@belleawesome.bsky.social
Biologist. Trans woman. Pretty private person on here. Mostly I just lurk, but a bunch of profiles I like to follow said they would start blocking people if there wasn't a bio and a pic, and I didn't want to be blocked. :(
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Soft launch NOTHING.
Ring has been committed to making mass user driven surveillance palatable since it rolled out those cute ads of people greeting loved ones or returning packages or whatever.
They’ve been affectively priming us to accept surveillance as s fact of life for decades.
Ring has been committed to making mass user driven surveillance palatable since it rolled out those cute ads of people greeting loved ones or returning packages or whatever.
They’ve been affectively priming us to accept surveillance as s fact of life for decades.
the soft launch of mass surveillance.
don’t fall for it.
don’t fall for it.
Here's that Ring #SuperBowl commercial:
February 9, 2026 at 4:09 AM
Soft launch NOTHING.
Ring has been committed to making mass user driven surveillance palatable since it rolled out those cute ads of people greeting loved ones or returning packages or whatever.
They’ve been affectively priming us to accept surveillance as s fact of life for decades.
Ring has been committed to making mass user driven surveillance palatable since it rolled out those cute ads of people greeting loved ones or returning packages or whatever.
They’ve been affectively priming us to accept surveillance as s fact of life for decades.
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the founder of latinos for trump was detained by ICE & deported so idk what they were really expecting here
Republicans are freaking out about Hispanic voters after a Texas upset
Republicans are freaking out about Hispanic voters after a Texas upset
Democrats flipped a deep-red state senate district over the weekend that has the party worried about November.
dlvr.it
February 4, 2026 at 12:01 AM
the founder of latinos for trump was detained by ICE & deported so idk what they were really expecting here
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"moot is in the epstein files" is the completely true sentence that has finally convinced me this is all an extremely stupid simulation and that we're all being used to power a robot overlord's game gear or something
January 31, 2026 at 3:22 AM
"moot is in the epstein files" is the completely true sentence that has finally convinced me this is all an extremely stupid simulation and that we're all being used to power a robot overlord's game gear or something
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abolish ICE
abolish the police
abolish trump
abolish imperialism
liberation not assimilation
abolish the police
abolish trump
abolish imperialism
liberation not assimilation
January 30, 2026 at 11:43 PM
abolish ICE
abolish the police
abolish trump
abolish imperialism
liberation not assimilation
abolish the police
abolish trump
abolish imperialism
liberation not assimilation
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"We have survived worse than this!"
"We"
"We"
January 21, 2025 at 4:47 AM
"We have survived worse than this!"
"We"
"We"
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An entire community of thousands, here legally, having been demonized with deranged lies about eating pets, is about to be arbitrarily DECLARED illegal so they can be forcibly ethnically cleansed. I don’t want to hear one more fucking word about comparisons to Nazi Germany being overwrought.
January 29, 2026 at 3:20 AM
An entire community of thousands, here legally, having been demonized with deranged lies about eating pets, is about to be arbitrarily DECLARED illegal so they can be forcibly ethnically cleansed. I don’t want to hear one more fucking word about comparisons to Nazi Germany being overwrought.
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One blip of light among the darkness today:
A 25 year old trans guy in biology messaged me on LinkedIn and thanked me for my visibility and making him feel less alone
No single person can fix the horrors we're in
But every voice that says "this is not okay" gives hope to others 💖🏳️⚧️
A 25 year old trans guy in biology messaged me on LinkedIn and thanked me for my visibility and making him feel less alone
No single person can fix the horrors we're in
But every voice that says "this is not okay" gives hope to others 💖🏳️⚧️
January 24, 2026 at 9:02 PM
One blip of light among the darkness today:
A 25 year old trans guy in biology messaged me on LinkedIn and thanked me for my visibility and making him feel less alone
No single person can fix the horrors we're in
But every voice that says "this is not okay" gives hope to others 💖🏳️⚧️
A 25 year old trans guy in biology messaged me on LinkedIn and thanked me for my visibility and making him feel less alone
No single person can fix the horrors we're in
But every voice that says "this is not okay" gives hope to others 💖🏳️⚧️
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I'm sorry, but the reaction to Brianna Ghey being murdered by people she knew offline *because she was transgender* becoming 'we should stop teenagers from being on social media' rather than 'we should deal with the recent horrifying rise of transphobia in the UK' is unbelievably fucking bullshit.
January 28, 2026 at 6:32 PM
I'm sorry, but the reaction to Brianna Ghey being murdered by people she knew offline *because she was transgender* becoming 'we should stop teenagers from being on social media' rather than 'we should deal with the recent horrifying rise of transphobia in the UK' is unbelievably fucking bullshit.
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Everything seems to be escalating so fast this week. Feels like the powder keg is about to blow. Hate this 😵💫
January 28, 2026 at 2:17 AM
Everything seems to be escalating so fast this week. Feels like the powder keg is about to blow. Hate this 😵💫
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And like your right to remain silent, anything they record can and will be used against you. If it benefits you, you'll never see it.
January 27, 2026 at 3:04 PM
And like your right to remain silent, anything they record can and will be used against you. If it benefits you, you'll never see it.
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I will go further and say that people using the "r"-word are hoping that bringing it back opens the door to bringing back the "n"-word, and is strongly correlated with the people who want to carve off trans rights as a stepping stone to claw back gay rights in general
I assume anyone who says this word is probably okay with the n-word, too. Or, more charitably, doesn’t understand why they shouldn’t say it just that saying it would get them in a lot of trouble.
January 27, 2026 at 2:35 PM
I will go further and say that people using the "r"-word are hoping that bringing it back opens the door to bringing back the "n"-word, and is strongly correlated with the people who want to carve off trans rights as a stepping stone to claw back gay rights in general
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The only things you need to transition are patience, faith and 250,000 dollars
January 27, 2026 at 3:43 PM
The only things you need to transition are patience, faith and 250,000 dollars
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If you are new to the idea that ICE and police are hurting people and that the country we live in has long since hurtled into fascism, you may be surprised when the people who have known this for a long time greet you by saying, “you’re late!” It might even sting a little. It might make you angry,
January 27, 2026 at 2:19 PM
If you are new to the idea that ICE and police are hurting people and that the country we live in has long since hurtled into fascism, you may be surprised when the people who have known this for a long time greet you by saying, “you’re late!” It might even sting a little. It might make you angry,
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There's something so insane about the fact that the app stores will, to the best of their ability, prevent you from accessing consensual pornography while letting pornography that is, by default, nonconsensual pass with a shrug
A review of the app stores “found 55 nudify apps on Google Play and 47 in the Apple App Store…”
Apple, Google host dozens of AI ‘nudify’ apps like Grok, report finds
A tech watchdog organization found 55 nudify apps on Google Play and 47 in the Apple App Store.
www.cnbc.com
January 27, 2026 at 3:31 PM
There's something so insane about the fact that the app stores will, to the best of their ability, prevent you from accessing consensual pornography while letting pornography that is, by default, nonconsensual pass with a shrug
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"Return CBP to the border"
Now that you have seen what CBP does, why is it okay to have them on the US-Mexico or US-Canada border? Some people say they want "a controlled border" but at what cost to life?
Now that you have seen what CBP does, why is it okay to have them on the US-Mexico or US-Canada border? Some people say they want "a controlled border" but at what cost to life?
January 27, 2026 at 1:23 PM
"Return CBP to the border"
Now that you have seen what CBP does, why is it okay to have them on the US-Mexico or US-Canada border? Some people say they want "a controlled border" but at what cost to life?
Now that you have seen what CBP does, why is it okay to have them on the US-Mexico or US-Canada border? Some people say they want "a controlled border" but at what cost to life?
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It didn't start with gas chambers.
It started with restriction of movement for certain groups. The labeling of "undesirables". The forcing of some people to stop existing in public life.
It ends with gas chambers.
It started with restriction of movement for certain groups. The labeling of "undesirables". The forcing of some people to stop existing in public life.
It ends with gas chambers.
January 27, 2026 at 2:33 PM
It didn't start with gas chambers.
It started with restriction of movement for certain groups. The labeling of "undesirables". The forcing of some people to stop existing in public life.
It ends with gas chambers.
It started with restriction of movement for certain groups. The labeling of "undesirables". The forcing of some people to stop existing in public life.
It ends with gas chambers.
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Do these companies think it's just about making more stuff as quickly as possible?
We have enough books, films, and games to fill every minute-every hour until we're dead.
Engaging new material is a desire to hear contemporary voices and ideas, not just to heap more shit on an endless shitpile.
We have enough books, films, and games to fill every minute-every hour until we're dead.
Engaging new material is a desire to hear contemporary voices and ideas, not just to heap more shit on an endless shitpile.
January 27, 2026 at 12:37 PM
Do these companies think it's just about making more stuff as quickly as possible?
We have enough books, films, and games to fill every minute-every hour until we're dead.
Engaging new material is a desire to hear contemporary voices and ideas, not just to heap more shit on an endless shitpile.
We have enough books, films, and games to fill every minute-every hour until we're dead.
Engaging new material is a desire to hear contemporary voices and ideas, not just to heap more shit on an endless shitpile.
I already hate Elsevier with every fiber of my being as a scientist, but this kicks it up a notch...
A post is going around noting that the parent company of Emerald City Comic Con is collaborating with ICE. The parent company in question is RELX, owners of Elsevier
January 26, 2026 at 9:32 PM
I already hate Elsevier with every fiber of my being as a scientist, but this kicks it up a notch...
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after what happened with Twitter I’m deeply skeptical people will abandon a social network they’re invested in over an ownership change but if they really are immediately censoring TikTok in a notable way in the aftermath of a radicalizing event there’s a chance they actually fuck up this transition
This morning, I recorded a video on TikTok about why DHS’s arguments for the power to enter homes without judicial warrants in immigration cases are bunk.
Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared.
Well, here’s a link:
georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...
Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared.
Well, here’s a link:
georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...
January 26, 2026 at 4:24 AM
after what happened with Twitter I’m deeply skeptical people will abandon a social network they’re invested in over an ownership change but if they really are immediately censoring TikTok in a notable way in the aftermath of a radicalizing event there’s a chance they actually fuck up this transition
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i also vooted. good job bud. we did the bare minimum & wiped our ass.
electoralism is neither the only nor the most effective form of politics available to us in the imperial core.
punch right instead of left, bozo.
electoralism is neither the only nor the most effective form of politics available to us in the imperial core.
punch right instead of left, bozo.
January 25, 2026 at 6:05 PM
i also vooted. good job bud. we did the bare minimum & wiped our ass.
electoralism is neither the only nor the most effective form of politics available to us in the imperial core.
punch right instead of left, bozo.
electoralism is neither the only nor the most effective form of politics available to us in the imperial core.
punch right instead of left, bozo.
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pleading with the richest man in the world for him to let you continue covering international news is so fucking grim
Washpost foreign correspondents plead with Bezos to keep the overseas bureaus alive.
January 25, 2026 at 5:56 PM
pleading with the richest man in the world for him to let you continue covering international news is so fucking grim
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Alex Pretti's gun is like Renee Good's car: irrelevant to the central fact that they were murdered by ICE. ICE wants us to debate whether Pretti should have been carrying because that avoids the central fact. Pro-carry, anti-carry--that has as much to do w/ his murder as his fashion choices. Zero.
January 25, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Alex Pretti's gun is like Renee Good's car: irrelevant to the central fact that they were murdered by ICE. ICE wants us to debate whether Pretti should have been carrying because that avoids the central fact. Pro-carry, anti-carry--that has as much to do w/ his murder as his fashion choices. Zero.
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the angle from the lady in the pink coat is out and it is worse and you don’t need to make yourself watch it but it makes it absolutely stone cold clear that this was a summary execution for no reason
January 24, 2026 at 7:11 PM
the angle from the lady in the pink coat is out and it is worse and you don’t need to make yourself watch it but it makes it absolutely stone cold clear that this was a summary execution for no reason