Claire
@claire.chapien.net
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Game developer from Cascadia🌲. Socialist, not a liberal. Trans Femme with Nonbinary characteristics, Asexual. HRT since 2014. She/her. Minors DNI. Website: https://chapien.net/ Keyoxide: https://keyoxide.org/97810FC8F87BB5DC53012E81C5A81C724397B6B5
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Being trans is inherently a rebellion, transitioning is seizing your freedom.
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Homan: "If the hateful rhetoric continues, there will be bloodshed. People are going to die ... there is going to be more bloodshed unless this hateful rhetoric stops."
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The fact that there's an AI assistant button on a gaming console makes me utterly convinced that the "growth mindset" cult runs Microsoft and it's never getting better.
LMAOOO WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE NEW XBOX HANDHELD COMES WITH MICROSOFT TEAMS AND ONEDRIVE INSTALLED??? this is the fucking goofiest company in games
a list of apps pre-installed on the Xbox ROG Ally including Microsoft Teams and Onedrive
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Rep. Pat Harrigan: "This No Kings rally -- that's the blue hair, anthropomorphic experiment that's gonna happen up here in Washington DC."
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"The boy, who is Hispanic and African American, was held in a garage for five hours “without informing his family, stating any charges, or allowing him to call an attorney,” the statement said. He is a U.S. citizen, as is his entire immediate family, the release said."
Feds ram SUV after chase down residential street in Chicago, then tear-gas crowd
The crash happened late Tuesday morning near 105th Street and Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood. Two men being pursued were arrested as were two bystanders. The crash drew dozens of neighbors who...
chicago.suntimes.com
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ICE's military raids and masked kidnappings are resonating deeply/negatively in the cultural spaces we keep hearing Dems need to reach: Manosphere, Joe Rogan, country music, disengaged voters. That's rare and it gives Dems a big opening to engage.

Thoughts on this:

newrepublic.com/article/2018...
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He needs to be removed.

Article 2, section 4 in the US Constitution. He’s committing treasonous acts. He’s actually killing Americans. This isn’t a metaphor. It is literal. By the way, This is NOT a loop. He is certifiably insane. Article 25 would remove him, but not the other complicit traitors.
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If the chief executive can fund the military without the consent of the governed, we no longer have a republic but a monarchy.

My point isn't that I oppose military pay - I think Congress should readily agree to it - but that Congress MUST NOT BE LEFT OUT OF THE EQUATION.
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The subtext of this comment is that the Mayor of Boston is Asian-American, whereas the Mayor of Chicago (like almost everyone else that Trump refers to as “a low IQ person”) is Black.
Trump: "Boston had a bad mayor who at least is a reasonable IQ person. Most of them are low IQ. I mean, what's going on in Chicago ... "
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🚨 *Breaking News* Robby Roadsteamer has been detained by ICE Portland after singing Rod Stewart with the Portland Frog! We need your help!

Please support Robby's campaign and lawyer fees at robbyroadsteamer.com link on bio 💙🦒🦒🦒
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Bouie was so right "The Pope is from Chicago" is an entire joke, like, that's just funny on its own
Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!”

Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”
He said he's against working for the government/administration. Zohran is not in power (yet anyway)
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Andrew Cuomo has lost the Italian Jewish vote
god i love hyperinflation
At the next level of badness, they might choose to simply spend money that doesn't exist. So instead of spending out of an account for a purpose that's not allowed, like they're doing with RDTE to fund milpers activities, imagine someone chooses to spend money that doesn't exist.
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Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything.

It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.

Long thread.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/10/national-security-presidential-memorandum-nspm-8/
Bold to assume they've even *read* Tolkien.
Have Peter Thiel and Palmer Luckey ever read *anything* other than Tolkien?
Tolkein continues to resonate. The new bank being set up by Palmer Luckey and backed by Peter Thiel is named Erebor after the “lonely mountain” in The Hobbit. This was also an interesting line in this rpt on the new bank by @tabbykinder.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/202d...
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collar gate is the latest instance of a trumped-up non-issue blossoming into a large-scale psychosis event – and possibly the dumbest. it's also the modern internet doing exactly what it was engineered to do
To be honest, I wouldn’t be mentioning this if not for the fact that it’s a microcosm of how online platforms work today: Somebody makes an accusation based on evidence that’s spurious at best, big names with something to gain (viewership or the downfall of a perceived enemy) uncritically boost it, internet sleuths obsessively piece together supporting evidence by amassing context-free clips and ignoring everything that doesn’t match their intended conclusion, and all of the aforementioned parties spread performatively apoplectic videos across Reddit, YouTube, TikTok, Twitter, and wherever else they can sucker in uninitiated normies. 

Some version of this happens every week – every day, on a smaller scale – without fail. It accomplishes nothing aside from giving the disaffected masses a brief glimmer of what feels like purpose, but is actually a bloodsucking waste of their precious time on this dying planet. And of course, it provides platforms with sweet, sweet engagement numbers. As a result, platforms will probably never intervene to disrupt this corrosive dynamic, which has broken the general public’s ability to perceive anything resembling objective reality, even as society collapses around them and people like Piker attempt to identify the real reasons why (hint: they don't involve dog collars).

The internet has been like this at least since the Depp v. Heard trial, which wannabe sleuths similarly feasted on in 2022 while getting pretty much every important detail completely wrong. At least back then they were obsessing over something of consequence. Now they’ve taught viewers to regard every trumped-up non-issue they can surface with similar gravity.
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Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me”

• They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me
• Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked
• She was filmed while stripped naked

Aftonbladet: tinyurl.com/a33vxatc
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Republicans: “Stop calling us Nazis just because you disagree with us.”

*Elon Musk Nazi salutes*

Young Republican group: “I love Hitler.”

This Congressman’s office:
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Standing and defending the fundamental truths of the Republic means rejecting and opposing loathsome people like Johnson.
Johnson: "We call it the Hate America Rally that will happen Saturday. Let's see who shows up for that. I bet you you'll see Hamas supporters, I bet you'll see antifa types, I bet you'll see Marxists on full display, people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic"
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this arc is gonna end with him as the new Vancouver mayor