Blackened Merlin
@blackenedmerlin.bsky.social
It wouldn't be alien abduction. It would be a rescue! This place 🌐 is nutz.
Send 🛸 emergency exfil!
Factotum, prototypes, solder & a surgeon w/a dremel.
🇺🇸🌊📎❤☮🇺🇦🌻🐾☕(=>÷)
Beginning to think I can reflow-solder a rainy day.
I'm actually a cat 🐈⬛ with thumbs!
Send 🛸 emergency exfil!
Factotum, prototypes, solder & a surgeon w/a dremel.
🇺🇸🌊📎❤☮🇺🇦🌻🐾☕(=>÷)
Beginning to think I can reflow-solder a rainy day.
I'm actually a cat 🐈⬛ with thumbs!
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SNAP is a lifeline for workers in low-wage jobs.
Meanwhile, CEOs are paid 280x as much as the typical worker.
Don’t be angry at workers for using food stamps.
Be angry at the corporations paying them so little that they need them.
Meanwhile, CEOs are paid 280x as much as the typical worker.
Don’t be angry at workers for using food stamps.
Be angry at the corporations paying them so little that they need them.
November 17, 2025 at 8:01 PM
SNAP is a lifeline for workers in low-wage jobs.
Meanwhile, CEOs are paid 280x as much as the typical worker.
Don’t be angry at workers for using food stamps.
Be angry at the corporations paying them so little that they need them.
Meanwhile, CEOs are paid 280x as much as the typical worker.
Don’t be angry at workers for using food stamps.
Be angry at the corporations paying them so little that they need them.
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Last week, the US military missed an actual drug boat in the Pacific carrying 13.2 tons of narcotics, which Panama seized—one of the largest hauls to date. Instead of blowing it out of the water, 10 suspects were arrested, and valuable intelligence was gathered. What a concept.
November 17, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Last week, the US military missed an actual drug boat in the Pacific carrying 13.2 tons of narcotics, which Panama seized—one of the largest hauls to date. Instead of blowing it out of the water, 10 suspects were arrested, and valuable intelligence was gathered. What a concept.
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ICEstapo detained 81 people in Charlotte, NC yesterday.
The internet is littered with videos of them using excessive force and ignoring legal documentation provided by the detainees.
Here’s my advice for ICEstapo:
Take a night off.
Go to the movies.
Watch “Nuremberg”.
Your time is coming.
The internet is littered with videos of them using excessive force and ignoring legal documentation provided by the detainees.
Here’s my advice for ICEstapo:
Take a night off.
Go to the movies.
Watch “Nuremberg”.
Your time is coming.
November 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM
ICEstapo detained 81 people in Charlotte, NC yesterday.
The internet is littered with videos of them using excessive force and ignoring legal documentation provided by the detainees.
Here’s my advice for ICEstapo:
Take a night off.
Go to the movies.
Watch “Nuremberg”.
Your time is coming.
The internet is littered with videos of them using excessive force and ignoring legal documentation provided by the detainees.
Here’s my advice for ICEstapo:
Take a night off.
Go to the movies.
Watch “Nuremberg”.
Your time is coming.
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Neri Oxman (yes, the Wikipedia plagiarist from MIT Media Lab) had her students build a giant, useless silk pavilion to "explore relationships between digital and biological construction." oxman.com/projects/silk-pavilion-i
I chose the wrong career.
🧪
I chose the wrong career.
🧪
February 4, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Neri Oxman (yes, the Wikipedia plagiarist from MIT Media Lab) had her students build a giant, useless silk pavilion to "explore relationships between digital and biological construction." oxman.com/projects/silk-pavilion-i
I chose the wrong career.
🧪
I chose the wrong career.
🧪
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What if I told you the best healthcare model for America already exists...and the only reason we don’t use it is because it works too well?
You’re not imagining it. The system isn’t broken. It’s designed this way.👇
www.jackhopkinsnow.com
You’re not imagining it. The system isn’t broken. It’s designed this way.👇
www.jackhopkinsnow.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:17 AM
What if I told you the best healthcare model for America already exists...and the only reason we don’t use it is because it works too well?
You’re not imagining it. The system isn’t broken. It’s designed this way.👇
www.jackhopkinsnow.com
You’re not imagining it. The system isn’t broken. It’s designed this way.👇
www.jackhopkinsnow.com
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If we want to stop the kidnappings and these agents require anonymity to commit these actions, then we must remove the masks.
So long as we allow masked law enforcement to terrorize people, we cannot be a democracy.
So long as we allow masked law enforcement to terrorize people, we cannot be a democracy.
I’ve come to believe that we need to gather considerable forces and a campaign to demand the removal of face masks by ICE, Border Patrol, FBI and police.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
Video on social media shows an immigration agent pulling a gun in Little Village and holding it to the side — which is not an appropriate or safe way to hold a gun. (Among other issues.)
November 9, 2025 at 1:56 PM
If we want to stop the kidnappings and these agents require anonymity to commit these actions, then we must remove the masks.
So long as we allow masked law enforcement to terrorize people, we cannot be a democracy.
So long as we allow masked law enforcement to terrorize people, we cannot be a democracy.
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Any food which has gotten to poor families the states must send agents to reclaim the food before it is eaten or face new federal penalties
“.. The Agriculture Department issued the command in a late-night Saturday memo .. That guidance threatened to impose financial penalties on states that did not “comply” quickly with the government’s new orders.”
@tonyromm.bsky.social #SNAP
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
@tonyromm.bsky.social #SNAP
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
November 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Any food which has gotten to poor families the states must send agents to reclaim the food before it is eaten or face new federal penalties
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Rosen: And on Halloween weekend, in the middle of a shutdown where they’re defunding SNAP, where children will go hungry—millions of them—they are gluttonously eating and partying and laughing at their voters, laughing at what they can do to screw the American people.
November 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Rosen: And on Halloween weekend, in the middle of a shutdown where they’re defunding SNAP, where children will go hungry—millions of them—they are gluttonously eating and partying and laughing at their voters, laughing at what they can do to screw the American people.
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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.
November 10, 2025 at 12:00 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.
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Let me get this right… a sufficient number Senate Democrats appear to be willing to reopen government to alleviate air travel for upper & upper-middle income people at the expense of access to healthcare for lower income people. Yes?
November 9, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Let me get this right… a sufficient number Senate Democrats appear to be willing to reopen government to alleviate air travel for upper & upper-middle income people at the expense of access to healthcare for lower income people. Yes?
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Shutting down the government is a big deal. People have been hurt in big ways as a result of the decision. To have that suffering be for nothing—to re-open the government without actually having protected people’s health insurance and economic well-being—is unconscionable.
November 9, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Shutting down the government is a big deal. People have been hurt in big ways as a result of the decision. To have that suffering be for nothing—to re-open the government without actually having protected people’s health insurance and economic well-being—is unconscionable.
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What are you going to get with your $2,000 in tariff money? I'm thinking about pointy stick
November 10, 2025 at 12:37 AM
What are you going to get with your $2,000 in tariff money? I'm thinking about pointy stick
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GUILLOTINE
November 10, 2025 at 12:46 AM
GUILLOTINE
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Government is shut down. Chaos in airports. 42 million going hungry. 24 million face skyrocketing healthcare costs. Economy in turmoil. And the president of the United States is in the Fox broadcast booth calling plays for a football game.
November 9, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Government is shut down. Chaos in airports. 42 million going hungry. 24 million face skyrocketing healthcare costs. Economy in turmoil. And the president of the United States is in the Fox broadcast booth calling plays for a football game.
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Trump just got massively booed and flipped off by the crowd at the Commanders game.
(Video: Marisa Schultz)
(Video: Marisa Schultz)
November 9, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Trump just got massively booed and flipped off by the crowd at the Commanders game.
(Video: Marisa Schultz)
(Video: Marisa Schultz)
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I recall the orange convicted felon once saying people would stand in long lines begging for food if Kamala Harris became President.
Now in 2025 people are seen in Cleveland and other cities standing in long lines for food due to his cruelty.
Endless projection. I hate him.
Now in 2025 people are seen in Cleveland and other cities standing in long lines for food due to his cruelty.
Endless projection. I hate him.
November 9, 2025 at 3:17 AM
I recall the orange convicted felon once saying people would stand in long lines begging for food if Kamala Harris became President.
Now in 2025 people are seen in Cleveland and other cities standing in long lines for food due to his cruelty.
Endless projection. I hate him.
Now in 2025 people are seen in Cleveland and other cities standing in long lines for food due to his cruelty.
Endless projection. I hate him.
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Link Between Brain Damage & Religious Fundamentalism
www.salon.com/2019/01/08/a...
Religious Experiences Shrinks Part Of The Brain
www.scientificamerican.com/article/reli...
www.salon.com/2019/01/08/a...
Religious Experiences Shrinks Part Of The Brain
www.scientificamerican.com/article/reli...
A link between brain damage and religious fundamentalism has now been established by scientists - Salon.com
Religious fundamentalism is partly the result of a functional impairment in the prefrontal cortex, new study finds
www.salon.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Link Between Brain Damage & Religious Fundamentalism
www.salon.com/2019/01/08/a...
Religious Experiences Shrinks Part Of The Brain
www.scientificamerican.com/article/reli...
www.salon.com/2019/01/08/a...
Religious Experiences Shrinks Part Of The Brain
www.scientificamerican.com/article/reli...
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I’ve never seen an American elected official fight so hard to starve people.
November 8, 2025 at 12:23 AM
I’ve never seen an American elected official fight so hard to starve people.
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Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 95th day out of the last 107.
12 days of work in 107 days.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
12 days of work in 107 days.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
November 7, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 95th day out of the last 107.
12 days of work in 107 days.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
12 days of work in 107 days.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
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Hey Republicans!
Open the goddamn government and release the Epstein files you absolutely feckless swamp of pedophile protecting sociopaths.
Open the goddamn government and release the Epstein files you absolutely feckless swamp of pedophile protecting sociopaths.
November 7, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Hey Republicans!
Open the goddamn government and release the Epstein files you absolutely feckless swamp of pedophile protecting sociopaths.
Open the goddamn government and release the Epstein files you absolutely feckless swamp of pedophile protecting sociopaths.
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and now...for something completely different....
Meanwhile. Death watches TACO, and waits. tick tick tick
Meanwhile. Death watches TACO, and waits. tick tick tick
November 2, 2025 at 7:41 PM
and now...for something completely different....
Meanwhile. Death watches TACO, and waits. tick tick tick
Meanwhile. Death watches TACO, and waits. tick tick tick