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Merle - writer, ranter, worker of stitchcraft, they/them
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it’s already gotten very old to name check 1984 but between the “Department of War” and the “Board of Peace,” it’s hitting home. and we feel not so far from “we have always been at war with Eurasia”
Trump’s Board of Peace has now officially been recognized as an international organization, according to the White House.
January 22, 2026 at 12:02 PM
it’s already gotten very old to name check 1984 but between the “Department of War” and the “Board of Peace,” it’s hitting home. and we feel not so far from “we have always been at war with Eurasia”
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(Content warning: ICE violence)
At around 1:40 this afternoon, I witnessed federal agents with ICE and CBP arresting a US citizen after hitting her car from behind, and then kneeling on the head of a legal observer in the snow, preventing breathing and bloodying their face.
At around 1:40 this afternoon, I witnessed federal agents with ICE and CBP arresting a US citizen after hitting her car from behind, and then kneeling on the head of a legal observer in the snow, preventing breathing and bloodying their face.
January 21, 2026 at 8:53 PM
(Content warning: ICE violence)
At around 1:40 this afternoon, I witnessed federal agents with ICE and CBP arresting a US citizen after hitting her car from behind, and then kneeling on the head of a legal observer in the snow, preventing breathing and bloodying their face.
At around 1:40 this afternoon, I witnessed federal agents with ICE and CBP arresting a US citizen after hitting her car from behind, and then kneeling on the head of a legal observer in the snow, preventing breathing and bloodying their face.
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This is the sort of thing that defines fascism more than most other aspects. The installation of secret police to monitor everyone for suspicion not of doing anything wrong, but of being the wrong kind of person.
I’m not sure people outside the Twin Cites realize the prevalence and the fear ICE is causing in Twin Cities. They are dining undercover pretending to be couples at restaurants, they are going to businesses and checking the license plates of cars to find employees. Every public place is compromised.
January 19, 2026 at 4:44 AM
This is the sort of thing that defines fascism more than most other aspects. The installation of secret police to monitor everyone for suspicion not of doing anything wrong, but of being the wrong kind of person.
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Independence. They choose independence and have been fighting for independence and sovereignty for a very long time. We colonized Greenland and brutalized the indigenous inhabitants, we were doing forced sterilisation to their bodies until the fucking 1990s.
In Denmark, you get free healthcare, free university education, a solid state pension and 5-star public transport.
The USA have people going bankrupt to pay medical fees, many with huge student loan debts and ICE terror on top of it all.
If you were from Greenland - who would you choose?
The USA have people going bankrupt to pay medical fees, many with huge student loan debts and ICE terror on top of it all.
If you were from Greenland - who would you choose?
January 18, 2026 at 3:36 AM
Independence. They choose independence and have been fighting for independence and sovereignty for a very long time. We colonized Greenland and brutalized the indigenous inhabitants, we were doing forced sterilisation to their bodies until the fucking 1990s.
I thought this was about newsom until I got to the quoted post, either way the same applies... these opportunistic shitheels are not going to save anyone but themselves, and they're definitely not on our side
a genocide denying misogynist is not gonna save yall from fascists. that man is a nightcrawler for liberal fame, and thinks this is his next ticket.
attempting to turn stancil into a hero is one of the worst bluesky trends I’ve ever encountered
January 18, 2026 at 1:48 AM
I thought this was about newsom until I got to the quoted post, either way the same applies... these opportunistic shitheels are not going to save anyone but themselves, and they're definitely not on our side
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Good summary of “don’t give him what he wants” from relatively comfortable white liberals.
January 17, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Good summary of “don’t give him what he wants” from relatively comfortable white liberals.
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Dems for a while now are these weird placeholder puppets that, when in charge, keep whatever version of society Republicans have fucked us into as the new status quo, and just keep us in that holding pattern until the Republicans get back in power and fuck everything up more, and the cycle continues
People don't want to accept that the primary reason that we have Trump today is that the previous administration completely failed. It should have never gotten to the point where it was in the so-called hands of the voters. It was already too late by then.
SEOUL, Jan 13 (Reuters) - South Korea's special prosecutor on Tuesday requested the death penalty for former president Yoon Suk Yeol on charges of insurrection over his brief imposition of martial law in December 2024.
January 13, 2026 at 9:27 PM
Dems for a while now are these weird placeholder puppets that, when in charge, keep whatever version of society Republicans have fucked us into as the new status quo, and just keep us in that holding pattern until the Republicans get back in power and fuck everything up more, and the cycle continues
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Pete and Amy are really out here arguing that ICE isn’t killing people by the employee handbook when we are out here arguing ICE should not exist. They do NOT represent the will of the people.
@petebuttigieg.bsky.social: "We have an ICE agent who should have been trained not to be in front of a vehicle and never to shoot into a moving vehicle, and yet this happened on [Kristi Noem's] watch. The whole POINT of Homeland Security is to make this country more stable and safe."
January 10, 2026 at 1:09 AM
Pete and Amy are really out here arguing that ICE isn’t killing people by the employee handbook when we are out here arguing ICE should not exist. They do NOT represent the will of the people.
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isn't this just what they have been doing with Black people for years though? it just seems like the expansion to doing it to everyone who opposes them that they have been telling us about
The shooting is shocking enough but the government's response is off the charts when you consider that this incident is forensically documented on video.
January 8, 2026 at 2:49 PM
isn't this just what they have been doing with Black people for years though? it just seems like the expansion to doing it to everyone who opposes them that they have been telling us about
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Normally I hate phone calls, but I had a great chat with my brother today and I feel better every time we get to chew the fat awhile. It is, in fact, calming and grounding to just talk to the folks you care about. To walk and fidget and have a meandering conversation.
Actually I can't stress enough, and I know this is hella millennial coded, but especially talk on the phone. Not a video call, the phone, where you pace and wander and listen to the voice of someone you like/love. I think a lot of us have forgotten this simple pleasure. It's seriously calming.
Rough vibes on this website today, likely because people feel Hopeless and Helpless Because Can't Stop It and No One Who Is Supposed To Is Trying To So Now We're Fighting Each Other™. I recommend activities such as book, or potentially instrument if you like instrument, or even do talk on phone.
January 5, 2026 at 3:16 AM
Normally I hate phone calls, but I had a great chat with my brother today and I feel better every time we get to chew the fat awhile. It is, in fact, calming and grounding to just talk to the folks you care about. To walk and fidget and have a meandering conversation.
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Porn and erotica are important and societally valuable forms of speech, and the defense of them, in the face of state and church attempts at repression, is a necessary political act.
January 4, 2026 at 6:58 PM
Porn and erotica are important and societally valuable forms of speech, and the defense of them, in the face of state and church attempts at repression, is a necessary political act.
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Love this from Guillermo del Toro
January 5, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Love this from Guillermo del Toro
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I choose to take this as a positive omen.
(As named and drawn by Paul Kidby, illustrator of Discworld.)
(As named and drawn by Paul Kidby, illustrator of Discworld.)
December 17, 2025 at 1:37 PM
I choose to take this as a positive omen.
(As named and drawn by Paul Kidby, illustrator of Discworld.)
(As named and drawn by Paul Kidby, illustrator of Discworld.)
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this is how I'm greeting new bluesky users
December 25, 2025 at 5:48 PM
this is how I'm greeting new bluesky users
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Not to be controversial but I think we should use tools and resources to make people's lives less miserable instead of more
December 27, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Not to be controversial but I think we should use tools and resources to make people's lives less miserable instead of more
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The real reason to tax billionaires isn’t to let the government spend their money, it’s to prevent them from buying government and directing how they spend our money
Again we have to ask the question, does this act justify him having a substantial amount of control over society?
Should public health experts be having to humour his "just askin questions" and suck up to him for the slight chance of American healthcare improving because of this?
Should public health experts be having to humour his "just askin questions" and suck up to him for the slight chance of American healthcare improving because of this?
I will never get over that Mark Cuban became a billionaire because he sold his company in Yahoo’s most expensive acquisition at the height of the dot com bubble
December 26, 2025 at 12:51 PM
The real reason to tax billionaires isn’t to let the government spend their money, it’s to prevent them from buying government and directing how they spend our money
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I'm not sure what the solution is to the "children spaces online" problem, but it isn't letting the Nazi Pedophiles build and operate the online daycares.
December 26, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I'm not sure what the solution is to the "children spaces online" problem, but it isn't letting the Nazi Pedophiles build and operate the online daycares.
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Translators deserve respect. They deserve to be listed alongside authors when a work is published/acknowledged/nominated. They deserve not to be enslopified just like artists, musicians, and writers as they’re essentially all three in one.
Respecting the arts means respecting your fellow artists.
Respecting the arts means respecting your fellow artists.
Deep breath
Ok I'm going to try and stay calm
But I'll point out that AI translation is literally causing translators to be fired (see the whole Harlequin line in France)
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Ok I'm going to try and stay calm
But I'll point out that AI translation is literally causing translators to be fired (see the whole Harlequin line in France)
(1/?)
December 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Translators deserve respect. They deserve to be listed alongside authors when a work is published/acknowledged/nominated. They deserve not to be enslopified just like artists, musicians, and writers as they’re essentially all three in one.
Respecting the arts means respecting your fellow artists.
Respecting the arts means respecting your fellow artists.
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Any work made ineligible for the Nebula Awards by them disallowing slop and slop-assisted work was never eligible in the first place.
"There are legitimate uses in translation, research"
If you consider 30-70% incorrect results that poison neighborhoods with new cancers "legitimate"
"There are legitimate uses in translation, research"
If you consider 30-70% incorrect results that poison neighborhoods with new cancers "legitimate"
I really don't know what anyone in the SFWA was thinking allowing gen slop into the Nebula Awards in the first place, but I'm glad that decision has been reversed.
Dear SFWA and surrounding industry:
It's a two-mailout kind of day!
Thank you to everyone who wrote in.
The Board wishes to share the results of two votes held this afternoon, with further amendments to our Nebula Awards Rules.
It's a two-mailout kind of day!
Thank you to everyone who wrote in.
The Board wishes to share the results of two votes held this afternoon, with further amendments to our Nebula Awards Rules.
December 20, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Any work made ineligible for the Nebula Awards by them disallowing slop and slop-assisted work was never eligible in the first place.
"There are legitimate uses in translation, research"
If you consider 30-70% incorrect results that poison neighborhoods with new cancers "legitimate"
"There are legitimate uses in translation, research"
If you consider 30-70% incorrect results that poison neighborhoods with new cancers "legitimate"
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I'm so disappointed to see people willing to throw translation under the bus. So deeply disappointed.
December 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I'm so disappointed to see people willing to throw translation under the bus. So deeply disappointed.
research and translation are NOT "legitimate" uses of AI and that should be well fucking obvious at this point ffs
December 20, 2025 at 6:13 PM
research and translation are NOT "legitimate" uses of AI and that should be well fucking obvious at this point ffs
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"I refuse." This is it. There's no reason we should accept a narrative of an already settled future which marginalizes humans and individual agency. No one wants this. No one asked for it.
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 1:21 PM
"I refuse." This is it. There's no reason we should accept a narrative of an already settled future which marginalizes humans and individual agency. No one wants this. No one asked for it.