Theo
@theodoric.bsky.social
"The Wrong Sword," and stories in F&SF, Analog, etc.
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One of 120+ events around NYC as part of the #HandsOffNYC Weekend of Action — a delightful crew folding zines & assembling whistle kits to #MeltICE and empower people to protect our immigrant neighbors.
@handsoffnyc.bsky.social @indivisible.org @50501movement.bsky.social @50501newyork.bsky.social
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December 13, 2025 at 6:27 PM
One of 120+ events around NYC as part of the #HandsOffNYC Weekend of Action — a delightful crew folding zines & assembling whistle kits to #MeltICE and empower people to protect our immigrant neighbors.
@handsoffnyc.bsky.social @indivisible.org @50501movement.bsky.social @50501newyork.bsky.social
@handsoffnyc.bsky.social @indivisible.org @50501movement.bsky.social @50501newyork.bsky.social
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Love to see an institution protect the vulnerable rather than grovel before this vile president.
When we've defeated these people, let's remember who did right, and celebrate them.
When we've defeated these people, let's remember who did right, and celebrate them.
BREAKING: Seattle Children's Hospital successfully fought this summer to get DOJ's invasive trans care subpoena quashed.
The Seattle court partially unsealed the case this week.
This was the fourth, previously sealed case mentioned in this recent Law Dork report: www.lawdork.com/p/judges-doj...
The Seattle court partially unsealed the case this week.
This was the fourth, previously sealed case mentioned in this recent Law Dork report: www.lawdork.com/p/judges-doj...
December 13, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Love to see an institution protect the vulnerable rather than grovel before this vile president.
When we've defeated these people, let's remember who did right, and celebrate them.
When we've defeated these people, let's remember who did right, and celebrate them.
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Association Plans are basically garbage with a long history of fraud & abuse...which puts them right up Trump's alley:
www.nytimes.com/2017/10/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2017/10/21/u...
Cheaper Health Plans Promoted by Trump Have a History of Fraud (Published 2017)
www.nytimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Association Plans are basically garbage with a long history of fraud & abuse...which puts them right up Trump's alley:
www.nytimes.com/2017/10/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2017/10/21/u...
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Brutal but effective public health messaging from New York Public Health.
The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information.
They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift.
Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air
Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr
The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information.
They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift.
Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air
Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr
December 13, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Brutal but effective public health messaging from New York Public Health.
The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information.
They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift.
Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air
Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr
The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information.
They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift.
Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air
Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr
The number of terrible MAGA people with terrible (or absent) fathers is truly astounding: Vance, Trump, Cruz, Kushner, Giuliani, Musk.
Almost like there's some kind of...link thingie...
Almost like there's some kind of...link thingie...
Pardon me, but *holy shit* chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
December 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The number of terrible MAGA people with terrible (or absent) fathers is truly astounding: Vance, Trump, Cruz, Kushner, Giuliani, Musk.
Almost like there's some kind of...link thingie...
Almost like there's some kind of...link thingie...
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This is really solid investigative reporting from the Sun-Times. And a brutal expose of Greg Bovino, the cosplaying tough guy who has terrorized so many immigrants in Chicago. Read it all. chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
Greg Bovino’s the star of Trump’s deportation show. We trace his roots.
As a boy, the Hollywood movie “The Border" set the course for his life. He couldn’t believe the Border Patrol agents in the movie were the bad guys. Now that he’s in charge of deportation efforts caus...
chicago.suntimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:48 PM
This is really solid investigative reporting from the Sun-Times. And a brutal expose of Greg Bovino, the cosplaying tough guy who has terrorized so many immigrants in Chicago. Read it all. chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
I now officially have 420 followers.
Six-seven!
Six-seven!
December 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I now officially have 420 followers.
Six-seven!
Six-seven!
The more I see of "Pluribus," the more it resembles, not "Invasion of the Bodysnatchers," but Jack Williamson's "With Folded Hands."
December 13, 2025 at 5:19 AM
The more I see of "Pluribus," the more it resembles, not "Invasion of the Bodysnatchers," but Jack Williamson's "With Folded Hands."
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FYI if you have really persistent hiccups lasting like a day+ with no end in sight you can go to urgent care and at least request a prescription. It is in reviewed studies but you might need to be lucky idk.
I went through utter hell with this and it did work within an hour.
I went through utter hell with this and it did work within an hour.
December 5, 2025 at 9:34 PM
FYI if you have really persistent hiccups lasting like a day+ with no end in sight you can go to urgent care and at least request a prescription. It is in reviewed studies but you might need to be lucky idk.
I went through utter hell with this and it did work within an hour.
I went through utter hell with this and it did work within an hour.
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Guys! GUYS! If you are an iPhone user you are NOT crazy. You're not just getting old. You're not suddenly all thumbs. Our iPhones are broken - that's why you keep misspelling shit so often in texts. I shared this with Jess and we both went 🤯
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hksV...
Thank the maker- I was feeling clumsy for about three releases. Well done Apple.
Thank the maker- I was feeling clumsy for about three releases. Well done Apple.
It's Not Just You - The iOS Keyboard is Broken
YouTube video by Michi NekoMichi
www.youtube.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Guys! GUYS! If you are an iPhone user you are NOT crazy. You're not just getting old. You're not suddenly all thumbs. Our iPhones are broken - that's why you keep misspelling shit so often in texts. I shared this with Jess and we both went 🤯
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Well, there's a photo I never expected to see in my life. Noam Chomsky palling around with Steve Bannon.
December 12, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Well, there's a photo I never expected to see in my life. Noam Chomsky palling around with Steve Bannon.
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LRPD initially said that none of the men were from Arkansas, but Helton corrected that Tuesday and said that one of the men in the truck moved to Arkansas late last month from Colorado.
Here are the names of the neo-Nazis who rallied at a Little Rock civil rights site on Saturday - Arkansas Times
LRPD initially said that none of the men were from Arkansas, but Helton corrected that Tuesday and said that one of the men in the truck moved to Arkansas late last month from Colorado.
arktimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:49 PM
LRPD initially said that none of the men were from Arkansas, but Helton corrected that Tuesday and said that one of the men in the truck moved to Arkansas late last month from Colorado.
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lol it’s so genuinely fun seeing Cory take decades of fluency in how these systems are broken and serve it up for a mainstream audiences. Even if you know “enshittification” well, this is worth the watch. And love to @eff.org! youtu.be/d2e-c9SF5nE
Cory Doctorow - Rescuing the Internet From “Enshittification” | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
youtu.be
December 12, 2025 at 7:02 PM
lol it’s so genuinely fun seeing Cory take decades of fluency in how these systems are broken and serve it up for a mainstream audiences. Even if you know “enshittification” well, this is worth the watch. And love to @eff.org! youtu.be/d2e-c9SF5nE
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Online age verification isn't the same as a quick ID flash: it's surveillance. These systems collect your data and undermine your ability to anonymously access and discuss sensitive topics online. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Why Isn’t Online Age Verification Just Like Showing Your ID In Person?
This blog also appears in our Age Verification Resource Hub: our one-stop shop for users seeking to understand what age-gating laws actually do, what’s at stake, how to protect yourself, and why EFF
www.eff.org
December 12, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Online age verification isn't the same as a quick ID flash: it's surveillance. These systems collect your data and undermine your ability to anonymously access and discuss sensitive topics online. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
That smirk on his face.
December 12, 2025 at 6:40 PM
That smirk on his face.
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The anti-Jewish discourse on social media has really gone next level. It’s now almost totally normalized.
December 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
The anti-Jewish discourse on social media has really gone next level. It’s now almost totally normalized.
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TEETH BEACH is an ongoing monthly comic about whatever it is we're living through right now. Previously:
December 12, 2025 at 12:37 PM
TEETH BEACH is an ongoing monthly comic about whatever it is we're living through right now. Previously:
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Steve Bannon and Jeffrey Epstein, in the mirror. Increasing sense that when our country looks in the mirror, this is what we see: a sex trafficker and a white-nationalism exporter
December 12, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Steve Bannon and Jeffrey Epstein, in the mirror. Increasing sense that when our country looks in the mirror, this is what we see: a sex trafficker and a white-nationalism exporter
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Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :)
The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used
> neal.fun/size-of-life/
The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used
> neal.fun/size-of-life/
December 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :)
The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used
> neal.fun/size-of-life/
The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used
> neal.fun/size-of-life/
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Buttigieg on Indiana: "The big part of how Trumpism works is to make you feel totally disempowered. To make him feel inevitable. And yet the clear takeaway from this is he is not unstoppable and you are not without power."
December 12, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Buttigieg on Indiana: "The big part of how Trumpism works is to make you feel totally disempowered. To make him feel inevitable. And yet the clear takeaway from this is he is not unstoppable and you are not without power."
American president praising authoritarians.
Trump: "We have to be unified. China is unified because they have one vote -- that's President Xi. He says 'do it' and that's the end of that. We have a different system."
December 11, 2025 at 11:45 PM
American president praising authoritarians.
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia was freed from federal immigration detention on a judge's order Thursday while he continues to fight to stay in the U.S., handing a major victory for the immigrant who has become a flashpoint of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown.
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia Freed From Federal Immigration Detention, His Attorney Says
Kilmar Abrego Garcia was freed from immigration detention on a judge’s order Thursday while he fights the Trump administration’s deportation order.
www.mississippifreepress.org
December 11, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Kilmar Abrego Garcia was freed from federal immigration detention on a judge's order Thursday while he continues to fight to stay in the U.S., handing a major victory for the immigrant who has become a flashpoint of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown.
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BREAKING: NY Gov. Kathy Hochul gutted an AI regulation bill awaiting her signature and replaced it wholesale with a weaker version sought by Big Tech firms. At least two of the groups lobbying on the bill held fundraisers for Hochul in recent weeks.
prospect.org/2025/12/11/h...
prospect.org/2025/12/11/h...
Hochul Caves to Big Tech on AI Safety Bill - The American Prospect
A bill that passed the New York legislature was completely gutted and substituted with language perceived as friendlier to the industry.
prospect.org
December 11, 2025 at 7:25 PM
BREAKING: NY Gov. Kathy Hochul gutted an AI regulation bill awaiting her signature and replaced it wholesale with a weaker version sought by Big Tech firms. At least two of the groups lobbying on the bill held fundraisers for Hochul in recent weeks.
prospect.org/2025/12/11/h...
prospect.org/2025/12/11/h...