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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 2h

Weirdly enough, I think this works. No one is more insecure than a new ICE agent. They want to be the blonde guy in DHS’s AI Nazi posting so badly. Instead, they’ll be guarding indistinguishable suburban warehouse #16361 while inflated frogs and dinosaurs thrust in their face all day every day.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4h

Local cops are not on the side of Democratic politicians or under their actual control. People refuse to understand this too even though we've been making this point for decades.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 5h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 14h

Columbus City Schools may have to stop bussing high school students entirely because Ohio law requires public school districts to prioritize bussing for charter and private school students - and the state is already fining Columbus more than $10 million/year for not complying enough

Honesty for Ohio Education @honesty4ohioed.bsky.social · 17h

Columbus City Schools Board of Education has voted to remove a requirement that the district provide busing for high schoolers as a potential cost-saving move amid district financial challenges.
www.dispatch.com/story/news/e...

Columbus Schools board votes to remove requirement to bus high schoolers

Columbus City Schools voted to remove a requirement that the district provide busing for high schoolers as a potential cost-saving move.

www.dispatch.com

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pumpkin spice amb 🎃 @amb.fyi · 15h

even setting aside whatever it means for the vote on the release of the epstein files, we're at a very grim place if the republicans are straight up refusing to seat people democratically elected to congress

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 15h

Today marks yet another day that Speaker Mike Johnson has denied Adelita Grijalva her right to govern.

She won her special election on Sept 23rd but has yet to be sworn in.

Why? Because she will become the 218th vote needed to discharge the release of the Epstein files.

Say her name.

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BK @whitesox.bsky.social · 17h

How can you not be romantic about baseball

Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 17h

the guy who caught cal raleigh’s homer was wearing a shirt that said dump 61 here and he immediately took it off and had a shirt that said dump 62 here

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18h

thank you brett kavanaugh!

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 18h

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 18h

Never before in American history has one state's military force been deployed in another state over its objection.

I say never because the Civil War involved states whose governments legally ceased to exist, their offices vacated by constructive resignation, with no legitimate governors to object.

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Billy @wavdl.blog · 18h

I'd say they were very successful. Private land ownership is the root of so much evil.

From The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein

Billy @wavdl.blog · 18h

"Terrified by the 1917 Russian revolution, government officials came to believe that communism could be defeated in the United States by getting as many white Americans as possible to become homeowners--the idea being that those who owned property would be invested in the capitalist system."

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 18h

Using AI to keep watching videos of a dead person is frankly sinister. Just reveals a culture obsessed iwth never moving forward or looking ahead, just wallowing in increasingly degraded and unnatural rehashes of its own memories

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 19h

Zelda Williams urges fans to stop sending AI videos of her father, Robin Williams:

“Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I’ll understand, I don’t and I won’t. If you’re just trying to troll me, I’ve seen way worse, I’ll restrict and move on.”

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Billy @wavdl.blog · 20h

"I watched several kids cross in front of me and I just kept driving and one ended up on my hood somehow" fucking psychopath

Then it got real for me. A group of kids on scooters ran a red light on Summit and Warren Streets, the slowest rider ending up on the hood of my car as I was driving through the intersection.

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Billy @wavdl.blog · 20h

At least they didn't publish an Op-Ed about how angry they are that they hit a child with their car

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Mission Local @missionlocal.org · 20h

A man was killed in a hit-and-run in Bernal Heights early Saturday morning.

The car was speeding down Cortland Ave when the crash happened. Residents say speeding on Cortland is frequent and want reforms.

via @io-y-g.bsky.social

missionlocal.org/2025/10/sf-b...

Man killed by speeding car in predawn Bernal Heights hit-and-run

The crash occurred on Cortland, where cars frequently speed. Several other pedestrian fatalities have happened on the street.

missionlocal.org

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Billy @wavdl.blog · 1d

We're so allergic to concrete we're bolting rubber to the ground but okay fine, I'll take it, this should last longer than a week

Columbus Public Service @columbusdps.bsky.social · 1d

We've installed rubber medians along Thurman Ave for traffic calming, which we'll evaluate through the winter. This quick-build pilot project is an example of how our updated Complete Streets Policy expands our abilities to rapidly innovate and reach our @visionzerocbus.bsky.social safety goals.

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Billy @wavdl.blog · 1d

I'm dreading just hitting the leetcode problem slot machine when I have verifiable sources/references that show I have been a good software engineer everywhere I've ever worked and I wouldn't have even been allowed to work at those places if I didn't *already succeeded at random leetcode problems*

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Billy @wavdl.blog · 1d

Hiring processes are weird because I think my resume looks pretty good, but of course I could be lying about my achievements and that's why we have interviews but then you get to the first round of interviews and it does nothing whatsoever to verify that I am actually good at what I said I'm good at

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Billy @wavdl.blog · 1d

What a turd

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

Billy @wavdl.blog · 1d

If my pay was being held hostage and then some big fucking dweeb got on TV and said "actually we might never pay you for your essential life saving work" I might call out sick too

Burbank Airport air traffic control tower goes unmanned for hours amid government shutdown

There were frustrating delays and cancellations on Monday evening at Burbank Airport as the government shutdown triggered a shortage of air traffic controllers.

abc7.com

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Billy @wavdl.blog · 1d

I tell ya, maybe this whole Bluesky experiment isn't what it was sold to be!

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Billy @wavdl.blog · 1d

It doesn't restrict anyone's freedom to do or to view anything on the site whatsoever, it's just the statement of an opinion on the suitableness of a type of content. And that's such an egregious affront to the purpose of moderation tools that they'll go out of their way to remove it?

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Billy @wavdl.blog · 1d

Isn't "shame" like the barest, most non-intrusive form of moderation that can possibly exist?

It's the only naturally occurring form I can think of across all modes of human socializing. And that's going too far?

carrion🐛 @carrion.bsky.social · 1d

just don’t create a moderation list, bluesky said that’s bad

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Leif Hancox-Li, PhD @struthious.bsky.social · 1d

genuinely curious how different the last 15 years would have been if the europeans had realized earlier that relying on american tech companies was a mistake, and developed their own sovereign tech ecosystems.

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Billy @wavdl.blog · 1d

@icecube45.net is on it

icecube45 @icecube45.net · Sep 5

*ahem*

wedge in SF shop

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Billy @wavdl.blog · 1d

This article at least contains a quote from Von saying something the administration did was "fucked up". So props to rolling stone for providing some shred of actual evidence towards this narrative.

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 1d

“I voted for none of this."

Prominent influencers, including Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schulz, are starting to distance themselves from the president they helped propel to the White House.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...