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NOW can we abolish ICE?
@marshviper.bsky.social
Unions 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 organizing ✊ data 📉 python 🐍 history 🪶 Minneapolis 🍒🥄 TTRPGs 🎲 D&D

My cat is the most beautiful and perfect cat in the world!
It would rule so hard if I was not awake at 3:30 am with the world's worst headache pondering whether I should give up and go puke already
December 15, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Today I'll be arguing that AI tools (specifically LLMs and AI agents) are NOT the future of health and social science but are more likely to be the death of health and social science.

Here's a sneak peak slide with the main components of my argument.
December 15, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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the good that you do persists in this world
December 14, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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“If £1b were to suddenly appear in their bank account, would euthanasia still be necessary?

“If the answer is no, that's not euthanasia; it's social murder.”
December 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.
I'm dubious about Amazon's commitment to keeping pre-existing conditions a thing of the past.
December 14, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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I was trying to decide what kind of Christmas cookies to make this year, and it definitely felt like a good time to bring back my dumpster fire cookies from 2020 🙃
December 14, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Why is this so damn difficult for people? Honestly.
You guys really need to develop the capacity of simultaneously holding the truth that the colonialist occupation and genocide of Palestine is unacceptable AND violent antisemitism is real

Both are true
December 15, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Drop off at any of the locations listed at our website, which you can also check for donation guidelines! ❤️

supplydepotmpls.com
December 15, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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We have received so many donations and we are still almost out of blankets AGAIN. If you have extras, if you can go to the Goodwill By the Pound locations, if you can find a bag sale, we give them out at the same rate as we are getting them in, it is dangerously cold out.
Sanctuary Supply Depot is keeping our neighbors warm! Who can join me in sending some $ to fill their Venmo back up so they can keep going?
PLEASE donate to our Venmo! We have trusted friends and collaborators bringing heat sources to as many people as we can find but we are running out of money and it is unbearably cold. Your neighbors need your help.
@supplydepotmpls 💕💸
December 15, 2025 at 12:30 AM
I did one of those data analytics boot camps and there were a bunch of people who straight up didn't understand how a command line interface works. It blew my mind because it was so hard for me to get into a mindset of NOT knowing that. But they didn't start out with DOS so it was foreign to them.
i have done so myself for a while, but i am now seeing mulitple people on fuckin linkedin rant about alleged devops who sling containers about but can't use bash

just have no idea how a unix box works

and now i know why bash is a job skill one has to list
December 14, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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"ICE and CBP must be abolished" is the only reasonable position. We can debate the specifics of new agencies for immigration functions, but these agencies are simply too infected with a culture of impunity, racism, and fascism to continue. They're gangs with badges.
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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We need people capable of recognizing the different between "unity" - wherein bigoted behavior gets tolerated because calling it out can be embarrassing - and solidarity, where people are able to be called in and reminded that bigotry is not part of our shared goals.
December 14, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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AS A PROFESSOR, I AM ASKING

HOW ARE OUR STUDENTS SUPPOSED TO LEARN IN THESE CONDITIONS?

HOW ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO GO TO SCHOOL AND TAKE EXAMS KNOWING SOMEONE MIGHT JUST SHOW UP WITH AN EASY TO ACQUIRE AUTOMATIC WEAPON?

HOW??????????
Longer statement from Brown University:

"We are very sorry to share that we have confirmed reports of multiple shooting victims, but we are not able to share their condition. They have been transported to local hospitals."
December 13, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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At the risk of sounding stupid this kind of thing is why I post about writing porn when I write porn. When they slam the Internet shut on porn it's sex and sexuality they're trying to stifle; they're foreclosing on the possibility of adults being free people, and it behooves antifascists to say so.
The link between sexual repression and militarism is becoming clearer by the day.

Galloway blames OnlyFans for loneliness, depression, small business closures, extremism, tyranny and *checks notes* impending societal extinction.

His solution? Mandatory national service.
Scott Galloway: OnlyFans is the billion-dollar symptom of a loneliness pandemic
The most unstable, violent societies have one thing in common: lonely young men. We are producing millions of them, writes Scott Galloway
www.standard.co.uk
December 13, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Sanctuary Supply Depot is keeping our neighbors warm! Who can join me in sending some $ to fill their Venmo back up so they can keep going?
PLEASE donate to our Venmo! We have trusted friends and collaborators bringing heat sources to as many people as we can find but we are running out of money and it is unbearably cold. Your neighbors need your help.
@supplydepotmpls 💕💸
Hey Minneapolis, these temps are brutal.

@supplydepotmpls.bsky.social provides critical resources to people experiencing food and housing insecurity.

Donations make an immediate, tangible difference in the well-being of your neighbors and community:

opencollective.com/sanctuarysup...
December 13, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Y'all. LOOK AT THIS
I lied, one more because he’s sleeping like *this* and I can’t keep that to myself
December 13, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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My position on taking action. And on the important space between everything and nothing.
December 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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The media is entirely responsible for Donald Trump in our lives and Elon Musk as well. Real engineers and scientists knew he was a moron long ago. I was told repeatedly by my brother and his nerds at JPL that Elon was a dolt. But tech press don't know shit either and access is the name of the game.
December 13, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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my grandma when she was little noticed the adults spelling things out in front of her they didn't want her to know about, like C-A-N-D-Y, and she couldn't spell but knew it was something good so she started experimentally asking "can i have some E-R-P-T-L?" "where did you put that M-M-L-A-R?"
December 13, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Yeah and the video is very worth a watch. He is absolutely furious and also so clear eyed and precise about what he witnessed and what it means. "My own government has become my enemy."
I genuinely don't know if this is a "Minnesotan" thing or an "old guy of a certain age" thing but in case it's Minnesotan and people need an anger translator: this guy is so angry he could just about set something on fire with his mind.
This one isn’t downloadable but if you have TikTok go watch it. Well worth your time www.tiktok.com/t/ZTr4gRL7v/
December 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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speaking of “you should never trust Meta and no one should have ever trusted them but there’s no time like the present to start”
Another first with the Meta sponsor just added to the Turning Point USA mega conference
December 13, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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I heard stories from copywriters who had to move back home with their parents. Staff copywriters whose work has all but been turned over to AI, and no longer have anything to do. Others are trying to retrain for a new career in their 50s. One shared that they had been pushed into sex work.
December 12, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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I honestly think that many people don't know what their public libraries offer besides books. I think that everyone should go on a public library treasure hunt in 2026. Go explore what your library systems offer at no cost to you. Report back to me :)
“I miss blockbuster video” the library has every dvd totally untouched and I never see you there
December 12, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Absolutely baddie running around everywhere to get shit done, useless man lurching back and forth while everyone else struggles to protect him from the consequences of his actions. Name a more iconic couple.
December 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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We have been fundamentally betrayed. I know an individual man or woman made this invention or that discovery, but all of it occurs on the mountain of progress we collectively made. HUMANITY made the steam engine; HUMANITY went to the moon. WE did it, together. We've always been a collective.
December 12, 2025 at 8:07 PM