Sherri Nichols
@sherrimnichols.bsky.social
Competitive powerlifter, board member of the ACLU-WA
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One of the major reasons we are here right now is that the white electorate does not reward politicians for making their lives better if that improvement also benefits non-white people.
November 30, 2025 at 5:53 AM
One of the major reasons we are here right now is that the white electorate does not reward politicians for making their lives better if that improvement also benefits non-white people.
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It took more than a century and a half but we’ve recreated the same political dispute at the heart of the Civil War and Slaveholder Rebellion of 1860
I’ve come to the conclusion that the only western value they care about is property rights and all other uses of the phrase are just code for being white. It’s not like they sit around reading Classics. At best they’ve picked up some things about Western Civilisation from video games and “300.”
November 29, 2025 at 1:57 AM
It took more than a century and a half but we’ve recreated the same political dispute at the heart of the Civil War and Slaveholder Rebellion of 1860
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[paraphrasing slightly] "It's not anti-police to say you want to see them actually solving crimes rather than investing all this money in unproven technology"
Hard agree!
Hard agree!
Good convo with Erica!
This week-in-review, @finchfrii.bsky.social and @ericacbarnett.bsky.social discuss:
▶️ Mayor-elect Katie Wilson's transition
▶️ KC Exec Zahilay's staff review
▶️ Council hands a budget of Harrell's priorities to Wilson
▶️ Pipeline spill raises safety concerns
▶️ Is ICE using local surveillance in WA?
▶️ Mayor-elect Katie Wilson's transition
▶️ KC Exec Zahilay's staff review
▶️ Council hands a budget of Harrell's priorities to Wilson
▶️ Pipeline spill raises safety concerns
▶️ Is ICE using local surveillance in WA?
November 29, 2025 at 12:22 AM
[paraphrasing slightly] "It's not anti-police to say you want to see them actually solving crimes rather than investing all this money in unproven technology"
Hard agree!
Hard agree!
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trump: “no see we HAVE to blow up those boats in the caribbean, they could be carrying drugs!”
also trump:
also trump:
November 29, 2025 at 12:01 AM
trump: “no see we HAVE to blow up those boats in the caribbean, they could be carrying drugs!”
also trump:
also trump:
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President Hernandez was serving 45 years in prison for a plot to distribute 400 tons of cocaine before Trump pardoned him. Meanwhile, Trump is murdering fishermen in small boats for allegedly smuggling far smaller amounts.
“Additionally, I Will be granting a Full and Complete Pardon to Former President Juan Orlando Hernandez who has been, according to many people that | greatly respect, treated very harshly and unfairly.”
November 29, 2025 at 12:52 AM
President Hernandez was serving 45 years in prison for a plot to distribute 400 tons of cocaine before Trump pardoned him. Meanwhile, Trump is murdering fishermen in small boats for allegedly smuggling far smaller amounts.
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In case you’re wondering why Pete Hegseth is freaking out about a congressional video reminding the military not to participate in illegal orders:
To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 12:14 AM
In case you’re wondering why Pete Hegseth is freaking out about a congressional video reminding the military not to participate in illegal orders:
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I am so torn between wanting to share this with no context so that the reader can have the full experience of developing a relationship with each of the parties in the discussion to this PR, and with knowing that the full impact of what is happening here might evade many without more explanation
DWARF support for macOS and Linux by joelreymont · Pull Request #14369 · ocaml/ocaml
DWARF v5 Debugging Support for OCaml Native Compiler
This PR adds DWARF v5 debug information to the OCaml native compiler, allowing proper source-level debugging in GDB and LLDB.
What's Impleme...
github.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I am so torn between wanting to share this with no context so that the reader can have the full experience of developing a relationship with each of the parties in the discussion to this PR, and with knowing that the full impact of what is happening here might evade many without more explanation
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ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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Every variation of blood-libel/Satanic baby-killerism is a permission structure employed to allow, endorse, and ultimately *require* the sinful behavior that is the cause of its adherents' anxiety.
VP JD Vance stood before a crowd and tried to falsify history, claiming Christians ended widespread mass child-sacrifice practices among Native Americans
November 27, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Every variation of blood-libel/Satanic baby-killerism is a permission structure employed to allow, endorse, and ultimately *require* the sinful behavior that is the cause of its adherents' anxiety.
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Excellent 🧵!!!!!
OK - pie discourse - best pie story:
In 2016, we were living in Andover, in the UK. My wife was assigned as an exchange officer at the Army Air Corps base at Middle Wallop (yes, really).*
The US Army has a tradition: senior leaders, in dress uniform, serve junior troops Thanksgiving dinner.
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In 2016, we were living in Andover, in the UK. My wife was assigned as an exchange officer at the Army Air Corps base at Middle Wallop (yes, really).*
The US Army has a tradition: senior leaders, in dress uniform, serve junior troops Thanksgiving dinner.
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November 26, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Excellent 🧵!!!!!
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Thread.
Musk's people infiltrated the GSA technology arm early on and demanded root-level access to computer systems, trying to circumvent normal security procedures. Here's one example where they pushed so hard they forced someone to resign rather than give in.
Why did they do this?
Why did they do this?
Musk Ally Demands Admin Access to System That Lets Government Text the Public
A worker resigned in protest rather than giving Thomas Shedd access to Notify.gov, which they said would allow him to see "all personally identifiable information moving through the Notiy system, incl...
www.404media.co
November 26, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Thread.
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Masculinity has long defined itself as the negative space surrounding the "female" and "gay" spheres and as those spheres have expanded, "men" have felt cornered. Now they've added a "left" sphere to avoid and have almost no room to enjoy anything.
So many men go through life like that. You can play poker because it's right-coded, you can't enjoy fruity alcoholic drinks because they're women-coded, you can't lick an ice cream cone because it's gay-coded. All day, every day, choosing and judging things based on coding for narrow norms.
November 26, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Masculinity has long defined itself as the negative space surrounding the "female" and "gay" spheres and as those spheres have expanded, "men" have felt cornered. Now they've added a "left" sphere to avoid and have almost no room to enjoy anything.
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"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
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While she was also signing letters decrying cancel culture … to actively suppress other journalists who would challenge her narrative
Olivia Nuzzi wrote an entire story based on unnamed sources about Biden's decline, reinvigorating calls for him to leave the race -- and the whole time, she was working on RFK Jr.'s behalf, according to her ex-fiance. newrepublic.com/article/2035...
Olivia Nuzzi’s Real Victims
More than her fiancé, or fellow female journalists, the public will pay the price for these misdeeds. RFK Jr. will see to that.
newrepublic.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:48 PM
While she was also signing letters decrying cancel culture … to actively suppress other journalists who would challenge her narrative
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
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EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
Witkoff Advised Russia on How to Pitch Ukraine Plan to Trump
US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal, held a phone call last month with a senior Kremlin official to suggest they work together on a similar plan for Ukraine — and that Vladimir Putin should raise it with Donald Trump.
bloom.bg
November 25, 2025 at 7:52 PM
EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
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i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
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Cannot overstate how, from my perch as a national-security reporter, this would have been an earth-shattering scandal in a prior era.
Billionaire Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, pardoned by Donald Trump, has been accused of facilitating millions of dollars’ worth of payments to Hamas in the wake of its attack on Israel on October 7 2023. Zhao also financed the Trump family's entrance into the cryptocurrency market.
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao accused of facilitating payments to Hamas
Crypto tycoon pardoned by Donald Trump faces US court complaint from families of victims of October 7 attack
www.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Cannot overstate how, from my perch as a national-security reporter, this would have been an earth-shattering scandal in a prior era.
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My mom spent like 3 days brining a turkey and it turned out excellent.
My dad complimented the turkey and said it must’ve been a good bird.
25 years later and we still say it when the turkey is good.
My dad complimented the turkey and said it must’ve been a good bird.
25 years later and we still say it when the turkey is good.
November 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
My mom spent like 3 days brining a turkey and it turned out excellent.
My dad complimented the turkey and said it must’ve been a good bird.
25 years later and we still say it when the turkey is good.
My dad complimented the turkey and said it must’ve been a good bird.
25 years later and we still say it when the turkey is good.
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We're WASPs. Comedy is not our Thanksgiving genre. Horror? My brother decided he was gourmet cooking-enabled one year and made garlic mashed potatoes with 20 cloves of raw garlic. We ate it. Nobody said anything.
My sister and I still laugh about it. We've never told him. WASPs. We invented closets
My sister and I still laugh about it. We've never told him. WASPs. We invented closets
November 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
We're WASPs. Comedy is not our Thanksgiving genre. Horror? My brother decided he was gourmet cooking-enabled one year and made garlic mashed potatoes with 20 cloves of raw garlic. We ate it. Nobody said anything.
My sister and I still laugh about it. We've never told him. WASPs. We invented closets
My sister and I still laugh about it. We've never told him. WASPs. We invented closets
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My sister and my father engage in a cold war over the mashed potatoes every year. They will pile up as much as they can, staring daggers across the table if anyone says anything. All so that there are no leftovers for the other.
It is a fued that has ensured no leftover taters in the house ever.
It is a fued that has ensured no leftover taters in the house ever.
November 25, 2025 at 12:06 AM
My sister and my father engage in a cold war over the mashed potatoes every year. They will pile up as much as they can, staring daggers across the table if anyone says anything. All so that there are no leftovers for the other.
It is a fued that has ensured no leftover taters in the house ever.
It is a fued that has ensured no leftover taters in the house ever.
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On Thanksgiving many years ago, my mom surprised me and my brother with our early Christmas gifts. She was giving us the gift of togetherness. She was flying our sister home for Christmas.
Our mean and utterly horrible sister.
My brother asked if his gift could be returned.
Our mean and utterly horrible sister.
My brother asked if his gift could be returned.
November 25, 2025 at 12:09 AM
On Thanksgiving many years ago, my mom surprised me and my brother with our early Christmas gifts. She was giving us the gift of togetherness. She was flying our sister home for Christmas.
Our mean and utterly horrible sister.
My brother asked if his gift could be returned.
Our mean and utterly horrible sister.
My brother asked if his gift could be returned.
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I had a major falling out with my ex-SIL over green beans. Yes green beans. I asked what I could bring. She suggested a veggie dish, and I offered green beans with slivered almonds. I still don't know what her precise objection was, but somehow, that was Just Not Done.
November 24, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I had a major falling out with my ex-SIL over green beans. Yes green beans. I asked what I could bring. She suggested a veggie dish, and I offered green beans with slivered almonds. I still don't know what her precise objection was, but somehow, that was Just Not Done.
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On the other side, my inlaws are so white that last year I added a bit of sour cream and onion seasoning to the mashed potatoes and my FIL complained that they had too much flavor.
November 24, 2025 at 11:56 PM
On the other side, my inlaws are so white that last year I added a bit of sour cream and onion seasoning to the mashed potatoes and my FIL complained that they had too much flavor.
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My uncle and grandfather (both shuffled off this mortal coil) used to get into huge arguments about which way to pass the food (clockwise or counterclockwise). Every year.
Yes, they were both engineers.
Yes, they were both engineers.
November 24, 2025 at 11:47 PM
My uncle and grandfather (both shuffled off this mortal coil) used to get into huge arguments about which way to pass the food (clockwise or counterclockwise). Every year.
Yes, they were both engineers.
Yes, they were both engineers.