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Joshua Siegal

@joshuasiegal.bsky.social

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Chicago Writer, Musician, Creative Technologist 🖊️ in Michigan Quarterly Review, PodCastle, Skeptic Magazine, Peatsmoke Journal, etc 🎶 at http://redspotrhythmsection.com Also: game dev, software dev, making things in general http://joshuasiegal.org

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Joshua Siegal @joshuasiegal.bsky.social · 14h

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 2d

This is truly grotesque. Teachers should not be using this stuff. If a school was pushing it on teachers who work with kids I care about, I'd make a big effing stink until they stopped. We have to not give into this.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 1d

You gotta give ‘em hop.

A tweet from the Anonymous account says, “Make sure the dude in the frog costume in Portland knows he's an icon.” The image is a stylized poster of a frog wearing a stars-and-stripes scarf with the word “HOP” below, in the style of the Obama “HOPE” poster.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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PritzkerPosting @pritzkerposting.bsky.social · 6d

The mask has slipped!

Hart Cunningham @hpsc24.bsky.social · 7d

10/7/25😳miller: “has plenary authority” then immediately stops

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 17d

War-ravaged Portland

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kieu @ we must not stop living @leslekieuart.bsky.social · 22d

I'm being so real right now, learn how to engage in media as art and not a reflection of your own real life morals. consume things that make you uncomfortable and understand why it makes you uncomfortable. Don't just base yours and others morals standings on the media you consume.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 22d

"I have spent the last few weeks addressing and preparing for a military invasion by the President of the United States. No, I’m not a soldier or a foreign adversary. I’m the Governor of Illinois"

Be Loud — For America

By Governor JB Pritzker

contrarian.substack.com

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Joshua Siegal @joshuasiegal.bsky.social · 23d

My kid reuben on character vs plot: "nobody cosplays as the plot of a story."

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Joshua Siegal @joshuasiegal.bsky.social · 26d

The little-known last two words of the Gettysburg Address

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 27d

Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"

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Joshua Siegal @joshuasiegal.bsky.social · Sep 10

oh man I heard archduke ferdinand got shot

Joshua Siegal @joshuasiegal.bsky.social · Sep 10

Also you get a small dose of radiation every time you fly, just from being high up in the atmosphere.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Sep 4

These guys are simply not smart.

sam altman tweet: i never took the dead internet theory that seriously but it seems like there are really a lot of LLM-run twitter accounts now

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 4

RFK Jr: It's gonna be the biggest infusion of federal dollar into rural healthcare in American history

BERNIE SANDERS: Yeah. You know why? Because you're cutting $150b for rural hospitals, you're putting $50b back. That's not an infusion. That's a loss of $100b.