Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Roland Bates

@rolandbates.bsky.social

450 followers 510 following 3.5K posts

"Miserable pony-tailed Communist" (Google).

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Roland Bates @rolandbates.bsky.social · 2d

Come and see a real live miserable pony-tailed Communist while you're in town!

Reposted by Roland Bates

Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 9h

“Copyright growing pains” is one hell of a euphemism for the biggest IP theft in history

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

25 250 980

Reposted by Roland Bates

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 7h

“This heckin’ pupperino fucking hates La Migra,” to paraphrase from @weratedogs.com

Rate Dogs & • Follow
...
2h •
This is Chop. He was shot and killed by masked assailants in plain clothes who go by ICE. They showed up at his door "looking for migrants after receiving a tip." The son of the family asked if they could wait before entering the home while he put Chop away in the bathroom, as the dog can be aggressive with strangers.
According to the family, it is at this point that the son went to his pickup truck to retrieve his ID and a Border Patrol agent entered the home, opened the bathroom door, and shot Chop. None of the agents helped the family, who desperately tried to render aid to Chop, as he bled to death on the kitchen floor. Unsurprisingly, the agent who shot their dog then hid from them and refused to give his name. Even more unsurprising, they did not find any evidence of the migrants they were there to terrorize in the first place.
Do not open your door for these fucking losers. Rest easy Chop
14/10
CBP Office of Professional Responsibility:
202-344-1808
JointIntake@cbp.dhs.gov
El Paso Border Patrol Sector:
915-834-8400
fpfelpaso@cbp.dhs.gov
Rep. Veronica Escobar (El Paso):
915-541-1400
veronica.escobar@mail.house.gov
https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/el-paso-family-claims-border-patrol-killed-their-dog-during-search-cbp-

37 580 1.9K

Reposted by Roland Bates

The New Universal Solar Calendar @calendarsolar.bsky.social · 16h

The Endlock Series

3 3

Roland Bates @rolandbates.bsky.social · 7h

Reposted by Roland Bates

hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 8h

Goodnight from Trudy Blake, hearing the rumbling of spectral mammoths coming from the Once-Was-Ice of Blackford Down. Goodnight from Sophie Morley, puzzling the graffito: ‘THE FAERY TITHE IS DUE’ blossoming on the railway arches of Weychester. Goodnight from Hookland.

14 21 170

Reposted by Roland Bates

Jonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social · 7h

Béla Tarr’s ‘One War, One Battle, One Conflict After Another’, anyone?

(Quote from The Melancholy of Resistance by László Krasznahorkai- which, yes, has already been adapted as ‘Werckmeister Harmonies’)

A page of text with one line underlined: ”It was one war, one battle, one conflict after another”

1 3 8

Reposted by Roland Bates

matthewcr @matthewcr.bsky.social · 14d

Did a quiz tonight and we were asked to give the word that fits between raw and show. Turned out the answer wanted was talent so we had to make the case for dog

2 16

Reposted by Roland Bates

matthewcr @matthewcr.bsky.social · 23h

A bit of Robert Herrick

DREAMES

Here we are all, by day: By night w'are hurl'd
By dreames, each one, into a sev'rall world.

2 9

Reposted by Roland Bates

ya ya yanina @yanina.bsky.social · 1d

🔥
❤️

ACLU @aclu.org · 1d

The trailblazing transgender rights activist Miss Major has passed away at the age of 78.

Miss Major was a lifelong organizer and participant in the ballroom scene. She took part in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and was injured by the police — but she kept fighting.

1 2

Reposted by Roland Bates

Dr. K @katekaynak.bsky.social · 1d

5 25 97

Reposted by Roland Bates

The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

220 5.4K 23K

Roland Bates @rolandbates.bsky.social · 1d

"Go West"

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

Roland Bates @rolandbates.bsky.social · 1d

Feeling wan. Might need a Caramac.

Reposted by Roland Bates

Composers Doing Normal Shit @normalcomposers.bsky.social · 1d

Krzysztof Penderecki drinking alone.

2 16 54

Roland Bates @rolandbates.bsky.social · 1d

Personal Mountains.
I wandered into the kitchen when this was playing for the first time.
Django, Martin (RIP) and Ken all looked round at me as if to say "Shut up, there's a new Keith record"

Roland Bates @rolandbates.bsky.social · 1d

Groombridge 686

Roland Bates @rolandbates.bsky.social · 1d

Church team just came second in the pub quiz. God be praised

1 4

Roland Bates @rolandbates.bsky.social · 1d

Me and my dad going off to fight for the Spanish Republic

2 6

Roland Bates @rolandbates.bsky.social · 1d

🍞

Roland Bates @rolandbates.bsky.social · 1d

Really looking forward to this!

Reposted by Roland Bates

Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 2d

I saw them play The Dublin Castle in '92

A tweet from Laura Loomer saying:

WOKE MARXIST POPE

2 2 29

Roland Bates @rolandbates.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you though

Roland Bates @rolandbates.bsky.social · 2d

Those are even worse

1 1

Reposted by Roland Bates

La Doleur Exquisabella @minxmarple.bsky.social · 2d

Pilgrimage Sunday / mythic shells/ connecting nothing with nothing / the first woman lion tamer

Margate sands, connecting nothing with nothing

2 2 21

Roland Bates @rolandbates.bsky.social · 2d

The stupid thing is: I enjoy the counter more than anybody else. I'm happy to do eight solid hours at the counter. But it only takes a minute to send that to shit. I had my own part to play in this. But even so.

Roland Bates @rolandbates.bsky.social · 2d

Very disheartened to see the perhaps inevitable return of our (my) Google reviewer. I have no real recourse here. You might say that's as it should be. It's a pain in the arse though.