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This is a long exposure (and not mine), but the northern lights are visible to the naked eye in St. Paul.
Green and red northern lights over some houses.
November 12, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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mekka.mekka-tech.com
"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?'... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."

Charles Babbage, inventor of the mechanical computer, 1864
Charles Babbage, inventor of the concept of the analytical engine, the first programmable mechanical computer. The analytical engine, a mechanical computer, conceived by Charles Babbage, and created after his passing by his sons.
November 3, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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bluser12.bsky.social
Zohran is stone cold man. Putting out an ad in Arabic after all the Islamophobic shit that’s been thrown his way? Pure swag.

Dems don’t need to copy his politics or even necessarily his campaign strategy, they need to learn how to grow a fucking spine.
zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 13d
أنا اسمي زهران ممدان وعم رشّح حالي لأكون العمدة الجديد في مدينة نيويورك
November 3, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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endeavorance.camp
Takeaways:
- DNC is just that out of touch
- Progressives are probably better off usurping the Dem party as MAGA has the GOP rather than go third party
- Progressives can absolutely do that with a modicum of charisma
October 24, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Last night I visited four temples across Queens to celebrate the Hindu Festival of Lights, ending at Maharaja Sweets in Jackson Heights, where we gave out six kinds of delicious treats alongside some very special guests. Happy Diwali, NYC!
Zohran takes a picture with a father and daughter at the Sweet Shop. Zohran at a temple, smiling and holding a mic. A group photo at the sweet shop with Zohran, Kal Penn, Mira Nair and others. A group photo at a temple.
October 21, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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carlagillespie.bsky.social
No Kings in St Paul, MN #nokings #maddow
October 18, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
October 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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junoryleejournalism.com
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.
October 9, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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resistrebelrevolt.net
Pt1 🧵: Greta Thunberg deported to Athens says, "There's a live-streamed Genocide in front of our eyes in Gaza. No one will be able to say they didn't know this was happening. The Global Samud Flotilla only existed because our leaders failed. Our international systems are betraying Palestinians."
October 6, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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resistrebelrevolt.net
Pt2🧵: Greta Thunberg deported to Athens says, "Global Samud Flotilla are not heroes. Our mistreatment by Israel is not the story. We need more than humanitarian aid to Gaza, we need to stop the decades-long siege. The violence of 'business as usual.' Genocides fueled by our own governments."
October 6, 2025 at 5:12 PM
youtu.be/7hQvBIyOC6Y?...
Make America Great Again
YouTube video by VisualAdvocate
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October 5, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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thepwhl.com
If you need us, you know where we'll be 🙂‍↕️

Mark your calendar and don't miss each team's puck drop on Season Three!
📅  bit.ly/4mHH4mS
🎟️ thepwhl.com/en/tickets
October 1, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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jonathan-a-thon.bsky.social
“And now that I’ve whipped you fat fucks into shape, how about shooting some Americans in the streets for me? ….Pwease?”
September 30, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Don't be a sucker. There are plenty of suckers....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGAq...
Don't Be a Sucker
YouTube video by US National Archives
www.youtube.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Double rainbow all the way!
Double rainbow all the way!
September 19, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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jchavezmpls.bsky.social
I’m publicly calling on the @dfl.org to issue a public statement condemning what just happened at the DFL Feminist Caucus meeting.

I’m sorry you were forced to experience this horrendous behavior @dexanderson.com.
dexanderson.com Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · Sep 10
My statement on tonight's DFL Feminist Caucus Annual Meeting. This statement is being emailed to the Feminist Caucus Chair, Alicia Gibson, and to the State DFL Chair, Richard Carlbom.

This caucus should be ashamed of itself.
Tonight, I attended my first and last DFL Feminist Caucus meeting. As someone who did not come by my feminism through how I was raised, but rather fought my way through to live as the gender I am and to exist as a non-binary person in this world, I found the experience to be demeaning, demoralizing, and actively anti-feminist. If being a feminist in the DFL means caucusing with this group, count me out. My pronouns are very simple and yet the caucus chairs and caucus leadership could not get them correct, despite being repeatedly reminded and corrected at every single opportunity. However, they could suddenly use the singular “they” when it came to my fellow caucus member who happened to be a trans woman, despite her repeatedly giving her pronouns as she/her. This was just the beginning. It was clear from the start that no one leading this meeting understood Robert’s Rules, and very clearly wanted to vote for their friends and be done with it. At the very beginning, an illegal motion was made to just adopt an entire slate of leadership, despite there being challengers to those positions known to the caucus. For me, however, the most hurtful thing was that despite repeatedly affirming that underrepresented people should run for caucus office, should be prioritized in the process, no trans or non-binary people were represented in any of the caucus leadership, much less respected in the meeting. My pronouns - they/them - were clearly seen as an inconvenience, met with eyerolls and annoyance whenever I corrected people. At one point, one of the newly elected caucus leadership claimed her pronouns are “Black Queen,” a clear mockery of the process of asking for pronouns altogether. Does this reflect DFL values? To mock a non-binary person whose community is under direct attack from the president himself? To refuse to use a person’s proper pronouns so repeatedly and without care that I had to make a SIGN with them on it for the meeting? It wasn’t as though my pronouns were a surprise. I sent in my statement of intent to run for Vice Chair the day before the meeting and it was sent out to all members. I identified my pronouns in that statement. And yet, they were ignored. The DFL Feminist Caucus is anything but. I resign my membership.
September 10, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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stonewalldfl.bsky.social
Completely and totally unacceptable behavior from leadership of a recently chartered DFL Community Caucus. Transphobia anywhere is a threat to our community everywhere.

This is only the most recent example of transphobia being tolerated within the party. When will @dfl.org step in to stop this?
dexanderson.com Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · Sep 10
My statement on tonight's DFL Feminist Caucus Annual Meeting. This statement is being emailed to the Feminist Caucus Chair, Alicia Gibson, and to the State DFL Chair, Richard Carlbom.

This caucus should be ashamed of itself.
Tonight, I attended my first and last DFL Feminist Caucus meeting. As someone who did not come by my feminism through how I was raised, but rather fought my way through to live as the gender I am and to exist as a non-binary person in this world, I found the experience to be demeaning, demoralizing, and actively anti-feminist. If being a feminist in the DFL means caucusing with this group, count me out. My pronouns are very simple and yet the caucus chairs and caucus leadership could not get them correct, despite being repeatedly reminded and corrected at every single opportunity. However, they could suddenly use the singular “they” when it came to my fellow caucus member who happened to be a trans woman, despite her repeatedly giving her pronouns as she/her. This was just the beginning. It was clear from the start that no one leading this meeting understood Robert’s Rules, and very clearly wanted to vote for their friends and be done with it. At the very beginning, an illegal motion was made to just adopt an entire slate of leadership, despite there being challengers to those positions known to the caucus. For me, however, the most hurtful thing was that despite repeatedly affirming that underrepresented people should run for caucus office, should be prioritized in the process, no trans or non-binary people were represented in any of the caucus leadership, much less respected in the meeting. My pronouns - they/them - were clearly seen as an inconvenience, met with eyerolls and annoyance whenever I corrected people. At one point, one of the newly elected caucus leadership claimed her pronouns are “Black Queen,” a clear mockery of the process of asking for pronouns altogether. Does this reflect DFL values? To mock a non-binary person whose community is under direct attack from the president himself? To refuse to use a person’s proper pronouns so repeatedly and without care that I had to make a SIGN with them on it for the meeting? It wasn’t as though my pronouns were a surprise. I sent in my statement of intent to run for Vice Chair the day before the meeting and it was sent out to all members. I identified my pronouns in that statement. And yet, they were ignored. The DFL Feminist Caucus is anything but. I resign my membership.
September 10, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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thepwhl.com
Let's pack the house again in S3!
September 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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thepwhl.com
Missing y'all extra 🙌
September 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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ryanestrada.com
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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chathamharrison.bsky.social
Republicans as default, Democrats as the Other, ad infinitum
beijingpalmer.bsky.social BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · Sep 4
weird how both Clinton and Biden winning the popular vote never resulted in demands that Republicans had to leave their isolated bubbles and become friends with Democrats.
September 4, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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jonathan-a-thon.bsky.social
Releasing documents which are not about me and have nothing to do with me would be hostile to me somehow.
NBC News article: Epstein accusers put pressure on Congress to release the files Reps. Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna say they need just two more Republicans to force a vote. But the White House and GOP leaders are frantically working to quash the rebellion. Meanwhile, the White House framed voting for the discharge petition as a “hostile act” toward the Trump administration.
September 3, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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marthawells.com
Re-upping this again, please spread far and wide:
August 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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lookitup.baby
when people say they want to keep politics out, they mean they want to keep YOU out
nome.bsky.social Nome @nome.bsky.social · Aug 22
Their memorials are history. Ours are political. Because as always, there are two sexualities - straight, and political.

Two genders - male, and political.

Two religions - Christian, and political.

Two races - white, and political.
richraho.bsky.social Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · Aug 21
Workers under cover of night removed a rainbow crosswalk outside of the former Pulse nightclub, apparently as part of state and federal transportation officials’ aim to wipe “political banners” from public roadways. www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/08/21/r...
August 22, 2025 at 7:12 PM