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Intellectual Explorer

@driftingthrough.bsky.social

My personality defects were made in Texas.

created December 27, 2023

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Profile picture Sarah E. Bond (@sarahebond.bsky.social) reposted

See what a difference a headline makes? I far prefer @hyperallergic.com’s coverage. hyperallergic.com/1031310/home...

31/8/2025, 11:47:11 AM | 189 63 | View on Bluesky | view

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Every accusation: an admission.

31/8/2025, 12:07:00 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Angela Collier (@acollierastro.bsky.social) reposted

rich people yoinking stuff and thinking they earned it is a constant of nature. trump thinks he can bully people into giving him a Nobel. people who think prompting AI makes them an artist. losers who cry when people tell them stealing the trophy isn't the same as winning the trophy.

Man Who Snatched Hat From Child At US Open Identified As Polish Millionaire Polish Piotr Szczerek
31/8/2025, 11:51:04 AM | 361 44 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Intellectual Explorer (@driftingthrough.bsky.social)

Capitalism. antinatalism. Eat the rich, or they will eat the children. www.cnbc.com/2025/08/27/a...

30/8/2025, 7:20:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm (@wolvendamien.bsky.social) reposted

A progressive Democrat flipped a staunchly Republican seat in *Iowa*— won it by 10 points, in fact— by running *As A Progressive* focusing on issues of education, and making housing, child care, and health care affordable. Stop running to the right. Stay left, and fight.

27/8/2025, 11:11:51 PM | 2861 986 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elizabeth Spiers (@espiers.bsky.social) reposted

This is part of it; it’s a display of a kind of wealth. But it’s also meant to intimidate. Every old Trumpist dude I know from home who has this kind of arsenal talks a big game about what’s gonna happen the second somebody messes with him but is quietly terrified of anything new he encounters…

28/8/2025, 1:13:09 AM | 755 115 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Intellectual Explorer (@driftingthrough.bsky.social)

Get your 🧪Science🧪 communication right here on Bluesky! arstechnica.com/science/2025...

28/8/2025, 1:04:05 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Intellectual Explorer (@driftingthrough.bsky.social) reply parent

Remember when "a cure for cancer" was an idiom used to indicate a technology horizon for humanity?

24/8/2025, 1:17:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Does this account for resistance to varroa mite and the virus load they carry?

24/8/2025, 1:15:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That's because it's all campaign money grab. Follow the money.

24/8/2025, 12:48:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Intellectual Explorer (@driftingthrough.bsky.social)

US? Make your voice heard about ending minimum wage protection for domestic workers and workers with disability. Only 9 days of public comment! www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

24/8/2025, 12:43:33 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Intellectual Explorer (@driftingthrough.bsky.social)

#Weakness thehill.com/policy/techn...

23/8/2025, 4:03:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture World Bollard Association™️ (@worldbollardassoc.bsky.social) reposted

Robot meets bollard. Nothing beats the #WorldBollardAssociation

23/8/2025, 10:55:26 AM | 3624 782 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Intellectual Explorer (@driftingthrough.bsky.social)

Model civics, in spite of corruption and abuse. Keep pressure on institutions to do the right thing. Thanks Finley Weldon!

23/8/2025, 3:33:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Intellectual Explorer (@driftingthrough.bsky.social) reply parent

There is only one way to make children safe: Fascism, right? They keep repeating the same reruns. It's a rerun cult. Except every accusation is an admission... So it's a rerun vampire cult.

23/8/2025, 4:01:42 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Third Way" sounds like a fashy euphemism. As if Democrats could win if only they could embrace the toxic authoritarian culture... Clinton Democrats are obsolete. That's why they can't win.

23/8/2025, 3:57:19 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Intellectual Explorer (@driftingthrough.bsky.social)

Trump fractionally nationalizing Intel. Fascism no longer subliminal. www.axios.com/2025/08/22/t...

22/8/2025, 7:36:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brendel (@brendelbored.bsky.social) reposted

There’s a thin line between staying as informed as you should and making yourself anxious in a way that is completely unproductive and every single day the news is trying very hard to push you over into the latter

21/8/2025, 12:47:33 PM | 2079 348 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Intellectual Explorer (@driftingthrough.bsky.social)

Quelle surprise! 🙄 theconversation.com/studying-phi...

21/8/2025, 10:15:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (@crockett.house.gov) reposted

Here, fixed it.

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21/8/2025, 6:14:19 PM | 26760 8390 | View on Bluesky | view

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The sad thing is how many people can't really wrap their head around not voting for betrayal.

21/8/2025, 1:02:52 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That's an invitation to submit to authority... As if this hypothetical candidate could not possibly be sympathetic to transgender folk.

21/8/2025, 1:01:17 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) reposted

He means “democracy” but yes

21/8/2025, 12:22:51 PM | 1918 440 | View on Bluesky | view

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Reluctance to accept failure is a learning disability.

21/8/2025, 12:54:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...

21/8/2025, 12:52:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If you want progress, we'll all need to be relentless about telling the "excess deaths" stories with hard data. I think it's actively suppressed. Finding the suppression story will also help.

21/8/2025, 12:48:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I recommend @-ing the author, or at least naming them when making these kinds of op-ed posts. Make it a conversation!

21/8/2025, 12:45:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Large scale is maybe a stretch, but PM me for a real reference. I personally know someone who can teach this kind of thing.

21/8/2025, 12:42:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You're in a bubble. They're in a bubble. Fahrenheit 451 style.

21/8/2025, 12:38:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's important to be explicit that this is aspirational. Note the faces are not identifiable in the photo. Be safe out there.

21/8/2025, 12:36:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Surprise: its fascism!

21/8/2025, 12:35:23 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Now you know how people at the edge of empire feel.

21/8/2025, 12:33:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Intellectual Explorer (@driftingthrough.bsky.social)

Polite revolt. abcnews.go.com/Health/750-h...

21/8/2025, 12:31:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Intellectual Explorer (@driftingthrough.bsky.social)

The wealthy libertarian faction of the GOP is being told Trump is coming for their money like Bernie Sanders. reason.com/2025/08/20/t...

20/8/2025, 11:16:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A fool and his money are soon parted. www.techradar.com/pro/almost-a...

20/8/2025, 6:07:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Intellectual Explorer (@driftingthrough.bsky.social)

It's not science fiction any more.

2009 Adbusters magazine depicting a man and a woman feeling creepy about buying a soda from a vending machine that depicts in stark emotional contrast, the same couple happily enjoying the product with the tagline
20/8/2025, 5:38:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Intellectual Explorer (@driftingthrough.bsky.social)

Novel drugs, pesticides, to enter US beef supply. #CaveatEmptor www.newsnationnow.com/health/hhs-f...

19/8/2025, 6:03:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Intellectual Explorer (@driftingthrough.bsky.social)

Lepiota🍄🤢🤮 No, please do not ever eat these.

Lepiota mushroom growing in turf grass under a prairie drop seed grass tuft. The greenish tint of the identifying spores is barely visible on the gills.
19/8/2025, 5:36:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Intellectual Explorer (@driftingthrough.bsky.social)

We need to be persistent about the gaps in Comer's release of Epstein files. www.axios.com/2025/08/18/d...

19/8/2025, 4:17:02 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Intellectual Explorer (@driftingthrough.bsky.social)

So what is the status of the Epstein files today? #HerEmails 😜

18/8/2025, 4:06:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Intellectual Explorer (@driftingthrough.bsky.social)

How to get on the JRE.

17/8/2025, 8:54:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Are you certain there are people in the kitchen?

17/8/2025, 8:52:46 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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#FailurePlan Instead, we should clarify our policy demands and let the first asshole to fall in lockstep with requisite star power speak in lockstep with us.

17/8/2025, 8:48:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Update:

Reishi mushrooms on a black locust tree. One old, dried out and darkened, above a new fruiting body growing aggressively in ideal weather, also cradling an empty cicada shell.
17/8/2025, 8:43:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Intellectual Explorer (@driftingthrough.bsky.social) reply parent

Exactly

17/8/2025, 12:24:04 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Intellectual Explorer (@driftingthrough.bsky.social) reply parent

It looks like something wind adjacent that we're not supposed to see, but it suggests wind strongly.

16/8/2025, 11:59:27 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Intellectual Explorer (@driftingthrough.bsky.social) reply parent

Pixel wind is a great brand name.

16/8/2025, 6:55:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Intellectual Explorer (@driftingthrough.bsky.social) reply parent

Call and response? Like this? youtu.be/e5MAg_yWsq8

16/8/2025, 6:54:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Be a vampire slayer.

16/8/2025, 6:50:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Marcin Ignac (@marcinignac.bsky.social) reposted

Eye of Boid

15/8/2025, 5:14:54 PM | 39 8 | View on Bluesky | view

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youtu.be/X3KnCL0S_Ws

16/8/2025, 6:18:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Need to organize a distribution network and get syndicated.

16/8/2025, 6:15:55 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. (@sarahmackattack.bsky.social) reposted

Last night at the MCR show I put MILF zines in the ladies room and they got snapped up immediately. One girl who was sitting behind us brought one back to her seat and started showing all her friends not realizing I was right in front of her. Keep reading this thread I have more

A zine with a hot Mother Earth with fishnets with one leg up on the words MILFS for Mother Earth
16/8/2025, 5:55:39 PM | 181 17 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Intellectual Explorer (@driftingthrough.bsky.social)

Not good. www.sciencealert.com/scientists-i...

14/8/2025, 9:05:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Goldman clients should consider whether it would be cheaper to let MAGA get between them and their money or just primary all of the MAGA clown car in the GOP.

14/8/2025, 7:43:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture maonu (@vem.bsky.social) reposted

🤔

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15/7/2025, 11:17:39 AM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophist

14/8/2025, 12:49:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Algorithmic redistricting @katmabu.bsky.social please check this out youtu.be/Lq-Y7crQo44

14/8/2025, 1:58:32 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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bsky.app/profile/drif...

13/8/2025, 8:46:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Jenkins (@david-jenkins.bsky.social) reposted

Kindness is an act of defiance right now

13/11/2024, 7:25:19 PM | 1316 320 | View on Bluesky | view

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I feel like "bypassing law" is already a thing ... "Crime."

13/8/2025, 8:17:53 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You forgot about lead poisoning from gasoline additives.

13/8/2025, 8:10:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And the Internet rubbing their noses in it...

13/8/2025, 8:01:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It could go deeper if it were in Werner Herzog voice, but I see your point.

13/8/2025, 7:58:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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bsky.app/profile/drif...

13/8/2025, 7:52:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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How are demographic changes affecting the flow of capital?

13/8/2025, 7:47:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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There's a rift out in space, and it might be a door. I'm really not sure. youtu.be/ackCymC_qu0

13/8/2025, 7:44:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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#fungifriends Reishi on a black locust tree growing from the cracks in the bark near the root flare.🍄 Old one from the prior rainstorms, and new one from recent rainstorms.

Reishi mushroom growing on a live black locust tree bark near the ground.
13/8/2025, 7:40:44 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Is this a false flag? It scans like pro-trump propaganda in "both sides" mode. www.wallstreetdemocrat.com

13/8/2025, 4:31:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Contempt where contempt is due. deadline.com/2025/08/sout...

13/8/2025, 4:14:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sherrod Brown needs and probably deserves support.

12/8/2025, 6:58:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ryan Broderick (@ryanhatesthis.bsky.social) reposted

I mean, Big Ballz getting jumped by Romanians over a crypto scam being the pretext for the National Guard occupying DC lines up pretty well with the theory in Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich that the Nazis heard a random Dutch arsonist was gonna burn the Reichstag and just waited for him to do it.

12/8/2025, 2:05:56 PM | 839 195 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's the same mechanism for all media and performing arts: there's a machine rewarding performance of punching down, and they see it as a right to livelihood issue.

12/8/2025, 2:16:05 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Right wing..

12/8/2025, 2:10:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies." --Nietzsche

12/8/2025, 1:57:03 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sounds like a job for an AI deep fake parody production crew.

12/8/2025, 1:56:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ambitious.

12/8/2025, 1:08:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That's a conservative urge to assert control.

12/8/2025, 1:04:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Maybe defense against the AC systems?

12/8/2025, 1:13:37 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What outcome did you hope in your wildest dreams of unbridled success that this post would create? Infighting?

12/8/2025, 1:09:39 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is a POAT.

12/8/2025, 1:06:38 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Will Trump's new lackey cook the jobs report low to influence Federal Reserve rates decisions, or will he cook them high to congratulate our dear leader's ongoing success at improving the economy?

12/8/2025, 1:04:44 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Welcome to Plutocracy www.axios.com/2025/08/08/s...

11/8/2025, 11:12:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Only from the poor kids...

11/8/2025, 10:59:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Your forecast suffers from sampling error. Those are a bunch of virologists and clinicians.

11/8/2025, 10:57:52 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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🤔 is there a strategy hiding in that insight?

11/8/2025, 10:54:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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She got her job by bragging about murdering her own dog. She's undead.

11/8/2025, 10:52:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Lovecraft's xenophobia backfired on some of us ...

11/8/2025, 10:49:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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bsky.app/profile/drif...

11/8/2025, 10:46:13 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Shrine to Louis XVI, aspirational aesthetics?

11/8/2025, 10:42:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Nobody wants the new transcript where Maxwell talks about nothingburger. Bring us the old evidence files with names we recognize unredacted. Ask around and report on that.

11/8/2025, 10:40:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Going back to Cotton Mather. Yeah.

11/8/2025, 10:37:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Nobody who needs to hear that is reasonable.

11/8/2025, 10:35:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Technology? Are you trying to avoid talking about the antisocial billionaires that are the real problem?

11/8/2025, 10:34:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Like huge crowds spelling out "Epstein Files?" for aerial photography.

11/8/2025, 10:30:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Mermaid? Dryad?

11/8/2025, 10:28:36 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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bsky.app/profile/donm... Reality has a strong liberal bias...

11/8/2025, 10:27:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Finance wonks are all torturing themselves trying not to call the Nvidia AMD 15% revenue sharing with the US government an export tax. Wall Street is still practicing subliminal fascism.

11/8/2025, 6:08:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Deflection: www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-t...

11/8/2025, 5:04:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view