☃️ Snowball Ca-pow-cio ❄️⛷️ [Feral #FreeLink Edition]
@virtuistic.bsky.social
Advocate. Bi. Genderqueer. Green thumb.
Disabled. Vaxxed. Boosted. Masked.
Editor. Journalist. Producer. Writer.
(she/they)
linktr.ee/virtuistic
PFP: purple-tinted pic of me with hair down, wearing glasses, and smiling.
Banner: The shore of gichi-gami
Disabled. Vaxxed. Boosted. Masked.
Editor. Journalist. Producer. Writer.
(she/they)
linktr.ee/virtuistic
PFP: purple-tinted pic of me with hair down, wearing glasses, and smiling.
Banner: The shore of gichi-gami
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UPDATE 🧵: Big announcement, and big asks below
Things are happening. Moves are being made. With huge thanks to my friend Erin for investing in me and this project, I am asking folks to support my work on beehiiv with paid subscriptions and curated ads. (1/7)
virtuistic.beehiiv.com/p/leveling-u...
Things are happening. Moves are being made. With huge thanks to my friend Erin for investing in me and this project, I am asking folks to support my work on beehiiv with paid subscriptions and curated ads. (1/7)
virtuistic.beehiiv.com/p/leveling-u...
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We are not subjects of a State founded upon law, but members of a society formed upon revolution. Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution.
December 27, 2025 at 11:08 PM
We are not subjects of a State founded upon law, but members of a society formed upon revolution. Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution.
Reposted by ☃️ Snowball Ca-pow-cio ❄️⛷️ [Feral #FreeLink Edition]
Adding on to this, the people of Bluesky have literally saved my life over and over with financial and material assistance. People here are real.
For those who have just left twitter/X and are afraid for their financial security as they try to rebuild, I want to share my experience as it will hopefully provide a bit of comfort.
Earlier this year I ran a Kickstarter. Bsky outperformed Twitter for backers by more than 3x.
Earlier this year I ran a Kickstarter. Bsky outperformed Twitter for backers by more than 3x.
December 27, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Adding on to this, the people of Bluesky have literally saved my life over and over with financial and material assistance. People here are real.
Reposted by ☃️ Snowball Ca-pow-cio ❄️⛷️ [Feral #FreeLink Edition]
It’s Day 26 of the ICE occupation of the Twin Cities.
We continue to experience the surge in agents and resources throughout the Twin Cities.
This weekend and for the next week, we encourage folks to be ready to respond with whistles/honks at all times.
(1/3)
We continue to experience the surge in agents and resources throughout the Twin Cities.
This weekend and for the next week, we encourage folks to be ready to respond with whistles/honks at all times.
(1/3)
December 27, 2025 at 7:10 PM
It’s Day 26 of the ICE occupation of the Twin Cities.
We continue to experience the surge in agents and resources throughout the Twin Cities.
This weekend and for the next week, we encourage folks to be ready to respond with whistles/honks at all times.
(1/3)
We continue to experience the surge in agents and resources throughout the Twin Cities.
This weekend and for the next week, we encourage folks to be ready to respond with whistles/honks at all times.
(1/3)
Reposted by ☃️ Snowball Ca-pow-cio ❄️⛷️ [Feral #FreeLink Edition]
“The biometric entry and exit system is not a surveillance program,” the US Department of Homeland Security s̶a̶i̶d̶ lied.
"DHS will retain this personal data for up to 75 years."
Coolcoolcoolcool. Even more reasons not to visit the US ever again, I guess.
"DHS will retain this personal data for up to 75 years."
Coolcoolcoolcool. Even more reasons not to visit the US ever again, I guess.
December 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
“The biometric entry and exit system is not a surveillance program,” the US Department of Homeland Security s̶a̶i̶d̶ lied.
"DHS will retain this personal data for up to 75 years."
Coolcoolcoolcool. Even more reasons not to visit the US ever again, I guess.
"DHS will retain this personal data for up to 75 years."
Coolcoolcoolcool. Even more reasons not to visit the US ever again, I guess.
Reposted by ☃️ Snowball Ca-pow-cio ❄️⛷️ [Feral #FreeLink Edition]
also, this happened this year:
Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrorism is far-right was disappeared.
www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrorism is far-right was disappeared.
www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing
Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrorism is far-right was disappeared.
www.404media.co
December 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
also, this happened this year:
Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrorism is far-right was disappeared.
www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrorism is far-right was disappeared.
www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
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Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
December 27, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
EXPLAIN YOUR USERNAME
What it means: ko-fi.com/post/Whats-i...
TL;DR: I wordsmithed it in my youth from words that I like and aspire to embody.
What it means: ko-fi.com/post/Whats-i...
TL;DR: I wordsmithed it in my youth from words that I like and aspire to embody.
December 27, 2025 at 12:56 PM
EXPLAIN YOUR USERNAME
What it means: ko-fi.com/post/Whats-i...
TL;DR: I wordsmithed it in my youth from words that I like and aspire to embody.
What it means: ko-fi.com/post/Whats-i...
TL;DR: I wordsmithed it in my youth from words that I like and aspire to embody.
Reposted by ☃️ Snowball Ca-pow-cio ❄️⛷️ [Feral #FreeLink Edition]
Here’s yet another poll, this time out of the U of Chicago, showing that the majority of Americans oppose expanding fossil fuel production.
Yet this is the policy recommended by @mattyglesias.bsky.social & @jessedjenkins.com due to its supposed political popularity?
🤔
Yet this is the policy recommended by @mattyglesias.bsky.social & @jessedjenkins.com due to its supposed political popularity?
🤔
December 27, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Here’s yet another poll, this time out of the U of Chicago, showing that the majority of Americans oppose expanding fossil fuel production.
Yet this is the policy recommended by @mattyglesias.bsky.social & @jessedjenkins.com due to its supposed political popularity?
🤔
Yet this is the policy recommended by @mattyglesias.bsky.social & @jessedjenkins.com due to its supposed political popularity?
🤔
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A little longer now and you'll get to go to the rave celebrating his death. Just a little bit longer
trans people if you did nothing else this year you made it through 12 months of the federal government having your extermination not low on its list of priorities and you can feel really good about that it’s a big deal
December 26, 2025 at 9:02 PM
A little longer now and you'll get to go to the rave celebrating his death. Just a little bit longer
Reposted by ☃️ Snowball Ca-pow-cio ❄️⛷️ [Feral #FreeLink Edition]
While many are celebrating Christmas,
our hearts remain focused on giving our children a sense of stability, education, and hope.❤️
Even £25 can truly make a difference and bring real joy and relief to our family.
Your kindness, thoughts, and support mean more to us than words can say.🕊
our hearts remain focused on giving our children a sense of stability, education, and hope.❤️
Even £25 can truly make a difference and bring real joy and relief to our family.
Your kindness, thoughts, and support mean more to us than words can say.🕊
December 27, 2025 at 1:45 AM
While many are celebrating Christmas,
our hearts remain focused on giving our children a sense of stability, education, and hope.❤️
Even £25 can truly make a difference and bring real joy and relief to our family.
Your kindness, thoughts, and support mean more to us than words can say.🕊
our hearts remain focused on giving our children a sense of stability, education, and hope.❤️
Even £25 can truly make a difference and bring real joy and relief to our family.
Your kindness, thoughts, and support mean more to us than words can say.🕊
Reposted by ☃️ Snowball Ca-pow-cio ❄️⛷️ [Feral #FreeLink Edition]
Community observers are keeping community safe. It’s not a crime to legally observe the abuses and inhumane tactics committed by ICE. The real crimes are being committed by the federal government, which are tearing families apart. In addition to their rampant racial profiling and discrimination. 1/
December 27, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Community observers are keeping community safe. It’s not a crime to legally observe the abuses and inhumane tactics committed by ICE. The real crimes are being committed by the federal government, which are tearing families apart. In addition to their rampant racial profiling and discrimination. 1/
Reposted by ☃️ Snowball Ca-pow-cio ❄️⛷️ [Feral #FreeLink Edition]
Local, vetted fund for helping families in SE Minneapolis who’ve lost income because of 🧊 activity
givebutter.com/H6lQkA
givebutter.com/H6lQkA
Rent Relief for South Minneapolis Families Impacted by Federal Immigration Operations
¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido!
givebutter.com
December 24, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Local, vetted fund for helping families in SE Minneapolis who’ve lost income because of 🧊 activity
givebutter.com/H6lQkA
givebutter.com/H6lQkA
Today's mood is:
AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH
December 26, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Today's mood is:
Reposted by ☃️ Snowball Ca-pow-cio ❄️⛷️ [Feral #FreeLink Edition]
“They’re deporting the wrong people!”
No, fuck you. Stop ALL deportation. We make the goddamn laws, we get to decide who’s here legally, and we can say everyone and anyone here is here legally. The law isn’t a moral excuse, it’s a violent authoritarian dodge of moral responsibility.
No, fuck you. Stop ALL deportation. We make the goddamn laws, we get to decide who’s here legally, and we can say everyone and anyone here is here legally. The law isn’t a moral excuse, it’s a violent authoritarian dodge of moral responsibility.
December 26, 2025 at 7:08 PM
“They’re deporting the wrong people!”
No, fuck you. Stop ALL deportation. We make the goddamn laws, we get to decide who’s here legally, and we can say everyone and anyone here is here legally. The law isn’t a moral excuse, it’s a violent authoritarian dodge of moral responsibility.
No, fuck you. Stop ALL deportation. We make the goddamn laws, we get to decide who’s here legally, and we can say everyone and anyone here is here legally. The law isn’t a moral excuse, it’s a violent authoritarian dodge of moral responsibility.
Reposted by ☃️ Snowball Ca-pow-cio ❄️⛷️ [Feral #FreeLink Edition]
This just makes it so clear how disconnected you can feel without communication. Changed his world.
December 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
This just makes it so clear how disconnected you can feel without communication. Changed his world.
LMAO. Get a load of this Karen acting like "SURJ-adjacent" is a burn because she's mad she saw the words "relinquish whiteness" on Bluesky.
This is exactly the kind of shit that gets [white] people who aren't racist to absolutely hate [white] anti-racist activism.
(Objection is not to the idea expressed, just the attitude/ language/ method of expression)
Ten bucks this is SURJ-adjacent.
(Objection is not to the idea expressed, just the attitude/ language/ method of expression)
Ten bucks this is SURJ-adjacent.
Also, it's not "whining about tone policing." It's identifying antisocial behavior, which is what tone policing is. This is a necessary aspect of accountability and change. People with privilege need to amend and correct these behaviors and learn to deal with conflict and contradiction productively.
December 26, 2025 at 2:02 PM
LMAO. Get a load of this Karen acting like "SURJ-adjacent" is a burn because she's mad she saw the words "relinquish whiteness" on Bluesky.
Reposted by ☃️ Snowball Ca-pow-cio ❄️⛷️ [Feral #FreeLink Edition]
Are some of us in academia and especially in the humanities angry? Yes. Its because we keep pointing out how LLMs are harmful to the very basic things we value in our fields and want to teach our students, and AI boosters keep dismissing everything we say. Years of this and YES, WE'RE ANGRY.
December 26, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Are some of us in academia and especially in the humanities angry? Yes. Its because we keep pointing out how LLMs are harmful to the very basic things we value in our fields and want to teach our students, and AI boosters keep dismissing everything we say. Years of this and YES, WE'RE ANGRY.
Reposted by ☃️ Snowball Ca-pow-cio ❄️⛷️ [Feral #FreeLink Edition]
This is worth watching. It reminds me of the claim that DDT was "so safe you could drink it." Yet another example of industry recycling refuted claims. @kaurov.org @michaelscherer.bsky.social @davidho.bsky.social
> www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovKw...
>
> www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovKw...
>
Lobbyist Claims Monsanto's Roundup Is Safe To Drink, Freaks Out When Offered A Glass
YouTube video by Panteralandia
www.youtube.com
December 24, 2025 at 10:31 PM
This is worth watching. It reminds me of the claim that DDT was "so safe you could drink it." Yet another example of industry recycling refuted claims. @kaurov.org @michaelscherer.bsky.social @davidho.bsky.social
> www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovKw...
>
> www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovKw...
>
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To all my Twin Cities neighbors…I sincerely from the bottom of my heart hope you don’t get this new strain of super flu that’s going around. It’s hospitalized a few adults I know with 103° F fevers.
December 26, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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it's taken me a while to put this together. but I hope, if you've never heard of her, or even if you have, this tribute to Alice Wong buoys your heart and gives you a good sense of who this incredible person was. www.coyotemedia.org/remembering-...
Remembering Alice Wong
On the one-month anniversary of her passing, we honor the acclaimed disability justice advocate, writer, shit-talker, and friend to so many.
www.coyotemedia.org
December 15, 2025 at 7:20 PM
it's taken me a while to put this together. but I hope, if you've never heard of her, or even if you have, this tribute to Alice Wong buoys your heart and gives you a good sense of who this incredible person was. www.coyotemedia.org/remembering-...
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Currently awaiting SSDI and living entirely off donations. $1000 is still needed to finish out the month of December.
SIX DAYS REMAINING. All I want for Christmas is bills paid! 🎄
Donate: linktr.ee/jskylerinc
#TransCrowdFund #DisabilityCrowdFund #BIPOCMA #HelpSky #MutualAid #LGBT 💸💕🏳️⚧️
SIX DAYS REMAINING. All I want for Christmas is bills paid! 🎄
Donate: linktr.ee/jskylerinc
#TransCrowdFund #DisabilityCrowdFund #BIPOCMA #HelpSky #MutualAid #LGBT 💸💕🏳️⚧️
December 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Currently awaiting SSDI and living entirely off donations. $1000 is still needed to finish out the month of December.
SIX DAYS REMAINING. All I want for Christmas is bills paid! 🎄
Donate: linktr.ee/jskylerinc
#TransCrowdFund #DisabilityCrowdFund #BIPOCMA #HelpSky #MutualAid #LGBT 💸💕🏳️⚧️
SIX DAYS REMAINING. All I want for Christmas is bills paid! 🎄
Donate: linktr.ee/jskylerinc
#TransCrowdFund #DisabilityCrowdFund #BIPOCMA #HelpSky #MutualAid #LGBT 💸💕🏳️⚧️
Reposted by ☃️ Snowball Ca-pow-cio ❄️⛷️ [Feral #FreeLink Edition]
Early in the pandemic, people fixated on disinfecting surfaces, assuming it prevented infection. While hygiene matters, SARS‑CoV‑2 spreads mainly through airborne particles. Much better to focus on ventilation, masks in enclosed spaces, and hand hygiene.
www.infectioncontroltoday.com/view/debunki...
www.infectioncontroltoday.com/view/debunki...
Debunking the Mistruths and Misinformation About COVID-19 | Infection Control Today
"Although the virus itself remains a threat, misinformation about COVID-19 has become a parallel epidemic, one that undermines public health efforts and endangers lives."
www.infectioncontroltoday.com
December 25, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Early in the pandemic, people fixated on disinfecting surfaces, assuming it prevented infection. While hygiene matters, SARS‑CoV‑2 spreads mainly through airborne particles. Much better to focus on ventilation, masks in enclosed spaces, and hand hygiene.
www.infectioncontroltoday.com/view/debunki...
www.infectioncontroltoday.com/view/debunki...
Reposted by ☃️ Snowball Ca-pow-cio ❄️⛷️ [Feral #FreeLink Edition]
Nope.
If someone prioritizes lies to pander to their fragile ego and privilege over actually recognizing the truth, however incomfortable,
Then they were never going to be an ally in this fight, anyway.
& it's not Black folks' job to pander to/educate ignorant white dipshits.
If someone prioritizes lies to pander to their fragile ego and privilege over actually recognizing the truth, however incomfortable,
Then they were never going to be an ally in this fight, anyway.
& it's not Black folks' job to pander to/educate ignorant white dipshits.
Phrases like "relinquish whiteness" turn people away from liberatory movements. Think about what that sounds like to the average white person who is unfamiliar with basically everything. This just sounds like racism to them. If you want more help, meet people where they are and lead them.
December 24, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Nope.
If someone prioritizes lies to pander to their fragile ego and privilege over actually recognizing the truth, however incomfortable,
Then they were never going to be an ally in this fight, anyway.
& it's not Black folks' job to pander to/educate ignorant white dipshits.
If someone prioritizes lies to pander to their fragile ego and privilege over actually recognizing the truth, however incomfortable,
Then they were never going to be an ally in this fight, anyway.
& it's not Black folks' job to pander to/educate ignorant white dipshits.
Reposted by ☃️ Snowball Ca-pow-cio ❄️⛷️ [Feral #FreeLink Edition]
🦋 Welcome to Buesky! 🦋
It's long past time to leave the Nazi bar, and you'll have a much better time here. I updated this guide due to the influx of users fleeing Grok's new AI bullshit. Share widely for all the newcomers!
It's long past time to leave the Nazi bar, and you'll have a much better time here. I updated this guide due to the influx of users fleeing Grok's new AI bullshit. Share widely for all the newcomers!
December 24, 2025 at 10:29 PM
🦋 Welcome to Buesky! 🦋
It's long past time to leave the Nazi bar, and you'll have a much better time here. I updated this guide due to the influx of users fleeing Grok's new AI bullshit. Share widely for all the newcomers!
It's long past time to leave the Nazi bar, and you'll have a much better time here. I updated this guide due to the influx of users fleeing Grok's new AI bullshit. Share widely for all the newcomers!