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David Rolfe

@dorolfe.bsky.social

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Single dad. Gen-X humanist. Program for work, make electronic music for fun. Listen at https://soundcloud.com/dorolfe

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David Rolfe @dorolfe.bsky.social · Oct 12

My pt is yes we can pick out fake news videos today. We can trust our experience today.

We’re going to rely on companies to be trustworthy even when lies are cheaper? Where will trustworthy news come from? Freelancers we know? Through what channel? How will they eat and travel? With whose money?

David Rolfe @dorolfe.bsky.social · Oct 11

Enabling the destruction of trust at scale and speed seems bad tho.

Even people with good epistemologies are going to have a hard time when there’s no reliable custody of evidence. Where will we be when all human sensation is subject to a gish-gallop of BS generated faster than discarded?

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 14h

Exactly

Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 1d

The entire fascist project is based on bad faith arguments that the press interprets and processes as good faith arguments

badfaithtimes.com/when-bad-fai...

When Bad-Faith Unreality Crashes Into Reality

These people do not mean what they say.

badfaithtimes.com

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 14h

“More than $6 billion in DeSantis ‘emergency’ contracts are missing legally required public documentation”

Daniel Ducassi for Florida Bulldog

More than $6 billion in DeSantis ‘emergency’ contracts are missing legally required public documentation

By Daniel Ducassi, FloridaBulldog.org - More than $6 billion in DeSantis ‘emergency’ contracts missing legally required public documentation.

www.floridabulldog.org

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 14h

Bluesky look at this gift I found for you

svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 14h

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;

Riot cops standing a street with less-lethal weapons, and one in a gas mask has a cloud of pepper dust around his helmet.

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David Rolfe @dorolfe.bsky.social · 14h

Sound track for this photo

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Feed Me - One Click Headshot

YouTube video by UKF

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Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 15h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

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David Rolfe @dorolfe.bsky.social · 20h

I don’t want that kind of access. Make it stop.

David Rolfe @dorolfe.bsky.social · 20h

Was she the one phone fucking RFK Jr or was that someone else?

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andy™ @andylevy.net · 21h

“people who disagree with me are the thought police” is such an embarrassing thing to say. it’s also such a bari weiss thing to say

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 21h

Also, for an established US journalist to write the words "the approval of the thought police" as the US currently is working with technofascists/oligarchs to take over entire media platforms, silence/punish dissent, make universities buckle under and professors literally FLEE THE COUNTRY..is WILD.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 23h

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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David Rolfe @dorolfe.bsky.social · 20h

If it’s unlawful, shouldn’t congress be impeaching him?

Maybe a senator will weigh in.

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Spooky Boo @spookyboo.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry, not sorry, neighbors.

Multiple plastic skeletons bow down on the grass or kneel with their palms up towards their god - the 12’ plastic skeleton standing behind the fence line

Two plastic skeletons bow on their knees in the grass while one has a single knee down and his palms outstretched towards their god - the 12’ plastic skeleton standing behind the wood fence

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David Rolfe @dorolfe.bsky.social · 21h

Or more generally:

It’s always projection.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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David Rolfe @dorolfe.bsky.social · 1d

Stuff like this has been so annoying lately that I’ve turned autocorrect off altogether!! It only took a few days to reacclimate. Spell checking is telling me that’s not a word tho.

I’m a few weeks into it now and I’m just going to keep it off until I hear some indication it’s been made dumb again

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Robert “The Bobby Yaga” McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 1d

It has become a pretty standard refrain, but it truly has more explanatory power than anything else you can say: the cruelty is the point.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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David Rolfe @dorolfe.bsky.social · 1d

New world of warcraft tier sets just dropped!! #wow

Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 1d

See, I told you Mr South Africa won the boobiest outfit of the year. Every year South Africa send a look that appears to have nothing to do with South Africa but everything to do with putting a beefy hunk in tiny pants and a cloak down the runway and they continue the trend here. I'm not complaining

A photo of a contestant at Mister Global 2025

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 3d

*Lil Jon Voice* States' Rights to What

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No More Robots @nomorerobots.io · 3d

Here's how we handle manchildren on the Steam forums at No More Robots:

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Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 3d

Classic Steam reviews

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Robert “The Bobby Yaga” McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 2d

Unsolicited snikt pic

A comic panel showing Wolverine popping his claws, with the sound effect “Snikt”

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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 2d

Journalist here

I’m interested in talking to a federal agency scientist who was fired, then rehired. I can keep you anonymous. I’m on Signal ginnyg.04

Reposts are appreciated!

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 2d

Took a break from the Supreme Court's ongoing horrorshow to focus on what really matters: how funny it is for a federal judge to decide, as a matter of law, that Drake lost the Kendrick Lamar beef

Federal Judge Declares Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” Too Awesome to Be Defamatory

Apparently, Drake decided that losing in the court of public opinion was not humiliating enough.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · Aug 3

Paul Ingrassia has called for reparations from the descendants of slaves to slave owners.
You read that correctly.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · Aug 2

The guy Trump picked to lead the office that’s now investigating Jack Smith:

— said Niki Haley is ineligible to be president
— has neo-Nazi ties
— was Andrew Tate’s lawyer
— 2x Claremont fellow
— wrote for Gateway Pundit
— called for Pence to be hanged
— called for secession after 2020 election

Paul Ingrassia (lawyer) - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

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