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David Rolfe

@dorolfe.bsky.social

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Single dad. Gen-X humanist. Program for work, make electronic music for fun. Listen at https://soundcloud.com/dorolfe

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David Rolfe @dorolfe.bsky.social · Oct 12

My pt is yes we can pick out fake news videos today. We can trust our experience today.

We’re going to rely on companies to be trustworthy even when lies are cheaper? Where will trustworthy news come from? Freelancers we know? Through what channel? How will they eat and travel? With whose money?

David Rolfe @dorolfe.bsky.social · Oct 11

Enabling the destruction of trust at scale and speed seems bad tho.

Even people with good epistemologies are going to have a hard time when there’s no reliable custody of evidence. Where will we be when all human sensation is subject to a gish-gallop of BS generated faster than discarded?

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David Rolfe @dorolfe.bsky.social · 2h

It’s gonna be wild if scotus rules that doctors can give you fatal advice.

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•Anti-capitalist meme pebbler• @seizethememez.bsky.social · 1d

They sell us individualism because we can't defeat them alone.

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Johnny Normality (Spooky Mode) @probgobl.in · 4d

With alt text for anyone who needs it:

A section of a Wikipedia article entitled "Outside video games":
Rocket jumping has appeared in other media as well.
- In William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, a reference is made to being hoisted with his own petard, or being lifted by the explosion of one's own bomb.

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Liz @lizbarr.bsky.social · 4h

The girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa (also one of the founders of antifa)

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 4h

“The girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

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David Rolfe @dorolfe.bsky.social · 4h

For the second time today, Republicans could stop the killing anytime they want

they must like it

Republicans in Congress want more of us to die.

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 4h

Trump has been illegally bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela.

Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff forced a vote on reasserting Congress's role over war powers and ending this reckless
warmongering.

It failed 48-51.

Murkowski and Paul voted yes.

Fetterman voted no.

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Trekkie Bill 🖖🏻 @trekkiebill.bsky.social · 4h

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

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Adrian Walking Dead 🧟‍♂️ 🦇 @adrianswalker.blacksky.app · 5h

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

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Matt Wagner @mattwag.bsky.social · 5h

“The girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Rosie the Riveter, a painting of a woman wearing a denim work coverall, protective goggles on top of her head, and loafers sitting with a rivet gun in her lap and holding a sandwich. She is sitting in front of a waving flag of the United States of America.

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Mari Cohn @maricohn.bsky.social · 5h

“The girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 5h

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Natalie Portman with a shaved head in the film V for Vendetta, which is a movie not real life, gazes at the masked anarchist revolutionary V, who again, is not real life but based on a comic book character.

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Not (A.) I. @aerialeverything.cryptoanarchy.network · 5h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

Miss Piggy wearing a leather jacket with leopard print collar and cuffs, pearl necklace, pink gloves and a large stone ring.

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David Rolfe @dorolfe.bsky.social · 13h

Why would Republicans in congress permit this to continue unless they like killing us?

Republicans can stop this at any time.

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 14h

when the people who shuttered USAID learn of a diabetic single mother and her disabled son starving to death 9,000 miles away because of aid cuts, they don't see failure or dereliction or tragedy, but rather success: the people they view as unworthy of life are dying

She has no real way of explaining the danger of their situation to her son, who is 17 years old but cognitively closer to a toddler. And as a single mother too weak to forage, she has no real way of ensuring their survival. She also is too old to benefit from a recent policy change the Thai government made in a bid to prevent mass starvation, granting work rights to some of the 107,000 Myanmar refugees who, like her, live in Thailand’s border camps.

Her son never learned to speak, and needs her help with everything from getting dressed to using the toilet. Since the funding cuts, their survival has hinged on the charity of her Christian church, whose members occasionally give her handfuls of their rice.

She suffers from diabetes and high blood pressure, and begins to sweat and grow dizzy when her hunger is at its fiercest. Some days, she eats nothing.

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Brutalismbot @brutalismbot.com · 1d

Stavanger Swimming Hall [Stavanger, Norway] r/brutalism

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Feb 5

that said: I think the "it's not fascism unless they're good at it" brand of analysis probably isn't the move

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 1d

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

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David Rolfe @dorolfe.bsky.social · 1d

I won’t need it anymore so it’s fine.

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Col. Boozy Badger @boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com · 1d

That photo without explanation and in this context on the social media blasts, in context, leads to the easy inference it is a current photo.

They didn’t have any burning buildings from peaceful protests now, so they had to go back 30 years to frame it how they want.

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Col. Boozy Badger @boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com · 1d

Dunno man, seems a little misleading to write an article about Trump describing activity in Portland and Chicago as “insurrection” with a 33 year old photo of a burning donut shop taken in the 1992 LA Riots (sans caption explaining that) as the header on all your posts about it.

The picture from
The article with a picture of an armed men standing in front of a burning donut shop. You must click through to read the caption “
Two National guardsmen stand guard outside a burning donut shop in Los Angeles on April 30, 1992.
The National Guard was called in to aid police during the second day of rioting in the city.”

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 1d

I guess we’re at the “desegregation was bad” op-Ed’s in NYT stage of MAGA’s campaign to create Jim Crow II.

Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 1d

This oped is actually pretty bad. Caldwell claims that “the military of the 2020s has been as overburdened by the imperatives of progressivism as schools were by the duties of racial integration in the 1970s” and that Hegseth “outlined a nuanced vision of the military’s purpose” in his speech.

Opinion | That Hegseth Speech Was Actually Pretty Good

www.nytimes.com

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · Sep 2

Also a pretty fair guess that someone who talks about "the West" and any threats to it is a big racist.

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · Sep 2

Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 2d

Speaking of which...

"I am here because I know that in the fight for the West, I know who my allies are." -- Bari Weiss

bsky.app/profile/dand...

Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 2d

There’s a lot in Bari Weiss’ 2023 FedSoc speech that merits scrutiny but I think the Times did a disservice by closing with this quote — given what she says immediately after. fedsoc.org/commentary/f...

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Jonathan @renewableenergy.bsky.social · 1d

For those wishing to read more about this historic milestone, you can read more here:

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity - BBC News

Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.

www.bbc.com

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Jonathan @renewableenergy.bsky.social · 1d

Huge historic turning point — Renewables surpassed coal as the world’s leading electricity source for the first half of 2025!

#greensky #energysky #renewableenergy

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 1d

The root problem is the Ellisons, and billionaires.

We are going to have to use the FCC in the future to stop billionaire control of our media — as it was designed by its creators to do.

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