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Engineer, Songwriter, Musician, Photographer, Music Fan - https://dantappan.net I block cryto-bros, anti-vaxers, climate change deniers, thread spammers, and Russian trolls.

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Not sure about the participants, but I've strongly suspected that was the case for the people promoting the protests. Classic GOP ratfuck.

12.03.2026 17:08 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

How is this a felony and mega-churches and televangelists aren't?

11.03.2026 18:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Donald Trump, β€˜Bloom County’ Slumlord A close reading of Berkeley Breathed’s run-in with the Donald

Maybe not. Might just be more of the same brain www.theringer.com/2016/07/14/u...

11.03.2026 18:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh well. Here comes the enshittification firehose (the replacement is a VC). Either that or this is a last ditch effort: "Figure out how to make our 10x gain on our investment or we'll shut it down as a tax write-off".

09.03.2026 19:46 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A lesser known flaw - prompt sensitivity

We talk much about the "hallucinations" of AI, which is unfortunate term that humanizes them (@anilseth.bsky.social's point, a better one would be confabulation.

What we talk less about is - prompt sensitivity.

06.03.2026 15:09 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

I see my rep (Trahan) in that list, but not Moulton.

06.03.2026 16:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"You're right, my answer was based on outdated information. My bad! I sincerely apologize for targeting hundreds of children, and hope you'll forgive me for the error. Upon further research, I have identified another epic target and launched missiles at the coordinates 33Β°48'45.9"N 117Β°55'08.4"W."

05.03.2026 14:11 πŸ‘ 373 πŸ” 109 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 3

To reconsider a fundamental of American history, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was not an act of war, but merely a strategic strike. It needs to no longer live in infamy, perhaps.

02.03.2026 18:07 πŸ‘ 1587 πŸ” 378 πŸ’¬ 68 πŸ“Œ 7
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What is a token AI is meant to seem like magic. But there's no such thing as magic. It's all illusion. So, allow me to spoil that illusion for you.

This is a good description of what is going on internally.
jenniferplusplus.com/what-is-a-to...

02.03.2026 19:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Operation Epstein Freakout

02.03.2026 18:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I don't understand why people talk about "suicide drones" and "kamikazi drones". I assume it's deliberate propaganda, because these things aren't alive. Nobody refers to "suicide missiles" or "kamikazi bombs"....

28.02.2026 22:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Trump wants to get his approval numbers into the low teens because those are the numbers he likes best

28.02.2026 12:57 πŸ‘ 177 πŸ” 42 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2
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Recent studies challenge Kennedy's claims about vaccines, Tylenol and antidepressants The Trump administration has pledged to conduct its own studies, but research continues to contradict its claims.

My comments @nbcnews.com

www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

25.02.2026 12:53 πŸ‘ 131 πŸ” 32 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2
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In less than a year, Trump erased 12 years of solvency for the trust fund that pays for Medicare Part A | Fortune The CBO estimates that benefit reductions would start at 8% in 2040 and steadily climb to a 10% cut by 2056.

Why isn't this a WAY bigger story? Planning to be retired in 2040? Or still alive and on Medicare any time after that? Good luck with your healthcare.

26.02.2026 07:29 πŸ‘ 1042 πŸ” 583 πŸ’¬ 28 πŸ“Œ 32
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Newspapers Did Not Kill Themselves - The American Prospect New docs say Jeffrey Epstein collaborated with the Russian mob to loot the New York Daily News, then tried to help Mort Zuckerman discard it when reporting became inconvenient.

Jeffrey Epstein killed everything

Even newspapers

Amazing story by an old Philly pal, Maureen Tkacik prospect.org/2026/02/26/n...

26.02.2026 12:30 πŸ‘ 708 πŸ” 278 πŸ’¬ 22 πŸ“Œ 39

stop calling us nazis just because we are invalidating IDs and rounding people up based on their skin color and putting them in concentration camps and sending them off to foreign gulags and using all that nazi imagery and banning books and dont forget about all the pedophilia. so just stop alright

26.02.2026 12:05 πŸ‘ 12079 πŸ” 3491 πŸ’¬ 77 πŸ“Œ 39
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25.02.2026 21:47 πŸ‘ 161 πŸ” 36 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Makes me wish I were still on Twitter, so I could rag on Patreon directly about the problem. Why are brands still staying there? Did they not like customers having direct access to embarrass them in public?

25.02.2026 21:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Is anyone else seeing problems w/ Patreon? I have a bunch of (paid up to date) memberships where it is not sending me notifications of recent posts, & when I look at the creator's page posts are marked "Locked"
Patreon support has been unhelpful: admitted a problem on their end but then went silent.

25.02.2026 21:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Circle with blue shaded area as a β€œNo” and yellow shaded area as a β€œNo but in yellow”

Circle with blue shaded area as a β€œNo” and yellow shaded area as a β€œNo but in yellow”

will you be watching shitler’s sotu address

24.02.2026 14:22 πŸ‘ 264 πŸ” 50 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 0

Remember, this guy then killed an MIT professor while they were stumbling to catch up

24.02.2026 21:40 πŸ‘ 3226 πŸ” 1105 πŸ’¬ 32 πŸ“Œ 15

A musky smell

23.02.2026 17:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Clinton "Deplorables"

23.02.2026 17:09 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

If you wondered whether consumers might get a tariff rebate, this answers the question:
- Importers paid the tariffs
- and passed them on to customers (eventually to consumers)
- Importers made some extra money by selling the rebate rights
- Ludnick's sons cash in the rights
- The rich get richer

22.02.2026 14:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Let's try this again πŸ‘‹

Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA.

I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?

21.02.2026 16:32 πŸ‘ 13765 πŸ” 3497 πŸ’¬ 895 πŸ“Œ 187

"stole your money" because the customers ain't getting a cent of it back even if the businesses do.

20.02.2026 20:46 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Again?

20.02.2026 14:29 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It seems pretty clear that "$10 billion" is just a number that is stuck in his head and pops out when he wants to say "big $$$": suing the IRS for "$10 billion"; "$10 billion" for the "Board of Peace"; suing the BBC for "$10 billion".

It's interesting that the media hasn't noticed this.

20.02.2026 14:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I keep hearing that the Epstein files are so big if we held everyone accountable everything would collapse. And no it wouldn’t. These rich guys don’t do any actual work. They aren’t actually important or useful they are just rich.

14.02.2026 08:09 πŸ‘ 10017 πŸ” 3277 πŸ’¬ 125 πŸ“Œ 183

Epstein ICE connection....

(CBP, but same people)

20.02.2026 00:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0