Voiceless Hand
@voicelesshand.bsky.social
Drifting through the Pacific Northwest
@BrentonRyan once upon a time, in other places
he/him
King County Metro - Rail division
Formerly of FiXT Music, E9 Brewing Co
@BrentonRyan once upon a time, in other places
he/him
King County Metro - Rail division
Formerly of FiXT Music, E9 Brewing Co
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Still thinking about the the “two” Super Bowl halftime shows. My final takeaway before I shut up about this is that there is so much value in the concept of joy as resistance. Conservatives will never win by being perpetually aggrieved losers. Be happy, love, and have fun where you can. We will win
February 10, 2026 at 11:13 AM
Still thinking about the the “two” Super Bowl halftime shows. My final takeaway before I shut up about this is that there is so much value in the concept of joy as resistance. Conservatives will never win by being perpetually aggrieved losers. Be happy, love, and have fun where you can. We will win
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The choice to frame this rhetorically as a negotiation *with ICE and DHS* rather than, you know, a decision about their future made by their rightful superiors in the popularly elected legislature is, to me, incredibly grating.
Our DHS reform demands are exceedingly reasonable.
We're asking ICE to do nothing more than follow the standards that the vast majority of law enforcement agencies already follow.
Republicans, the ball is in your court. The clock is ticking.
We're asking ICE to do nothing more than follow the standards that the vast majority of law enforcement agencies already follow.
Republicans, the ball is in your court. The clock is ticking.
February 10, 2026 at 4:55 AM
The choice to frame this rhetorically as a negotiation *with ICE and DHS* rather than, you know, a decision about their future made by their rightful superiors in the popularly elected legislature is, to me, incredibly grating.
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I say this regularly. People use performative as a substitute for 'inauthentic' and we could all just say the words we mean to say. Erving Goffman helps us to understand that we perform all of the time in real life. Life itself is often a performance of self.
People have worn out "performative." We often perform things that are real, you know. Posting is a kind of performance of one's politics. Performative doesn't actually mean "fake" or "empty," it just gets deployed that way. We actually need performance. Case in point: last night's performance.
February 9, 2026 at 3:57 PM
I say this regularly. People use performative as a substitute for 'inauthentic' and we could all just say the words we mean to say. Erving Goffman helps us to understand that we perform all of the time in real life. Life itself is often a performance of self.
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Is there some sort of award for perfectly missing the point?
February 9, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Is there some sort of award for perfectly missing the point?
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February 9, 2026 at 2:59 PM
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now that's the power of a union
The Ford worker who heckled Trump during a visit to the company's plant still has his job and "has no discipline on his record," a union official said
Ford worker who heckled Trump keeps job, 'no discipline' for incident
The United Auto Workers union said TJ Sabula remains employed and called out the president for making an obscene gesture toward the worker.
www.detroitnews.com
February 9, 2026 at 5:28 PM
now that's the power of a union
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doing this whole "gee I dunno about new taxes" in the midst of an ongoing budget crisis makes you beyond easy to dismiss from the outset. The correct answer, if you want progressive votes, is "hell yeah tax the fuck out of the rich and build more housing." Also no more landlords kthx
February 9, 2026 at 6:27 PM
doing this whole "gee I dunno about new taxes" in the midst of an ongoing budget crisis makes you beyond easy to dismiss from the outset. The correct answer, if you want progressive votes, is "hell yeah tax the fuck out of the rich and build more housing." Also no more landlords kthx
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Remember Garfield Minus Garfield? I feel like this version of Christianity is Bible Minus Jesus
the first choice is literally what Jesus would teach, i feel like i'm losing my mind
February 9, 2026 at 7:21 PM
Remember Garfield Minus Garfield? I feel like this version of Christianity is Bible Minus Jesus
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It’s so weird to me that the broad — and good!— “let people like things” attitude has never accepted the corollary “let people not like things.”
Time and mental bandwidth are finite. People are gonna pick different interests to spend theirs on. That’s as it should be.
Time and mental bandwidth are finite. People are gonna pick different interests to spend theirs on. That’s as it should be.
February 9, 2026 at 9:15 PM
It’s so weird to me that the broad — and good!— “let people like things” attitude has never accepted the corollary “let people not like things.”
Time and mental bandwidth are finite. People are gonna pick different interests to spend theirs on. That’s as it should be.
Time and mental bandwidth are finite. People are gonna pick different interests to spend theirs on. That’s as it should be.
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It's wild that people are so fragile about sports! I don't talk about my hobbies and interests in mixed company because I assume most people will find them boring, but if I mention I don't happen to love the thing the loud, overwhelming majority loves I am literally taking away their fun!
February 9, 2026 at 10:37 PM
It's wild that people are so fragile about sports! I don't talk about my hobbies and interests in mixed company because I assume most people will find them boring, but if I mention I don't happen to love the thing the loud, overwhelming majority loves I am literally taking away their fun!
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"Libertarianism" is, at the very least, an understandable set of values.
"American Libertarianism" is, as far as I can tell, "what if the Religious Right let you smoke pot sometimes?"
"American Libertarianism" is, as far as I can tell, "what if the Religious Right let you smoke pot sometimes?"
February 9, 2026 at 9:21 PM
"Libertarianism" is, at the very least, an understandable set of values.
"American Libertarianism" is, as far as I can tell, "what if the Religious Right let you smoke pot sometimes?"
"American Libertarianism" is, as far as I can tell, "what if the Religious Right let you smoke pot sometimes?"
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![Comic. [2x2 chart. Top left quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of dinosaurs stegosaurus, triceratops, tyrannosaurus, velociraptor, and long-neck dinosaur. Top right quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of mosasaur, quetzalcoatlus, dimetrodon, plesiosaur, and pteranodon. Bottom left quadrant: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of penguin, egret, ostrich, pigeon, falcon. Bottom right: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of squirrel, stapler, plant, person, and bicycle.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihcxd5wcrrf5nxz3g4riglsrccbucmdns6kxrtmtj6gjgwqibp3fi@jpeg)
February 9, 2026 at 9:10 PM
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Anyway I don’t believe there will be a moon base in under ten years but I DO believe that there’s a chance that inside ten years Jeff Bezos, Nikki Minaj, and Kyle Rittenhouse will get Titan Submerisbled on the maiden voyage because Musk fired all the “woke” engineers
February 10, 2026 at 2:05 AM
Anyway I don’t believe there will be a moon base in under ten years but I DO believe that there’s a chance that inside ten years Jeff Bezos, Nikki Minaj, and Kyle Rittenhouse will get Titan Submerisbled on the maiden voyage because Musk fired all the “woke” engineers
They're all just farts in the wind
I was thinking how when Scott Adams was about to go and rightwingers were saying “you have no idea what impact it’s going to have when Scott Adams dies, he was loved by millions” and then he just died and nothing happened. These ghouls just disappear when they stop talking
Remember when Charlie Kirk got shot and the right was like "THIS IS CIVIL WAR!" and three weeks later he was completely forgotten about? That's going to be most all the rest of these assholes too
February 10, 2026 at 4:50 AM
They're all just farts in the wind
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it drives you insane how much erosion of freedom is justified by concern for kids when the people who actually hurt them will never face consequences
February 9, 2026 at 2:42 PM
it drives you insane how much erosion of freedom is justified by concern for kids when the people who actually hurt them will never face consequences
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24-Year-Old Metalhead Passes for 48-Year-Old Dock Worker
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24-Year-Old Metalhead Passes for 48-Year-Old Dock Worker
24-year-old metalhead Jim Rainer expertly passed himself off as a dock worker without any additional effort in order to board a boat heading towards Europe.
thehardtimes.net
February 9, 2026 at 11:00 PM
24-Year-Old Metalhead Passes for 48-Year-Old Dock Worker
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Every once in a while the internet becomes that truly silly delightful thing it once was. Like this.
February 9, 2026 at 11:20 PM
Every once in a while the internet becomes that truly silly delightful thing it once was. Like this.
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“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English”
my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist
my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist
February 9, 2026 at 5:46 AM
“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English”
my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist
my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist
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I truly don't understand the impulse to engage in self-surveillance with the help of Jeff Bezo's Amazon
So uh Ring just up and said they've got a huge centralized private surveillance network they can leverage all at once huh
February 9, 2026 at 2:38 AM
I truly don't understand the impulse to engage in self-surveillance with the help of Jeff Bezo's Amazon
Goddamn the Needling won't quit
“I wasn’t completely sure I wanted to throw any of my support behind the Seahawks even after they crushed the 49ers in the NFC Championship. But now that the Seahawks are beating the Patriots by 12 points, I’m ready to boldly hedge my bets and support both teams.”
Rep. Pramila Jayapal Endorses both Seahawks and Patriots: tinyurl.com/9v59hufa
February 9, 2026 at 5:19 AM
Goddamn the Needling won't quit
Ha ha, same!
it remains utterly delightful that @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social—who I bet has never watched an NFL game— gets to be Mayor Football and not the guy who constantly talked about his football career in the '70s, hired his football buddies, and dropped at least one football reference in every speech
February 9, 2026 at 5:18 AM
Ha ha, same!
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I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
February 8, 2026 at 10:23 PM
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
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As much as I agree that it’s obviously very important right now to put pressure on the admin to release the full Epstein files and prosecute all of the predators involved
This org is anti-sex work, pro-Nordic model, and classifies consensual sex work as exploitation.
This org is anti-sex work, pro-Nordic model, and classifies consensual sex work as exploitation.
BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors
February 8, 2026 at 7:01 PM
As much as I agree that it’s obviously very important right now to put pressure on the admin to release the full Epstein files and prosecute all of the predators involved
This org is anti-sex work, pro-Nordic model, and classifies consensual sex work as exploitation.
This org is anti-sex work, pro-Nordic model, and classifies consensual sex work as exploitation.
Gonna reiterate that this is not new behavior on the part of ICE. They did the exact same shit in the huge meat packing plant raids in Greeley, CO in 2006.
This is like something out of a horror movie, my god
We are in a small community outside Minneapolis and a child arrived to an empty house on Friday. No parents, ice kidnapped them and just leave children to wander alone after school
February 9, 2026 at 2:58 AM
Gonna reiterate that this is not new behavior on the part of ICE. They did the exact same shit in the huge meat packing plant raids in Greeley, CO in 2006.
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Here’s the situation in the Twin Cities:
Random Bovino-style tear-gassing: Way down
Relentless persecution of immigrants: Unchanged
Thuggish violence against observers: Way up
Random Bovino-style tear-gassing: Way down
Relentless persecution of immigrants: Unchanged
Thuggish violence against observers: Way up
February 8, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Here’s the situation in the Twin Cities:
Random Bovino-style tear-gassing: Way down
Relentless persecution of immigrants: Unchanged
Thuggish violence against observers: Way up
Random Bovino-style tear-gassing: Way down
Relentless persecution of immigrants: Unchanged
Thuggish violence against observers: Way up