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caseman
@caseman.bsky.social
Radical tech enthusiast, socialist, man wot administers ePCR software for local government. A blue speck in red Florida. He/him.
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The single greatest 15 minute period of my life is the time I spent in the presence of greatness in Franklin Tennessee. A new NIN tour is the best news I've heard in years
Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

Environmental Economics
Intro to Feminist Theory
Music Appreciation
Detective Fiction
Positive Psychology
Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

Comic Fiction
Seminar in World Music (learned to play music from Indonesia and Ghana, got into ethnomusicology)
Italian
Intro to Philosophy
Artificial Intelligence /ducks
Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

Intro to Ordinary Differential Equations
Digital Design
Modern Physics
Electronics Lab
Choral Conducting
January 31, 2026 at 4:30 AM
You can draw a straight fucking line from almost everything wrong with the world today back to the Something Awful forums.
That feeling when you, a terrorism and extremism scholar, see documentary evidence that shows moot met with Jeffery Epstein on the same day /pol was launched:
January 31, 2026 at 4:25 AM
This, like everything he does, was so so good. Careful, detailed explanation of something everyone should understand.
January 31, 2026 at 3:30 AM
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I don't keep doomers in my feed but since apparently some folks do: "celebrate each and every win, loudly" is Organizing 101
January 27, 2026 at 4:13 AM
I am so fucking done with this stupid asshole. All he's ever done is be a spineless sniveling little weasel.
Majority of the country now wants to abolish and/or dismantle ICE and yet Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. told the caucus the message had to be to “restrain, reform and restrict ICE.”

Once again it looks like Schumer is about to choke after getting a massive opportunity.

So pathetic and weak.
Senate Democrats plot strategy as DHS standoff deepens heading into shutdown week
Two sources who were on a Democratic caucus strategy call Sunday said Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told the group the message must be to “restrain, reform and restrict ICE.”
www.nbcnews.com
January 27, 2026 at 3:18 AM
I think the discourse here is good but it's worth looking at the way they're talking about Minnesota in the bad place
January 27, 2026 at 2:49 AM
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the internet is fundamentally broken in ways that, as it exists, can't ever be fixed.

we built a system that needed discourse to power it, like coal in a furnace, and so it gets shovelled in, no matter how empty or pointless it is
Highguard is yet another symptom – and victim – of a rapidly decaying internet

aftermath.site/highguard-rele...
January 26, 2026 at 11:52 PM
My wife is an ICU nurse. I am a government employee. Alex Pretti is us. These heartbroken people are us.
Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning
January 27, 2026 at 12:26 AM
Stay. Fucking. Angry.
They killed innocent people, they kidnapped children, there is zero reason to believe they will stop.
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”

That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
January 27, 2026 at 12:17 AM
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"Pretti’s death will not be in vain. ICE messed with the wrong profession. We nurses will fight to abolish ICE and bring about a vision for a healthy society based on nurses’ values of caring, compassion, and community."
January 26, 2026 at 9:44 PM
We must hold the party accountable to this statement
January 25, 2026 at 1:30 AM
Heartbreaking
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.

"Please get the truth out about our son."
January 25, 2026 at 1:01 AM
Every single nurse in this country should be on strike until ICE is gone and all of these murderers are convicted.
January 24, 2026 at 11:17 PM
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Genuinely the only thing keeping me going—but it really is keeping me going—is how good it is to see people link arms and push for this to end.

I cannot stop thinking about how much love people can have for their neighbors, and how much work and money is poured into breaking that love apart.
January 24, 2026 at 10:03 PM
I want to scream that escalation is not the way out.
But it sure seems like no one is coming to save us.
Concealed carry is legal in the state of Minnesota
DHS told Fox News the suspect was armed with a gun, which has been recovered by federal agents.
January 24, 2026 at 4:55 PM
The spinelessness of the Democratic party used to just be sad and unfortunate when the GOP felt like they had to hide their white nationalist leanings behind dog whistles. Now that we're under the fourth reich, it's complicency.
January 24, 2026 at 4:37 PM
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If you are (understandably) too angry to exercise discretion in what you post then log off for a while.
January 24, 2026 at 4:23 PM
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Reminder: do not fed post
January 24, 2026 at 4:23 PM
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i do not know how this goes on for three more years
January 24, 2026 at 4:14 PM
The journey begins again, tonight
January 23, 2026 at 1:19 PM
Yo for real this gun reaches for new heights in the "overpowered anime weapons" category.
shoutout to the gravitational beam emitter from Blame! because I love how it doesn't get much more detail than "gun" but it can shoot across a room the size of rhode island
January 23, 2026 at 3:43 AM
God bless I miss Jeff on the E3 couch
Many people are saying "what is Highguard" when they could be saying "is Highguard the next Firewatch? What _was_ that, anyway?"
January 23, 2026 at 12:44 AM