Steve Casburn
@scasburn.bsky.social
Librarian. Data analyst. Music lover. Native of Benicia, California. Now in Portland, Oregon. Stops in Ohio and Texas along the way.
May Bluesky change the world rather than the world change Bluesky.
May Bluesky change the world rather than the world change Bluesky.
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Steve Casburn
@scasburn.bsky.social
· Nov 17
Just to plant my flag in the earth on this point:
If my posts to Bluesky are in any way making your life worse, then please block me. I'm begging you to go ahead. I want to be shut out of your life if I'm somehow making it worse. You deserve better.
If my posts to Bluesky are in any way making your life worse, then please block me. I'm begging you to go ahead. I want to be shut out of your life if I'm somehow making it worse. You deserve better.
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As a 2020 Bernie primary voter, they're very confused that Black people liked Biden. I think they're mad that Black Voters see the far left at best as unserious and at worst as grifters. And instead of wondering why they can't win the trust of black voters, they get mad and bitter
November 23, 2025 at 9:46 PM
As a 2020 Bernie primary voter, they're very confused that Black people liked Biden. I think they're mad that Black Voters see the far left at best as unserious and at worst as grifters. And instead of wondering why they can't win the trust of black voters, they get mad and bitter
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musk has killed millions of people by his actions. he did this deliberately and with malice aforethought.
November 24, 2025 at 3:39 AM
musk has killed millions of people by his actions. he did this deliberately and with malice aforethought.
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I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
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everybody's like 'he would sexually assault his students' and I already *said* he taught French poetry.
November 23, 2025 at 7:10 AM
everybody's like 'he would sexually assault his students' and I already *said* he taught French poetry.
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1) good, they should be prosecuted, they are responsible for countless deaths
2) always very funny when these people realize the extent to which their billionaire patrons could not possibly give less of a shit about them
2) always very funny when these people realize the extent to which their billionaire patrons could not possibly give less of a shit about them
'Suddenly exposed' DOGE employees fear prosecution after Musk abandoned them: report
www.rawstory.com/doge-employe...
www.rawstory.com/doge-employe...
'Suddenly exposed' DOGE employees fear prosecution after Musk abandoned them: report
Current and former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers are growing increasingly concerned that the work they did slashing government programs and eliminating jobs will come back to hau...
www.rawstory.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:41 PM
1) good, they should be prosecuted, they are responsible for countless deaths
2) always very funny when these people realize the extent to which their billionaire patrons could not possibly give less of a shit about them
2) always very funny when these people realize the extent to which their billionaire patrons could not possibly give less of a shit about them
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Here's a seven-point peace plan:
November 23, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Here's a seven-point peace plan:
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Somewhere out there in the multiverse is the timeline where Donald Trump is a beloved patron of the New York theatre community who occasionally breaks out his drag persona, “Donna Tramp” to do hilarious if very bitchy bits for his friends.
I'm not one to look for Trumpian silver linings, but I have to say, that this line about leaving "all the best parts of himself behind" is one of the most truly empathetic things I have read about the Trump phenomenon, and hence I regard it as one of the truest insights about the man.
If you listen to interviews with a much younger Trump he will sometimes talk with surprising intelligence about theatre or literature. He left all the best parts of himself behind, limited as they were.
July 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Somewhere out there in the multiverse is the timeline where Donald Trump is a beloved patron of the New York theatre community who occasionally breaks out his drag persona, “Donna Tramp” to do hilarious if very bitchy bits for his friends.
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The last few hours have proven 2 terrible things. First, the US and Russian governments are so close that the US government takes large parts of Russian proposals and passes them off as their own, and second that some people are so desperate to exonerate Trump that they act like this a good thing.
November 23, 2025 at 2:18 AM
The last few hours have proven 2 terrible things. First, the US and Russian governments are so close that the US government takes large parts of Russian proposals and passes them off as their own, and second that some people are so desperate to exonerate Trump that they act like this a good thing.
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We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us. ~Joseph Campbell
November 22, 2025 at 4:24 PM
We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us. ~Joseph Campbell
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My policy is to block all accounts that I suspect are foreign influence operations or AI slop. I may be overly inclusive at times but imo that is preferred to letting the crap into my mentions
November 23, 2025 at 12:21 PM
My policy is to block all accounts that I suspect are foreign influence operations or AI slop. I may be overly inclusive at times but imo that is preferred to letting the crap into my mentions
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“Moral Bankruptcy is a wild ride. One day you’re voting for Regan and smaller government, and the next you’re condoning pedophilia and pretending vaccines don’t work”
November 22, 2025 at 9:05 PM
“Moral Bankruptcy is a wild ride. One day you’re voting for Regan and smaller government, and the next you’re condoning pedophilia and pretending vaccines don’t work”
I would never have thought to associate JD Vance with Fredo from The Godfather, but for the fact that he keeps insisting that he is one of the "smart" ones.
November 23, 2025 at 11:34 PM
I would never have thought to associate JD Vance with Fredo from The Godfather, but for the fact that he keeps insisting that he is one of the "smart" ones.
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DOGE did not fail in any way to accomplish its goals.
Its goals were never efficiency or saving money.
Its goals were to destroy as much of government as possible forever, and to steal data for the Space Nazi.
DOGE is fading away like bank robbery gangs fade away after the robberies are done.
Its goals were never efficiency or saving money.
Its goals were to destroy as much of government as possible forever, and to steal data for the Space Nazi.
DOGE is fading away like bank robbery gangs fade away after the robberies are done.
Exclusive: DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter reut.rs/4abeTdx
Exclusive: DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter
The Department of Government Efficiency claimed to have slashed tens of billions of dollars in expenditures, but it was impossible for outside financial experts to verify that because the unit did not provide detailed public accounting of its work.
reut.rs
November 23, 2025 at 12:26 PM
DOGE did not fail in any way to accomplish its goals.
Its goals were never efficiency or saving money.
Its goals were to destroy as much of government as possible forever, and to steal data for the Space Nazi.
DOGE is fading away like bank robbery gangs fade away after the robberies are done.
Its goals were never efficiency or saving money.
Its goals were to destroy as much of government as possible forever, and to steal data for the Space Nazi.
DOGE is fading away like bank robbery gangs fade away after the robberies are done.
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It's got to be wild to be a run of the mill Republican asshole who buys the party line about waging war against pedophiles in the government, and then you find some pedophiles in the government and try to wage war, and your Republican asshole friends are like "wellllll, define 'pedophiles'"
November 23, 2025 at 1:02 PM
It's got to be wild to be a run of the mill Republican asshole who buys the party line about waging war against pedophiles in the government, and then you find some pedophiles in the government and try to wage war, and your Republican asshole friends are like "wellllll, define 'pedophiles'"
How much of the right wing's utter failure to "colonize" Bluesky comes down to (1) the absence of a financial incentive; and, (2) the related lack of critical mass to sustain any of the waves of "colonization"?
13k comments on one tweet is a massive payout. All of the tweets follow a certain formula, so the content is likely automated using AI technology (e.g., AI generated images and text). Basically running it as a money printing machine. But for those in the US, it translates to low simmering rage.
November 23, 2025 at 11:21 PM
How much of the right wing's utter failure to "colonize" Bluesky comes down to (1) the absence of a financial incentive; and, (2) the related lack of critical mass to sustain any of the waves of "colonization"?
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Any account that uses god, freedom, liberty, patriot, etc., in their name I automatically suspect is a scam.
November 23, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Any account that uses god, freedom, liberty, patriot, etc., in their name I automatically suspect is a scam.
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We now have leaders of allied nations unable to trust a word the US tells them.
We are witnessing one of the greatest diplomatic and foreign relations blunders of our lifetimes.
We are witnessing one of the greatest diplomatic and foreign relations blunders of our lifetimes.
November 23, 2025 at 9:12 AM
We now have leaders of allied nations unable to trust a word the US tells them.
We are witnessing one of the greatest diplomatic and foreign relations blunders of our lifetimes.
We are witnessing one of the greatest diplomatic and foreign relations blunders of our lifetimes.
Based [outside of the United States].
X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
November 23, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Based [outside of the United States].
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Crockett: "Marjorie has been an instigator of a lot of this hate that we see as it relates to MAGA. I don't know if she really fully understood how bad she was making it for other people, and now that they're doing it to her, why is it that everyone else is able to stand and you can't?"
November 23, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Crockett: "Marjorie has been an instigator of a lot of this hate that we see as it relates to MAGA. I don't know if she really fully understood how bad she was making it for other people, and now that they're doing it to her, why is it that everyone else is able to stand and you can't?"
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The irony of these people complaining about the invented dangers of immigrants and then welcoming brain pollution from overseas hustlers.
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 23, 2025 at 1:46 PM
The irony of these people complaining about the invented dangers of immigrants and then welcoming brain pollution from overseas hustlers.
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I’ll take “Things Mike Johnson Didn’t See” for $500 Alex
President insists his word is the one and only law in this land.
November 23, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I’ll take “Things Mike Johnson Didn’t See” for $500 Alex
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No, DOGE did not *fail.*
November 23, 2025 at 2:19 PM
No, DOGE did not *fail.*
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Underappreciated lesson from 2016: most fake news was run for profit (not ideology) & right-wing fake news thrived because it sold better than left-wing fake news. X takes that to next level with a social media platform designed for right-wing users, intentionally incentivizing right-wing fake news.
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 23, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Underappreciated lesson from 2016: most fake news was run for profit (not ideology) & right-wing fake news thrived because it sold better than left-wing fake news. X takes that to next level with a social media platform designed for right-wing users, intentionally incentivizing right-wing fake news.
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
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Twitter had to turn off its location feature within hours because thousands of prominent and "verified" MAGA accounts turned out to be foreign and I think it's hilarious that Elon was the one who exposed them all
November 22, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Twitter had to turn off its location feature within hours because thousands of prominent and "verified" MAGA accounts turned out to be foreign and I think it's hilarious that Elon was the one who exposed them all