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"When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction." Mark Twain Graduate, Steven Wright School of Motivational Speaking.

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Attempted suicides, fights, pain: 911 calls reveal misery at ICE’s largest detention facility The calls to 911 poured in from staff at Camp East Montana, the nation's largest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility, in its first months of operation in El Paso, Texas.

apnews.com/article/suic...

07.03.2026 20:18 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

In 2024 the GOP dropped most of the pro-life language in its platform

ostensibly bc a national abortion ban would have lost them women voters,

but possibly because they wanted to more fully embrace their true identity as murderous genocidal atrocity machines?

06.03.2026 04:04 πŸ‘ 199 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 3

Such fragile-ego’ed, whiny babies. It would be funny if they were running a shitty business into the ground and not the entire country.

If Anthropic is a radical far-left whatever I have to wonder where I am on the political spectrum.

28.02.2026 00:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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#alysaliu
WOKE IS BACK BABY
MAKE OAKLAND CALIFORNIA THE US CAPITOL NOW!

22.02.2026 01:27 πŸ‘ 3539 πŸ” 870 πŸ’¬ 60 πŸ“Œ 124

It really beggars belief how so many journalists have been so incurious and unaware - but that’s how it’s been with moral panics in the modern era.

Transphobe: Trans inclusive sport is against SCIENCE!

Me: OK So would you agree to sport-by-sport rules based on scientific evidence?

Transphobe: NO

21.02.2026 16:43 πŸ‘ 274 πŸ” 51 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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Kyoto Museum's mascot is a grumpy tiger named Torarin (based on a painting in the museum).

19.04.2024 17:39 πŸ‘ 619 πŸ” 90 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 24

Honestly, AI slop PRs are becoming increasingly draining and demoralizing for #Godot maintainers.

If you want to help, more funding so we can pay more maintainers to deal with the slop (on top of everything we do already) is the only viable solution I can think of:

fund.godotengine.org

16.02.2026 15:33 πŸ‘ 1983 πŸ” 884 πŸ’¬ 52 πŸ“Œ 45

It's even worse than that β€” it's a poor ripoff of a real diagram that @nvie.com created years ago for the original git flow blog post. Like, there clearly was never even the *intent* to generate a meaningful diagram, it's just sheer plagiarism

16.02.2026 19:39 πŸ‘ 63 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh god yes, Microsoft continvoucly
morged my diagram there for sure 😬

16.02.2026 20:55 πŸ‘ 252 πŸ” 35 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 2

Every single person arguing in favor of DHS and ICE is arguing in favor of things like this

All of this must be dismantled

12.02.2026 17:11 πŸ‘ 60 πŸ” 39 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

Also, I did an off-the-cuff analysis of their explanations of what happened:
bsky.app/profile/thom...

12.02.2026 09:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

We imvestigated, they said all the anomilies weren't really important, we decided to believe the people that have been lying live to everyone about tjings we can all see are lies...
Okay, sure

12.02.2026 04:01 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Mystery of the missing minute from Epstein jail solved Documents that were part of the Epstein files release help explain why a video released from the night of Epstein's death was missing one minute close to midnight.

Newly released documents show the FBI's scramble to explain last year why it released a screen recording with a missing minute from the night Jeffrey Epstein died, instead of the original footage.

12.02.2026 03:45 πŸ‘ 141 πŸ” 66 πŸ’¬ 44 πŸ“Œ 32

I can confirm this is true and I can also say that the lack of an eviction moratorium is fueling this trend.

10.02.2026 23:33 πŸ‘ 923 πŸ” 294 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 5
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Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

10.02.2026 17:11 πŸ‘ 53363 πŸ” 16904 πŸ’¬ 1153 πŸ“Œ 1342

we were apparently on the brink of this *extraordinary* breakthrough and because President Shitforbrains fucked up the pandemic so badly and his cult decided "ivermectin" was a magic cure-all that meant he didn't ... here we are

11.02.2026 01:19 πŸ‘ 314 πŸ” 60 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 0

Hailey is one of the coolest people I know, and I'm so proud to be her friend. She's a trans writer, activist & educator.

She's been having a rough time because her mother has cancer and she's been unable to work.

I would consider it a personal kindness if you could give whatever you can spare <3

11.02.2026 00:55 πŸ‘ 44 πŸ” 36 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Would prefer to have this instead of the return of measles and polio. Unfortunately, though, our country is run by morons.

11.02.2026 00:58 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Everyone hates political junk mail, which is why we tried to make our mail unique…

By making it into a comic book!

If you live in IL-09, you might receive this five part series about me and the campaign right in your mailbox:

09.02.2026 19:11 πŸ‘ 1859 πŸ” 323 πŸ’¬ 56 πŸ“Œ 42

"Eliminate presidential immunity" needs to become as common a refrain as "eliminate Citizens United"

09.02.2026 15:48 πŸ‘ 3725 πŸ” 710 πŸ’¬ 39 πŸ“Œ 12
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Loving this talk from @jzb.bsky.social

There's a way to talk about the uncomfortable aspects of OSS, AI usage and the world at large without being a doomer or preachy. It's an important topic and super well presented by Joe <3

#cfgmgmtcamp #cfgmgmtcamp2026

03.02.2026 10:14 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's odd, isn't it, how the supposed "woke overreach" that we are told has repulsed all of America & sent Dems into the wilderness coincided, almost perfectly, with final collapse of media gatekeepers & the rise of unrestrained RW media & social media dominance.

15.01.2026 19:22 πŸ‘ 1613 πŸ” 274 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 12

This INCLUDES INDEPENDENTS AND REPUBLICANS. Among Democrats, the number is SEVENTY SEVEN PERCENT.

Any Democrat who isn't saying abolish ICE is serving someone other than you and me.

13.01.2026 16:11 πŸ‘ 423 πŸ” 131 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

You cannot reform this.

Abolish ICE and defund every line item for the job and equipment of every agent from every agency who collaborates with them.

13.01.2026 16:42 πŸ‘ 676 πŸ” 179 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 7
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FYI this is an immediate block. You’re under no obligation to pay for my or anyone else’s work, but you won’t come onto my feed to complain about us earning a living.

08.12.2025 15:21 πŸ‘ 1302 πŸ” 83 πŸ’¬ 56 πŸ“Œ 43

Khan, Cylons, and Boba Fett were cool, but Vultan was The Man(TM).

26.11.2025 16:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The number of ways this is disgraceful behavior from the Secretary of Defense is...a lot.

Service members do have a duty to refuse illegal orders

All Americans have a 1st Amendment right to say that out loud.

24.11.2025 17:29 πŸ‘ 1986 πŸ” 484 πŸ’¬ 84 πŸ“Œ 15

Not to be all "if Biden did this" because the hypocrisy is the point, but people would rightly call for the man to step down if he had done this. And I'm not even talking from a political perspective here.

19.10.2025 02:22 πŸ‘ 612 πŸ” 93 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 1
No Kings Ocean Beach, San Francisco

No Kings Ocean Beach, San Francisco

#NoKings

18.10.2025 18:32 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

I wonder if they should redo the old UK public service films about not smoking, with character "Nick O'Teen", but they're now about not becoming an exploiting corporate bastard, lead character "Gill O'Teen"

18.10.2025 18:55 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0