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Colorado dad. We live in the stupidest time ever. Bluesky is less stupid than IRL.

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We're still waiting for the release of 3 million Epstein files.

Think what you saw so far is bad?

Think again.

You've only seen HALF of the files.

The half that Trump's DoJ decided to show you.

The REALLY bad stuff is still under wraps.

08.02.2026 22:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And in Texas, Trump won 56-42, but the new redistricting was designed give them a 79-21 advantage in the House.

Trump and Texas started it. Virginia f**king finished it.

08.02.2026 16:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Mikaela Shiffrin: "I’m really hoping to show up and represent my own values. Values of inclusivity, values of diversity and kindness and sharing, tenacity, work ethic."

Shiffrin is a traitor, openly opposed to the regime's values of divisiveness, white supremacy, cruelty, greed, and laziness.

08.02.2026 16:03 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Lindsey Vonn crashes hard in Olympic downhill, airlifted off slopes Lindsey Vonn's hopes of winning another Olympic medal were dashed when the American star crashed hard early in her downhill run.

Brutal.

Guess she clipped that last gate and got spun as she went airborne.

Crashes happen all the time in downhill, but I hope she didn't do too much more damage to that injured knee.

08.02.2026 13:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What a relief they're not monitoring Bluesky!

Says the most naive American remaining.

08.02.2026 01:48 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump’s Profiteering Hits $4 Billion In August, I reported that the President and his family had made $3.4 billion by leveraging his position. After his first year back in office, the number has ballooned.

And just so insignificant when the Trump family has made $4 *billion* off his presidency in one year.

But I guess it's for Melania's ego, more than the money.

07.02.2026 15:24 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sadly, Green Day is pregame, but I hope they repeat this message!

Performance schedule:

www.nbc.com/nbc-insider/...

07.02.2026 15:18 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Winter Olympics Team GB skier targets ICE with graphic message written in snow Team GB skier Gus Kenworthy has launched a blistering attack on US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers including a message written in the snow

I'm skeptical too. Superhuman aim. I couldn't do it.

But then, he's an Olympic athlete. I'm not.

News outlets are reporting it as real:

07.02.2026 15:14 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Not sure why my governor Polis got disinvited and not, say, Pritzker or Newsom, but if he's getting singled out for special abuse by the fascist in the White House, he must be doing something right.

Way to go @colorado.gov!

07.02.2026 15:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Agree. Wake the f**k up everyone, the fascist takeover is a five-alarm fire. Good for her.

07.02.2026 15:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@chrislhayes.bsky.social nails it here.

We need smart AI regulation yesterday.

Like he says, why pay someone $200k a year plus health insurance to do a job a computer can do?

Coders, accountants, lawyers, scientists - all knowledge work is at risk.

AI's potential is awesome, and terrifying.

07.02.2026 15:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes. Another take on this:

07.02.2026 14:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This should be front page news in all the papers.

Way to go Guardian!

07.02.2026 14:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"He said different ethnic groups get dirtier at different rates, so he does not need soap as often as I do."

πŸ‘€

That, right there, should have been the deal breaker.

07.02.2026 12:39 β€” πŸ‘ 45    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

No. He opened the door 10 years ago. He approved thousands of politically-motivated tariff exemptions during his first term.

The corruption is accelerating, for sure, but it's not new.

07.02.2026 12:35 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Jmail, logged in as jeevacation@gmail.com You are logged into jeevacation@gmail.com, Jeffrey Epstein's email. Sourced from the November 2025 House Oversight Committee data release.

Jmail "shows you the emails as if you are Jeffrey Epstein logged into your own Gmail account and makes it so much easier to search than the DOJ site".

Didn't know about this, thanks!

07.02.2026 12:28 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Epstein was a criminal. Whether any of the men named in these files are too is not something we can know: no charges or prosecutions have been brought."

We'll know for sure that many, many other men committed crimes as soon as DoJ releases the 3 MILLION FILES that are still under lock and key.

07.02.2026 12:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"it’s not just Epstein. That’s what we now have to realise. Obsessive, pervasive sexual interest in teenage girls - and to some degree, boys - is threaded insistently through our culture."

🎯

07.02.2026 12:22 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

I discovered yesterday that the tulip bubble was years in the making, and only a few months to collapse to near zero.

Tulip bulbs have more inherent value than crypto.

07.02.2026 11:51 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Amen to that.

And right below your post in my feed, a case in point:

06.02.2026 23:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"The review will only be of the 3 million files currently available to the public, not the extensive trove of more than 6 million documents in total that the DOJ says it has in its possession"

Don't get distracted by the files they've released

The half they've withheld hold the really awful stuff!

06.02.2026 22:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

From polling I've seen, people on the right are similarly likely to be anti-AI. They may have different specific concerns, like national security and AI being coded to be "woke". But they're just as cautious as people on the left.

Leftists may be more likely to be "reflexively" anti-AI though. 🀷

06.02.2026 21:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

🎯

It would be wonderful if Blueskyers engaged on shaping the future of AI, the most awesome and terrifying technological advance of our lives.

But denialism is cognitively easy and comfortable.

By the time normies and politicians wake up, tech oligarchs will have made all the decisions for us.

06.02.2026 21:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They wear the camo so they can blend into the lush urban woodlands and sneak attack the Fulton County elections office.

06.02.2026 21:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Meaningless, given this:

"The review will only be of the 3 million files currently available to the public, not the extensive trove of more than 6 million documents in total that the DOJ says it has in its possession."

The unreleased 3 million must be where the really damning stuff is.

06.02.2026 21:34 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"Some of the movies that have held up best β€” as insights about technology itself β€” anticipated three key features of the digital age..."

Pretty good watch list.

06.02.2026 21:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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IDK about that. Dot-coms had some value. Some dot-coms had significant value. Most didn't. Sorting out what was what took investors some time.

Crypto has no inherent value. It's more like tulip bulbs. The tulip bubble crashed from astronomical prices to near zero in a few months.

06.02.2026 18:05 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Sure, I see that. I was just wondering why you were saying this morning. Seems like today probably isn't the day. It's risk-on today. But tomorrow could be the cascading collapse. 🀷

06.02.2026 18:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Seems like simple margin investing. Buy metals (in any form), use them as collateral to buy crypto on margin. Crypto drops, you get a margin call, you have to sell some holdings (crypto or the metals).

The tie is that these "tokenized metals futures" are held by the same people who buy crypto.

06.02.2026 18:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

What makes you say that? Nice bounce back this morning. Maybe a dead cat bounce, but a rebound nonetheless.

06.02.2026 17:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

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