ImagineBGP
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She, her. Pearl’s mother, gardener, doer of sporadic attempts at art. Lefty but with discernment. If you only want a perfect echo chamber of Lefty Establishment thought, don’t follow *me*.
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ImagineBGP
@bearku.bsky.social
· Jan 29
Seeking the middle Way between panic and head-in-the-sand is tricky. I may not always get it right; it’s a work in progress.
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Tennessee polls close at 7 PM CT. If you’re in line when polls close, stay in line. Your vote will count. LFG!
December 2, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Tennessee polls close at 7 PM CT. If you’re in line when polls close, stay in line. Your vote will count. LFG!
Oh, Blueberry! Thank you for showing me what precision and grace really mean. Fair winds, Buddy. Run in green fields.
December 2, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Oh, Blueberry! Thank you for showing me what precision and grace really mean. Fair winds, Buddy. Run in green fields.
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Gee, it’s almost as if the Secretary of Defense ordered his subordinates to carry out an order his department’s own Law of War manual explicitly states is illegal.
"The requirement to refuse to comply with orders to commit law of war violations applies to orders to perform conduct that is clearly illegal or orders that the subordinate knows...are illegal. For example, 𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐮𝐩𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐰𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐥."
-DoD Law of War manual
-DoD Law of War manual
December 2, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Gee, it’s almost as if the Secretary of Defense ordered his subordinates to carry out an order his department’s own Law of War manual explicitly states is illegal.
I turned back on my FB notifications because I couldn’t tolerate the constant prompt, asking if I’d like to turn on notifications. As you might imagine, this did not improve things.
December 1, 2025 at 12:22 PM
I turned back on my FB notifications because I couldn’t tolerate the constant prompt, asking if I’d like to turn on notifications. As you might imagine, this did not improve things.
Just to be clear. We all are aware that Venezuela has the largest oil reserves on the planet. Right?
December 1, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Just to be clear. We all are aware that Venezuela has the largest oil reserves on the planet. Right?
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If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
November 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
I miss the magnetic power supply connection.
November 30, 2025 at 10:53 PM
I miss the magnetic power supply connection.
Before the snow started.
November 30, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Before the snow started.
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“Based on the available evidence, the skills that future graduates will most need in the AI era—creative thinking, the capacity to learn new things, flexible modes of analysis—are precisely those that are likely to be eroded by inserting AI into the educational process.”
“When you allow a machine to summarize your reading, to generate the ideas for your essay, and then to write that essay, you’re not learning how to read, think, or write.“
November 30, 2025 at 11:10 AM
“Based on the available evidence, the skills that future graduates will most need in the AI era—creative thinking, the capacity to learn new things, flexible modes of analysis—are precisely those that are likely to be eroded by inserting AI into the educational process.”
One thing about the recent availability of obesity drugs is that I used to be impressed when people lost a hundred pounds. Now I just know they have money. I don’t think any the less of them, but certainly not any more of them either.
November 30, 2025 at 12:19 PM
One thing about the recent availability of obesity drugs is that I used to be impressed when people lost a hundred pounds. Now I just know they have money. I don’t think any the less of them, but certainly not any more of them either.
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This week saw an excellent talk on Moonlit monuments by Carolyn Kennett for #Cornwall Archaeological Society (CAS) about the role moonlight might have played in their materials and use. Immediately I thought Duloe circle. Not in moonlight but sunset certainly elevates the quartz #StandingStoneSunday
November 30, 2025 at 7:32 AM
This week saw an excellent talk on Moonlit monuments by Carolyn Kennett for #Cornwall Archaeological Society (CAS) about the role moonlight might have played in their materials and use. Immediately I thought Duloe circle. Not in moonlight but sunset certainly elevates the quartz #StandingStoneSunday
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What a headline. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:04 AM
What a headline. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
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November 29, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Thing is, we DID hear about it at his confirmation hearing.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
Everyone should read this terrifying thread about Hegseth’s published views wrt war crimes. It’s pretty fucking radical …. We needed to hear about this in his confirmation hearing.
A chapter in Hegseth’s book is literally titled “More Lethality, Less Lawyers.”
It’s almost as if there were signs!
It’s almost as if there were signs!
November 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Thing is, we DID hear about it at his confirmation hearing.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
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Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
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The War on Drugs, and the War on Terror (which were both massive failures) have now given birth to the War on Narcoterrorism, which in practice looks like the Trump regime murdering random sailors, while simultaneously pardoning any convicted drug trafficker that cuts them a cheque or asks nicely.
Fascinating how quickly the "war on terrorism" has now become the "war on narcoterrorism."
Media did nothing to hold accountable the administrations who ignited and perpetuated the made up "war on terror" and now they sit as complicit stenographers for the made up "war on narcoterror." What a shame
Media did nothing to hold accountable the administrations who ignited and perpetuated the made up "war on terror" and now they sit as complicit stenographers for the made up "war on narcoterror." What a shame
November 29, 2025 at 5:53 PM
The War on Drugs, and the War on Terror (which were both massive failures) have now given birth to the War on Narcoterrorism, which in practice looks like the Trump regime murdering random sailors, while simultaneously pardoning any convicted drug trafficker that cuts them a cheque or asks nicely.
I’m charmed by how your “five animals you’ve seen in the wild”meme can reveal where you live (or at least what sort of wild you frequent). I’m a North Eastern USA coniferous-forest-near-the-sea person with a smattering of Big Woods Michigan thrown in.
November 29, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I’m charmed by how your “five animals you’ve seen in the wild”meme can reveal where you live (or at least what sort of wild you frequent). I’m a North Eastern USA coniferous-forest-near-the-sea person with a smattering of Big Woods Michigan thrown in.
I put Nutella on warmed leftover cornbread and wow. Those ancient Mexica or Toltec or whomever (I can’t remember) sure were right about corn & chocolate together. ☕️ Good with coffee.
November 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I put Nutella on warmed leftover cornbread and wow. Those ancient Mexica or Toltec or whomever (I can’t remember) sure were right about corn & chocolate together. ☕️ Good with coffee.
It’s in the upper 20s (F) here, so for this dog walk I will wear a spring parka under my winter parka. I’m a lightweight. If it drops further, then we’re talking snow pants and yes, they do look funny. ❄️
November 29, 2025 at 2:33 PM
It’s in the upper 20s (F) here, so for this dog walk I will wear a spring parka under my winter parka. I’m a lightweight. If it drops further, then we’re talking snow pants and yes, they do look funny. ❄️
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Home Depot wanted holiday cheer, got a whole-ass choir calling out their partnership with ICE instead…
November 29, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Home Depot wanted holiday cheer, got a whole-ass choir calling out their partnership with ICE instead…
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It’s important to note that every single one of these Chicago ICE/ CBP stories DID receive massive coverage by our local media. It was local press together with vigilant residents that documented & then unraveled nearly every lie about the incidents as well.
Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...
ICE agent who shot woman in Chicago drove Border Patrol vehicle back to Maine
An unnamed ICE agent, who shot and injured a woman in Chicago, is now back in Maine after driving the Border Patrol vehicle he was in 1,100 miles.
wgme.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:47 AM
It’s important to note that every single one of these Chicago ICE/ CBP stories DID receive massive coverage by our local media. It was local press together with vigilant residents that documented & then unraveled nearly every lie about the incidents as well.
So that shooter was living safe and free in the US. What’s his motivation for killing random National Guard troops? Where is his family? Are they safe? Who has he met with in the last three months?
November 28, 2025 at 12:06 PM
So that shooter was living safe and free in the US. What’s his motivation for killing random National Guard troops? Where is his family? Are they safe? Who has he met with in the last three months?
Could someone explain why people are choosing to avoid using alt text? Can it be ignorance at this late date?
November 27, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Could someone explain why people are choosing to avoid using alt text? Can it be ignorance at this late date?
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My guess is MAGA did the shooting and the fascist will pretend it was a Dem so he can declare martial law.
November 26, 2025 at 7:52 PM
My guess is MAGA did the shooting and the fascist will pretend it was a Dem so he can declare martial law.