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Jason Broccardo
@zoocoup.bsky.social
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Job: Managing Apple things. Hobby: Buying a lot of music. Western front of Chicagoland with the parts of a great family who haven't grown up and moved out yet. I support all coups at the zoo. Also: @[email protected] and http://zoocoup.tumblr.com
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Jason Broccardo @zoocoup.bsky.social · Oct 11
Forget about all these other bands, just tell me Beulah is getting back together.
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Jason Broccardo @zoocoup.bsky.social · 3m
This is not US Border Patrol's first PBR rodeo www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
How the Border Patrol uses rodeos to recruit
At fairgrounds full of young men, the government sets up shop to hire immigration agents.
www.motherjones.com
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Jason Broccardo @zoocoup.bsky.social · 16m
“…but at a time when voters hate politicians, are down on Democrats, and are yearning for younger leaders, is a 77-year-old, two-term incumbent governor really the best choice?” www.messageboxnews.com/p/are-democr...
Are Democrats About to Blow It in Maine?
By backing Janet Mills over a grassroots outsider, party leaders may be repeating the same mistakes from 2024
www.messageboxnews.com
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Jason Broccardo @zoocoup.bsky.social · 22m
Imagine the dust up if Paula White-Cain has been turned away chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Religious leaders denied request to deliver communion to detainees at Broadview facility
Hundreds of people joined a delegation of Catholic priests and nuns marching to the Broadview detention site to hold communion, but they were turned away with no reason given. A total of 15 protesters...
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Jason Broccardo @zoocoup.bsky.social · 35m
After running macOS with Reduced Transparency enable for years, I've actually done the reverse with Tahoe so I'm not really the target audience for this. That said, this article runs down some options for managing the v26 UIs tidbits.com/2025/10/09/h...
How to Turn Liquid Glass into a Solid Interface - TidBITS
Apple’s new Liquid Glass interface design can be hard to read in certain situations. If you encounter any issues, here’s how to adjust the transparency and other visual effects across macOS, iOS, watc...
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Jason Broccardo @zoocoup.bsky.social · 1h
If Trump really believes he wasn't in charge in January 2020, then I vote for exploring what the SCOTUS does and does not consider an official act by a President and seeing what Janauary 6th charges can stick now
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 5h
“Who was president in 2020?” remains one of the most pertinent questions in American politics—absurd, yes, but here we are—and that extends to “who was president January 1 - 19, 2021?”
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 6h
That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.
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Jason Broccardo @zoocoup.bsky.social · 1h
The APNS cert expired.
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Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 11h
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 11h
"The chancellor approved it"
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Cake or Death @johngcole.bsky.social · 1h
can we all agree no more south african billionaires going through psychotic breaks in the us government?
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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 5h
thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about
He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war: The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work. Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure. In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation. Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.
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Jason Broccardo @zoocoup.bsky.social · 1h
“These visuals are open about their status as something in between the real and the imaginary, but the real harm is that they stick with people well beyond the point after which something may have been functionally disproven” www.972mag.com/israeli-army...
How a Scottish maritime museum ended up in Israel’s 3D propaganda
An analysis of dozens of Israeli army animations discovered digital assets sourced not from classified intelligence but commercial libraries and content creators.
www.972mag.com
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Jason Broccardo @zoocoup.bsky.social · 1h
Jeff Tweedy talking about Bill Callahan, Kim Deal and other's lyrics www.hearingthings.co/jeff-tweedy-...
Jeff Tweedy on the Lyrics That Changed His Life
One of America’s greatest living songwriters delves into his admiration for Bill Callahan, Lana Del Rey, Kim Deal, and more.
www.hearingthings.co
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Jason Broccardo @zoocoup.bsky.social · 1h
Epic boreholes insideclimatenews.org/news/1110202...
One of the World’s Largest Geothermal Networks Is Buried Beneath a Corporate Campus in Rural Wisconsin - Inside Climate News
Tech company Epic Systems uses thousands of boreholes to help heat and cool its office buildings, a “marquee” clean energy project that gas utilities may try to replicate.
insideclimatenews.org
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Jason Broccardo @zoocoup.bsky.social · 2h
“My mother was in charge of laying the type on the back of Michael Jackson’s albums. When I was a little girl, I would see all these photos of Michael Jackson at her job. I actually met Michael Jackson with John Singleton at a Stevie Wonder concert.”
Nia Long Isn’t Romanticizing the Past
She’d rather live in the moment and lift up the next generation in Hollywood.
www.thecut.com
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Jason Broccardo @zoocoup.bsky.social · 2h
Dante Spinotti talks about his career, including touching on why he stopped working with Michael Mann teamdeakins.libsyn.com/dante-spinot...
Team Deakins: DANTE SPINOTTI - Cinematographer
SEASON 2 - EPISODE 162 - Dante Spinotti - Cinematographer In this episode of the Team Deakins Podcast, we speak with cinematographer Dante Spinotti (ANT-MAN AND THE WASP, HEAT, THE LEGEND OF THE HOLY ...
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Jason Broccardo @zoocoup.bsky.social · 3h
“Trump’s tariffs spur US aluminum industry to boost recycling” www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...
Trump’s tariffs spur US aluminum industry to boost recycling
Producers were already looking to recycled aluminum to help lower carbon emissions. Now, under Trump’s trade policy, demand for scrap is even higher.
www.canarymedia.com
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Jason Broccardo @zoocoup.bsky.social · 3h
“‘My grandmother didn’t get any land. Back then, most was left in the hands of men,‘ she said. At her side, Cassandra Garduño listens attentively. She also didn’t inherit the family chinampa.” apnews.com/article/mexi...
Women in Mexico step up to protect ancient Aztec farms and save a vanishing ecosystem
In Mexico, traditionally women did not inherit chinampas, island farms first built by the Aztecs thousands of years ago.
apnews.com
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Jason Broccardo @zoocoup.bsky.social · 3h
“It’s as if everyone forgot how to make the show.” (side note, for me seasons 5 - 10 are the sweet spot for me with the original)
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Why is the reboot of “Law & Order” so bad?
It’s as if everyone forgot how to make the show.
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Historical Marker Ahead @historicalmarker.bsky.social · 13h
A million historical markers and statues and monuments to Casimir Pulaksi yet only one dares mention his most important attribute:
Pulaski runs on Dunkin’ — sign at the Dunkin’ near Midway Airport on Pulaski Avenue in Chicago.
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April Wolfe @aprilwolfe.bsky.social · 19h
I feel like we could solve the reading crisis by bringing back the Pizza Hut BOOK IT! program but for adults.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 19h
It’s pronounced cyclist.
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Jason Broccardo @zoocoup.bsky.social · 20h
Artist Tony Fitzpatrick has died www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/11/t...
Tony Fitzpatrick, a Chicago artist in many realms, has died at 66
He had recently published a new book, “The Sun at the End of the Road,” filled with his distinctive art, poetry and prose. Some consider it a memoir.
www.chicagotribune.com
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Jason Broccardo @zoocoup.bsky.social · 23h
• Commerce Department: 315
• Education Department: 466
• Energy Department: 187
• Department of Health and Human Services: between 1,100 and 1,200
• Department of Housing and Urban Development: 442
• Department of Homeland Security: 176
• Treasury Department: 1,446 rollcall.com/2025/10/10/o...
Over 4K federal workers hit with shutdown-related layoffs, so far - Roll Call
The Trump administration plans to lay off more than 4,100 federal workers in response to the government shutdown, a court filing shows.
rollcall.com
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Jason Broccardo @zoocoup.bsky.social · 23h
“Dozens of employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — including ‘disease detectives,‘ high-ranking scientists and the entire Washington office — were notified late Friday that they were losing their jobs as part of the Trump administration’s latest round of federal layoffs“
Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials
www.nytimes.com
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Jason Broccardo @zoocoup.bsky.social · 23h
“On Friday morning, the S&P 500 was less than a couple of points from another all-time high. Then, after a single social media post from President Donald Trump, $2 trillion in market value was wiped out” www.cnbc.com/2025/10/11/t...
Market sell-off: Trump post lops off $2 trillion from stocks in a single day
The unraveling shows the sway the president's one-man trade policy still has over the fate of the global economy.
www.cnbc.com
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Jason Broccardo @zoocoup.bsky.social · 23h
“A Democratic effort to pass a bill paying active-duty military members during the government shutdown was blocked on the House floor Friday by the GOP.” www.politico.com/live-updates...
Democratic troop pay bill blocked in House amid shutdown
GOP leaders are seeking to keep pressure on Democrats to reopen the whole government.
www.politico.com
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Jason Broccardo @zoocoup.bsky.social · 1d
Was wondering when Tapbots would release their Bluesky client, and there's an unfortunate reason why they haven't yet.
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Phoenix by Tapbots @phoenix.tapbots.com · Sep 10
Good morning! We know you have been waiting for an update, but we have some unfortunate news. An immediate family member was diagnosed with cancer and it has turned our world upside down. We will eventually get through this and focus on development again. Thank you so much for your support.