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Spo0000opybirb :flag_cascadia: @moira.mastodon.murkworks.net.ap.brid.gy · 22h

HEY IF YOU'RE IN NORTHSHORE AND VOTING - vote FOR Kimberlee Kelly and vote FOR Sandy R. Hayes for school board!

Their opponents are people who were low-key anti-trans in the primary and have gone HIGH-key anti-trans in the general. This is how it always works and is why we always have to pay […]

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 16h

PERFECT game to be a Mariners fan we drink pain from the moment we're born we were nursed on the tears of our ancestors we have only known The Darkness and in this hour

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

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Erik Heino @erikheino.bsky.social · 1d

If you look at 1980 the line is middle of the pack. It takes a different trajectory at the 1982 recession and basically does not change until 2008, when the Great Recession lowers the trajectory further until COVID, where it gets worse again.

Three GOP failures with no correction under Democrats.

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Erik Heino @erikheino.bsky.social · 3d

Sure, but a lot of these small indie scenes cross-fertilized and even people who didn’t buy those records had heard them or at least heard of them. For every person I knew that bought Bleach, 10 people had a cassette copy or heard the album or had seen the band but not bought the album.

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Erik Heino @erikheino.bsky.social · 3d

But it was still definitive for that year for those of us who bought it. The first two CDs I ever bought (in 1989, in Seattle) were Bleach and Buzz Factory, and between me and my goth industrial roommate we had nearly every indie album in that thread.

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Erik Heino @erikheino.bsky.social · 3d

I was 19 and worked as a dishwasher the summer of 1989. The music in the Top 40 list was what played at work, but the albums in that other thread were what I was listening to at home. When I remember 1989, I think of that good music.

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Paul Constant @paulconstant.com · 5d

Call me crazy, but I’m starting to suspect that both of these companies could afford to be taxed a little bit more.

CNBC @cnbc.com · 5d

CORRECTION: Apple, Microsoft cross $4 trillion market cap

Apple, Microsoft cross $4 trillion market cap

Apple reports fiscal fourth-quarter earnings on Thursday. Microsoft reports earnings on Wednesday.

cnb.cx

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 5d

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

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leeks @anonleeks.bsky.social · 10d

this is just to say
i have demolished
the east wing

and which you
were probably saving
for posterity

forgive me
i am demented
so weak
and so cold

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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 10d

Fuck every politician —Democratic or Republican— who got us to this point. They are a BETRAYAL of whatever democracy we pretend to have here at this point.

Can we talk about forming a new Union now?

Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 10d

Breaking: The Supreme Court is now officially considering taking up a case overturning same-sex marriage.

This is the first time in history the court has considered rolling back this right.

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Erik Heino @erikheino.bsky.social · 10d

In retrospect, McGinn was one of the better mayors of the last 25 years. Nickels is the only one who arguably did better. But Schell, Murray, Durkan, and Harrell have ranged from disappointing to bad.

Erik Heino @erikheino.bsky.social · 17d

This is so plausible and like something out of Charlie Stross’s Accelerando written 20 years ago. Why do all these people keep trying to build the Torment Nexus?

Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 17d

Consider a future with an AI Trump endorsing future candidates, with the claim that this is indeed a replication of Trump’s actual thinking and personality

In an interview with Raluca Matei for Sunrise Geek, Dan Thomson, CEO of A.l. company Sensay, laid out his vision for how these technologies can enable a form of eternal life. Thomson's company works specifically on the creation of "digital clones. As he explained it to Matei, Sensay is building "Al replicas that don't just mimic responses, but actually capture someone's decision-making patterns, their wisdom, their personality."

Thomson is a true believer, having self-published a short book on the topic:
Immortality in a Digital Age: How we can live forever as digital copies of ourselves, and the benefits and issues that may come with it. It's a mouthful, even if it only clocks in at 97 pages. But he admits that the dream of A.l.-generated eternal life is still unrealized:

Thomson is a true believer, having self-published a short book on the topic:
Immortality in a Digital Age: How we can live forever as digital copies of ourselves, and the benefits and issues that may come with it. It's a mouthful, even if it only clocks in at 97 pages. But he admits that the dream of A.l.-generated eternal life is still unrealized:

Right now, we can preserve someone's expertise, communication style, and problem-solving patterns.

That's already revolutionary for businesses and legacy preservation...
True digital immortality-capturing emotions, creativity, intuition-is still 10 to 15 years away.

But if Thomson is too obscure and small a fish for you, consider that Elon Musk claimed back in 2022 that he'd uploaded his brain to the cloud. He has also stated his belief that humans could someday
"download" themselves-their memories and distinct characters—into new bodies.

What A.l. and digital technologies currently offer isn't immortality or reincarnation. It isn't even truth. But it is one of the most powerful propaganda tools we have ever seen.

The ability to replicate the look and feel of a person, while it hardly brings them back from the dead, can be used to create confusion over whether the things their artificial version is saying and doing were really said and done by the living, breathing person in question. As A.l. advances, we should be concerned that this will become an increasingly difficult distinction to make. And the claim that an A.l. image and voice somehow represent a continuation of a deceased person's thoughts and feelings is a dangerous form of techno-mysticism.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 19d

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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Erik Heino @erikheino.bsky.social · 20d

Duwamish, Suquamish, and Sammamish, among others. (These are the anglicized names because I can’t remember Lushootseed spelling.)

Erik Heino @erikheino.bsky.social · 22d

Finally!

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · Sep 30

Federal judge, appointed by Reagan, in 161-page opinion today in deportation matter:

"There’s the issue of masks... To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police"

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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · Sep 26

Is Starlink unable to provide many users with internet access? Yes.

Is Starlink enabling organized crime? Yes.

Is Starlink making a mess of low orbit? Also yes.

It remains way past time to shut down this scam.

www.satellitetoday.com/connectivity...

SpaceX Seeks Approval for 15,000 Satellites to Use MSS Spectrum

SpaceX has filed with the FCC asking to launch 15,000 new satellites for D2D service that would use the spectrum SpaceX purchased from EchoStar.

www.satellitetoday.com

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Jen @jenk3.bsky.social · Sep 24

For Seattle area (or others coping with Sinclair stations) this talks about how to push back.

solarbird.net/blog/2025/09...

I wrote another letter today, this one to Sinclair Broadcasting. You should too. – Solarbird{y|z|yz}, Collected

solarbird.net

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · Sep 22

I think we should all let ourselves have a moment of pride and hope. They brought Kimmel back without forcing him to apologize or donate to Kirk’s wife, which was their stipulation at first.

Collective action, protesting, and boycotts forced their hand.

Celebrate the wins!!

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Erik Heino @erikheino.bsky.social · Sep 22

Hamilton at times possibly excepted.

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Scott Alspach @salspach.bsky.social · Sep 19

It is really gross and disappointing that the only three members of WA's delegation to oppose this are also our only three women of color.

Shame on Democrats Adam Smith, Kim Schrier, Rick Larsen, Suzan DelBene, and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez.

Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · Sep 19

Just woke up to find H Res 719, the resolution to honor Charlie Kirk, passed 310-58. 38 also voted 'present,' which neither yea or nay.

95 Democratic members of the House voted yea to honor Charlie Kirk. 38 voted present. 58 noted nay.

Roll Call 282 Roll Call 282, Bill Number: H. Res. 719, 119th Congress, 1st Session

VOTE QUESTION: On Agreeing to the Resolution, DESCRIPTION: Honoring the life and legacy of Charles “Charlie” James Kirk, VOTE TYPE: Yea-And-Nay, STATUS: Passed

clerk.house.gov

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Leftist Lawyer @leftistlawyer.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 12

Correct.

@ dadandburied

Guys, | understand the impulse, but actively wishing for someone’s death is classless and cruel.

The Christian way is to demonize their lifestyle, remove their rights, eliminate their healthcare, dismantle their social support systems, implement systemic controls to marginalize and disenfranchise them, encourage violence towards their communities while whitewashing all history of such violence, make examples of anyone who supports or defends them, and then WAIT for them to die!

Do better.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · Sep 11

blocklist here. Feel free to add screenshots if you think I should check anyone out to add them.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · Sep 11

There’s likely an organized campaign going on to incite you to say stuff that’s gonna get you suspended or banned (or worse). The right has mentioned the Bluesky reaction to this incident repeatedly. They’re here to find targets. Don’t let them rile you up and goad you into something you’ll regret.

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Michael Senters the Sigillite, ABD. (Yang Wen-li stan) @mikesenters.bsky.social · Sep 10

This is the line that Dems need to push. It can't be simply. "Political violence is bad" it MUST be "Political violence is bad and Trump and his ilk are responsible for creating conditions ripe for political violence"

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · Sep 10

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) on the shooting of Charlie Kirk:

"Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it."

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