Kyle
@klwinters.bsky.social
Author, former indie-comics writer, game-designer, and specter haunting the internet. Publisher at @alienationpress.bsky.social. My work: linktr.ee/klwinters
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i can't believe the latin name for the great horned owl is bubo virginianus. that feels like a fake latin insult someone would come up with to tease someone in middle school. "boob-o virgin-anus"
November 6, 2025 at 9:25 PM
i can't believe the latin name for the great horned owl is bubo virginianus. that feels like a fake latin insult someone would come up with to tease someone in middle school. "boob-o virgin-anus"
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Being well-liked and charismatic and having policy positions the majority of the electorate agree with might work in New York City but that doesn't mean it will work in places where every day is opposite day
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Being well-liked and charismatic and having policy positions the majority of the electorate agree with might work in New York City but that doesn't mean it will work in places where every day is opposite day
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bro are you fucking kidding me
![quote from the Economist article which says "[study authors] are now looking at whether AI facial analysis can give lenders useful clues about a person’s propensity to repay loans. For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6ofjbklfvptnupad4lxumblw/bafkreia3yctiqd7ejumpd6novxjpiycphtfkc3bdgd573jw37faqdl7o7m@jpeg)
November 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
bro are you fucking kidding me
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🚨 CNBC: "Announced corporate job cuts surging past 1 million so far this year, with 153,000 new layoffs just in October according to Challenger. That is the worst October since 2003."
November 6, 2025 at 12:57 PM
🚨 CNBC: "Announced corporate job cuts surging past 1 million so far this year, with 153,000 new layoffs just in October according to Challenger. That is the worst October since 2003."
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seems that RFK is clearing the path for his CDC to do tuskegee syphillis experiments as a matter of course. in other news, RFK is a genuine monster who relishes in the pain and suffering of those he feels he has control or dominion over
RFK is undoing human subjects protections so he can conduct placebo trials of vaccines. That means infecting people knowingly. I wonder who will “volunteer” for these trials? If history is any guide, a lot of incarcerated and other powerless people.
Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.
October 19, 2025 at 6:21 PM
seems that RFK is clearing the path for his CDC to do tuskegee syphillis experiments as a matter of course. in other news, RFK is a genuine monster who relishes in the pain and suffering of those he feels he has control or dominion over
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Photo from @alexabwilkinson.bsky.social of Zionist agitator Mitya Ahanchonok shining a laser in the eyes & camera of press. He did this to multiple photogs.
Mitya works at @nbcuniversal.com. Wonder what his colleagues think of him trying to injure news photographers and damage their equipment?
Mitya works at @nbcuniversal.com. Wonder what his colleagues think of him trying to injure news photographers and damage their equipment?
August 14, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Photo from @alexabwilkinson.bsky.social of Zionist agitator Mitya Ahanchonok shining a laser in the eyes & camera of press. He did this to multiple photogs.
Mitya works at @nbcuniversal.com. Wonder what his colleagues think of him trying to injure news photographers and damage their equipment?
Mitya works at @nbcuniversal.com. Wonder what his colleagues think of him trying to injure news photographers and damage their equipment?
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Elected Democratic officials are handing the keys to the kingdom to the fascist without even an attempt to fight back. The democrat mayor and f dc is openly collaborating with the fascists in the federal government now to target minorities of all kinds for fascist violence.
NEWS: MPD is helping with federal immigration enforcement. It appears that the grounds for cooperation are narrow on paper, but we'll have to wait and see how this is enforced on the ground. @courthousenews.bsky.social
August 14, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Elected Democratic officials are handing the keys to the kingdom to the fascist without even an attempt to fight back. The democrat mayor and f dc is openly collaborating with the fascists in the federal government now to target minorities of all kinds for fascist violence.
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Did you know that the Founders were so vehemently against having a standing army that might do what Comer is calling for that they explicitly wrote into the Constitution that Congress has to reauthorize the existence of the Army every two years or the entire thing has to disband?
![ArtI.S8.C12.1 Overview of the Army Clause
Article I, Section 8, Clause 12:
[The Congress shall have Power . . . ] To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years; . . .
The Army Clause1 provides Congress with authority to raise and support armies—an essential element of the federal government’s suite of war powers.2 The Clause’s structure reflects the Framers’ efforts to balance two competing concerns in the Founding era: a widespread mistrust of peacetime standing armies and the new nation’s desire to ensure security through military protection.3 The Framers sought to address both issues by authorizing Congress to raise and maintain armies, while requiring renewal of appropriations for that purpose every two years to ensure democratically elected representatives continued to support the army.4 Although congressional power to raise and support armies has sometimes come into tension with other constitutional rights and principles,5 the Supreme Court has described this power as broad and sweeping,6 and it has rejected some claimed limits on Congress’s authority under the Army Clause.7](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreicixd3f7kjyqpqfpdq5dqvkwbypf5l2prdpiist2px7rreyva65y4@jpeg)
August 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Did you know that the Founders were so vehemently against having a standing army that might do what Comer is calling for that they explicitly wrote into the Constitution that Congress has to reauthorize the existence of the Army every two years or the entire thing has to disband?
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Should have listened to the people who said to defund policing. As I said at the time, it was the basement.
August 14, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Should have listened to the people who said to defund policing. As I said at the time, it was the basement.
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When checkpoints go up it’s a very very clear sign that you are living in a police state.
Trump is pushing to see what he will be allowed to do just as he has in California and other places.The republicans intend to invade and control as much of the country as possible not by ballot but by bullet.
Trump is pushing to see what he will be allowed to do just as he has in California and other places.The republicans intend to invade and control as much of the country as possible not by ballot but by bullet.
Police have set up a checkpoint and appear to be stopping every single car on 14th st NW, between W+V, here in northwest DC. Some cars are being pulled over after being stopped.
Some police are wearing “HSI police” vests (Homeland Security Investigations)
Some police are wearing “HSI police” vests (Homeland Security Investigations)
August 14, 2025 at 1:29 AM
When checkpoints go up it’s a very very clear sign that you are living in a police state.
Trump is pushing to see what he will be allowed to do just as he has in California and other places.The republicans intend to invade and control as much of the country as possible not by ballot but by bullet.
Trump is pushing to see what he will be allowed to do just as he has in California and other places.The republicans intend to invade and control as much of the country as possible not by ballot but by bullet.
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The first part of our 2025 games sampler is on the carrd page now. (It's a WIP, many more to come!)
Queer Games Bundle
Social media accounts and press links for QGB around the web.
queergamesbundle.carrd.co
August 11, 2025 at 4:40 PM
The first part of our 2025 games sampler is on the carrd page now. (It's a WIP, many more to come!)
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As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.
August 5, 2025 at 11:44 PM
As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.
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Some of the panelists invited by the FDA to discuss SSRIs and pregnancy claimed that antidepressants don't work at all and depression goes away on its own. One suggested that depression was not an illness, but rather a product of “women just naturally experiencing their emotions more intensely.”
FDA panel promotes misinformation on antidepressants during pregnancy, psychiatrists say
Nearly all of the 10 panelists emphasized what they said were risks of the drugs. Some claimed, without evidence, that antidepressants don't work at all.
www.nbcnews.com
July 21, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Some of the panelists invited by the FDA to discuss SSRIs and pregnancy claimed that antidepressants don't work at all and depression goes away on its own. One suggested that depression was not an illness, but rather a product of “women just naturally experiencing their emotions more intensely.”
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So you know how Steam updates their TOS to restrict "NSFW" content at the request of payment processors like Visa and Mastercard?
The group behind that pressure campaign is coming after Itch.io.
If you are selling books on itch, this concerns you.
www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...
The group behind that pressure campaign is coming after Itch.io.
If you are selling books on itch, this concerns you.
www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...
Australian anti-porn group claims responsibility for Steam's new censorship rules in victory against 'porn sick brain rotted pedo gamer fetishists', and things only get weirder from there
Everyone hated that.
www.pcgamer.com
July 21, 2025 at 2:20 AM
So you know how Steam updates their TOS to restrict "NSFW" content at the request of payment processors like Visa and Mastercard?
The group behind that pressure campaign is coming after Itch.io.
If you are selling books on itch, this concerns you.
www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...
The group behind that pressure campaign is coming after Itch.io.
If you are selling books on itch, this concerns you.
www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...
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Another example of how local government and police are working with the feds:
LASD has resumed transferring people in LA County jails to ICE for the first time since early 2020. #LASDgangs
LASD has resumed transferring people in LA County jails to ICE for the first time since early 2020. #LASDgangs
L.A. County jails are handing inmates over to ICE for the first time in years
The L.A. County County Sheriff’s Department has started transferring inmates from its jails to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for the first time in years via a legal avenue not barred by loc...
www.latimes.com
July 16, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Another example of how local government and police are working with the feds:
LASD has resumed transferring people in LA County jails to ICE for the first time since early 2020. #LASDgangs
LASD has resumed transferring people in LA County jails to ICE for the first time since early 2020. #LASDgangs
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there are so many great things about generative AI! here are some of my favorites <3
July 13, 2025 at 10:17 PM
there are so many great things about generative AI! here are some of my favorites <3
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WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for.
Stop using WeTransfer.
Stop using WeTransfer.
July 14, 2025 at 11:05 PM
WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for.
Stop using WeTransfer.
Stop using WeTransfer.
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Changing the rules of the game when you fear you can’t hold onto power under the existing legal rules.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/u...
I.R.S. Says Churches Can Endorse Candidates From the Pulpit
www.nytimes.com
July 8, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Changing the rules of the game when you fear you can’t hold onto power under the existing legal rules.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/u...
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Always read Sarah Kendzior.
July 8, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Always read Sarah Kendzior.
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"They give you food only once a day, food that even has worms in it," Izquierdo said.
Detainees being held at ‘Alligator Alcatraz' describe conditions at Everglades facility
Florida still has not released the number of people being detained at what they call “Alligator Alcatraz” – but for the first time, we’re hearing from several men who are being held inside the facilit...
www.nbcmiami.com
July 8, 2025 at 4:35 AM
"They give you food only once a day, food that even has worms in it," Izquierdo said.
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time to put granny in the fields and deploy the agricultural robots that don't exist and aren't being developed after we gutted science funding
Brooke Rollins on farm laborers: "There will be no amnesty. The mass deportations continue, but in a strategic way. And we move the workforce toward automation and 100% American participation, which with 34 million able-bodied on Medicaid we should be able to do fairly quickly."
July 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
time to put granny in the fields and deploy the agricultural robots that don't exist and aren't being developed after we gutted science funding