RootfireEmber
@rootfire.bsky.social
🎨Artist 🤖 Geek 📚Writer ⚕️Psych Disabled
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Videtur et hoc mihi, ICE non debere esse
🐕🦺greyhounded 🦖Chaos Goblin ♠️ace
Videtur et hoc mihi, ICE non debere esse
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ICYMI — “I identified myself as a U.S. citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. ICE Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas and pepper spray into my car, dragged me out… this experience violated the very principles I fought to defend.”
December 11, 2025 at 4:16 AM
ICYMI — “I identified myself as a U.S. citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. ICE Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas and pepper spray into my car, dragged me out… this experience violated the very principles I fought to defend.”
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If I end up actually having this in the app, this will prevent me from focusing on a good palette, I will instead want the logo to look good.
Unsure about wanting to replacing the O with the logo..
Unsure about wanting to replacing the O with the logo..
December 10, 2025 at 9:31 AM
If I end up actually having this in the app, this will prevent me from focusing on a good palette, I will instead want the logo to look good.
Unsure about wanting to replacing the O with the logo..
Unsure about wanting to replacing the O with the logo..
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A new report says Nova Scotia is failing to adequately protect female migrant workers employed on farms and seafood plants in the province. #HoustonFail #NovaScotia
halifax.citynews.ca/2025/12/10/r...
halifax.citynews.ca/2025/12/10/r...
Report raises concerns about human rights of N.S. female migrant workers
HALIFAX — A new report says Nova Scotia is failing to adequately protect female migrant workers employed on farms and seafood plants in the province. The report, published by the Centre for Migrant Wo...
halifax.citynews.ca
December 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
A new report says Nova Scotia is failing to adequately protect female migrant workers employed on farms and seafood plants in the province. #HoustonFail #NovaScotia
halifax.citynews.ca/2025/12/10/r...
halifax.citynews.ca/2025/12/10/r...
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Time to cleanse my timeline 🤣
Summer sunset walk with a view of Table Mountain, SOUTH AFRICA.
Summer sunset walk with a view of Table Mountain, SOUTH AFRICA.
December 10, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Time to cleanse my timeline 🤣
Summer sunset walk with a view of Table Mountain, SOUTH AFRICA.
Summer sunset walk with a view of Table Mountain, SOUTH AFRICA.
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Richest 1/1000th of world’s population controls 3 times more wealth than the poorest 50%. "The global wealth gap has become so staggering, and its impact on economies & democratic institutions so corrosive, that policymakers should treat it as an emergency..." www.commondreams.org/news/world-i...
Richest 0.001% Now Own Three Times More Wealth Than Poorest Half of Humanity Combined | Common Dreams
A landmark report on global inequality shows that
the chasm between the richest slice of humanity and everyone else
continued to expand this year
www.commondreams.org
December 11, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Richest 1/1000th of world’s population controls 3 times more wealth than the poorest 50%. "The global wealth gap has become so staggering, and its impact on economies & democratic institutions so corrosive, that policymakers should treat it as an emergency..." www.commondreams.org/news/world-i...
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Watercolour painting of Meg for Fluffy Fursday!
#cats #catsofbluesky #fluffyfursday #petportraits #watercolours #painting
#cats #catsofbluesky #fluffyfursday #petportraits #watercolours #painting
December 11, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Watercolour painting of Meg for Fluffy Fursday!
#cats #catsofbluesky #fluffyfursday #petportraits #watercolours #painting
#cats #catsofbluesky #fluffyfursday #petportraits #watercolours #painting
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So the US just hijacked an oil tanker and the president casually says “I guess we keep the oil”
Is this not just theft
Is this not just theft
December 11, 2025 at 12:21 AM
So the US just hijacked an oil tanker and the president casually says “I guess we keep the oil”
Is this not just theft
Is this not just theft
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"She seemed to walk in an atmosphere of things about to happen."
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
Decorating the Christmas Tree
🎨 Marcel Rieder (1898)
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
Decorating the Christmas Tree
🎨 Marcel Rieder (1898)
December 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
"She seemed to walk in an atmosphere of things about to happen."
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
Decorating the Christmas Tree
🎨 Marcel Rieder (1898)
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
Decorating the Christmas Tree
🎨 Marcel Rieder (1898)
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Good new terrible information about the uwu smoll bean tech startup Flock in this decidedly non-glazing piece
December 11, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Good new terrible information about the uwu smoll bean tech startup Flock in this decidedly non-glazing piece
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Pretty writing and eating table with Sèvres dated 1780, coll MET more here: www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
#foodhistory
#foodhistory
December 11, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Pretty writing and eating table with Sèvres dated 1780, coll MET more here: www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
#foodhistory
#foodhistory
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Rin-TIn-Tin upstages irl wife Nanette in CLASH OF THE WOLVES
December 11, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Rin-TIn-Tin upstages irl wife Nanette in CLASH OF THE WOLVES
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December 11, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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This is a huge problem for libraries. We have the problem of “bit rot,” both as the decay of the physical carriers of digital media and as the obsolescence of software & hardware to render that media for use.
And then we have DRM and the problem of ownership.
Going digital is very expensive. 📚
And then we have DRM and the problem of ownership.
Going digital is very expensive. 📚
Physical media is actually more longlasting for posterity than digital media in so many ways. You have books written a thousand years ago carefully preserved in Timbuktu. An article published online may vanish so no one has any record of your work anymore.
December 11, 2025 at 1:13 PM
This is a huge problem for libraries. We have the problem of “bit rot,” both as the decay of the physical carriers of digital media and as the obsolescence of software & hardware to render that media for use.
And then we have DRM and the problem of ownership.
Going digital is very expensive. 📚
And then we have DRM and the problem of ownership.
Going digital is very expensive. 📚
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Trump's 'vocabulary has reduced dramatically' as his mind fades away: DC insider
www.rawstory.com/trump-declin...
www.rawstory.com/trump-declin...
Trump's 'vocabulary has reduced dramatically' as his mind fades away: DC insider
President Donald Trump's cognitive decline was on full display this week, longtime Beltway reporter John Heilemann told MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace on "Deadline: White House" — and it's obvious when you ...
www.rawstory.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Trump's 'vocabulary has reduced dramatically' as his mind fades away: DC insider
www.rawstory.com/trump-declin...
www.rawstory.com/trump-declin...
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this is the guy who wants an AI Dead Nan
December 10, 2025 at 11:29 PM
this is the guy who wants an AI Dead Nan
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Tomorrow is the day. The Senate will be voting on extending the ACA premium tax credits. I want to be very clear. This would need 60 votes to pass the Senate, we only have 47 Dems, and the likelihood that an additional 13 Republicans vote with us is, not 0, but not much higher.
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December 11, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Tomorrow is the day. The Senate will be voting on extending the ACA premium tax credits. I want to be very clear. This would need 60 votes to pass the Senate, we only have 47 Dems, and the likelihood that an additional 13 Republicans vote with us is, not 0, but not much higher.
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Shares in AI giant Oracle fall after revenue miss
Shares in AI giant Oracle fall after revenue miss
The cloud computing giant's revenue miss renews questions about its financial health.
www.bbc.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Shares in AI giant Oracle fall after revenue miss
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This is going to be my editor dragging me over the finish line on this book project
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 11, 2025 at 12:14 AM
This is going to be my editor dragging me over the finish line on this book project
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8 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- United Methodist pastor Rev. Phillipa Phaneuf of Rochester NY comes out mid-service: "I’m not becoming a woman, I’m giving up pretending to be a man." [Watch the vid]
Pastor, 51, Comes Out as Transgender During Emotional Church Service: I'm 'Truly Happy for the First Time in a Very Long Time'
A pastor came out as transgender during a recent church service in Rochester, N.Y. Rev. Phillipa Phaneuf made the announcement while wearing a stole with a rainbow pattern.
people.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:54 PM
8 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- United Methodist pastor Rev. Phillipa Phaneuf of Rochester NY comes out mid-service: "I’m not becoming a woman, I’m giving up pretending to be a man." [Watch the vid]
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404 Media is making a print zine! About the surveillance technologies used by ICE. 16 pages, riso printed. Shipping early January. Features reworked versions of our best reporting and a few new things. We're very excited! And hope to do more if people like it:
www.404media.co/404-media-is...
www.404media.co/404-media-is...
404 Media Is Making a Zine
We are publishing a risograph-printed zine about the surveillance technologies used by ICE.
www.404media.co
December 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM
404 Media is making a print zine! About the surveillance technologies used by ICE. 16 pages, riso printed. Shipping early January. Features reworked versions of our best reporting and a few new things. We're very excited! And hope to do more if people like it:
www.404media.co/404-media-is...
www.404media.co/404-media-is...