Paul Philion
@acmerocket.com
Vell, Zaphod's just zis guy, you know?
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Paul Philion
@acmerocket.com
· Jan 16
The great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice.
-MLK
-MLK
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This isn’t immigration policy. It’s a business model.
ICE keeps growing, not because it makes America safer, but because corporations are raking in billions off cages, bodies, and suffering. ICE’s existence is a massive revenue stream.
ICE keeps growing, not because it makes America safer, but because corporations are raking in billions off cages, bodies, and suffering. ICE’s existence is a massive revenue stream.
January 19, 2026 at 3:05 AM
This isn’t immigration policy. It’s a business model.
ICE keeps growing, not because it makes America safer, but because corporations are raking in billions off cages, bodies, and suffering. ICE’s existence is a massive revenue stream.
ICE keeps growing, not because it makes America safer, but because corporations are raking in billions off cages, bodies, and suffering. ICE’s existence is a massive revenue stream.
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Block block block.
✅ @icegov.bsky.social has been verified by @bsky.app.
January 17, 2026 at 12:28 AM
Block block block.
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📊 Receipts don’t lie—readers decide the canon.
New UW research using 20 years of Seattle Public Library data shows Black & speculative fiction writers leading what people read.
Top titles include Parable of the Sower, The Fifth Season, Kindred, and Beloved.
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#SistahScifi
New UW research using 20 years of Seattle Public Library data shows Black & speculative fiction writers leading what people read.
Top titles include Parable of the Sower, The Fifth Season, Kindred, and Beloved.
Shop 👉 sistahscifi.com
#SistahScifi
January 16, 2026 at 7:22 PM
📊 Receipts don’t lie—readers decide the canon.
New UW research using 20 years of Seattle Public Library data shows Black & speculative fiction writers leading what people read.
Top titles include Parable of the Sower, The Fifth Season, Kindred, and Beloved.
Shop 👉 sistahscifi.com
#SistahScifi
New UW research using 20 years of Seattle Public Library data shows Black & speculative fiction writers leading what people read.
Top titles include Parable of the Sower, The Fifth Season, Kindred, and Beloved.
Shop 👉 sistahscifi.com
#SistahScifi
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they believe in their hearts that they were born masters and the rest of us are their slaves
January 13, 2026 at 7:19 PM
they believe in their hearts that they were born masters and the rest of us are their slaves
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There are no short cuts. I'm sorry. There is only long term, consistent, and disciplined organizing.
January 8, 2026 at 5:59 PM
There are no short cuts. I'm sorry. There is only long term, consistent, and disciplined organizing.
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I now firmly believe Trump’s handlers are constantly showing him AI slop content - created to support those handlers own individual, often-clashing agendas.
GenAI companies have created Grima Wormtongue as a service.
GenAI companies have created Grima Wormtongue as a service.
January 8, 2026 at 4:17 PM
I now firmly believe Trump’s handlers are constantly showing him AI slop content - created to support those handlers own individual, often-clashing agendas.
GenAI companies have created Grima Wormtongue as a service.
GenAI companies have created Grima Wormtongue as a service.
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TIRED: AI Slop from MS Copilot
WIRED: Nadella Bukkake
WIRED: Nadella Bukkake
January 5, 2026 at 8:27 PM
TIRED: AI Slop from MS Copilot
WIRED: Nadella Bukkake
WIRED: Nadella Bukkake
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A human web of trust, like I’ve been talking about
January 5, 2026 at 3:19 PM
A human web of trust, like I’ve been talking about
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Love this from Guillermo del Toro
January 5, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Love this from Guillermo del Toro
A good time to work on local community is when you feel frustrated or powerless in the face of international events.
in all seriousness people are aggro’ing over increasingly stupid and bad things because they feel useless in the current moment which, to be serious, means you should log off and do more things instead of just screaming at someone
it’s just the sunday scaries
January 5, 2026 at 3:51 AM
A good time to work on local community is when you feel frustrated or powerless in the face of international events.
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Trump is trying to force US oil companies to rebuild Venezuelan oil fields that are too expensive to invest in at current crude prices while a full blown energy revolution is happening with cheap solar and electrification growing exponentially.
This is a dying empire shit.
This is a dying empire shit.
a lot of interesting revelations between the lines of this story www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
January 4, 2026 at 1:34 AM
Trump is trying to force US oil companies to rebuild Venezuelan oil fields that are too expensive to invest in at current crude prices while a full blown energy revolution is happening with cheap solar and electrification growing exponentially.
This is a dying empire shit.
This is a dying empire shit.
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this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier
January 3, 2026 at 10:57 PM
this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier
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Where is the call for an emergency rally? Locally, there are two happening.
2 pm at Pike Place
3 pm at the Overlook walk.
Murdering people on the seas, seizing oil tankers, starting an illegal war, and kidnapping a president are the most "king-like" things Trump has done to date.
2 pm at Pike Place
3 pm at the Overlook walk.
Murdering people on the seas, seizing oil tankers, starting an illegal war, and kidnapping a president are the most "king-like" things Trump has done to date.
January 3, 2026 at 8:44 PM
Where is the call for an emergency rally? Locally, there are two happening.
2 pm at Pike Place
3 pm at the Overlook walk.
Murdering people on the seas, seizing oil tankers, starting an illegal war, and kidnapping a president are the most "king-like" things Trump has done to date.
2 pm at Pike Place
3 pm at the Overlook walk.
Murdering people on the seas, seizing oil tankers, starting an illegal war, and kidnapping a president are the most "king-like" things Trump has done to date.
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Tonight, the President of the United States has launched an unconstitutional war of aggression, dooming another generation to spill their blood for oil, and lay waste to a sovereign nation.
I demand that Congress exercise its power, halt this conflict, and impeach this war criminal president.
I demand that Congress exercise its power, halt this conflict, and impeach this war criminal president.
January 3, 2026 at 7:41 AM
Tonight, the President of the United States has launched an unconstitutional war of aggression, dooming another generation to spill their blood for oil, and lay waste to a sovereign nation.
I demand that Congress exercise its power, halt this conflict, and impeach this war criminal president.
I demand that Congress exercise its power, halt this conflict, and impeach this war criminal president.
Bot-driven social media political manipulation, as with Cambridge Analytica, is a threat to national security and economy.
Black-box, sycophantic, hallucination-trained chatbots are a threat to national security and economy.
The evidence of the past decade could not be more clear.
Black-box, sycophantic, hallucination-trained chatbots are a threat to national security and economy.
The evidence of the past decade could not be more clear.
December 12, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Bot-driven social media political manipulation, as with Cambridge Analytica, is a threat to national security and economy.
Black-box, sycophantic, hallucination-trained chatbots are a threat to national security and economy.
The evidence of the past decade could not be more clear.
Black-box, sycophantic, hallucination-trained chatbots are a threat to national security and economy.
The evidence of the past decade could not be more clear.
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The real task isn’t “teaching people to spot misinformation.” It’s rebuilding conditions where verification, deliberation and accountability are possible. Critical thinking only works when the world around it gives those skills a place to take root.
December 7, 2025 at 2:18 PM
The real task isn’t “teaching people to spot misinformation.” It’s rebuilding conditions where verification, deliberation and accountability are possible. Critical thinking only works when the world around it gives those skills a place to take root.
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But here's the real cherry on top re: discovering a published paper that I can only assume was written by an LLM, full of fabricated citations.
When I was searching in various places to confirm that those citations were fabricated, Google's AI overview just kept the con going.
When I was searching in various places to confirm that those citations were fabricated, Google's AI overview just kept the con going.
December 5, 2025 at 10:51 PM
But here's the real cherry on top re: discovering a published paper that I can only assume was written by an LLM, full of fabricated citations.
When I was searching in various places to confirm that those citations were fabricated, Google's AI overview just kept the con going.
When I was searching in various places to confirm that those citations were fabricated, Google's AI overview just kept the con going.
It’s always delightful to recieve a mysterious package, lost to memory and the package room, with a serendipitous treat from @richardkadrey.bsky.social.
Also impressed by the archival scan of original text supplied by @archive.org. It tickles to have hardcopy of the treasure from that journey.
Also impressed by the archival scan of original text supplied by @archive.org. It tickles to have hardcopy of the treasure from that journey.
December 4, 2025 at 7:12 PM
It’s always delightful to recieve a mysterious package, lost to memory and the package room, with a serendipitous treat from @richardkadrey.bsky.social.
Also impressed by the archival scan of original text supplied by @archive.org. It tickles to have hardcopy of the treasure from that journey.
Also impressed by the archival scan of original text supplied by @archive.org. It tickles to have hardcopy of the treasure from that journey.
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Former US military lawyers speak out:
"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
1/2
November 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Former US military lawyers speak out:
"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
1/2
"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
1/2
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with news of Tom Stoppard's passing, reflecting fondly on Arcadia - which I've seen staged multiple times, and this quote from him - which I quite enjoy and share with my Making Comics students when I talk about scripts in class. What a giant...
November 29, 2025 at 7:08 PM
with news of Tom Stoppard's passing, reflecting fondly on Arcadia - which I've seen staged multiple times, and this quote from him - which I quite enjoy and share with my Making Comics students when I talk about scripts in class. What a giant...
Orca
Bald eagle
Black bear
Coyote
Crow
Bald eagle
Black bear
Coyote
Crow
Introduce yourself with five animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Polar bear
Grizzly bear
Arctic Fox
Ptarmigan
Frigate bird
Polar bear
Grizzly bear
Arctic Fox
Ptarmigan
Frigate bird
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Moose
Coyote
River otter
Grizzly bear
Brown vulture
Moose
Coyote
River otter
Grizzly bear
Brown vulture
November 29, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Orca
Bald eagle
Black bear
Coyote
Crow
Bald eagle
Black bear
Coyote
Crow
Reminder to self:
1. Don’t feed trolls.
2. Don‘t wrestle pigs.
3. Don’t answer rhetorical questions.
1. Don’t feed trolls.
2. Don‘t wrestle pigs.
3. Don’t answer rhetorical questions.
November 20, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Reminder to self:
1. Don’t feed trolls.
2. Don‘t wrestle pigs.
3. Don’t answer rhetorical questions.
1. Don’t feed trolls.
2. Don‘t wrestle pigs.
3. Don’t answer rhetorical questions.
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We will get through this by doing what we have always done, showing up for each other.
November 16, 2025 at 3:45 AM
We will get through this by doing what we have always done, showing up for each other.
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If you haven't checked to make sure your vote counted, you need to do it now - the race for Seattle's future depends on it!
Your Vote May Not Have Counted: 1,930 of You Could Decide This Election
Your ballot might be sick. Cure it, please. We can't bear to watch it suffer.
www.thestranger.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:17 PM
If you haven't checked to make sure your vote counted, you need to do it now - the race for Seattle's future depends on it!