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Gene Ahern
@geneahern.bsky.social
· Jan 22
To root out propaganda, don’t mistake ‘truth’ for advantage
@miriamlikespie.bsky.social posted a note about this before I did. Kudos to her. But for those who don't wish to aid Zuckerberg's march towards world domination by engaging with Instagram, here's the video she's referring to (with Instagram link to credit the artist—she's a painter).
Prevent Google Gemini AI from scraping your Gmail accounts. This video, from tidymoose (Ivanka Siolkowsky) on Instagram, walks you through the Gmail settings to change. www.instagram.com/reel/DRDyNAw...
November 16, 2025 at 9:29 PM
@miriamlikespie.bsky.social posted a note about this before I did. Kudos to her. But for those who don't wish to aid Zuckerberg's march towards world domination by engaging with Instagram, here's the video she's referring to (with Instagram link to credit the artist—she's a painter).
Prevent Google Gemini AI from scraping your Gmail accounts. This video, from tidymoose (Ivanka Siolkowsky) on Instagram, walks you through the Gmail settings to change. www.instagram.com/reel/DRDyNAw...
November 16, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Prevent Google Gemini AI from scraping your Gmail accounts. This video, from tidymoose (Ivanka Siolkowsky) on Instagram, walks you through the Gmail settings to change. www.instagram.com/reel/DRDyNAw...
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Link to BBC interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXzJ...
November 13, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Link to BBC interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXzJ...
BBC Panorama's 'Trump: A Second Chance?' was overlooked in the US until the Felon's dirty tricks drew Streisand Effect attention to it.
Broadcast before the election on 28 Oct 2024, @hcrichardson.bsky.social pointed out what we are presently experiencing—the rapid deployment of the fascist state.
Broadcast before the election on 28 Oct 2024, @hcrichardson.bsky.social pointed out what we are presently experiencing—the rapid deployment of the fascist state.
November 12, 2025 at 8:30 PM
BBC Panorama's 'Trump: A Second Chance?' was overlooked in the US until the Felon's dirty tricks drew Streisand Effect attention to it.
Broadcast before the election on 28 Oct 2024, @hcrichardson.bsky.social pointed out what we are presently experiencing—the rapid deployment of the fascist state.
Broadcast before the election on 28 Oct 2024, @hcrichardson.bsky.social pointed out what we are presently experiencing—the rapid deployment of the fascist state.
The United States cannot afford to wait for the Democrats to learn. The country lacks an opposition party.
No one in politics is defending the Constitution.
Don't be surprised if it is gutted by the 250 anniversary of independence.
No one in politics is defending the Constitution.
Don't be surprised if it is gutted by the 250 anniversary of independence.
November 11, 2025 at 5:59 PM
The United States cannot afford to wait for the Democrats to learn. The country lacks an opposition party.
No one in politics is defending the Constitution.
Don't be surprised if it is gutted by the 250 anniversary of independence.
No one in politics is defending the Constitution.
Don't be surprised if it is gutted by the 250 anniversary of independence.
I think I've been found: I'm not monetizing anything; not gaming or polishing content www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
It’s Cool to Have No Followers Now
As social media has become older, more manipulable, and more automated by artificial intelligence, flouting online popularity has gained a new cachet.
www.newyorker.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:08 AM
I think I've been found: I'm not monetizing anything; not gaming or polishing content www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
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Eastern European dissidents became experts in authoritarian takeovers, and authoritarians, of all kinds. What lessons can Americans learn from them? https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/how-to-endure-authoritarianism
How to Endure Authoritarianism
A visit to a poet’s home in Kraków recalls the lessons of Eastern Europe’s dissidents.
www.newyorker.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Eastern European dissidents became experts in authoritarian takeovers, and authoritarians, of all kinds. What lessons can Americans learn from them? https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/how-to-endure-authoritarianism
We live in repulsive times.
This is what oligarchy looks like:
If you're Elon Musk, the richest man alive, Tesla gives you a $1 trillion pay package & Trump gives you a huge tax break.
If you're a poor kid on SNAP, Trump appeals a court decision that would have prevented you from going hungry.
Obscene.
If you're Elon Musk, the richest man alive, Tesla gives you a $1 trillion pay package & Trump gives you a huge tax break.
If you're a poor kid on SNAP, Trump appeals a court decision that would have prevented you from going hungry.
Obscene.
November 7, 2025 at 4:07 AM
We live in repulsive times.
“the world became stupider”
Internet Archive and Open Library founder Brewster Kahle on a 'the operation was successful, but the patient died' moment. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Internet Archive and Open Library founder Brewster Kahle on a 'the operation was successful, but the patient died' moment. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost
“We survived, but it wiped out the library,” Internet Archive’s founder says.
arstechnica.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:32 PM
“the world became stupider”
Internet Archive and Open Library founder Brewster Kahle on a 'the operation was successful, but the patient died' moment. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Internet Archive and Open Library founder Brewster Kahle on a 'the operation was successful, but the patient died' moment. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
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Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
November 5, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
Nancy Pelosi reaches the conclusion we should reached with him before 2016. Trump is 'worst thing on the face of the earth'. He should have, like Hitler, been drowned at birth.
His existence gives permission to Germany to fall back into Nazi-ism and the rest of the world to follow.
His existence gives permission to Germany to fall back into Nazi-ism and the rest of the world to follow.
November 5, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Nancy Pelosi reaches the conclusion we should reached with him before 2016. Trump is 'worst thing on the face of the earth'. He should have, like Hitler, been drowned at birth.
His existence gives permission to Germany to fall back into Nazi-ism and the rest of the world to follow.
His existence gives permission to Germany to fall back into Nazi-ism and the rest of the world to follow.
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Imagine,if you will: Laura Loomer—Trump’s botoxed Rasputin, hissing conspiracies, frothing hatred, and basking in her delusion of power.
A carnival ghoul in dark robes, as welcome as a flesh eating virus at a family picnic, proving that extremism not only survives—it gets facelifts.
A carnival ghoul in dark robes, as welcome as a flesh eating virus at a family picnic, proving that extremism not only survives—it gets facelifts.
November 4, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Imagine,if you will: Laura Loomer—Trump’s botoxed Rasputin, hissing conspiracies, frothing hatred, and basking in her delusion of power.
A carnival ghoul in dark robes, as welcome as a flesh eating virus at a family picnic, proving that extremism not only survives—it gets facelifts.
A carnival ghoul in dark robes, as welcome as a flesh eating virus at a family picnic, proving that extremism not only survives—it gets facelifts.
This methodology explains every post FOTUS makes on his personal social media platform truth social (of which he owns 52%).
Starting with its nomenclature that posts are called “truths” and reposts are called “retruths,” it is all propaganda.
Starting with its nomenclature that posts are called “truths” and reposts are called “retruths,” it is all propaganda.
November 3, 2025 at 1:42 PM
This methodology explains every post FOTUS makes on his personal social media platform truth social (of which he owns 52%).
Starting with its nomenclature that posts are called “truths” and reposts are called “retruths,” it is all propaganda.
Starting with its nomenclature that posts are called “truths” and reposts are called “retruths,” it is all propaganda.
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Pogo by Walt Kelly from October 31, 1955. One of several annual strips marking the birthday of his daughter Kathryn Barbara Kelly, who died as an infant. In these strips, the bug was always trying to deliver a cake with one candle to someone for their first birthday but could never find them.
October 31, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Pogo by Walt Kelly from October 31, 1955. One of several annual strips marking the birthday of his daughter Kathryn Barbara Kelly, who died as an infant. In these strips, the bug was always trying to deliver a cake with one candle to someone for their first birthday but could never find them.
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I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak
October 22, 2025 at 11:53 AM
I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak
From Andrea Gibson’s book Take Me WIth You
October 31, 2025 at 12:34 PM
From Andrea Gibson’s book Take Me WIth You
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The top three things Jesus was on about were feeding the hungry, healing the sick, and welcoming the stranger. Rich men have convinced so-called Christians to starve the hungry, gut health care, and deport the stranger to enrich themselves. It’s astoundingly anti-Christ.
October 31, 2025 at 5:02 AM
The top three things Jesus was on about were feeding the hungry, healing the sick, and welcoming the stranger. Rich men have convinced so-called Christians to starve the hungry, gut health care, and deport the stranger to enrich themselves. It’s astoundingly anti-Christ.
This is the _smallest_ measure of justice for Virginia Giuffre. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
Prince Andrew stripped of 'prince' title and will move out of Royal Lodge
Buckingham Palace says he will now been known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. Virginia Giuffre's family say she has
www.bbc.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 10:51 PM
This is the _smallest_ measure of justice for Virginia Giuffre. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
Serial liar's claims of lies are lies.
This is the entirely of the FOTUS regime.
It's why the head of the snake is what has to be cut off: top-down management trajectory collapses with elimination of the head. bsky.app/profile/atru...
This is the entirely of the FOTUS regime.
It's why the head of the snake is what has to be cut off: top-down management trajectory collapses with elimination of the head. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Kristi Noem: "No American citizens have been arrested or detained. We focus on those who are here illegally. And anything you would hear or report that would be different than that is simply not true and false reporting."
October 30, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Serial liar's claims of lies are lies.
This is the entirely of the FOTUS regime.
It's why the head of the snake is what has to be cut off: top-down management trajectory collapses with elimination of the head. bsky.app/profile/atru...
This is the entirely of the FOTUS regime.
It's why the head of the snake is what has to be cut off: top-down management trajectory collapses with elimination of the head. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Waiting for someone to explain why the announcement of a trade relationship that is worse than the one we had a year ago is received as a big success
October 30, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Waiting for someone to explain why the announcement of a trade relationship that is worse than the one we had a year ago is received as a big success
@blackholefun.bsky.social offers perhaps the most plausible explanation for Mike Johnson's failure to act in any way. He's AI slop. bsky.app/profile/thed...
You now have me convinced that Mike Johnson is an LLM whose training data stopped last year 😂
October 30, 2025 at 5:48 PM
@blackholefun.bsky.social offers perhaps the most plausible explanation for Mike Johnson's failure to act in any way. He's AI slop. bsky.app/profile/thed...
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Cover by Carl Barks.
October 30, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Cover by Carl Barks.
Steve Bannon in his recent interview with The Economist said FOTUS will have hoods third term in 2028. He didn’t say how. @anneapplebaum.bsky.social gives us David A. Graham’s warning about some ways this power grab could take place.
Americans are on the verge of losing their ability to choose their government. But they don't seem to have realized it yet.
Donald Trumps plan to subvert the midterms is underway
From David Graham, on the cover of the next edition of @theatlantic.com
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
From David Graham, on the cover of the next edition of @theatlantic.com
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
October 30, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Steve Bannon in his recent interview with The Economist said FOTUS will have hoods third term in 2028. He didn’t say how. @anneapplebaum.bsky.social gives us David A. Graham’s warning about some ways this power grab could take place.
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Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."
October 27, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."
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From Li'l Folks by Charles M. Schulz.
October 23, 2025 at 8:31 PM
From Li'l Folks by Charles M. Schulz.