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Nic Weyand

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founder, lilac party (committee ID: C00899518) https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00899518/ https://lilacparty.us • socialist werewolf he/they. 32. somerville, ma. https://www.nicweyand.com/ https://linktr.ee/nicweyand

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Nic Weyand @nicweyand.com · Sep 7

Reposting with a comment so I can pin this to my profile lol!

UAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · Sep 6

ICE has just ramped up its presence in the BOSTON area.
If you see something -- a raid, cars with masked agents, etc. -- call LUCE right away and record everything you can.
Support your neighbors!

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Nic Weyand @nicweyand.com · 8h

Morning, Bluesky! Time to hit the gym. Who's coming with me?

Nic Weyand @nicweyand.com · 10h

Excellent quick read about a new paper detailing basically no one is using AI, and the few that are suck as people lmao. Idk why but I laughed very hard at "Science proving only 99% of what you assumed" haha

pivot-to-ai.com/2025/10/15/a...

Some AI papers have a finding so good you just want to quote it everywhere. But many turn out to be trash. They’ve got bad statistics, they’ve got bad methodology, they’re really sales pieces, or t…

pivot-to-ai.com

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NO KINGS IN AMERICA… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 20h

BREAKING: A judge just signed an order BANNING ICE from arresting people at court in Chicago and all of Cook County.

Any ICE agents attempting to do so will now be arrested on the spot.

GOOD. 😎✨

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Nic Weyand @nicweyand.com · 11h

The must-skip event of the year!

Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 11h

and nothing of value will be said

Mike Johnson and Hakeem Jeffries will debate on C-SPAN

The yet-to-be-scheduled showdown will take place on "Ceasefire," hosted by POLITICO's Dasha Burns.

www.politico.com

Nic Weyand @nicweyand.com · 11h

.... huh.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 15h

musk personally allowed a nazi pedo doxxing cult to publish a bunch of leftists banking information, I think?

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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 11h

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 12h

it's really unfortunate that we turned out to be this stupid and venal. that we so willfully handed over rights and liberties to swindlers and warlords and ransackers and south africans. but we did. it genuinely makes me sad. i really did like a lot of things about our country

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Shade 5 @shade5.bsky.social · 15h

Her eyes were cloudy...like a Waffle House window.

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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 18h

NEW for @washingtonpost.com:

Pentagon reporters exited the building in unison Wednesday after turning in their badges, having refused to sign the Defense Department's press policy.

@nancyayoussef.bsky.social called it a “sad day for those who support a free press.”

Reporters leave Pentagon en masse after refusing to sign on to new rules

After turning in their press credentials, journalists covering the Defense Department walked out rather than comply with its restrictive new policies.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Nic Weyand @nicweyand.com · 12h

Anime is entrapment. Especially Food Wars.

⚔️Shi⚔️ @bugfanatic.bsky.social · 4d

I don't like that anime characters always gotta be so young 😭 Like wdym Shinobu is 18?! I thought she was 27 at LEAST
And Rengoku???? I thought that was a grown ass MAN, 32 or sumn 😭😭😭

Nic Weyand @nicweyand.com · 12h

Hey, you're legally not allowed to make me feel things. It's not allowed. It's illegal.

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¡ʎlloH s,ʇı 'ʎǝloɯ ʎloH @holymoleyhol.ly · 1d

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🦎galileo🍉 @galileogb.bsky.social · 1d

Sonic saying, "Support your local, human, erotica creators. You need chatgpt to suck your e-dick for you? You absolutely fucking LOSER"

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 12h

I love this guy

gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 17h

“I know I make people feel uncomfortable! That’s my entire brand.”

Climate Defiance interrupting a Cuomo presser in the best possible way.

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 1d

My neighbors have filled the Little Free Libraries with whistles so we can warn each other about ICE. Chicago is not afraid.

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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 12h

He had such a bright future ahead of him, not right that they scared Ernest stupid

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 1d

“I want that one,” said the kid in the dirty SpongeBob t-shirt, a malevolent look on his pinched face. Donald saw a single, sticky finger pointed right at him, and his creamy filling went cold. He let out a scream as the square of wax paper closed around him like a death shroud.

Donuts with smiley faces, five with happy expressions and one with a sad expression, displayed on a metal tray.

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 19h

I read the piece. You shouldn't. He dismisses the "No Kings" protests as liberals in blue cities. He invokes Rosa Parks, as if rural white people in the 60s loved everything that the movement then was doing. "We need a movement but not this one" is a core centrist tact these days.

Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 20h

Is this a joke. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

America Needs a Mass Movement—Now

Without one, America may sink into autocracy for decades.

www.theatlantic.com

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Patrick King @patrickkingart.com · 16h

Tis the season

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Nic Weyand @nicweyand.com · 17h

When did they ever apologize?

Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 1d

This story ends with some of the first concrete indications right wing extremists are responding to DHS' ICE recruitment drive. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/in-the-...

In the New Trump Era, the Proud Boys Are ‘Not Apologizing Anymore’

To hear him tell it, Gavin McInnes’ recent return to the site...

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Nic Weyand @nicweyand.com · 17h

I'm seeing more use of "traditional machine learning" instead of "AI". I love this, cuz
1. It says industry is sick of "AI" poisoning the term "AI"
2. It is a new, clear term that accurately describes legitimate ML work
3. It's funny cuz "traditional" stretches back to ~2012 with AlexNet lmao.

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Nic Weyand @nicweyand.com · 21h

Someone tag my ex

Nic Weyand @nicweyand.com · 21h

This whole era of conservative distraction politic can be summed up thusly: if "bad" is intentionally causing harm, if "evil" is willfully inflicting physical and psychological harm on another, conservatives are bad and evil.

All cons have is smoke and mirrors. Con ideology only knows bad & evil.

Nic Weyand @nicweyand.com · 21h

Yeah this notion "Republicans/Trump/conservatives are shameless" very obviously was never true.

The whole attack on "Wokeness" was *BECAUSE CONSERVATIVES WERE SHAMED FOR DOING BAD THINGS, AND DIDN'T LIKE IT*!!!! So they attacked the source of the shame, "wOkEnEsS", instead of going to therapy!!!!

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

some colleagues have suggested to me that shame is irrelevant because the people on the "other side" don't know or care what "we" (on whatever "this side") think of them. I have...not gotten that impression

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 1d

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 1d

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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