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JK @miniver.bsky.social · Apr 28

I put together a proper website

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My mother Kate Korman owed $500 to Arizona Public Service, so shortly before her 82nd birthday they cut off her electricity.

Temperatures were in the 90s and climbing. Without air conditioning, the heat killed her within a few days.
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www.apskilledmymom.com

Arizona Public Service killed my mother

www.APSKilledMyMom.com

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 2h

AAARGH ‘THE PERFECTION’ NOOOOO.

The gods owe us hundreds of Cronenberg films in compensation.

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 2h

If I have not pointed you to these before

Dogs In The Vineyard by Jonathan Korman

Play aids for a great, out-of-print TTRPG

miniver.itch.io

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Clark Valentine @clarkvalentine.bsky.social · 15h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

“Why don‘t you just-“

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Archives banned making copies.

Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 21h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New library catalogue website.

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Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 8h

Shout out to the Naked Bikeride who today ran hundreds of naked people directly through the line of federal officers and effectively blocked them from assaulting demonstrators. Being naked on a bike goes on the list of effective tactics if you get at least 500 of them and the city loves you.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 5h

I bang on about this a lot: I think the combination of a global pandemic, underregulated internet/SM, collapse/corruption of trustworthy media, plus now unregulated genAI, is a wildly toxic environment for radicalisation & mental health. We see the results of that in our politics & lives every day

James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 19h

Everyone knows at least one person (normally, but not exclusively, a guy) whose gone properly mental due to net rabbit holes.

We see public figures regularly go mad and destroy themselves.

And we have, at a policy level, just decided to put our fingers in our ears and go nahnahnah

Alastair Meeks @alastairmeeks.bsky.social · 19h

Last night I heard of another friend of a friend who has been lost to a rabbit hole of online propaganda. We need to start treating this as a serious public health concern.

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 2h

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Dragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 7h

a kirk that survives Kodos is one who would spit in Khan's face, who would refuse to back down before Kang, who would stop the bloody horrors of Ermani VI! he's got the steel hard spine of someone who knows the galaxy is cruel and unfair unless you MAKE IT better

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 3h

Having lived in the SF East Bay in the 1990s and in PDX in the 2010-20s, I strongly concur about the resemblance

JK @miniver.bsky.social · 3h

Alarming questions in this thread

SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 6h

ai as an enterprise is fundamentally the task of trying to approximately compute the true name of humanity as a whole. this is a very normal thing to do and you should not be alarmed

JK @miniver.bsky.social · 9h

A taboo against talking about the impacts of the acute pandemic era and the impacts of covid more broadly

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 13h

I'm really concerned about lefties and liberals' instinctual contempt for leadership in organizing a social movement. Signal threads to organize to defend our neighbors from ICE are blooming little authoritarians taking advantage of the chaos and power-vacuums.

www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyran...

The Tyranny of Stuctureless

The Tyranny of Stuctureless by Jo Freeman

www.jofreeman.com

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Al Sweigart @alsweigart.bsky.social · 13h

Capitalism can't be trusted with anything that doesn't get cheaper on a Black Friday Sale:

Housing, healthcare, education, food, utilities, transportation, energy...

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 13h

There is a cult of action at the heart of tech.

This cult says: don't mind that the systems are broken. Don't try and fix them. You can just do things, using you ubermensch will.

AI has plugged into this cult to promise 10x-ing your action. But instead your will becomes subservient to the machine.

"Just doing things" is not a path to value

Action for the sake of action feels good, but the path of least resistance leads you to surrender your own agency.

productpicnic.beehiiv.com

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 13h

Send every ICE employee to the fucking Hague.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 15h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 13h

At least that last season of ‘Picard’ •wanted• to be the nostalgia-baiting crap it was.

JK @miniver.bsky.social · 13h

It makes it worse for me that it WANTS to be a good show … it has such a good cast and production design … there are little glimpses of the better show it wants to be.

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 13h

Part of the bitterness of this is the death spiral of enshittification.

I was willing to pay more for quality stuff even when I could not afford it well. But we live in a world where price and quality are at best loosely coupled.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15h

Ultimately, the death of US manufacturing is about this attitude. It's easy to say "buy american or stfu" because virtue signaling is free. But it's hard to actually sustain a business because many Americans simply don't want to pay what it costs to produce things ethically in this country

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 13h

I am grateful to you for helping me understand that my reaction to SNW is not crazy.

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 13h

A two-word heading in the Unknown Armies 2E rulebook made me categorically more demanding of TTRPGs … and categorically more enthusiastic

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 13h

I’m kinda okay with the ‘Starfleet Academy’ clip. That is not a show for me, it is for someone else. Fine.

But the ‘Strange New Worlds’ clip? How would they think that would make ANYONE want to watch the show?

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 13h

A little parable of the design behind a ubiquitous useful technology

(also I am charmed to have it pointed out that it is neither a phonetic alphabet nor a creation of NATO)

The genius logic of the NATO phonetic alphabet

YouTube video by RobWords

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 16h

Names well my frustration. I’s the recklessness.

Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 17h

I’m so frustrated that the people posting dumb memes mocking Israeli culture 99.9% of the time don’t actually know shit about Israeli culture or the overlap between Israeli culture and Jewish culture (there is no clean line! You can’t parse them easily! You are a toddler playing with matches!)

JK @miniver.bsky.social · 17h

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It’s a case of one side (law enforcement, local journalists) trying to faithfully depict what’s really happening, and the other side (MAGA) concertedly lying about it to serve corrupt ends that are comprehensively, even •intentionally• disconnected from facts on the ground.
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 1d

Careful and powerful analysis by @gregsargent.bsky.social of the New York Times treating Trump's propagandists as "provocateurs" and decision to treat MAGA's ideologically-driven lies as part of a legitimate clash of perspectives in describing Portland.
newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit

A good New York Times piece on Portland nevertheless demonstrates how the conventions of objective reporting fail to accurately capture the bad faith driving pro-Trump propaganda.

newrepublic.com

JK @miniver.bsky.social · 17h

Spooktober sleeper:

‘Teeth’ is a teenage coming-of-age horror film centered on a young lady who discovers that she has a sharp something extra.

The tone of horror is delicate, and can easily drift across a line into comedic absurdity. This film dances gracefully back and forth across that line.

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Robin in the woods @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 17h

Today my ADHDemons wrote a ballad about HP Lovecraft's sex life when I should have been cooking dinner.

Robin in the woods @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 19h

The first gal he dated was Winifred;
But soon he said "Sorry, Ms Jackson;
I checked the town records, wherein-I've-read*
You're one-sixteenth non-Anglo-Saxon"

* sorry

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