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I’m so proud of my homeland. I mourn and rage with you.
Non-masked MN National Guard are out handing out hot chocolate, coffee and donuts to protesters. One simple act has de-escalated the situation and helped gain the trust of people. See the difference between professional soldiers and the pretend tough guys in CBP and ICE?
January 26, 2026 at 3:30 AM
I’m so proud of my homeland. I mourn and rage with you.
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If it is fascism now it was fascism then but if you were wrong no need to pause to make a special effort to admit your error -- we don't have that much time now, please act right away, get organized, and then tell your followers what you are doing to stop fascism and what they too can do.
January 25, 2026 at 8:33 PM
If it is fascism now it was fascism then but if you were wrong no need to pause to make a special effort to admit your error -- we don't have that much time now, please act right away, get organized, and then tell your followers what you are doing to stop fascism and what they too can do.
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The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.
January 25, 2026 at 5:00 PM
The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.
They’re killing heroes.
today the fascists killed a nurse who did good work for the people in his care
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
January 25, 2026 at 5:39 AM
They’re killing heroes.
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"Minnesota Nice" means no to ICE.
January 23, 2026 at 10:16 PM
"Minnesota Nice" means no to ICE.
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Workers in two hundred and fifteen cities are walking off the job today in solidarity with the general strike in Minneapolis, according to @migrantinsider.bsky.social.
January 23, 2026 at 8:59 PM
Workers in two hundred and fifteen cities are walking off the job today in solidarity with the general strike in Minneapolis, according to @migrantinsider.bsky.social.
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solidarity forever
Today is the day. Right now hundreds of Minnesota businesses and institutions are shut down. Thousands of people are refusing to work. There’s a massive picket at the airport. Minnesota’s resistance to ICE today is changing the tenor our fight against fascism.
www.jphilll.com/p/the-first-...
www.jphilll.com/p/the-first-...
The first General Strike in 80 years
We're at war, and now people are fighting back like never before
www.jphilll.com
January 23, 2026 at 6:16 PM
solidarity forever
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if two people are already restraining someone physically while spraying their face with pepper spray, that is torture, plain and simple. no debate to be had about it
This is a photo of someone being tortured, not someone being restrained
An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 21, 2026 at 10:07 PM
if two people are already restraining someone physically while spraying their face with pepper spray, that is torture, plain and simple. no debate to be had about it
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An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 21, 2026 at 9:18 PM
An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune
As a Xennial, I remember the best of the analog era and the digital era. Fuck Microsoft, AI is bullshit wrapped in a bullshit wrapper and I’ll be damned if I ever use it for A N Y T H I N G.
I was present for the birth of the web, the explosion of personal sites, and the blogging revolution, and you know what we never had to do? Beg people to use our shit.
AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
Big tech boss tells delegates at Davos that broader global use is essential if technology is to deliver lasting growth
www.irishtimes.com
January 21, 2026 at 1:15 AM
As a Xennial, I remember the best of the analog era and the digital era. Fuck Microsoft, AI is bullshit wrapped in a bullshit wrapper and I’ll be damned if I ever use it for A N Y T H I N G.
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Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
January 17, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
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good and helpful thread
“Hypernormalization describes a state where a false, simplified, or surreal version of reality becomes so accepted as normal that people lose the ability or will to challenge it, even when aware of its untruth, often due to systemic inertia or lack of alternatives.”
January 15, 2026 at 11:14 PM
good and helpful thread
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RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, because falling into the Wikipedia/Google rabbit hole while researching IS the fun part 🤓
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'
January 15, 2026 at 4:21 AM
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, because falling into the Wikipedia/Google rabbit hole while researching IS the fun part 🤓
True integrity. I hope one day to do him proud.
Bill Watterson is my favorite cartoonist. I adored the relationship btw Calvin and Hobbes as a child. But as I've gotten older, these strips feel even more tender and insightful. My respect for him grew when I learned of his stance against merchandising. Such principles are almost unheard of today.
![Excerpt from Wikipedia reads: "Fight against merchandising his characters
For years, Watterson battled against pressure from publishers to merchandise his work, something that he felt would cheapen his comic through compromising the act of creation or reading.[21][22]
He refused to merchandise his creations on the grounds that displaying Calvin and Hobbes images on commercially sold mugs, stickers, and T-shirts would devalue the characters and their personalities. Watterson said that Universal kept putting pressure on him and that he had signed his contract without fully perusing it because, as a new artist, he was happy just to find a syndicate willing to give him a chance (two other syndicates had previously turned him down). He added that the contract was so one-sided that, if Universal really wanted to, they could license his characters against his will, and could even fire him and continue Calvin and Hobbes with a new artist. Watterson's position eventually won out, and he was able to renegotiate his contract so that he would receive all rights to his work. Later he said that the licensing fight exhausted him and contributed to the need for a nine-month sabbatical in 1991.[23]"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreihmgl3sxrmb5t6edpjnixyanj2rvcf43zdv46mbifhl7hdtmz5u6y@jpeg)
January 14, 2026 at 3:23 PM
True integrity. I hope one day to do him proud.
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At least 25 data centers were canceled last year as communities organized and pushed back against them. That's four times as many as 2024, according to Heatmap News.
heatmap.news/politics/dat...
heatmap.news/politics/dat...
Scoop: Local Opposition to Data Centers Is Surging. So Are Canceled Projects.
A Heatmap Pro review of public records shows that 25 data centers were scrubbed last year after local pushback — four times as many as 2024.
heatmap.news
January 13, 2026 at 6:13 PM
At least 25 data centers were canceled last year as communities organized and pushed back against them. That's four times as many as 2024, according to Heatmap News.
heatmap.news/politics/dat...
heatmap.news/politics/dat...
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I don't always agree with Hank Green but I do quite like what he's saying here.
"When we can't find anything we can believe in, the humanity leaks through the drywall and says 'I AM STILL HERE! [...] I AM WEIRD, AND I AM HUMAN, AND I AM NOT FOR SALE!'"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMWP...
"When we can't find anything we can believe in, the humanity leaks through the drywall and says 'I AM STILL HERE! [...] I AM WEIRD, AND I AM HUMAN, AND I AM NOT FOR SALE!'"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMWP...
Here's Why New Year's Eve is Bad Now
YouTube video by Hank Green
www.youtube.com
January 12, 2026 at 11:35 PM
I don't always agree with Hank Green but I do quite like what he's saying here.
"When we can't find anything we can believe in, the humanity leaks through the drywall and says 'I AM STILL HERE! [...] I AM WEIRD, AND I AM HUMAN, AND I AM NOT FOR SALE!'"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMWP...
"When we can't find anything we can believe in, the humanity leaks through the drywall and says 'I AM STILL HERE! [...] I AM WEIRD, AND I AM HUMAN, AND I AM NOT FOR SALE!'"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMWP...
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Makes me recall a clip I saw of Joe Rogan enthusiastically forcing an musician to listen to genAI music he'd prompted as he heaped praise on the model that had generated it.
The musician responded, "What about AI podcasts? They have those, now."
No prizes for guessing how Joe reacted.
The musician responded, "What about AI podcasts? They have those, now."
No prizes for guessing how Joe reacted.
January 9, 2026 at 11:46 PM
Makes me recall a clip I saw of Joe Rogan enthusiastically forcing an musician to listen to genAI music he'd prompted as he heaped praise on the model that had generated it.
The musician responded, "What about AI podcasts? They have those, now."
No prizes for guessing how Joe reacted.
The musician responded, "What about AI podcasts? They have those, now."
No prizes for guessing how Joe reacted.
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Minnesota stands with our neighbors.
On this Day of Unity, we are stronger together.
On this Day of Unity, we are stronger together.
January 9, 2026 at 9:08 PM
Minnesota stands with our neighbors.
On this Day of Unity, we are stronger together.
On this Day of Unity, we are stronger together.
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Reminder that the argument against GenAI has MULTIPLE points and all matter:
1. It is theft
2. It puts people out of work
3. It uses disproportionate resources
4. It removes artistic agency
Do not let someone go "but they don't do 1 and 2!" Distract you from the others
1. It is theft
2. It puts people out of work
3. It uses disproportionate resources
4. It removes artistic agency
Do not let someone go "but they don't do 1 and 2!" Distract you from the others
January 9, 2026 at 6:38 PM
Reminder that the argument against GenAI has MULTIPLE points and all matter:
1. It is theft
2. It puts people out of work
3. It uses disproportionate resources
4. It removes artistic agency
Do not let someone go "but they don't do 1 and 2!" Distract you from the others
1. It is theft
2. It puts people out of work
3. It uses disproportionate resources
4. It removes artistic agency
Do not let someone go "but they don't do 1 and 2!" Distract you from the others
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🔥 happy year of the horse 🔥
January 8, 2026 at 4:57 AM
🔥 happy year of the horse 🔥
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Javier, our CEO, hopes your holiday break was everything you needed it to be. It is understandable if you need a bit more time to get reacclimated this morning. He hopes 2026 brings you love, happiness, and plenty of good dogs. He is comfortable handling that last one ❤️
January 5, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Javier, our CEO, hopes your holiday break was everything you needed it to be. It is understandable if you need a bit more time to get reacclimated this morning. He hopes 2026 brings you love, happiness, and plenty of good dogs. He is comfortable handling that last one ❤️
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That's Sloposoft SlopEO Slopguy.
January 3, 2026 at 1:54 AM
That's Sloposoft SlopEO Slopguy.
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