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John
@jwski.bsky.social
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With freedom comes responsibility. The myth of the self-made man is the worst myth ever; "No man is an island". Equal protection for all under the law...Don't usually chat.
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jwski.bsky.social
Borrowed, stolen, like valor of from an unjust cause…basking in the flickering warmth of a burning barn.
ewacat.bsky.social The Ewa Outside Is Frightful @ewacat.bsky.social · 7h
Every time this post comes around I have to watch it because he's a MASTER of language and delivery
johnxuandou.bsky.social Dirk Diggler @johnxuandou.bsky.social · Aug 13
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
December 30, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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thedevilhistory.bsky.social
For some people, utopia is easy to embrace because it doesn't involve the hard work of DOING. All it requires is believing.
December 30, 2025 at 2:31 AM
jwski.bsky.social
From a friend.
resistrebelrevolt.net Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 3d
A year ago, I came up with the phrase Doom Dopamine: the unconscious reward we give people for spreading doom.

Take a minute to like positive posts.

Cause when alarmist content goes viral & positive posts get 5 likes, it engineers our brains to think doom is rewarding & positivity is not. 🧵
A photo of sun behind a monument for Pulaski. With camellias flowering below. A clear blue sky above Spanish moss, oaks, and a tall monument. A snowy sidewalk beneath oaks and Spanish moss. Red flowers popping out beneath a blue sky.
December 27, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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tewalsh340.bsky.social
Interacting with different groups is what opens your mind to other peoples experiences.
December 25, 2025 at 11:55 AM
jwski.bsky.social
Save the Post Office!!!
kevinmkruse.bsky.social Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6d
WHO GIVES A DAMN?

It’s a public service, right there in the name. It exists as a public good for all the people in this country. It’s not supposed to turn a profit, you dolts.

Go audit the Pentagon and see what kind of return on investment we’re getting there.
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · 6d
The USPS faces a tight squeeze. With fewer people using the mail, it’s lost more and more money: $9 billion in the 12 months ending in September alone.
https://cnn.it/4qkeNoF
December 24, 2025 at 11:24 PM
jwski.bsky.social
This. “Playing for keeps.” Don’t doubt it, don’t forget it.
December 23, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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mskohut.bsky.social
This X 1000!
December 20, 2025 at 10:56 AM
jwski.bsky.social
I was on the fence whether I wanted a communistic dictatorship or a fascistic dictatorship to own TikTok…I thought I’d get to at least vote on it…
akelacooper.bsky.social Akela Cooper @akelacooper.bsky.social · 11d
If you’re still on TikTok now’s a good time to delete it
jljacobson.bsky.social Jodi Jacobson @jljacobson.bsky.social · 11d
As of tonight, the Ellisons also own TikTok. So now our media is almost fully controlled by fascists.

www.npr.org/2025/12/18/n...
December 19, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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resistrebelrevolt.net
Patriot Games, renaming the Kennedy Center, cost of penises.

Sure does sound like the precise Playlist of sensationalist crap that Trump would put out the day before the Epstein Files were due to be released.

Let's ignore his petty crimes & keep our eye on the heavy crimes that will take him down.
A photo of a pile of boxes in front of the White House that say "Classified: Epstein Files" & a sign that says "Release the files."
December 18, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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resistrebelrevolt.net
Ahmed Al-Ahmad, the Immigrant who saved lives on Bondi Beach says that Australia is the best country in the world and he saved lives from his heart - from his sincere belief that those people deserved to be happy. It was their right. We have to fight to protect people's happiness. ❤️‍🔥
December 19, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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mariopro.bsky.social
December 9, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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civilwarmemory.bsky.social
Once Again, For the People in the Back Row: The South Didn't Lose the Civil War 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
Once Again, For the People in the Back Row: The South Didn't Lose the Civil War
The other day I posted this photograph on Bluesky with the following comment: “The South didn’t lose the Civil War.
open.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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jwski.bsky.social
An august body reduced to, by, influencers.
December 6, 2025 at 1:23 AM
jwski.bsky.social
Versatile, I’d say! Thanks for sharing Jonathan!
December 5, 2025 at 5:59 PM
jwski.bsky.social
Sharing
bmhughes.bsky.social Brian Hughes @bmhughes.bsky.social · 29d
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 2, 2025 at 7:06 AM
jwski.bsky.social
What’s propping up the market you say?
November 25, 2025 at 10:23 PM
jwski.bsky.social
#Holdfast
therealjackhopkins.bsky.social Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · Nov 22
They’re counting on exhaustion to win.
We’re betting on discipline. #Holdfast

The coup doesn’t need victory. It just needs us to quit.
We don’t. #Holdfast

America doesn’t fall because villains rise.
It falls when defenders stop holding the line. #Holdfast👇👇👇
www.jackhopkinsnow.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
jwski.bsky.social
Do it!
saltybitchables.bsky.social SaltyBitchables @saltybitchables.bsky.social · Nov 22
If you use Gmail, you need to be aware of this new feature that allows it to use your emails to train AI, but there is a way to opt out.

#Pinks #ProudBlue #StrongerTogether #Gmail #Google

youtube.com/shorts/XqXo2...
Why You Should Turn Off Gmail Smart Features (and How To Do It)
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November 22, 2025 at 5:21 PM
jwski.bsky.social
Waiting on the second set…
Donna the Buffalo in Easton Md
November 21, 2025 at 1:51 AM
jwski.bsky.social
"I'd like a follow up to Dr Caballero's question, please."
datadrivenmd.social Jorge A. Caballero, MD @datadrivenmd.social · Nov 12
Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?
zackbeauchamp.bsky.social Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · Nov 12
Stuff like this makes me wonder why there hasn't been any reporting about Trump having affairs during his presidencies
November 13, 2025 at 2:07 AM
jwski.bsky.social
@resistrebelrevolt.net what were we just reading?
edzitron.com Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · Oct 30
Premium Newsletter tomorrow: Meta, Google, Amazon and Microsoft must add $2 Trillion in AI revenue by 2030 or they wasted their capex.

The cost of data centers GPUs may make it impossible to make a profit from AI. Here's $10 off annual.

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So, big tech has spent hundreds of billions of dollars of capital expenditures, and much of those expenditures are on GPUs. These GPUs, once installed, immediately begin decaying in value, and the more you use them, the more likely they are to crap out, and even when sitting idle, these GPUs have some power consumption — somewhere between 7% and 14% of their power in the case of the H100 — making them a consistent burden on the infrastructure of any purchaser whether they have customers or not. This becomes an even bigger problem for more expensive GPUs like the B200, which has an idle power draw of 140W per GPU. Extrapolate that out to thousands, tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of them, or to the 50,000-per-building of them inside Stargate Abilene’s NVIDIA’s , and you’ve got yourself a problem. Even without customers, even without IT load, these servers sit burning power, and while a company could turn them off and boot them on for a period of time, these racks are often run in clusters — servers of GPUs that are synced together using high-speed networking — and while I can’t find anything firm as far as how long it takes to set up a cluster, this presentation on cluster design from the CEO of Lambda details a cluster’s sheer complexity, involving discrete networking, software layer and storage methods just to get the bloody thing working. In simple terms, it may be expensive to leave them on, but it’s going to take a bunch of time and energy to restart these things, meaning that they are more than likely left on, slowly burning energy. Imagine how bad that is at a scale of hundreds of thousands of GPUs? Yet things might be a little wonkier, as the reality may be that while hyperscalers have customers, those customers might not be using all their GPUs at all times. Although there may be some customers that agree to a minimum spend or throughput, it’s hard to imagine that these contracts are enough to surmount the destructive margins. And when … And when I say “destructive margins,” I mean so much more than just the power to run and cool them. There’s the construction of the data centers to house them, the necessary maintenance, and, of course, any and all debt used to buy them. While I can (and will!) say that for every $50,000 GPU bought, big tech needs to make another $100,000, I believe that the hole created by the GPU’s existence is likely larger than just $100,000, with every construction delay, power outage, or moment of idle compute adding dollars to the hole for each and every GPU. Need a very real example? The Information reported recently that Oracle lost $100 million between June and August 2025 on rentals of NVIDIA’s Blackwell chips: In the three months that ended in August, Oracle lost nearly $100 million from rentals of Nvidia’s Blackwell chips, which arrived this year. That’s partly because there is a period between when Oracle gets its data centers ready for customers and when customers start using and paying for them, the documents show. It’s not clear what causes the gap or how Oracle plans to shorten it. So, while we can’t say for sure, there’s a chance a large chunk of these losses were caused by the spread-out deprecation of those Blackwell GPUs — after all, its most recent quarterly earnings included $1.35 billion of depreciation, right? Sidenote: For context, Oracle reported depreciation of $804m in the same period last year, and depreciation of $3.867bn for the whole of FY2025. This should give you a sense of how rapidly these GPUs are becoming a millstone on its earnings. …is there any way to actually recover that $100 million through the margins on these chips? Oracle only has 4.5 years of depreciation on these Blackwell Chips, and The Information reports that those GB200 server racks have a negative 100% gross margin according to internal Oracle documents. If that’s the case, we have a much, much bigger problem, but even if the margins aren’t literally negative…will ther…
October 31, 2025 at 2:32 AM
jwski.bsky.social
Every county in the country needs one of these guys!
dieworkwear.bsky.social derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · Oct 26
makes me weep to think of the gifts robbed from us because unaffordable housing has made it difficult for people to pursue their passions and hobbies
October 26, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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lisaloe.bsky.social
Good morning ☀️

🚨Breaking News:
October 24, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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thegoldfishmind.bsky.social
“Government by the people for the people.” They don’t believe in that, they don’t care about us.

They can only win when they cheat.

#SaveOurDemocracy
#Pinks
#NCPolitics
#Congress
October 23, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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frontrangeantifa.bsky.social
NEW: CU Boulder sophomore Nathaniel Ellis has been identified as a member of the white supremacist groups Patriot Front and Active Club.

Nathan is on the Executive Board for CU Boulder's Turning Point USA Chapter.

Read the full report: frontrangeantifa.noblogs.org/nathan-ellis/
Three photos of Patriot Front member Nathaniel Ellis
October 22, 2025 at 12:57 AM