Wintersong
@wintersong.bsky.social
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Queer, gender-complicated guy, photographer, lapsed EV journalist, kink/sexuality educator, intactivist/foreskin restoration advocate, pagan, living with Tourette Syndrome. He/They All opinions expressed here are my own http://wintertashlin.com
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matthewcort.land
If any child in your life has an IEP or 504 plan:

Trump fired (we think) all of the employees in the office at the US Department of Education that disburses special education funds from the federal government that school districts use to pay for those plans.
wintersong.bsky.social
I thought Daniel Craig did a good job at playing Bond, but I didn’t particularly enjoy any of the films
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thetnholler.bsky.social
When they tell you they plan on throwing out the constitution, believe them.
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ouij.bsky.social
The fact that protests now feature people who don’t normally have to worry about what might happen to them in an adverse encounter with security forces is a HUGE DEAL.

It means that the “real” victims don’t have to suffer alone. It means that some people care about something more than themselves
kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.
kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Portland, you magnificent weirdos
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sethcotlar.bsky.social
He has…sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people…

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

—Declaration of Independence, 1776
davidjbier.bsky.social
ICE agents to US citizen: Turn around or you're getting the dog.
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gettheorion.bsky.social
Late night doodle. 🖖🏻
star trek lower decks fan art of actress Tawny Newsome as her character, Mariner. She's holding a green cocktail and grinning. the text says "Big talk for someone in Bat'leth distance." Bat'leth is sprayed with blood.
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meredithshiner.com
It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.
lauraolin.bsky.social
A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.
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suesswassersee.bsky.social
Some of us have audio processing disorders and will be able to understand exactly as much bad bunny as any given beatles song
hobbydrifter.bsky.social
White people who have spent decades thinking “Born in the USA” is patriotic and “Every Breath You Take” is a great wedding song are suddenly very concerned about not being able to understand lyrics to some songs at the Super Bowl halftime show.
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hobbydrifter.bsky.social
White people who have spent decades thinking “Born in the USA” is patriotic and “Every Breath You Take” is a great wedding song are suddenly very concerned about not being able to understand lyrics to some songs at the Super Bowl halftime show.
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brainnotonyet.bsky.social
Trumps head of operations for the war being waged in Chicago is openly trying to channel the supposedly masculine imagery of the Nazis

Make no mistake these domestic enemies waging war against the states are Nazis.

Bovino is really trying to sell its aesthetic now.
Bovino standing in a Trenchcoat in a hallway lit red.  It’s giving Temu fascism.
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svartflagg.bsky.social
Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;
Riot cops standing a street with less-lethal weapons, and one in a gas mask has a cloud of pepper dust around his helmet.
wintersong.bsky.social
Another film like this is “Catwoman” (2004)

I know that’s a BAD movie, but it owns its choices, has a unique filming style, and clear visual atheistic. I don’t think it works, but I love that they tried.

Also there isn’t an actor on earth who could have done better than Halle Berry w/that script
wintersong.bsky.social
Not only did plate tectonics not threaten fortunes, it became vital to MAKING fortunes.

Geologists are linchpins of oil and natural gas prospecting. Plate tectonics heavily inform where and how fossil fuels are located and extracted.
wintersong.bsky.social
I actually think less than a decade for a relatively new scientific consensus to go from universities to 4th grade classrooms back in the 70/80s would be pretty quick

We forget today just how ok society was with being wrong about things for a while back then. I got plate tectonics by middle school
wintersong.bsky.social
Nope, a magnet school in the 2nd largest city in Massachusetts.

It takes a good bit of time for a scientific theory to gain acceptance and then trickle down to elementary school textbooks, especially in the days before the Internet made distributing information easy and fast.
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eliaseells.bsky.social
Heyo! I made a starter pack for Queer Masculinity in Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror: authors and subject matter. Let me know if you'd like to be added!

go.bsky.app/32GAjzH
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marykgames.com
I have never, ever heard a reader say their problem is too few books on the market.

I’ve heard MANY say there are so many that it’s hard to find *quality* reads, which is why they’re loyal to certain authors + publishers.

This “business” is solving a problem that doesn’t exist, using stolen work
marcorinaldi.bsky.social
Why? Who is this meant to be good for? Nobody wants your shit AI books, never mind 8,000 in a year. Just a terrible idea and a horrible road the publishing industry is heading down.
Bookseller article with the headline "New publisher Spines aims to 'disrupt' industry by using AI to publish 8,000 books in 2025 alone" 🤮🤮🤮
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dorothyparkerfucks.bsky.social
around two years ago i made the point that genAI technologies were a fascist project designed to undermine facts, truth and history and so here is some slop machine humiliating a hero of the american civil rights movement
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suzettesmith.bsky.social
Portland’s Emergency World Naked Bike Ride arrives at ICE
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socialmedialab.ca
They arrested people on the job, so it’s not about being unemployed. They arrested people in court seeking legal status, so it’s not about legality. They used the IRS to track the undocumented, so it’s not about taxes. This is about punishment, not justice. #crueltyIStheONLYpoint
juliedicaro.bsky.social
So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...
For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.
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lukesteuber.com
Generative video is going to destroy the world. Here I am, at a protest I never went to in a city that doesn’t exist being arrested by cops I’ve never met