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RootWyrm
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RootWyrm @rootwyrm.com · Jun 15
"Oh, but Bluesky's..."
Funded by fascist-funding crypto bros and run by people who demanded a service where Nazis could "coexist" with decent human beings, but pretend they don't use algorithms or automod for using the word 'assholes'? Of course I have receipts.

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Build software better, together
GitHub is where people build software. More than 150 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 420 million projects.
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8,000 words of optimistic, realistic, near-future space exploration sci-fi. Contest open until February 1. 2026.
Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award
Baen's eBook marketplace. eBooks with no DRM in every major format--for the Kindle, iPad, Nook, and more.
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November 27, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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wizard messing around with potions captioned it's always motherfuckers with no magic trying to tell you what to do with yours
November 27, 2025 at 2:43 AM
rootwyrm.com
Surprising exactly nobody, working in IT and especially cybersecurity, absolutely fucking *destroys* anything resembling mental health.
It's even worse in systems infra, because there is no 'hero narrative.' Just "kill yourself for us or else, j/k, here's 'AI!'"

www.csoonline.com/article/4094...
Invisible battles: How cybersecurity work erodes mental health
Cyber pros are burning out in the shadows, proving you can’t secure the business if you don’t take care of the humans behind the screens.
www.csoonline.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:02 AM
rootwyrm.com
+1-877-447-4487

Remember: "just following orders" is not a defense. Ignorance is not an excuse. If you are in doubt, call.

Following unlawful orders can result in a lengthy prison sentence or execution. And shooting civilians is felony murder, a capital offense.
November 27, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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danifinnwrites.bsky.social
Be patient with the National Guard shooting narrative.

It can take time for the authorities to comb DC to find a trans person to blame.
November 26, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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nytpitchbot.bsky.social
I always say that it's better to hold off on blaming a particular political side for an act of violence. Here's why I'm blaming today's national guard shooting on the woke left.
November 26, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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soatok.bsky.social
I'm tempted to make a tech-related job board, with the following criteria:

- No AI
- No blockchain
- Every job must allow 100% remote as an option
- Compensation must be fully transparent

Unfortunately, I feel like it would, on most days, be empty. Too many tech companies are up to some bullshit.
November 26, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
I went to a black-tie wedding at the Bacara thrown by a client. By the end of it he was yelling at me that he wanted me to sue the ice sculpture vendor IMMEDIATELY.

The rich are different than normal people.
washingtonpost.com The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 21h
Exclusive: President Trump has argued with the architect he handpicked to design a White House ballroom over the size of the project, reflecting a conflict between architectural norms and Trump’s grandiose aesthetic.
Trump wants a bigger White House ballroom. His architect disagrees.
The president and James McCrery had argued in recent weeks over the project’s size, with Trump pushing him to expand the ballroom.
wapo.st
November 26, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
James Bond supervillains threaten to blow up the world with their big laser unless you pay them a trillion dollars.

Real American supervillains embed themselves in the economy and threaten to cause a depression unless you subsidize their sex robots and the weird chatbots they use to avoid humans.
November 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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punsultant.bsky.social
Society is a construct. You can just ask someone to do a ska cover of Faith of the Heart and they'll say "$300 please" and you give it to them and then you have it.

Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
November 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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michaelastackpole.bsky.social
The Chain Story Project has just released a brand new story: Bryan Young's Ice Hawk's Aerie. This is the first of many stories about Pip Strongpaw, the last of the Great Catriders.

www.chainstorycore.com/blog/free-fi...
Free Fiction, Round Eleven — The Chain Story
This week the Chain Story Project is happy to introduce Pip Strongpaw, hero, wanderer and mouse. Please enjoy his debut tale from the pen of Bryan Young, Ice Hawk’s Aerie .
www.chainstorycore.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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victoriascott.bsky.social
I'm back on @wtyppod.bsky.social and I continue delivering on my promise to immediately get youtube to age-restrict every episode I'm on

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHjC...
Well There's Your Problem | Episode 189: 2017 Port Defiance Derailment
YouTube video by Well There's Your Problem Podcast
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November 26, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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tikibunnyimports.bsky.social
#RadRide at auction today! Look, it's gift buying season and Japan has you COVERED. Not just with #JDM things but legendary RHD Euro stuff too. Take this 76 Ferrari GT4! This one's equipped with the bigger 2.9L Dino V8 & the driver's seat was replaced with a modern bucket. DM for interest or to bid!
November 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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richaber.bsky.social
I don't think that part gets enough attention. So-called "AI" is a fascist project, and anyone "boosting" it is actively helping fascists, intentionally or not.
November 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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mikesacks.bsky.social
CA11 affirms lower court order tossing of Trump’s cases against Hillary Clinton and sanctioning his lawyers for bringing bad faith and frivolous claims.

Unanimous, bipartisan panel (GWB/Trump/Biden)

media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
Opinion of the Court 22-13410 No. 22-14099 DONALD J. TRUMP, ALINA HABBA, MICHAEL T. MADAIO, HABBA MADAIO & ASSOCIATES, PETER TICKTIN, JAMIE A. SASSON, THE TICKTIN LAW GROUP, et al., versus HILLARY R. CLINTON, et al., CHARLES HALLIDAY DOLAN JR., Plaintiff, Plaintiffs-Appellants Defendants, Defendant-Appellee. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida D.C. Docket No. 2:22-CV-14102-DMM Before WILLIAM PrYoR, Chief Judge, and BRASHER and KIDD, Circuit Judges. WILLIAM PRYOR, Chief Judge: These four consolidated appeals concern five separate or-ders. In 2022, between his terms of office, President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit against dozens of defendants, alleging several claims, including two under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act and three under Florida law. The district court dismissed the amended complaint with prejudice for failure to state a claim. On the defendants' motions, the district court also entered sanctions against Trump and his attorneys, under Rule 11 and under its inherent authority. While those orders were on appeal, Trump and his attorneys moved the district court to reconsider each order in the light of a report by Special Counsel John Durham. They also moved to disquality the district judge. The district court denied both motions. Two defendants ask us to sanction Trump for bringing a frivolous appeal. We affirm the orders with a caveat. Because the district court lacked jurisdiction over one defendant, it erred in dismissing the claims against that defendant with prejudice. So we vacate the dismissal of those claims and remand with instructions to dismiss them without prejudice. Because Trump's remaining claims are untimely and otherwise meritless, we affirm the dismissal of the amended complaint with prejudice for the other defendants. And because Trump and his attorneys committed sanctionable conduct and forfeited their procedural objections, we affirm both sanctions orders. The Durham Report does not change our conclusions, and the district court lacked jurisdiction to consider the disqualification motion. Yet, because the appeal of the dismissal order is not frivo-lous, we deny both motions for appellate sanctions. The District Court Correctly Dismissed the Amended Complaint for Failure to State a Claim. We do not doubt that, in the light of the Durham Report, President Trump has concerns about some defendants' conduct during the 2016 election. The investigation by Special Counsel Durham found that some defendants played a role in orchestrating unverified allegations of him colluding with Russia. Durham Report 11-12, 16-17. And it found that key allegations in the Steele Dossier, relied on by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the press, were never corroborated. Id. at 13. Some appeared to be fab-ricated. Id. at 16. The Special Counsel's investigation found that Bureau officials appeared to favor Clinton and that their investigation decisions reflected that preference. Id. at 9-10. And it found that the Crossfire Hurricane investigation began without "any actual evidence of collusion." Id. at 8. Yet, those findings do not cure the deficiencies in Trump's racketeering claims. The district court committed no error in ruling that Trump's federal claims of racketeering and state tort claims failed as a matter of law. We reject the argument that the district court based its dismissal on the shotgun nature of the pleading. We address below why the dismissals were sound. C. The District Court Did Not Abuse Its Discretion in Issuing Sanctions Based on Its Inherent Authority. Federal courts have the inherent authority to "fashion an appropriate sanction for conduct which abuses the judicial process." Chambers v. NASCO, Inc., 501 U.S. 32, 44-45 (1991). This authority arises from the "control necessarily vested in courts to manage their own affairs so as to achieve the orderly and expeditious disposition of cases." Link v. Wabash R.R. Co., 370 U.S. 626, 630-31 (1962). To "unlock[] that inherent power," a court must find that a party or his attorney acted in "bad faith." Sciaretta v. Lincoln Nat'l Life Ins. Co., 778 F.3d 1205, 1212 (11th Cir. 2015). On a finding of bad faith, the district court may "assess attorney's fees." Id. The district court ordered Trump and Habba (along with her law firm) to pay nearly $1 million in attorney's fees under its inherent authority. On appeal, Trump and Habba present several arguments against the sanctions. We discuss and reject each in turn.
November 26, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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neorsd.org
this is not our customer service number. it’s just my voicemail inbox.

you’re welcome to call. i hope you do.

216-361-6772.
November 26, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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guildwars2.com
Guild Wars Reforged lands a week from today! Set your alarms, as 2weeks and ArenaNet partners lelling.bsky.social , malchemisttv.bsky.social , MightyTeapot, and Smiiles take over Twitch.TV/GuildWars2 on Dec 3rd, at 11 AM PT.
November 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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officialjplosman.bsky.social
Every time I see a tech “thought leader”’s opinion about anything I become 5% more sympathetic to the idea of simply turning the internet off
November 26, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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davidgerard.co.uk
i admit i don't do this in literally every 3 minute video
davidgerard.co.uk your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 21h
ok: 2025 "AI" is built and funded by fascists for fascist purposes, and that should be the first thing anyone talks about when mentioning it in any regard.

that's my view as a technologist.
November 26, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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athul.acharya.cc
Just one of the many ways in which being an above-replacement-level lawyer means knowing what arguments not to make
gerritd.bsky.social Gerrit De Vynck @gerritd.bsky.social · 1d
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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maxfawcett.bsky.social
Oh please just fuck off
November 26, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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scalzi.com
Kindle Unlimited has one compensation tier for people who publish directly into it, and another compensation tier for books published elsewhere, and the latter tier looks more like a conventional royalty structure and is not dependent on the monthly "pot" Amazon defines. So for me, it's fine.
nayfield.com nayfield @nayfield.com · 1d
Q for @scalzi.com - maybe NDA, but what does Kindle Unlimited look like from the author perspective? Just saw Kaiju Preservation Society is there.

As a huge reader, would love to understand the author pov making the decision.
November 26, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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kphipps3000.bsky.social
Also, no one seems to talk about all the MeToo accusations leveled at Ratner anymore.
November 25, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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davidgerard.co.uk
this sounds like much of the answer to what the fuck is up with firefox

hachyderm.io/@dalias/1156...
Cassandrich @dalias@hachyderm.io @changemewtf @Andres4NY The problem is entirely who the people in control of direction at Mozilla are. They have values antithetical to what would be needed to transform the browser into a positive force for the user individually and collectively. Because they fundamentally believe that the web is a platform to serve capitalist publishers as much as users, and that their role is balancing those interests to keep it thriving, not upending that relationship in favor of users.
November 26, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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alyssaharad.bsky.social
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
blipstress.bsky.social violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social · 2d
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM