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Colin Peters (Scary Pumpkin)

@colinpeters.bsky.social

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I write and draw and code. 本を書く。絵を描く。ソフトを作る。Post-Canadian living in Japan, failing to do most of the things I put in my bio. 日本語でもOK。Still not a DJ. Avatar: My face in blurry closeup Banner: My dog surfing the Net Also on mastodon.social at colinpeters.

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Colin Peters (Scary Pumpkin) @colinpeters.bsky.social · Mar 17

Via beige.party/@ira/1141748...

THIS TOO SHALL PASS BUT LIKE HOLY FUCK embroidered in hoop in traditional style with roses and ye olde country-style lettering

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 8h

150+ unvaccinated kids in two schools? What the fuck are we doing here??

Clip from the attached story that says: He points to the current outbreak in South Carolina where more than 150 unvaccinated school children at two schools are now being subject to a 21-day quarantine after being exposed

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Benito del Pliego @benitodelpliego.bsky.social · 3h

NC is already plotting the 2026 gerrymandering coup... We need to stop it.

North Carolina Republicans Plan to Redraw Congressional Map to Add a Seat

www.nytimes.com

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Colin Peters (Scary Pumpkin) @colinpeters.bsky.social · 3h

** goddamn apostrophes.

Colin Peters (Scary Pumpkin) @colinpeters.bsky.social · 3h

Oh yes, up there in the untrustworthiness elite with Trump and Putin.

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Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social · 4h

Tolkien's best work is SMITH OF WOOTTON MAJOR.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 17h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Colin Peters (Scary Pumpkin) @colinpeters.bsky.social · 3h

This one strikes me as kind of odd. Do any of you get notifications when someone simply posts or replies (to someone else)? And do they mean no notifications on replies even if they are replying to you?

Bluesky @bsky.app · 9h

Quick Tip: Don’t want people getting pinged when you post or reply?

You can turn that off by heading to: Settings → Privacy and Security → Allow others to be notified of your posts and toggling it off.

A screenshot of “Allow others to be notified of your posts” with “No one” selected

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Désespérer @decervelage.bsky.social · 3h

Charles Addams cartoons that capture the vibe of post-war New York.

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 11h

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”

Federal agents invaded even the offices of The Crisis and the National Association for the advancement of colored people and asked searching questions: " just what, after all, were our objects and activities?” I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, “We are seeking to have the constitution of the United states thoroughly and completely enforced.” It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 7h

Multiple airports are now announcing they will refuse to play Kristi Noem’s government-funded video blaming “Democrats” for the government shutdown.

“We believe the Hatch Act clearly prohibits use of public assets for political purposes and messaging,” one airport said.

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Colin Peters (Scary Pumpkin) @colinpeters.bsky.social · 4h

Weather report on today’s news: Temperatures about average… for early September.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 8h

I really am never not thinking about Incan crop scientists genetically engineering a thousand different species of potatoes

Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 8h

you know when you’re helping a toddler build a stack of blocks and he gets mad and knocks yours over like “I WANNA DO IT MYSELF” but his takes forever & is super wobbly so you’re like “if you put the bigger one at the base …” and he goes “NO” and won’t let you help?

that’s colonialism + science 😂

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Colin Peters (Scary Pumpkin) @colinpeters.bsky.social · 4h

And of course reducing greenhouse gas emissions in general, even smaller sources, is a good thing. I’m just still frustrated by the framing of that report as “omg asthma sufferers are as bad as half a million cars!!”

Colin Peters (Scary Pumpkin) @colinpeters.bsky.social · 4h

* I have not actually run the numbers to figure out if this rebate program reduces emissions enough to balance out the emissions from medicated dose inhalers for the whole US, but it seems to be in the ballpark at first glance.

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 4h

So fucking pissed that OpenAI has completely ruined videos of animals. There was something especially fucking magical about lo-fi randomly caught glimpses of the entire spectrum of behavior of life that happens on our planet and from this point on you’ll never be able to trust it actually happened.

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Colin Peters (Scary Pumpkin) @colinpeters.bsky.social · 4h

Denver single-handedly deals with the climate “threat” posed by asthmatic’s and their inhalers.

Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 4d

since denver launched its e-bike rebate program - the have sold 10,000 e-bikes and reduced an estimated 1,000,000 car trips - replacing millions of VMTs and reducing air pollution

there are no climate silver bullets... but damn - e-bikes and e-cargo bikes are close

denvergov.org/Government/A...

Denver Celebrates 10,000 E-Bike Rebates

Since its inception in April 2022, Denver has distributed over 10,000 electric bikes (e-bikes) to community members through its pioneering e-bike rebate program. As the first U.S. city to implement su...

denvergov.org

Colin Peters (Scary Pumpkin) @colinpeters.bsky.social · 4h

It’s weird that *this* group of CDC workers is targeted for cuts when the people in charge believe Covid-19 was an actual for real bioweapon released against the United States (and also that it’s completely harmless, but logical consistency is not their strong suit).

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 5h

Some CDC layoffs from last week have been reversed. But not for the analysts responsible for monitoring and protecting the United States from biological, chemical and nuclear threats www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Hundreds of CDC layoffs reversed, but biodefense preparedness staff hit

More than half of the roughly 1,300 CDC layoff notices have been rescinded, but workers at health agencies who work on biodefense and mental health still lost their jobs.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 11h

Forgot to schedule this one at the usual time, but please enjoy some highlights of @jwomack.bsky.social's amazing collection of UFO literature along with a few of his indelible descriptions

Glacial Errata, No. 38

Five Things for the Week of September 15, 2025.

glacialerrata.beehiiv.com

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 7h

As we all know, the right to protest is foundational to a functioning democracy. This is why my administration vigorously supports your right to do it quietly in your own home where no one can see it.

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 10h

Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson's full statement, in which she says she will sign an EO permitting protest "only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street," is up on the village's website.

"There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest," Thompson says.

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Broadview Shrinks Protest Safety Zones

The following statement can be attributed to Village of Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson:

“The protests at the ICE facility on Saturday night degenerated into chaos. There were 15 arrests, and 10 of those were around the age of my own daughter. As a mother and a mayor, I am mad. Broadview didn’t choose to have the ICE facility in our community. But it’s here. And so are Broadview residents. There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest. Too many are raising their fists rather than their voices, creating chaos at the expense of the people who call Broadview home. Broadview residents lack the protestors’ privilege to return to calm, quiet neighborhoods for undisturbed rest.

Therefore, I have issued a new executive order, in consultation with the Illinois State Police and Cook County Sheriff, that permits protests only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street.

There will no longer be a designated protest safety zone at 2000 South 25th Avenue between Lexington and Fillmore.

Additionally, it has been only God’s grace alone that a protester has not been struck and killed by a motorist on 25th Avenue given how frequently protesters dash onto this busy, four-lane street. This new
measure will provide for both the serenity of residents and safety of protestors.

As I have repeatedly said, I respect, support, and defend the protesters’ free and – peaceful – speech against the outrageous injustices and deplorable unprovoked chemical arms attacks by ICE agents against American citizens, journalists, and ministers that put Broadview police and firefighters in harms’ way.

Nevertheless, my first priority is to defend public safety and the residents who live here and people who work here. They deserve stability, safety, and respect, a quality of life that is currently being denied to them. They deserve the love and kindness that they expect by being Broadview residents.”

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

‘Wait, this is happening to ME so we need to do something about it.’ -ancient Republican mantra

onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

just found out that about a week ago, while george santos has been in solitary confinement, that he wrote that due to the inhuman conditions he is facing he is now pro prison reform. just unreal stuff honestly

Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, I paced in circles like a restless ghost.
The windows were frosted, allowing only a faint suggestion of daylight and nightfall, enough to remind me that time was passing, though I had little sense of how.
The shower water was always cold, and my only amenities were the steel toilet and sink fused together in the corner. It was a miserable existence. Yet, as I soon learned, misery can always be deepened
On September 7th, the warden's office saw fit to move me into something far worse, an even smaller cell, no more than seven by nine feet, coated in filth, reeking of neglect, and utterly devoid of natural light or ventilation.
In that suffocating shoebox, there is no room to walk, no hint of the sun, no trace of humanity. The silence is crushing.
The air feels stale. The walls themselves seem to close in. I keep asking myself: will this barbaric confinement ever end? Is this legal under our Constitution, or have I simply been erased from the protections of due process?
Most haunting of all, will I survive it? With no access to my family, no calls, no emails, and with letters that may never leave this building, I live in total darkness, cut off from the world I once fought to serve.
Let me be blunt: I find Warden Kelly's so-called "protection" not only unpalatable, but cruel and unjustifiable. My time here has opened my eyes to a truth far too many ignore: America desperately needs prison reform.

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Colin Peters (Scary Pumpkin) @colinpeters.bsky.social · 1d

Ben Shapiro is the guy who suggested that if the sea level were to rise ten feet globally, everyone affected would just “sell their houses and move.” (Sell them to who, Ben? Fucking Aquaman?!)

He is not a particularly bright person.

The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 1d

Fascinated how the guy who made superstars of Matt Walsh, Candace Owens, Jordan Peterson, and Michael Knowles thought that unfettered racism and every phobia in existence wouldn't eventually include anti-semitism

Ben Shapiro warns that conspiratorial right is taking over social media

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 1d

Short and sweet 🤣

🙌🏼😆

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 1d

How much money do you think DHS has expended so far on punishing this one man

Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 1d

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 2d

Link's perma ban is wrong and should be reversed.

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Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 2d

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

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Lidia Fear-ari 👹 @lidiaferrari.bsky.social · 2d

I mean, it’s not like we need doctors or anything right? #onpoli

André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 2d

Ontario limiting first-round applications for residency positions from international medical graduates to only those who completed at least two years of high school in the province, by @alannasmith.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com #MedEd #IMGs

Ontario will apply new limits on residency applications from international medical graduates

Graduates who did not attend an Ontario high school must wait until the second round of applications

www.theglobeandmail.com

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