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Alton B.H. Worthington
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Social Science Shop Teacher in the vocational training division of a sports entertainment and medical services conglomerate. Views expressed represent nobody, even myself. ∃ RPs ∉ {Endorse} ∧ ∀ Posts ⊂ {Nonsense}. PV=NRT. "Car weirdo."
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Alton B.H. Worthington @abhw.bsky.social · Jan 21
a horse smoking a cigarette with a blanket on its back saying "don't give up, you can cuss the whole time just don't give up", stolen without attribution from facebook, where it was already stolen without attribution
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d
Nothing says “America First” like letting another country put an Air Force base in Idaho
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Alton B.H. Worthington @abhw.bsky.social · 1d
never in all of my years of researching or thinking about trade and industrial policy did I ever consider "raise tariffs in response to head of state/government not winning an international award"

just never considered it. I guess a failure of imagination.
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 1d
The Guardian- The US president may impose tariffs, demand higher NATO contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says, if on Friday he is not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. www.theguardian.com/world/202...
Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize
US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says
www.theguardian.com
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Alton B.H. Worthington @abhw.bsky.social · 1d
oh, is this the spicy foundation ai breadbox?
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Alton B.H. Worthington @abhw.bsky.social · 1d
sorry to be pedantic, but the difference was kinda a big thing back in the day.
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Alton B.H. Worthington @abhw.bsky.social · 1d
*polite Presbyterian cough*
Hot Pastor.
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 1d
Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.
Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.
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Alton B.H. Worthington @abhw.bsky.social · 1d
its good for the Presbyterians
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Drew Engelhardt @amengel.bsky.social · 1d
Working on a dissertation in American political behavior and need money for survey research? Apply for a grant worth up to $15,000 from the Rapoport Family Foundation. They’re planning on awarding up to 15 grants this cycle.

Deadline Oct. 22.

www.rapoportfamilyfoundation.com/phdgrant
Rapoport Doctoral Dissertation Grants
Supporting projects for PhD students doing political science research, democracy and social justice.
www.rapoportfamilyfoundation.com
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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 1d
This is why I can’t be DM’d on Bluesky when I’m in the UK. No way I’m uploading a starter kit for identity theft to whatever obscure firm with unknown security promised to assure compliance with UK law
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404 Media @404media.co · 2d
BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...
The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare
A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...
www.404media.co
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Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 1d
This is not good www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport
Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled
www.theguardian.com
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 1d
Brett Kavanaugh: “The Govt sometimes makes brief investigative stops …”
Kavanaugh concurrence
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 1d
check the date (H/t @christianh.bsky.social )
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · Nov 19
Sometimes wonder whether the increasingly rentier structure of much of the US tech industry might generate Dutch Disease effects on the rest of the US economy
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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 1d
New enshittification just dropped: Compressing old DVD releases into single-layer DVD for re-releases to save 5 cents
youtu.be/Hzz_d9Y44ZE
Some DVD re-releases got cheapened out in a weird way
YouTube video by Technology Connextras
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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 1d
There was literally a big-budget movie last year about how during his one brief period of trying to be cool, Dylan got so anxious about it that he had to get advice from the coolest man alive (Johnny Cash)
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bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 1d
wtaf are you talking about
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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d
The nominative determinism of this specific atrocity is off the charts here.
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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 2d
American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...
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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 2d
Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls? Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.
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Kate Crowe @kcrowe.bsky.social · 2d
"Faculty were not consulted" 👀
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Triangle Blog Blog @triangleblogblog.bsky.social · 2d
Breaking: We’ve talked to multiple individuals who have confirmed that UNC-CH is merging SILS (library and information science) and SDSS (data science and society). Announcement will be tomorrow morning. Faculty were not consulted.
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 2d
My ideology is that we should give a super-competent guy lifetime dictatorial power so we can build a high-public-sector-capacity developmental state. Now to take a big sip of my coffee and see the competence level of the guy we've elevated to lead the country I live in.
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Alton B.H. Worthington @abhw.bsky.social · 2d
Stata?
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Alton B.H. Worthington @abhw.bsky.social · 2d
(doubly so because they also apparently fit a power8 machine I have seen for sale locally and looked at a few times. I know I don't need a power8 box in my setup, even though it could be fun to explore for a little while)
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Alton B.H. Worthington @abhw.bsky.social · 2d
Turns out when I ordered rack rails for a server I own, I got rails for a server I don't own. Old me would have used this as an excuse to look for said server. I'm relisting the rails online for sale. This feels like personal growth.
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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 2d
Multiple DoD senior officials have been weeks long crashouts with randos in their xitter replies, and that like barely cracks the top 10 nuttiest things official govt xitter accts are doing (1-6 at least is DHS just posting uncut white nationalist shit on main)
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 3d
If you look at the sheer insanity of what government officials and agencies openly post on XShitter, it becomes abundantly obvious how much the press is complicit. If Dems did even a fraction of this poasting it would be saturated in news coverage.
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 3d
More propaganda with painfully normal people zip-tied at the side of the road please, this will for sure convince the American people that you're the good guys
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Alton B.H. Worthington @abhw.bsky.social · 2d
Imagining "Twitch Plays Pokemon" crossed with this Fumble Dimension classic (I thought there was a football one, but I guess this was it?):
youtu.be/MHmnWc2sysc?...
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Alton B.H. Worthington @abhw.bsky.social · 2d
*mashes blitz button so hard his fingers bleed*
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Scott Free Link ACAB Black Lives Matter Menor 🍉 PhD @smenor.com · 2d
Perfect. No notes.
The skeet: i love the domino effect of trans people asking the moderation team to take harassment of trans people seriously and instead decided to perma ban a black guy who was one of the earliest users here
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Alton B.H. Worthington @abhw.bsky.social · 2d
10/10 soup right there
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