Dr. Rine Vieth 🚐
@rinewithoutacat.bsky.social
move with care • researches anti-genderism, migration, law, govt, religion • makes comics, posters, podcasts, zines, balcony gardens • multilingual, mixed-methods • personal acct, but I cite my sources • usually MTL
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As some of you know, I'm working on a project looking at anti-gender/anti-trans politics and its impacts on SOGI asylum/refugee policymaking in Canada and the UK.
I'm looking for interviewees to discuss their experiences as legal professionals, community supporters, and NGO workers.
Please share!
I'm looking for interviewees to discuss their experiences as legal professionals, community supporters, and NGO workers.
Please share!
Watching the piano version of "I'll Believe in Anything" and getting weepy, I need a proper recording of this
www.instagram.com/reel/DTm1HSL...
www.instagram.com/reel/DTm1HSL...
Maria on Instagram: "Amazing video of @krugspencer performing ‘I’ll Believe in Anything’ on piano last night in Vancouver. Love it so much!!
@subpop @wolfparade @heatedrivalrycrave @jacob.tierney
#h...
378 likes, 33 comments - wolfparadefans on January 17, 2026: "Amazing video of @krugspencer performing ‘I’ll Believe in Anything’ on piano last night in Vancouver. Love it so much!!
@subpop @wolfpara...
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January 17, 2026 at 10:10 PM
Watching the piano version of "I'll Believe in Anything" and getting weepy, I need a proper recording of this
www.instagram.com/reel/DTm1HSL...
www.instagram.com/reel/DTm1HSL...
Watching news of ICE in the US continue to roll in, alongside rumored votes on Bill C-12 in Canada, alongside updates to (curtailing) UK asylum tribunal access...while my brain is currently a high-pitched whine, I am deeply grateful for people doing the hard work of just showing up for migrants.
January 17, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Watching news of ICE in the US continue to roll in, alongside rumored votes on Bill C-12 in Canada, alongside updates to (curtailing) UK asylum tribunal access...while my brain is currently a high-pitched whine, I am deeply grateful for people doing the hard work of just showing up for migrants.
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Maine's strongest weapon against ICE. One sip and they'll all flee.
January 14, 2026 at 11:42 PM
Maine's strongest weapon against ICE. One sip and they'll all flee.
If you're in Montréal and want something weird, nice, and FREE to do this Mon (Jan 19), an arts org I'm part of is having an open house!
Come scan a snack on a riso printer (we're not kidding) and explore the space. 🥨🖨️
Link below—FREE but reg helps w/headcount:
www.eventbrite.ca/e/radio-snac...
Come scan a snack on a riso printer (we're not kidding) and explore the space. 🥨🖨️
Link below—FREE but reg helps w/headcount:
www.eventbrite.ca/e/radio-snac...
Radio Snack Open House
Open house at Radio Snack's new location! Come meet other Radio Snackers and our beautiful tools. https://radiosnack.ca/
www.eventbrite.ca
January 17, 2026 at 5:34 PM
If you're in Montréal and want something weird, nice, and FREE to do this Mon (Jan 19), an arts org I'm part of is having an open house!
Come scan a snack on a riso printer (we're not kidding) and explore the space. 🥨🖨️
Link below—FREE but reg helps w/headcount:
www.eventbrite.ca/e/radio-snac...
Come scan a snack on a riso printer (we're not kidding) and explore the space. 🥨🖨️
Link below—FREE but reg helps w/headcount:
www.eventbrite.ca/e/radio-snac...
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Five minutes, twenty degrees, a dozen people. #IceOutComics #IceOutMpls
January 17, 2026 at 5:02 AM
Five minutes, twenty degrees, a dozen people. #IceOutComics #IceOutMpls
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Spotted at the today's PHWL game
January 17, 2026 at 5:05 AM
Spotted at the today's PHWL game
I have set a few set PRs in the last week, and I'm recovering from bronchitis. My tracking app's workout session images are all Heated Rivalry memes. I've made massive progress on four things this week, and helped friends. We will win.
I can't recommend enough spending an hour getting physically stronger (as you can) and then messaging your friends about how we're going to fight far-right fascism and win. Unironically awesome how many friends have messaged me/I have messaged with some form of "swoletariat."
January 17, 2026 at 5:03 AM
I have set a few set PRs in the last week, and I'm recovering from bronchitis. My tracking app's workout session images are all Heated Rivalry memes. I've made massive progress on four things this week, and helped friends. We will win.
I can't recommend enough spending an hour getting physically stronger (as you can) and then messaging your friends about how we're going to fight far-right fascism and win. Unironically awesome how many friends have messaged me/I have messaged with some form of "swoletariat."
January 17, 2026 at 5:01 AM
I can't recommend enough spending an hour getting physically stronger (as you can) and then messaging your friends about how we're going to fight far-right fascism and win. Unironically awesome how many friends have messaged me/I have messaged with some form of "swoletariat."
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In an essay in the JHI Blog’s forum on political economy, Nate Holdren elaborates three levels of analytical abstraction at which intellectual historians invoke the term "political economy," turning our attention to the way that capitalism structurally conditions ignorance of the social totality.
Three Meanings of Political Economy: Reflections on Intellectual History, Marxism, and Capitalism’s Unthought
by Nate Holdren
This think piece is part of a JHI Blog forum, “The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History.”
web.sas.upenn.edu
December 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
In an essay in the JHI Blog’s forum on political economy, Nate Holdren elaborates three levels of analytical abstraction at which intellectual historians invoke the term "political economy," turning our attention to the way that capitalism structurally conditions ignorance of the social totality.
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new lows in blogging! new heights in self-indulgence! what a time to be alive (so I'm told)
buttondown.com/nateholdren/...
buttondown.com/nateholdren/...
Liberal Egalitarianism and Object Permanence (Tooze v Anderson)
Hey there gang, I hope you’re maintaining despite the hellscape. I’m back with an offcut (even by my standards!)I don’t really follow Adam Tooze and haven’t...
buttondown.com
January 16, 2026 at 10:32 PM
new lows in blogging! new heights in self-indulgence! what a time to be alive (so I'm told)
buttondown.com/nateholdren/...
buttondown.com/nateholdren/...
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10/10 Tous les détails de leurs histoires ⬇️
www.laconverse.com/articles/fem...
www.laconverse.com/articles/fem...
Femmes sans statut : entre précarité, silence et dignité | Articles | La Converse
À Montréal, des femmes sans statut travaillent dans l’ombre, sans protections ni soins. Un reportage sur la précarité, la dignité et l’invisible.
www.laconverse.com
January 16, 2026 at 8:56 PM
10/10 Tous les détails de leurs histoires ⬇️
www.laconverse.com/articles/fem...
www.laconverse.com/articles/fem...
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Have you checked out the {mall} package? mlverse.github.io/mall/ I think it may do what you are looking for!
@theotheredgar.bsky.social will be featuring {mall} at a Data Science Lab on Jan 27 if you'd like to see it in action! pos.it/dslab
@theotheredgar.bsky.social will be featuring {mall} at a Data Science Lab on Jan 27 if you'd like to see it in action! pos.it/dslab
Data Science Lab
pos.it
January 16, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Have you checked out the {mall} package? mlverse.github.io/mall/ I think it may do what you are looking for!
@theotheredgar.bsky.social will be featuring {mall} at a Data Science Lab on Jan 27 if you'd like to see it in action! pos.it/dslab
@theotheredgar.bsky.social will be featuring {mall} at a Data Science Lab on Jan 27 if you'd like to see it in action! pos.it/dslab
Relatedly, wild that some governments give you APIs for data, and some just go with "nah, it won't be maintained anymore, just scrape the site :)"
Anyone have good reccs on tutorials/packages/thoughts on using LLMs (I'm talking locally-running NLP, not building a machine learning model) on a corpus of similarly-structured documents in R?
Been using queries in a different way, but want to try testing some hypotheses.
#Rstats
Been using queries in a different way, but want to try testing some hypotheses.
#Rstats
January 16, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Relatedly, wild that some governments give you APIs for data, and some just go with "nah, it won't be maintained anymore, just scrape the site :)"
Anyone have good reccs on tutorials/packages/thoughts on using LLMs (I'm talking locally-running NLP, not building a machine learning model) on a corpus of similarly-structured documents in R?
Been using queries in a different way, but want to try testing some hypotheses.
#Rstats
Been using queries in a different way, but want to try testing some hypotheses.
#Rstats
January 16, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Anyone have good reccs on tutorials/packages/thoughts on using LLMs (I'm talking locally-running NLP, not building a machine learning model) on a corpus of similarly-structured documents in R?
Been using queries in a different way, but want to try testing some hypotheses.
#Rstats
Been using queries in a different way, but want to try testing some hypotheses.
#Rstats
Peter Peter "Heated Rivalry" soundtrack is out, so far it is 10/10 writing music (complimentary)—we've got some ambient electronic tunes, we've got some polyrhythms, we've also got what I'd describe as Challengers-esque bisexual club music (again, complimentary)
heatedrivalry.lnk.to/soundtrackAW
heatedrivalry.lnk.to/soundtrackAW
Peter Peter - Heated Rivalry (Original Series Soundtrack)
Listen to Heated Rivalry (Original Series Soundtrack) by Peter Peter.
heatedrivalry.lnk.to
January 16, 2026 at 5:40 AM
Peter Peter "Heated Rivalry" soundtrack is out, so far it is 10/10 writing music (complimentary)—we've got some ambient electronic tunes, we've got some polyrhythms, we've also got what I'd describe as Challengers-esque bisexual club music (again, complimentary)
heatedrivalry.lnk.to/soundtrackAW
heatedrivalry.lnk.to/soundtrackAW
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It’s been reported locally, but I’m not sure how much national notice this has gotten. As part of this invasion by shithead goons, they are putting ICE agents in jetbridges and other parts of the airport at Minneapolis-Saint Paul. If you are flying Delta via MSP, you are putting yourself at risk.
ICE agents to begin checking documents at MSP airport, patrol jet bridges - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents will begin checking documents of travelers and workers at MSP airport, with patrols inside jet bridges.
www.bizjournals.com
January 16, 2026 at 4:11 AM
It’s been reported locally, but I’m not sure how much national notice this has gotten. As part of this invasion by shithead goons, they are putting ICE agents in jetbridges and other parts of the airport at Minneapolis-Saint Paul. If you are flying Delta via MSP, you are putting yourself at risk.
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the wildest thing is right-wingers acting like minnesotans in videos must be outside agitators when we can all hear their accents. i don't think i could do that accent convincingly if i spent a year practicing. and neither would i wish to. have you heard that shit? craziest american accent
January 16, 2026 at 4:57 AM
the wildest thing is right-wingers acting like minnesotans in videos must be outside agitators when we can all hear their accents. i don't think i could do that accent convincingly if i spent a year practicing. and neither would i wish to. have you heard that shit? craziest american accent
In good Canadian immigration news, today the MTL mayor met w/ organizers against a recent PR change.
The tl;dr is QC regulates its economic immigration, PEQ (PR route for grads/workers) was suddenly cancelled, many mayors want a grandfather clause, MTL migrants are penalized in the new system.
1/2
The tl;dr is QC regulates its economic immigration, PEQ (PR route for grads/workers) was suddenly cancelled, many mayors want a grandfather clause, MTL migrants are penalized in the new system.
1/2
January 16, 2026 at 4:35 AM
In good Canadian immigration news, today the MTL mayor met w/ organizers against a recent PR change.
The tl;dr is QC regulates its economic immigration, PEQ (PR route for grads/workers) was suddenly cancelled, many mayors want a grandfather clause, MTL migrants are penalized in the new system.
1/2
The tl;dr is QC regulates its economic immigration, PEQ (PR route for grads/workers) was suddenly cancelled, many mayors want a grandfather clause, MTL migrants are penalized in the new system.
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Bro, people are going to build entire lives around the neighbors they’ve found in these anti-ICE signal chats. Marriages, lifelong friendships, weird hobbies. It is actually breaking my brain. I am almost crying in the club (chat).
January 16, 2026 at 3:19 AM
Bro, people are going to build entire lives around the neighbors they’ve found in these anti-ICE signal chats. Marriages, lifelong friendships, weird hobbies. It is actually breaking my brain. I am almost crying in the club (chat).
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"Talking straight here, the big problem in this case is that the cabinet secretaries and, ostensibly, the president of the United States are not honoring the First Amendment,” Judge William G. Young said.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...
Judge Proposes Restricting Deportation of Scores of Noncitizen Academics
www.nytimes.com
January 15, 2026 at 11:58 PM
"Talking straight here, the big problem in this case is that the cabinet secretaries and, ostensibly, the president of the United States are not honoring the First Amendment,” Judge William G. Young said.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...
I am really proud of friends, family, and colleagues in the US responding to ICE + CBP violence by going to know-your-rights trainings, building up neighbourhood communication networks (lots of Signal groupchats), and showing up materially for people who need it.
January 16, 2026 at 2:57 AM
I am really proud of friends, family, and colleagues in the US responding to ICE + CBP violence by going to know-your-rights trainings, building up neighbourhood communication networks (lots of Signal groupchats), and showing up materially for people who need it.
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At one point today, there were 283 Minnesota attorneys doing a training on how to file emergency habeas petitions to keep our neighbors from being shipped out of state and held indefinitely.
That would be the second largest law firm in the state. And that training was just put together this week.
That would be the second largest law firm in the state. And that training was just put together this week.
January 15, 2026 at 11:48 PM
At one point today, there were 283 Minnesota attorneys doing a training on how to file emergency habeas petitions to keep our neighbors from being shipped out of state and held indefinitely.
That would be the second largest law firm in the state. And that training was just put together this week.
That would be the second largest law firm in the state. And that training was just put together this week.
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There is a lot of woe in the world, but here is one thing I'm excited about:
nashhigh.itch.io/zinearranger This zine layout tool is a dream I never knew I had. You can upload a pdf of your, e.g., 56-page 1/4-sized zine in page order (1-56), and in seconds get back a 14-page doc you can print from.
nashhigh.itch.io/zinearranger This zine layout tool is a dream I never knew I had. You can upload a pdf of your, e.g., 56-page 1/4-sized zine in page order (1-56), and in seconds get back a 14-page doc you can print from.
The ZineArranger by Nash High
Zine layout tool for PDFs
nashhigh.itch.io
January 14, 2026 at 10:16 PM
There is a lot of woe in the world, but here is one thing I'm excited about:
nashhigh.itch.io/zinearranger This zine layout tool is a dream I never knew I had. You can upload a pdf of your, e.g., 56-page 1/4-sized zine in page order (1-56), and in seconds get back a 14-page doc you can print from.
nashhigh.itch.io/zinearranger This zine layout tool is a dream I never knew I had. You can upload a pdf of your, e.g., 56-page 1/4-sized zine in page order (1-56), and in seconds get back a 14-page doc you can print from.
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As a social movements scholar, I absolutely love the diversity of tactics being developed by each city, reflecting their local flavor
Portland kept it weird with inflatable costumes
Chicago protected its street vendors by buying up their food each day
Charlotte chased ICE agents into the woods
Portland kept it weird with inflatable costumes
Chicago protected its street vendors by buying up their food each day
Charlotte chased ICE agents into the woods
Naaaaaaailed it
January 16, 2026 at 12:38 AM
As a social movements scholar, I absolutely love the diversity of tactics being developed by each city, reflecting their local flavor
Portland kept it weird with inflatable costumes
Chicago protected its street vendors by buying up their food each day
Charlotte chased ICE agents into the woods
Portland kept it weird with inflatable costumes
Chicago protected its street vendors by buying up their food each day
Charlotte chased ICE agents into the woods
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Some of the stories in here are absolutely chilling. One US citizen of Somali descent was just riding an elevator with ICE agents and then they detained him for almost half an hour in the freezing cold despite him showing agents his passport card. They only let him go once protestors showed up.
January 16, 2026 at 12:17 AM
Some of the stories in here are absolutely chilling. One US citizen of Somali descent was just riding an elevator with ICE agents and then they detained him for almost half an hour in the freezing cold despite him showing agents his passport card. They only let him go once protestors showed up.