Duncan Watson
@duncanwatson.bsky.social
I left twitter long ago but stuck with more free alternatives until now.
I am a liberal (not neo) and post about bikes, magic, politics and urban policy.
Still exploring
Also known as @Teklord in City of Heroes.
I don't identify where I live or work.
I am a liberal (not neo) and post about bikes, magic, politics and urban policy.
Still exploring
Also known as @Teklord in City of Heroes.
I don't identify where I live or work.
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I quit the former Twitter two years ago this week, and I am here to tell you that my online life got a lot better for having left it. In two years I've not been tempted to go back, and I haven't felt any penalty in either career or community for not being there. It's nice to be here and not there.
November 19, 2025 at 12:06 AM
I quit the former Twitter two years ago this week, and I am here to tell you that my online life got a lot better for having left it. In two years I've not been tempted to go back, and I haven't felt any penalty in either career or community for not being there. It's nice to be here and not there.
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Ouch.
Rebble kept old Pebble watches alive—now its work is being stolen
Rebble kept old Pebble watches alive—now its work is being stolen
A once-promising partnership turns sour.
ift.tt
November 18, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Ouch.
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AOC: Should this AI bubble pop, we should not be entertaining a bailout of these corporations while healthcare is being denied to Americans and SNAP is being denied to Americans —
November 18, 2025 at 10:02 PM
AOC: Should this AI bubble pop, we should not be entertaining a bailout of these corporations while healthcare is being denied to Americans and SNAP is being denied to Americans —
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Private equity can fuck all the way off and then fuck off some more
🚨 EXPOSED: Parents are being threatened for recording their own kids’ hockey games. Private equity bought the rinks, banned filming, and now charges up to $50 a month to watch youth sports.
November 18, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Private equity can fuck all the way off and then fuck off some more
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Chuck Schumer, still an unmitigated piece of disingenuous garbage.
! Chuck @schumer.senate.gov asks unanimous consent that the Senate immediately read and pass the bill to release the Epstein files, un-amended, "as soon as it comes over from the House." No objections. Motion succeeds. Bill is deemed to the Senate unanimously, will go to Trump to become law.
November 18, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Chuck Schumer, still an unmitigated piece of disingenuous garbage.
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TIL Ruby Bridges is only 71 years old. man alive Jim Crow was just yesterday
November 18, 2025 at 6:04 PM
TIL Ruby Bridges is only 71 years old. man alive Jim Crow was just yesterday
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mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
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Moar!
I know the woman who launched the To the Mountain Shuttle a couple of years back shut it down, and I’m not sure why. It is interesting to see other services pop up and I hope they will be successful. And maybe offer proof of concept for actual public transit to the passes.
I know the woman who launched the To the Mountain Shuttle a couple of years back shut it down, and I’m not sure why. It is interesting to see other services pop up and I hope they will be successful. And maybe offer proof of concept for actual public transit to the passes.
November 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Moar!
I know the woman who launched the To the Mountain Shuttle a couple of years back shut it down, and I’m not sure why. It is interesting to see other services pop up and I hope they will be successful. And maybe offer proof of concept for actual public transit to the passes.
I know the woman who launched the To the Mountain Shuttle a couple of years back shut it down, and I’m not sure why. It is interesting to see other services pop up and I hope they will be successful. And maybe offer proof of concept for actual public transit to the passes.
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Simon Bazelon.
Yet another reason to abolish Yale.
🥴
Yet another reason to abolish Yale.
🥴
November 18, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Simon Bazelon.
Yet another reason to abolish Yale.
🥴
Yet another reason to abolish Yale.
🥴
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We may have evolved as an Internet society to the point where we don’t actually panic when cloudflare goes down.
Lots of cursing, though.
Lots of cursing, though.
November 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
We may have evolved as an Internet society to the point where we don’t actually panic when cloudflare goes down.
Lots of cursing, though.
Lots of cursing, though.
Sunset in Chicago with a bit of reflected light from my apt
November 18, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Sunset in Chicago with a bit of reflected light from my apt
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A rainy night in Southern California, captured by my 87 year-old dad, Walter Coles. Enjoy!
November 16, 2025 at 2:30 AM
A rainy night in Southern California, captured by my 87 year-old dad, Walter Coles. Enjoy!
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Why, it's almost like having rich people paying their fare share is good for everyone!
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Why, it's almost like having rich people paying their fare share is good for everyone!
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Let’s be clear: The DOJ has already been subpoenaed. They’re legally obligated to release the full Epstein files—and they’re still dragging their feet.
It’s a shame we’ve even gotten to the point of needing a discharge petition.
(1/2)
It’s a shame we’ve even gotten to the point of needing a discharge petition.
(1/2)
November 17, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Let’s be clear: The DOJ has already been subpoenaed. They’re legally obligated to release the full Epstein files—and they’re still dragging their feet.
It’s a shame we’ve even gotten to the point of needing a discharge petition.
(1/2)
It’s a shame we’ve even gotten to the point of needing a discharge petition.
(1/2)
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In Ecuador (my brother in law tells me) they celebrate NYE with effigies of the year's villains and problems and light em up. I could get behind that.
November 17, 2025 at 8:14 PM
In Ecuador (my brother in law tells me) they celebrate NYE with effigies of the year's villains and problems and light em up. I could get behind that.
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I think that's the other reason I side-eye the "actually Northern racism is just as bad as Southern racism" takes a bit - because I certainly have heard sneaky Lost Cause/Northern Aggression/State's Rights types break that one out before.
Deflecting with northern racism is 100% part of the playbook of lost causers. I say this as someone who grew up in a place that was not that south that had family that believed in the "lost cause" of the south and would repeat how the north was just as racist, it was "economics" that caused the war
November 17, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I think that's the other reason I side-eye the "actually Northern racism is just as bad as Southern racism" takes a bit - because I certainly have heard sneaky Lost Cause/Northern Aggression/State's Rights types break that one out before.
Oops, lunch was a salad with too many carbs. Luckily my blood sugar isn't spiking too badly. I need to read nutritional info more carefully
November 17, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Oops, lunch was a salad with too many carbs. Luckily my blood sugar isn't spiking too badly. I need to read nutritional info more carefully
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I'm looking forward to the chained to a rock part
November 17, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I'm looking forward to the chained to a rock part
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They are really smelling blood in the water, aren’t they? 🤣
LMAO -- Ted Cruz is on Fox News talking about running for president in 2028
November 17, 2025 at 6:22 PM
They are really smelling blood in the water, aren’t they? 🤣
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It's astonishing that, in 2025, the point has yet to get through to norms-obsessed prosecutors. A lot of books on this stuff were best-sellers; you can buy them at the airport!
November 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM
It's astonishing that, in 2025, the point has yet to get through to norms-obsessed prosecutors. A lot of books on this stuff were best-sellers; you can buy them at the airport!
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What makes a banana republic a banana republic is not any prosecution of the outgoing administration, but baseless, politically motivated prosecution. There is a whole literature which teaches that, if crimes against the public order occurred, failing to prosecute them hastens democratic decline.
November 17, 2025 at 3:18 PM
What makes a banana republic a banana republic is not any prosecution of the outgoing administration, but baseless, politically motivated prosecution. There is a whole literature which teaches that, if crimes against the public order occurred, failing to prosecute them hastens democratic decline.
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I urge members of the legal profession to realize that prosecuting individuals who seek to overturn the constitutional order is not "retaliation" in any normatively significant sense.
November 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I urge members of the legal profession to realize that prosecuting individuals who seek to overturn the constitutional order is not "retaliation" in any normatively significant sense.
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Love the thought process of "Musk is mad about what oh yeah that tracks"
This is a @jamellebouie.net newsletter appreciation post.
This was the first thing I read today:
static.nytimes.com/email-conten...
And it led me to this incredible @adamserwer.bsky.social piece about why Musk is mad that D&D is less racist now
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
This was the first thing I read today:
static.nytimes.com/email-conten...
And it led me to this incredible @adamserwer.bsky.social piece about why Musk is mad that D&D is less racist now
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why doesn’t JD Vance have more to say about Nick Fuentes?
static.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Love the thought process of "Musk is mad about what oh yeah that tracks"
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I had no idea owning a car and living in a detached house were requirements of being mayor. Oh well nobody gives a fuck about the Washington Post anyway
You guys realize that taxing people to pay for services isn't socialism, right? This is just how governments work.
November 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I had no idea owning a car and living in a detached house were requirements of being mayor. Oh well nobody gives a fuck about the Washington Post anyway
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Hard to find a clearer distillation of the gen ai project.
White nationalist talking points and racial pseudoscience: welcome to Elon Musk’s Grokipedia
World’s richest person wanted to ‘purge’ propaganda from Wikipedia, so he created a compendium of racist disinformation
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Hard to find a clearer distillation of the gen ai project.