Memento Mori Arty
@alonewalkers.bsky.social
Art nerd.
Darkroom enthusiast.
Community-minded loudmouth.
Feminist killjoy.
Tech survivor.
Cantankerous marshmallow.
All views are my own.
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Darkroom enthusiast.
Community-minded loudmouth.
Feminist killjoy.
Tech survivor.
Cantankerous marshmallow.
All views are my own.
312🫀- 207🌲
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But, you know. This is how the National press (and to an alarming degree #SF press), has chosen to cover my hometown during the past 20yrs: “Rich Techies Say They’re Amazing and We Mostly Agree.” 🫢 www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Would You Trust a 22-Year-Old AI Billionaire With the Global Economy?
My week partying with the young founders at the heart of the AI boom
www.theatlantic.com
December 21, 2025 at 2:55 AM
But, you know. This is how the National press (and to an alarming degree #SF press), has chosen to cover my hometown during the past 20yrs: “Rich Techies Say They’re Amazing and We Mostly Agree.” 🫢 www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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If the president breaks the law, then yes it’s possible to do “once-unthinkable” reorganization of our government, the gov’t that saves lives, drives the science and tech industry, and protects our health.
Breaks the law:
www.npr.org/2025/09/25/n...
Breaks the law:
www.npr.org/2025/09/25/n...
A judge ruled their firings were illegal. The government got to do it anyway
A judge ruled the firing of thousands of federal employees was illegal. But he stopped short of ordering the government to reinstate them, predicting the Supreme Court would overturn it.
www.npr.org
December 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM
If the president breaks the law, then yes it’s possible to do “once-unthinkable” reorganization of our government, the gov’t that saves lives, drives the science and tech industry, and protects our health.
Breaks the law:
www.npr.org/2025/09/25/n...
Breaks the law:
www.npr.org/2025/09/25/n...
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Bank of America first started offering credit cards to women in 1974
"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase
December 20, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Bank of America first started offering credit cards to women in 1974
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As federal immigration enforcement operations ramp back up around Chicago, a new commission met publicly for the first time Thursday to begin documenting a record of any and all abuses committed by federal agents. https://to.wttw.com/4p2P8js
‘This is Only the Beginning’: Illinois Accountability Commission Hears First Testimony on Federal Agents’ Use of Force in Chicago
The Illinois Accountability Commission held its first public hearing in the Little Village neighborhood, where federal agents have repeatedly targeted residents in the predominantly Hispanic neighborh...
to.wttw.com
December 18, 2025 at 7:14 PM
As federal immigration enforcement operations ramp back up around Chicago, a new commission met publicly for the first time Thursday to begin documenting a record of any and all abuses committed by federal agents. https://to.wttw.com/4p2P8js
SAME.
lol PSA if I ever mispronounce your name, PLEASE correct me. I'm being so serious.
December 16, 2025 at 2:24 AM
SAME.
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Democratic leadership didn’t want to stick their necks out for him. The GOP didn’t want him even referred to as a “Maryland man.” Sen. Chris Van Hollen, his congressional representative fought for him. And we should never forget any of this. apnews.com/article/abre...
Kilmar Abrego Garcia freed from federal immigration detention, his attorney's office says
Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released from an immigration detention center in Pennsylvania following an order from a federal judge issued Thursday, according to his attorney’s office.
apnews.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Democratic leadership didn’t want to stick their necks out for him. The GOP didn’t want him even referred to as a “Maryland man.” Sen. Chris Van Hollen, his congressional representative fought for him. And we should never forget any of this. apnews.com/article/abre...
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So you mistakenly dismembered a journalist?
MBS claims the murder of Khashoggi was "a huge mistake and we're our doing our best that this doesn't happen again."
November 18, 2025 at 6:12 PM
So you mistakenly dismembered a journalist?
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Authorities arrested 21 protesters Friday and said four officers were injured outside a Broadview federal immigration facility that activists say functions as a de facto detention center and is plagued by inhumane conditions.
https://to.wttw.com/4r20cj2
https://to.wttw.com/4r20cj2
Protesters Arrested, Officers Injured in Clash Outside Broadview ICE Facility
The Cook County Sheriff’s Office said most faced charges of obstruction, disorderly conduct, and walking on a highway. One also faced a charge of mob action. Their ages ranged from 23 to 67.
to.wttw.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Authorities arrested 21 protesters Friday and said four officers were injured outside a Broadview federal immigration facility that activists say functions as a de facto detention center and is plagued by inhumane conditions.
https://to.wttw.com/4r20cj2
https://to.wttw.com/4r20cj2
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Federal agents who have carried out a series of increasingly aggressive raids in Chicago as part of President Trump’s effort to deport undocumented immigrants deserve no credit for the continuing drop in violent crime across Chicago, Mayor Brandon Johnson and Gov. JB Pritzker said. @wttw.bsky.social
Trump Deserves No Credit for Continued Drop in Crime in Chicago: Johnson, Pritzker
Crime in Chicago has been dropping significantly since the COVID-19 pandemic began to wane in 2022, a trend that accelerated after Mayor Brandon Johnson took office in May 2023 and has continued since...
news.wttw.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Federal agents who have carried out a series of increasingly aggressive raids in Chicago as part of President Trump’s effort to deport undocumented immigrants deserve no credit for the continuing drop in violent crime across Chicago, Mayor Brandon Johnson and Gov. JB Pritzker said. @wttw.bsky.social
No filters, just Maine being beautiful, dancing with the Northern Lights tonight.
November 12, 2025 at 3:32 AM
No filters, just Maine being beautiful, dancing with the Northern Lights tonight.
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And the truly craziest thing abt this cave is that someone seeing the invasion of Chicago firsthand, Dick Durbin, doesn't understand this.
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
And the truly craziest thing abt this cave is that someone seeing the invasion of Chicago firsthand, Dick Durbin, doesn't understand this.
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Families were "horrified" after a daycare teacher was pulled out of a preschool by armed federal agents. blockclubchi.co/4ooIC70
November 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Families were "horrified" after a daycare teacher was pulled out of a preschool by armed federal agents. blockclubchi.co/4ooIC70
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"And having answered so I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them:
Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning."
— Carl Sandburg, "Chicago"
Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning."
— Carl Sandburg, "Chicago"
November 7, 2025 at 4:47 PM
"And having answered so I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them:
Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning."
— Carl Sandburg, "Chicago"
Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning."
— Carl Sandburg, "Chicago"
Keep Chicago’s name OUT OF YOUR FILTHY MOUTH and put some respect on Mayor Brandon Johnson’s name.
Trump: "Boston had a bad mayor who at least is a reasonable IQ person. Most of them are low IQ. I mean, what's going on in Chicago ... "
October 15, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Keep Chicago’s name OUT OF YOUR FILTHY MOUTH and put some respect on Mayor Brandon Johnson’s name.
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Maine is a different kind of place. There's a deep sense of community engagement. People will decide to just run for office. I did it 4 years ago. So if you understand Maine, you better understand how a Graham happens. I understand the desire to compare him to Fetterman, but it's doubtful.
October 15, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Maine is a different kind of place. There's a deep sense of community engagement. People will decide to just run for office. I did it 4 years ago. So if you understand Maine, you better understand how a Graham happens. I understand the desire to compare him to Fetterman, but it's doubtful.
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Chicago protestors took to Downtown streets Wednesday night to protest the deployment of National Guard troops to the area. blockclubchi.co/3WvWvnA
October 10, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Chicago protestors took to Downtown streets Wednesday night to protest the deployment of National Guard troops to the area. blockclubchi.co/3WvWvnA
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ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.
October 5, 2025 at 1:58 PM
ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.
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one of the most shocking things i remember from middle school is having to argue to a teacher that we did in fact have photography in the civil war, and that our textbooks were not showing pencil sketches. i was right of course, even proved it with sources, and got written up for it lmao
September 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
one of the most shocking things i remember from middle school is having to argue to a teacher that we did in fact have photography in the civil war, and that our textbooks were not showing pencil sketches. i was right of course, even proved it with sources, and got written up for it lmao
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1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse.
Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.
Thread 👇
Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.
Thread 👇
September 26, 2025 at 1:06 AM
1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse.
Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.
Thread 👇
Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.
Thread 👇
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ICE agents held a man’s five year old autistic daughter and taunted him with “Is that your daughter” in an attempt to get him to come out of the house.
They were rebuffed but two days later took him from his car.
They were rebuffed but two days later took him from his car.
ICE agents held 5-year-old girl outside Leominster home to get father to surrender, family says
Video appears to show federal immigration agents trying to coax the man out of his Massachusetts home while asking, “Is that your daughter?”
www.nbcboston.com
September 23, 2025 at 11:30 AM
ICE agents held a man’s five year old autistic daughter and taunted him with “Is that your daughter” in an attempt to get him to come out of the house.
They were rebuffed but two days later took him from his car.
They were rebuffed but two days later took him from his car.
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“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
It costs a lot less to house people.
It costs a lot less to house people.
Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
thebetter.news
August 12, 2025 at 4:32 AM
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
It costs a lot less to house people.
It costs a lot less to house people.
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Bowser: "I think I speak for all Americans -- we don't believe it's legal to use the American military against American citizens on American soil."
August 11, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Bowser: "I think I speak for all Americans -- we don't believe it's legal to use the American military against American citizens on American soil."
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Raskin: In any event, if he really cared about public safety in DC… he would not have pardoned 1600 insurrectionists and violent cop beaters on his first day in office.
August 12, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said."
It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy.
I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.
It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy.
I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.
RFK Jr. in interview with Scripps News: ‘Trusting the experts is not science’
HHS Secretary RFK Jr. sat down with Scripps News for a wide-ranging interview, discussing mRNA vaccine funding policy changes and a recent shooting at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
www.scrippsnews.com
August 12, 2025 at 4:48 AM
1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said."
It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy.
I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.
It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy.
I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.