Abby Franquemont 🇵🇪🇺🇸
@abbysyarns.bsky.social
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@abbysyarns everywhere
She/Her/Ella 🇵🇪🐈🧶🇺🇸📚
English / Español / Runasimi
Cusco, Peru
Spin / Weave / Textiles / Yachay / Llankay / Ruay
Ama sua, ama llulla, ama quella
@abbysyarns everywhere
She/Her/Ella 🇵🇪🐈🧶🇺🇸📚
English / Español / Runasimi
Cusco, Peru
Spin / Weave / Textiles / Yachay / Llankay / Ruay
Ama sua, ama llulla, ama quella
I am at the market and only had a large bill and the lady had to go get change so she gave me a choclo to eat while I wait lol
February 2, 2026 at 9:07 PM
I am at the market and only had a large bill and the lady had to go get change so she gave me a choclo to eat while I wait lol
Godson: repeats something I said
Me to his mom: you know what though that’s really good he can repeat that because I said it in English
His mom: uh yeah you said it in Spanish
Younger godson: si Abby estabas hablando español
Me to his mom: you know what though that’s really good he can repeat that because I said it in English
His mom: uh yeah you said it in Spanish
Younger godson: si Abby estabas hablando español
February 2, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Godson: repeats something I said
Me to his mom: you know what though that’s really good he can repeat that because I said it in English
His mom: uh yeah you said it in Spanish
Younger godson: si Abby estabas hablando español
Me to his mom: you know what though that’s really good he can repeat that because I said it in English
His mom: uh yeah you said it in Spanish
Younger godson: si Abby estabas hablando español
Absolutely epic extreme thunderhail with cold cold rain and I just had to rescue the cat from under the table in the garden and wash the mud off him. He was clearly on patrol when it hit.
February 1, 2026 at 1:00 AM
Absolutely epic extreme thunderhail with cold cold rain and I just had to rescue the cat from under the table in the garden and wash the mud off him. He was clearly on patrol when it hit.
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The Rodney King video is one of the most important moments in American history because it showed people, particularly comfortable white people, irrefutable evidence that marginalized people’s stories of how police behaved - which were never believed - were in fact true.
Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.
January 24, 2026 at 11:37 PM
The Rodney King video is one of the most important moments in American history because it showed people, particularly comfortable white people, irrefutable evidence that marginalized people’s stories of how police behaved - which were never believed - were in fact true.
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🎶 People in the United States have been getting treated this way the whole time 🎶
It’s not a boomerang, it‘s an expansion
It’s not a boomerang, it‘s an expansion
January 25, 2026 at 1:55 PM
🎶 People in the United States have been getting treated this way the whole time 🎶
It’s not a boomerang, it‘s an expansion
It’s not a boomerang, it‘s an expansion
It’s street food for dinner. Soup and lomo saltado to go.
January 25, 2026 at 1:08 AM
It’s street food for dinner. Soup and lomo saltado to go.
Hemos ingresado con toda la familia turnando y solo nos falta un hipertenso para completar todos los restringidos para visitar a la paciente
January 23, 2026 at 11:15 PM
Hemos ingresado con toda la familia turnando y solo nos falta un hipertenso para completar todos los restringidos para visitar a la paciente
Much to their grandfather’s chagrin I have just instructed my young godsons in the English art of asking who farted and saying it’s pee-yew stinky gross
I maintain they need to know this to talk with kids their age in English
I maintain they need to know this to talk with kids their age in English
January 19, 2026 at 11:58 PM
Much to their grandfather’s chagrin I have just instructed my young godsons in the English art of asking who farted and saying it’s pee-yew stinky gross
I maintain they need to know this to talk with kids their age in English
I maintain they need to know this to talk with kids their age in English
Coincidentally ran into Wheeljack at the mechanic today #transformers #cusco
January 19, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Coincidentally ran into Wheeljack at the mechanic today #transformers #cusco
Monday morning: they can’t find the key to the padlock for the parking area and the spare is apparently not working so tennis lessons will start late
January 19, 2026 at 11:41 AM
Monday morning: they can’t find the key to the padlock for the parking area and the spare is apparently not working so tennis lessons will start late
Also like… doing the thing is often its own reward because we do things we enjoy. And then when you do them well you have a sense of achievement and pride and it feels good.
It's funny that one of the things people learn as very small children is "you get better at doing the thing by doing the thing."
Everyone learns this as a small kid, it is very obviously completely true.
And using genAI manages to instantly make people forget it, and start arguing about it.
Everyone learns this as a small kid, it is very obviously completely true.
And using genAI manages to instantly make people forget it, and start arguing about it.
January 18, 2026 at 11:59 AM
Also like… doing the thing is often its own reward because we do things we enjoy. And then when you do them well you have a sense of achievement and pride and it feels good.
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ICE raids are not the first time this was made explicit. I think people downplay how much Jim Crow was not just about controlling Black people but it was also about controlling white people. If you thought racism was dumb and acted that way you could end up with a bomb in your home
Just keep coming back to the fact that keeping people in a constant state of terror is a form of mass disablement and essential to the eugenic project that is the United States.
January 17, 2026 at 6:08 AM
ICE raids are not the first time this was made explicit. I think people downplay how much Jim Crow was not just about controlling Black people but it was also about controlling white people. If you thought racism was dumb and acted that way you could end up with a bomb in your home
Watching news about the USA as a US citizen who has emigrated to another country is just getting weirder and harder to take every single day.
January 15, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Watching news about the USA as a US citizen who has emigrated to another country is just getting weirder and harder to take every single day.
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We don't exist in the same reality in this country. Never really have. Here's something I wrote in 2013 about what police in Chicago do to young Black and Brown people REGULARLY: www.usprisonculture.com/2013/02/19/o...
January 14, 2026 at 8:53 PM
We don't exist in the same reality in this country. Never really have. Here's something I wrote in 2013 about what police in Chicago do to young Black and Brown people REGULARLY: www.usprisonculture.com/2013/02/19/o...
There is this woman in a Facebook group who insists driving in peru is exactly the same as driving in the USA
And for her that’s probably true because she’s one of those drivers who shouldn’t be on the road anywhere and are a danger to others
And for her that’s probably true because she’s one of those drivers who shouldn’t be on the road anywhere and are a danger to others
January 14, 2026 at 2:53 PM
There is this woman in a Facebook group who insists driving in peru is exactly the same as driving in the USA
And for her that’s probably true because she’s one of those drivers who shouldn’t be on the road anywhere and are a danger to others
And for her that’s probably true because she’s one of those drivers who shouldn’t be on the road anywhere and are a danger to others
Me: I wanna rock and roll all night
4 year old godson who is learning English: and party every day madrina
Seriously he’s a big Kiss fan
4 year old godson who is learning English: and party every day madrina
Seriously he’s a big Kiss fan
January 14, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Me: I wanna rock and roll all night
4 year old godson who is learning English: and party every day madrina
Seriously he’s a big Kiss fan
4 year old godson who is learning English: and party every day madrina
Seriously he’s a big Kiss fan
Precisely.
It shouldn’t surprise me that the same people who’ve spent a lifetime unsure if their caps lock key is on actually seem to believe LLMs are engaging in reason.
It shouldn’t surprise me that the same people who’ve spent a lifetime unsure if their caps lock key is on actually seem to believe LLMs are engaging in reason.
I don't use LLMs. They're just stochastic parrots that deliver a string of text that looks like the most likely response to a question that a consensus-human would emit. It's not an answer, it's an answer-shaped object that's wrong 25-75% of the time. Utterly useless to me.
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'
January 14, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Precisely.
It shouldn’t surprise me that the same people who’ve spent a lifetime unsure if their caps lock key is on actually seem to believe LLMs are engaging in reason.
It shouldn’t surprise me that the same people who’ve spent a lifetime unsure if their caps lock key is on actually seem to believe LLMs are engaging in reason.
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One of my fixations is history.
And one thing we see in all history is when Bad Times Come, having good shoes and a good jacket saves people's lives. A lot of lives.
What Bad Times? Varies. Always does.
Those two things, not so much.
And one thing we see in all history is when Bad Times Come, having good shoes and a good jacket saves people's lives. A lot of lives.
What Bad Times? Varies. Always does.
Those two things, not so much.
January 13, 2026 at 11:16 AM
One of my fixations is history.
And one thing we see in all history is when Bad Times Come, having good shoes and a good jacket saves people's lives. A lot of lives.
What Bad Times? Varies. Always does.
Those two things, not so much.
And one thing we see in all history is when Bad Times Come, having good shoes and a good jacket saves people's lives. A lot of lives.
What Bad Times? Varies. Always does.
Those two things, not so much.
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People really do not understand how out of control Minneapolis is right now. I spent almost 8 hours today on the street in different parts of the city and saw everything from tear gas and pepper balls being used to fully marked ice vehicles roaming and pointing out people to camera crews onboard.
ICE is now ramming civilian cars through red lights in Minnesota. — they are tax payer agitators ‼️
January 13, 2026 at 12:24 AM
People really do not understand how out of control Minneapolis is right now. I spent almost 8 hours today on the street in different parts of the city and saw everything from tear gas and pepper balls being used to fully marked ice vehicles roaming and pointing out people to camera crews onboard.
Yeah I totally remember saying Love Actually sucked and so did the new form of La Migra
semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
January 13, 2026 at 12:16 AM
Yeah I totally remember saying Love Actually sucked and so did the new form of La Migra
I somehow lost (someone stole it) my Benchmade mini griptilian 6 years ago and have been looking for a replacement ever since to no avail until yesterday when I found a north fork folder in the baratillo and talked the guy down to 150 soles
If you’re at all a knife nerd you get it.
If you’re at all a knife nerd you get it.
January 12, 2026 at 5:23 PM
I somehow lost (someone stole it) my Benchmade mini griptilian 6 years ago and have been looking for a replacement ever since to no avail until yesterday when I found a north fork folder in the baratillo and talked the guy down to 150 soles
If you’re at all a knife nerd you get it.
If you’re at all a knife nerd you get it.
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If only there had been some sort of warning
January 12, 2026 at 1:55 PM
If only there had been some sort of warning
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They are in Miami, they are in Texas, they are in Arizona. But ICE doesn’t limit its actions to those without documentation. Our Hispanic communities are large, with deep roots that predate white settlers. Racism has always targeted them but now it’s ratcheted up, without the national attention.
if ICE were serious about rounding up illegal immigrants, they'd be in Miami, LA, NYC, Texas, and Arizona. But they're too chicken shit to do their actual jobs, so they're terrorizing unarmed women. Well, FUCK ICE. We're not fucking scared of you. #fuckICE
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/....
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/....
Most U.S. unauthorized immigrants live in just 20 metro areas
In 2016, the 20 U.S. metro areas with the most unauthorized immigrants were home to 6.5 million of them, or 61% of the estimated total.
www.pewresearch.org
January 12, 2026 at 12:24 AM
They are in Miami, they are in Texas, they are in Arizona. But ICE doesn’t limit its actions to those without documentation. Our Hispanic communities are large, with deep roots that predate white settlers. Racism has always targeted them but now it’s ratcheted up, without the national attention.
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Always possible that we’re already in hell.
Google is expanding the shopping features in its AI chatbot by teaming up with Walmart, Shopify, Wayfair and other big retailers to turn the Gemini app into a virtual merchant as well as an assistant.
Google teams up with Walmart and other retailers to enable shopping within Gemini AI chatbot
Google is expanding the shopping features in its AI chatbot by teaming up with Walmart, Shopify, Wayfair and other big retailers to turn the Gemini app into a virtual merchant as well as an assistant.
bit.ly
January 11, 2026 at 11:03 PM
Always possible that we’re already in hell.
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