Ariel Isabel Sepúlveda
@arielsepulveda.bsky.social
lawful chaotic time travel scholar | columbia class of 2021, PhD student @ UW | podcasting @speaktoitprods | he/him or they/them | 🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷
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Mamdani apparently just pulled the kid out of the Omelas hole. Turns out we could've done it anytime
February 3, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Mamdani apparently just pulled the kid out of the Omelas hole. Turns out we could've done it anytime
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Primero Sueño Press authors with Puerto Rican roots who you should follow ❤️🇵🇷
Keila Shaheen
Mayra Cuevas
Denise Soler Cox
Cynthia Pelayo
Natalie Caña
Keila Shaheen
Mayra Cuevas
Denise Soler Cox
Cynthia Pelayo
Natalie Caña
February 9, 2026 at 10:45 PM
Primero Sueño Press authors with Puerto Rican roots who you should follow ❤️🇵🇷
Keila Shaheen
Mayra Cuevas
Denise Soler Cox
Cynthia Pelayo
Natalie Caña
Keila Shaheen
Mayra Cuevas
Denise Soler Cox
Cynthia Pelayo
Natalie Caña
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1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
February 9, 2026 at 12:25 PM
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
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the public health response to this has to be “close the camps and free them all” and nothing less
5/ “I have already spent more than 60 days waking up eating the same repetitive meals…going to the doctor and that the only thing they tell you is to drink more water and the worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here…”
From 12-year-old Ender, detained 60+ days
From 12-year-old Ender, detained 60+ days
February 9, 2026 at 2:07 PM
the public health response to this has to be “close the camps and free them all” and nothing less
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This is excellent.
Reminder: In light of Bad Bunny's Superbowl performance spotlighting Latino culture, here's a hefty list of Latino speculative fiction authors I curated if anyone wants to take a gander and read some phenomenal work. Much love to all!
go.bsky.app/6BAmgpi
go.bsky.app/6BAmgpi
February 9, 2026 at 9:20 AM
This is excellent.
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yes but that does not excuse their imperialism in kuwait, iraq, and afghanistan
February 9, 2026 at 3:47 AM
yes but that does not excuse their imperialism in kuwait, iraq, and afghanistan
Genuinely curious whether Rings have been taken down these past 2 months in the Twin Cities area. Thinking about a street near mine where I always see a lot of chatter about what people see on their Rings (lots of package thieves around, etc)—I’m positive they all hate ICE now—what’s this look like?
jack asked if i would sketch up a poster to tell people in nearby neighborhoods about the partnership between flock and ring, and this is what i came up with. it can be printed on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.
February 9, 2026 at 5:05 AM
if anything, bad bunny thinks there should be 49 states, at MOST
btw don’t use Bad Bunny’s halftime show to call for Puerto Rico statehood - his album is quite literally AGAINST statehood. maybe listen to his body of work before trying to use it to push for more active colonization of our country.
February 9, 2026 at 4:14 AM
if anything, bad bunny thinks there should be 49 states, at MOST
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btw don’t use Bad Bunny’s halftime show to call for Puerto Rico statehood - his album is quite literally AGAINST statehood. maybe listen to his body of work before trying to use it to push for more active colonization of our country.
February 9, 2026 at 2:17 AM
btw don’t use Bad Bunny’s halftime show to call for Puerto Rico statehood - his album is quite literally AGAINST statehood. maybe listen to his body of work before trying to use it to push for more active colonization of our country.
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The sugarcane fields on the field. The jibarito victims of Luma. The purposeful showcasing of Puerto Rican joy - piraguas, our sense of community, our defiance in the face of hostility.
Then adding Lady Gaga, Ricky Martin and appearances by Pedro Pascal and Cardi.
Well fucking played, Benito.
Then adding Lady Gaga, Ricky Martin and appearances by Pedro Pascal and Cardi.
Well fucking played, Benito.
February 9, 2026 at 3:54 AM
The sugarcane fields on the field. The jibarito victims of Luma. The purposeful showcasing of Puerto Rican joy - piraguas, our sense of community, our defiance in the face of hostility.
Then adding Lady Gaga, Ricky Martin and appearances by Pedro Pascal and Cardi.
Well fucking played, Benito.
Then adding Lady Gaga, Ricky Martin and appearances by Pedro Pascal and Cardi.
Well fucking played, Benito.
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Everybody: That show was beautiful.
Me: OVERRULE THE INSULAR CASES TOMORROW FFS
Me: OVERRULE THE INSULAR CASES TOMORROW FFS
February 9, 2026 at 1:45 AM
Everybody: That show was beautiful.
Me: OVERRULE THE INSULAR CASES TOMORROW FFS
Me: OVERRULE THE INSULAR CASES TOMORROW FFS
tonight you are all boricuas
February 9, 2026 at 2:00 AM
tonight you are all boricuas
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This is the guy who nerfed Tumblr’s usage with the porn ban btw.
Will Lewis is resigning as WaPo CEO, former Tumblr CEO Jeff D’Onofrio is the paper’s new acting CEO and publisher, per memos to staff
February 7, 2026 at 10:48 PM
This is the guy who nerfed Tumblr’s usage with the porn ban btw.
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2025 was another great year for African short fiction! Author @wtalabi.com recommends 10 highlights across science fiction, fantasy, and horror, from "magic-for-wealth schemes" to an unsettling religious organization (in space). And if there's some ties in there...? We're not complaining.
Ten(ish) of the Best African Speculative Short Fiction Stories of 2025 - Reactor
Here are some of the speculative fiction gems that may have flown under the radar in 2025...
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February 4, 2026 at 3:22 PM
2025 was another great year for African short fiction! Author @wtalabi.com recommends 10 highlights across science fiction, fantasy, and horror, from "magic-for-wealth schemes" to an unsettling religious organization (in space). And if there's some ties in there...? We're not complaining.
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'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once
Horrifying. ICE confirms measles outbreak at Dilley family detention center. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-dil...
ICE halts "all movement" at Texas detention facility due to measles infections
The measles cases at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center were detected Friday, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement to CBS News.
www.cbsnews.com
February 2, 2026 at 4:31 AM
'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once
bad bunny united generations of puerto ricans in 2025 with that album and he has been rewarded with a little gold horn for his valiant effort
February 2, 2026 at 6:05 AM
bad bunny united generations of puerto ricans in 2025 with that album and he has been rewarded with a little gold horn for his valiant effort
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death from disease in concentration camps is so widespread and so predictable that it's pretty clearly a feature, not a bug.
ICE now confirming that there is a measles outbreak at the Texas concentration camp where young Liam was held.
February 2, 2026 at 12:35 AM
death from disease in concentration camps is so widespread and so predictable that it's pretty clearly a feature, not a bug.
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@crossandcrowsbooks.bsky.social needs urgent help to stay open in Vancouver, BC. @charliejane.bsky.social @yilinwriter.bsky.social gofund.me/313858e1c
Donate to Help Save a Queer bookstore! Cross and Crows needs you, organized by Meesh Beech
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January 28, 2026 at 5:33 PM
@crossandcrowsbooks.bsky.social needs urgent help to stay open in Vancouver, BC. @charliejane.bsky.social @yilinwriter.bsky.social gofund.me/313858e1c
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Illegally sending juveniles to a private prison in one small county in Pennsylvania netted those involved millions of dollars. So yeah, now imagine that a million times over.
Kids for cash scandal - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 27, 2026 at 9:17 PM
Illegally sending juveniles to a private prison in one small county in Pennsylvania netted those involved millions of dollars. So yeah, now imagine that a million times over.
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Five-year-old Génesis Ester Gutiérrez Castellanos was deported to Honduras on January 11 despite being a US citizen, and now she is trapped in a country she had never known. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Five-year-old deported to Honduras despite being US citizen is latest child victim of Trump crackdown
Mother whose visa application was pending says she will send girl back to US soon accompanied by another relative
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Five-year-old Génesis Ester Gutiérrez Castellanos was deported to Honduras on January 11 despite being a US citizen, and now she is trapped in a country she had never known. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
January 27, 2026 at 9:30 PM
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
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#BSFA voters...
My essay 'Should Galadriel have taken the Ring?' has been nominated for the #BSFA Award for Best Short Non Fiction and @speculativeinsight.bsky.social have very kindly made it free to read for the voting period. So please read to find out about the significance of #Galadriel being the Fairy Queen.
Should Galadriel have taken the Ring? — Speculative Insight
The Fourth Age under the dominion of men isn’t going too well, is it? Did the free peoples of Middle-earth really combine to overthrow Sauron so that the world would be delivered on a plate to the lik...
www.speculativeinsight.com
January 25, 2026 at 7:31 AM
#BSFA voters...
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Jason Collins explores how the upcoming Africa2Moon project reflects ideas inherent to Africanfuturism in this new essay, and what it means in practice.
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![Purple background, white text, which says the Africa2Moon project is an excellent example of [Nnedi] Okorafor's concept being brought to life within the context of space and the African continent. The imagination of outer space has largely been used in Afrofuturist and Africanfuturism expression. "African on the Moon" -- Jason Collins](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:etyqh3teyar75uaji3ts4goa/bafkreicpmdyeigmivgb2p5dgj2sml772qebjutywkwnnuwpa6oxbchho5e@jpeg)
January 19, 2026 at 9:12 AM
Jason Collins explores how the upcoming Africa2Moon project reflects ideas inherent to Africanfuturism in this new essay, and what it means in practice.
You can read it now by subscribing for just AUD30/year (~GBP15 or USD19) - get 12 extra essays / year!
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