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Paul Fox

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created January 15, 2025

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Profile picture Gil DurƔn (@gilduran.com) reposted

Just signed up for this and you should, too!

2/9/2025, 5:14:34 PM | 69 18 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roscoe Changleen (@changleen.bsky.social) reposted

#NZPol Thankful that Newsroom exists. newsroom.co.nz/2025/09/02/a...

2/9/2025, 12:23:50 AM | 29 16 | View on Bluesky | view

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Profile picture Daniel Carlson (@danielwcarlson.bsky.social) reposted

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

29/8/2025, 6:24:12 PM | 16557 5245 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Electronic Frontier Foundation (@eff.org) reposted

We know very little about how cell-site simulators (CSS), devices that masquerade as legitimate cell-phone towers, are being deployed in the US or globally, but with Rayhunter, we hope to change that. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

26/8/2025, 10:56:02 PM | 231 90 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Fox (@therealpaulfox.bsky.social) reply parent

Is this a flat earth post?

25/8/2025, 10:20:41 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lamont A. Turner (@lamontaturner.bsky.social) reposted

Morgus the Magnificent! #Morgus #NewOrleans #HorrorHost #moviestar

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9/12/2024, 8:17:52 PM | 5 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Fox (@therealpaulfox.bsky.social) reply parent

HAHAH is this what he was talking about? "$10s of millions!" www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr...

22/8/2025, 10:43:44 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Fox (@therealpaulfox.bsky.social) reply parent

No

21/8/2025, 11:59:53 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Fox (@therealpaulfox.bsky.social) reply parent

Up to 1933, as the Nazis were starting to do their thing, some papers were openly critical and warning of Hitler's agenda. As soon as he became chancellor, guess what happened to those papers?

21/8/2025, 11:52:06 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Fox (@therealpaulfox.bsky.social) reply parent

Mild af

21/8/2025, 11:48:22 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Fox (@therealpaulfox.bsky.social) reply parent

"Experts say" 🤣

21/8/2025, 11:06:18 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mountain Tui (@mountaintui.bsky.social) reposted

Kieran rocks it snarkyas.substack.com/p/kieran-mca...

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20/8/2025, 6:18:10 AM | 42 8 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Fox (@therealpaulfox.bsky.social) reply parent

"Yes" appears to mean "No" in answer to the question..ugh

19/8/2025, 1:50:28 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Fox (@therealpaulfox.bsky.social) reply parent

Hah. I just thought, ā€œI don’t think that’s what I get ā€œā€¦ Save two copies of the same image before I notice the messages at the top of the screen…

18/8/2025, 2:51:02 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Fox (@therealpaulfox.bsky.social) reply parent

How may "agents" does it take to remove a sign?

18/8/2025, 1:11:59 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Fox (@therealpaulfox.bsky.social) reply parent

ā€œInterventionā€.

17/8/2025, 5:06:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Fox (@therealpaulfox.bsky.social) reply parent

I should probably add, I'm a fan of Matthew, but I think he's a bit out of the loop on this one, thinking from a total biz persepctive that's unfortunately, and I believe unintentionally, destructive.

17/8/2025, 2:27:46 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Fox (@therealpaulfox.bsky.social) reply parent

I would totally "consume" that "content"!

17/8/2025, 2:09:00 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Fox (@therealpaulfox.bsky.social) reply parent

Also, who the fuck is making "tens of millions of dollars" off of disco cat tracks? LOL

17/8/2025, 2:03:54 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Fox (@therealpaulfox.bsky.social) reply parent

I also bristle at the modern use of terms like "content" and "creator", which diminish the value of art and artists, lumping them together with things that don't qualify as either.

17/8/2025, 2:01:44 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Fox (@therealpaulfox.bsky.social) reply parent

I guess it's, in part, the ancient struggle between art and money, or something like that. I don't think the greatest artistic acheivements or innovations have been made by trying to find out what the majority of people want.

17/8/2025, 2:01:11 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Fox (@therealpaulfox.bsky.social) reply parent

3/3) They publish that list, and there are music creators out there that look at that list and they write songs based on what people are searching for, this unmet need in the market. And they make tens of millions of dollars a year writing songs based on unsatisfactorily searched Spotify queries."

17/8/2025, 1:53:24 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Fox (@therealpaulfox.bsky.social) reply parent

2/3)of music they want to hear, that they don’t give very satisfactory answers to. So, let’s say that you want to hear, I don’t know, a disco about how much fun it is to dance with your cat. There’s no songs out there like that.

17/8/2025, 1:53:24 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Fox (@therealpaulfox.bsky.social)

Anyone recognise the problem here? 1/3) Matthew Prince/Cloudflare (on "Masters of Scale" podcast, 29/7/25): ā€œSpotify has done some just amazing things. One of the things they do is they actually publish a list of queries that people have typed into Spotify,

17/8/2025, 1:53:24 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Fox (@therealpaulfox.bsky.social) reply parent

They publish that list, and there are music creators out there that look at that list and they write songs based on what people are searching for, this unmet need in the market. And they make tens of millions of dollars a year writing songs based on unsatisfactorily searched Spotify queries."

17/8/2025, 1:48:08 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Fox (@therealpaulfox.bsky.social) reply parent

of music they want to hear, that they don’t give very satisfactory answers to. So, let’s say that you want to hear, I don’t know, a disco about how much fun it is to dance with your cat. There’s no songs out there like that.

17/8/2025, 1:48:08 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Fox (@therealpaulfox.bsky.social) reply parent

ā€œThey publish that list, and there are music creators out there that look at that list and they write songs based on what people are searching for, this unmet need in the market. And they make tens of millions of dollars a year writing songs based on unsatisfactorily searched Spotify queries.ā€

17/8/2025, 12:10:47 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Fox (@therealpaulfox.bsky.social) reply parent

ā€œSo, let’s say that you want to hear, I don’t know, a disco about how much fun it is to dance with your cat. There’s no songs out there like that.

17/8/2025, 12:10:34 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Bailey (@jasondashbailey.com) reposted

AI is for writers who don’t like to write but want to have written, and readers who don’t like to read but want to have read. Into the sea with the whole miserable joyless fucking lot of them.

16/8/2025, 9:45:26 PM | 1396 384 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tim Onion (@bencollins.bsky.social) reposted

when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet

24/7/2025, 7:51:26 PM | 19841 4403 | View on Bluesky | view

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14/8/2025, 5:28:09 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Fox (@therealpaulfox.bsky.social) reply parent

MAGA Karate Law Enforcement new account. You are intellectually handicapped, but also likely GRU or other fake account. Shouldn't you be out kidnapping people?

14/8/2025, 5:24:34 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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14/8/2025, 5:14:06 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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13/8/2025, 9:02:08 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What’s in the chalice, God?

10/8/2025, 10:54:35 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Art of Asty (@theartofasty.bsky.social) reposted

Are Americans aware that down here in Mexico we’ve been getting bombarded for months with ads of Kristi Noem telling us to our face that we’re out welcome in the US, and that these ads even found their way into our national TV broadcasts Because I feel like I have seen nobody mention it

9/8/2025, 1:20:10 AM | 7803 3122 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Fox (@therealpaulfox.bsky.social) reply parent

Hey, made right here in Dunedin, NZ!

8/8/2025, 9:57:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) reposted

If you’re wondering how ICE recruitment and training is going under Kristi Noem—South Park already nailed it.

7/8/2025, 1:51:20 PM | 23453 8062 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted

ā€˜South Park’ clip: ICE recruitment video

7/8/2025, 12:37:58 PM | 4703 1854 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Morgan J Freeman (@mjfree.bsky.social) reposted

South Park melts ICE 🤣🤣🤣

7/8/2025, 7:14:06 PM | 2513 732 | View on Bluesky | view

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Profile picture Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) (@hcrichardson.bsky.social) reposted

July 27, 2025

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Profile picture Rebecca Solnit (@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

See:

25/7/2025, 9:05:48 PM | 124 7 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Fox (@therealpaulfox.bsky.social) reply parent

I always smile my on camera.

24/7/2025, 1:51:36 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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20/7/2025, 4:44:16 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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One of the greatest voices of all time

20/7/2025, 2:22:50 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rebecca Solnit (@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social) reposted

It's when you assemble the whole picture that you have to raise the question if the intention is to destroy this country and whether this country is in fact being destroyed.

13/7/2025, 4:08:06 PM | 1055 369 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Fox (@therealpaulfox.bsky.social) reply parent

More military parades for the convicted felon pussy grabber.

8/7/2025, 1:47:51 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Fox (@therealpaulfox.bsky.social) reply parent

Should have tagged @mountaintui.bsky.social

6/7/2025, 1:31:19 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael Feinberg (@michael-feinberg.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

This undermining of what was previously a major national security priority came a mere few weeks after we seized the largest cache of finished IEDs — in the FBI’s history — from an extremist’s compound.

14/6/2025, 1:07:19 PM | 28 10 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Fox (@therealpaulfox.bsky.social) reply parent

I hope the sandwich was a fucking cheesesteak at least.

4/7/2025, 1:15:16 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A race to become God, apparently.

28/6/2025, 12:28:11 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I haven’t really learned much about Thiel, but I didn’t realise what a nutcase he is until I read this… www.thenerdreich.com/peter-thiel-...

28/6/2025, 12:27:26 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Fox (@therealpaulfox.bsky.social)

J.C. Denton vibes....

27/6/2025, 10:43:30 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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27/6/2025, 10:28:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Somewhere I've got a 30-year-old cassette of LaL with his writing all over it...

26/6/2025, 12:14:51 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Fox (@therealpaulfox.bsky.social) reply parent

Woah.. RIP Samā¤ļø

25/6/2025, 11:16:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Is it true you’ve been collaborating with Eyeball Ernie, legend of the underground scene?

24/6/2025, 4:05:13 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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21/6/2025, 3:38:58 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Fox (@therealpaulfox.bsky.social) reply parent

That's a premium user feature. I don't pay for Signal or Telegram.

19/6/2025, 12:29:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Fox (@therealpaulfox.bsky.social) reply parent

On Telegram, I get regular (once or twice a week) Skype-esque spam messages appearing to originate in Pakistan and other places. This never seems to happen with Signal. Oh yeah, I can't prevent strangers from messaging me on Telegram.

19/6/2025, 11:49:42 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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19/6/2025, 11:18:23 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Efficiency

19/6/2025, 6:04:14 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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archives.fbi.gov/archives/new...

18/6/2025, 4:23:56 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I realise probably no one seeing this will even know who Mike Hard is, but seeing that weirdo Boelter doing his religious faux "feeling the spirit" act with the live French translation immediately reminded me of Hard's stage persona with the God Bullies.

16/6/2025, 11:55:03 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Fox (@therealpaulfox.bsky.social) reply parent

Well, when you've got the political and religious beliefs he appears to, you don't want anyone to know you left your wife to live with your boyfriend now, do ya?

16/6/2025, 6:59:28 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Eoghan Daltun šŸŒ (@irishrainforest.bsky.social) reposted

Want to hear something totally out of this world? How about the echolocation calls of lesser horseshoes – Ireland's rarest + smallest bat – as they head out from their roost at dusk to hunt midges and other insects over an Atlantic rainforest? Volume up!

15/6/2025, 9:56:18 PM | 313 67 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Fox (@therealpaulfox.bsky.social) reply parent

Ahh... at first I thought he broke down because he heard his bio daughter use another man's surname. Your version's way better!

15/6/2025, 11:50:12 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Raider (@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social) reposted

Native American Women Tell Border Patrol To Fuck Off for Harassing Them About Being Citizens.

13/6/2025, 11:59:56 PM | 4161 1739 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Nichols (@radiofreetom.bsky.social) reposted

Senior officers of the United States military have an obligation to speak up and be leaders. Where is the Army chief of staff? Will he or others speak truth to the commander in chief and put a stop to the assault on the integrity of his troops? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

11/6/2025, 12:34:57 AM | 5189 1603 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tony Clark (@anthonyclark.bsky.social) reposted

Stephen Miller has been a whiny, prissy, intolerant, entitled, racist piece of shit since he was at least sixteen. How do I know? Here's Stephen Miller at sixteen, being a whiny, prissy, intolerant, entitled, racist piece of shit in a letter to the editor: www.surfsantamonica.com/ssm_site/the...

10/6/2025, 11:52:11 PM | 41 12 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Fox (@therealpaulfox.bsky.social) reply parent

Hm, yeah 5, 9 and 11 seem highlightable by now...

10/6/2025, 11:34:51 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Look at those brave, patriotic soldiers. Good thing they wore helmets.

10/6/2025, 5:03:24 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Cheers for this! I will visit my local phone company shop to check out their dumber phones. It's nice they're cheap to try out. And I guess if they use the same SIM card, not a big bother to chuck back into the iPhone for a treat...

9/6/2025, 10:38:25 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Fox (@therealpaulfox.bsky.social) reply parent

Whoops, my text is a quote from the article, as is: ā€œAs a PhD student in Berkeley, we learn, he was sometimes referred to as ā€œhelmet-headā€, because he often wore a bicycle helmet in class; the joke among his peers was that it prevented new ideas from penetrating his mind.ā€ 🤣

8/6/2025, 9:07:35 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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(Yarvin was initially homeschooled, and later skipped three grades ahead of his peers, a formative experience which seems to have proven all but fatal to his personality.)

8/6/2025, 9:05:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture T. Tex Edwards (@ttexed.bsky.social) reposted

Cramps - Primitive - Trenton, NJ youtu.be/OjiiVa4FNX4 ā€˜The Cramps play "Primitive" at City Gardens, Trenton, NJ. June 26, 1981. Lux Interior, vocals. Ivy Rorschach, guitar. Kid Congo Powers, guitar. Nick Knox, drums.’

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2/6/2025, 9:05:59 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Whoops, I missed New Zealand music month… Guess I’ll have to wait until next year to care about music!

2/6/2025, 5:51:14 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not true!

1/6/2025, 11:14:21 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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She's like a Kristen Wiig character on SNL. But horrifyingly, she's a real person.

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Back in the '90s, he'd occasionally hang out at Hollywood punk rock dive club, Raji's...

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Do any of them actually happen "to" me, or just around me?

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Loife, sometimes

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Hello from NZ... part of the global doodle network.

4/5/2025, 10:37:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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#bandcamp

2/5/2025, 11:46:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Bandcamp Friday: Help my bro get his gear back in order by buying his music. frogpower.bandcamp.com

2/5/2025, 11:34:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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@who.int, do you mean "...when kids see parents drinking _excessively_...?" Confusing message.

1/5/2025, 9:19:54 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Woah... I'm still reeling from "Pope Trump" from yesterday... 🤣

1/5/2025, 2:46:04 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ralph Barbagallo (@flarb.com) reposted

Latest in my random developer interviews is up featuring @therealpaulfox.bsky.social ! youtu.be/7X-YnDLwQZc?...

12/4/2025, 11:16:20 AM | 6 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Fox (@therealpaulfox.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes, exactly ParTeb's bit. This was via web browser on Mubi. A couple of times, I've encountered special-case subtitles (such as a bit of another language) missing when you don't have them switched on for the entire programme. Glad I thought to go back and watch his bit again.

24/4/2025, 9:56:53 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Fox (@therealpaulfox.bsky.social) reply parent

Hello from NZ Mark! We watched this last night and LOVED it! Note for anyone else seeing on Mubi: there were no subtitles for a part where someone speaks another language, and his words are (I felt) quite impactful to understand. Activating the subtitles manually in the player, they were translated.

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