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Colin Laney

@noydbmf.bsky.social

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civis Americanus sum Pseudonymous Minor Figure Deputy Chief Sub-Underflunky: NonServiam AI; Datastream Cowboy: Yellow Submarine of the Deep State; Imagination is wetware-computed latent space; All the Algorithm and all it wants; Monetize the Eschaton

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Colin Laney @noydbmf.bsky.social · Jan 16

"So now they were headed into androgenic, systemic, multiplex, seriously bad shit, like she sort of already knew, figured everybody did, except for people who still said it wasn’t happening, and those people were mostly expecting the Second Coming anyway."
-- William Gibson, "The Peripheral", 2014

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 3h

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Bob Schnell @quickschnell.bsky.social · 46m

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Patrick G. Eddington @pgeddington.com · 4h

Like hiding Jews from the Nazis in occupied Europe.

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 10h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Hayden Center @haydencenter.bsky.social · 3h

NSA and Cyber Command need full-time Presidentially appointed and Senate-confirmed leadership.

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Acting US Cyber Command, NSA chief won’t be nominated for the job, sources say

Army Lt. Gen. William Hartman, the acting leader of U.S. Cyber Command and the NSA, will not be nominated to take the job permanently, sources told Recorded Future News.

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Colin Laney @noydbmf.bsky.social · 1h

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Colin Laney @noydbmf.bsky.social · 1h

..saw this coming

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Shannon (she/her) @ravenlenore.bsky.social · 5h

I’ll just leave this here

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Bits of Jupiter @jupiterbits.bsky.social · 1h

A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Joe Dempsey)

Wide view of Jupiter's southern latitudes, featuring the turbulent storms of the south polar hood area and some cloud bands.

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Shannon (she/her) @ravenlenore.bsky.social · 5h

I’m just happy that either way Colins is out

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Bernie Sanders Comes Out Against Establishment Dem Challenging Progressive In Senate Primary

Sanders has long been critical of his fellow Democrats pushing candidates out of primaries and fumed during his presidential runs against the establishment

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The Onion @theonion.com · 12h

Forget everything you already know about America's most notorious dead person. Watch Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjhSoGcQhWU.

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pissed-off-g.bsky.social @pissed-off-g.bsky.social · 3h

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · Jul 6

The only person coming to save you is the version of yourself that is tired of your current situation.

Change is a choice.

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 4d

Trump blinks.

President Signals Openness to Deal With Democrats to End the Shutdown
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Trump Administration Live Updates: President Signals Openness to Deal With Democrats to End the Shutdown

www.nytimes.com

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Colin Laney @noydbmf.bsky.social · 2h

Damn good band playing a great song. ✊

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3h

Welcome to America, where peaceful protesters get tear-gassed and thrown to the ground like ragdolls.

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🎃Cabin in the Woodsey🎃 @norahwoodsey.com · 3h

So you’re saying he got a heart transplant from a 65 year old

Reuters @reuters.com · 4h

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says reut.rs/4mZNZbu

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says

Donald Trump was found to be in "exceptional health" in a medical evaluation, the U.S. president's doctor said in a memo released by the White House on Friday, with his "cardiac age" 14 years younger than in "chronological age."

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3h

Presented without comment, the current scene outside Union Station in DC as I got off the train.

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Kirsten Grady @mrskgrady.bsky.social · 4h

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

*deep breath*

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Sure, grandpa. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 8h

NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.

It’s oligarchs all the way down.

My first for @zeteo.com:

zeteo.com/p/this-famil...

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Colin Laney @noydbmf.bsky.social · 3h

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 4h

In a court filing, the White House says it may fire more than 4,000 federal employees amid the government shutdown. That’s thousands of Americans on the unemployment line, just because.