shaunc
@shaunc.bsky.social
Anti-essentialist. Moderate anarchist. Happy to be free.
๐ Boston, occasionally Bieszczady, Poland
Speaks: EN, PL, DE, UA (learning)
๐ Boston, occasionally Bieszczady, Poland
Speaks: EN, PL, DE, UA (learning)
A walkerable neighborhood
February 3, 2026 at 3:55 AM
A walkerable neighborhood
There's an app for that too -- play.google.com/store/apps/d...
PLY Spinners Guild - Apps on Google Play
Spinning more and more satisfying yarns
play.google.com
February 3, 2026 at 3:51 AM
There's an app for that too -- play.google.com/store/apps/d...
And who put it in my sushi?
February 2, 2026 at 7:32 PM
And who put it in my sushi?
How did they figure it out? So cleverly disguised?!
February 2, 2026 at 7:32 PM
How did they figure it out? So cleverly disguised?!
But have you considered that if we redistributed desirability equally it would remove the material basis for carnivorous lust?
February 2, 2026 at 7:30 PM
But have you considered that if we redistributed desirability equally it would remove the material basis for carnivorous lust?
All to keep accordance with the 2nd law of sanity thermodynamics.
February 2, 2026 at 7:22 PM
All to keep accordance with the 2nd law of sanity thermodynamics.
The deep roots of culture.
February 2, 2026 at 7:17 PM
The deep roots of culture.
If I outgrabe (outgrub in the present tense?) every brillig, I would need an excellent coffee, or I wouldn't take all the gimbling and gyring on the wabe so well. Hat tip to the mome raths.
February 1, 2026 at 9:18 PM
If I outgrabe (outgrub in the present tense?) every brillig, I would need an excellent coffee, or I wouldn't take all the gimbling and gyring on the wabe so well. Hat tip to the mome raths.
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russia must be destroyed.
This mf attacked Maternity Hospital at Zaporizhzhia.
They don't deserve to live.
#Ukrainianview
This mf attacked Maternity Hospital at Zaporizhzhia.
They don't deserve to live.
#Ukrainianview
February 1, 2026 at 11:40 AM
russia must be destroyed.
This mf attacked Maternity Hospital at Zaporizhzhia.
They don't deserve to live.
#Ukrainianview
This mf attacked Maternity Hospital at Zaporizhzhia.
They don't deserve to live.
#Ukrainianview
Come now -- lean in if you want to sell newspapers!
"Is Trump benefit from rapidly changing dementia standards justified? Experts disagree."
"Is Trump benefit from rapidly changing dementia standards justified? Experts disagree."
February 1, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Come now -- lean in if you want to sell newspapers!
"Is Trump benefit from rapidly changing dementia standards justified? Experts disagree."
"Is Trump benefit from rapidly changing dementia standards justified? Experts disagree."
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the thing is, the way it looks right now democrats are going to do really well even by default. dont have to go on record promising anything, dont need to be bold, dont need to put themselves out there and theyll probably get control
thats just not good enough
thats just not good enough
February 1, 2026 at 1:29 PM
the thing is, the way it looks right now democrats are going to do really well even by default. dont have to go on record promising anything, dont need to be bold, dont need to put themselves out there and theyll probably get control
thats just not good enough
thats just not good enough
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4 federal agents pull over an elderly US citizen for the suspected crime of being brown, break her car window, throw her to the ground, then drive off after they find her US Passport in her purse. The Salem Police, when called, say thereโs nothing they can do. www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...
U.S. citizen injured by federal agents in Salem who demanded to see โpapers,โ union says - Salem Reporter
A home care worker and union worker was pulled from her car and injured by federal agents Thursday according to a statement by SEIU 503. To comment on this story, use the form at the end of the repor...
www.salemreporter.com
February 1, 2026 at 2:47 PM
4 federal agents pull over an elderly US citizen for the suspected crime of being brown, break her car window, throw her to the ground, then drive off after they find her US Passport in her purse. The Salem Police, when called, say thereโs nothing they can do. www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...
An extension of "the purpose of propaganda isn't to get people to believe the lie, it is to get them to disbelieve the truth" from @timothysnyder.bsky.social 's research. Create maximal confusion to protect the guilty.
So the Epstein files dump
1. Protected a lot of predictors
2. Created another partisan food fight.
3. Failed to create any obvious pathway for these women to get accountability.
4. Included a number of clearly unverified claims that can be used to undermine the very legit emails
1. Protected a lot of predictors
2. Created another partisan food fight.
3. Failed to create any obvious pathway for these women to get accountability.
4. Included a number of clearly unverified claims that can be used to undermine the very legit emails
February 1, 2026 at 4:20 PM
An extension of "the purpose of propaganda isn't to get people to believe the lie, it is to get them to disbelieve the truth" from @timothysnyder.bsky.social 's research. Create maximal confusion to protect the guilty.
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January 31, 2026 at 5:37 PM
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ICE and CBP agents seem to enjoy gratuitously breaking glassโfrom car windows to store fronts to homes. Itโs an expression of unchecked power and dominance: โWeโre in charge. We break and shatter what we want.โ
And nights of broken glass have been a harbinger of worse to come.
And nights of broken glass have been a harbinger of worse to come.
January 31, 2026 at 1:51 PM
ICE and CBP agents seem to enjoy gratuitously breaking glassโfrom car windows to store fronts to homes. Itโs an expression of unchecked power and dominance: โWeโre in charge. We break and shatter what we want.โ
And nights of broken glass have been a harbinger of worse to come.
And nights of broken glass have been a harbinger of worse to come.
Kurt Cobain was AI (no memory)
January 31, 2026 at 7:34 AM
Kurt Cobain was AI (no memory)
Exhibiting a trained intuition for which insults would cut.
Elon Musk publicly slandering that cave diver as a "pedo guy" after he begged Jeffrey Epstein for island party invites is just incredible
January 31, 2026 at 5:30 AM
Exhibiting a trained intuition for which insults would cut.
January 30, 2026 at 8:41 PM
O/c all over the world masses of people are killed by states for political and religious reasons (or also just because they were powerless and in the way). Just that, while condoning or at least tolerating such activity (opportunistically) elsewhere we liked to believe it couldn't happen here. But
January 30, 2026 at 8:18 PM
O/c all over the world masses of people are killed by states for political and religious reasons (or also just because they were powerless and in the way). Just that, while condoning or at least tolerating such activity (opportunistically) elsewhere we liked to believe it couldn't happen here. But
Litvinenko and Sturgess for instance -- though we eventually unravelled that .... killers still haven't been brought to justice, though.
January 30, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Litvinenko and Sturgess for instance -- though we eventually unravelled that .... killers still haven't been brought to justice, though.
Now imagine if GOP (or even, gasp, Democrat) congresspeople stepped up refusing to work with the administration on other violations of our laws, like ICE murders?
"I refuse to pass any spending bill until ICE criminals and their chain of command are charged."
"I refuse to pass any spending bill until ICE criminals and their chain of command are charged."
January 30, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Now imagine if GOP (or even, gasp, Democrat) congresspeople stepped up refusing to work with the administration on other violations of our laws, like ICE murders?
"I refuse to pass any spending bill until ICE criminals and their chain of command are charged."
"I refuse to pass any spending bill until ICE criminals and their chain of command are charged."