TIL that Certs were discontinued 7 years ago. Used to have these all the time as a kid. RE:
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Elizabeth Spiers (@espiers.bsky.social)
Ma Spiers always had half a roll of these in the bottom of her purse and during church on Sundays she’d wipe the purse lint off and dole them out...
This week on the podcast, I talk to [@kateconger.com](
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tech reporter for the NYT! co-author of CHARACTER LIMIT! signal: kateconger.11 buy our book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737290/char...
 ) and @npub1jput...50k2 about the similarities in how Elon treated Twitter to how he's treating the US government via DOGE... and why that's a problem. RE:
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Techdirt (@techdirt.com)
Techdirt Podcast Episode 418: The Elonification Of Government Support us on Patreon » We've written a lot about how understanding the playbook E...
It is astounding to me how many people are trying to equate TALKING TO COPS as a form of civil disobedience. Like, what are we doing here? RE:
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Daddy Shark (@daddyshark.bsky.social)
Sorry, but, do you all not see a Rosa Parks or other civil disobedience rationale as valid? Basically daring ICE to refuse entry to a popular citi...
Kind of amazed at the number of people telling me "free speech means you should talk to the cops, so they can get info to incriminate you." Which is quite the galaxy brained take. RE:
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WinstanleyLab (@unidentifieditem.bsky.social)
Not so much with the free speech anymore... [contains quote post or other embedded content]
People are still yelling at me and trying to defend Piker's decision to chat away with CBP so I wrote about the myriad ways it was stupid. RE:
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Techdirt (@techdirt.com)
Hasan Piker Just Gave His Millions Of Followers A Masterclass In What Not To Do When Detained By CBP Progressive streamer Hasan Piker's recent de...
Worth reading. When Alondra speaks everyone should listen. RE:
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This brings me back. RE:
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Leah Reich (@leahreich.com)
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Been a while since I posted something that flooded my mentions with really bad takes that required blocking. But the people coming out of the woodwork to suggest that *talking to the feds* is somehow good & righteous, as opposed to shutting the fuck up, is really trying my patience.
Had missed this release of The Slackers video for their latest single (which is great), but the video is also touching if you know the story behind the song. Last year, Greg Lee, from the band Hepcat died suddenly, which was tragic. Apparently, a week earlier, he had woken from a dream... RE:
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The Slackers (@theslackersband.bsky.social)
Official video for 'My Last Star' is dropping today on youtube and other video services. https://youtu.be/j6ye8Do5T70?si=zio7QWGJVZyv0UPy #theslac...
Apparently Bluesky has a lot of tab hoarder shamers based on my replies... Do not mock my way of life. I come from a long line of tab hoarders. RE:
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Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social)
Holy shit. There is some tab among my 400+ tabs that suddenly, without reason, appears to have started playing a podcast... twice? Like it started ...
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