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Jon Bailey @thoreandan.bsky.social · 20h

Vodka soda with a splash of cranberry at X Bar, Colfax Avenue, Denver

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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 20h

So if Russ Vought and Bob Kennedy were deliberately trying on behalf of an enemy to sicken and kill Americans by destroying the public health structure - what would they be doing differently?

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20h

We’ve reported extensively on how the FDA allowed foreign drugmakers to send generic medications to the U.S. from factories with filthy labs and contaminated equipment.

This month, we’re digging deeper and could use your help. THREAD/

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

WATCH: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

➡️ Read more: https://propub.li/4odsKnn

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Jen Sorensen @jensorensen.bsky.social · 1d

This week's comic: What does not belong?

FUN TIME

AMERICA: What does not belong?

APPLE PIE

INVADING US CITIES

BASEBALL

KINGS

STATUE OF LIBERTY

STATUE OF LIBERTY WITH HITLER MOUSTACHE

THE RIGHT TO VOTE

BOOT STOMPING ON HUMAN FACE FOREVER

COMEDIANS MAKING FUN OF PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT FIRING COMEDIANS

HOT DOGS

KING EATING ALL THE HOT DOGS AND APPLE PIES

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Jon Bailey @thoreandan.bsky.social · 1d

Jon Bailey @thoreandan.bsky.social · 1d

Deleted scene from Predator (1987)

Jon Bailey @thoreandan.bsky.social · 1d

2nd Wax Trax location in Denver
wastedenergy.co/2025/10/09/n...

Northside grand opening party this weekend!

Here’s all the details on the new spot By Pete Stidman As my brother Sam Rosenberg, our contractors, and I have labored on our new satellite store on 32nd Avenue and Meade Street in Denver’s Norths…

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Jon Bailey @thoreandan.bsky.social · 2d

www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Cartoon: Half-naked squirrels

A cartoon by Clay Jones. Related |� Pam Bondi dodges easy question about Trump and ...

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Rumic World @furinkan.com · 2d

A very happy birthday to Rumiko Takahashi! Born on October 10, 1957 in Niigata, she is entering into her 47th year as a mangaka! Happy birthday, sensei!

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POKEY THE PENGUIN @pokeythepenguin.bsky.social · 2d

THE MACHINE WITH TWO FUNCTIONS yellow5.com/pokey

POKEY IS STANDING NEXT TO HIS NEW MACHINE, A SMALL GRAY BOX WITH A BRIGHT RED BOXING GLOVE FITTED ATOP!! THE SMALL CHILD IS ALSO THERE!

POKEY SAYS: BEHOLD, SMALL CHILD, MY NEW INVENTION WHICH I HAVE FINISHED

SHE REPLIES: WHAT DOES IT DO POKEY??

HE SAYS: IT IS A SECRET

SHE THEN SAYS: LET'S HAVE A PARTY TO CELEBRATE

HE REPLIES: OK

LATER, AT THE PARTY, THEY ARE SURROUNDED BY FRIENDS!! THE MACHINE SITS THERE ALSO, AND THE SKEPTOPOTAMUS APPROACHES!!

SUDDENLY, THE BOXING GLOVE FLIES OUT ON AN EXTENSIBLE LEVER ARM, PUNCHING THE SKEPTOPOTAMUS IN THE FACE!! THE MACHINE ALSO INSULTS HIM WITH A MECHANICAL: HEY....STUPID....

THE SKEPTOPOTAMUS THEN APPROACHES POKEY AND STATES: POKEY YOU THROW ONE HELL OF A PARTY!!

POKEY REPLIES: THANK YOU FOR COMING, MY FRIEND

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Gabe @cwgabriel.bsky.social · 2d

If you want more Lookouts be sure and watch the incredible short film!
www.lookoutsshortfilm.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

👨‍🍳💋

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Jon Bailey @thoreandan.bsky.social · 3d

Not wholly inaccurate

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 4d

"WE MAKE NEWS LOUDER. IF STORY GOOD ON ONE SIDE, SHOW OTHER SIDE TOO. OTHER SIDE WRONG? OTHER SIDE WANT BLEACH IN VEINS? ANIMAL RUN BOTH. REPORT BOTH SIDES. EVEN WHEN ONE SIDE THINK HEAD MEDS MAKE QUIET BABIES."

“AAAGGGHHH!!!” A Memo from Animal, Your New Editor-in-Chief

“[Editor-in-chief of CBS News] Bari Weiss told network staffers in a morning editorial call that she wants to ‘win’ before delivering a rallying cr...

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Jon Bailey @thoreandan.bsky.social · 3d

Link goes to a redirect loop @ gocomics

ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS page: "www.gocomics.com redirected you too many times"

Jon Bailey @thoreandan.bsky.social · 3d

The thumbnail Bluesky showed me for this post did, in fact, remind me of using Netscape Navigator. :)

Thumbnail of this post's image, appearing partially loaded and duplicated. Apparently there's errors in Blusky's thumbnail algo

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Adam Conover @adamconover.net · 3d

Check out the new Factually! episode with Cory Doctorow wherever you get podcasts: The Enshittification of Everything

» Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

» Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3HeN...

» YouTube: youtu.be/P1EKQidRooc

The Ensh*ttification of Everything with Cory Doctorow

Podcast Episode · Factually! with Adam Conover · 10/08/2025 · 1h 46m

podcasts.apple.com

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Jon Bailey @thoreandan.bsky.social · 3d

@joeonhere.bsky.social on Cory Doctorow's new book's slop clones.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
#Enshittification

Amazon Caught Peddling AI Slop Version of Cory Doctorow That's So Ironic That We Have to Go Outside and Stare at the Sky for a Bit

The renowned tech critic's book "Enshittification" hasn't even been out for a full day, and Amazon is already selling AI-generated knockoffs.

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Jon Bailey @thoreandan.bsky.social · 4d

New from @jensorensen.bsky.social - "What does not belong?" www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Cartoon: What does not belong?

To support this work and receive my weekly newsletter with background on each cartoon, please consider joining the Sorensen Subscription Service! Also on Patreon . Follow me on Bluesky ...

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Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca · 5d

redirects

wizardzines.com/comics/termi...

(from "The Secret Rules of the Terminal", out now! wizardzines.com/zines/termin...)

redirect to a file:

cmd > file.txt terminal emulator into program, program out to file.txt, error out to terminal emulator
append to a file:

cmd >> file.txt terminal emulator into program, program out to file.txt (append mode), error out to terminal emulator
send a file to stdin:

cmd < file.txt file.txt into program, program out and err to terminal emulator
redirect stderr to a file:

cmd 2 > file.txt terminal emulator into program, program out to nowhere, err out to file.txt
redirect stdout AND stderr:

cmd > file.txt 2>&1 terminal emulator into program, out and err to file.txt
pipe stdout:

cmd1 | cmd2 terminal emulator into program 1, 1 out to program 2 via pipe, 2 out to command line, program 2 out 1 and 2 to terminal emulator
pipe stdout AND stderr:

cmd1 2>&1 | cmd2 terminal emulator into program 1, 1 and 2 out to program 2 via pipe, program 2 out 1 and 2 to terminal emulator
three gotchas

cmd file.txt > file.txt will delete the contents of file.txt some people use set -o noclobber (in bash/zsh) to avoid this

but I just have “never read from redirect to the same file” seared into my memory.

sudo echo blah > /root/file.txt doesn’t write to /root/file.txt as root. Instead, do:

echo blah | sudo tee /root/file.txt or sudo sh -c 'echo blah > /root/file.txt'

cmd 2>&1 > file.txt doesn’t write both stdout and stderr to file.txt. Instead, do: cmd > file.txt 2>&1

cat vs <

I almost always prefer to do:

cat file.txt | cmd

instead of

cmd < file.txt

it works fine & it feels better to me

using cat can be slower if if’s a GIANT file though
&> and &|

some shells support &> and &| to redirect/pipe both stdout and stderr

(also some shells use |& instead of &|)

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Jon Bailey @thoreandan.bsky.social · 5d

Something something hanging out at a certain type of bar 👀

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Denverite @denverite.bsky.social · 6d

Politicians celebrated. Businesses open their doors. And protesters marched.

What we saw on Denver's reopened 16th Street: protests, politicians and music

"This is indeed the spine of our city.”

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 6d

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Adam Douglas Thompson. #NewYorkerCartoons

Sign up for our humor newsletter to get Daily Cartoons delivered to your inbox: nyer.cm/0EivDaD

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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 6d

That annoying SMS phish you just got may have come from a box like this

Smishers looking for new infrastructure are getting creative.

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Jen Fifield @jenafifield.bsky.social · 6d

Hi everyone! 👋 I'm officially up and running at
@propublica.org covering election and voting issues, and expanding my sourcing nationally. Spread the word.

Reach out, say hi, introduce yourself, send tips:
[email protected]
Cell: 480-476-0108
Signal: jenafifield.01

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