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Hyperlexic
@hyperlexic.bsky.social
Queer East Bay GenX native & parent. He/him. Had my mask pic before the fascists. I tend to block quote-arguers.

Follow me so I can disappoint you.
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Since we have a lot of new users and I have some new followers, I thought I’d share a few Bluesky tools (lists, feeds, starter packs) I built!

(If you’re a pro-housing ttrpg gamer from Brazil, this will be perfect for you).
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this is what happens when you give up on a golden idea like Whisky Fridays.
February 10, 2026 at 4:47 AM
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On economic data:
An across-the-board miss for US retail sales as headline monthly growth stalls in December, falling short of the 0.4% consensus forecast.
The weakness is visible also in the components with monthly retail sales growth (ex-autos and gas) also at 0.0%, missing the ...

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February 10, 2026 at 1:47 PM
(in return for allowing TSA to reopen)
“going to the mat” means “letting ICE and CPB operate but TSA shut down”
February 10, 2026 at 1:55 PM
ok but what would YOU demand if you were Schumer and Jeffries?
but regardless, at this time, my questions for the people shitting on the Schumer / Jeffries proposal:

1) are you ok if they give up on the current demands?

2) what would you demand right now if you were the minority leaders?
February 10, 2026 at 1:53 PM
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I am again asking people who spend 8 hours on this day posting about the Senate to grasp the very basic principle that you want the other guy to get blamed for the shutdown you’ve spent several months engineering
Our DHS reform demands are exceedingly reasonable.

We're asking ICE to do nothing more than follow the standards that the vast majority of law enforcement agencies already follow.

Republicans, the ball is in your court. The clock is ticking.
February 10, 2026 at 12:35 PM
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Hundreds of millions spent on human misery
In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in:

- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown

This is unprecedented.
February 9, 2026 at 7:15 PM
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Decided to dive back into the Epstein files this morning because I wanted to see if anything I'd looked at that had previously been redacted was now unredacted.

Discovered for the first time this letter from the attorney who represented victims to the US Attorney (presumably Acosta) dated 7/3/2006.
February 10, 2026 at 12:53 PM
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Thread. 🧵 (1/x)

On the superiority of water as the primary decontaminant for tear gas and peppery spray on skin and eyes.

To make it clear to people, this is a thread. Some of you are not clear on the concept. I will reply this with another post and mark it with a number in (x). And so forth. (1)
February 10, 2026 at 9:04 AM
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That’s what’s up.
February 10, 2026 at 5:11 AM
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i think this more than anything is what miller wants. vast detention camps with all of the suffering and death that means.
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.

If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April
Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.
www.ajc.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:56 AM
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This is just one of many scenarios that would end this in as little as four swift moves. We are currently teetering at the precipice of oblivion.
February 10, 2026 at 9:38 AM
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I remember buying new video games. In the form of BASIC program listings in a magazine that you had to type in yourself.
Age verification?

I talked my parents into getting a colour TV from Radio Rentals when the previous black-and-white one packed in.
Age verification?

How long did you have to run the hose before you drank from it as a kid because you were locked out of the house.
February 10, 2026 at 11:25 AM
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Leslie Wexner is one of the 10 co-conspirators named by the FBI during the 2019 arrest of Epstein.

He gave Epstein millions of dollars and the $70 million NYC townhouse.

Leon Black gave Epstein over $170 million.

Both men are alive.

How come they've never been asked to testify?
February 10, 2026 at 5:58 AM
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Every person involved in making it happen has committed serious crimes and must be held to account.
This is the 38th time that the U.S. military has unlawfully killed civilians on the orders of Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump. At least 130 people — never charged with crimes, their identities unknown to their executioners — are now dead.
We are murdering people and it is basically just background noise at this point. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...
February 10, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like a gigantic bug destroying the town.
February 10, 2026 at 6:10 AM
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Among the most exceptional temperatures yesterday in The Central States (85F in Oklahoma,84F in Kansas),
Nebraska was more at records level:
78F Aurora missed by 1F its monthly record ,despite we are well into the first half of the month
February 10, 2026 at 11:54 AM
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*ALPHABET SET TO RAISE RECORD £4.5 BILLION FROM POUND BOND SALE
February 10, 2026 at 11:55 AM
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February 10, 2026 at 11:59 AM
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% of White evangelicals who are extremely/very confident that Donald Trump acts ethically in office 📉

55% in early 2025
40% in early 2026

www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
February 9, 2026 at 8:52 PM
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Population Density Map Of The United States By Race

See 100+ more: brilliantmaps.com/populatio...
February 10, 2026 at 12:01 PM
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Midwife Liberoba & Midwife Presulea

Thirteen mortal Midwives attended the Newborn’s birth (a God born from a planet) and were transformed into eldritch beings.

Presulea’s mortal existence ended in self-sacrifice to feed the Newborn, and Liberoba delivered the Newborn.

Alien Core
AD: Kyle Hunter
February 10, 2026 at 12:10 PM
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Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs

xkcd.com/3204/
February 9, 2026 at 9:10 PM
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Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family.

“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
‘He’s not the same’: Father of Liam Conejo Ramos says 5-year-old continues to suffer
Some people thought they say the 5-year-old during the Super Bowl halftime show. But Liam is still in hiding with his family, after he and his father were detained and then released from a Texas deten...
www.mprnews.org
February 10, 2026 at 1:11 AM
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No-one seems to have noticed, but many of the core developments in the Mandelson/Epstein story these last few days have been broken on this website. @pickardje.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social are both posting each breaking development on BlueSky, not X.
February 10, 2026 at 11:40 AM
given that London was founded as a Roman logistics camp it literally has never not had “foreign” languages

(except maybe in the tiny Anglo-Saxon hamlet it was reduce to in early medieval times - but even then I assume it was still a trading town with Celtic, local Latin, and Frankish at least)
The effort it took to get a drop of blood from that stone was mind-boggling. There were so many points to make: London has had embedded immigrant communities for as long as it has existed - you’d need to be about 2000 years old to have known it as a monoculture … /3
February 10, 2026 at 12:29 PM