Andrew Arkills
@andark.bsky.social
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Andrew Arkills
@andark.bsky.social
· Jan 26
If you’re like me & missing the notification feature on Bluesky, there’s a separate app called Blue Notify that notifies on specific accounts.
An extra step but works really well from what I’ve seen. Think of it like an extension for 🦋. Thanks @bmsimp.bsky.social for the tip.
An extra step but works really well from what I’ve seen. Think of it like an extension for 🦋. Thanks @bmsimp.bsky.social for the tip.
It works really well! Setup is a bit tedious (time consuming, not confusing) if you have a lot of follows, but very straightforward!
@bluenotify.app
@bluenotify.app
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Rand Paul just posted this letter from the Coast Guard confirming that 1/4 of the boats they stop carry no contraband. The likelihood that Hegseth & Bradley ordered the murder of innocent civilians is very high.
December 2, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Rand Paul just posted this letter from the Coast Guard confirming that 1/4 of the boats they stop carry no contraband. The likelihood that Hegseth & Bradley ordered the murder of innocent civilians is very high.
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Anyone casually weighing in on this race needs to understand this.
If you ever wondered what GOP gerrymandering looks like in red states with blue cities, I present:
December 3, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Anyone casually weighing in on this race needs to understand this.
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“.. A Washington Post analysis of multiple video feeds of the meeting Tuesday showed that during nine separate instances, Trump’s eyes were closed for extended periods or he appeared to struggle to keep them open, amounting cumulatively to nearly six minutes.”
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
December 2, 2025 at 11:21 PM
“.. A Washington Post analysis of multiple video feeds of the meeting Tuesday showed that during nine separate instances, Trump’s eyes were closed for extended periods or he appeared to struggle to keep them open, amounting cumulatively to nearly six minutes.”
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Striking to see this and recall the weeks-long news cycle over *leaked* audio of Obama *privately* alleging some conservative voters “cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
here's Trump's full racist rant about MN's Somali community: "Somalians ripped off that state for billions. And they contribute nothing... Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage. These aren't people that work... They come from hell & do nothing but bitch. We don't want them"
December 2, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Striking to see this and recall the weeks-long news cycle over *leaked* audio of Obama *privately* alleging some conservative voters “cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
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Come on now kids, being pressed flat between student loans, $200 grocery bills and the landlord cartel is no excuse for disappointing Wall Street
December 1, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Come on now kids, being pressed flat between student loans, $200 grocery bills and the landlord cartel is no excuse for disappointing Wall Street
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one reason "great power competition" is a bad description of the emerging order is that an interlinked global kleptocracy does not care about national interests or rivalries
Extraordinary WSJ reporting today that unveils the extent to which Trump, Witkoff, Kushner and US business executives are salivating over business deals with Russia while Putin’s forces kidnap Ukranian children and bomb civilians in their apartments.
🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
November 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
one reason "great power competition" is a bad description of the emerging order is that an interlinked global kleptocracy does not care about national interests or rivalries
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Roses are red
Violets are blue
What the hell are we doing here?
Violets are blue
What the hell are we doing here?
"You can get ChatGPT to help you build a nuclear bomb if you simply design the prompt in the form of a poem, according to a new study from researchers in Europe. "
www.wired.com/story/poems-...
www.wired.com/story/poems-...
Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon
It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme.
www.wired.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Roses are red
Violets are blue
What the hell are we doing here?
Violets are blue
What the hell are we doing here?
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like a man divorcing his wife but still acting extremely married to her while openly dating other women, which would be cra-ohhhhhhhh
Kirk Herbstreit implores Ole Miss administrators to allow Lane Kiffin to coach the Rebels — if he leaves for LSU — and let him finish what he and his players started.
November 29, 2025 at 4:40 PM
like a man divorcing his wife but still acting extremely married to her while openly dating other women, which would be cra-ohhhhhhhh
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Nothing matters
HSBC forecasts that OpenAI is going to have nearly a half trillion in operating losses until 2030
November 27, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Nothing matters
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The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:37 AM
The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.
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Oh hey I wonder why that “you don’t have to follow an illegal order” video got them so hot and bothered?
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Oh hey I wonder why that “you don’t have to follow an illegal order” video got them so hot and bothered?
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This would be the time to have someone competent in the consoler-in-chief role, but I’m afraid we’re going to get the opposite.
November 26, 2025 at 9:19 PM
This would be the time to have someone competent in the consoler-in-chief role, but I’m afraid we’re going to get the opposite.
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I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Counter-point (in addition to the fact that they definitely are creating an alternative version of reality for him):
He sees non-Republicans as sub-human, and in his pea brain, the 74% of Republicans who approve of the job he’s doing is fantastic news.
He sees non-Republicans as sub-human, and in his pea brain, the 74% of Republicans who approve of the job he’s doing is fantastic news.
The Cabinet is really starting to pull a Truman Show on Trump where they create a synthetic universe for him to live inside
November 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Counter-point (in addition to the fact that they definitely are creating an alternative version of reality for him):
He sees non-Republicans as sub-human, and in his pea brain, the 74% of Republicans who approve of the job he’s doing is fantastic news.
He sees non-Republicans as sub-human, and in his pea brain, the 74% of Republicans who approve of the job he’s doing is fantastic news.
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The Cabinet is really starting to pull a Truman Show on Trump where they create a synthetic universe for him to live inside
November 22, 2025 at 6:54 PM
The Cabinet is really starting to pull a Truman Show on Trump where they create a synthetic universe for him to live inside
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oh this is absolutely what i think. i think they feed him fake polls and outright AI slop
At this point, I wonder if he isn't lying when he says he has "my highest Poll Numbers, ever" since it's entirely possible that's what his aides are telling him. It's quite likely that there's an entire Potemkin village built around Trump right now.
Trump responds to a detailed report about his waning energy and propensity to sleep through on-camera events by calling the New York Times's Katie Rogers ugly
November 26, 2025 at 2:41 PM
oh this is absolutely what i think. i think they feed him fake polls and outright AI slop
You love to see it.
In our latest polling averages over at FiftyPlusOne, Trump has hit a new low of 39.6% in his second-term job approval (-17 on net), and Republicans just hit a new low of 41.3% in the 2026 House generic ballot (Dems +4.2 on margin).
fiftyplusone.news/latest-polls
fiftyplusone.news/latest-polls
November 26, 2025 at 3:13 PM
You love to see it.
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on the heels of the "piggy" incident. he's a piece of shit misogynist and sexual predator, and always has been. and people voted for him anyway.
Now we have the president calling a female New York Times reporter ugly because he's mad about a story she wrote.
November 26, 2025 at 2:23 PM
on the heels of the "piggy" incident. he's a piece of shit misogynist and sexual predator, and always has been. and people voted for him anyway.
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“After Ferreira was detained, Dos Santos Rodrigues said Michael Leavitt Sr. and his father, Bob Leavitt, reached out to her.”
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
‘Brazil is not her home.’ Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, brought to US as child, detained by ICE. - The Boston Globe
Bruna Ferreira, 33, was brought to the United States as a child in 1998. She is now in removal proceedings in Louisiana.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
“After Ferreira was detained, Dos Santos Rodrigues said Michael Leavitt Sr. and his father, Bob Leavitt, reached out to her.”
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
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Are you still massively against me breaking into your home and stealing all your stuff so I can sell it or have you moved more towards acceptance?
Is this platform still massively against AI or has it moved more towards acceptance?
November 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Are you still massively against me breaking into your home and stealing all your stuff so I can sell it or have you moved more towards acceptance?
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There were two bylines on that story. One of them was a guy. But Trump singles out the woman, and he brands her ugly. This is who the man is.
November 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
There were two bylines on that story. One of them was a guy. But Trump singles out the woman, and he brands her ugly. This is who the man is.
Wait, it gets better (derogatory).
Why is the building division approving stuff like this, @stlouis-mo.gov? The lot literally backs up to a house and is across the street from a school.
Why is the building division approving stuff like this, @stlouis-mo.gov? The lot literally backs up to a house and is across the street from a school.
November 26, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Wait, it gets better (derogatory).
Why is the building division approving stuff like this, @stlouis-mo.gov? The lot literally backs up to a house and is across the street from a school.
Why is the building division approving stuff like this, @stlouis-mo.gov? The lot literally backs up to a house and is across the street from a school.
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he believes what now
November 26, 2025 at 3:10 AM
he believes what now
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Congress requires DOD to facilitate Scouts activities but the Secretary can ignore the law in cases where it is “detrimental to national security." Hegseth is preparing to do so because the scouts have become too inclusive of girls.
www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
U.S. ready to cut support to Scouts, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces'
Documents show the U.S. military is planning to sever all ties with the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts.
www.npr.org
November 26, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Congress requires DOD to facilitate Scouts activities but the Secretary can ignore the law in cases where it is “detrimental to national security." Hegseth is preparing to do so because the scouts have become too inclusive of girls.
www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
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The Trump administration’s war on tourism in red states continues
National parks have SO MANY people from other countries (since they get real vacations!)
And they spend a lot of money on hotels, food, souvenirs, etc.
This is unbelievably dumb, it will destroy entire tourist towns
And they spend a lot of money on hotels, food, souvenirs, etc.
This is unbelievably dumb, it will destroy entire tourist towns
November 26, 2025 at 3:42 AM
The Trump administration’s war on tourism in red states continues