Ian McKellar
@ian.mckellar.org
Leftist Dad. Immigrant nerd. Musician, husband.
Was @ian on Twitter. Is ian@mckellar.social on the fediverse.
Was @ian on Twitter. Is ian@mckellar.social on the fediverse.
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Cripes a’mighty people, Steven Miller is not staging a militarized ethnic cleansing and sending the border cops to murder people in the street to distract from the Epstein files. He’s doing it because he and Trump (and Vance and Homan and Noem etc) really really want to.
January 15, 2026 at 2:39 AM
Cripes a’mighty people, Steven Miller is not staging a militarized ethnic cleansing and sending the border cops to murder people in the street to distract from the Epstein files. He’s doing it because he and Trump (and Vance and Homan and Noem etc) really really want to.
This morning one of my kids was talking about how in her dream last night Harry Potter was supposed to be at her summer camp, but he missed the bus.
I had a dream about tax paperwork.
I had a dream about tax paperwork.
January 12, 2026 at 5:52 PM
This morning one of my kids was talking about how in her dream last night Harry Potter was supposed to be at her summer camp, but he missed the bus.
I had a dream about tax paperwork.
I had a dream about tax paperwork.
When a white guy hiding his identity with a mask attacks an ethnic minority, the default assumption is that he works for ICE, right?
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‘How can something like this happen:’ Fire damages oldest Mississippi synagogue; suspect in custody
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January 12, 2026 at 1:11 AM
When a white guy hiding his identity with a mask attacks an ethnic minority, the default assumption is that he works for ICE, right?
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I'd rather American goons not kill anyone, but I guess if they've got to kill people it's better that they're killing Americans instead of innocent foreigners. We might be more likely to address our violence if civilians are dying in Minneapolis rather than Sanaa or Rafah.
January 9, 2026 at 11:39 PM
I'd rather American goons not kill anyone, but I guess if they've got to kill people it's better that they're killing Americans instead of innocent foreigners. We might be more likely to address our violence if civilians are dying in Minneapolis rather than Sanaa or Rafah.
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Jury Duty (1995)
Oliver! (1968)
Nope (2022)
Air (2023)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Hot Fuzz (2007)
Avatar (2009)
Noises Off (1992)
Repo Man (1984)
Oldboy (2003)
Superman (2005)
Shooter (2007)
Oliver! (1968)
Nope (2022)
Air (2023)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Hot Fuzz (2007)
Avatar (2009)
Noises Off (1992)
Repo Man (1984)
Oldboy (2003)
Superman (2005)
Shooter (2007)
Bluesky are shadowbanning the shooter's name and that is bad and dumb.
January 8, 2026 at 9:36 PM
Jury Duty (1995)
Oliver! (1968)
Nope (2022)
Air (2023)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Hot Fuzz (2007)
Avatar (2009)
Noises Off (1992)
Repo Man (1984)
Oldboy (2003)
Superman (2005)
Shooter (2007)
Oliver! (1968)
Nope (2022)
Air (2023)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Hot Fuzz (2007)
Avatar (2009)
Noises Off (1992)
Repo Man (1984)
Oldboy (2003)
Superman (2005)
Shooter (2007)
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Indeed. Those "protectors of girls' sports" never even bothered to advocate for fixing widespread Title IX noncompliance, it was always an obvious fig leaf for trans bigotry.
Big surprise, they're all totally fine with the nonconsensual porn machine owned by their party's largest donor.
Big surprise, they're all totally fine with the nonconsensual porn machine owned by their party's largest donor.
The magnitude of effect and reaction to and consequences faced by Grok and its image generation vs "protecting girls sports"
January 7, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Indeed. Those "protectors of girls' sports" never even bothered to advocate for fixing widespread Title IX noncompliance, it was always an obvious fig leaf for trans bigotry.
Big surprise, they're all totally fine with the nonconsensual porn machine owned by their party's largest donor.
Big surprise, they're all totally fine with the nonconsensual porn machine owned by their party's largest donor.
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A cat is a cat
January 7, 2026 at 4:46 PM
A cat is a cat
I don't have time to doom scroll, but I do it anyway...
If you have time to doom scroll, you have time to read books!
January 6, 2026 at 10:39 PM
I don't have time to doom scroll, but I do it anyway...
Just a reminder, unless you're racist, don't stop saying "Happy Holidays" until after Lunar New Year. More Americans are from Lunar New Year celebrating East-Asian backgrounds than from Jewish backgrounds.
If you only care about white people holidays you're welcome to stop the "Happy Holidays" now.
If you only care about white people holidays you're welcome to stop the "Happy Holidays" now.
January 5, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Just a reminder, unless you're racist, don't stop saying "Happy Holidays" until after Lunar New Year. More Americans are from Lunar New Year celebrating East-Asian backgrounds than from Jewish backgrounds.
If you only care about white people holidays you're welcome to stop the "Happy Holidays" now.
If you only care about white people holidays you're welcome to stop the "Happy Holidays" now.
Will any country come arrest the criminal US president?
January 4, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Will any country come arrest the criminal US president?
It's a rough day to work on low level system software for a living. Every device around me saying it's January 1st makes me momentarily think there's some kind of clock failure.
January 2, 2026 at 1:49 AM
It's a rough day to work on low level system software for a living. Every device around me saying it's January 1st makes me momentarily think there's some kind of clock failure.
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“Can’t believe NYC elected a Muslim as mayor.”
In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.
In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.
January 1, 2026 at 11:43 AM
“Can’t believe NYC elected a Muslim as mayor.”
In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.
In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.
I feel like "Business Center" is a better euphemism for "toilets" than "Restrooms".
December 31, 2025 at 5:29 AM
I feel like "Business Center" is a better euphemism for "toilets" than "Restrooms".
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This thread of four tweets offers a neat mental model for working with coding agents
In essence a language model changes you from a programmer who writes lines of code, to a programmer that manages the context the model has access to, prunes irrelevant things, adds useful material to context, and writes detailed specifications. If that doesn't sound fun to you, you won't enjoy it.
December 30, 2025 at 1:17 AM
This thread of four tweets offers a neat mental model for working with coding agents
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Each of these 3000 people was someone's everything.
December 29, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Each of these 3000 people was someone's everything.
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What these people are doing to the power of calling out real antisemitism, in an incredibly dangerous time of surging global antisemitism….man, it is just so worrisome
December 27, 2025 at 2:08 AM
What these people are doing to the power of calling out real antisemitism, in an incredibly dangerous time of surging global antisemitism….man, it is just so worrisome
I'm not convinced that LLM coding agents are appropriate for writing actual production code, but I sure do enjoy being able to get them to write prototypes. From my phone.
Right now Jules is iterating on an implementation of a language I've wanted to try creating for years. JS-like syntax but lazy.
Right now Jules is iterating on an implementation of a language I've wanted to try creating for years. JS-like syntax but lazy.
December 27, 2025 at 6:37 AM
I'm not convinced that LLM coding agents are appropriate for writing actual production code, but I sure do enjoy being able to get them to write prototypes. From my phone.
Right now Jules is iterating on an implementation of a language I've wanted to try creating for years. JS-like syntax but lazy.
Right now Jules is iterating on an implementation of a language I've wanted to try creating for years. JS-like syntax but lazy.
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Prison guards:
- Watched a woman experiencing psychosis gouge out her own eyeballs.
- Ignored a man’s beeping insulin pump for more than 24 hours before he died.
- Left a man sitting in his own feces not eating for weeks, he lost 60 lbs before he died.
All in San Diego County, last ~5 years.
- Watched a woman experiencing psychosis gouge out her own eyeballs.
- Ignored a man’s beeping insulin pump for more than 24 hours before he died.
- Left a man sitting in his own feces not eating for weeks, he lost 60 lbs before he died.
All in San Diego County, last ~5 years.
Now if we could just get people to view US prisons through the same lens they view CECOT.
December 24, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Prison guards:
- Watched a woman experiencing psychosis gouge out her own eyeballs.
- Ignored a man’s beeping insulin pump for more than 24 hours before he died.
- Left a man sitting in his own feces not eating for weeks, he lost 60 lbs before he died.
All in San Diego County, last ~5 years.
- Watched a woman experiencing psychosis gouge out her own eyeballs.
- Ignored a man’s beeping insulin pump for more than 24 hours before he died.
- Left a man sitting in his own feces not eating for weeks, he lost 60 lbs before he died.
All in San Diego County, last ~5 years.
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🤡There's never been a time in US history where people expect you to apologize *for being white*. People expect you to apologize*for being pro-racism*.
Worldwide, fewer than half of all white people are pro-racism.♥️
In the US it takes an active disinfo campaign to keep the pro-racism group > 50%.
Worldwide, fewer than half of all white people are pro-racism.♥️
In the US it takes an active disinfo campaign to keep the pro-racism group > 50%.
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 21, 2025 at 7:55 PM
🤡There's never been a time in US history where people expect you to apologize *for being white*. People expect you to apologize*for being pro-racism*.
Worldwide, fewer than half of all white people are pro-racism.♥️
In the US it takes an active disinfo campaign to keep the pro-racism group > 50%.
Worldwide, fewer than half of all white people are pro-racism.♥️
In the US it takes an active disinfo campaign to keep the pro-racism group > 50%.
Stop calling them "Jewish settlements". Stealing peoples' land has nothing to do with Judaism.
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Israel approves 19 new Jewish settlements in occupied West Bank
Decision takes the total number of new settlements to 69 in past few years as construction binge continues
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December 21, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Stop calling them "Jewish settlements". Stealing peoples' land has nothing to do with Judaism.
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It sure was creepy to have a couple of guys knocking on my door this afternoon saying that they're "visiting all of the Jewish homes in the area".
December 18, 2025 at 3:52 AM
It sure was creepy to have a couple of guys knocking on my door this afternoon saying that they're "visiting all of the Jewish homes in the area".
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"To see those... those... monkeys from those African countries... Damn them! They're still uncomfortable wearing shoes!"
- Ronald Reagan
- Ronald Reagan
December 17, 2025 at 12:53 AM
"To see those... those... monkeys from those African countries... Damn them! They're still uncomfortable wearing shoes!"
- Ronald Reagan
- Ronald Reagan
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Venezuela is not completely surrounded by an armada, because Venezuela is not an island.
Also, Venezuela nationalized its oil industry in 1976, when Hugo Chávez was 21 and Nicolás Maduro was 13.
Also, Venezuela nationalized its oil industry in 1976, when Hugo Chávez was 21 and Nicolás Maduro was 13.
Trump: "Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled ... It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the USA all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us."
December 17, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Venezuela is not completely surrounded by an armada, because Venezuela is not an island.
Also, Venezuela nationalized its oil industry in 1976, when Hugo Chávez was 21 and Nicolás Maduro was 13.
Also, Venezuela nationalized its oil industry in 1976, when Hugo Chávez was 21 and Nicolás Maduro was 13.
Depressing to wake up to a mass shooting in Bondi.
December 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Depressing to wake up to a mass shooting in Bondi.
It's distressing and sad that the BBC is choosing bigotry over the future of one of my favourite shows. It is however nice to find that @robinince.bsky.social, whose work I've enjoyed for many years, is a man of principle. I'm looking forward to following him to the next thing.
Here is a bit of my resignation speech from last night
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 13, 2025 at 8:08 PM
It's distressing and sad that the BBC is choosing bigotry over the future of one of my favourite shows. It is however nice to find that @robinince.bsky.social, whose work I've enjoyed for many years, is a man of principle. I'm looking forward to following him to the next thing.