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Lindy Hop DJ and Blues Dancer, Battletech and war game newbie, all-round nerd. 🇨🇦
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danlehner.bsky.social
the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran
The real reason I'm leaving The Great British Baking Show Trump is threatening bombing the likes of which Tehran has never seen Prue Leith
February 6, 2026 at 6:07 PM
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galaxykate.bsky.social
You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test

Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs)

Good tech.

Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales)

Bad tech.
January 31, 2026 at 6:57 AM
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chaospriestess.bsky.social
I once asked a 4th ed vet what he thought of female space marines and he said 'hell yeah more plastic babes'
bitshammer.bsky.social Bits @bitshammer.bsky.social · 23d
The fact Facebook has so many Longbeards of Warhammer is the only reason I don't leave it.
January 21, 2026 at 10:55 AM
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robsonfletcher.com
After the World Trade Center was attacked (just four miles from Trump Tower), more than 40,000 Canadians in uniform fought alongside their U.S. allies in Afghanistan.

More than 2,000 Canadians were wounded.

These 158 didn't make it home.

And now this guy is giving lectures on gratitude.
Portrait-style photos of the men and women of the Canadian military who were killed during the Afghanistan war of the early 21st century. Photos via afghanistanacanadianstory.ca
January 21, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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tappytoeclaws.bsky.social
If you're in the Midwest and you're not following the Minnesota General Strike that's scheduled for THIS Friday Jan, 23 - check in and stay informed!

minnesotareformer.com/briefs/ice-o...
‘ICE Out of Minnesota’ day is this Friday. Here’s what you need to know. • Minnesota Reformer
Minnesota’s unions, progressive faith leaders and community activists are calling a general strike on Friday, encouraging Minnesotans to stay home from work, school and refrain from shopping — suspens...
minnesotareformer.com
January 21, 2026 at 6:26 PM
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thehousered.bsky.social
every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO

this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
January 16, 2026 at 9:24 PM
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tylerhewitt.bsky.social
Verrrry late to the party on We Don’t Need Another Hero, but this is 100% correct.
ewacat.bsky.social Neon Genesis Ewangelion @ewacat.bsky.social · 28d
i find it very cool that two of the greatest movie soundtrack songs of all time - We Don't Need Another Hero and Goldeneye - are Tina Turner tracks. legend
January 16, 2026 at 9:46 PM
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missmariapants.bsky.social
This is what is happening here.
billcorbett.bsky.social Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · Jan 13
People not in Minnesota: please read this excellent summary of what life is like in Minneapolis since the murderous scum ICE swarmed here. And more are on their way. By local reporter / writer / bike dude / legend @dbrauer.net .
Text: “A friend said those of us who live in Minneapolis should write about what's going on here for folks who live elsewhere. You need to know that whether you're a Republican, Independent or Democrat, the Constitution is being violated by our federal government. This is not about catching criminals, or even deporting people. It is about punishing an entire state, including citizens, for not supporting the president. Everyone in my part of Minneapolis is affected. On our streets, ICE is stopping people of color and demanding their papers. In America. US citizens do not have to prove citizenship to ICE. Yet people are being intimidated, some cases beaten up and detained, for requiring ICE to follow the law. ICE needs a judicial warrant to enter homes. Yet there are documented cases of them ignoring the law - violating a bedrock constitutional principle. Americans of color are staying home, afraid to go to work, school, to grocery shop, or fill their cars with gas. This isn't just "illegals" or immigrants with valid work permits, it is citizens who have had their cars rammed by ICE for merely looking Hispanic. Businesses are closing. Schools are 50 percent full. When they are open, fascists are calling in bomb threats because the president decided to make us a meme. After a daycare teacher with a valid work permit (through 2030) was snatched from her workplace, parents (and grandparents) have had to organize to watch their SCHOOLS, to make sure conditional rights are observed. This is being repeated throughout Minnesota. Imagine trying to do your job or live you life while also taking volunteer shifts to make sure the federal government doesn't act extrajudicially. Because of ICE's documented abuses, neighbors have organized to monitor federal actions. This observation is legal, as long as it doesn't interfere with a valid action. Yet since ICE killed Renee Good, they are increasingly stopping this observation, breaking car windows and …”
January 13, 2026 at 10:56 PM
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Discord wants to know how you feel about AI.

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January 10, 2026 at 12:53 AM
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rickwebb.net
Hello Tim Cook I worked at Tumblr when you gave us 48 hours to get rid of all the consenting, adult boobs. Up all night at your whim, out of the blue. But you're still cool with Twitter and its CSAM and revenge porn and whatever the fuck this is? Why do you even HAVE guidelines?
kattenbarge.bsky.social Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · Jan 8
Previously, several of these companies, like Apple, IBM, and Disney, have paused advertising on X in response to antisemitic content. But antisemitism on X never slowed, sexual abuse imagery increased, and all of these companies quietly resumed advertising anyways.
spitfirenews.com/p/grok-deepf...
Why isn't there a bigger Grok boycott?
Advertisers, politicians, and investors are still all-in on X, despite a sexual abuse crisis.
spitfirenews.com
January 8, 2026 at 9:28 PM
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ostrichson.bsky.social
The wisdom of Mr. Rogers is eternal:
Mr. Rogers: Even though machines might move or sound like they're talking, they don't have feelings.
January 4, 2026 at 11:57 AM
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chrislintott.bsky.social
At 5.15pm GMT today, the Earth will be at perihelion, the closest point to the Sun in our annual round.

This should be the start of the year. Happy new orbit, everyone!
January 3, 2026 at 9:48 AM
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rudbeckia.bsky.social
uh holy SHIT?
January 1, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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alexdavistransit.bsky.social
Transit's main competition is cars. If you raise fares from $2.50 to $3, you're still way more affordable than driving. But if you cut the bus from every 15 to every 20, you're screwed because cars have infinity frequency and 24 hr service span.
ndhapple.bsky.social Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · Dec 27
I hate that we’re having to think in these terms, but the evidence seems to be bearing out that steep fare hikes are less damaging to ridership than service cuts.
davidzipper.bsky.social David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · Dec 27
2025 was brutal for US transit. Agencies faced budget deficits, flat ridership, and open hostility from the White House.

I wrote a series of stories outlining ways to help transit endure.

Lesson #1: Whatever you do, don’t cut service. Riders will leave – permanently.

Here are a few others 🧵
December 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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aniceburrito.bsky.social
@UKRaveComments I WANT TO DANCE! I WANT TO PLAY MY DRUMS! I WANT TO PLUG MY BASS IN, AND LAY A SLAP RIFF OVER THIS!......BUT MY WIFE IS ON THE SOFA WITH A MIGRAINE!................SHE IS MY WORLD!
June 16, 2024 at 9:23 PM
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pftompkins.bsky.social
Merry Christmas to everyone, even the squids and the whales
December 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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victoriascott.bsky.social
this feels like vintage internet. just discovered a wordpress blog called "Pre-Digital Railfan - Train Watching In The Age of Kodachrome". It is full of incredible slides of vintage trains, shot by PNW native Lindsay Korst (including this shot). it's so good, go check it out pdrailfan1.wordpress.com
an Amtrak Coast Starlight train led off by F40s behind a pond and ducks in a field
December 24, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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adamatomic.bsky.social
raised by x-men and gargoyles to adore broad shouldered women and despise wealthy technofascists
December 22, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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athul.acharya.cc
TIL the original lyrics to Deck the Halls are awesome and “don we now our gay apparel” is temperance movement bullshit
Deck the hall with boughs of holly, Fa, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la! "Tis the season to be jolly: a, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la! Fill the meadcup, drain the barrel, Fa, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la! Troll the ancient Christmas carol. Fa, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la!
December 13, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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paulrobalino.bsky.social
Imagine being launched into the sun. You'd literally die of a Vitamin D overdose
December 13, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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lanrickbennett.bsky.social
Umm what did you say @ttcriders.bsky.social?

h/t @auguststreet.ca @chmarco.bsky.social @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social @rmtransit.bsky.social @taras-grescoe.com @femwriter.bsky.social
Mayor Olivia Chow 51m • Hundreds of transit riders can end up stuck because of one car turning left. It means Toronto's streetcars and LRTs can sometimes end up frustratingly slow. To get you moving faster and clear congestion, we're changing the signal priority on streetcar and RT routes across the city - from Finch to King. It's time to get Toronto moving, and that includes the thousands of folks who rely on transit. MAYOR OLIVIA CHOW FASTER STREETCARS ARTs SIGNAL PRIORITY IS ON THE WAY!
December 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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commandersterling.bsky.social
AI is the Poochie of tech.
December 8, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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boner.ink
things have really turned around for me ever since i became isolated and weird
November 14, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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graham.loadingreadyrun.com
Seven *more* families?
And this is only the families who have the means to sue, and (critically) the families who FOUND OUT.

How many more vulnerable people has ChatGPT convinced? Will we ever know?

Fuck all this.

techcrunch.com/2025/11/07/s...
Seven more families are now suing OpenAI over ChatGPT's role in suicides, delusions | TechCrunch
In one case, 23-year-old Zane Shamblin had a conversation with ChatGPT that lasted more than four hours.
techcrunch.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
Farewell sweet Prince
brendelbored.bsky.social Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · Aug 14
Eric Adams is amazing because when he won every media person was leaping over each to go “this is the normal sane leadership that the political left doesn’t understand normal sane Americans crave” and then every day since that Eric Adams has been like “Leprechauns are real and I’m going to cook one”
November 5, 2025 at 2:46 AM