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Ken McBride

@theupshift.bsky.social

Science and technology writer. Analyst and concerned citizen. Liberal. Canuck. Damn fool idealistic crusader. Opting for a nice change of scenery here, after many long months in Elon's nightmare propaganda machine (https://x.com/TheUpshift7).

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Zorro sits inside a tiny box

Zorro sits inside a tiny box

what? i live here now

08.03.2026 15:02 β€” πŸ‘ 786    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 1
Jack, the brown tabby cat, is up on his perch looking majestic as shit. the camera us held low, and he looks like a king surveying his domain. one paw is extended down, while the other is tucked delicately under it. his whiskers are fierce and his ears are alert

Jack, the brown tabby cat, is up on his perch looking majestic as shit. the camera us held low, and he looks like a king surveying his domain. one paw is extended down, while the other is tucked delicately under it. his whiskers are fierce and his ears are alert

King Jack is disappointed in you

07.03.2026 18:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1317    πŸ” 65    πŸ’¬ 45    πŸ“Œ 2
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Daily dose of green and rain ... enjoyed yesterday's rain/clouds/fog
#photography #nature #trees #canada #landscape #fujifilm #forest #rainforest #vancouver #fog #rain

08.03.2026 17:54 β€” πŸ‘ 540    πŸ” 69    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
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β€œThank you for giving my blankie back. Don’t ever do that again,mumther.”
-Grinch

08.03.2026 13:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1522    πŸ” 52    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 1
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#SundaySilence

Pennsylvania forest πŸƒ

08.03.2026 10:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2778    πŸ” 280    πŸ’¬ 52    πŸ“Œ 11
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Its Catbox Sunday!!! #cats #catsofbluesky #catboxsunday

08.03.2026 19:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1589    πŸ” 68    πŸ’¬ 30    πŸ“Œ 5
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The motto of the modern tech industry is "You can just do things to people"

07.03.2026 20:22 β€” πŸ‘ 2636    πŸ” 532    πŸ’¬ 103    πŸ“Œ 22
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The Middle East is on fire. Gas prices are soaring. Jobs are disappearing. Senile Satan is golfing again.

08.03.2026 18:21 β€” πŸ‘ 9947    πŸ” 3824    πŸ’¬ 924    πŸ“Œ 317

This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.

07.03.2026 23:52 β€” πŸ‘ 7704    πŸ” 2420    πŸ’¬ 234    πŸ“Œ 62

demoralizing for us military leaders to see president trump deny responsibility for unintended iran school strikes despite the evidence, blaming iran.

undermines us credibility at a critical time. they know better.

08.03.2026 00:46 β€” πŸ‘ 194    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 2
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Authoritarians will stop at nothing to feel safe. Since they have no concept of public welfare and consider everyone an asset to be used and discarded, they will easily enter into a military conflict without a long-term strategy, regardless of the casualties it causes.

08.03.2026 19:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1880    πŸ” 755    πŸ’¬ 39    πŸ“Œ 30
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Wow -- as first spotted by @BadFoxGraphics on X, Fox & Friends this morning used *old footage of a previous dignified transfer* to mislead their audience about the fact that Trump wore a baseball cap during the one yesterday

08.03.2026 13:24 β€” πŸ‘ 12389    πŸ” 4748    πŸ’¬ 888    πŸ“Œ 679
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I'm out of words here

08.03.2026 12:44 β€” πŸ‘ 3122    πŸ” 1210    πŸ’¬ 93    πŸ“Œ 142
Caitlin KALINOWSKI over X

I resigned from OpenAl. I care deeply about the Robotics team and the work we built together.
This wasn't an easy call. Al has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got. This was about principle, not people. I have deep respect for Sam and the team, and I'm proud of what we built together.

Caitlin KALINOWSKI over X I resigned from OpenAl. I care deeply about the Robotics team and the work we built together. This wasn't an easy call. Al has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got. This was about principle, not people. I have deep respect for Sam and the team, and I'm proud of what we built together.

OpenAI head of robotics just resigned over company deal with the Pentagon saying…

β€œSurveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got”

07.03.2026 19:05 β€” πŸ‘ 7090    πŸ” 2647    πŸ’¬ 141    πŸ“Œ 211
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Trump Blames Iran for Deadly Strike on Girls’ School President Trump on Saturday blamed Iran for the bombing of a girls’ school in southern Iran, which Iranian officials say killed more than 160 people. β€œMy opinion, based on what I’ve seenβ€”that was done...

The footage appears to contradict President Donald Trump’s claim it was an Iranian missile that hit the school on Feb. 28. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

08.03.2026 17:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1239    πŸ” 415    πŸ’¬ 37    πŸ“Œ 23
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New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an IRGC facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footage also shows smoke already rising from the vicinity of the girls’ school, where 175 people were reportedly killed, including children.

08.03.2026 17:20 β€” πŸ‘ 2663    πŸ” 1445    πŸ’¬ 77    πŸ“Œ 156

This is what ecocide looks like.

08.03.2026 17:41 β€” πŸ‘ 4215    πŸ” 1570    πŸ’¬ 83    πŸ“Œ 39

What could possibly explain the intensity of Western interest, over the past century and more, in this region?

08.03.2026 08:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1226    πŸ” 478    πŸ’¬ 44    πŸ“Œ 14

As though we needed any more evidence that Fox "News" is a mendacious propaganda machine and not remotely a serious journalistic enterprise.

Still, this is pretty astounding.

08.03.2026 16:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2442    πŸ” 700    πŸ’¬ 128    πŸ“Œ 27
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The administration plans to use claims that "China interfered in the 2020 election as a basis to declare a national emergency that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting.”

The premise, it almost goes without saying, is a total lie. trib.al/LmNKGxR

07.03.2026 17:23 β€” πŸ‘ 916    πŸ” 388    πŸ’¬ 56    πŸ“Œ 24
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DOJ docs, FBI interview, raise new questions about Epstein's "suicide" Notes from an FBI interview indicate that prison guards discussed "cover-up"

New: Prison guards discussed cover-up in Epstein's death, inmate tells FBI. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

08.03.2026 02:34 β€” πŸ‘ 5441    πŸ” 2719    πŸ’¬ 149    πŸ“Œ 111

It's pretty bad when you are the chief lying liar who lies and can't get one of your obsequiously subordinate lying liars who lie to lie for you because even the subordinate knows it's just too big a lie to tell for anyone but the chief lying liar who lies so much that there is no lie he won't tell.

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πŸ‘‰πŸ‘‰πŸ‘‰

07.03.2026 22:07 β€” πŸ‘ 931    πŸ” 229    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 3
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Mittens currently relaxing.

07.03.2026 02:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1416    πŸ” 57    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 0
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He is having a crisis after I said I need to wash his fave blankie
β€œHello darkness my old friend..”

07.03.2026 13:29 β€” πŸ‘ 3482    πŸ” 177    πŸ’¬ 105    πŸ“Œ 6
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Knees and a fuzzy throw make the perfect kitty hammock. Happy #caturday

07.03.2026 12:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1376    πŸ” 65    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 2
Cat on legs.

Cat on legs.

We now return you to your regular programming.

07.03.2026 15:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1595    πŸ” 86    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 5
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It's taken almost a year for our rescue cat Belladonna, aka Bella to let us pet her. It's so rewarding to see her coming out of her shell!

Happy #Caturday Bella-Bologna!

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