Five
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Five
@5arah.com
Me in life: I make things and think about things
Me at job: I lead things in Design/Product Ops
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Five @5arah.com · Nov 19
Update for quiltsky: here’s the skull quilt with the double border (3/4 inch black border, 1/4 inch multicolor). I will hand stitch the binding to the back this week. I can’t wait to show you the back!
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This is so deeply fucked. I wish these people would just admit they hate the idea of democracy and get it over with. This kayfabe bullshit is just silly at this point.
North Carolina lawmakers have voted to remove all college campus voting sites. Specifically at the largest HBCU in the US NC A&T. They now have to walk 30 minutes to their nearest polling place. Students are protesting this - pls share and support.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZThx29BJ9/
Even without an on-campus voting site, NCAT students still marched to the polls. 💙💛 Students at North Carolina A&T showed that barriers won’t stop their voices. When access isn’t easy, they organize. ...
TikTok video by HBCU Student Action Alliance
www.tiktok.com
February 15, 2026 at 3:48 AM
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lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard
February 14, 2026 at 11:47 PM
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Blue MAGA wants to convince me that the Democratic Party is not right wing.

the same party that created the crime bill, destroyed welfare, created neoliberal trade policies, passed the Patriot Act, bombed Libya and bankrolled a genocide in Gaza is not right wing?
February 15, 2026 at 4:41 AM
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ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.
CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
February 15, 2026 at 1:51 AM
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Another example of why I feel no shame in my "I know AI but I won't cheerlead it" position:

www.reddit.com/r/analytics/...
From the analytics community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the analytics community
www.reddit.com
February 14, 2026 at 10:26 PM
What is currently killing me re: the vagueries handed out by people using AI in strategic contexts is that the information would be more specifc and actionable if it were coming from an overconfident psychic/tarot/palm reader.
February 14, 2026 at 9:34 PM
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tonight i'm hosting LUCHA VAVOOM at the Fox Theater in Pomona if you need a last-minute Valentine thing
February 14, 2026 at 7:14 PM
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Some of us didn't hop online in the 90s or the 2000s to get rich and famous, man.

Some of us hopped online in the 90s and 2000s 'cause it was FUN to chat with people all over the world... for free!

Baby, we grew up when it cost a zillion dollars to call long distance! We had pen pals at school!
February 14, 2026 at 6:58 PM
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When we talk about the ~ozempic discourse~ it's easy to think about that as a kind of broad social or marketing pressure that's applied equally to everyone with a body.

It's worth noting that it shows up in more acute & targeted ways, too. I'm getting more emails like this one than I have in years.
February 14, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Just a reminder that David Brooks is in the Epstein files and that he fucked and married his 23 year younger research assistant.

No one should listen to him about morals or virtues.
David Brooks has gotten away with doing terrible political philosophy for a really long time. I don't thikn the problem with editorial pages is bad political philosophy, but it is *a* problem, and is part of how we got Weiss, Douthat, and many other dingleberries.
The kind of utter confusion Brooks is going to inflict on Yale undergrads.
February 14, 2026 at 7:06 PM
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THEY'VE PUT ALL OF BABYLON 5 UP ON YOUTUBE

pilot episode is dreadful but stick with, it quickly pivots to being dead good
February 14, 2026 at 6:54 PM
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I got ninety ethics complaints filed against me with the Illinois bar *in a month* because I didn't mourn when a racist transphobe was killed but Pam Bondi is allowed to publicly lie at a Congressional hearing.

I will never get over that, sorry.
February 14, 2026 at 6:48 PM
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Kristina is family. Trust that if she is asking it’s both needed AND going to where it should go.
I helped mobilize a group of neighbors to provide direct aid to nearly 50 families who are in hiding from ICE.

These folks deserve fresh, familiar foods. So we're purchasing groceries direct from neighborhood Latino markets whenever we can.

Venmo @kristina-halvorson to help, and please repost.
February 14, 2026 at 5:13 PM
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I helped mobilize a group of neighbors to provide direct aid to nearly 50 families who are in hiding from ICE.

These folks deserve fresh, familiar foods. So we're purchasing groceries direct from neighborhood Latino markets whenever we can.

Venmo @kristina-halvorson to help, and please repost.
February 14, 2026 at 4:44 PM
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This is blackout poetry to me
February 14, 2026 at 2:26 PM
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This is so spot on
February 14, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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turns out the discord situation is worse! the company that will be doing the age verifications with IDs is Persona, a peter thiel aligned company

we're going to try to wind down the Kill The Computer discord and try to get a subreddit for the podcasts community up and running
February 14, 2026 at 2:41 AM
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"[The previous owner] said a non-disclosure agreement prevents him from disclosing the purchase price, when it was sold, and to which federal agency it was sold."

Why does a government agency get to keep this info from the public?

www.crainsdetroit.com/real-estate/...
Feds buy Romulus warehouse as ICE detention facility worries grow
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has purchased a large building on Cogswell Street in Romulus.
www.crainsdetroit.com
February 14, 2026 at 1:44 AM
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This might be my favorite Jasper face yet
February 13, 2026 at 9:45 PM
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February 13, 2026 at 5:22 PM
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if someone can come up with working adversarial garment that fucks with smart glasses, to almost any extent, I will not only buy it myself but promote it religiously

ideally something that does lasting damage, but even compromising certain functions is better than nothing

who is working on this??
February 13, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Ooh yeah fighting functional freeze.
a cartoon character is standing in front of a machine that says " do something "
Alt: Beavis is standing in front of an ice machine that says " do something " while kicking it
media.tenor.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:59 PM
This is going to make the city *better* which will make billionaires’ lives better but they still won’t fucking get it.
Holy moly: Seattle’s millionaire tax, passed last year, is expected to bring in $115 million in its 1st year, way more than the $50 million anticipated.

The funds will go to the city’s new social housing developer publicola.com/2026/02/11/t...

(Is NY Gov Hochul paying attention?)
Seattle’s millionaire tax is a huge success. Here is how grassroots groups beat big money and are now raising tons of money for mixed income, rent stabilized housing. (We call it “social housing.”)

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP89WjsvH/
February 13, 2026 at 4:58 PM
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I wrote about MAGA’s war against normal American drone users - and how they’re trying to take control of the skies for themselves.
The U.S. Is Launching a Regulatory Assault on Drone Users
New restrictions try to shield ICE from being watched from above.
foreignpolicy.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:55 PM
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oh
By the power invested in me, I hearby proclaim this woman, "White Woman of Next Month!"

(sorry, you cant have February.)

Not all heroes wear blue jeans
February 13, 2026 at 4:23 PM