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Greg Andree
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Pretty good writer. Reasonably competent HusbandParentMusician. Passable teacher. Old, stubborn, and grumpy. Forever fighting book bans, ignorance, and cruelty. He/Him.
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Greg Andree @gregandree71.bsky.social · 12d
I start every class with my 8th graders during Black History Month with a favorite poem. Today's is from Langston Hughes.
Note To All Nazis Fascists And Klansmen By Langston Hughes You delight, So it would seem, At making mince-meat of my dream. If you keep on, Before you’re through, I’ll make mince-meat Out of you.
gregandree71.bsky.social
"I'll stop the world and melt with you. I've seen some changes, but it's getting better all the time. There's nothing you and I won't do. I'll stop the world and melt with you."

If we could make love songs from fear of nuclear annihilation in the 80s, we can make art and fight fascism presently.
February 14, 2026 at 2:43 PM
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mikexnichols.bsky.social
i often think about this review
Letterboxd screenshot Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) Watched by Branson Reese 28 Apr 2022 Abrams isn't a man so much as he's an avatar of cultural entropy. If you make something popular enough eventually you will die or sell it off and and a person in thick rimmed glasses whose main artistic vision is that he loves to have meetings will take it and sandblast it until it's nothing. I hate to see this happen here but maybe it's good that this happened. Maybe every franchise should collapse into a version of itself that makes shareholders nod and shake each others' hands. We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend.
February 14, 2026 at 3:13 AM
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sher12.bsky.social
Not sure who needs to hear this but the voter fraud rate is a mere 0.000003%. Anyone telling you otherwise is making shit up so they can take away your right to vote.
February 14, 2026 at 12:10 AM
gregandree71.bsky.social
Going to say something wild: Once your chatbot tells you it's become sentient, and lures you to a beach to meet your soulmate that you have loved in 87 previous lives, for you only to be standing alone on a beach . . . Don't let the chatbot lure you out for another date.

www.npr.org/2026/02/14/n...
ChatGPT promised to help her find her soulmate. Then it betrayed her
ChatGPT sent screenwriter Micky Small down a fantastical rabbit hole. Now, she's finding her way out.
www.npr.org
February 14, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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malwaretech.com
It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this
February 14, 2026 at 9:53 AM
gregandree71.bsky.social
Had a dream that I worked in the corporate offices for the Empire, and I was the only one who knew we were in a Star Wars because I could hear the music cues, and no one else could.
February 14, 2026 at 12:34 PM
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atrupar.com
The default assumption should be that they’re lying
DHS: Our officer was ambushed and beaten with snow shovels and broom handles. This was an attempted murder of federal law enforcement. ICE says federal agents appear to have lied about confrontation that led to shooting Agents had initially said that two men — Alfredo Aljorna and Julio Sosa Celis – assaulted them with a broom and a shovel before one of them shot Sosa Celis. But that account was quickly called into question, and prosecutors now say “newly discovered evidence” contradicts the officers’ story.
February 13, 2026 at 10:33 PM
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theintercept.com
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: “I was literally begging the agent who was holding me back to let me do CPR,” she told The Intercept.
The Woman Alex Pretti Was Killed Trying to Defend Is an EMT. Federal Agents Stopped Her From Giving First Aid.
One of the women Alex Pretti was killed trying to defend is an EMT. Federal agents stopped her from giving him first aid.
interc.pt
February 13, 2026 at 3:25 PM
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bookjockeyalex.bsky.social
hi, welcome to the last 20 years of edtech
disabilitystor1.bsky.social Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 1d
A genuinely alarming piece in the NYT about how the developers, scientists and assorted techbros behind "AI companions"/"synthetic care" do not even know or understand the potential harms of the tech they're developing but they're too greedy to stop themselves from developing it.
“Confusion” doesn’t begin to describe our emerging predicament. Seventy-two percent of American teens have turned to A.I. for companionship. A.I. therapists, coaches and lovers are also on the rise. Yet few people realize that some of the frontline technologists building this new world seem deeply ambivalent about what they’re doing. They are so torn, in fact, that some privately admit they don’t plan to use A.I. intimacy tools. “Zero percent of my emotional needs are met by A.I.,” an executive who ran a team mitigating safety risks at a top lab told me. “I’m in it up to my eyeballs at work, and I’m careful.” Many others said the same thing: Even as they build A.I. tools, they hope they never feel the need to turn to machines for emotional support. As a researcher who develops cutting-edge capabilities for artificial emotion put it, “that would be a dark day.” Developers I spoke to said the same incentives that make bots irresistible can stand in the way of reasonable safeguards, making outright abstention the only sure way to stay safe. Some described feeling stuck between protecting users and raising profits: They support guardrails in theory, but don’t want to compromise the product experience in practice. It’s little wonder the protections that do get built can seem largely symbolic — you have to squint to see the fine-print notice that “ChatGPT can make mistakes” or that Character.AI is “not a real person.” “I’ve seen the way people operate in this space,” said one engineer who worked at a number of tech companies. “They’re here to make money. It’s a business at the end of the day.” But even if companies can curb serious dependence on A.I. companions — an open question — many of the developers I spoke with were troubled by even moderate use of these apps. That’s because people who manage to resist full-blown digital companions can still find themselves hooked on A.I.-mediated love. When machines draft texts, craft vows and tell people how to process their own emotions, every relationship turns into “a throuple,” a founder of a conversational A.I. business said. “We’re all polyamorous now. It’s you, me and the A.I.”
February 13, 2026 at 7:45 PM
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alisonstine.bsky.social
My reward for getting some intense and difficult work done today is I'm going to donate to a wolf center which names rodents after your ex and feeds them to the wolves. 😎
February 13, 2026 at 5:38 PM
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lauravivanco.bsky.social
Do you listen to podcasts about romance novels? One of the romance scholars (Dr. Precie A. Schroyer) is inviting you to take part in a research study: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
Microsoft Forms
forms.office.com
February 13, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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heykellyjensen.bsky.social
Local students from the two local high schools walked out against ICE yesterday, meeting up in our town square.

This sign is so damn good.
Sign being held up in a pavilion. It reads "We skipped our lessons to teach you one."
February 13, 2026 at 7:02 PM
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vanhollen.senate.gov
We must never normalize these ongoing attacks by DHS agents on the people they supposedly protect.

Trump, Vance, Miller, & Noem have created a culture of impunity that has led to rampant abuse and killings.

Not one more dime for this lawlessness.
February 13, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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anneursu.bsky.social
and we're all taking that as a big if
normcharlatan.bsky.social Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 1d
Be careful, folks. ICE is still out there, circling the schools this morning. Even if this withdrawal is happening over the next week, some of the agents want to get their last bit of being shitheads in.
February 13, 2026 at 3:51 PM
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internethippo.bsky.social
They taught Al how to talk like a corporate middle manager and thought this meant the Al was conscious instead of realizing that corporate middle managers aren't
February 13, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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gonebabygone.bsky.social
Chadwick Boseman and James van der Beek both died in their 40s of an illness that's treatable if a colonoscopy catches it but almost no insurer covers them for people under 45, this is what Engels meant by "social murder"
February 12, 2026 at 7:08 PM
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weredawgz.blacksky.app
this is the core of most superhero comics, and why folks judging this annoy me.

you know batman is gonna survive, the tension is in OMG HOW

you can know exactly how a movie ends and its better for it, actually
suleikhasnyder.bsky.social Suleikha Snyder @suleikhasnyder.bsky.social · 2d
People have shit-talked romance and the skill it takes to write it since the inception of the genre. Calling the HEA predictable, etc. But you can know an HEA is coming and still bawl your eyes out because it feels like it won’t. A talented author built that tension, mined those emotions.
February 12, 2026 at 3:32 PM
gregandree71.bsky.social
I Melt With You by Modern English #nuclearhits
February 12, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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rincewind.run
Discworld QOTD, from Wyrd Sisters
Granny Weatherwax was often angry. She considered it one of her strong points. Genuine anger was one of the world's greatest creative forces. But you had to learn how to control it. That didn't mean you let it trickle away. It meant you dammed it, carefully, let it develop a working head, let it drown whole valleys of the mind and then, just when the whole structure was about to collapse, opened a tiny pipeline at the base and let the iron-hard stream of wrath power the turbines of revenge.
February 11, 2026 at 9:33 PM
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katemckean.bsky.social
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
February 11, 2026 at 7:56 PM
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markey.senate.gov
Ring’s Super Bowl ad exposed a scary truth: the technology in its doorbell cameras could be used to hunt down a lost pet...or a person. Americans oppose this creepy surveillance state. Amazon must discontinue its dystopian monitoring features.
Screenshot of headline reading: Sen. Markey calls on Amazon to “discontinue” Ring monitoring features. Ring’s Super Bowl ad focused on how its cameras could be networked to find a missing dog, but for a lot of people, it highlighted the surveillance power hiding in those devices. Now Senator Ed Markey (D-Mass.) has sent a letter to Amazon saying, “Get this creepy technology away from our homes.”
February 12, 2026 at 12:29 AM
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ironspike.bsky.social
Rockwell would have painted this.
radleybalko.bsky.social Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 2d
Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones.

Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.
February 12, 2026 at 12:32 AM
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gregandree71.bsky.social
Black History Month, poem of the day with my 8th graders: Paul Laurence Dunbar, We Wear The Mask

"With torn and bleeding hearts we smile . . ."
We Wear the Mask By Paul Laurence Dunbar We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,— This debt we pay to human guile; With torn and bleeding hearts we smile, And mouth with myriad subtleties. Why should the world be over-wise, In counting all our tears and sighs? Nay, let them only see us, while We wear the mask. We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries To thee from tortured souls arise. We sing, but oh the clay is vile Beneath our feet, and long the mile; But let the world dream otherwise, We wear the mask!
February 11, 2026 at 2:44 PM
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machete.gay
back in the day if you got caught trying to film people on the down-low you'd get dragged into the street and beaten and in many ways i think that's more significantly more civilized than tolerating this shit
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · 5d
Social media is awash with videos of men filming themselves approaching women in public spaces and attempting to flirt. In many cases, the videos are filmed and uploaded without the women’s consent. https://cnn.it/4qtIsvB
February 10, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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bekaboomn.bsky.social
Starting to get really fucking irritated that ICE in Minnesota isn't still the top story everywhere all the time.
February 11, 2026 at 12:03 AM