It Lurks...
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Part time artist, occasional author, Life-long meddler, and friend to things that go bump in the night. (Pronouns: whatever yer most comfortable with)
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They are going to do anything they want & the so-called checks & balances will empower them the whole way until there is a general strike I’mma tell you right now so if we ain’t ready to do that we just need to be prepared for anything to happen
As Trump drags us into an Iraq-style war in Venezuela, 312 members of the House — including 115 Democrats — just voted to authorize over $900 billion in military spending.
December 11, 2025 at 4:40 AM
They are going to do anything they want & the so-called checks & balances will empower them the whole way until there is a general strike I’mma tell you right now so if we ain’t ready to do that we just need to be prepared for anything to happen
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Importantly, this wouldn't have passed without Dem support. There was enough of a split within Republican ranks that if Dems had voted against the bill it would've been doa. Giving Trump a blank check to warmonger *and* passing an anti-trans measure was a choice.
115 Democrats just voted to codify the first federal trans segregation law.
December 11, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Importantly, this wouldn't have passed without Dem support. There was enough of a split within Republican ranks that if Dems had voted against the bill it would've been doa. Giving Trump a blank check to warmonger *and* passing an anti-trans measure was a choice.
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Anyone can become disabled.
Anyone can become chronically ill.
Anyone can become homeless.
These are not moral failings.
They can happen in an instant, often when you least expect it.
It just takes one accident or illness to change your life forever.
Anyone can become chronically ill.
Anyone can become homeless.
These are not moral failings.
They can happen in an instant, often when you least expect it.
It just takes one accident or illness to change your life forever.
December 11, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Anyone can become disabled.
Anyone can become chronically ill.
Anyone can become homeless.
These are not moral failings.
They can happen in an instant, often when you least expect it.
It just takes one accident or illness to change your life forever.
Anyone can become chronically ill.
Anyone can become homeless.
These are not moral failings.
They can happen in an instant, often when you least expect it.
It just takes one accident or illness to change your life forever.
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The Last Saskatchewan Pirate
YouTube video by Captain Tractor - Topic
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December 10, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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Night, all, and let us try to be good to one another — and ourselves.
December 10, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Night, all, and let us try to be good to one another — and ourselves.
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NEW: Four sources tell @mzeff.bsky.social that OpenAI has become reluctant to publish research on the negative economic impacts of AI, including job displacement.
At least two members of OpenAI's economic research team have recently quit over that perceived pullback.
At least two members of OpenAI's economic research team have recently quit over that perceived pullback.
OpenAI Staffer Quits, Alleging Company’s Economic Research Is Drifting Into AI Advocacy
Four sources close to the situation claim OpenAI has become hesitant to publish research on the negative impact of AI. The company says it has only expanded the economic research team’s scope.
www.wired.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:53 PM
NEW: Four sources tell @mzeff.bsky.social that OpenAI has become reluctant to publish research on the negative economic impacts of AI, including job displacement.
At least two members of OpenAI's economic research team have recently quit over that perceived pullback.
At least two members of OpenAI's economic research team have recently quit over that perceived pullback.
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When I am finally victorious and my ideological enemies thwarted, all who opposed me shall be lined up and dutifully distributed their equitable share of the rights I fought for and they so vigorously opposed, because That Was The Fucking Point
nah dawg this is petty as shit
these people got brainwashed with propaganda and fearmongering
wanting only people who didn't vote for Trump to survive is misanthropic and gross
these people got brainwashed with propaganda and fearmongering
wanting only people who didn't vote for Trump to survive is misanthropic and gross
This.
December 9, 2025 at 12:50 AM
When I am finally victorious and my ideological enemies thwarted, all who opposed me shall be lined up and dutifully distributed their equitable share of the rights I fought for and they so vigorously opposed, because That Was The Fucking Point
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My dear MAGA relative:
I love you with all my heart.
I WILL (and just did) hang up on your ass when I’ve had enough of your shit.
Two things can be true at the same time.
I love you with all my heart.
I WILL (and just did) hang up on your ass when I’ve had enough of your shit.
Two things can be true at the same time.
December 9, 2025 at 2:01 AM
My dear MAGA relative:
I love you with all my heart.
I WILL (and just did) hang up on your ass when I’ve had enough of your shit.
Two things can be true at the same time.
I love you with all my heart.
I WILL (and just did) hang up on your ass when I’ve had enough of your shit.
Two things can be true at the same time.
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This is a perfect example as to why we need AI regulation yesterday.
AI cannot be the arbiter of whether human beings can live or die. This is an excuse for insurance companies to fire human workers and make our healthcare system even more nightmarish for a quick buck.
AI cannot be the arbiter of whether human beings can live or die. This is an excuse for insurance companies to fire human workers and make our healthcare system even more nightmarish for a quick buck.
"Starting Jan. 1, in six states selected to take part in a federal pilot program, traditional Medicare recipients will face a new hurdle to get certain procedures covered --
private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny..."
www.kuow.org/stories/thou...
private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny..."
www.kuow.org/stories/thou...
Thousands of Washington state Medicare users could soon have claims denied by AI
Starting Jan. 1, traditional Medicare recipients in Washington state will face a new hurdle to get certain procedures covered — private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny.
www.kuow.org
December 8, 2025 at 8:19 PM
This is a perfect example as to why we need AI regulation yesterday.
AI cannot be the arbiter of whether human beings can live or die. This is an excuse for insurance companies to fire human workers and make our healthcare system even more nightmarish for a quick buck.
AI cannot be the arbiter of whether human beings can live or die. This is an excuse for insurance companies to fire human workers and make our healthcare system even more nightmarish for a quick buck.
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This is a gift. Thank you to @siembranc.bsky.social for sharing this new toolkit with what they did when Border Patrol showed up in NC: docs.google.com/document/d/1... - share far and wide especially with our comrades in MN and LA (New Orleans esp).
Toolkit: how we dealt with Border Patrol
In November 2025, Border Patrol announced it would be coming to Charlotte, North Carolina. We only had a few days’ notice. Just like in Chicago and Los Angeles, they weren’t coming to “keep the peace....
docs.google.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:23 PM
This is a gift. Thank you to @siembranc.bsky.social for sharing this new toolkit with what they did when Border Patrol showed up in NC: docs.google.com/document/d/1... - share far and wide especially with our comrades in MN and LA (New Orleans esp).
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Feeling alarmed isn’t hysteria, it’s civic literacy.
Every democracy that slid into authoritarianism reached this stage: when partisan leaders in SCOTUS, Congress, and the Cabinet stop acting as checks and start acting as shields for the regime.
We’re there.
Every democracy that slid into authoritarianism reached this stage: when partisan leaders in SCOTUS, Congress, and the Cabinet stop acting as checks and start acting as shields for the regime.
We’re there.
December 8, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Feeling alarmed isn’t hysteria, it’s civic literacy.
Every democracy that slid into authoritarianism reached this stage: when partisan leaders in SCOTUS, Congress, and the Cabinet stop acting as checks and start acting as shields for the regime.
We’re there.
Every democracy that slid into authoritarianism reached this stage: when partisan leaders in SCOTUS, Congress, and the Cabinet stop acting as checks and start acting as shields for the regime.
We’re there.
Drinking coffee, listening to Queen, chilling with Dude. This world is fucking nuts. Take peace when and where you can.
December 8, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Drinking coffee, listening to Queen, chilling with Dude. This world is fucking nuts. Take peace when and where you can.
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
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I still have and treasure mine ♥
December 5, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I still have and treasure mine ♥
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Truth Coming Out Of Her Well To Shame Mankind - 2025.
June 16, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Truth Coming Out Of Her Well To Shame Mankind - 2025.
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If you want a read about the recent anti-constituonal attempt to denaturalize American children from their claim to birthright citizenship using bad history, @evanbernick.bsky.social, @gowder.io, I wrote about it in the Cornell Law Review Online. publications.lawschool.cornell.edu/lawreview/wp...
December 5, 2025 at 7:27 PM
If you want a read about the recent anti-constituonal attempt to denaturalize American children from their claim to birthright citizenship using bad history, @evanbernick.bsky.social, @gowder.io, I wrote about it in the Cornell Law Review Online. publications.lawschool.cornell.edu/lawreview/wp...
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whenever anyone proclaims that they are against something which appears to be objectively good for society i just assume that it's because they actively wish harm upon the poor.
i’ll never understand why public transit haters discourage use of public transit and want to defund it. if less people use cars the roads will have less traffic and you’ll get to where you want faster with your own car. stupid people
Mamdani hires car-hating activist Ben Furnas to transportation team: ‘war on drivers’
December 1, 2025 at 10:45 AM
whenever anyone proclaims that they are against something which appears to be objectively good for society i just assume that it's because they actively wish harm upon the poor.
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@dwj88.bsky.social and I tried to get at some of this here. www.techpolicy.press/republican-b...
Republican Budget Bill Signals New Era in Federal Surveillance | TechPolicy.Press
To advance the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement priorities, the Republican budget bill is set to fund a major expansion of federal surveillance.
www.techpolicy.press
December 1, 2025 at 12:47 PM
@dwj88.bsky.social and I tried to get at some of this here. www.techpolicy.press/republican-b...
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Thankful this week for those many queer people who came before me, people whose voices — quiet, loud, loving, angry — have taught me so much about how to live my values in this era.
November 26, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Thankful this week for those many queer people who came before me, people whose voices — quiet, loud, loving, angry — have taught me so much about how to live my values in this era.
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Every single person who has been good at something was bad at that something first. Even the naturally talented.
Please don't let the fear of not doing something well stop you from trying it for the first time. Write a messy story. Paint a crappy flower. Whittle the worst wooden bear of all time.
The best gift you can give yourself is to have fun and grow.
The best gift you can give yourself is to have fun and grow.
December 1, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Every single person who has been good at something was bad at that something first. Even the naturally talented.
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"It's a wake-up call."
With new HIV cases rising by 3091% since 2010, Fiji is introducing same-day testing and treatment, peer education and support, and harm reduction. Jacqui Thornton reports: spkl.io/63322A5ohp #WorldAIDSDay
With new HIV cases rising by 3091% since 2010, Fiji is introducing same-day testing and treatment, peer education and support, and harm reduction. Jacqui Thornton reports: spkl.io/63322A5ohp #WorldAIDSDay
December 1, 2025 at 4:02 PM
"It's a wake-up call."
With new HIV cases rising by 3091% since 2010, Fiji is introducing same-day testing and treatment, peer education and support, and harm reduction. Jacqui Thornton reports: spkl.io/63322A5ohp #WorldAIDSDay
With new HIV cases rising by 3091% since 2010, Fiji is introducing same-day testing and treatment, peer education and support, and harm reduction. Jacqui Thornton reports: spkl.io/63322A5ohp #WorldAIDSDay
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Today is World AIDS Day. We honor and recognize the hard-fought struggles and loss of all affected.
“AIDS is a global phenomenon, its ravages known everywhere.“
www.neh.gov/article/aids...
“AIDS is a global phenomenon, its ravages known everywhere.“
www.neh.gov/article/aids...
AIDS in One City: The San Francisco Story
Conceived in 1987 and supported early on by a grant from the National Archives, the archive at UCSF specializes in the history of AIDS in San Francisco, where many early cases were discovered and key ...
www.neh.gov
December 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Today is World AIDS Day. We honor and recognize the hard-fought struggles and loss of all affected.
“AIDS is a global phenomenon, its ravages known everywhere.“
www.neh.gov/article/aids...
“AIDS is a global phenomenon, its ravages known everywhere.“
www.neh.gov/article/aids...
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