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Bumblefudge

@bumblefudge.com

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Free-range shit-talker, user agency and democracy enjoyor, governance-fixated technologist.

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Bumblefudge @bumblefudge.com · Jun 9

PROFESSIONAL THREAD: I have recently been realizing that in our current late-stage grindset capitalism, no one has a "career" so much as a self-promotional narrative that they have to sell every time they're stuck in an elevator with someone, so let me sketch out the pitch for my consultancy. 🧵

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Bumblefudge @bumblefudge.com · 4h

no the point is that if bluesky bans you, no one on bluesky can see you, _only_ other blacksky folks. (at least, that's what link is in right now)

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 19h

The Washing Post just discovered beards

He’s gay. She’s straight. They’re happily married.
Meet the couples who are redefining what it means to be in a relationship, including those in gay-straight and same-sex platonic marriages.
By Shane O’Neill

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Micah @rincewind.run · 8h

it's very bad that donald trump is forcing the DOJ to prosecute his political enemies

but it's good that he's chosen to start with incredibly weak cases against two people who have extensive resources and no intention of folding to him

New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 14h

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 8h

One curious thing on this site about speaking out against the encroachment of LLMs is that inevitably you get accused of being anti-tech. I don’t hate technology. I’ve used machine learning in my own code before. But I also recognize that oligarchs are so hellbent on pushing this tech for a reason.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 8h

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 8h

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 17h

i need more trump first term style cabinet crashouts bc 3 more years of powerful people treating autism like a horrible curse on your bloodline is going to do me in

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 17h

I've decided to dedicate my life to confidently popping into people's replies and saying "why are people surprised by this" despite nobody, anywhere, expressing any surprise

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 17h

Jack Posobiec spread antisenitic hate on Twitter for years, including tagging Jews with triple parentheses.

JD Vance wrote the forward to Posobiec’s book, Unhuman.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

JD Vance describes Chuck Schumer as "one of the most famous Palestinians in the world"

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Bumblefudge @bumblefudge.com · 14h

funny, all i thought was "remember not to order shrimp again until 2026"

Bumblefudge @bumblefudge.com · 14h

well if they knew what "reasonable" meant they wouldn't be fascists now would they

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 17h

thinking about how fucked up it is to give kids measles on purpose and then withhold tylenol from them

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 17h

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

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Bumblefudge @bumblefudge.com · 15h

would be hilarious to find out paris m has been sitting on it or using it as an alt bsky.app/profile/pari...

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 16h

after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging

little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia
www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

What Is Really Going on With All This Radioactive Shrimp? - Consumer Reports

Here’s the latest on how shrimp and spices got contaminated with cesium-137, how the FDA has responded, and why consumers should not panic.

www.consumerreports.org

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 16h

Naked corruption to aid a political ally IMO

David Gura @davidgura.bsky.social · 17h

Secretary Scott Bessent says the U.S. has “directly purchased Argentine pesos,” and the Treasury Department has “finalized a $20 billion currency swap framework with Argentina’s central bank.”

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 16h

after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 16h

at some point you have to wonder why this barely interesting thing warrants any media coverage at all in a country with oodles of interesting things editors deem unfit to cover

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 17h

Turning Point USA announced it will host counterprogramming to the Super Bowl halftime show, called “The All American Halftime Show,” as MAGA critics have been enraged over the selection of Bad Bunny as the 2026 headliner.

MAGA rage over Bad Bunny at Super Bowl sparks an alternative show

Counterprogramming hosted by the group that Charlie Kirk founded spotlights the growing political polarization surrounding one of the biggest events of the year.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Bumblefudge @bumblefudge.com · 15h

finally some good news

Erik Uebelacker @uebey.bsky.social · 16h

NEW: Drake loses his defamation case against Kendrick Lamar over the “Not Like Us” lyrics.

More coming @courthousenews.bsky.social

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 18h

The "somebody showed me a TikTok" era of American government is going pretty much exactly how you'd expect.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 18h

All conspiracy theories eventually lead to antisemitism.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 18h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Bumblefudge @bumblefudge.com · 17h

to be honest, i friend everyone who looks OK and 95% of the time i just scroll "popular with friends" so... in some coarse-grained way I'm definitely stumbling in that direction! 😅

Bumblefudge @bumblefudge.com · 17h

seems bad, chat

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d

White people are producing mass shooters at an incredible clip, and this is what they’re trying to do about it.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d

A White Christian nationalist pastor argued recently on a right-wing podcast that the Bible--specifically Deuteronomy 21, about how a father must bring his rebellious son to the town square to be stoned--justifies state violence against Black boys and young men.

www.theroot.com/why-this-whi...

Article from "The Root" by Asheea Smith. Published October 8, 2025

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

yeah, trump has made very clear that he doesn’t think black people deserve to be in jobs of influence! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

www.nytimes.com

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Bumblefudge @bumblefudge.com · 1d

maybe not worth building a web of trust for an algo, it can weigh (the user's) private dislikes and public info from all outside sources? i'm not decided on solutions just happy to describe the userly desires

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Bumblefudge @bumblefudge.com · 1d

they probably hate chat control because the anti-constitution office is underfunded and has lots of constraints on their surveillance, chat control would let other agencies wiretap unofficial meetings. no telling what would fall out of a general dragnet on AfD members more generally!