Kelsey Atherton
@atherton.bsky.social
War, robots, & bad futures but imagining better. I edit @cipolicy.bsky.social's International Policy Journal, opinions my own. Unitarian Universalist. He/him. Husband to @alymay.bsky.social & father of 2.
Front takes towards enemies.
Front takes towards enemies.
Pinned
Arcade Fire
The past is a foreign country, you mutter to no one as you smooth a single for the jukebox. She's having a THC-infused soda and flirting, you're on Heineken four when you'd said you'd stop at two. Was being young that much better? The jukebox only has "Rebellion (Lies)". Punch it twice.
The past is a foreign country, you mutter to no one as you smooth a single for the jukebox. She's having a THC-infused soda and flirting, you're on Heineken four when you'd said you'd stop at two. Was being young that much better? The jukebox only has "Rebellion (Lies)". Punch it twice.
don't forget to leave a taconite sphere under your pillow tonight for the Witch of November so that all sailors may safely reach shore.
November 11, 2025 at 5:46 AM
don't forget to leave a taconite sphere under your pillow tonight for the Witch of November so that all sailors may safely reach shore.
Dick Durbin an underrated architect-through-ineptitude of our present era
look at what this leadership did with oversight powers of SCOTUS in the middle of multiple devastating scandals for the conservatives. look at the half assed impeachments and half-assed oversight during the teens.
November 11, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Dick Durbin an underrated architect-through-ineptitude of our present era
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November 11, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Shout-out to Chuckle Schuckle for reinforcing the President's core belief
that the most direct path to what he wants is unlimited cruelty inflicted on those he despises www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
that the most direct path to what he wants is unlimited cruelty inflicted on those he despises www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
For Trump, Nothing Was Off-Limits During the Shutdown
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Shout-out to Chuckle Schuckle for reinforcing the President's core belief
that the most direct path to what he wants is unlimited cruelty inflicted on those he despises www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
that the most direct path to what he wants is unlimited cruelty inflicted on those he despises www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
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November 11, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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LOT going on here obviously so i will add my own specialist knowledge, which is the penguin classics versions of the odyssey and iliad are terrible prose translations that do not benefit from being read aloud
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 2:13 AM
LOT going on here obviously so i will add my own specialist knowledge, which is the penguin classics versions of the odyssey and iliad are terrible prose translations that do not benefit from being read aloud
The Rick it is said
Never leaves you on read
When the texts come in a flurry
Never leaves you on read
When the texts come in a flurry
![NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP
RICK ASTLEY [handshake]
LAKE
SUPERIOR](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6vxkf3dayl4uyc77vv6deraj/bafkreicnguzgarxi6vmsnms2junez3cwamhda47ehzwpotra7r2vqlvjlq@jpeg)
November 11, 2025 at 2:21 AM
The Rick it is said
Never leaves you on read
When the texts come in a flurry
Never leaves you on read
When the texts come in a flurry
Situation Normal All Chucked Up
November 11, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Situation Normal All Chucked Up
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Small building
Wharton, TX
Wharton, TX
November 10, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Small building
Wharton, TX
Wharton, TX
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Nationally, every single one of Zohran Mamdani's policies has higher "strong support" than "strong opposition." But tell me again how pro-worker policies only work in NYC.
November 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Nationally, every single one of Zohran Mamdani's policies has higher "strong support" than "strong opposition." But tell me again how pro-worker policies only work in NYC.
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The thing about the "I voted against this" position Schumer is taking is that either he is trying to mislead Dem voters by implying he didn't support reopening right now, or he has no control over his caucus.
November 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
The thing about the "I voted against this" position Schumer is taking is that either he is trying to mislead Dem voters by implying he didn't support reopening right now, or he has no control over his caucus.
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Started from the bottom now we here
November 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Started from the bottom now we here
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From a bit earlier on Twitter: Andy Harris, Maryland's only Republican member in the House and THC's chief adversary there, says if Paul successfully strips hemp ban language out in the Sentate, he'd vote against the deal in the lower chamber: x.com/liz_elkind/s...
November 10, 2025 at 5:54 PM
From a bit earlier on Twitter: Andy Harris, Maryland's only Republican member in the House and THC's chief adversary there, says if Paul successfully strips hemp ban language out in the Sentate, he'd vote against the deal in the lower chamber: x.com/liz_elkind/s...
Wearing my "the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot absolutely wrecks me" hat on a lake this past summer, in perfectly calm weather
November 10, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Wearing my "the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot absolutely wrecks me" hat on a lake this past summer, in perfectly calm weather
The Vivi ban is the headliner here but good riddance to Screaming Nemesis
November 10, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The Vivi ban is the headliner here but good riddance to Screaming Nemesis
When November 10th falls on the second weekday, that's Taconite Tuesday
November 10, 2025 at 7:58 PM
When November 10th falls on the second weekday, that's Taconite Tuesday
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Due to the shutdown and SNAP cuts, tribal governments increased supply for food donations at tribally-run food pantries and distribution offices. Emergency orders activated methods to feed people using tribal natural resources like buffalo and elk harvesting. nativenewsonline.net/health/as-co...
As Congress Moves to End Shutdown, Courts Still Sorting Out Challenges to Fully Pay SNAP in November
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the Trump Administration to file its intent to continue with a legal fight over delivering full payments for food aid to at least 42 million Americans under t...
nativenewsonline.net
November 10, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Due to the shutdown and SNAP cuts, tribal governments increased supply for food donations at tribally-run food pantries and distribution offices. Emergency orders activated methods to feed people using tribal natural resources like buffalo and elk harvesting. nativenewsonline.net/health/as-co...
We can must shall and will drain the Greatest Lake and plunder her icewater palaces
today, like every day, is a good day to remember everything Lake Superior has taken from us. the only language the Great Lakes understand is force.
RIP to the Eddie Fitz
RIP to the Eddie Fitz
November 10, 2025 at 7:56 PM
We can must shall and will drain the Greatest Lake and plunder her icewater palaces
celebrating a work anniversary by figuring out how to fix typos in published work on mobile so I don't wake the sleeping baby
November 10, 2025 at 7:41 PM
celebrating a work anniversary by figuring out how to fix typos in published work on mobile so I don't wake the sleeping baby
This is what being in your 30s is like
November 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
This is what being in your 30s is like
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Chuck Schumer? Don't mind if I do
November 10, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Chuck Schumer? Don't mind if I do
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Two things. 1 I think the transition out of the Soviet Union is instructive here (for both men and women, I think). 2 Life is disappointing and hard for everyone. That is being treated as a problem to be solved politically for just men and boys. For women and girls it's life.
November 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Two things. 1 I think the transition out of the Soviet Union is instructive here (for both men and women, I think). 2 Life is disappointing and hard for everyone. That is being treated as a problem to be solved politically for just men and boys. For women and girls it's life.
Really happy to publish this work at my current job that's in direct conversation with all my work I did on my old beat.
Turning over military decisions to AI is dangerous. Militaries will keep doing it.How can policy mandate that the AI follow laws of war? By hard-coding doubt, maybe!
Turning over military decisions to AI is dangerous. Militaries will keep doing it.How can policy mandate that the AI follow laws of war? By hard-coding doubt, maybe!
As militaries develop and deploy AI systems, they create the possibility of machines asserting power over life and death, without regard for the laws of war and the vital doubt and restraint they require. But what if that "doubt protocol" could be coded in internationalpolicy.org/publications...
Can Complimentary Learning Methods Teach AI the Laws of War? - CIP
Training AI models on edge cases of war offers the possibility of hard-coding compliance with laws or war, or at least necessary doubts.
internationalpolicy.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Really happy to publish this work at my current job that's in direct conversation with all my work I did on my old beat.
Turning over military decisions to AI is dangerous. Militaries will keep doing it.How can policy mandate that the AI follow laws of war? By hard-coding doubt, maybe!
Turning over military decisions to AI is dangerous. Militaries will keep doing it.How can policy mandate that the AI follow laws of war? By hard-coding doubt, maybe!
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