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Taylor Upchurch
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jayteeyou.bsky.social
Fuckin knew it!
htfcuddles.mmfcomic.com htfcuddles @htfcuddles.mmfcomic.com · 1d
Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"?

Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
Google to pay $68 million over allegations its voice assistant eavesdropped on users
Class-action lawsuit alleged that Google's voice assistant illegally recorded and shared private conversations with advertisers.
www.cbsnews.com
February 3, 2026 at 1:08 AM
jayteeyou.bsky.social
Achievement Unlocked: receive mountain lion text alert from SF
January 27, 2026 at 5:43 AM
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nikitagill.bsky.social
This hit so fucking hard today.
CHARLES RAFFERTY The Problem with Early Warnings People don't like to leave a party unless the house is actually on fire. Even then, if the flames are far enough away to be pretty, they'll finish their drink, take one more pass at the hors d'oeuvres. How things happen has always been unclear. Hurricanes begin in a place where no one lives. Agents of the government start to wear masks. Fascism is a word my neighbors won't use yet. They are following the law, they say, and the sirens are coming for someone else.
January 26, 2026 at 8:52 PM
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elmcitytree.blacksky.app
Ta-Nehisi has a way of clarifying things. So good to read him today.
It’s in Vanity Fair but I got past the paywall by using Apple News.
“The Homeland” Is War on America: The Blood-and-Soil Nationalism That Killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti — Vanity Fair
In the time following 9/11, even conservatives voiced skepticism of the proposed Department of Homeland Security, writes Ta-Nehisi Coates. Now, Trump seeks to cleanse, purge, and expand this so-called...
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January 26, 2026 at 7:52 PM
jayteeyou.bsky.social
Great to see Alex Pareene back
January 26, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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jonbois.bsky.social
it's equal parts great and bizarre to see someone in office who seems genuinely proud to be a public servant
mayor.nyc.gov Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 9d
We're getting a snowstorm tomorrow. But New York City is prepared.
January 25, 2026 at 4:50 PM
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margaret.bsky.social
It's genuinely a leaderless (or leaderful) movement, decentralized in a way that the state is absolutely unequipped to handle. There are a few basic skills involved, and so people teach each other those skills, and people are collectively refining them.
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
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gaykwon.bsky.social
This dude is intense and correct
January 15, 2026 at 9:05 AM
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grantbrisbee.bsky.social
They give out awards for the seemingly meaningless science that leads to breakthroughs. You can draw a direct line from cone snail research in the 70s to non-opioid pain relief. www.goldengooseaward.org
January 16, 2026 at 12:22 AM
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ositanwanevu.com
I wrote about Renee Good, Venezuela, Greenland, and what it means to be a human being. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
America, JD Vance tells us, is merely a nation like many others ⁠– a “homeland”, he said upon accepting his nomination to the vice-presidency, for “people with a shared history and a common future”. That’s a vision of American identity that would have described bands of cavepeople in skins just as well or better. Stephen Miller’s proleptic defense of seizing Greenland last week suggests the Trumpists themselves know this. “We live in a world, in the real world ... that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,” he declared. “These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.” Miller’s laws are the laws of animals. It is true, obviously, that high ideals have long been deployed to obscure or justify predation, here and elsewhere. But Miller’s stance and the stance of the administration is that there aren’t, actually, any high ideals worth pursuing or even pretending to – that the human being, in itself, is nothing so much ⁠and that we are, fundamentally and forever, primitives. Against the demands and best aspirations of civilization – western or any kind – they tell us the human being is a creature that yearns for nothing more than blood and soil, which is, of course, just mud. The lust for mud has taken up many guises in our history and has been many given names of late – neo-reaction, post-liberalism, fascism. But the name familiar to most is evil. It was evil – the standpoint that only might matters, that human morality, and our sense of reality itself, must yield to the turfism of the primates with the biggest clubs – that ginned up the propaganda that provoked an act of terrorism against our legislature and the policemen defending it five years ago. It is evil that undergirds pronouncements from the same voices responsible for that attack, in defense of the man who shot Renee Nicole Good, that those who disobey the commands of law enforcement, however unsound or unjust, deserve summary execution – that implies, as Fox’s Jesse Watters and others have, that Good’s killing was of trivial significance because she was a lesbian “with pronouns in her bio”. It is evil that sends innocent men to foreign gulags, evil that condemns hundreds of thousands of destitute people abroad to death without a moment’s discussion or debate about what the country they had depended on might owe them, or the furnishing of alternative arrangements for their wellbeing. The gutting of USAID remains this administration’s worst and least surprising offense against the human conscience – a president who rejects the idea that we might have obligations to all within our society can’t be expected to wonder or worry about whether we have obligations to those outside of it. This is also why, after all the noise and nonsense about the need to depose the Maduro regime, the Venezuelan people are now being told that regime will be left in mostly in place for as long as it takes to secure and extract the country’s resources on our terms – that Venezuela will not see democracy unless and until it is profitable for the United States. Democracy has always been a useless abstraction to those who deny we have basic human entitlements – for those who believe, instead, that the idea of human liberty is a luxury for those wealthy and powerful enough to consider themselves our betters rather than the birthright of all. As many who’ve taken to the streets in protest have noted, the Trump administration’s assaults on liberty here at home are the kinds of abuses that spurred the revolution we will commemorate this year. But no grand revolution is in the offing this time around. The only just and plausible recourse for our situation is politics – understood not merely as the contest to win any given set of elections but as the broader fight to forge a republic that honors and strengthens our humanity. The American project must and will succeed. Its enemies stand for too little. Our lives are worth too much.
January 14, 2026 at 3:26 PM
jayteeyou.bsky.social
As someone who struggles not to be too cynical about things, I find this topic induces a specific brand of despair
List of several real-life events Kalshi and Polymarket are taking wagers on
January 14, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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thesaintoftous.bsky.social
I saw this video of a Vietnam vet in the fur coat yelling at ICE and thought to myself, "this is missing something," before I realized, "Ah, of course, the Ether instrumental. It's so obvious."
January 9, 2026 at 7:53 PM
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philabcoulter.bsky.social
Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.
January 9, 2026 at 1:50 AM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
Sometimes all you can do is make the world 0.0000000000001% less awful by being a good person and it feels very meaningless but it’s also the only thing that really matters
January 7, 2026 at 7:49 PM
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dly.bsky.social
every seat in a movie theater should have an "I have to pee" button and if enough people press it they should be able to pause the movie
January 7, 2026 at 2:08 AM
jayteeyou.bsky.social
Very interesting and informative read
parismarx.com Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 29d
Given everything happening right now, I updated this article with options for weather apps, web forms, and translation services — along with some tweaks to existing categories.

I hope it helps your transition off US tech!
parismarx.com Paris Marx @parismarx.com · Jul 18
Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies.

For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!
January 4, 2026 at 9:54 PM
jayteeyou.bsky.social
Just went to Buc-ees for the first time
December 30, 2025 at 6:09 PM
jayteeyou.bsky.social
Continuing to live my life in SF feeling as if I've dodged a bullet by not falling into this world even tangentially all these years
December 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
jayteeyou.bsky.social
Always did love this song
youtu.be/WZBUTpYdBb4?...
The Octopus Project - Mendoza
YouTube video by RV Nikodem
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December 14, 2025 at 2:29 AM
jayteeyou.bsky.social
Just saw Train Dreams, so there ya go
December 10, 2025 at 3:32 AM
jayteeyou.bsky.social
Lovely unexpected encounter yesterday in the Mission
November 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM
jayteeyou.bsky.social
Came home to find a mystery Doordash order on my doorstep for a single can of Coke. Kicking off Christmas season early this year it seems!
Doordash receipt for a single can of Coke, for an "Snn A."
November 27, 2025 at 1:33 AM
jayteeyou.bsky.social
Passionate disagreement in my feed this morning vis-a-vis Finnish railway gauges.

In fairness, I did sign up for Bluesky knowing it would eventually come to this
jonworth.eu Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · Nov 24
FFS 😡

FINLAND IS NOT RE-GAUGING ITS RAILWAYS

Just because an urbanist influencer has posted a 6 months old piece (that was anyway inaccurate) about it does not mean it is happening!

Finland *might* lay some additional standard gauge track from Sweden to Oulu
November 24, 2025 at 9:12 PM
jayteeyou.bsky.social
Sorry but I can't stand this take.

Women are getting elected to statewide office all over. Blue states and red.

Scolding people that because Clinton and Harris failed to do it, that must mean it can't be done. And it plants seeds of doubt in any other potential woman candidates. Hate it!
cwebbonline.com Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · Nov 15
Do you want to know why Michelle Obama won’t run for president?

Here it is, and she’s not wrong…
November 16, 2025 at 8:20 PM
jayteeyou.bsky.social
This is poetically beautiful I have to say
derek.bike derek van vliet @derek.bike · Nov 5
good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
guy said, “Do you like Marx?” I said, “I haven’t met him.” Guy said, “No, no, he’s dead.” “Wow, what happened?” “No, no, he died long ago.” I thought the guy Marx had just died. So then, “Why are you asking me if he died long ago?” “No, he wrote a lot. He wrote that poor people should not be poor.” I said, “Sounds amazing.” I’m giving you a sense of how naïve I was. After they left, I went to the library to look for Marx. So that was my introduction to Karl Marx. BS: The FBI. MM: The FBI. Then, of course, I took a class on Marx. Couldn’t just get Marx out of the library. But,
November 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM