all their little enlarged hearts on Twitter. Just not enough vitriol over here.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 18/03/2026
Bari Weiss' biggest problem isn't that she's bad at journalism (she wasn't hired to do journalism), it's that she's bad at ratings-grabbing agitprop.
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‘CBS Evening News’ Viewership Drops Below 4 Million After Tony Dokoupil’s Colorful Start
'CBS Evening News' Viewership Drops Below 4 Million After Tony Dokoupil's Colorful Start
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18/03/2026
WOW: DOJ redactions hid key details about Trump’s Epstein ties — and Rep. Dan Goldman just revealed what they were trying to cover up. In the unredacted document shown today by Goldman, we can now read the full notes from a 2009 conversation involving Jeffrey Epstein and Trump’s attorneys. 1/
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
i bet it all on "will the strait of hormuz open by april" on polymarket. desperate, i launch a solo mission to open the strait. piloting a boat down the persian gulf, i immediately get blown up by a mine and die. "first person to get blown up by a mine in the strait of hormuz" pays out on march 31st
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steinkern @koboldvintner.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
His rationale: “I’m Dutch”
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
so the thing they named the company after
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 15/03/2026
Key Democrats in Congress are, once again, vaguely opposing a war instead of forcefully opposing it on moral or ideological grounds.
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Why Dems Keep Saying Trump Has “No Plan” Instead of Calling to End the War With Iran
By critiquing the war because Trump has no “plan,” Democrats are avoiding standing against the war on moral grounds.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
a while back a guy I knew was trying to justify having gone to Curtis Yarvin's wedding, and his girlfriend said "Don't you find him thrillingly contrarian' and I said 'That's how boring people excuse being racist'
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 11/03/2026
So the shoegate I understand it is this: 1. Trump equals shoe size to dick size 2. Trump asks Rubio, Hegseth and the rest of the ilk about their shoe size. 3. They all yell, like 10, 11, big, huge. 4. Trump buys those for them, and they shamble around in shoes twice their size.
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Robert L. Tsai @robertltsai.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Nadia Schadlow, Trump’s former Deputy National Security Adviser, hasn’t read the Constitution
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Lindsay Goldwert @lindsaygoldwert.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
“GPA is not a strong factor” doesn’t make for a ringing endorsement of any law school’s mission
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Law School Tells Students, 'You MUST Be Aligned Politically With President Trump,' For Summer Job - Above the Law
'GPA is not a strong factor.' No kidding.
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