Carol Is Sick… of Fascism!
@pierrette1789.bsky.social
Carol Monahan: 30yr tabletop game-industry veteran. "I worked in the WotC basement!"
Singer of old music: find Conspiratio’s “Wassail!” on Bandcamp.
VP of Crab Fragment & Cheapass Games: https://crabfragmentlabs.com
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Singer of old music: find Conspiratio’s “Wassail!” on Bandcamp.
VP of Crab Fragment & Cheapass Games: https://crabfragmentlabs.com
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ran into a friend at a cafe who mentioned his wife is having an emotional affair with chatgpt, missed that the "chat model was much hornier last spring," and that they're getting divorced but her chat & his chat negotiated the terms of the divorce over several weeks. They were together for 18 yrs.
most cafe conversations blend into the background for me, but as soon as a man starts the “do you use ChatGPT? I’ve started using it for…” conversation within a 10 table radius, I feel my brain short circuiting
January 28, 2026 at 11:17 PM
ran into a friend at a cafe who mentioned his wife is having an emotional affair with chatgpt, missed that the "chat model was much hornier last spring," and that they're getting divorced but her chat & his chat negotiated the terms of the divorce over several weeks. They were together for 18 yrs.
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Tim Eyman is a textbook definition of Temporarily Embarrassed Millionaire (especially after being fined $5.4 million for breaking the law and then filing for bankruptcy).
LMAO Tim Eyman just got tossed from the room by security after the Millionaires Tax passed and he stood up and started ranting at the committee.
What a clown 🤡
What a clown 🤡
February 9, 2026 at 11:39 PM
Tim Eyman is a textbook definition of Temporarily Embarrassed Millionaire (especially after being fined $5.4 million for breaking the law and then filing for bankruptcy).
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Gravity is powerful:
"What has changed is not Trump’s racism (which is the same as it ever was) but Trump’s poll numbers (which have dropped precipitously)"
"What has changed is not Trump’s racism (which is the same as it ever was) but Trump’s poll numbers (which have dropped precipitously)"
"Republicans are looking for ways to distance themselves from Trump as the midterms approach. That’s a dynamic which Democrats, and all Trump opponents, can exploit — not least because Trump, as he has made clear, is not going to stop being racist."
The blowback to Trump's racist video reveals his weakness
Even his allies don't want to be anywhere near him.
www.publicnotice.co
February 9, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Gravity is powerful:
"What has changed is not Trump’s racism (which is the same as it ever was) but Trump’s poll numbers (which have dropped precipitously)"
"What has changed is not Trump’s racism (which is the same as it ever was) but Trump’s poll numbers (which have dropped precipitously)"
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Well, knock me over with a fucking feather.
February 9, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Well, knock me over with a fucking feather.
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every single person writing credulously about "elon will put people on the moon" should have to pin this post to their monitor
February 9, 2026 at 10:11 PM
every single person writing credulously about "elon will put people on the moon" should have to pin this post to their monitor
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IMO a big thing to worry about is Trumpy lone-wolves "working towards the Führer".
Like, maybe some ICE agent, knowing that he has "absolute immunity" if he's saving the country and such, storms a registrar's office demanding all the mail-in ballots (since Mr. Trump made mail-in voting illegal!).
Like, maybe some ICE agent, knowing that he has "absolute immunity" if he's saving the country and such, storms a registrar's office demanding all the mail-in ballots (since Mr. Trump made mail-in voting illegal!).
1) I agree that Trump's people aren't capable or clever enough to "steal the midterms".
2) I think they are brazen and witless enough to TRY to do it in an utterly hamfisted way that ends in real violence.
2) I think they are brazen and witless enough to TRY to do it in an utterly hamfisted way that ends in real violence.
February 9, 2026 at 10:32 PM
IMO a big thing to worry about is Trumpy lone-wolves "working towards the Führer".
Like, maybe some ICE agent, knowing that he has "absolute immunity" if he's saving the country and such, storms a registrar's office demanding all the mail-in ballots (since Mr. Trump made mail-in voting illegal!).
Like, maybe some ICE agent, knowing that he has "absolute immunity" if he's saving the country and such, storms a registrar's office demanding all the mail-in ballots (since Mr. Trump made mail-in voting illegal!).
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Look around. The case for more, not less, liberal arts education remains stronger than ever.
Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one.
Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”
news.wisc.edu
February 9, 2026 at 5:54 AM
Look around. The case for more, not less, liberal arts education remains stronger than ever.
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This is horrifying for so many reasons. The one I'm thinking of right now is the billion dollars spent to torture and terrorize and imprison people could easily buy all of us healthcare, child care, parental leave, affordable housing ... all the things the Epstein Class swears we can't afford.
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.
- 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 10:23 PM
This is horrifying for so many reasons. The one I'm thinking of right now is the billion dollars spent to torture and terrorize and imprison people could easily buy all of us healthcare, child care, parental leave, affordable housing ... all the things the Epstein Class swears we can't afford.
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People who ideologically decide they shouldn't vote because the state is bad are people who are insufficiently serious to care about
“libertarians tried to warn you” no they fucking didn’t, don’t bullshit me
February 9, 2026 at 10:23 PM
People who ideologically decide they shouldn't vote because the state is bad are people who are insufficiently serious to care about
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I didn't have TikTok on my phone when it was Chinese spyware, I'm not going to have it on my phone when it is US spyware
"TikTok’s Terms of Service now explicitly include tracking of location and citizenship status (among other identity markers, such as sex)." newrepublic.com/article/2059...
How TikTok 2.0 Became a Weapon for ICE
In just one week, the company has gone from being Gen Z’s preferred social media platform to a tool for spying on Americans and the suppression of information.
newrepublic.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:36 PM
I didn't have TikTok on my phone when it was Chinese spyware, I'm not going to have it on my phone when it is US spyware
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Is anyone else thinking: where tf is the FBI? Why is this poor woman being left to twist in the wind?
apnews.com/article/sava...
apnews.com/article/sava...
Savannah Guthrie makes new video plea as missing mother's ransom deadline nears
Savannah Guthrie says in a new video that her family is “at an hour of desperation” in the search for her missing mother Nancy Guthrie.
apnews.com
February 9, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Is anyone else thinking: where tf is the FBI? Why is this poor woman being left to twist in the wind?
apnews.com/article/sava...
apnews.com/article/sava...
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Maybe I’m crazy but it’s probably not a good sign that a famous person is having to negotiate a hostage situation in public while the FB FUCKING I is led by a podcaster who’s too busy trying to get his girlfriend gigs to take care of this kind of shit and keep it from happening more.
February 9, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Maybe I’m crazy but it’s probably not a good sign that a famous person is having to negotiate a hostage situation in public while the FB FUCKING I is led by a podcaster who’s too busy trying to get his girlfriend gigs to take care of this kind of shit and keep it from happening more.
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In an attempt to distance himself from the Epstein scandal and Mandelson, the health secretary reveals that he's a moral coward only willing to say the obvious behind closed doors and in private groupchats.
In now publicly available text correspondence between the British health secretary Wes Streeting and former British ambassador to the US, Peter Mandelson, Streeting admitted that Israel was committing war crimes, conspiring to ethnically cleanse Gaza, and that the UK should sanction the government.
Wes Streeting privately said Israel committing war crimes, backed sanctions on 'rogue state'
The British health secretary privately admitted last year that the Israeli government 'talks the language of ethnic cleansing'
www.middleeasteye.net
February 9, 2026 at 10:25 PM
In an attempt to distance himself from the Epstein scandal and Mandelson, the health secretary reveals that he's a moral coward only willing to say the obvious behind closed doors and in private groupchats.
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Former-Prince Andrew is being investigated by the police—and lost his royal title. Meanwhile, on this side of the Atlantic, Trump hasn’t even lost sleep.
February 9, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Former-Prince Andrew is being investigated by the police—and lost his royal title. Meanwhile, on this side of the Atlantic, Trump hasn’t even lost sleep.
I can highly recommend this arc of the story, featuring one of my favorite characters, Dr. Francisia Monahan.
::Kuzco-voice:: it's an homage, to me! 😊
See: girlgenius.fandom.com/wiki/Francis...
16 days left, and lots of stretch goals!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/gir...
::Kuzco-voice:: it's an homage, to me! 😊
See: girlgenius.fandom.com/wiki/Francis...
16 days left, and lots of stretch goals!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/gir...
Girl Genius: Escape from the Island of the Rat Queen!
Adventure, Romance, MAD SCIENCE! The next TWO volumes of Phil & Kaja Foglio's acclaimed graphic novel series!
www.kickstarter.com
February 9, 2026 at 9:53 PM
I can highly recommend this arc of the story, featuring one of my favorite characters, Dr. Francisia Monahan.
::Kuzco-voice:: it's an homage, to me! 😊
See: girlgenius.fandom.com/wiki/Francis...
16 days left, and lots of stretch goals!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/gir...
::Kuzco-voice:: it's an homage, to me! 😊
See: girlgenius.fandom.com/wiki/Francis...
16 days left, and lots of stretch goals!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/gir...
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This is an important story. Everyone should be able to read it. Here is a gift link.
A Raid in a Small Town Brings Trump’s Deportations to Deep-Red Idaho
www.nytimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 7:19 PM
This is an important story. Everyone should be able to read it. Here is a gift link.
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When Texas lawmakers tried to visit 33-year-old “political prisoner” Leqaa Kordia at an ICE facility, she’d already lost 50 pounds and was running a high fever.
By Friday, she was hospitalized. But her family still has not been able to locate her.
thebarbedwire.com/2026/02/09/l...
By Friday, she was hospitalized. But her family still has not been able to locate her.
thebarbedwire.com/2026/02/09/l...
‘Political Prisoner’ Leqaa Kordia Has Been Hospitalized, DHS Says. After Calling 16 Hospitals, Her Lawyers Say They Can't Find Her.
The Columbia University protester had a fever when lawmakers tried to visit her last month — and her health is declining fast.
thebarbedwire.com
February 9, 2026 at 7:25 PM
When Texas lawmakers tried to visit 33-year-old “political prisoner” Leqaa Kordia at an ICE facility, she’d already lost 50 pounds and was running a high fever.
By Friday, she was hospitalized. But her family still has not been able to locate her.
thebarbedwire.com/2026/02/09/l...
By Friday, she was hospitalized. But her family still has not been able to locate her.
thebarbedwire.com/2026/02/09/l...
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In an email to Michael Wolff while Wolff was writing an unflattering exposé on the Trump administration, Jeffrey Epstein states that people who had dinner with Trump were concerned about his dementia. He was wearing too much makeup and didn’t recognize old friends.
THIS WAS ALMOST TEN YEARS AGO.
THIS WAS ALMOST TEN YEARS AGO.
February 9, 2026 at 7:30 PM
In an email to Michael Wolff while Wolff was writing an unflattering exposé on the Trump administration, Jeffrey Epstein states that people who had dinner with Trump were concerned about his dementia. He was wearing too much makeup and didn’t recognize old friends.
THIS WAS ALMOST TEN YEARS AGO.
THIS WAS ALMOST TEN YEARS AGO.
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In an alarming development, it appears the UK Government covered up a massive spike in trans youth suicides after restrictions.
Then covered it up again when caught.
Now, after fighting for years, the data is public: trans suicide increased 5x in the country.
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Then covered it up again when caught.
Now, after fighting for years, the data is public: trans suicide increased 5x in the country.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Trans Youth Suicides Skyrocketed In UK After Care Drawdown; Government Covers It Up
A Freedom of Information request to the National Child Mortality Database reveals that 22 trans children under 18 died by suicide in England in 2021-22 alone.
www.erininthemorning.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:37 PM
In an alarming development, it appears the UK Government covered up a massive spike in trans youth suicides after restrictions.
Then covered it up again when caught.
Now, after fighting for years, the data is public: trans suicide increased 5x in the country.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Then covered it up again when caught.
Now, after fighting for years, the data is public: trans suicide increased 5x in the country.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Aside from the deep immorality of immigration detention, there is no way to literally warehouse people without violating human rights. People need plumbing, ventilation, daylight and outdoor space.
Even the shittiest for-profit prisons were built with the idea that they had to sustain human life. 😒
Even the shittiest for-profit prisons were built with the idea that they had to sustain human life. 😒
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...
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 9, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Aside from the deep immorality of immigration detention, there is no way to literally warehouse people without violating human rights. People need plumbing, ventilation, daylight and outdoor space.
Even the shittiest for-profit prisons were built with the idea that they had to sustain human life. 😒
Even the shittiest for-profit prisons were built with the idea that they had to sustain human life. 😒
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Great vid summarizing the absurdity of opposition to affordable apartments here on (wealthy, white, very blue) Bainbridge Island.
Vid by @ronpdavis.bsky.social
youtube.com/shorts/TgN1R...
Vid by @ronpdavis.bsky.social
youtube.com/shorts/TgN1R...
NIMBYs are trying to shut out affordable housing. This is why the state has to force cities. #nimby
YouTube video by Ron Davis
youtube.com
February 9, 2026 at 7:12 PM
Great vid summarizing the absurdity of opposition to affordable apartments here on (wealthy, white, very blue) Bainbridge Island.
Vid by @ronpdavis.bsky.social
youtube.com/shorts/TgN1R...
Vid by @ronpdavis.bsky.social
youtube.com/shorts/TgN1R...
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EXCLUSIVE: Since the FBI seized 2020 election materials from GA, questions have abounded as to what evidence justified the raid.
@ProPublica has obtained audio of conservative activists discussing providing files and exhibits to the Department of Justice…
www.propublica.org/article/kevi...
@ProPublica has obtained audio of conservative activists discussing providing files and exhibits to the Department of Justice…
www.propublica.org/article/kevi...
The Conservative Researcher Being Linked to the FBI’s Seizure of Election Records in Georgia
Kevin Moncla has tried repeatedly to prove that the 2020 vote in Fulton County, Georgia, was tainted by fraud. While state election overseers have rejected his claims, his work may be fueling the fede...
www.propublica.org
February 9, 2026 at 7:24 PM
EXCLUSIVE: Since the FBI seized 2020 election materials from GA, questions have abounded as to what evidence justified the raid.
@ProPublica has obtained audio of conservative activists discussing providing files and exhibits to the Department of Justice…
www.propublica.org/article/kevi...
@ProPublica has obtained audio of conservative activists discussing providing files and exhibits to the Department of Justice…
www.propublica.org/article/kevi...
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Anyway, do you want onerous regulations on capital or do you want a racist terror state? Those are your two choices.
February 9, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Anyway, do you want onerous regulations on capital or do you want a racist terror state? Those are your two choices.