Bassey Etim
@bassey.bsky.social
Former news editor, current tech R&D nerd. Always high quality, internet-grade posting
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The basic litmus test here is “can you set aside contentious internet disagreements to fight fascism together irl”
I have respect for anyone who can answer “yes” truthfully and Will is clearly among those people
I have respect for anyone who can answer “yes” truthfully and Will is clearly among those people
January 12, 2026 at 5:38 PM
The basic litmus test here is “can you set aside contentious internet disagreements to fight fascism together irl”
I have respect for anyone who can answer “yes” truthfully and Will is clearly among those people
I have respect for anyone who can answer “yes” truthfully and Will is clearly among those people
The craziest thing about the pre-Elon Twitter t-shirt spammers is that they would actually send you a quality t-shirt at reasonable prices
January 10, 2026 at 4:10 PM
The craziest thing about the pre-Elon Twitter t-shirt spammers is that they would actually send you a quality t-shirt at reasonable prices
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Live shot of the Oregon Ducks
January 10, 2026 at 2:09 AM
Live shot of the Oregon Ducks
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yeah they’re just grabbing random people at bus stops there is absolutely no attempt to even give the pretense that this is about immigration anymore. it is absolutely just a military occupation
Not an exaggeration at all to say that the feeling in Minneapolis is that the entire metro area is being treated as occupied territory by federal agents. Impossible to overstate how overwhelmingly people here do not like it. This does not feel sustainable.
January 10, 2026 at 1:07 AM
yeah they’re just grabbing random people at bus stops there is absolutely no attempt to even give the pretense that this is about immigration anymore. it is absolutely just a military occupation
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Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.
January 8, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.
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Escalation to watch for: civil and criminal threats against people calling the ICE murder a murder, especially state and local officials and members of Congress. The regime must constantly escalate.
January 7, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Escalation to watch for: civil and criminal threats against people calling the ICE murder a murder, especially state and local officials and members of Congress. The regime must constantly escalate.
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"A doctor at the scene attempted to help the woman who was shot, but was kept away by federal agents. When an ambulance finally arrived, it was blocked from reaching her by law-enforcement vehicles, and paramedics had to reach her on foot. The woman has died." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
A Deadly Shooting in Minnesota
A federal immigration agent’s killing of a woman driving an SUV fits into a tragic pattern.
www.theatlantic.com
January 7, 2026 at 8:32 PM
"A doctor at the scene attempted to help the woman who was shot, but was kept away by federal agents. When an ambulance finally arrived, it was blocked from reaching her by law-enforcement vehicles, and paramedics had to reach her on foot. The woman has died." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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masked, unidentified goons who assault and murder with impunity. a literal gestapo.
This is the ICE agent who murdered a woman by shooting her multiple times in the face.
January 7, 2026 at 7:36 PM
masked, unidentified goons who assault and murder with impunity. a literal gestapo.
u don't know your weight until you have to pick yourself up
January 7, 2026 at 12:56 AM
u don't know your weight until you have to pick yourself up
Omg i passively assumed there was a reason it had to be so terrible all these years
Zohran just went out and fixed the Williamsburg Bridge bike entrance. Just did it. No faffing, no nonsense. Bam. Fixed.
January 6, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Omg i passively assumed there was a reason it had to be so terrible all these years
HELL YEAH STUNT ON EM
three bylines, six months late, almost zero new information we hadn't reported months ago. lowercased our name and mentioned deep in the story. no link to us. said they couldnt find the govt privacy document (we did). good job wall street journal
One of the WSJ's A1 stories today was reported *6 months ago* by @404media.co, a team of just four journalists.
January 5, 2026 at 10:18 PM
HELL YEAH STUNT ON EM
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I just want everyone to step back and realize how often it's a trans woman getting bullied off social media.
January 5, 2026 at 9:06 PM
I just want everyone to step back and realize how often it's a trans woman getting bullied off social media.
Anyone remember 2 hours ago when Rubio told Utah Sen. Mike Lee that the troops were only there to carry out an arrest warrant?
Trump: "We're going to have our very large United States oil companies go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure and start making money for the country. And we are ready to stage a second and much larger attack if we need to do so."
January 3, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Anyone remember 2 hours ago when Rubio told Utah Sen. Mike Lee that the troops were only there to carry out an arrest warrant?
Yeah, this is not gonna end well
FOX: Will you throw your support behind María Corina Machado?
TRUMP: Well, we're gonna have to look at it. Right now, they have a VP as you know. But the election of Maduro was a disgrace just like my election was a disgrace. 2020 was a disgrace -- a real disgrace -- now 2024 was too big to rig.
TRUMP: Well, we're gonna have to look at it. Right now, they have a VP as you know. But the election of Maduro was a disgrace just like my election was a disgrace. 2020 was a disgrace -- a real disgrace -- now 2024 was too big to rig.
January 3, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Yeah, this is not gonna end well
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You can make LLMs say almost anything. A news organization reporting "what grok said" is engaging in journalistic malpractice. It doesn't know. It just creates plausible sounding words in response to a prompt.
Grok says safeguard lapses led to images of 'minors in minimal clothing' on X reut.rs/498SoUk
Grok says safeguard lapses led to images of 'minors in minimal clothing' on X
Elon Musk's xAI artificial intelligence chatbot Grok said on Friday lapses in safeguards had resulted in "images depicting minors in minimal clothing" on social media platform X and that improvements were being made to prevent this.
reut.rs
January 2, 2026 at 4:55 PM
You can make LLMs say almost anything. A news organization reporting "what grok said" is engaging in journalistic malpractice. It doesn't know. It just creates plausible sounding words in response to a prompt.
I wouldn't go around posting this in public.
We want the competition weak and demoralized, sobbing into a storyline management app.
We want the competition weak and demoralized, sobbing into a storyline management app.
This set of observations is produced by my scrolling Reddit and otherwise listening to people talk about "how to write."
A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption.
B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.
A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption.
B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.
December 31, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I wouldn't go around posting this in public.
We want the competition weak and demoralized, sobbing into a storyline management app.
We want the competition weak and demoralized, sobbing into a storyline management app.
I finally finished my new novel!
Ruby Av. is about a skinny kid from the Midwest 'hood who becomes the most popular rapper on Earth and then a wanted eco-revolutionary.
So, uh, yeah its pretty cool i think
Ruby Av. is about a skinny kid from the Midwest 'hood who becomes the most popular rapper on Earth and then a wanted eco-revolutionary.
So, uh, yeah its pretty cool i think
December 30, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I finally finished my new novel!
Ruby Av. is about a skinny kid from the Midwest 'hood who becomes the most popular rapper on Earth and then a wanted eco-revolutionary.
So, uh, yeah its pretty cool i think
Ruby Av. is about a skinny kid from the Midwest 'hood who becomes the most popular rapper on Earth and then a wanted eco-revolutionary.
So, uh, yeah its pretty cool i think
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Every installment of this MTG rehabilitation tour feels like “Nice Scorpion Regrets Past Stings, Needs Help With River Crossing!”
December 29, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Every installment of this MTG rehabilitation tour feels like “Nice Scorpion Regrets Past Stings, Needs Help With River Crossing!”
Gift link -- this is an A+ 10,000 foot view of the Middle East heading into 2026. “Nothing is more imminent than the impossible.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/w...
Zero Hour for the Middle East
www.nytimes.com
December 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Gift link -- this is an A+ 10,000 foot view of the Middle East heading into 2026. “Nothing is more imminent than the impossible.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/w...
As an oppositional person. If y'all keep talking about Will Stancil like this, I will be forced to take him as my bride
December 27, 2025 at 7:44 PM
As an oppositional person. If y'all keep talking about Will Stancil like this, I will be forced to take him as my bride
The dog of Christmas
December 25, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The dog of Christmas
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Small-scale, fiercely independent journalism rarely gets recognition when awards are handed out, but it's vital in our communities—especially this year. So I made an award and am thrilled to announce @unraveledpress.com and @lataco.bsky.social as the inaugural winners. dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
Announcing the Inaugural Snooping Newsie Awards for Excellence in Independent Journalism | dansinker.com
dansinker.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Small-scale, fiercely independent journalism rarely gets recognition when awards are handed out, but it's vital in our communities—especially this year. So I made an award and am thrilled to announce @unraveledpress.com and @lataco.bsky.social as the inaugural winners. dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
Stunned to learn that my nearly-complete novel might actually have a real sub-genre? --> Ecopunk. Or maybe its Urban Ecopunk? B/C the MC is an inner city rapper?
Someone help me out here im dying
Someone help me out here im dying
December 1, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Stunned to learn that my nearly-complete novel might actually have a real sub-genre? --> Ecopunk. Or maybe its Urban Ecopunk? B/C the MC is an inner city rapper?
Someone help me out here im dying
Someone help me out here im dying
Laughed out loud at all of these until the one in the middle here... i dunno! It's kinda got a vibe to it??
When the models face frontwards, the shame really shines through.
December 1, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Laughed out loud at all of these until the one in the middle here... i dunno! It's kinda got a vibe to it??