Stina
@trickpixel.bsky.social
🇳🇿🇺🇸 Forever straddling continents. Accent is the bastard child of five countries.
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· Jun 22
The United States is in desperate need of a major new party: The People's Party. One which has the wellbeing of humanity at its core.
A party with values built around wellbeing and simple clear policies to deliver on that goal.
A party with values built around wellbeing and simple clear policies to deliver on that goal.
Or, make sure every veteran AND every American has those things, because we all need them and we all pay taxes for them.
Then we can close *additional* gaps for vets, like retraining them as they leave the military to be ready for non-military jobs.
Then we can close *additional* gaps for vets, like retraining them as they leave the military to be ready for non-military jobs.
Instead of funneling endless amounts of money into our bloated Pentagon budget while thousands of veterans face homelessness and hunger, let’s use those funds to truly take care of our veterans — ensuring every one has a home, food, and access to medical and mental health care.
November 12, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Or, make sure every veteran AND every American has those things, because we all need them and we all pay taxes for them.
Then we can close *additional* gaps for vets, like retraining them as they leave the military to be ready for non-military jobs.
Then we can close *additional* gaps for vets, like retraining them as they leave the military to be ready for non-military jobs.
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People of Illinois, we need your help.
Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.
We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.
Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.
We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.
September 30, 2025 at 2:47 AM
People of Illinois, we need your help.
Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.
We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.
Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.
We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.
OMG. I just remembered we used to unironically call the President of the United States "the leader of the free world". Can you imagine?
Take that, Thursday productivity.
Take that, Thursday productivity.
September 25, 2025 at 2:20 PM
OMG. I just remembered we used to unironically call the President of the United States "the leader of the free world". Can you imagine?
Take that, Thursday productivity.
Take that, Thursday productivity.
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Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets.
• Joy Reid
• Don Lemon
• Melissa Harris-Perry
• Tiffany Cross
• Jemele Hill
• Marc Lamont Hill
• Karen Attiah
• Amber Ruffin
• Joy Reid
• Don Lemon
• Melissa Harris-Perry
• Tiffany Cross
• Jemele Hill
• Marc Lamont Hill
• Karen Attiah
• Amber Ruffin
September 25, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets.
• Joy Reid
• Don Lemon
• Melissa Harris-Perry
• Tiffany Cross
• Jemele Hill
• Marc Lamont Hill
• Karen Attiah
• Amber Ruffin
• Joy Reid
• Don Lemon
• Melissa Harris-Perry
• Tiffany Cross
• Jemele Hill
• Marc Lamont Hill
• Karen Attiah
• Amber Ruffin
More people need to understand this. I feel like I say it 50 times a day. Getting rid of Trump won't fix this. The entire system is broken.
Burn it all down and start over: Of the people. By the people. For the people.
Burn it all down and start over: Of the people. By the people. For the people.
Kamala Harris: "It feels chaotic, but what I would offer you is what we are witnessing is the swift implementation of a plan that was decades in the making. Project 2025 didn't just drop out of thin air. That's a product of decades of work. Federalist Society, Heritage Foundation ... "
September 23, 2025 at 1:33 PM
More people need to understand this. I feel like I say it 50 times a day. Getting rid of Trump won't fix this. The entire system is broken.
Burn it all down and start over: Of the people. By the people. For the people.
Burn it all down and start over: Of the people. By the people. For the people.
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🇳🇿New Zealand devs make the best games (and you can buy them cheap rn)
store.steampowered.com/sale/nzgames...
store.steampowered.com/sale/nzgames...
Made in New Zealand 2025
Games from NZ 2025. Featuring 100+ games made by developers all over Aotearoa! Come on in, have a look around - then Wishlist, try and buy some Kiwi made games.
store.steampowered.com
September 22, 2025 at 9:40 PM
🇳🇿New Zealand devs make the best games (and you can buy them cheap rn)
store.steampowered.com/sale/nzgames...
store.steampowered.com/sale/nzgames...
Related aside. My dad has been freaked out about car electronics since we stopped physically rolling down our windows.
We have a curvy, sometimes icy, harborside road in my hometown and every so often someone slides in.
Now I have these in our cars, hanging from the rear view mirror: resqme.com
We have a curvy, sometimes icy, harborside road in my hometown and every so often someone slides in.
Now I have these in our cars, hanging from the rear view mirror: resqme.com
September 22, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Related aside. My dad has been freaked out about car electronics since we stopped physically rolling down our windows.
We have a curvy, sometimes icy, harborside road in my hometown and every so often someone slides in.
Now I have these in our cars, hanging from the rear view mirror: resqme.com
We have a curvy, sometimes icy, harborside road in my hometown and every so often someone slides in.
Now I have these in our cars, hanging from the rear view mirror: resqme.com
This. 1000x this.
If America is ever to crawl out of this hole then Americans must abandon individualism and embrace community.
Vote for, fight for, speak up for, and bodily defend, people other than themselves.
If America is ever to crawl out of this hole then Americans must abandon individualism and embrace community.
Vote for, fight for, speak up for, and bodily defend, people other than themselves.
It's 2025, and there are still people that haven't accepted the fact that there is no path out of this mess that doesn't involve:
1) People that aren't Black...
2) Advocating for, and fighting for...
3) People that are Black.
None.
1) People that aren't Black...
2) Advocating for, and fighting for...
3) People that are Black.
None.
September 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
This. 1000x this.
If America is ever to crawl out of this hole then Americans must abandon individualism and embrace community.
Vote for, fight for, speak up for, and bodily defend, people other than themselves.
If America is ever to crawl out of this hole then Americans must abandon individualism and embrace community.
Vote for, fight for, speak up for, and bodily defend, people other than themselves.
Serious question. Are there equivalent EU agencies who*don't* draw their recommendations from US agencies that can fill the gap for us all?
From now on, we can no longer rely on information provided by the CDC, FDA, EPA, and NIH.
August 29, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Serious question. Are there equivalent EU agencies who*don't* draw their recommendations from US agencies that can fill the gap for us all?
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A Vietnam Veteran came up to me afterwards and thanked me for coming and then took my arm and said, “You are going to have to tell them the truth. You know the truth. We have to be in the streets.”
I don’t disagree.
To the streets.
jesspiper.substack.com/p/you-are-go...
I don’t disagree.
To the streets.
jesspiper.substack.com/p/you-are-go...
You Are Going to Have to Tell Them the Truth
Speaking in the Heartland
jesspiper.substack.com
August 15, 2025 at 12:59 PM
A Vietnam Veteran came up to me afterwards and thanked me for coming and then took my arm and said, “You are going to have to tell them the truth. You know the truth. We have to be in the streets.”
I don’t disagree.
To the streets.
jesspiper.substack.com/p/you-are-go...
I don’t disagree.
To the streets.
jesspiper.substack.com/p/you-are-go...
We could have had her... but there's nothing quite like American hatred.
Seeing Kamala Harris openly say that the system is broken was so powerful.
Just having someone in her position say it so candidly without qualification was beyond powerful.
Just having someone in her position say it so candidly without qualification was beyond powerful.
August 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
We could have had her... but there's nothing quite like American hatred.
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the republican party is a criminal conspiracy against the american republic
Emil Bove has been confirmed to a lifetime federal judgeship on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals
July 30, 2025 at 1:15 AM
the republican party is a criminal conspiracy against the american republic
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If you grew up in a household with an evangelical right-wing parent, as I did, you already know that the dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education, like the reversal of Roe v. Wade, is the culmination of a 50-year project.
July 14, 2025 at 9:46 PM
If you grew up in a household with an evangelical right-wing parent, as I did, you already know that the dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education, like the reversal of Roe v. Wade, is the culmination of a 50-year project.
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Andreessen does not care about white working class students or white middle class students. He cares about power, and he's using racism and division to maintain his.
July 12, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Andreessen does not care about white working class students or white middle class students. He cares about power, and he's using racism and division to maintain his.
Regular Americans do all the work, generating all the business success, and yet the very few in power - the rich and the corrupt - take it and leave most people struggling.
It is long past time for us to stop being "obedient civil servants".
(Page is from On Tyranny by @timothysnyder.bsky.social)
It is long past time for us to stop being "obedient civil servants".
(Page is from On Tyranny by @timothysnyder.bsky.social)
July 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Regular Americans do all the work, generating all the business success, and yet the very few in power - the rich and the corrupt - take it and leave most people struggling.
It is long past time for us to stop being "obedient civil servants".
(Page is from On Tyranny by @timothysnyder.bsky.social)
It is long past time for us to stop being "obedient civil servants".
(Page is from On Tyranny by @timothysnyder.bsky.social)
Leopards... Faces...
As she fought back tears, Olivera said to KGTV: “The only crime I committed is to love this country and to work hard and to provide for my kids.”
How does anyone still say 'but he said only criminals' when talking about their vote/support for a proven pathological liar...?
As she fought back tears, Olivera said to KGTV: “The only crime I committed is to love this country and to work hard and to provide for my kids.”
How does anyone still say 'but he said only criminals' when talking about their vote/support for a proven pathological liar...?
Reading this I'm reminded once again of A Man For All Seasons, when Thomas More's future son-in-law says that he would be happy to tear down all the laws to get at the devil, & More responds and what would you do if the devil turns around to get you? Consequences to not just happen to other people.
‘I want my vote back’: Trump-voting family stunned after Canadian mother detained over immigration status
Family of Cynthia Olivera reconsiders support for president after Ice detained her at green card interview
www.theguardian.com
July 6, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Leopards... Faces...
As she fought back tears, Olivera said to KGTV: “The only crime I committed is to love this country and to work hard and to provide for my kids.”
How does anyone still say 'but he said only criminals' when talking about their vote/support for a proven pathological liar...?
As she fought back tears, Olivera said to KGTV: “The only crime I committed is to love this country and to work hard and to provide for my kids.”
How does anyone still say 'but he said only criminals' when talking about their vote/support for a proven pathological liar...?
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Age distribution of NYC mayoral election www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/n...
June 29, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Age distribution of NYC mayoral election www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/n...
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Meta will pocket $15 billion from one new tax break in Trump's budget.
That is more money than the federal government spends annually on childcare.
Trump's budget is filled with tax breaks for wealthy corporations while screwing over American families.
It's disgusting.
That is more money than the federal government spends annually on childcare.
Trump's budget is filled with tax breaks for wealthy corporations while screwing over American families.
It's disgusting.
June 24, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Meta will pocket $15 billion from one new tax break in Trump's budget.
That is more money than the federal government spends annually on childcare.
Trump's budget is filled with tax breaks for wealthy corporations while screwing over American families.
It's disgusting.
That is more money than the federal government spends annually on childcare.
Trump's budget is filled with tax breaks for wealthy corporations while screwing over American families.
It's disgusting.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social won my respect the first time he hit my feed. He's an unequivocal inspiration.
I hadn't heard of @bradlander.bsky.social before the cross endorsement but I'm a huge fan now.
This race has made me believe in "by the people, for the people" again.
Bring it home, NYC!
I hadn't heard of @bradlander.bsky.social before the cross endorsement but I'm a huge fan now.
This race has made me believe in "by the people, for the people" again.
Bring it home, NYC!
June 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social won my respect the first time he hit my feed. He's an unequivocal inspiration.
I hadn't heard of @bradlander.bsky.social before the cross endorsement but I'm a huge fan now.
This race has made me believe in "by the people, for the people" again.
Bring it home, NYC!
I hadn't heard of @bradlander.bsky.social before the cross endorsement but I'm a huge fan now.
This race has made me believe in "by the people, for the people" again.
Bring it home, NYC!
The United States is in desperate need of a major new party: The People's Party. One which has the wellbeing of humanity at its core.
A party with values built around wellbeing and simple clear policies to deliver on that goal.
A party with values built around wellbeing and simple clear policies to deliver on that goal.
June 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
The United States is in desperate need of a major new party: The People's Party. One which has the wellbeing of humanity at its core.
A party with values built around wellbeing and simple clear policies to deliver on that goal.
A party with values built around wellbeing and simple clear policies to deliver on that goal.
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I’ll say it again: It was a huge mistake for Congress to abolish itself.
June 22, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I’ll say it again: It was a huge mistake for Congress to abolish itself.
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This was never about science or proper medical care.
Here's a list of major medical authorities supporting gender-affirming care for trans youth:
(thread)
Here's a list of major medical authorities supporting gender-affirming care for trans youth:
(thread)
June 18, 2025 at 7:06 PM
This was never about science or proper medical care.
Here's a list of major medical authorities supporting gender-affirming care for trans youth:
(thread)
Here's a list of major medical authorities supporting gender-affirming care for trans youth:
(thread)
Gotta love all these cops who whined about "my rights" and "can't breathe wearing a mask" during a global pandemic that killed a million Americans, who can suddenly wear a mask without problems to hide their identities while violating our constitutional rights and committing crimes against humanity.
June 9, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Gotta love all these cops who whined about "my rights" and "can't breathe wearing a mask" during a global pandemic that killed a million Americans, who can suddenly wear a mask without problems to hide their identities while violating our constitutional rights and committing crimes against humanity.
Not happy. Devastated. We screwed this up decades ago getting rid of the Fairness Doctrine.
I recently had a bathroom contractor - a veteran - who told me he's super excited and supportive because they're "just firing all the useless people at the VA who were having orgies in conference rooms".
I recently had a bathroom contractor - a veteran - who told me he's super excited and supportive because they're "just firing all the useless people at the VA who were having orgies in conference rooms".
Yo yo yo. 65% of Vets voted for Trump. They like fascism for others. They just didn’t want their turn in the fascist barrel to come so soon.
We should be happy for them! They are getting what they voted for.
We should be happy for them! They are getting what they voted for.
June 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Not happy. Devastated. We screwed this up decades ago getting rid of the Fairness Doctrine.
I recently had a bathroom contractor - a veteran - who told me he's super excited and supportive because they're "just firing all the useless people at the VA who were having orgies in conference rooms".
I recently had a bathroom contractor - a veteran - who told me he's super excited and supportive because they're "just firing all the useless people at the VA who were having orgies in conference rooms".
Silicon Valley CEOs are kissing the swastika ring. Altman included. They don't depend on Medicare, Social Security or the VA, they just need to strengthen America's social welfare system for corporations and billionaires. Which they're doing with their bribes, oops... "settlements" & "donations"
Thanks for this. I wonder how OpenAI feels about this use of their API.
June 7, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Silicon Valley CEOs are kissing the swastika ring. Altman included. They don't depend on Medicare, Social Security or the VA, they just need to strengthen America's social welfare system for corporations and billionaires. Which they're doing with their bribes, oops... "settlements" & "donations"