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Weston Renoud
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he/him/they/them ⛴ hydrographer 💻software engineer (C++/Python) 🗺 planoterrestrialist, and I'm serious about it 🦮 dad - auntie to my friends' kids 🐘 https://mapstodon.space/@wrenoud
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Romeo Kokriatski @vagrantjourno.bsky.social · 9h
Ben Gvir personally oversaw the torture of Greta Thunberg, as reported by Aftonbladet.

www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...
Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”
– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar
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Kevin Necessary @knecessary.bsky.social · 4h
We used to stand up against Nazis and fascists. Time to do so again.
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Weston Renoud @theducky.com · 14h
Headed out on a work trip. Wanted to look snazzy! #GDAL #FOSS4G #OSGeo
Me, with a pensive look to the camera, in a GDAL t-shirt, on the train. The shirt is full of nerdy geodesy and geodesics references. It features a cartoon style globe in the center, with the Americas side showing, a satellite seemingly doing satellite imaging or radar altimetry. And several planets to show how GDAL is used also in planetary sciences.
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Weston Renoud @theducky.com · 20h
Sounds like some people will be up for the national medal of honor for free speech... I know how much this admin likes people to "Speek their minds"
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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 1d
#ResistanceEarth

The widespread die-off of coral reefs represents the first climate "tipping point," according to the Global Tipping Points Report 2025. The report notes that our "new reality" is a series of tipping points with potentially catastrophic impacts.

www.sciencenews.org/article/cora...
Coral collapse signals Earth's first climate tipping point
The global die-off of coral reefs signals a critical shift in Earth’s climate system with global environmental consequences along with economic ones.
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Cynthia “Cina” Pelayo @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social · 3d
Mom of two children with disabilities here —

There are no words for this cruelty.

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Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says
The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4d
It’s pronounced cyclist.
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Weston Renoud @theducky.com · 6d
Free livestream! Really excited to hear this talk.
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UC Davis School of Law @ucdavislaw.bsky.social · 6d
We are looking forward to this talk next Tuesday with Dr.
@timnitgebru.bsky.social
about the history of the Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) movement and its link to the 20th-century eugenics movement.

➡️ In-person and via livestream: bit.ly/42kxaQV

#AGI #AI #ArtificialIntelligence
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 6d
Nothing remotely resembling an insurrection is happening anywhere in the country. Any violence associated with protest has been isolated, mild, and, in nearly every case, instigated by federal law enforcement. If we let Trump get away with calling dissent an insurrection, our republic is over.
BREAKING: Trump Admin 'Seriously' Considering Using the Insurrection Act, Reports NBC
President Trump is "seriously" considering invoking the Insurrection Act in order to more easily deploy National Guard troops to major cities as part of crime crackdown, NBC reported on Wednesday
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Weston Renoud @theducky.com · 6d
Came to say this.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 9d
"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."
America is now one big bet on AI
It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy
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Weston Renoud @theducky.com · 10d
“I never thought federal officers could behave this way. I really didn’t,” she said. “I always thought people must be provoking them or something, that they would never do this unprovoked. Obviously, I was wrong.”
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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 11d
An 84-year-old said she sustained a concussion and was hit with a projectile after she and her husband, a Vietnam vet, were knocked down by federal officers.
Federal agents knock down elderly couple during Portland protest
An 84-year-old said she sustained a concussion and was hit with a projectile after she and her husband, a Vietnam vet, were knocked down by federal officers.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12d
Julius Caesar was the first Roman to put his own living face on coins, weeks before his death. It is one of the deepest cultural signifiers of something autocracies do and republics do not.

“Render unto Caesar.” A practice so notoriously arrogant Jesus himself dunked on it with snarky wordplay.
Treasury Department Has Plans To Mint Dollar Coin Featuring Donald Trump's Likeness | Defector
The United States Department of the Treasury has developed, to the brink of production, a dollar coin that features the face and likeness of President Donald Trump, according to a source within the Tr...
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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 12d
As many of us are learning in real time, it's very difficult to challenge & overturn a legal system of repression *legally*.
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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 12d
ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 12d
The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session.

Want to know why?

Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out.

Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.
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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 12d
Blacksky's Rust implementation of AT Protocol, rsky (/ˈrɪski/), now has over 512 starts on our github repo.
Starstruck x3 @rudyfraser created a repository that has many stars. History Bronze and Silver unlocked · First unlocked on Aug 7, 2023 blacksky-algorithms/rsky · ⭐️ 16 stars blacksky-algorithms/rsky · ⭐️ 128 stars blacksky-algorithms/rsky · ⭐️ 512 stars
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 15d
heggseth's weird podcast rant (delivered to 800 generals and admirals for some reason) is just another sign of how this is a tv presidency. they don't really know how to do policy. their instinct is theater. encounter a problem? put on a spectacle
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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 16d
I’ve been in combat in Afghanistan wearing blue jeans and a t-shirt.

But sure, people need to look like the 101st to chase a guy with a bicycle across Chicago…
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 17d
ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards
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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 17d
This was always the funniest conspiracy theory to me — that there are MRI machine-like devices that can cure all known illnesses in seconds, but the government has been hiding them — and Trump just posted an AI generated video of himself announcing they're real. We're cooked!
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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 17d
Trump tonight appears to have pushed the false "medbed" conspiracy theory, which has spread in the far-right internet over the years. www.yahoo.com/news/qanon-c...
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 17d
Wait: so the President of the United States shared a video of a fake news report, rooted in a conspiracy theory, that features an AI-generated version of himself promoting a policy that…doesn’t exist?
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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 17d
Trump tonight appears to have pushed the false "medbed" conspiracy theory, which has spread in the far-right internet over the years. www.yahoo.com/news/qanon-c...
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Weston Renoud @theducky.com · 18d
This was two weeks ago. He's doubling down on missleading television coverage.
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Weston Renoud @theducky.com · 18d
😑
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump, apparently misled by video of 2020 protests, threatens to send troops to Portland
US president mistakes scale of anti-Ice rallies after TV report uses old footage from George Floyd demonstrations
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Jon Walker @jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social · 18d
As a resident of #Portland it is impossible to capture how unhinged this is. We are a low crime city and the ICE protest "siege" consists of one auxiliary ICE office that normally has at most a dozen weirdos debating what performance art they should use to block a single driveway
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18d
Trump says he’s authorized Hegseth to use “Full Force” against Antifa in “War ravaged” Portland
At the request of Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, I am directing Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to provide all necessary Troops to protect War ravaged Portland, and any of our ICE Facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists. I am also authorizing Full Force, if necessary. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 18d
War-ravaged Portland
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Weston Renoud @theducky.com · 26d
That was quick.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 26d
Judge strikes down Trump’s $15bn lawsuit against the New York Times
Judge strikes down Trump’s $15bn lawsuit against the New York Times
Judge says US president’s complaint that the newspaper is ‘spreading false content’ about him violates federal rule * US politics live – latest updates A US judge on Friday struck down Donald Trump’s $15bn lawsuit against the New York Times newspaper and some of its individual journalists. The judge gave the US president leave to amend the action, however, a court filing showed. The judge in the case said that Trump’s complaint violated a federal rule requiring “a short plain statement” of the claim in an attempt to demonstrate that the plaintiff deserves relief. Continue reading...
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