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Designer of Weel, the calendar app for people who experience time differently (ADHD, time blindness, dyscalculia): @weelplanner.bsky.social
Online since 1985. 🇫🇮/🇩🇪, she/they. Learn and explain synths and more at www.spongefile.com
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· Jan 10
Weel Planner | ADHD Calendar App for iOS
No more missed events. Weel is an ADHD calendar that gets how you think. Discover tools to address time blindness, dyscalculia, alarm numbness, and more.
www.weelplanner.app
Shameless plug! I made an indie calendar app for people with #adhd .
Check it out here and repost if you like it. www.weelplanner.app
Check it out here and repost if you like it. www.weelplanner.app
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The worst thing about the ongoing ”peace negotiations” and Trump’s Greenland gambit is that they distract from Russia’s ongoing humanitarian warfare.
Happy to report that @lapatina.bsky.social and friends have been busy delivering emergency batteries around Kyiv ! A good way to help ⬇️
Happy to report that @lapatina.bsky.social and friends have been busy delivering emergency batteries around Kyiv ! A good way to help ⬇️
February 2, 2026 at 8:21 AM
The worst thing about the ongoing ”peace negotiations” and Trump’s Greenland gambit is that they distract from Russia’s ongoing humanitarian warfare.
Happy to report that @lapatina.bsky.social and friends have been busy delivering emergency batteries around Kyiv ! A good way to help ⬇️
Happy to report that @lapatina.bsky.social and friends have been busy delivering emergency batteries around Kyiv ! A good way to help ⬇️
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i made a version of wikipedia you can doomscroll
xikipedia.org
xikipedia.org
February 1, 2026 at 11:43 PM
i made a version of wikipedia you can doomscroll
xikipedia.org
xikipedia.org
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read online that someone set-up a premium rate phone number where callers get charged $3.99/ min. then they posted flyers in their neighborhood that said "call this number to report illegal aliens," but the number just puts them on hold with music. so far, they've made $17,000
February 1, 2026 at 8:28 PM
read online that someone set-up a premium rate phone number where callers get charged $3.99/ min. then they posted flyers in their neighborhood that said "call this number to report illegal aliens," but the number just puts them on hold with music. so far, they've made $17,000
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Immigration offices are among the most stressful places in a city.
Emotions run high cause life decisions are getting made.
Navigating a huge building when you’re stressed isn’t an extra you need.
That’s probably why Berlin invested in a bold signage system for its State Office for Immigration.
Emotions run high cause life decisions are getting made.
Navigating a huge building when you’re stressed isn’t an extra you need.
That’s probably why Berlin invested in a bold signage system for its State Office for Immigration.
February 2, 2026 at 7:51 AM
Immigration offices are among the most stressful places in a city.
Emotions run high cause life decisions are getting made.
Navigating a huge building when you’re stressed isn’t an extra you need.
That’s probably why Berlin invested in a bold signage system for its State Office for Immigration.
Emotions run high cause life decisions are getting made.
Navigating a huge building when you’re stressed isn’t an extra you need.
That’s probably why Berlin invested in a bold signage system for its State Office for Immigration.
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Data protection, as a concept, grew out of post-war legal scholarship in Germany which reflected on the use of data about people by the Nazi Govt, and formulated a set of limits on data use which recognised that to collect and use data about people was to impact the people’s lives.
If anyone doubts how prescient and important the German Constitutional Court‘s 1983 decision on self-determination regarding information was - the US offers a powerful example of how things can go wrong
A manual for ICE's immigrant-targeting computer system, Palantir ELITE, was leaked today.
Let's look at it, then step back to evaluate how far we've come along a dangerous road and where that road might take us. 🧵
Let's look at it, then step back to evaluate how far we've come along a dangerous road and where that road might take us. 🧵
February 1, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Data protection, as a concept, grew out of post-war legal scholarship in Germany which reflected on the use of data about people by the Nazi Govt, and formulated a set of limits on data use which recognised that to collect and use data about people was to impact the people’s lives.
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The app features gamified neighborhood maps, like Pokémon Go for hunting immigrants. Palantir warns the software is "not for mass prioritization of locations where lots of people it [ICE] might detain could be based."
But this is what actually happens when you give ICE a map and a quota:
But this is what actually happens when you give ICE a map and a quota:
![In testimony 404 Media obtained from a case in Oregon, an ICE official said ELITE is what ICE sometimes uses to track the apparent density of people at a particular location to target. “You’re going to go to a more dense population rather than [...] like, if there’s one pin at a house and the likelihood of them actually living there is like 10 percent [...] you’re not going to go there,” the official said. “It’s basically a map of the United States. It’s kind of like Google Maps.” That case related to a woman, who has the initials MJMA in the court records, who was detained with more than 30 other people in what her lawyers described as a dragnet.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2mpndi3qhexg5azmyrjtvvou/bafkreigs2lzm5vsmvs2lcxznvyajt6xejaizolyturlttlxvyoylbz4at4@jpeg)
January 31, 2026 at 3:39 AM
The app features gamified neighborhood maps, like Pokémon Go for hunting immigrants. Palantir warns the software is "not for mass prioritization of locations where lots of people it [ICE] might detain could be based."
But this is what actually happens when you give ICE a map and a quota:
But this is what actually happens when you give ICE a map and a quota:
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Too many ignore things that happen to Black Americans first. Then act surprised when they become victims of the same injustice. We have seen innocent victims image tarnished to justify murder. Now we see them test rounding up journalists. Black people are tired of our coal mine canary status.
January 31, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Too many ignore things that happen to Black Americans first. Then act surprised when they become victims of the same injustice. We have seen innocent victims image tarnished to justify murder. Now we see them test rounding up journalists. Black people are tired of our coal mine canary status.
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Web search is now so bad for coding stuff (it’s almost impossible to unearth obscure content with very specific queries, there’s always a bias towards obvious, straightforward results) that it’s basically forcing people to use AI
January 31, 2026 at 8:54 AM
Web search is now so bad for coding stuff (it’s almost impossible to unearth obscure content with very specific queries, there’s always a bias towards obvious, straightforward results) that it’s basically forcing people to use AI
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NEW: Meet the private-equity firm -- and its billionaire immigrant CEO -- making millions off some of ICE's cruelest deportation flights.
After a five-month investigation, my story for @motherjones.com:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
After a five-month investigation, my story for @motherjones.com:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
ICE Deportation Flights Are Getting Longer and Crueler
A private equity-owned airline profits off Trump’s migrant crackdown.
www.motherjones.com
January 30, 2026 at 12:42 PM
NEW: Meet the private-equity firm -- and its billionaire immigrant CEO -- making millions off some of ICE's cruelest deportation flights.
After a five-month investigation, my story for @motherjones.com:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
After a five-month investigation, my story for @motherjones.com:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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I helped out with a hackathon about assistive tech and AI and I made a pointing device to help blind and partially sighted people navigate using a #Smartibot board. Combined with the (8 year old) AI in the app it worked surprisingly well allowing Chris to follow me through space
January 28, 2026 at 1:06 PM
I helped out with a hackathon about assistive tech and AI and I made a pointing device to help blind and partially sighted people navigate using a #Smartibot board. Combined with the (8 year old) AI in the app it worked surprisingly well allowing Chris to follow me through space
Torille?
“.. Nonconsensual sexual deepfakes of women and children are a violent, unacceptable form of degradation,” Henna Virkkunen, the European Commission executive vice president who oversees enforcement of the Digital Service Act, said in a statement.
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/b...
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/b...
January 26, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Torille?
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“.. Nonconsensual sexual deepfakes of women and children are a violent, unacceptable form of degradation,” Henna Virkkunen, the European Commission executive vice president who oversees enforcement of the Digital Service Act, said in a statement.
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/b...
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/b...
January 26, 2026 at 11:44 AM
“.. Nonconsensual sexual deepfakes of women and children are a violent, unacceptable form of degradation,” Henna Virkkunen, the European Commission executive vice president who oversees enforcement of the Digital Service Act, said in a statement.
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/b...
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/b...
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recently learned about “dek bass”, a sound system culture in rural West Bengal, using cassette decks and homemade systems, and it’s remarkable because 1) the music and equipment are sick and 2) the DJ always looks like he’s being briefed on a national security issue
January 26, 2026 at 3:56 AM
recently learned about “dek bass”, a sound system culture in rural West Bengal, using cassette decks and homemade systems, and it’s remarkable because 1) the music and equipment are sick and 2) the DJ always looks like he’s being briefed on a national security issue
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I think more of you should be getting your news from photographers. Here’s a thread. Most aren’t here. Sorry, you’ll have to branch out.
Scott Olson, Getty.
Scott Olson, Getty.
Scott Olson on Instagram: "Border patrol agents smash out a man’s car window before taking him into custody for failing to present citizenship documentation while at a gas station in St. Paul, MN. #b...
8,138 likes, 402 comments - olsongetty on January 11, 2026: "Border patrol agents smash out a man’s car window before taking him into custody for failing to present citizenship documentation while at ...
www.instagram.com
January 24, 2026 at 2:19 PM
I think more of you should be getting your news from photographers. Here’s a thread. Most aren’t here. Sorry, you’ll have to branch out.
Scott Olson, Getty.
Scott Olson, Getty.
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"The lies this administration is telling about Ms. Good aren’t those you deploy as part of a cover-up. They’re those you use when you want to show you can get away with anything. They’re a projection of power." - @radleybalko.bsky.social
Opinion | I’ve Covered Police Abuse for 20 Years. What ICE Is Doing Is Different.
www.nytimes.com
January 21, 2026 at 12:19 PM
"The lies this administration is telling about Ms. Good aren’t those you deploy as part of a cover-up. They’re those you use when you want to show you can get away with anything. They’re a projection of power." - @radleybalko.bsky.social
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. @radleybalko.bsky.social documents the Trump regime’s extensive deployment of what @mashagessen.bsky.social calls “power lies” in response to ICE’s killing of Renee Good.
January 21, 2026 at 12:48 PM
. @radleybalko.bsky.social documents the Trump regime’s extensive deployment of what @mashagessen.bsky.social calls “power lies” in response to ICE’s killing of Renee Good.
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This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
January 20, 2026 at 10:53 PM
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
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Just dropping this here.
January 20, 2026 at 7:02 AM
Just dropping this here.
Just got a new phone.
…how do I turn stupid Liquid Glass off
#Apple doesn’t seem to be innovating anymore, just changing things because it’s time for another update.
…how do I turn stupid Liquid Glass off
#Apple doesn’t seem to be innovating anymore, just changing things because it’s time for another update.
January 16, 2026 at 12:19 PM
Just got a new phone.
…how do I turn stupid Liquid Glass off
#Apple doesn’t seem to be innovating anymore, just changing things because it’s time for another update.
…how do I turn stupid Liquid Glass off
#Apple doesn’t seem to be innovating anymore, just changing things because it’s time for another update.
Anyone remember War Games from 1980something?
Feels like it could use a rewatch
Feels like it could use a rewatch
January 14, 2026 at 7:45 AM
Anyone remember War Games from 1980something?
Feels like it could use a rewatch
Feels like it could use a rewatch
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I didn't save this tweet but somebody did and it feels worth resurfacing
January 13, 2026 at 4:08 AM
I didn't save this tweet but somebody did and it feels worth resurfacing
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“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.” - Arendt
If you don't get that the promulgation of half-truths and outright lies is how we got into this g.d. mess in the first place, then you're, you'll pardon me, even stupider than you look.
January 13, 2026 at 4:08 AM
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.” - Arendt
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In a sane world, this would be front page news everywhere.
But it will hardly be covered anywhere.
The North Pacific Ocean surface warmed over twice as much over the past 15 years than it did over the preceding 156 years.
That's an increase in warming rate of >2000%!
But it will hardly be covered anywhere.
The North Pacific Ocean surface warmed over twice as much over the past 15 years than it did over the preceding 156 years.
That's an increase in warming rate of >2000%!
January 10, 2026 at 1:57 PM
In a sane world, this would be front page news everywhere.
But it will hardly be covered anywhere.
The North Pacific Ocean surface warmed over twice as much over the past 15 years than it did over the preceding 156 years.
That's an increase in warming rate of >2000%!
But it will hardly be covered anywhere.
The North Pacific Ocean surface warmed over twice as much over the past 15 years than it did over the preceding 156 years.
That's an increase in warming rate of >2000%!
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