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🎃🪦 BLOODSUGARSETHMASKET 🪦🎃 @smotus.bsky.social · 28d

There's a wrong way and a right way to report this

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Hector J @hectoroni.bsky.social · Sep 7

Or data centers for feeding brain rot.

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Hector J @hectoroni.bsky.social · Sep 3

Especially annoyed at the appropriation of the word grindcore.

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Hector J @hectoroni.bsky.social · Aug 31

No, RFK Jr, those kids look that way because they think you’re a creepy old man.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Aug 31

New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!

PUBLIC HEALTH ORDER
NEW MEXICO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
SECRETARY GINA DEBLASSIE
AUGUST 29, 2025
Ensuring Availability of COVID-19 Vaccine for the 2025-2026 Season

THIS ORDER supersedes any previous order, proclamation, or directives to the extent they are in conflict. This Public Order shall take effect immediately and remain in effect until such time as it automatically expires one year from the date of issuance, or until such time as the New Mexico Department of Health Cabinet Secretary rescinds it.

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Hector J @hectoroni.bsky.social · Aug 28

The Constitution is ultimately undemocratic. Both are illegitimate. Both can be true.

Hector J @hectoroni.bsky.social · Aug 26

“Life skills” classes teach conformity and are for capitalist indoctrination.

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Hector J @hectoroni.bsky.social · Aug 15

More like Yeltsin’s Russia, since MAGA is about nostalgia.

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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · Aug 14

A Simple Guide to Spotting Pseudoscience | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/crit...

A Simple Guide to Spotting Pseudoscience

Learn what pseudoscience is, why it’s persuasive, and how to recognize it so that you can stay open-minded without being misled.

www.psychologytoday.com

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Hector J @hectoroni.bsky.social · Aug 13

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · Aug 9

No one, no matter their age, should have to hand over their passport or driver’s license just to access legal information and speak freely. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Blocking Access to Harmful Content Will Not Protect Children Online,

The UK is having a moment. In late July, new rules took effect that require all online services available in the UK to assess whether they host content considered harmful to children, and if so,

www.eff.org

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Hector J @hectoroni.bsky.social · Aug 8

My first thought was “I remember someone writing something spot-on about how the media manufactures outrage years ago”, looked it up and realized that was also you. 🙂 medium.com/@parkermollo...

The surreal experience of a viral tweet

People are so sensitive these days! People are just offended by every little thing! Millennials, amirite?!

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Hector J @hectoroni.bsky.social · Aug 6

RIP Flaco youtu.be/CXrwwHaBrb0 #texmex #norteño

Flaco Jimenez - En Vivo (1976)

YouTube video by drcossnuevoleon

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Hector J @hectoroni.bsky.social · Aug 4

Help stop cuts to public transit #publictransit #caltrain #samtrans #trains #busses

actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...

Urge SamTrans to support a progressive tax option in the transit funding regional measure

A regional public transit funding measure is being planned to prevent dire cuts and improve service for Bay Area transit. Right now, the authorizing legislation for the measure only includes a sales ...

actionnetwork.org

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Hector J @hectoroni.bsky.social · Aug 3

Ruben Gallego and Peter Welch

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · Jul 29

this story is huge and you should share it far and wide

molly taft @mollytaft.com · Jul 29

SCOOP from me: Trump's AI action plan released last week makes a specific set of recommendations around loosening Clean Water Act permits for data centers — recommendations mirrored in letters sent to the administration by Big Tech lobbyists earlier this year:

Big Tech Asked for Looser Clean Water Act Permitting. Trump Wants to Give It to Them

New AI regulations suggested by the White House mirror changes to environmental permitting suggested by Meta and a lobbying group representing firms like Google and Amazon Web Services.

www.wired.com

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Hector J @hectoroni.bsky.social · Jul 22

“Unfortunately, bad people benefitting is the only way I can become a billionaire.”

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · Jul 17

While progressives often get accused of undermining the Democratic Party, the evidence shows that it’s the moderate wing that most often violates the “Vote Blue No Matter Who” principle.

https://trib.al/ayccoO7

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Hector J @hectoroni.bsky.social · Jul 15

3 new jangle, slacker, post-punk tracks written and performed by me. Out now everywhere: vaxer.bandcamp.com/album/loving...

#blueskymusic #postpunk #indierock

Loving Sun, by Vaxer

3 track album

vaxer.bandcamp.com

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Hector J @hectoroni.bsky.social · Jul 15

The woman has a choice on whether to numb herself or not. Statistically, home births are more dangerous. That is a fact. Stop spreading misinformation.

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Hector J @hectoroni.bsky.social · Jul 14

But you keep using ad hominem attacks, appeals to emotion, false equivalence and a straw man argument, so what is the point of engaging anymore?

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Hector J @hectoroni.bsky.social · Jul 14

The UK was. I don’t think fascism should be fought via pausing democracy. The subject at hand isn’t 1940 but a peace prize. I don’t know what shoving young men into vans and forcing them into war says “peace.”

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Hector J @hectoroni.bsky.social · Jul 14

Yes, I would have objected to Stalin’s brutal conscription squads, crushing of dissent and totalitarian consolidation of media, something the democracies in UK and US did not do (other than the UK banning the communist party, which was also wrong).

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Hector J @hectoroni.bsky.social · Jul 14

I’m describing both.