Mikell Taylor
@mikell.bsky.social
Boston-based robotics nerd whose strong opinions do not reflect those of her employer. Come for the robots, stay for the gay pirates, Star Wars, and sarcasm. It’s pronounced “Michael”. I am cringe and I am free.
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I’ve seen about ten posts on Facebook from people I know touting obamas deporting 3.1 million people without protests and shooting white women as a positive. A model for why he was better.
Friends, what the Obama admin did around deportations was not a moral good.
Friends, what the Obama admin did around deportations was not a moral good.
We’re going to see this supercharged around immigration in particular, net negative migration targeting marginalized communities is going to be set as the baseline of US policy and any reversal will be portrayed as a catastrophe.
January 18, 2026 at 4:43 PM
I’ve seen about ten posts on Facebook from people I know touting obamas deporting 3.1 million people without protests and shooting white women as a positive. A model for why he was better.
Friends, what the Obama admin did around deportations was not a moral good.
Friends, what the Obama admin did around deportations was not a moral good.
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The vast majority of what’s happening is communal self-defense. It’s not an about agitating or escalating. The whistles, the honking, the yelling — these are efforts by people to warn and protect their neighbors. 2/3
January 18, 2026 at 3:07 PM
The vast majority of what’s happening is communal self-defense. It’s not an about agitating or escalating. The whistles, the honking, the yelling — these are efforts by people to warn and protect their neighbors. 2/3
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National media: Please stop describing what’s happening in Minneapolis as “protests.” There has been a modest, sustained protest outside the Whipple federal building, about 10 miles from downtown, but... 1/3
January 18, 2026 at 3:07 PM
National media: Please stop describing what’s happening in Minneapolis as “protests.” There has been a modest, sustained protest outside the Whipple federal building, about 10 miles from downtown, but... 1/3
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Noem's claim is FALSE. Here is ICE's own data on the detention population among those arrested by ICE:
- 43% no criminal record (up from 6% at the start of the year),
- 29% at least one prior conviction*
- 28% at least one pending charge
*most common are traffic and immigration offenses.
- 43% no criminal record (up from 6% at the start of the year),
- 29% at least one prior conviction*
- 28% at least one pending charge
*most common are traffic and immigration offenses.
January 18, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Noem's claim is FALSE. Here is ICE's own data on the detention population among those arrested by ICE:
- 43% no criminal record (up from 6% at the start of the year),
- 29% at least one prior conviction*
- 28% at least one pending charge
*most common are traffic and immigration offenses.
- 43% no criminal record (up from 6% at the start of the year),
- 29% at least one prior conviction*
- 28% at least one pending charge
*most common are traffic and immigration offenses.
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Wow do I love this. Make no deals with the spirit of the screen. Do not show it your desires or speak to it your true name.
honestly "the chatbots are essentially the fae" would probably be better for normies as a mental model
I truly think the fact that computers can now parse and respond in natural language, with the tint of a human personality, causes these systems to bypass the critical faculties of many people. AI becomes a mythcal hybrid creature, and we become fascinated in it, and grant it reverence.
August 10, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Wow do I love this. Make no deals with the spirit of the screen. Do not show it your desires or speak to it your true name.
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We now have a full-blown European-American crisis, and for no reason that the president is able to articulate
January 18, 2026 at 2:08 PM
We now have a full-blown European-American crisis, and for no reason that the president is able to articulate
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Before someone replies and points to all of the exceptions and unscrupulous things the US has done, I agree. It was never just idealism and soft power. But that is what differentiated it from prior Empires that depended on coercion. It is what the Trump admin does not understand now.
January 18, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Before someone replies and points to all of the exceptions and unscrupulous things the US has done, I agree. It was never just idealism and soft power. But that is what differentiated it from prior Empires that depended on coercion. It is what the Trump admin does not understand now.
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A joke for the history buffs:
Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com titles: “Vienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student — They don’t want to get blamed again“
Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com titles: “Vienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student — They don’t want to get blamed again“
January 18, 2026 at 1:56 PM
A joke for the history buffs:
Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com titles: “Vienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student — They don’t want to get blamed again“
Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com titles: “Vienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student — They don’t want to get blamed again“
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I miss when ICE vehicles just meant internal combustion vehicles.
All these things are true:
Electric vehicles ARE better than ICE vehicles, despite their issues.
When vehicles get “better,” too often people buy BIGGER vehicles & drive even more.
EV’s still pollute, take too much space, lead to too many deaths etc
Fewer cars, less driving is the REAL solution.
Electric vehicles ARE better than ICE vehicles, despite their issues.
When vehicles get “better,” too often people buy BIGGER vehicles & drive even more.
EV’s still pollute, take too much space, lead to too many deaths etc
Fewer cars, less driving is the REAL solution.
January 18, 2026 at 12:52 AM
I miss when ICE vehicles just meant internal combustion vehicles.
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I'm reading the Anne of Green Gables books to my kid and every six pages I have to explain about the old-timey disease that someone has died from and that now we have vaccines for. I wish antivaxxers would read old books.
January 18, 2026 at 12:44 PM
I'm reading the Anne of Green Gables books to my kid and every six pages I have to explain about the old-timey disease that someone has died from and that now we have vaccines for. I wish antivaxxers would read old books.
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to young people: you may at some point have heard about the Y2K problem. some people may have told you it wasn't a big deal
i need you to understand the only reason it wasn't a big deal was that everyone spent loads of time fixing code before it could become a problem, which is why it never did
i need you to understand the only reason it wasn't a big deal was that everyone spent loads of time fixing code before it could become a problem, which is why it never did
January 18, 2026 at 10:09 AM
to young people: you may at some point have heard about the Y2K problem. some people may have told you it wasn't a big deal
i need you to understand the only reason it wasn't a big deal was that everyone spent loads of time fixing code before it could become a problem, which is why it never did
i need you to understand the only reason it wasn't a big deal was that everyone spent loads of time fixing code before it could become a problem, which is why it never did
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Lots of people in America and across the EU talk about ETA/ESTA as if they're real visa impediments! Nobody really knows what a migrant actually goes through, let alone one from any poorer country than their own
January 17, 2026 at 7:55 PM
Lots of people in America and across the EU talk about ETA/ESTA as if they're real visa impediments! Nobody really knows what a migrant actually goes through, let alone one from any poorer country than their own
Holy fuck this
I think a major hurdle in moving the dial on immigration is the fact that the vast majority of people in wealthy countries literally never interact with migration systems and how dehumanising and frustrating it all is
January 18, 2026 at 12:21 PM
Holy fuck this
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If “yeah, nah” was a graph.
Australians are deciding USA is not a place to visit… oddly they still are going to Canada. Almost like there is something specific about the US..
#ThePoint
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January 18, 2026 at 10:53 AM
If “yeah, nah” was a graph.
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This week, us northern hemisphere folx will have made it through the darkest ten weeks of the year. The light is returning!
January 18, 2026 at 10:26 AM
This week, us northern hemisphere folx will have made it through the darkest ten weeks of the year. The light is returning!
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so RFK is doing this whole marketing campaign about whole milk and i am 100% certain that it was originally supposed to be for raw milk but they pussied out at the last minute
January 18, 2026 at 7:49 AM
so RFK is doing this whole marketing campaign about whole milk and i am 100% certain that it was originally supposed to be for raw milk but they pussied out at the last minute
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This is exactly right. The white kids and adults I know who know the true history of the United States and Colonialism don't feel bad or guilty; they feel angry, in community with their peers of other races, and empowered to push for change. Enlightened white people are dangerous to the hegemony.
This is my song. “Those are the real stakes — not white children feeling guilty, but white children armed with truth, history and a righteous desire to work with others to change the world.”
January 18, 2026 at 5:16 AM
This is exactly right. The white kids and adults I know who know the true history of the United States and Colonialism don't feel bad or guilty; they feel angry, in community with their peers of other races, and empowered to push for change. Enlightened white people are dangerous to the hegemony.
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If you're looking for a sign to switch careers: this is the sign.
January 18, 2026 at 12:44 AM
If you're looking for a sign to switch careers: this is the sign.
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it’s one of those fundamentally cursed hospitality violations that you read about in ancient texts
The more I think about this, the angrier I get. It takes a particularly virulent strain of sociopathy to sit and let hard-working people serve you a meal knowing that you plan to arrest them and send them off for deportation once they're off of work.
Really depraved shit.
Really depraved shit.
A few days ago, Fox News was whining about ICE agents getting heckled at a Mexican restaurant in Minneapolis.
Meanwhile, in the town of Willmar, ICE agents had lunch at a Mexican restaurant, waited until it closed, then confronted and arrested three workers as they left.
Meanwhile, in the town of Willmar, ICE agents had lunch at a Mexican restaurant, waited until it closed, then confronted and arrested three workers as they left.
January 18, 2026 at 12:51 AM
it’s one of those fundamentally cursed hospitality violations that you read about in ancient texts
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MA, one of America’s most liberal states, is New England’s only state with an ICE cooperation agreement, because our governor & legislative leaders are centrists who think they report to the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce
Primary all of them
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January 17, 2026 at 11:19 PM
MA, one of America’s most liberal states, is New England’s only state with an ICE cooperation agreement, because our governor & legislative leaders are centrists who think they report to the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce
Primary all of them
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Primary all of them
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Oh my God a literal wallet inspector
Crypto holder loses $283 million to scammer impersonating wallet support
January 10, 2026
https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=trezor-support-scam
January 10, 2026
https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=trezor-support-scam
January 17, 2026 at 9:17 PM
Oh my God a literal wallet inspector
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what depraved, experimental-drug-and-enzymes addled little freak-goblin at Apple looked at the iOS 26 UI and went “oh, yes, this is great, people will love this”
January 17, 2026 at 9:57 PM
what depraved, experimental-drug-and-enzymes addled little freak-goblin at Apple looked at the iOS 26 UI and went “oh, yes, this is great, people will love this”
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hey train perverts wanna see the shinkansen cloaca
January 17, 2026 at 6:13 PM
hey train perverts wanna see the shinkansen cloaca
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More than 200,000 Danish citizens have signed a petition to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland.
They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”
They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”
January 17, 2026 at 5:36 PM
More than 200,000 Danish citizens have signed a petition to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland.
They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”
They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”
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To provide a bit more context here, since 1986, UBI academics + advocates from all over the world go to the annual BIEN Congress that's hosted in a different country each year. Last year, it was in Brazil, and the year before that S. Korea. This year was to be the FIRST EVER US-hosted BIEN Congress.
Some BIG news for the UBI community:
"Following a review of international travel conditions and visa accessibility for participants, a decision has reluctantly been reached to relocate the 2026 BIEN Congress from University of Pennsylvania, USA, to Toronto Metropolitan University Toronto, Canada."
"Following a review of international travel conditions and visa accessibility for participants, a decision has reluctantly been reached to relocate the 2026 BIEN Congress from University of Pennsylvania, USA, to Toronto Metropolitan University Toronto, Canada."
Location Update for the 2026 BIEN Congress | BIEN — Basic Income Earth Network
basicincome.org
January 17, 2026 at 5:25 PM
To provide a bit more context here, since 1986, UBI academics + advocates from all over the world go to the annual BIEN Congress that's hosted in a different country each year. Last year, it was in Brazil, and the year before that S. Korea. This year was to be the FIRST EVER US-hosted BIEN Congress.