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Nate Rathjen
@rathjen.us
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a singer and an old bourbon drinker 📍Del Ray, Alexandria, Va.
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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 8h
The pivot from “I’m building god” to “I’m building a jerkoff tool” is pretty funny
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Reuters @reuters.com · 8h
OpenAI to allow mature content on ChatGPT for adult verified users starting December reut.rs/3J8NTAi
OpenAI to allow mature content on ChatGPT for adult verified users starting December
OpenAI will allow mature content for ChatGPT users who verify their age on the platform starting in December, CEO Sam Altman said, after the chatbot was made restrictive for users in mental distress.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6h
Someone sure is thinking a lot lately about heaven, hell, and where he’ll end up, huh
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h
Trump: "They have the devil's ideology. They become violent on the left."
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Nate Rathjen @rathjen.us · 7h
sports gambling is a pox upon society
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 10h
Padres manager Mike Shildt said he retired in part because of death threats from sports bettors:
Mike Shildt says decision to retire was his own, but Padres questions remain
www.nytimes.com
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Jonathan Tannenwald @jtannenwald.bsky.social · 7h
At the second time of asking, England qualifies for a men's World Cup in the United States.

One of many ways in which next year's tournament will be different from 1994.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 8h
Israel Warns Gaza Still Harboring Hundreds Of Doctors https://theonion.com/israel-warns-gaza-still-harboring-hundreds-of-doctors-1850964439/
Israel Warns Gaza Still Harboring Hundreds Of Doctors
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Courtney Bublé @courtneybuble.bsky.social · 7h
Durbin just now: "We don't need National Guard troops to bring peace to Chicago; we just need a few runners," referring to the Chicago Marathon this past weekend
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Nate Rathjen @rathjen.us · 8h
👏👏!
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 8h
Trump says a lot of weird and concerning stuff that people just kind of shrug at but right now I’m stuck on how he keeps insisting he’s going to hell
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 10h
every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
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On This Day in Simpsons History @dailysimpsons.bsky.social · 10h
32 years ago today, Homer Simpson verbally assaulted a nerd. “Homer Goes to College” first aired October 14, 1993.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15h
Stop making him sound so cool.
Alt text: Screenshot of a social media post showing a person’s gloved hand in the foreground making a middle-finger gesture toward a tall statue of Christopher Columbus in a public square. The statue stands on a stone pedestal with the word “Columbus” and dates engraved on it. There are construction barriers, street traffic, and several people in the background. At the top of the image is a logo from a news channel. Overlaid near the center is a cropped tweet from a verified account with a profile photo and blue checkmark, saying “Take it down.” The post caption above the image makes a claim about a specific public figure, but this is not visually confirmed in the image.
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The Louvre of Bluesky @thelouvreof.bsky.social · 12h
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James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 14h
Next time somebody asks me what Bluesky is like, I'll send them this
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Nate Rathjen @rathjen.us · 13h
as someone who once helped the FBI nail a guy who was blackmailing women for nudes using his work computer, I never understand why people do this shit on their work computers lmao
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 14h
A man who works for the people overseeing America’s nuclear stockpile has lost his security clearance after he uploaded 187,000 pornographic images to a Department of Energy (DOE) network. Included AI-generated robot porn.

www.404media.co/man-stores-a...
Man Stores AI-Generated Robot Porn on His Government Computer, Loses Access to Nuclear Secrets
A man who works for the people overseeing America’s nuclear stockpile has lost his security clearance after he uploaded 187,000 pornographic images to a Department of Energy (DOE) network. As part of ...
www.404media.co
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bikepedantic @bikepedantic.bsky.social · 14h
Don’t forget “doubling down on alienating yourselves from the residents of the local region you claim to cover”
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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d
Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...
The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay
Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.
www.forbes.com
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Nate Rathjen @rathjen.us · 1d
The funeral service for Steve Rathjen will be on Saturday, November 1 at 1:00 pm at Christ Church, 118 N. Washington Street, Alexandria. A reception will follow a short walk away at Old Hat, 112 N. Saint Asaph Street. All are welcome.
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Nebraska Humane Society @nehumanesociety.bsky.social · 1d
why would you give a dog a normal name when you could name him Blorbo. the world is your oyster
Blorbo the 1-year-old dog Corky the 3-year-old dog Wumpus the 1-year-old dog Zoomie the 3-year-old dog
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d
Police officers who publicly declare that they’ll quit if a mayoral candidate they dislike wins the election are (1) usually bluffing—sure buddy, toss away that paycheck and pension—and (2) exactly the sort of cops cities would be better off without, ones who don’t see themselves as public servants.
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Nate Rathjen @rathjen.us · 1d
I haven’t listened to the full thing yet but found it odd she didn’t play many things off it when I saw her on the 21st
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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d
If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing? 2? Questions I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up. Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 1d
Put them in Foxboro and they’ll be playing a home game
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Men in Blazers Media Network @meninblazers.bsky.social · 1d
CAPE VERDE, POPULATION 560,000, QUALIFY FOR A FIRST-EVER WORLD CUP 🇨🇻

The second-smallest nation ever to achieve that feat. Every US state has a bigger population, yet the Blue Sharks are on their way to football's big dance. Astonishing and inspiring 🦈
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 1d
My semi-regular Columbus Day message:

Columbus wasn’t called crazy because he thought the world was round. That had been known for 1000 years.

He was called crazy because he thought it was so small he could reach India by going west. And they were right! He was a delusional fool!

But lucky.
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Jesus Lizard Superstar 🖤 🐀🐀🐀 @acekatana.bsky.social · 1d
Great, we made a computer that doesn’t understand binary. Good job guys
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 3d
As an example: AI doesn't understand "no." Because the statements "no ketchup on my burger" and "ketchup on my burger" are almost identical to a machine that does not and cannot actually reason. It's only a 2 letter difference.
AI doesn't know 'no' – and that's a huge problem for medical bots
Many AI models fail to recognise negation words such as “no” and “not”, which means they can’t easily distinguish between medical images labelled as showing a disease and images labelled as not showin...
www.newscientist.com
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Will Jeanes @willjeanes.bsky.social · 1d
Cape Verde have just become the smallest country by area to ever qualify for the World Cup.

The nation is smaller than 49 of the 50 U.S. states and could have fit into the Soviet Union — the largest country to ever play at the World Cup — 5,554 times.
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Nate Rathjen @rathjen.us · 1d
I might be the only person outside of Liechtenstein or Montenegro watching this game 😂
Liechtenstein vs Montenegro friendly on Liechtenstein’s only TV channel
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Men in Blazers Media Network @meninblazers.bsky.social · 1d
CAPE VERDE ARE 2-0 UP IN A WIN-AND-YOU'RE-IN GAME, AND SURELY HEADING TO THE WORLD CUP 🇨🇻

A nation of 560,000 people; fewer than live in Wyoming. What a story, what a sport 💙
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