Rotanen ♾️
@rotanen.bsky.social
They/he | Antifascist | Isocrat
Evanston IL
I run the Chicago Protests feed
Evanston IL
I run the Chicago Protests feed
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Rotanen ♾️
@rotanen.bsky.social
· Jun 22
Nobody should be posting Nordic Gamer rage comics on Bluesky. I thought everyone knew that's Nazi shit.
February 14, 2026 at 1:58 AM
Nobody should be posting Nordic Gamer rage comics on Bluesky. I thought everyone knew that's Nazi shit.
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🚨 TODAY, PALATINE 🚨
Known agitators Flip Chicago Red have openly said they're going and bringing people to antagonize and counter this peaceful protest. If you can show up, even for a few minutes, please be there for our neighbors and send the message that we won't tolerate terrorism!
Known agitators Flip Chicago Red have openly said they're going and bringing people to antagonize and counter this peaceful protest. If you can show up, even for a few minutes, please be there for our neighbors and send the message that we won't tolerate terrorism!
February 13, 2026 at 4:21 PM
🚨 TODAY, PALATINE 🚨
Known agitators Flip Chicago Red have openly said they're going and bringing people to antagonize and counter this peaceful protest. If you can show up, even for a few minutes, please be there for our neighbors and send the message that we won't tolerate terrorism!
Known agitators Flip Chicago Red have openly said they're going and bringing people to antagonize and counter this peaceful protest. If you can show up, even for a few minutes, please be there for our neighbors and send the message that we won't tolerate terrorism!
Rode my electric scooter today
February 13, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Rode my electric scooter today
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It's difficult to overstate the extent to which transphobia in its modern form is a deliberately manufactured phenomenon
I am mildly heartened by the fact that even this was unable to move the actual cultural consensus past "I don't really get it but I don't like cruelty against them"
I am mildly heartened by the fact that even this was unable to move the actual cultural consensus past "I don't really get it but I don't like cruelty against them"
a stat i always cite is the number of anti-trans articles in the press went from 60 in a year, to 7,500
February 13, 2026 at 7:55 AM
It's difficult to overstate the extent to which transphobia in its modern form is a deliberately manufactured phenomenon
I am mildly heartened by the fact that even this was unable to move the actual cultural consensus past "I don't really get it but I don't like cruelty against them"
I am mildly heartened by the fact that even this was unable to move the actual cultural consensus past "I don't really get it but I don't like cruelty against them"
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The Ruler of Dementia
January 15, 2026 at 11:07 PM
The Ruler of Dementia
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How Trump's withdrawal from Minneapolis is being covered abroad.
In Le Monde, the lead French daily, the homepage article starts with:
"Two people dead, thousands arrested, two cities shaken, and Donald Trump defeated."
www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
In Le Monde, the lead French daily, the homepage article starts with:
"Two people dead, thousands arrested, two cities shaken, and Donald Trump defeated."
www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
February 12, 2026 at 11:09 PM
How Trump's withdrawal from Minneapolis is being covered abroad.
In Le Monde, the lead French daily, the homepage article starts with:
"Two people dead, thousands arrested, two cities shaken, and Donald Trump defeated."
www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
In Le Monde, the lead French daily, the homepage article starts with:
"Two people dead, thousands arrested, two cities shaken, and Donald Trump defeated."
www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
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The volume & geographic distribution of protest nationwide during year 1 of Trump's second term was extraordinary.
February 12, 2026 at 6:19 PM
The volume & geographic distribution of protest nationwide during year 1 of Trump's second term was extraordinary.
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Ds successfully block vote on continued funding for DHS, which looks as if it will have to shut down or radically curtail its operations starting in a couple days.
February 12, 2026 at 7:06 PM
Ds successfully block vote on continued funding for DHS, which looks as if it will have to shut down or radically curtail its operations starting in a couple days.
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It ain’t over til Minnesota has ICE’s battle flag
February 12, 2026 at 2:18 PM
It ain’t over til Minnesota has ICE’s battle flag
The No Man's Sky update added a third mushroom color (orange) to my main planet
February 12, 2026 at 5:48 AM
The No Man's Sky update added a third mushroom color (orange) to my main planet
I think No Man's Sky updated their water graphics again
February 12, 2026 at 5:46 AM
I think No Man's Sky updated their water graphics again
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Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
February 11, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
This was when I found out about Trump's diarrhea plane video
He did WHAT?
February 12, 2026 at 2:34 AM
This was when I found out about Trump's diarrhea plane video
This guy is the monorail salesman from the Simpsons but even dumber.
Oh for fuck sake. How is anyone still falling for this bullshit? You can’t just dig tunnels in Florida. Our unofficial state fish is the sink hole. Anyway. RIP Harry Potter land, swallowed by Elon Musk’s giant unfinished hole in the ground probably.
Elon Musk’s tunneling company tapped to link Universal parks
The company is best known for creating the underground Las Vegas Loop. But little is known about how The Boring Company intends to proceed in Central Florida, including how it might approach constr…
www.orlandosentinel.com
February 12, 2026 at 2:03 AM
This guy is the monorail salesman from the Simpsons but even dumber.
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This is why Minnesotans are begging folks outside the state to keep talking about us.
Please don’t let the world forget we are still in danger.
Please don’t let the world forget we are still in danger.
This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.
February 11, 2026 at 5:04 PM
This is why Minnesotans are begging folks outside the state to keep talking about us.
Please don’t let the world forget we are still in danger.
Please don’t let the world forget we are still in danger.
Coal - the diarrhea plane of energy sources
Trump to direct Pentagon to buy coal to revive industry, Bloomberg News says reut.rs/46vkQiO
Trump to direct Pentagon to buy coal to revive industry, Bloomberg News says
U.S. President Donald Trump is set to direct the Pentagon to use government funding and Pentagon contracts to sustain U.S. coal-fired power plants, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing a White House official.
reut.rs
February 11, 2026 at 7:53 PM
Coal - the diarrhea plane of energy sources
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the speed with which leftists write off concerns about antisemitism on the left because it so often comes disingenuously from the right leaves jews on the left to get trampled and talked over and ultimately alienated
December 6, 2023 at 3:09 AM
the speed with which leftists write off concerns about antisemitism on the left because it so often comes disingenuously from the right leaves jews on the left to get trampled and talked over and ultimately alienated
Is "Epstein class" what everyone is now calling the lumpenbourgeoisie?
February 10, 2026 at 3:30 AM
Is "Epstein class" what everyone is now calling the lumpenbourgeoisie?
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lets play a new round of "which of these discord alternatives are owned and operated by fascists"
February 9, 2026 at 7:48 PM
lets play a new round of "which of these discord alternatives are owned and operated by fascists"
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February 3, 2026 at 2:50 AM
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U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.
February 9, 2026 at 4:07 PM
U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.
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the radium metaphor for AI really is good
It's an even more apt one in that, circa 1920, you needed to put radium into everything to get attention/funding. If you didn't have a way to do that then, by jiminy, you damn well better find a way to work the word "radium" into the name of your product/service/company.
Bullshit never changes.
Bullshit never changes.
February 9, 2026 at 5:18 AM
the radium metaphor for AI really is good
🤠🎸🎶 I've been inconvenienced by the LAW
February 8, 2026 at 12:56 AM
🤠🎸🎶 I've been inconvenienced by the LAW
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Blueskyese and Xian share an obvious common root as both being Twitteric languages, the difference is that after the split Xian became a hybrid Twitteric/Channer-linkedin tongue, while Blueskyese changed less overall but did pick up some tumbleric and redditor loanwords
yeah Bluesky is primarily a Tumblric language
February 6, 2026 at 9:18 PM
Blueskyese and Xian share an obvious common root as both being Twitteric languages, the difference is that after the split Xian became a hybrid Twitteric/Channer-linkedin tongue, while Blueskyese changed less overall but did pick up some tumbleric and redditor loanwords