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Larissa Kelly @larissakelly.bsky.social · 16h

(This is also specific to domestic flights, I haven't tried to opt out of the cameras when passing through immigration, and assume that would be much more difficult.)

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Larissa Kelly @larissakelly.bsky.social · 16h

Plenty of caveats apply - I have privilege along various axes that make it easier to opt out, and the airports were mostly in blue states. But for others who are uncomfortable with increasing levels of electronic surveillance, it's worth knowing that airport face scans aren't yet mandatory.

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Larissa Kelly @larissakelly.bsky.social · 16h

Don't know how representative this experience is, but for what it's worth: every time I've asked to opt out of the face-recognition cameras at U.S. airports, there has been zero pushback. I say "I'd like to opt out, please," the TSA official says something like "sure, no problem," and that's it.

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Larissa Kelly @larissakelly.bsky.social · 20h

(To be clear, the comedy is deliberate; Emily Brontë knew exactly what she was doing when she wrote passages like this.)

Quote from Wuthering Heights:

" “There, I’ve found it out at last!” cried Hindley, pulling me back by the skin of my neck, like a dog. “By heaven and hell, you’ve sworn between you to murder that child! I know how it is, now, that he is always out of my way. But, with the help of Satan, I shall make you swallow the carving-knife, Nelly! You needn’t laugh; for I’ve just crammed Kenneth, head-downmost, in the Black-horse marsh; and two is the same as one—and I want to kill some of you: I shall have no rest till I do!”

“But I don’t like the carving-knife, Mr. Hindley,” I answered; “it has been cutting red herrings. I’d rather be shot, if you please.”

“You’d rather be damned!” he said; “and so you shall. No law in England can hinder a man from keeping his house decent, and mine’s abominable! Open your mouth.”

He held the knife in his hand, and pushed its point between my teeth: but, for my part, I was never much afraid of his vagaries. I spat out, and affirmed it tasted detestably—I would not take it on any account."

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Larissa Kelly @larissakelly.bsky.social · 1d

Huge chunks of the novel are basically Cold Comfort Farm on the moors.

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Larissa Kelly @larissakelly.bsky.social · 1d

Wuthering Heights is overrated as a romance, and vastly underrated as a comedy.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Larissa Kelly @larissakelly.bsky.social · 3d

What

Wikipedia header revealing that actress Andie MacDowell's full name is Rosalie Anderson MacDowell.

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Beren's Reverie @berensreverie.bsky.social · 4d

Sobek 🐊

#paleoart #berensart2025

a black and white drawing of a spinosaurus perching on a stone plinth shrine. He wears atef crown and the markings on his sailed spine resemble ankh.

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Larissa Kelly @larissakelly.bsky.social · 4d

It's pretty vague, but Frankenstein mentions getting "bones from charnel-houses" and collecting materials from "the dissecting room and the slaughter-house" when making the original monster.

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Larissa Kelly @larissakelly.bsky.social · 4d

What a generous act from someone who deserved so much better from the United States.

Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 4d

"[W]hen 'bullets crashed through the window and hit Miguel,' he turned to the 18 year-old boy sitting next to him in the van and said, 'I don't think I'm going to make it, get underneath me. Let me shield you.'"
#Texas #USA #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

In Dallas, Organizers Mourn the Immigrant Victims of Recent ICE Shooting

At a vigil outside city hall last week, advocates gathered to “center the victims” and to condemn the “dehumanization” of migrants by the federal government.

www.texasobserver.org

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Noll @nollthere.bsky.social · 5d

precocious pumpkin-lings
#guild11mysterium
#Art

Digital painting of a wild boar with babies in the forest, but they are all shaped like lumpy pumpkins in varying degrees.

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Larissa Kelly @larissakelly.bsky.social · 5d

Chivington really deserves more recognition as one of the worst Americans.

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Larissa Kelly @larissakelly.bsky.social · 5d

Seeing this dynamic with U.S. immigration policy last year was maddening.

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Larissa Kelly @larissakelly.bsky.social · 5d

Labour Party mindset.

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Larissa Kelly @larissakelly.bsky.social · May 12

LABOUR: The Tories have set a CUNNING TRAP!

-oh really?

LABOUR: They have proposed SOMETHING AWFUL, and if we say "that sounds awful," they will CRITICIZE US.

-huh.

LABOUR: BUT! We are much too clever for to fall for that.

-huh?

LABOUR: Instead of OPPOSING the awful thing, we will SUPPORT it.

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Larissa Kelly @larissakelly.bsky.social · 5d

If a Democratic victory seems likely in 2028, I suspect some of the stays and shadow docket rulings will be preemptively superseded by more formal opinions limiting presidential power. (Which will also help Roberts to argue that the Court is once again nonpartisan, so expansion isn't necessary.)

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Olivia V. Ambrogio (she/her) @squidfan.bsky.social · 8d

A Halloween-y take on the #Inktober prompt “pierce.” #SciArt #penandink

A black-and-white drawing of a very cute little rabbit at night, plunging its tiny fangs into a beet. At the points where the fangs piece the beet, there is a spurt of red ink.

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Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror) @sadiehartmann.bsky.social · 6d

Can confirm. I've been there.

"Portland isn't a war zone, it's a bookstore with a city around it."

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Larissa Kelly @larissakelly.bsky.social · 6d

I'd vote for the bottom slogan, but either one is fun!

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Larissa Kelly @larissakelly.bsky.social · 7d

John Norman's Gor?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gor

Gor - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Larissa Kelly @larissakelly.bsky.social · 9d

Feels like Josh Ritter is somewhere in the mix.

Lyrics from Ritter's song "Kathleen," which read

Well, I know you are waiting and I know that it is not for me
But I’m here and I’m ready and I saved you the passenger seat
And I won’t be your last dance, just your last goodnight
Every heart is a package tangled up in knots someone else tied
I’ll be the one to drive you back home, Kathleen, yeah

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Larissa Kelly @larissakelly.bsky.social · 11d

Our household also benefits a lot from the subsidies - I understand the "touch the stove" arguments, but am not exactly eager to be the hand that performs said stove-touching.

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Larissa Kelly @larissakelly.bsky.social · 11d

Formulated well by Jason Mendoza.

Screenshots from the sitcom THE GOOD PLACE. The character Jason Mendoza is saying "I'm telling you, Molotov cocktails work. Any time I had a problem, and I threw a Molotov cocktail...Boom, right away, I had a different problem." The final image shows the character Eleanor saying "He makes a strong case."

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Larissa Kelly @larissakelly.bsky.social · 12d

Don't know anything about this incident, but there's recent precedent for a major accidental fire at a Chevron refinery in California.

www.kqed.org/news/1166599...

Chevron, Richmond Settle Lawsuit Over 2012 Refinery Fire | KQED

The deal ends a legal dispute over one of the Bay Area's worst recent refinery accidents.

www.kqed.org

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City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 12d

Today's the second day that NPR and PBS and the hundreds of local stations that comprise both networks are operating without any government support after they were defunded. Consider giving them a bit of support =>

NPR @npr.org · 13d

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Larissa Kelly @larissakelly.bsky.social · 12d

It's such a cool design! You can see how much thought went into all of the gear and outfits.