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azteclady

@azteclady.bsky.social

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I read, I craft, I rabblerouse, I don't blindly follow back. I block with abandon. I don't look like Rita Hayworth. I blog at https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/ She/her, cis.

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azteclady @azteclady.bsky.social · 16d

23.- I read T.E. Kinsey's #RottenToTheCore, the eight novel in the #LadyHardcastle #HistoricalCozyMystery series.

#2025Reading #RomBkBlog

Rotten to the Core, by T.E. Kinsey

Trying to keep the reading momentum going, by returning to a favorite series. Beware: while there’s less emphasis in drinking-to-get drunk, there’s still a lot of drinking; phonetic spe…

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Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 1d

My friend Sascha is a professional musician and he's lost a viola bow on the way to Heathrow. Please signal boost to help him get it back.

Lost viola bow on the way from Honor Oak Station to Heathrow Terminal 2. The bow slid from its bow case somewhere along the way, possibly on the train. TFL contacted already.
It weighs 68.2 grams and has got a stamped DODD next to the frog. If any info on this, please pm me.

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azteclady @azteclady.bsky.social · 3h

A screenshot allows other people to decide whether a block is warranted. It's very much the equivalent of the "for your blocking consideration" posts I do.

And, must be said, neither you nor I know whether Mina--or indeed cait--have blocked him already.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

hi consumer-facing “A.i.” is a tool for racist, fascist propaganda - ban it from you lives!

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 1d

They're literally installing Racism Dial bsky.app/profile/numb...

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · Jan 15

vox populi

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 15h

People are spontaneously posting up near any laborers or street vendors they spot. Just saw a rapid responder guarding a man working on a building exterior. Many things are terrible today but lord, this stuff matters.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 16h

There are a tremendous number of ICE watchers out in Rogers Park this afternoon after some early morning abductions.

People are guarding churches and patrolling alleyways. Ran into Alderperson Hadden. First timers tell us they're primed and ready to use their whistles.

Know your rights flyer in Spanish on street pole

Alderperson Maria Hadden on street corner

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Former Brundlefly @thatguywasfly.bsky.social · 12h

One thing I want you to take from videos like this is the absolute cacophony of whistles and screams of "GET THE FUCK OUT OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD" from people in the streets and in buildings. And more and more people are at that point every day.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 13h

ICE/Border Patrol held a weapon on a guy who was demanding they show him their face in Rogers Park today

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azteclady @azteclady.bsky.social · 3h

For your blocking consideration: @thorninside64.bsky.social

Either a bot or a rabid MAGA

azteclady @azteclady.bsky.social · 3h

Please add alt-text when sharing images, so that blind and low-vision people aren't excluded from the conversation. Some context and copy/paste or a brief description are often enough. Checking the "reminder to add alt-text" box in your accessibility settings helps a lot.

Thank you.

Six panel, cartoon-style graphic titled, why use alt-text?
First panel: slow internet. Next to a line drawing of a phone showing a social media post with an image, where the alt-text is visible while the image is unavailable. Text reads: Alt-text is shown in place of unloaded images.
Second panel: Findability. A line drawing of the top of a phone, showing the search bar, reading "dog with banana". The text above it reads: Alt-text helps to search content.
Third panel: screen readers. In lieu of the image, a blank square with alt-text shows up; the text above the box reads: Alt- is read out to people using text-to-speech software.
Fourth panel: translation. There's a line drawing of a phone, showing the Google translate box, reading "English to Deutsch". The text above reads: Alt-text can be translated.
Fifth panel: readability. There's a line drawing showing very poor writing inside a dialogue bubble; next to it the clarifying text "a character says 'hello, guys'" The text above the drawing reads, Text in images can be made legible.
Sixth panel: disambiguation. The line drawing of the phone again, showing part of an image that, depending on how you look at it, seems to be either a bunny or a duck. The clarifying text reads, "my pet bunny".

Infographic titled “Writing Alt Text” featuring a photo of a capybara. Parts of alt text are divided by color, including identify who, expression, description, color, and interesting features. The finished description reads “A capybara looking relaxed in a hot spa. Yellow yuzu fruits are floating in the water, and one is balanced on the top of the capybara’s head.” Source: veroniiiica.com Credit: Puzzle

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 4h

I read The Assassins of Thasalon (Penric and Desdemona, #10)
by Lois McMaster Bujold, along with the 10 accompanying novellas, in 36 hours.

K.J. Charles's review of The Assassins of Thasalon (Penric and Desdemona, #10)

This review is going to have to stand for the entire Penric and Desdemona series, all 11 books of which I have just glommed over a 36 hour period. All the rest are novellas and I've been sick okay, le...

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 4h

Also worth bearing in mind that its answer to this question isn't necessarily true either (or false - it's a category error to assign its output those values). It just says stuff its dataset determines is a likely response a person would give.

Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 1d

girl are you chatgpt because your KPIs are crazy

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Shared row data file with GPT5 to analyze, the result KPIs were crazy, so I naively asked, and innocently it responded.
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Did you make up these numbers?
Good catch - I wasn't able to actually open and parse your CSV file yet,
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 10h

Um. There’s a woman presenting this too.

ok.co.uk @ok.co.uk · 6d

Rylan Clark is set to delve into the eerie world of witchcraft in his new show, The Witches Of Essex.

Rylan Clark slams 'misogyny' in British witch hunt as he fronts new Sky show

Rylan Clark shares the spotlight with professor Alice Roberts in The Witches Of Essex, where the pair delve into the dark history of witch hunts - and one discovery rattled Rylan.

www.ok.co.uk

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azteclady @azteclady.bsky.social · 4h

Kruse has since moved to Ghost for his newsletter, but he's still iffy on alt-text; it's either spare and largely uninformative, or absent.

azteclady @azteclady.bsky.social · 6h

@londontopsoc.bsky.social Please add alt-text when sharing images, so that blind and low-vision people aren't excluded from the conversation. Some context and copy/paste or a brief description are often enough. Checking the "reminder to add alt-text" box in your accessibility settings helps a lot.

azteclady @azteclady.bsky.social · 6h

"Each generation is a layer, enriching the soil; I hope the small layer I leave behind, is good enough so that the next generation has the same love and the same way of looking at the world". --Cassandra Garduño.

NB: None of the Mexican women interviewed get credited by AP at the end of the story.

Women in Mexico protect ancient Aztec farms and save a vanishing ecosystem

YouTube video by Associated Press

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 18h

🧪Here’s a link to the original study. Note these findings have relevance both for therapeutic cancer treatments—impeding growth and metastasis of tumors—as well as for prevention (of pancreatic cancer, melanoma, and triple neg breast cancer, all notoriously horrible).

www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Super-adjuvant nanoparticles for platform cancer vaccination

Kane et al. report on the design of a “super-adjuvant” nanoparticle system as a modular, customizable platform for next-generation cancer vaccination.

www.cell.com

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 18h

If you’re hearing news about a cancer break-through and wonder what’s hype and what’s not, here’s a good explainer of the actual findings in animal studies.

This is some elegant science that pulls together several lines of long-standing inquiry, and yes, it’s a BFD.

www.umass.edu/news/article...

UMass Amherst Researchers Create Nanoparticle Vaccine That Prevents Cancer in Mice | UMass Amherst

The vaccine also proves highly effective at preventing cancer’s deadly spread.

www.umass.edu

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Michel Lacombe @michellacombe.bsky.social · 21h

Julius Caesar conquered Gaul in 51 BC and died in 44 BC, therefore all of Asterix's adventures took place over the course of less than seven years, probably much less since Asterix's chieftain was at the battle of Alesia, were it is probable Asterix and Obelix's fathers died. In this essay, I will

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 9h

Hey friends, it's not queerbaiting if Chris, aka Peacemaker, a bisexual, has feelings for a woman. It's not schroedinger's queerness. He's still queer even if he's in a het relationship. Of all the complaints I've seen about S2, this one makes me the angriest.

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 8h

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The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline
"I would say, OK, so I'm getting the National Guard. This is what I need. I need you to take more of my violent crime cases. I need you to target my major gangs."
@JohnMillerCNN talks how he would use the National Guard with @JohnAvlon in the latest episode of How To Fix It:
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 10h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
"
Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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BevBall @bevball.bsky.social · 9h

probably the masked unidentified ICE folks are aware that they would be unpopular with their friends and neighbors if they were publicly identified.
They are bounty hunters and it a shameful way to make a living.
If you know one, shame them.
And tell their mothers.

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 9h

FWIW ICE is probably the least accessible federal agency I’ve ever covered, and that includes the CIA.

Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 10h

Why are there so few (none?) news stories about individual ICE agents themselves? Who they are, what motivates them, any moral dilemmas they face? Why aren’t protesters trying to get some to speak out?

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 10h

Abolish ICE.

If you work for ICE, you should quit to save your immortal soul.

Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 10h

Every day at noon, no matter how busy, Johny Merida Aguilar left his construction job and hurried to his 5-year-old son's school to feed him. His son has brain cancer and generally only accepts food from his father.

Merida Aguilar was arrested by ICE in September and faces deportation to Bolivia.

He was caring for his 5-year-old son with brain cancer. Then he was detained by ICE.

A court has temporarily blocked Johny Merida Aguilar's deportation to Bolivia.

www.inquirer.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13h

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 13h

Live from the Emergency Naked Bike Ride 🚲 where the crowd hase just erupted in cheers with the arrival of the Unipipier

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azteclady @azteclady.bsky.social · 9h

#GunViolence South Carolina, early hours Sunday October 12, 2025. Four people dead, at least 20 injured.

Dr. Annie Andrews, reacting to this in the video below, is running to unseat Lindsey Graham.

Note: I can't find her platform on her website. (Yes, Zohran Mamdani has it on his)

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 9h

Chicago:

Steve in Chicago @spsnomad.bsky.social · 9h

We're currently assembling packets containing a whistle and the instructions (quick blasts for ICE spotted, long for ICE detaining someone.) Here's what we're using. (Thanks to Pilsen Arts & Community House for the flyer design in English and Spanish)
drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Resources for Whistle Warriors - Google Drive

drive.google.com

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