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classicalposting

@appliancesnow.bsky.social

i would give anything to have technology conections on hasan's stream oh my lord...

February 2, 2026 at 8:59 AM

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cta

@chicagocta.bsky.social

Our crews have installed e-paper screens that we are piloting at 17 bus stops across Chicago!

And with a little movie magic, this talented crew puts one together in under 60 seconds. 😉

January 28, 2026 at 12:52 AM

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unraveled

@unraveledpress.com

Friends don't let friends follow AltNPS

AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 10d

Completely insane. AltNPS claimed to know the name of Alex Pretti's killer, refused to say it because "the truth always comes out," and then just deleted the post.

A man was executed on the street in my hometown, and AltNPS is using that as an excuse to vaguepost for attention.

Alt National Park Service: ICE agent identified that murdered Alex Pretti.

Alt National Park Service: We will not share it here, but the truth always comes out.

January 25, 2026 at 6:18 PM

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting.
2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value.
3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE.
4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on.
5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle."
6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground.

7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack.
8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video.
9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk.
10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun.
11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him.
12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes.

13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times.
14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him.
15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1.
16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground.
17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building.
18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bear

witness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values.
I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct.

Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.

January 25, 2026 at 1:15 AM

classicalposting

@appliancesnow.bsky.social

lmao what’s even the point of whole disk encryption atp

The Verge @theverge.com · 10d

Microsoft handed the government ecryption keys for customer data

Microsoft complied with a warrant to hand over BitLocker recovery keys to the FBI, and privacy advocates are worried.

buff.ly

January 25, 2026 at 12:18 AM

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Louise Matsakis

@lmatsakis.bsky.social

NEW: ICE is asking companies to provide information about “commercial Big Data and Ad Tech” products that could “directly support investigations activities,” reports @carolinehaskins.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/ice-as...

ICE Asks Companies About ‘Ad Tech and Big Data’ Tools It Could Use in Investigations

A new federal filing from ICE demonstrates how commercial tools are increasingly being considered by the government for law enforcement and surveillance.

www.wired.com

January 24, 2026 at 10:31 PM

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Pacific Antifascist Research Collective

@pacantifa.is

Tyler O'Ryan Gramlin, 32, of Borden, IN is a Border Patrol Agent who has traveled from state to state committing extreme violence. On Jan 21, 2026 Gramlin emptied a can of pepper spray directly in the face of a prone protester at point-blank range in Minneapolis #MPLS #OneOfOursAllOfYours #UnmaskICE

VIOLENT DHS / ICE OFFICER - ARMED AND DANGEROUS
TYLER GRAMLIN
SUSPECTED KIDNAPPER/TERRORIST
Borden, IN CBP
Tyler O'Ryan Gramlin, 32, of Borden, IN is a Border Patrol Agent who has traveled from state to state committing extreme violence.
In Jan 2026, Gramlin emptied a can of pepper spray directly in the face of a prone protester at point-blank range in Minneapolis.
Spray attack 1/21/26
Before spray attack
DISCLAIMER: Ths is a community warning only. All info is from public sources and may be incomplete or inaccurate. We make no legal claims as to guilt. We condemn all threats,
violence, harassment, or sharing private info including addresses, phone
numbers, or familv member info. The First Amendment protects documentation of suspected official misconduct.
DO NOT APPROACH OR ATTEMPT TO APPREHEND THIS INDIVIDUAL.

Gramlin's hand emptying a can of pepper spray directly in the face of a protester who is restrained on the ground

January 22, 2026 at 3:38 AM

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David Ho

@davidho.bsky.social

It was inevitable.

Amazon's Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police | TechCrunch

Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."

techcrunch.com

January 19, 2026 at 8:02 AM

classicalposting

@appliancesnow.bsky.social

horrible news for piss fans

ISS Piss Tracker @iss-piss-tracker.bsky.social · 17d

This isn't normal or accurate. Telemetry is down right now and all data is zeroed out. Correct values will return when it's back up.

ISS Piss Tracker @iss-piss-tracker.bsky.social · 17d

The piss tank on the ISS is now 0% full.

January 18, 2026 at 10:42 PM

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nilay patel

@reckless.bsky.social

lol the NYT didn’t have to wait until the goons took to the streets, The Verge ran this package in 2022 www.theverge.com/c/23055922/h...

January 18, 2026 at 3:53 PM

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Taylor Lorenz

@taylorlorenz.bsky.social

Larry Ellison named a giant yacht "Izanami" after a Shinto deity, but quickly renamed it after it was pointed out that the name spelled "I'm a Nazi" backwards

January 15, 2026 at 5:42 AM

classicalposting

@appliancesnow.bsky.social

at this rate microsoft is going to announce they've broken AES with a quantum computer in an investor update mentioning a partnership with palantir and flock safety and the markets won't even blink

January 14, 2026 at 2:25 AM

classicalposting

@appliancesnow.bsky.social

she looks tired #freenancy

Nancy Pelosi @pelosi.house.gov · 22d

Great to welcome @caltrain.com CEO Michelle Bouchard to Washington today.

Caltrain’s electrification is delivering faster, cleaner and more reliable service in the Bay Area—powering America’s fastest-growing transit agency and proving that investments in public transit work.

January 13, 2026 at 5:33 AM

classicalposting

@appliancesnow.bsky.social

can we please reframe ai uses eight thousand bottles of water per google search to the demand for datacenters is exponentially up and companies are perpetuating centuries of building dirty infrastructure in neighboorhods that are mostly minorities and don’t have structural power to refuse

January 11, 2026 at 8:28 PM

classicalposting

@appliancesnow.bsky.social

unfortunately just witnessed a michelle obama 2028 shirt

January 10, 2026 at 9:34 PM

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Kat Abughazaleh

@katmabu.bsky.social

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.

This could be you.

Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting
"They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head."
An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911

"They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries.
"We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.

January 8, 2026 at 12:15 AM

classicalposting

@appliancesnow.bsky.social

chat gpt what is blowback

January 3, 2026 at 10:01 PM

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onion person

@junlper.beer

lowkirkenuinely my favorite album of the year

December 21, 2025 at 2:02 AM

classicalposting

@appliancesnow.bsky.social

HARRIS CLINTON 2028 !

Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · Dec 15

Kamala Harris is reportedly preparing for another White House run, per Axios.

December 15, 2025 at 8:13 PM

classicalposting

@appliancesnow.bsky.social

success w/ tool calls w/ most models on openrouter has gone down a lot recently in my anecdotal experience

December 15, 2025 at 8:13 PM

classicalposting

@appliancesnow.bsky.social

siri ask chatgpt what are the implications of chatgpt convincing sam altman to transition to transgender?

December 11, 2025 at 4:32 AM

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cta

@chicagocta.bsky.social

We're celebrating the final graduating class of 2025 🎓👏
Each one of these 77 individuals is now prepared to step into their roles and help keep Chicago moving!