Kimi of the Island
@seattlekimi.bsky.social
Gen X latchkey kid raised on hose water and trauma. I’d much prefer to live focused on compassion, kindness and peace but currently feeling more FAFO than sugar, spice and nice. Little salty.
After processing some shock/anxiety around the current state of….things, I’ve started writing again, over on Substack. I’ll be posting regular posts there under “Dispatches from Insanitus.” Here’s the latest post, if you’re interested. Free to subscribe.
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Dispatches from Insanitus
Pendulum
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March 10, 2025 at 4:17 PM
After processing some shock/anxiety around the current state of….things, I’ve started writing again, over on Substack. I’ll be posting regular posts there under “Dispatches from Insanitus.” Here’s the latest post, if you’re interested. Free to subscribe.
open.substack.com/pub/insanitu...
open.substack.com/pub/insanitu...
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"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
February 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM
"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
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Democracies stand with Ukraine.
March 1, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Democracies stand with Ukraine.
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It's the Musk Effect. Someone who sounds like a genius until he starts talking about something you're knowledgeable about, and you realize he's saying the dumbest shit ever.
Air traffic controllers are required by law to retire at 56. It is a high-stress, high-intensity job that requires intense focus. The retirement rules are there to keep us all safe. This fucking guy has no clue what's he's doing.
February 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
It's the Musk Effect. Someone who sounds like a genius until he starts talking about something you're knowledgeable about, and you realize he's saying the dumbest shit ever.
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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
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February 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
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Please read this thread.
If you cannot call it what it is when all in a week: a government removes every mention of a group of people, destroys information about them en masse, bans their discussion in schools, restricts their ability to travel and starts seizing and refusing their official identification, when will you?
February 1, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Please read this thread.
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Watching this on repeat how is your day going?
January 31, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Watching this on repeat how is your day going?
Hello fellow folks trying out Bluesky and other platforms so we can get off Meta! So is Feeds basically the equivalent of Groups on FB? I have some Groups whose community I deeply value and trying to figure out where to find that vibe/migrate groups to.
January 28, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Hello fellow folks trying out Bluesky and other platforms so we can get off Meta! So is Feeds basically the equivalent of Groups on FB? I have some Groups whose community I deeply value and trying to figure out where to find that vibe/migrate groups to.
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Dave wrote Facebook’s first content moderation rules and is the least hysterical person I know. If he says Meta’s changes are politically designed to accommodate Trump, believe him. 👇🏻
Instead, these below-the-fold changes are very clearly designed to avoid having to penalize people like Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene for the increasingly dehumanizing language they use against these specific groups. You can tell because of the changes they *didn't* make. 🧵 9/11
January 9, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Dave wrote Facebook’s first content moderation rules and is the least hysterical person I know. If he says Meta’s changes are politically designed to accommodate Trump, believe him. 👇🏻
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And here we are.
Let me state this is bluntly as I can, as a biographer of both Donald Trump and Elon Musk: Vladimir Putin is now inside the U.S. government, with visibility into absolutely everything. He has that access through Trump, Musk, and David Sacks.
We are fully infiltrated. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/u...
We are fully infiltrated. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/u...
Elon Musk Puts His Imprint on the Trump Transition at Mar-a-Lago
He’s on the patio. He’s on the golf course. Everywhere Donald Trump looks, there is the world’s richest man.
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2024 at 10:54 PM
And here we are.