Silmaria 🏳️🌈
@silmaria.bsky.social
Transfem queer, partner of @wiredferret.bsky.social. Human-shaped.
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This came to us in a dream.
November 18, 2025 at 8:56 PM
This came to us in a dream.
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The drink is called Stop Yelling At Us
Beginning Monday, a Frozen Peppermint Hot Chocolate drink will be available exclusively at Starbucks cafés inside Target stores.
The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
November 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
The drink is called Stop Yelling At Us
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You mean the company that's currently being struck by its workers and the company that's currently being boycotted because of its terrible DEI policy rollbacks? Why not just call this the Chocolate Mint Racist Scab Frostie?
Beginning Monday, a Frozen Peppermint Hot Chocolate drink will be available exclusively at Starbucks cafés inside Target stores.
The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
November 17, 2025 at 8:49 PM
You mean the company that's currently being struck by its workers and the company that's currently being boycotted because of its terrible DEI policy rollbacks? Why not just call this the Chocolate Mint Racist Scab Frostie?
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100%. Elizabeth Spiers is right.
Aside:
If you ask Black folk that have lived all over this country 🙋🏿♂️what the most racist city they've lived in is, the most common winner is Boston.
Ironic, but Black folk can't convince white folk that Black folk understand which city is more racist.🤷🏿♂️
Aside:
If you ask Black folk that have lived all over this country 🙋🏿♂️what the most racist city they've lived in is, the most common winner is Boston.
Ironic, but Black folk can't convince white folk that Black folk understand which city is more racist.🤷🏿♂️
If you're talking about me, that is not what I said. The whole thread started bc a bunch of supposed progressives were like fuck the south, buncha racists, and I said that if you think of the south as all MAGA white people you are throwing a lot of people under the bus--especially Black Southerners
November 17, 2025 at 7:14 PM
100%. Elizabeth Spiers is right.
Aside:
If you ask Black folk that have lived all over this country 🙋🏿♂️what the most racist city they've lived in is, the most common winner is Boston.
Ironic, but Black folk can't convince white folk that Black folk understand which city is more racist.🤷🏿♂️
Aside:
If you ask Black folk that have lived all over this country 🙋🏿♂️what the most racist city they've lived in is, the most common winner is Boston.
Ironic, but Black folk can't convince white folk that Black folk understand which city is more racist.🤷🏿♂️
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It's TRANS AWARENESS WEEK and that means it's a great week to ignore the hysterical nonsense of bigots and understand that Trans people are awesome and deserve respect and love.
a cartoon drawing of a bear holding a heart
ALT: a cartoon drawing of a bear holding a heart
media.tenor.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:31 PM
It's TRANS AWARENESS WEEK and that means it's a great week to ignore the hysterical nonsense of bigots and understand that Trans people are awesome and deserve respect and love.
The city has stepped up its cruelty against the unhoused since the election. I've seen more bulldozers at small groups of homeless folks in the last few weeks.
November 17, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The city has stepped up its cruelty against the unhoused since the election. I've seen more bulldozers at small groups of homeless folks in the last few weeks.
This is actually a really interesting case (manslaughter not murder) Tldr, she says self defense, he gave "deathbed testimony" that the stabbing was unprovoked but the testimony was thrown out by the MN Supreme Court because he didn't know he was dying (mentioned divorcing her after he got out)
November 17, 2025 at 5:31 PM
This is actually a really interesting case (manslaughter not murder) Tldr, she says self defense, he gave "deathbed testimony" that the stabbing was unprovoked but the testimony was thrown out by the MN Supreme Court because he didn't know he was dying (mentioned divorcing her after he got out)
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Played Cyberpunk Red with my gaming/improv group. Had a freaking blast. I loven the world (used to play 2020 back in the day) and the system is a lot of fun, but holy hell the arrangement of the book is hard for me to process.
November 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Played Cyberpunk Red with my gaming/improv group. Had a freaking blast. I loven the world (used to play 2020 back in the day) and the system is a lot of fun, but holy hell the arrangement of the book is hard for me to process.
Not only is this true in Minneapolis, in the 70s and 80s it was explicit policy, called de-densification, and it was centered in minority neighborhoods. There are a few weird plots just on my block from where a house was removed and the plot split between the neighbors.
Almost everywhere in the City of Toronto has fewer people that it did 50 years ago
November 15, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Not only is this true in Minneapolis, in the 70s and 80s it was explicit policy, called de-densification, and it was centered in minority neighborhoods. There are a few weird plots just on my block from where a house was removed and the plot split between the neighbors.
This is an interesting interview. Leaving aside his "we don't know the objective reality" stance on the Jamal Clarks shooting and general mealy-mouthedness, his most clear statements are that cops think they're at war with the people, want to crush us, want to hurt us.
10 years after Jamar Clark's killing, former Minneapolis police inspector still has questions
Saturday marks 10 years since the shooting of Jamar Clark by two Minneapolis police officers. Massive protests erupted in the aftermath, as and the community occupied the Fourth Precinct Police Statio...
www.mprnews.org
November 15, 2025 at 9:10 PM
This is an interesting interview. Leaving aside his "we don't know the objective reality" stance on the Jamal Clarks shooting and general mealy-mouthedness, his most clear statements are that cops think they're at war with the people, want to crush us, want to hurt us.
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I Am Lucifer, the Devil, AMA
"Which of your many accomplishments are you most proud of?"
The idea that once your body is done growing, so is your mind.
"Wait, when is our minds done growing?"
You were never meant to be done growing, learning, examining. But you could be persuaded to give it up.
"Which of your many accomplishments are you most proud of?"
The idea that once your body is done growing, so is your mind.
"Wait, when is our minds done growing?"
You were never meant to be done growing, learning, examining. But you could be persuaded to give it up.
November 15, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I Am Lucifer, the Devil, AMA
"Which of your many accomplishments are you most proud of?"
The idea that once your body is done growing, so is your mind.
"Wait, when is our minds done growing?"
You were never meant to be done growing, learning, examining. But you could be persuaded to give it up.
"Which of your many accomplishments are you most proud of?"
The idea that once your body is done growing, so is your mind.
"Wait, when is our minds done growing?"
You were never meant to be done growing, learning, examining. But you could be persuaded to give it up.
This one is remarkably hard to track down. Assuming the recorded location of this photo is correct (it's a WPA photo so maybe?) I think this was knocked down in 1975 to make way for MCTC or a parking lot.
Unitarian Center (1936)
16th St. S and Harmon Pl.
Source: Hennepin County Library.
16th St. S and Harmon Pl.
Source: Hennepin County Library.
November 15, 2025 at 6:44 PM
This one is remarkably hard to track down. Assuming the recorded location of this photo is correct (it's a WPA photo so maybe?) I think this was knocked down in 1975 to make way for MCTC or a parking lot.
The more things change.....
Traffic Accident at Franklin and Stevens Avenues (1940s)
2614 Penn Ave. N (Zahradka); 3528 15th Ave. S (Peterson)
Source: Hennepin County Library
Zahradka (pictured) with his car that was hit as he was coming home from delivering milk for Oleen Dairy. Car was hit by a Buick driven by Peterson.
2614 Penn Ave. N (Zahradka); 3528 15th Ave. S (Peterson)
Source: Hennepin County Library
Zahradka (pictured) with his car that was hit as he was coming home from delivering milk for Oleen Dairy. Car was hit by a Buick driven by Peterson.
November 15, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The more things change.....
Post your favorite Star Trek characters. Wrong answers only.
November 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Post your favorite Star Trek characters. Wrong answers only.
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Can't believe I forgot my "always repost" policy about this photo even though it is literally in response to a thread I quoted which started with this picture (and me mentioning my always repost policy).
This promo photo has lived rent-free in my brain for soooooo many years.
November 15, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Can't believe I forgot my "always repost" policy about this photo even though it is literally in response to a thread I quoted which started with this picture (and me mentioning my always repost policy).
The death of the 24-hour donut shop was the beginning of the end.
Also the end of the neighborhood donut shop, run by an immigrant whose home culture didn't have them but still makes the best fucking donuts you've ever dreamed of.
What I'm trying to say, I want donuts.
Also the end of the neighborhood donut shop, run by an immigrant whose home culture didn't have them but still makes the best fucking donuts you've ever dreamed of.
What I'm trying to say, I want donuts.
November 15, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The death of the 24-hour donut shop was the beginning of the end.
Also the end of the neighborhood donut shop, run by an immigrant whose home culture didn't have them but still makes the best fucking donuts you've ever dreamed of.
What I'm trying to say, I want donuts.
Also the end of the neighborhood donut shop, run by an immigrant whose home culture didn't have them but still makes the best fucking donuts you've ever dreamed of.
What I'm trying to say, I want donuts.
I haven't listened to this yet, but the Internet sure ain't what we were told it was going to be. It's so much worse than it needed to be, and people could still have made scads of cash off a better net.
Hank Green has made a living riding the algorithmic waves of the social web. He joins @cwarzel.bsky.social to discuss the early promise of the internet—and what went wrong.
Listen to the inaugural episode of “Galaxy Brain”:
Listen to the inaugural episode of “Galaxy Brain”:
Galaxy Brain: The Internet Is a Misery Machine
Hank Green on outrage, creativity, and what, exactly, went wrong with the internet.
bit.ly
November 15, 2025 at 3:30 AM
I haven't listened to this yet, but the Internet sure ain't what we were told it was going to be. It's so much worse than it needed to be, and people could still have made scads of cash off a better net.
I'm pretty darn sick but at the psych office anyway because of their draconian "cancelled too late" policy.
I'm so glad they're spending money wisely, with all new leather furniture in the lobby. Sure am glad they fired people to afford this.
I'm so glad they're spending money wisely, with all new leather furniture in the lobby. Sure am glad they fired people to afford this.
November 14, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I'm pretty darn sick but at the psych office anyway because of their draconian "cancelled too late" policy.
I'm so glad they're spending money wisely, with all new leather furniture in the lobby. Sure am glad they fired people to afford this.
I'm so glad they're spending money wisely, with all new leather furniture in the lobby. Sure am glad they fired people to afford this.
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Our rapidly-taming kittens found the chicken handpuppet from somewhere in our room and dragged it into the middle of the floor. Possibly to serve as their liege? Concerning.
November 14, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Our rapidly-taming kittens found the chicken handpuppet from somewhere in our room and dragged it into the middle of the floor. Possibly to serve as their liege? Concerning.
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Computers were a skill. They were taught in classrooms as a skill. Skills give you power over your tools because you work them as an expert and that is leverage to multiply externally.
And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.
And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.
November 14, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Computers were a skill. They were taught in classrooms as a skill. Skills give you power over your tools because you work them as an expert and that is leverage to multiply externally.
And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.
And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.
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I like how full text search of every book and human thought ever was a SOLVED PROBLEM in 2001, and now dicks at search engines and my own phone – a piece of silicon faster to respond than God was ever imagined in scripture – prevent it from working, _as a retroactive infantilizing design choice_.
November 14, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I like how full text search of every book and human thought ever was a SOLVED PROBLEM in 2001, and now dicks at search engines and my own phone – a piece of silicon faster to respond than God was ever imagined in scripture – prevent it from working, _as a retroactive infantilizing design choice_.
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Look, all I’m gonna say on The Current Topic is that moderation needs to be consistent - if you’re gonna drop the hammer for quoting song lyrics and getting pissed about child rapists, yet you let slide accounts that say trans people shouldn’t exist, then yeah, there’s gonna be some questions.
November 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Look, all I’m gonna say on The Current Topic is that moderation needs to be consistent - if you’re gonna drop the hammer for quoting song lyrics and getting pissed about child rapists, yet you let slide accounts that say trans people shouldn’t exist, then yeah, there’s gonna be some questions.
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX