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Christine Lemmer-Webber

@dustyweb.bsky.social

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Co-author/co-editor of ActivityPub (what connects together the fediverse, including Mastodon, etc). Executive Director of the Spritely Institute. Lisp/scheme enthusiast, chaos transfem, sketcher of tiny creature drawings. https://dustycloud.org

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · Mar 28

The safest form of computing is still abstinence

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 20h

NEW: Pentagon officials are forcing staff to watch Pete Hegseth's "Warrior" speech he forced generals to listen to.

Officials are even "testing" staff to see if they watched — and are threatening consequences if they lie about watching it or if they mock it, sources tell @swin24.bsky.social and I.

The Pentagon Is Ordering Staff to Watch Hegseth’s ‘MAGA Garbage’ Speech… Or Else

Defense Department sources tell Zeteo that staff have been warned that if they don’t watch or read the speech, or if they speak negatively of it, they could face severe consequences.

zeteo.com

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wakest 🏴‍☠️ @wake.st · 8h

its important to read the actual words these people are getting deported for... will be interesting to see if this is just a test case or if they are going to try to ramp this up

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 22h

These issues have been a part of litigation already this year — over the student visa revocation efforts.

This statement essentially admits that the State Department is engaging viewpoint discrimination in revoking these visas.

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An Argentine national said that Kirk "devoted his entire life spreading racist, xenophobic, misogynistic rhetoric" and deserves to burn in hell.
Visa revoked.

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just came on here to say charlie kirk can rest in f|
piss and yet again if you have any
empathy at all for people like this you can ahead and remove yourself as my friend. i do not give a f about the death of a person who devoted his entire life spreading racist, xenophobic, misogynistic rhetoric. it's hot as fut where this man currently is and it's deserved

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A South African national mocked Americans grieving the loss of Kirk, saying
"they're hurt that the racist rally ended in attempted martyrdom" and alleging "he was used to astroturf a movement of white nationalist trailer trash."
Visa revoked.
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Neanderthals can't have their cake & eat it... This weekend they went openly anti-black racist & now they're hurt that the racist rally ended in attempted martyrdom? Charlie Kirk won't be remembered as a hero. He was used to astroturf a movement of white nationalist trailer trash!
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A Mexican national said that Kirk "died being a racist, he died being a misogynist" and stated that "there are people who deserve to die. There are people who would make the world better off dead."
Visa revoked.
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A Brazilian national charged that "Charlie Kirk was the reason for a Nazi rally where they marched in homage to him" and that Kirk "DIED TOO LATE."
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A German national celebrated Kirk's death and attempted to justify his murder, writing "when fascists die, democrats don't complain."
Visa revoked.
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Wenn Faschisten sterben, jammern
Demokraten nicht.

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A Paraguayan national charged that "Charlie Kirk was a son of a b**** and he died by his own rules."
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•@POTUS and @SecRubio will defend our borders, our culture, and our citizens by enforcing our immigration laws.
Aliens who take advantage of America's hospitality while celebrating the assassination of our citizens will be removed.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 6h

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

www.mediaite.com

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Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 23h

ICE on Walgreens Property in Chicago grabbing another BLACK citizen! This isn’t about deporting criminals.

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah I said more about the tradeoffs on the fediverse: social.coop/@cwebber/115...

Christine Lemmer-Webber (@[email protected])

@[email protected] It's not necessarily, I have been advocating MNT's stuff for a long time. But let me say that I think that if you *are* disappointed with Framework's actions then consider that MNT...

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 2d

Is this right? *Tomorrow* they're going to start denying, in some way or another, X gender markers at US borders / on US passports? www.gtlaw-insidebusinessimmigration.com/u-s-customs-...

It's not quite clear: will they "infer" a binary gender, or will they deny the validity of the passport?

CBP Enforces Binary Sex Codes and Enhanced US Passport Validation in APIS

CBP enforces binary sex codes and stricter US passport validation in APIS effective October 2025. Key compliance updates for business travelers and airlines.

www.gtlaw-insidebusinessimmigration.com

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 2d

It's going to be absolutely critical that we be able to hack on and trust the hardware we use. I think the hardware from MNT is the best bet we have for a computing future we still have a say in mnt.re

I hope the MNT Reform Next is going to make MNT's stuff more accessible to more people

MNT Research GmbH

MNT Research makes open source hardware laptops, mobile devices and keyboards that are modular and repairable. Designed and assembled in Berlin, EU.

mnt.re

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 3d

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 3d

No money in the red kettles. Mutual aid instead.
(And no, I'm not taking questions about this.)

kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 3d

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 3d

audio on for community whistling repelling ICE/BP from the scene

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 3d

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

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Nire Bryce @nirebryce.breadthcharge.net · 3d

jesus christ we're dealing with the weebiest weeb

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 3d

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vv @vvv.gay · 3d

@dustyweb.bsky.social made an animation for one of my songs. Looking back on it and how awesome it is :)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=88JU...

In Unexpected Places #Blender #GreasePencil #MusicVideo

YouTube video by EncryptedWhispers

www.youtube.com

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vv @vvv.gay · 3d

@dustyweb.bsky.social made an animation for one of my songs. Looking back on it and how awesome it is :)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=88JU...

In Unexpected Places #Blender #GreasePencil #MusicVideo

YouTube video by EncryptedWhispers

www.youtube.com

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Kyla @boysek.bsky.social · 5d

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/10/w...

WGN-TV producer detained during ICE enforcement action in Lincoln Square

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 5d

just make your AI model a corporation. boom, AI personhood, just like that

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 5d

wow big depresso today

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 5d

I had incredibly low expectations for our broken brunchlord press when kakistocratic authoritarianism came knocking, but every single day they demonstrate I still somehow over-estimated them

Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 5d

Incredible things are happening, as ever, at The Paper of Record.

two articles in a row that feel like very 2025 slaps in the face:

Frank Bruni, Kristen Soltis Anderson and Nate Silver

‘Democrats Fumbled This a Bit’: 3 Writers Assess Where We Are With the Shutdown

Marc Rowan

Academia Is Broken. Trump’s University ‘Compact’ Can Help Fix It.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 5d

A win! A federal judge has granted Chicago and the State of Illinois a restraining order against the Trump administration, blocking the deployment of the National Guard in Illinois.

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its she cruelcab @coolcab.bsky.social · 5d

it is legit astonishing that we've basically made an anti-learning machine and are aggressively pushing it on all students

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wint @dril.bsky.social · Sep 20

is the posting strike over yet

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 5d

you know what fair

Bootleggirl on twitter writes: "I still dislike the Star Wars sequels but I can't no longer fault them for running with the premise of "20 years after fascism, same fascism again, but stupider" bc I just lived through that.

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Philip Mai @philipmai.com · 7d

"Top US researchers rush to relocate to Europe. U.S.-based applicants to a prestigious EU research scheme have increased five-fold." 🤔 www.politico.eu/article/euro...

Top US researchers rush to relocate to Europe

U.S.-based applicants to a prestigious EU research scheme have increased five-fold.

www.politico.eu

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 6d

after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging

little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia
www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

What Is Really Going on With All This Radioactive Shrimp? - Consumer Reports

Here’s the latest on how shrimp and spices got contaminated with cesium-137, how the FDA has responded, and why consumers should not panic.

www.consumerreports.org

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 6d

These people are fucking monsters

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 7d

Just openly cheering the destruction of any representation of gay people in public space. They think their power is totally unrestricted, and the entire country will support them rolling back society to the 1950s, or maybe the 1850s

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