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Liberal Currents

@liberalcurrents.com

“X must be held accountable. But I now have to ask, why are so many people still there? Why are MPs still posting there? Why are organs of the British government still using a site one of its own ministers just condemned in such clear moral and legal terms? Why are other governments?”

The New Epstein Island Is Right In Your Pocket: It’s Time To Abandon Elon Musk’s Paradise of Abuse

It has long been time to leave X. Now, it’s essential.

www.liberalcurrents.com

January 15, 2026 at 11:07 AM

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Goldie 🖤🦇

@goldcanines.bsky.social

Stay aware, alert, and prepared.

Iceout.org is an informative site where you can see real time witness reports of ICE and their locations: observed, active, and critical.

It is more important than ever to share these resources. Do not ignore what is happening.

January 14, 2026 at 11:46 PM

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Akumu

@akumufluffy.bsky.social

And like that, another commission completed

Character belongs to @LevyLevyTime twit

January 11, 2026 at 9:31 AM

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Wolf Conservation Center 🐺

@nywolforg.bsky.social

Wolves are often framed as a polarizing issue, despite widespread support. New research shows political identity can increase division, even when people agree.

Finding common ground and recognizing shared support for wolves may be key to protecting their future.

🔗 https://bit.ly/44Xqj1b

Americans generally like wolves − except when we’re reminded of our politics

New research shows how identity-driven assumptions can turn common ground into conflict.

theconversation.com

January 6, 2026 at 9:24 PM

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Cristian Farias

@cristianfarias.com

Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.

Twitter thread in Spanish by José Mario de la Garza, a human rights lawyer in Mexico, translated using Google Translate:

1. Overthrowing a dictator sounds morally right. No one mourns a tyrant. But international law wasn't built to protect the good, but to restrain the powerful. That's why it prohibits force almost without exception: not because it ignores injustice, but because it knows that if each country decides whom to "liberate" by force, the world reverts to the law of the strongest.

2. The problem is not Maduro. The problem is the precedent. When military force is used to change governments without clear rules, sovereignty ceases to be a limit and becomes an obstacle. Today it is “overthrowing a dictator”; tomorrow it will be “correcting an election,” “protecting interests,” “restoring order.” The law does not absolve dictatorships, but neither does it legitimize unilateral crusades.

Cont’d:

3. The uncomfortable question is not whether a tyrant deserves to fall, but who decides when and how. Because history teaches something brutal: removing a dictator is easy; building justice afterward is not. And when legality is broken in the name of good, what almost always follows is not freedom, but chaos, violence, and new victims. The law exists to remind us of this, even when it makes us uncomfortable.

Maduro isn't the problem: he's the face of the problem. Removing him from power would be merely opening the door. Behind him is the machine: Rodríguez, Cabello, the military command, the operators of repression and plunder. If you only change the person at the top and leave the system intact, what follows isn't democracy: it's a reshuffling.

And there's something even more difficult: Chavismo didn't just capture institutions, it captured daily life. Economy, media, bureaucracy, employment, fear, favors, blackmail. A country can't be "de-Chavistaized" by decree or by an electoral miracle. The real transition begins when that network is broken without setting the country ablaze.

The challenge is enormous, and it's also a moral one: to unite without vengeance, but without impunity. Targeted justice for those most responsible, truth for the victims, guarantees that the rest will dismantle the system, and a plan for people to live again—not just survive. Because freedom doesn't come with a new president: it comes when the state ceases to be a threat.

January 3, 2026 at 2:16 PM

Theodore C. Whitchambres

@flufficillium.bsky.social

A few birbs in the 'burbs near Sacramento

A small, round bird with a dark orange beak, a dark brown stripe down the head, and white eyebrows. The back feathers and tail are striped, and the underbelly is light grey to beige. Found in a flooded field. Maybe a marsh wren (Cistothorus palustris)?

A black phoebe (Sayornis nigricans) perched on a roof. Deep black plumage on the upper body, white on the lower. Fluffy and round with a black beak.

A red-shouldered hawk (Buteo lineatus) with the characteristic black and white pattern on the back and rusty orange-red on the head and breast. Perched on a branch looking majestic.

Seems to be another black phoebe, this time catching the golden, evening light in its down.

December 29, 2025 at 12:49 AM

Theodore C. Whitchambres

@flufficillium.bsky.social

Merry Christmas, everyone!

🪡 Crinsy
(I don't recall who the photographer was, unfortunately)

A realistic wolf fursuit with a red and green plaid blazer, a green waistcoat, black pants, and fairy lights around his left ear

December 25, 2025 at 7:52 PM

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Micah

@rincewind.run

I’ve been on the internet too long

CoconutTank @coconuttank.bsky.social · 29d

The infamous loss comic, now with censor bars arranged in the minimalist format associated with loss.

December 21, 2025 at 4:10 AM

Theodore C. Whitchambres

@flufficillium.bsky.social

I got a new box of litho film and tweaked my developer recipe. The contrast and density on this negative were almost too much to scan. It developed in 20 minutes, but I gave it 25, and that was a little much. I may have accidentally fogged my old box.

A high contrast black and white portrait photo of an anthro wolf fursuit

December 17, 2025 at 3:31 PM

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Chaparral Coyote

@acute.dog

I baked you a cake this #FursuitFriday!

📸: @nibs.meoi.gay

a fursuiter holding a suspiciously familiar cake

December 12, 2025 at 2:46 PM

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🪩 ROAR 🪩

@roarpartysac.bsky.social

🎄ROAR🎄
GOOD GRIEF... IT'S CHRISTMAS

📍Location: RADCLYFFE’S
1330 H Street, Ste. 110 • Sacramento, CA 95814
(Entrance on 14th Street)

🗓Saturday, DECEMBER 20th
9 PM – 2 AM (Last call at 1 AM)
⚠️ Music starts at 8:45 ⚠️

🎄 LINEUP🎄
8:45 Y2KAN
9:45 DJ CAPY
10:45 DABKOTA
11:45 THATCATJET

December 6, 2025 at 10:11 AM

Theodore C. Whitchambres

@flufficillium.bsky.social

After messing with this a little more, I'm zeroing in on something like this:

500 mL water (distilled or filtered)
20 g Na2CO3.10H2O
4.0 g vanillin
6.0 g ascorbic acid

The dev time is about like so:

Arista Ortho Litho 3.0: 5 min
Ilford HP5+: 30 min
Fuji Acros 100II: 30 min

Theodore C. Whitchambres @flufficillium.bsky.social · Nov 27

So it turns out vanilla works great as a fine-grained, high contrast developer. This was 5 minutes in 1%w/w aqueous vanillin with probably 3-5%w/w sodium carbonate. I still need to work out the relationship between reduction potential and pH, but I didn't expect it to just work on the first go.

A high contrast, black and white photo of a wolf fursuit head on Arista Ortho Litho 4x5, full power on a Godox TT600 at 1m (85mm), Rodenstock Sironar f/5.6

December 3, 2025 at 5:59 AM

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Some Kind of Wolf

@jimmybelvins.bsky.social

seeing way too many pawbert lynxcels

yall are sleeping on the wolf reporter tbh

December 1, 2025 at 10:47 PM

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The Whimsical Muse

@whimsicalmuse.bsky.social

Pub crawls may be all the rage, I truly believe there could be an immense market for library crawls, bakery crawls, museum crawls, café crawls, bookstore crawls, and greenhouse crawls.

December 1, 2025 at 6:54 PM

Theodore C. Whitchambres

@flufficillium.bsky.social

Emotional distance and ignorance can drive hyperrealization. Without reference to the real keeping them grounded, self-absorbed worldviews like these devolve into the absurd. It's like conceptual Habsburg-ization. I suspect bigotry works the same way, but driven by Sade's "passions" instead.

clay jackson @clayjak.substack.com · Nov 29

Highland Park is a controlled sanctuary for America’s aristocracy, where they let the rest of us in occasionally, like fifth graders touring a zoo.

clay jackson @clayjak.substack.com · Nov 28

open.substack.com/pub/clayjak/...

November 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM

Theodore C. Whitchambres

@flufficillium.bsky.social

So it turns out vanilla works great as a fine-grained, high contrast developer. This was 5 minutes in 1%w/w aqueous vanillin with probably 3-5%w/w sodium carbonate. I still need to work out the relationship between reduction potential and pH, but I didn't expect it to just work on the first go.

November 27, 2025 at 6:18 AM