pretty state machine
@palecur.bsky.social
A dangerous servant and a fearful master. Freedom, joy, choice, consequence. Teneo ea quae fūror.
MLDNI
pronoun.is/he/him
Avi: picrew https://picrew.me/ja/image_maker/447749/ 2k23
dice.camp/@palecur
MLDNI
pronoun.is/he/him
Avi: picrew https://picrew.me/ja/image_maker/447749/ 2k23
dice.camp/@palecur
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Timothy C. Roth, a member of Maryland's 'Task Force Turtle' (TFT) snapped this photo of a female common snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina) emerging from brumation in a dry lake mudhole with 18 lbs of dirt & grass on her back.
TFT tag these animals with radio transmitters to track movements.
TFT tag these animals with radio transmitters to track movements.
January 3, 2026 at 9:18 PM
going into 2026 like
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Trump's chief contribution to American politics is revealing that you don't need a respectable veneer for evil, corrupt behavior. You can rob the bank, say you did it because you like money and you'll do it again, and challenge anyone to stop you
I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war
January 3, 2026 at 8:53 PM
Trump's chief contribution to American politics is revealing that you don't need a respectable veneer for evil, corrupt behavior. You can rob the bank, say you did it because you like money and you'll do it again, and challenge anyone to stop you
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it is both true that dem leadership statements suck and also true that if you are vomiting in anger over them are you are very definitely reacting to the wrong thing right now.
January 3, 2026 at 9:05 PM
it is both true that dem leadership statements suck and also true that if you are vomiting in anger over them are you are very definitely reacting to the wrong thing right now.
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ready to talk online
January 3, 2026 at 9:09 PM
ready to talk online
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Kudos to every drive through worker who tosses in about 5 times as many napkins as normal whenever someone orders a kids meal. You guys are the real heroes
January 3, 2026 at 9:10 PM
Kudos to every drive through worker who tosses in about 5 times as many napkins as normal whenever someone orders a kids meal. You guys are the real heroes
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Entretiempo Sushi; C. Carlos Humberto Erratchou 800, Coronel, Bío Bío, Chile https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=-37.029177%2C-73.136758&query_place_id=ChIJBWWGdQDBaZYRNVdLjjWCbP4
January 3, 2026 at 8:03 PM
Entretiempo Sushi; C. Carlos Humberto Erratchou 800, Coronel, Bío Bío, Chile https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=-37.029177%2C-73.136758&query_place_id=ChIJBWWGdQDBaZYRNVdLjjWCbP4
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/4 You see the same thing in the context of due process: the pathological need to denounce crime before stating frankly that our government should obey the law in addressing it.
January 3, 2026 at 7:00 PM
/4 You see the same thing in the context of due process: the pathological need to denounce crime before stating frankly that our government should obey the law in addressing it.
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I dunno gang, if the consul keeps engaging in self-aggrandizing imperial adventures while the senate sits impotent I might just have to retreat from public life and disappear into a dionysian mystery cult
January 3, 2026 at 6:51 PM
I dunno gang, if the consul keeps engaging in self-aggrandizing imperial adventures while the senate sits impotent I might just have to retreat from public life and disappear into a dionysian mystery cult
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hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison
January 3, 2026 at 7:02 AM
hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison
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During DreamForge’s latest submission period, we found an oft-repeated pattern in story openings that just will not work for us. Let’s take a look at what bad habits to avoid.
go.dfstory.com/story-opening
go.dfstory.com/story-opening
January 3, 2026 at 11:24 AM
During DreamForge’s latest submission period, we found an oft-repeated pattern in story openings that just will not work for us. Let’s take a look at what bad habits to avoid.
go.dfstory.com/story-opening
go.dfstory.com/story-opening
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"A woman dressed as a pink Power Ranger hacked a dating site for far-right extremists. She deleted the entire site, but first she made users fall in love with AI bots she ran, thus obtaining information about them. Over 8,000 far-right profiles have now been mapped."
En kvinna, utklädd till rosa Power Ranger, hackade datingsida för högerextrema. Hon raderade hela sidan, men först fick hon användarna att bli kära i AI-botar som hon drev och fick på så sätt ut information om dem. Över 8000 högerextrema profiler har nu kartlagts.
cybernews.com/security/inv...
cybernews.com/security/inv...
Investigator breaches white supremacist dating sites, exposes 8,000 users
An investigative journalist infiltrated three white supremacist platforms, including the dating site WhiteDate, exfiltrating over 8,000 user profiles and 100GB of sensitive data.
cybernews.com
January 3, 2026 at 10:27 AM
"A woman dressed as a pink Power Ranger hacked a dating site for far-right extremists. She deleted the entire site, but first she made users fall in love with AI bots she ran, thus obtaining information about them. Over 8,000 far-right profiles have now been mapped."
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Trump: I need some guys to kidnap this Hispanic guy in Venezuela
US military: No problem, Sir, we're on it
Masked ICE goons: WTF?
US military: No problem, Sir, we're on it
Masked ICE goons: WTF?
January 3, 2026 at 11:48 AM
Trump: I need some guys to kidnap this Hispanic guy in Venezuela
US military: No problem, Sir, we're on it
Masked ICE goons: WTF?
US military: No problem, Sir, we're on it
Masked ICE goons: WTF?
i have to keep explaining to people that a right that you won't aggressively defend for the worst people breathing isn't a right at all, just slack you cut your buddies
There is, in general, no “well what if whoever you want to do the illegal thing to is really really bad and/or has done illegal things too” loophole
January 3, 2026 at 12:52 PM
i have to keep explaining to people that a right that you won't aggressively defend for the worst people breathing isn't a right at all, just slack you cut your buddies
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love to wake up in the middle of the night to go pee, groggily check my phone, and discover that we did a war crime
January 3, 2026 at 12:37 PM
love to wake up in the middle of the night to go pee, groggily check my phone, and discover that we did a war crime
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grim posthumous scenario i had not previously considered: you post a picture of the missile headed straight for you, and are memorialized by a bunch of random assholes complaining about alt text
![A Bluesky user based in Venezuela posted 'I live near a military air base and five earth-shaking explosions were just heart.'
User @thenordic.bsky.social (a random asshole) replied 'was it too hard for you to to [sic] add a link?' along with a link to an AP piece. Quick, don't look, what do you think the odds are that this user responded gracefully to being told that OP was on the ground and reporting firsthand?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ycbmujtxprrwbkiw3x5qsyz4/bafkreieh2ddespqvcqdhpfy4g2higsw4lfiguzpaxs3rdessztcokmww6i@jpeg)
January 3, 2026 at 8:21 AM
grim posthumous scenario i had not previously considered: you post a picture of the missile headed straight for you, and are memorialized by a bunch of random assholes complaining about alt text
welp
Las sierras eléctricas cortan los países
Cortan a las razas, cortan a los débiles
Ocho toneladas de monedas
Ocho toneladas de manos aserradas
#mynoise
Las sierras eléctricas cortan los países
Cortan a las razas, cortan a los débiles
Ocho toneladas de monedas
Ocho toneladas de manos aserradas
#mynoise
January 3, 2026 at 8:16 AM
welp
Las sierras eléctricas cortan los países
Cortan a las razas, cortan a los débiles
Ocho toneladas de monedas
Ocho toneladas de manos aserradas
#mynoise
Las sierras eléctricas cortan los países
Cortan a las razas, cortan a los débiles
Ocho toneladas de monedas
Ocho toneladas de manos aserradas
#mynoise
i am asking people once again to talk to one (1) jesuit
Every Christian response to the problem of evil except the one in Job (god is so massively bigger than you that you might as well treat him as a force of nature) is the least compelling argument imaginable to the point that I feel like the people saying it don't even believe it
January 3, 2026 at 7:59 AM
i am asking people once again to talk to one (1) jesuit
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there are a lot of legal things you can say about what should happen. there are a lot of legal means by which they could.
Hey chat don't fedpost in my mentions or quote tweets please. Be smart
January 3, 2026 at 7:00 AM
there are a lot of legal things you can say about what should happen. there are a lot of legal means by which they could.
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ruining my “putting my current brain in my childhood body and doing school RIGHT” fantasy by realizing that my adult confidence would get spent on me telling the principal that the smart kids should get to go to a different assembly “without all the bullshit”
January 3, 2026 at 2:40 AM
ruining my “putting my current brain in my childhood body and doing school RIGHT” fantasy by realizing that my adult confidence would get spent on me telling the principal that the smart kids should get to go to a different assembly “without all the bullshit”
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one funny thing is that this guy is an insane north korean nationalist.
January 3, 2026 at 12:02 AM
one funny thing is that this guy is an insane north korean nationalist.
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ICE Drives Unmarked Cars. This Public Database Tracks Their License Plates. ino.to/aMt6T6v
ICE Drives Unmarked Cars. This Public Database Tracks Their License Plates.
ICE is terrorizing communities in unmarked cars. These Pacific Northwest activists built a public database that tracks their license plates.
ino.to
January 3, 2026 at 12:08 AM
ICE Drives Unmarked Cars. This Public Database Tracks Their License Plates. ino.to/aMt6T6v
ok this thing is amazing
January 2, 2026 at 9:43 PM
ok this thing is amazing
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G214.3
Witch
with nine rows
of teeth.
Witch
with nine rows
of teeth.
January 1, 2026 at 8:44 PM
G214.3
Witch
with nine rows
of teeth.
Witch
with nine rows
of teeth.
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Everyone worries about disinfo on the internet but prestige journalism flies under the radar
In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry
In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...
transnews.network
January 1, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Everyone worries about disinfo on the internet but prestige journalism flies under the radar