ballece.bsky.social
@ballece.bsky.social
Sci-fi, fantasy, climate, science, animals, pinball, and some tennis.
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So uh Ring just up and said they've got a huge centralized private surveillance network they can leverage all at once huh
February 9, 2026 at 2:10 AM
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A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
February 8, 2026 at 5:06 AM
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go off jack white
February 6, 2026 at 7:24 PM
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Every president from Nixon on released their tax returns, but Trump -- who insisted he would follow that custom -- repeatedly refused to do that. So finally they were leaked, showing he paid only $750 in 2016 and nothing in 2017.

He's now demanding all of us, who *did* pay our full taxes, pay him.
Donald Trump’s frivolous $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS over his leaked tax returns, if he were to win or get a settlement, would be paid entirely by U.S. taxpayers. trib.al/eiYvT8m
February 5, 2026 at 10:40 PM
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This is a cool photo of crescent Venus.

And the Moon, too.

Image credit: Iván Éder
February 5, 2026 at 4:05 AM
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A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
February 4, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
February 4, 2026 at 12:43 AM
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Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
January 28, 2026 at 1:40 AM
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Philidelphia DA Larry Krasner warns ICE: If an agent commits crimes in Philly, I will charge you. You will be arrested. You will stand trial, and you will be convicted in state or federal court and you will do your time. Donald Trump can't pardon you for a state court conviction.
February 4, 2026 at 1:30 AM
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It's genuinely kind of funny that the ALL-AMERICAN MAGA HALFTIME SHOW is going to have the guy who sang this as its headliner right in the middle of all the Epstein stuff
February 4, 2026 at 1:43 AM
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Seeing that photo of Obama putting the Medal of Freedom on Tom Homan circulate again. It's fake. Homan did get a civil service award during the Obama administration, but it wasn't the Medal of Freedom, it wasn't a medal (it was a certificate), and Obama didn't present it to him in person.
January 31, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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So, you know how it's impossible to find a site with entry lists for upcoming ATP *and* WTA events without wading through some sketchy betting site?

Well, I went and built one.

It's simple. But, it's clean and easy to navigate.

Bookmark & share!
entries.ticktocktennis.com
Tennis Entry Lists | Tick Tock Tennis
entries.ticktocktennis.com
January 30, 2026 at 1:41 AM
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Instead of renting a hotel room for 2 hours I hear amorous couples are booking tickets to see MELANIA for complete privacy
January 29, 2026 at 9:01 PM
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Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda with 1.4m followers reports TikTok ban https://aje.news/ljjuww
January 29, 2026 at 3:30 AM
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Yes it could be argued that keeping up with world events is important but alternatively can I interest you in hugging an ancient mossy boulder that looks like a face and quietly listening while it tells you stories from centuries cloaked in mist.
January 23, 2026 at 10:56 AM
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HUGE moment for the EU car market as battery EVs overtake petrol cars for the first time ever

But there's no "natural" demand for EVs amirite?

Article by @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org

www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-evs...
January 27, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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Needless to say that Renee Good and Alex Pretti will go down as heroes here in Minnesota and nationally, their names synonymous with sacrifice and caring for vulnerable neighbors even at the risk of your own life. And hopefully no more innocent lives are lost.
January 26, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
January 25, 2026 at 12:28 PM
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The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
January 25, 2026 at 5:39 PM
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So important. What they say is not the story. That is never the story. What happened is the story. Write what happened.
Media: do not lead with the false government framing of what happened
January 25, 2026 at 12:05 AM
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We have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.
January 24, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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Interesting how all the gun rights absolutism melts away in defense of federal death squads -- who are allegedly the reason for gun rights absolutism.
Early DHS spin (via Fox News) is that the person shot repeatedly by Border Patrol officers in Minneapolis was armed -- note that open carrying firearms is legal with a permit and notably, they are not (yet at least) claiming that the person fired or even brandished a gun, just had one.
January 24, 2026 at 4:57 PM
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ICE is executing people, breaking into homes and kidnapping children — but sure, tell me more about how it’s the immigrants who are making us less safe.
January 24, 2026 at 5:24 PM
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All of this is fucking senseless. Minnesota did not have an immigration problem. Trump sent his Nazi thugs here because he's racist against Somali people and to own libs like Tim Walz. Now two Minnesotans are dead and Minneapolis is on the verge of going up in flames. None. Of. This. Was. Necessary.
January 24, 2026 at 4:55 PM
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I don’t think a state that is threatening wars of territorial aggression and has random death squads wandering about its mid-tier cities assassinating civilians should be hosting the World Cup
January 24, 2026 at 4:41 PM