Elfie
@elfgrove.bsky.social
Elfie, cat mom to Sylvie, my "gilded tuxedo" calico cat.
🧵 cosplayer, plush maker, ex-Southerner transplanted to SoCali.
✨ https://linktr.ee/elfgrove
🧵 cosplayer, plush maker, ex-Southerner transplanted to SoCali.
✨ https://linktr.ee/elfgrove
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Most Americans agree: ICE is making our communities LESS safe.
ICE is a rogue agency – killing, hurting, and disappearing people with zero accountability.
I’m fighting for actual guardrails to stop their lawlessness or I’m withholding my DHS budget vote.
ICE is a rogue agency – killing, hurting, and disappearing people with zero accountability.
I’m fighting for actual guardrails to stop their lawlessness or I’m withholding my DHS budget vote.
Half of Americans think ICE is making American cities less safe, CNN poll finds | CNN Politics
Most Americans see an immigration officer’s fatal shooting of Minneapolis resident Renee Good as an inappropriate use of force, a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS finds. Roughly half view it as a sign o...
www.cnn.com
January 15, 2026 at 10:06 PM
Most Americans agree: ICE is making our communities LESS safe.
ICE is a rogue agency – killing, hurting, and disappearing people with zero accountability.
I’m fighting for actual guardrails to stop their lawlessness or I’m withholding my DHS budget vote.
ICE is a rogue agency – killing, hurting, and disappearing people with zero accountability.
I’m fighting for actual guardrails to stop their lawlessness or I’m withholding my DHS budget vote.
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Ongoing and obvious reminder that firing chemical weapons directly at people's heads like this *is* deadly force.
January 8, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Ongoing and obvious reminder that firing chemical weapons directly at people's heads like this *is* deadly force.
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This seems like a maliciously put headline to make people feel a certain way.
Wikipedia is not partaking in generative AI. They are making AI companies and scrappers having to pay for training their modules off wikipedia texts. And having an AI (not that ai) tasked with updating dead links.
Wikipedia is not partaking in generative AI. They are making AI companies and scrappers having to pay for training their modules off wikipedia texts. And having an AI (not that ai) tasked with updating dead links.
Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia written by volunteers, is embracing artificial intelligence to mark its 25th anniversary.
Wikipedia unveils new AI licensing deals as it marks 25th birthday
Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia written by volunteers, is embracing artificial intelligence to mark its 25th anniversary.
bit.ly
January 15, 2026 at 7:08 PM
This seems like a maliciously put headline to make people feel a certain way.
Wikipedia is not partaking in generative AI. They are making AI companies and scrappers having to pay for training their modules off wikipedia texts. And having an AI (not that ai) tasked with updating dead links.
Wikipedia is not partaking in generative AI. They are making AI companies and scrappers having to pay for training their modules off wikipedia texts. And having an AI (not that ai) tasked with updating dead links.
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This is the truest truth of any creative career
Natural talent is nothing compared to the ability to keep making shit long after everyone else has given up
January 15, 2026 at 5:44 PM
This is the truest truth of any creative career
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Reminds me that my copy arrived last weekend, save and sound.
January 15, 2026 at 8:03 PM
Reminds me that my copy arrived last weekend, save and sound.
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the problem with an untrained secret police squad that shoots people in their cars isn’t that they’re untrained
January 15, 2026 at 1:19 AM
the problem with an untrained secret police squad that shoots people in their cars isn’t that they’re untrained
I have a 4 day weekend. I need to go do something fun for my mental health.
January 15, 2026 at 5:59 PM
I have a 4 day weekend. I need to go do something fun for my mental health.
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The Tennessee Holler isn’t a news organization, and does no reporting of its own. It is just a guy who reposts other people’s work and receives unearned credit. Follow primary news sources and people on the ground. Be skeptical of popular aggregators.
January 15, 2026 at 4:39 PM
The Tennessee Holler isn’t a news organization, and does no reporting of its own. It is just a guy who reposts other people’s work and receives unearned credit. Follow primary news sources and people on the ground. Be skeptical of popular aggregators.
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Maybe the best thing on the internet still? Certainly the most essential counter we have to our current shitstream of social media-driven misinformation.
Wikipedia is 25 today.
January 15, 2026 at 5:34 PM
Maybe the best thing on the internet still? Certainly the most essential counter we have to our current shitstream of social media-driven misinformation.
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Porcelain plates that I painted in China! Tried using blue-and white techniques but also Turkish+ Persian patterns
January 15, 2026 at 1:03 PM
Porcelain plates that I painted in China! Tried using blue-and white techniques but also Turkish+ Persian patterns
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Another thing you should know about the Twin Cities, if you're not here, is that while the mayor and governor tell us to stay calm on TV, our council members and other local electeds are on the street patrolling and protecting neighbors, doing mutual aid, and otherwise serving the community.
January 15, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Another thing you should know about the Twin Cities, if you're not here, is that while the mayor and governor tell us to stay calm on TV, our council members and other local electeds are on the street patrolling and protecting neighbors, doing mutual aid, and otherwise serving the community.
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begging people not to preemptively hand Trump powers he does not have and has no practical means of accomplishing
the scope of his actual abuses is quite bad enough on its own
the scope of his actual abuses is quite bad enough on its own
the question to ask about this is, okay, he wants to cancel the midterms. how does he get the VA state board of elections to cancel the midterms? how does he get the georgia board of elections to do it? how does he convince republican house members to quit their jobs and give up their paychecks?
Trump says a lot of deranged shit, but, per this Reuters article — and the threats of invoking the Insurrection Act in Minnesota this morning — he is very clearly exploring how to cancel the midterms.
www.reuters.com/world/us/fiv...
www.reuters.com/world/us/fiv...
January 15, 2026 at 4:39 PM
begging people not to preemptively hand Trump powers he does not have and has no practical means of accomplishing
the scope of his actual abuses is quite bad enough on its own
the scope of his actual abuses is quite bad enough on its own
The hands-free baby drowning tool drowns babies. FFS. Why would anyone make this aside from maxxed out evil capitalism brain.
CPSC Warns Consumers to Immediately Stop Using Miocololy Self-Feeding Pillows Due to Risk of Serious Injury or Death from Aspiration and Suffocation. The pillows hold a bottle at an unsafe angle while keeping it fixed in place so the infant cannot pull away. www.cpsc.gov/Warnings/202...
January 15, 2026 at 4:37 PM
The hands-free baby drowning tool drowns babies. FFS. Why would anyone make this aside from maxxed out evil capitalism brain.
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Musk could choose to make it impossible for anyone to make sexually AI explicit AI deepfakes of real people (and make it impossible to make child porn).
Limiting that to only places where he perceives legal danger is a choice.
Limiting that to only places where he perceives legal danger is a choice.
January 15, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Musk could choose to make it impossible for anyone to make sexually AI explicit AI deepfakes of real people (and make it impossible to make child porn).
Limiting that to only places where he perceives legal danger is a choice.
Limiting that to only places where he perceives legal danger is a choice.
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The main bank account holding revenue from the Venezuelan oil sales is located in Qatar.
“There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
“There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
Exclusive: US gets first $500 million Venezuelan oil deal, holding some proceeds in Qatar
The details shared with Semafor mark an initial milestone in the administration’s plan following the ouster of Nicolás Maduro.
www.semafor.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:42 AM
The main bank account holding revenue from the Venezuelan oil sales is located in Qatar.
“There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
“There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
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As a small woman I think it’s pathetic to feel the need to carry a gun everywhere to feel safe. If I don’t feel the need how tf do these men that think they’re so big and tough.
January 14, 2026 at 12:32 AM
As a small woman I think it’s pathetic to feel the need to carry a gun everywhere to feel safe. If I don’t feel the need how tf do these men that think they’re so big and tough.
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This is amazing and wonderful, North American grasslands are the most endangered biome we have because they have largely been plowed under for monocrop agriculture since the mid-19th century.
Conservation nonprofit American Prairie in Montana has acquired holdings now spanning more than 2,428 km², the nonprofit aims to stitch together 12,950 km² of shortgrass prairie, home to bison, badgers, prairie dogs, ferrets, pronghorn, sage grouse and swift fox. buff.ly/PJYfnwi
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
Victory for public access: American Prairie unlocks another 70,000 acres in Montana
Conservation group opens gated road and tears down "no trespassing" signs with purchase from Texas billionaire brothers.
buff.ly
January 15, 2026 at 3:11 PM
This is amazing and wonderful, North American grasslands are the most endangered biome we have because they have largely been plowed under for monocrop agriculture since the mid-19th century.
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i think this gets at something important which is that normal people are rightly pissed off that they’re having normal time stolen from them by this ravaging horde of jumped up mall cops. everybody has to work in the morning! why is it THEIR job to hold their community together in such a basic way!
🔥 From @statuscoupnews.bsky.social : “This is nuts. What the fuck is going on? I’ve never protested in my life… they tell you it’s immigrants — it’s fucking anybody. They’re just trying to scare people. I’m not paid to be here. I have to work in the morning. This is wrong.”
January 15, 2026 at 2:48 PM
i think this gets at something important which is that normal people are rightly pissed off that they’re having normal time stolen from them by this ravaging horde of jumped up mall cops. everybody has to work in the morning! why is it THEIR job to hold their community together in such a basic way!
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This means that, even if you are in one of those "certain locations" where it's blocked, you can still use a VPN to create sexually explicit deepfakes of real people with Grok.
Musk is totally ok with that! He's just responding to the fact that the governments of "certain places" are pissed.
Musk is totally ok with that! He's just responding to the fact that the governments of "certain places" are pissed.
The social media platform X said late Wednesday that it was blocking Grok, the A.I. chatbot created by Elon Musk, from generating sexualized and naked images of real people in certain locations.
Elon Musk’s X Restricts Ability to Create Explicit Images With Grok
Bowing to pressure, the company said it would restrict X users from generating explicit images of real people in jurisdictions where such content is illegal.
nyti.ms
January 15, 2026 at 3:13 PM
This means that, even if you are in one of those "certain locations" where it's blocked, you can still use a VPN to create sexually explicit deepfakes of real people with Grok.
Musk is totally ok with that! He's just responding to the fact that the governments of "certain places" are pissed.
Musk is totally ok with that! He's just responding to the fact that the governments of "certain places" are pissed.
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I should make a thread of Japanese to English translationisms that I frequently edit as someone who works on a lot of light novels and sees a lot of the same turns of phrase in narration.
Consider this a thread now.
#amediting #amtranslating
Consider this a thread now.
#amediting #amtranslating
September 3, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I should make a thread of Japanese to English translationisms that I frequently edit as someone who works on a lot of light novels and sees a lot of the same turns of phrase in narration.
Consider this a thread now.
#amediting #amtranslating
Consider this a thread now.
#amediting #amtranslating
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#sheith #vld #shiroxkeith
So I'm not sure if I should repost literally everything I've ever posted in x here but IG we'll see how this goes 😂
So I'm not sure if I should repost literally everything I've ever posted in x here but IG we'll see how this goes 😂
January 14, 2026 at 10:17 PM
#sheith #vld #shiroxkeith
So I'm not sure if I should repost literally everything I've ever posted in x here but IG we'll see how this goes 😂
So I'm not sure if I should repost literally everything I've ever posted in x here but IG we'll see how this goes 😂
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If you tell me that you're still watching Rurouni Kenshin in this day and age, you'd better believe that I'm going to judge you.
Like the wizard book, that series is *toxic* thanks to its creator's horrifying actions, and the aftermath of them.
Like the wizard book, that series is *toxic* thanks to its creator's horrifying actions, and the aftermath of them.
Friends, #weebwednesday is upon us once again! You know the drill - quote-post with your weebiest hot takes, nothing racist, nothing intentionally inflammatory, have fun with it ♥
January 15, 2026 at 2:21 AM
If you tell me that you're still watching Rurouni Kenshin in this day and age, you'd better believe that I'm going to judge you.
Like the wizard book, that series is *toxic* thanks to its creator's horrifying actions, and the aftermath of them.
Like the wizard book, that series is *toxic* thanks to its creator's horrifying actions, and the aftermath of them.