Al-Hornbill
@al-hornbill.bsky.social
Just someone who likes to lurk around.
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As I've said: they have no problem with tyranny as long as they get to be the tyrants.
The futuristic police state tactics of the current administration are exactly the kind of things the “black helicopter” “New World Order” crowd hyperventilated about during the Obama era when this didn’t happen, and now that it’s THEIR GUY actually doing it they apparently have no problem with it.
January 30, 2026 at 4:09 PM
As I've said: they have no problem with tyranny as long as they get to be the tyrants.
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Can’t believe they released the Epstein files to cover up for the Melania movie.
January 30, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Can’t believe they released the Epstein files to cover up for the Melania movie.
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X is hiring a creative writing specialist at $40 an hour to make Grok better at writing and a true LOL at the qualifications
January 30, 2026 at 8:14 PM
X is hiring a creative writing specialist at $40 an hour to make Grok better at writing and a true LOL at the qualifications
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when they tell you to go back to writing about gadgets www.theverge.com/policy/86857...
Best gas masks
“How did these people go out and get gas masks?” AG Bondi asked.
www.theverge.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:29 PM
when they tell you to go back to writing about gadgets www.theverge.com/policy/86857...
ICE has been holding a disabled Black man for a year!
Rodney Taylor is a double amputee who was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE took him.
He’s been denied his prosthetics & placed in solitary.
His health is declining.
Public outrage might save his life.
Say his name:
Rodney Taylor is a double amputee who was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE took him.
He’s been denied his prosthetics & placed in solitary.
His health is declining.
Public outrage might save his life.
Say his name:
Sign the Petition
Demand the Release of Rodney Taylor from ICE Detention
www.change.org
January 30, 2026 at 12:52 PM
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DDoSecrets has moved from .com to ddosecrets.org - spread the word!
January 29, 2026 at 6:14 PM
DDoSecrets has moved from .com to ddosecrets.org - spread the word!
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www.ft.com/content/d0b7...
No thank you.
No thank you.
January 29, 2026 at 7:06 AM
www.ft.com/content/d0b7...
No thank you.
No thank you.
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Basically the Torment Nexus meme
Anonymous Netizen: "I invented the term 9-9-6 as a warning about the danger of overwork and exploitation!"
(a few years years later)
Tech Billionaire: "Realizing the brilliant vision of an anonymous netizen, we are now instituting 9-9-6 as a company requirement."
Anonymous Netizen: "I invented the term 9-9-6 as a warning about the danger of overwork and exploitation!"
(a few years years later)
Tech Billionaire: "Realizing the brilliant vision of an anonymous netizen, we are now instituting 9-9-6 as a company requirement."
January 29, 2026 at 9:39 AM
Basically the Torment Nexus meme
Anonymous Netizen: "I invented the term 9-9-6 as a warning about the danger of overwork and exploitation!"
(a few years years later)
Tech Billionaire: "Realizing the brilliant vision of an anonymous netizen, we are now instituting 9-9-6 as a company requirement."
Anonymous Netizen: "I invented the term 9-9-6 as a warning about the danger of overwork and exploitation!"
(a few years years later)
Tech Billionaire: "Realizing the brilliant vision of an anonymous netizen, we are now instituting 9-9-6 as a company requirement."
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Big “I’ve implemented 9-9-6 from the New York Times report ‘China’s Tech Workers Are Sick of 9-9-6’” energy.
9-9-6 was a Chinese term invented mostly to show how depressing and lifeless work culture was; watching softbrained AI guys adopt it as an ideal is ... well, entirely predictable
www.ft.com/content/d0b7...
No thank you.
No thank you.
January 29, 2026 at 9:07 AM
Big “I’ve implemented 9-9-6 from the New York Times report ‘China’s Tech Workers Are Sick of 9-9-6’” energy.
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January 28, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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Hi, I'm a typographer, I've written some skeets about how to learn typography, in this 🧵
I'm tempted to also do an AMA. Anyone have typography questions? Anything is better than thinking about the status quo
I'm tempted to also do an AMA. Anyone have typography questions? Anything is better than thinking about the status quo
I wrote some posts on learning typography over on Masto but they're mostly self directed, like developing taste and judgment. A workshop/course could be a great step too.
January 16, 2026 at 12:15 AM
Hi, I'm a typographer, I've written some skeets about how to learn typography, in this 🧵
I'm tempted to also do an AMA. Anyone have typography questions? Anything is better than thinking about the status quo
I'm tempted to also do an AMA. Anyone have typography questions? Anything is better than thinking about the status quo
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Not just any journalist, she won the goddamn Triple Crown of broadcast journalism (an Emmy, a Peabody, and a Murrow) in 2024 for her reporting on Gaza.
This is textbook censorship of the highest degree
This is textbook censorship of the highest degree
Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda with 1.4m followers reports TikTok ban https://aje.news/ljjuww
January 29, 2026 at 4:33 AM
Not just any journalist, she won the goddamn Triple Crown of broadcast journalism (an Emmy, a Peabody, and a Murrow) in 2024 for her reporting on Gaza.
This is textbook censorship of the highest degree
This is textbook censorship of the highest degree
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New planet just dropped and it
1) is almost exactly Earth-sized
2) has a year that's almost exactly 1 Earth year.
3) orbits a star that is not a 💢temperamental little shit M-dwarf 💢but is instead a 🧡 good orange boi 🧡
Me for @science.org based on results presented at #RockyWorlds4: 🔭🧪
1) is almost exactly Earth-sized
2) has a year that's almost exactly 1 Earth year.
3) orbits a star that is not a 💢temperamental little shit M-dwarf 💢but is instead a 🧡 good orange boi 🧡
Me for @science.org based on results presented at #RockyWorlds4: 🔭🧪
Earth-size planet spotted with yearlong orbit
Long-overlooked Kepler signal discovered by citizen scientists reveals promising world worth a closer look
www.science.org
January 28, 2026 at 9:42 PM
New planet just dropped and it
1) is almost exactly Earth-sized
2) has a year that's almost exactly 1 Earth year.
3) orbits a star that is not a 💢temperamental little shit M-dwarf 💢but is instead a 🧡 good orange boi 🧡
Me for @science.org based on results presented at #RockyWorlds4: 🔭🧪
1) is almost exactly Earth-sized
2) has a year that's almost exactly 1 Earth year.
3) orbits a star that is not a 💢temperamental little shit M-dwarf 💢but is instead a 🧡 good orange boi 🧡
Me for @science.org based on results presented at #RockyWorlds4: 🔭🧪
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January 28, 2026 at 12:17 AM
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I had a dream recently of a failed romcom idea where a hard-working single mother of 3 is like "I need a nanny but I can't find anyone to cover all the hours I need" and a fucking gay winter elemental shows up like "I'll do it LOL LMAO"
January 26, 2026 at 10:54 PM
I had a dream recently of a failed romcom idea where a hard-working single mother of 3 is like "I need a nanny but I can't find anyone to cover all the hours I need" and a fucking gay winter elemental shows up like "I'll do it LOL LMAO"
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wrote about an apparent policy change in the payments industry www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Payment processors were against CSAM until Grok started making it
“The industry is no longer willing to self-regulate.”
www.theverge.com
January 26, 2026 at 4:33 PM
wrote about an apparent policy change in the payments industry www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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Hard to imagine fighting for anything when you value nothing.
January 26, 2026 at 1:21 AM
Hard to imagine fighting for anything when you value nothing.
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remember, as bad as things are: it's your duty to survive if you can. be fucked up if you gave up while others gave their lives to protect you. if you can't do it for yourself, then realize you owe everyone martyred now and into the future to carry on. because not everyone is going to make it.
January 24, 2026 at 7:35 PM
remember, as bad as things are: it's your duty to survive if you can. be fucked up if you gave up while others gave their lives to protect you. if you can't do it for yourself, then realize you owe everyone martyred now and into the future to carry on. because not everyone is going to make it.
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Meanwhile streamer Hasan Piker was live on Twitch last night walking around a Somali business community, talking with Omar Fateh.
The bar is underground for legacy media, and they can’t even reach that.
The bar is underground for legacy media, and they can’t even reach that.
And, tonight, the network's flagship news program -- 60 Minutes -- ran a clip show of old celeb interviews to "celebrate the movies" rather than put together an episode focused on what's going on in Minnesota.
The person who publishes the Free Press — where the words “Minneapolis” and “Minnesota” never appear tonight — also runs CBS News.
January 26, 2026 at 4:54 AM
Meanwhile streamer Hasan Piker was live on Twitch last night walking around a Somali business community, talking with Omar Fateh.
The bar is underground for legacy media, and they can’t even reach that.
The bar is underground for legacy media, and they can’t even reach that.
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tiktok has shut down the ability to post entirely today. it has scrubbed videos of alex pretti’s murder. it is engaging in widespread censorship to sanitize what the public is seeing and control the narrative.
January 25, 2026 at 11:15 PM
tiktok has shut down the ability to post entirely today. it has scrubbed videos of alex pretti’s murder. it is engaging in widespread censorship to sanitize what the public is seeing and control the narrative.
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"yoon, but stupid"
ngl the WH triggering the insurrection act but it mostly just turning out to be a very politically toxic nothingburger leading them to up the ante by talking about revoking habeas corpus does unfortunately kinda sound right
Is Stephen Miller dumb enough to get grandpa to revoke habeas corpus by executive writ and go Muh Lincoln 1861 despite Congress sitting unimpaired
January 25, 2026 at 10:46 PM
"yoon, but stupid"
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and then the reaction to this critique is also fed by american exceptionalism logics of "omg we are the worst, we are so unique in every way" without any transnational historical perspective of power aaaaaghhh
load bearing tweet for a settler colonial society
January 25, 2026 at 6:26 PM
and then the reaction to this critique is also fed by american exceptionalism logics of "omg we are the worst, we are so unique in every way" without any transnational historical perspective of power aaaaaghhh
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