Colin Kennedy
ck3po.bsky.social
Colin Kennedy
@ck3po.bsky.social
Food, music, lefty politics, history. Crazy cat dad. Wife husband. Jeopardy! second-placer. Chordophonophile. Ann Arbor, MI he/him 🌷
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I don't believe I've ever seen Ted Levine speak so candidly about his regrets of portraying Buffalo Bill in THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS. He and some of the crew on the film were asked about the film's cultural transphobia by The Hollywood Reporter.

www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
February 17, 2026 at 4:46 PM
It’s Mardi Gras so naturally I had to go to Ypsi for a fried boudin sandwich.
February 17, 2026 at 5:07 PM
I miss seeing the convertibles come out on days like this. I hope they’re all flying anti-ICE flags today.
It’s 43 degrees in Minneapolis, so of course there are lesbian couples in tee-shirts hanging outside the anti-ICE neighborhood coffee shop.
February 17, 2026 at 4:15 PM
There’s a beverage that unites both Pączki Day traditions, and it’s straight out of Homer Simpson’s brain.
February 17, 2026 at 3:44 PM
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For those wondering how the dual holiday is gonna work in Hamtramck today, generally Paczki Day is a daydrinking celebration, and Ramadan kicks off at night.

So gonna be lots of people in a celebratory mood, but the crowds peak at different times.
February 17, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Howell PD just gained two officers.
The police chief plans to fire both officers.
"While the city of Detroit claims itself to be a “Welcoming City” & not a “Sanctuary City,” a 2019 memo from the City Council’s Legislative Policy Div determined “there is no real distinction” between the two."

www.themidwesterner.news/2026/02/two-...
Two Detroit cops suspended after contacting federal immigration agents - The Midwesterner
Two Detroit police officers have been suspended for working with federal immigration agents, which led to the detainment of two illegal aliens. Detroit Police Chief Todd Bettison told the Detroit Boar...
www.themidwesterner.news
February 17, 2026 at 3:36 PM
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I think it’s time for Democratic leaders to start saying “if you’re a pilot or ground crew involved in a deportation that was stayed by a judge, you’ll be held criminally liable for human trafficking.” Everyone involved in these flights should have that fear in the back of their minds.
Overnight, this probable ICE flight landed in Benin and is now returning to Senegal, likely for a crew layover.
February 16, 2026 at 10:57 AM
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we have literally gotten to the dead internet stage
Meta has patented AI that can run a dead person's account, continuing to post and chat on their behalf

It can message and video call by replicating a user's online behavior using their past data
February 17, 2026 at 1:38 AM
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On this day in 1921, Congress reluctantly accepted a sculpture memorializing women’s 19th A victory. Congress relegated the memorial to the Capitol’s crypt & painted over the feminist inscription. The statue stayed entombed in the crypt for 76 years. The inscription is still not restored. #WeTheMen
February 15, 2026 at 7:17 PM
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What could go wrong using AI to help stage a few listing photos?
February 16, 2026 at 10:10 PM
[watching the Olympics] wait Mike Tirico lives in Ann Arbor??!
February 17, 2026 at 1:10 AM
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ICE killed a teacher in Georgia today when they chose to chase a man who posed no danger and had no criminal history.
Savannah teacher killed in crash by man fleeing from ICE
According to the Chatham County Police Department, Monday morning’s fatal crash was the result of a chase between Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and a suspect.
www.wtoc.com
February 17, 2026 at 12:28 AM
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I love going to Georgetown bc you can be like wow I wonder if any of the founding fathers ever hung out in this sweetgreen
February 16, 2026 at 5:39 PM
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sorry can't tonight, I'll be trying to find myself in Lacan's Graph of Desire
February 16, 2026 at 6:18 PM
uhhhhh
February 16, 2026 at 12:59 AM
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February 15, 2026 at 5:21 PM
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February 15, 2026 at 1:59 PM
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ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.
CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
February 15, 2026 at 1:51 AM
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Between this and the story about the ice agents who ate at a Mexican restaurant and then arrested some of its workers when they were done, it's a reminder that these people reject even the most basic social agreements of hospitality and of helping others. They're sociopaths.
CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
February 15, 2026 at 3:09 AM
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Can’t believe we are still doing this
February 15, 2026 at 2:03 PM
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roses are red
cherenkov is blue
just use a screwdriver
what's the worst it could do
February 15, 2026 at 12:10 AM
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ok sorry so what does this actually mean: it means that unless someone is starting their analysis of saving american democracy by focusing on the oligarchy, i don’t really care what else they have to say. it’s like someone talking about basketball without mentioning the 3-point line.
February 14, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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“Supply and demand is ultimately decisive.”
-Friedrich Engels, “The Housing Question.”
San Diego rents fall 5.5%—proof that building housing works.

Add 6,000 apartments, prices drop.

This eases pressure on voucher programs, helps low-income renters, makes the city more accessible.

Want sustained affordability? Keep building.

www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/02/04/r...
‘Rental market is largely frozen’: San Diego rent prices fall in national rankings
National rents are down 2% annually but Zumper said Southern California is seeing more of a slowdown because of increased supply.
www.sandiegouniontribune.com
February 14, 2026 at 5:44 AM
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you could probably make a pretty compelling episode of television (or a short story) about a post-apocalypse world where private security chiefs killed all of their employers when the shit hit the fan and became the warlords that tech barons and billionaires all thought *they* would be
I wonder similar things about the Zuckerbergs of the world who for some reason think when the bombs drop/calderas blow/etc that they can retreat to their bunkers with security teams to keep the rabble out and not get immediately capped by said security
a thing i have never understood about a certain class of our wannabe oligarchy is whether they realize that if their authoritarian oligarch dreams ever come true, they will be significantly *more* vulnerable to the power of the state, not less
February 14, 2026 at 2:03 AM
Time for an all-Pärt… Pärty?
February 14, 2026 at 12:20 AM