Emily
@banrion6.bsky.social
poet and dissident, irish learner and disruptive catholic
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Reactionaries are such suckers for this shit. Trump is King Herod, full stop. He makes a pretense of religosity for the sake of legitimacy. But he does not give a single shit about anything but his own power. If American Christianity was a threat to him, he would murder every boy under the age of 3.
December 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Reactionaries are such suckers for this shit. Trump is King Herod, full stop. He makes a pretense of religosity for the sake of legitimacy. But he does not give a single shit about anything but his own power. If American Christianity was a threat to him, he would murder every boy under the age of 3.
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La valse (1893)
by Camille Claudel
by Camille Claudel
December 9, 2025 at 10:52 AM
La valse (1893)
by Camille Claudel
by Camille Claudel
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Holy CRAP.
Retired engineer takes random pics of *kids*, without consent or attribution, bins them into “autistic” or “not autistic”, and uploads that “data” for free on Kaggle.
Well over a HUNDRED papers are published, 38 in Springer Nature, 25 in IEEE, using it.
And no reviewers objected? WTF.🧪
Retired engineer takes random pics of *kids*, without consent or attribution, bins them into “autistic” or “not autistic”, and uploads that “data” for free on Kaggle.
Well over a HUNDRED papers are published, 38 in Springer Nature, 25 in IEEE, using it.
And no reviewers objected? WTF.🧪
Springer Nature retracts, removes nearly 40 publications
The dataset contains images of children’s faces downloaded from websites about autism, which sparked concerns at Springer Nature about consent and reliability.
www.thetransmitter.org
December 8, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Holy CRAP.
Retired engineer takes random pics of *kids*, without consent or attribution, bins them into “autistic” or “not autistic”, and uploads that “data” for free on Kaggle.
Well over a HUNDRED papers are published, 38 in Springer Nature, 25 in IEEE, using it.
And no reviewers objected? WTF.🧪
Retired engineer takes random pics of *kids*, without consent or attribution, bins them into “autistic” or “not autistic”, and uploads that “data” for free on Kaggle.
Well over a HUNDRED papers are published, 38 in Springer Nature, 25 in IEEE, using it.
And no reviewers objected? WTF.🧪
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Obama didn’t govern as a progressive. He aligned himself with Pelosi, Schumer and other centrists who consistently sought bipartisanship. And his polite silence when McConnell refused to let him replace Scalia was an unforgivable refusal to fight for the constitution and the country.
December 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Obama didn’t govern as a progressive. He aligned himself with Pelosi, Schumer and other centrists who consistently sought bipartisanship. And his polite silence when McConnell refused to let him replace Scalia was an unforgivable refusal to fight for the constitution and the country.
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
This will be the first year in my life that we don't get a real Christmas tree, because my dad feels like being a grinch. I'm trying to cheer myself up by planning to cook an Irish stew for Christmas. Not everyone in my family likes lamb, so it'll be me and my sister-in-law eating the stew. 🎄❄️⛄
December 8, 2025 at 5:57 PM
This will be the first year in my life that we don't get a real Christmas tree, because my dad feels like being a grinch. I'm trying to cheer myself up by planning to cook an Irish stew for Christmas. Not everyone in my family likes lamb, so it'll be me and my sister-in-law eating the stew. 🎄❄️⛄
Just had a second earthquake of the morning here in California. I don't know why we're having so many lately and hope a major one won't strike anytime soon, or that we'll make it through if it does. 😔😔
December 8, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Just had a second earthquake of the morning here in California. I don't know why we're having so many lately and hope a major one won't strike anytime soon, or that we'll make it through if it does. 😔😔
Praying for Japan and gratitude that family's out of harm's way. #earthquake 🙏🙏
December 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Praying for Japan and gratitude that family's out of harm's way. #earthquake 🙏🙏
Our minds are more complex than James Joyce novels. Anyone who tries to impose a single narrative on a jumble of thoughts, voices, counter-thoughts and visions or claim to have explanatory insight is naive and foolish. Mind-readers are quacks. They should be shunned as vehemently as ppl condemn AI.
December 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Our minds are more complex than James Joyce novels. Anyone who tries to impose a single narrative on a jumble of thoughts, voices, counter-thoughts and visions or claim to have explanatory insight is naive and foolish. Mind-readers are quacks. They should be shunned as vehemently as ppl condemn AI.
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Right after this she started chewing on my copy of Wretched of the Earth.
December 8, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Right after this she started chewing on my copy of Wretched of the Earth.
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This man did a photo opp of himself destroying homeless people's last possessions.
California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Thursday that the Democratic Party needed to be “more culturally normal” and “less judgmental.”
December 7, 2025 at 1:36 AM
This man did a photo opp of himself destroying homeless people's last possessions.
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'40 Below 0' painting by painter, singer and musician Joni Mitchell #WomensArt
December 7, 2025 at 5:42 AM
'40 Below 0' painting by painter, singer and musician Joni Mitchell #WomensArt
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Dirk Schulte
Alles wird gut
2025
Alles wird gut
2025
December 7, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Dirk Schulte
Alles wird gut
2025
Alles wird gut
2025
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desire travels
without a sound
a lone lantern
~Ogawa
without a sound
a lone lantern
~Ogawa
December 7, 2025 at 5:51 AM
desire travels
without a sound
a lone lantern
~Ogawa
without a sound
a lone lantern
~Ogawa
Princess Kate has been wearing wigs. Just speaking from experience, it can be tough to feel womanly when you're ill. William should wear a wig too to support her! That and some dental attention and he'll actually earn his spot on those "sexiest man" lists they put him on out of pity
December 7, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Princess Kate has been wearing wigs. Just speaking from experience, it can be tough to feel womanly when you're ill. William should wear a wig too to support her! That and some dental attention and he'll actually earn his spot on those "sexiest man" lists they put him on out of pity
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Israel shouldn't be in Eurovision for a lot of reasons, the genocide for one, the apartheid for two, the fact that their songs are always objectively the worst in the contest.
But for me the big one is that they're not in fucking Europe.
But for me the big one is that they're not in fucking Europe.
Ireland, Spain, Slovenia and the Netherlands pull out of Eurovision after decision not to hold vote on Israel’s participation
Four countries to boycott Eurovision 2026 as Israel cleared to compete
Ireland, Spain, Slovenia and the Netherlands pull out after decision not to hold vote on Israel’s participation
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Israel shouldn't be in Eurovision for a lot of reasons, the genocide for one, the apartheid for two, the fact that their songs are always objectively the worst in the contest.
But for me the big one is that they're not in fucking Europe.
But for me the big one is that they're not in fucking Europe.
Yes Halle!! 🙌🔥♥️
"...Newsom has vetoed our menopause bill, not one but two years in a row. But that's OK, because he's not going to be governor forever. And with the way he's overlooked women, half the population, by devaluing us in midlife, he probably should not be our next president either."
youtu.be/603NmGNkfqY
youtu.be/603NmGNkfqY
December 4, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Yes Halle!! 🙌🔥♥️
I understand how Tina Turner felt when she asked the judge for nothing but her name. She wasn't going to let Ike erase her identity (again, since he erased her original name Anna Mae) or take what she worked so hard for.
December 4, 2025 at 11:30 PM
I understand how Tina Turner felt when she asked the judge for nothing but her name. She wasn't going to let Ike erase her identity (again, since he erased her original name Anna Mae) or take what she worked so hard for.
You can trace a line from this rhetoric back to Bush. "This is not about politics its about public safety". "You saw the terrorist attack". The use of the word hero, from the legitimate deaths of heroes on 9/11 whose deaths were exploited. Remember the color-coded "threat levels" after 9/11?
BERMAN: How many of the 40,000 people born in Somalia living in Minnesota do you consider to be garbage?
McLAUGHLIN: We're really looking at the data
BERMAN: All of them?
McLAUGHLIN: This is not about politics. This is about public safety. We saw the terrorist attack against us last week.
McLAUGHLIN: We're really looking at the data
BERMAN: All of them?
McLAUGHLIN: This is not about politics. This is about public safety. We saw the terrorist attack against us last week.
December 4, 2025 at 6:45 PM
You can trace a line from this rhetoric back to Bush. "This is not about politics its about public safety". "You saw the terrorist attack". The use of the word hero, from the legitimate deaths of heroes on 9/11 whose deaths were exploited. Remember the color-coded "threat levels" after 9/11?
The press or somebody really needs to keep reminding Hegseth to his face that he 1) has never been in war, 2) has never seen the fog of war, and3) was the lowest rank in the military reserves (Lieutenant).
December 2, 2025 at 11:43 PM
The press or somebody really needs to keep reminding Hegseth to his face that he 1) has never been in war, 2) has never seen the fog of war, and3) was the lowest rank in the military reserves (Lieutenant).
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George Will: "Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement. ... The killing of the survivors by this moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans. A nation incapable of shame is dangerous, not least to itself" www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | A sickening moral slum of an administration
Regarding Venezuela, Ukraine and much more, Trump and his acolytes are worse than simply incompetent.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:53 PM
George Will: "Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement. ... The killing of the survivors by this moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans. A nation incapable of shame is dangerous, not least to itself" www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
My dad getting enthusiastic about Simon & Garfunkel late in life is peak dad. Its Boomercore, lol.
December 2, 2025 at 11:30 PM
My dad getting enthusiastic about Simon & Garfunkel late in life is peak dad. Its Boomercore, lol.