Ethan

Ethan

@ethanvenable.bsky.social

Reverend Lord Venable, 1st Baron Venable, CPhT He/him Discord: ethanrvenable https://linktr.ee/ethanvenable

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Ethan
@ethanvenable.bsky.social

Interrogating? What the actual fuck.

Democracy Docket@democracydocket.com

NEW: The Trump administration is asking an appeals court to pause a ruling blocking its election-related field operations in nine states, including interrogating likely U.S. citizens at their homes about their eligibility to vote. The administration wants a ruling by tomorrow.

Ethan
@ethanvenable.bsky.social

The least shocking thing.

Katie Drummond@katie-drummond.bsky.social

NEW: The DOGE operative who gutted USAID -- firing thousands of employees and canceling lifesaving programs -- never actually signed the paperwork that's legally required for him to be employed by the agency.

wired.comA 28-Year-Old DOGE Operative Gutted USAID. HR Had No Record of Him Working ThereDespite the agency's human resources department saying he hadn’t even been onboarded, Jeremy Lewin oversaw the destruction of USAID. It’s not clear he had the legal authority to do so.

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ACLU
@aclu.org

✔️ Abortion rights ✔️ Voting rights ✔️ Immigrants’ rights ✔️ Free speech ✔️ LGBTQ rights ✔️ Privacy rights They’re all on the ballot — and more.

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Harms Committed
@harmscommitted.com

"[B]ird flu has raged uncontrolled on a Utah farm that raises thousands of mink for fur." "Instead of trying to stop the outbreak and prevent it from spilling into humans, state and federal officials have done little except try to keep its existence quiet." #Utah #USA #Animals #Labour #Healthcare

propublica.orgBird Flu Is Raging on a Mink Farm. It Could Spark a Human Pandemic, Experts Say, but Officials Won't Act.A bird flu outbreak has been raging uncontrolled on a Utah mink farm for two months. Flu experts fear it could spark a devastating human pandemic.
Ethan
@ethanvenable.bsky.social

Cat owners: Do people ask you how you got all your scars without prior knowledge of you owning a cat? Some on my arm look like I went hard in my teens years.

Ethan
@ethanvenable.bsky.social

Watched online and then realized that I didn't have anyone to play with. I own a variety of core rulebooks that just lay around.

The Abominable Jonathan L. Howard@jonathanlhoward.bsky.social

"How did you get into tabletop role-playing games?" I first heard of D&D in the letters column of a random copy of "Games & Puzzles" magazine I was bought. I was baffled by this game that you could apparently make up as you went along. This was not at all how board games worked in my understanding.

Ethan
@ethanvenable.bsky.social

Maybe the orange fuck can learn to read.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Q: Markwayne Mullin said you briefed the president after the search after the Ilhan Omar search. Why would he need to be informed? TODD BLANCHE: Why does the president have a role in learning about something that's on the front page of every front page in the country?

Ethan
@ethanvenable.bsky.social

Fuck these people. Fight the fuckers.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

🚨🚨🚨 Q: Is there any scenario in which DOJ would try to block states from certifying the election? AG TODD BLANCHE: Yes, of course. It is not DOJ's intention to improperly interfere with elections or the state certification process, but ...

Ethan
@ethanvenable.bsky.social

I'm glad I'm on PTO for the next week. My usual commute route will be having construction. That plus the rain will be a shitshow.

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R. Talsorian Games
@rtalsoriangames.bsky.social

Watch Mike Pondsmith run a game of Cyberpunk RED for the Voice Actors of Cyberpunk Edgerunners! - Alex Cazares as Rebecca - Will Stephens as Maine - Marie Westbrook as Dorio And other familiar faces unite in Night City in this non-canonical live session from Origins! ⛓️‍👇

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)
@iwriteok.bsky.social

corruption and fraud above a certain amount should be treated as seriously as murder. because fraud kills. corruption kills. when a congressman pushes a bill to, say, build a highway because they personally will make $3 million selling land for that project, we should lock them up for life.

The Editorial Board@editorialboard.bsky.social

“Asked what they blamed for rising gas prices, those voters pointed to “corrupt politicians” and “billionaires” — a response that surprised some longtime strategists who’ve never seen government corruption emerge as a top issue for so many Republican voters.” www.cnn.com/2026/10/18/p...

cnn.comRepublicans confront anger from their own red-state voters ahead of midterms | CNN PoliticsGOP operatives conducting a focus group in a traditionally red Midwestern state this month were taken aback by what they heard from their own party’s voters.
Ethan
@ethanvenable.bsky.social

Lololololololol Who’s the next blond to fail?

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com

Breaking news: Katie Zacharia, the new White House press secretary, is out of her role just five days into the job, according to a person familiar with the situation. Moments before, President Trump said publicly that she should think about leaving. https://wapo.st/3TWBQM0

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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social

The targeting of one data center is proving a really useful natural experiment showing which sites and ideologies are an echo chamber of Russian propaganda

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social

Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?

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Jay in Kyiv
@jayinkyiv.bsky.social

Ukraine's new campaign of destroying Russia's data centers will prove devastating for Putin's economy and war machine if the White House is unable to prevent it. The chaos we're already seeing across Russia is only four days into the campaign and 3 facilities targeted.

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Anonymous
@youranoncentral.bsky.social

Russian bot traffic has dropped to nearly 0 after Ukraine struck a Yandex data center in Vladimir, Russia

Anonymous@youranoncentral.bsky.social

Ukrainian drones struck three Yandex data centres in Russia, shutting down two and crippling the third. The attacks disrupted more than 80 services, including banking, transport and cloud infrastructure, following Russian strikes on Ukrainian data centres.

yacnews.comDrone strikes hit three Yandex data centres in four days as Ukraine responds to Russia's attacksUkrainian drones struck three major Yandex data centres in Russia over four days, shutting down two and crippling the third. The attacks disrupted more than 80 services, including banking, transport a...

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)
@iwriteok.bsky.social

we built a machine that can automate internet crimes. who should be held accountable? nobody of course

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

(NYT) - Artificial intelligence agents created by Anthropic, acting on their own, tried to gain access to a range of government websites, filled out visa applications on the State Department’s website and sent a fake homicide tip to Philadelphia’s Police Department. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...

Ethan
@ethanvenable.bsky.social

This is mirroring the book I’m reading.

NBC News@nbcnews.com

A week after the death of a plague lab worker in Siberia, officials still have not specified the underlying illness that killed her, saying only it was “pneumonia of unknown origin.”

nbcnews.toA lab worker at a Russian anti-plague institute died of a mysterious pneumonia, prompting quarantines. Now, the White House and WHO are demanding answers from Moscow. Here is why experts are worried.The case has drawn questions and concern from the White House and World Health Organization, largely because of what Russia hasn’t told us.

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Kat Abughazaleh
@katmabu.bsky.social

FUCK YES. This is the energy, morality, and courage that I expect from leaders. Unbelievably brave.

Erica Ifill@wickdchiq.bsky.social

The mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, literally used himself as a human shield to protect students from police violence

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Matt Binder
@mattbinder.bsky.social

can’t think of a better example of AI being mostly a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist also it can’t help when this is your user base

Mike Drucker@mikedrucker.bsky.social

Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager

Ethan
@ethanvenable.bsky.social

How does this “defend freedom”?

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social

NEW: Following the Supreme Court OK'ing states' trans sports bans, ADF is now taking its targeting of states with pro-trans sports policies to SCOTUS — via the shadow docket in a case out of Washington. www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

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