Christine Quinones
@bugsybanana.bsky.social
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Between this and the story about the ice agents who ate at a Mexican restaurant and then arrested some of its workers when they were done, it's a reminder that these people reject even the most basic social agreements of hospitality and of helping others. They're sociopaths.
CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
February 15, 2026 at 3:09 AM
Between this and the story about the ice agents who ate at a Mexican restaurant and then arrested some of its workers when they were done, it's a reminder that these people reject even the most basic social agreements of hospitality and of helping others. They're sociopaths.
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the main story of the last 10 years is a tiny handful of very rich racists paying vast sums of money to manufacture the illusion of popularity
It’s unreasonably important to me that people know JewBelong isn’t some big org, it’s just Archie Gottesman, a hugely shitty racist rich white woman who used to make billboards for her daddy’s company and pivoted to vomiting her bullshit racist crybullying onto them in the name of “antisemitism”
This is the pet project of one rich AF Jewish nepo baby white lady who lives on the upper east side and claims to speak for all Jews and throws her money around to control the messaging and it is a fucking nightmare
February 15, 2026 at 9:46 AM
the main story of the last 10 years is a tiny handful of very rich racists paying vast sums of money to manufacture the illusion of popularity
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NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics.
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The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science
Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...
www.thenerve.news
February 15, 2026 at 11:18 AM
NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics.
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Do it in the streets!
10K meters is a bit more than the distance up Broadway from Bowling Green to the Museum of Natural History. A circuit or two around Union Square ought to make up the remainder - surely the city that hosts a marathon every year can make this work!
Zohran, call me.
10K meters is a bit more than the distance up Broadway from Bowling Green to the Museum of Natural History. A circuit or two around Union Square ought to make up the remainder - surely the city that hosts a marathon every year can make this work!
Zohran, call me.
My dumbest sports opinion is that they should do Olympic speed skating on a really long, straight track instead of laps on an oval track
February 15, 2026 at 5:13 AM
Do it in the streets!
10K meters is a bit more than the distance up Broadway from Bowling Green to the Museum of Natural History. A circuit or two around Union Square ought to make up the remainder - surely the city that hosts a marathon every year can make this work!
Zohran, call me.
10K meters is a bit more than the distance up Broadway from Bowling Green to the Museum of Natural History. A circuit or two around Union Square ought to make up the remainder - surely the city that hosts a marathon every year can make this work!
Zohran, call me.
Thread on immigrating to the US, a long and expensive rigmarole at best. Don't people who want to come here to contribute to our communities deserve better?
Having gone through the US #immigration and #citizenship process myself, it's clear that most Americans have no clue how bonkers the whole process is. Let me tell you a story.
(cross-posted from FB) ...1/15 #USpoli
(cross-posted from FB) ...1/15 #USpoli
February 14, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Thread on immigrating to the US, a long and expensive rigmarole at best. Don't people who want to come here to contribute to our communities deserve better?
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This style of light doesn't really appear in animation anymore. You know it when you see it -- it's bright, hot and almost dangerous.
Our new issue explores the tricks behind it, and how one artist has revived the look for the digital age: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/dangerous-...
Our new issue explores the tricks behind it, and how one artist has revived the look for the digital age: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/dangerous-...
February 13, 2026 at 10:15 PM
This style of light doesn't really appear in animation anymore. You know it when you see it -- it's bright, hot and almost dangerous.
Our new issue explores the tricks behind it, and how one artist has revived the look for the digital age: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/dangerous-...
Our new issue explores the tricks behind it, and how one artist has revived the look for the digital age: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/dangerous-...
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You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
Breaking News: The Trump administration repealed the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being, meaning that the EPA can no longer regulate them. nyti.ms/4rSszQu
February 12, 2026 at 8:38 PM
You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
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Actual footage of Vince Guaraldi performing "Linus and Lucy". I'm gobsmacked that this exists, but utterly thrilled too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EMf...
Vince Guaraldi - earliest television recording of "Linus and Lucy"
YouTube video by Lee Mendelson Film Productions, Inc.
www.youtube.com
February 12, 2026 at 7:45 PM
Actual footage of Vince Guaraldi performing "Linus and Lucy". I'm gobsmacked that this exists, but utterly thrilled too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EMf...
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The denaturalization project, no matter how it is cloaked in law, is inherently a politically targeted abuse of power until they go after the single most prominent case of naturalization fraud in the country: Elon Musk obtaining his citizenship by lying about his prior immigration status violations.
cool, cool. so we are sort of like citizens, but not really?
February 13, 2026 at 1:17 AM
The denaturalization project, no matter how it is cloaked in law, is inherently a politically targeted abuse of power until they go after the single most prominent case of naturalization fraud in the country: Elon Musk obtaining his citizenship by lying about his prior immigration status violations.
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So. Everybody knows that "AI" is the future and inevitable and everyone loves it.
That is why Microsoft and Google are paying influencers between 400K and 600K to sell their AI products.
That is why Microsoft and Google are paying influencers between 400K and 600K to sell their AI products.
Google, Microsoft pay creators $500,000 and more to promote AI
Tech companies including Google and Microsoft are paying influencers hundreds of thousands of dollars to promote AI products.
www.cnbc.com
February 13, 2026 at 10:04 AM
So. Everybody knows that "AI" is the future and inevitable and everyone loves it.
That is why Microsoft and Google are paying influencers between 400K and 600K to sell their AI products.
That is why Microsoft and Google are paying influencers between 400K and 600K to sell their AI products.
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This is indeed broadly true of rent-stabilized landlords in NYC when they lobby against things like rent freezes or low proposed annual increases. “Rising costs” in general audience stories about this almost always describe those as, like, maintenance or wages. But it’s mostly debt-servicing.
"owners of residential buildings pay most of their rent earnings not on maintenance or operations, but to service their debts to their creditors...they borrowed too much to buy...based on an expectation that rents would rise faster than they actually did." www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/aft...
www.phenomenalworld.org
February 13, 2026 at 12:14 PM
This is indeed broadly true of rent-stabilized landlords in NYC when they lobby against things like rent freezes or low proposed annual increases. “Rising costs” in general audience stories about this almost always describe those as, like, maintenance or wages. But it’s mostly debt-servicing.
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Dell has been on this beat since the very beginning and points out a thing often missed: the cost to all of us for Amazon’s loss prevention strategy is a nationwide surveillance network.
Ring is first and foremost a scheme to charge Amazon customers to deter crime that costs Amazon (not the customers themselves) billions annually in refunds, returns, double shipping, and customer service overhead.
February 12, 2026 at 12:45 AM
Dell has been on this beat since the very beginning and points out a thing often missed: the cost to all of us for Amazon’s loss prevention strategy is a nationwide surveillance network.
Machine translations (via neural networks and the like) have been a thing as long as I've worked in the profession. They still need live human review to turn them into fluent idiomatic English.
LLMs are no different - except, perhaps, for the money they're hemorrhaging with no end in sight.
LLMs are no different - except, perhaps, for the money they're hemorrhaging with no end in sight.
Professional translators cannot be replaced by AI. Your attempt to translate a menu, sure, but actual translation is an art, translating things not just across languages but cultures and idioms. Only monolingual dickburgers could think it's all the same.
February 13, 2026 at 4:07 AM
Machine translations (via neural networks and the like) have been a thing as long as I've worked in the profession. They still need live human review to turn them into fluent idiomatic English.
LLMs are no different - except, perhaps, for the money they're hemorrhaging with no end in sight.
LLMs are no different - except, perhaps, for the money they're hemorrhaging with no end in sight.
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There's a link between the AI disruption and the authoritarian political attacks on expertise. Highly educated white collar folks considered ourselves to be a powerful culture, on the basis of our expertise & credentials. But that's not where power comes from, and we're learning that the hard way.
All I'm saying here is that there's a strong air from white collar people like we're not supposed to be disrupted. That's for blue collar folks. But we're not special. We never have been. Just lucky. And eventually your luck runs out. Capitalism comes for everybody eventually.
February 12, 2026 at 2:01 AM
There's a link between the AI disruption and the authoritarian political attacks on expertise. Highly educated white collar folks considered ourselves to be a powerful culture, on the basis of our expertise & credentials. But that's not where power comes from, and we're learning that the hard way.
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Imma try and keep this short, but this is what i think is importantly historically. The 1960s civil rights laws and decisions were not technically "new legislation." it was a restoration of what already was.
For example
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For example
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February 12, 2026 at 1:04 AM
Imma try and keep this short, but this is what i think is importantly historically. The 1960s civil rights laws and decisions were not technically "new legislation." it was a restoration of what already was.
For example
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For example
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A few years ago, I realised that any artist needs to somehow raise their own UBI. That’s what all the Patreons and Ko-Fis and Substacks are about. So the tech guys stole our work. Then developed some platforms where they could skim a bit off the top of the busker’s hat as we passed it round. Cool.
February 12, 2026 at 7:49 AM
A few years ago, I realised that any artist needs to somehow raise their own UBI. That’s what all the Patreons and Ko-Fis and Substacks are about. So the tech guys stole our work. Then developed some platforms where they could skim a bit off the top of the busker’s hat as we passed it round. Cool.
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I don’t actually want UBI for artists.
I want either
- UBI for everybody
Or
- Artists to be paid properly for our work and property again.
It’s weird to think that *both* these options are now seen as naive, impractical and romantic.
I want either
- UBI for everybody
Or
- Artists to be paid properly for our work and property again.
It’s weird to think that *both* these options are now seen as naive, impractical and romantic.
February 12, 2026 at 6:56 AM
I don’t actually want UBI for artists.
I want either
- UBI for everybody
Or
- Artists to be paid properly for our work and property again.
It’s weird to think that *both* these options are now seen as naive, impractical and romantic.
I want either
- UBI for everybody
Or
- Artists to be paid properly for our work and property again.
It’s weird to think that *both* these options are now seen as naive, impractical and romantic.
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This is wonderful.
Thinking it wouldn’t be necessary if artists could still profit commercially from the success of our work.
But multi billion dollar corporations decided they’d like it all for free, thanks, to offer to the public for almost nothing.
Irish taxpayers will now subsidise that.
Thinking it wouldn’t be necessary if artists could still profit commercially from the success of our work.
But multi billion dollar corporations decided they’d like it all for free, thanks, to offer to the public for almost nothing.
Irish taxpayers will now subsidise that.
February 12, 2026 at 6:30 AM
This is wonderful.
Thinking it wouldn’t be necessary if artists could still profit commercially from the success of our work.
But multi billion dollar corporations decided they’d like it all for free, thanks, to offer to the public for almost nothing.
Irish taxpayers will now subsidise that.
Thinking it wouldn’t be necessary if artists could still profit commercially from the success of our work.
But multi billion dollar corporations decided they’d like it all for free, thanks, to offer to the public for almost nothing.
Irish taxpayers will now subsidise that.
Behind every great fortune is a great crime. To coin a phrase.
When you dig deeper around mysteriously successful figures you generally find that rather than being incomprehensibly brilliant masters of the universe, they actually just lied a bunch and committed a bunch of crimes that no one wanted to look too hard at
February 12, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Behind every great fortune is a great crime. To coin a phrase.
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Yeah, I’m sort of convinced that Epstein, rather than being in some kind of far-reaching conspiracy with elites, was instead SCAMMING THOSE ELITES. He was a fraud, who illicitly acquired a fortune, then used it plus the girls around him to open doors and pass himself off as something he wasn’t.
Couple getting your first few hundred million in that way with then trading off the incredible insider information your network of “friends” sends to you, and there’s no huge mystery to solve as to Epstein’s wealth.
He didn’t need to blackmail. Real soft power is subtler than that.
He didn’t need to blackmail. Real soft power is subtler than that.
February 12, 2026 at 12:01 PM
Yeah, I’m sort of convinced that Epstein, rather than being in some kind of far-reaching conspiracy with elites, was instead SCAMMING THOSE ELITES. He was a fraud, who illicitly acquired a fortune, then used it plus the girls around him to open doors and pass himself off as something he wasn’t.
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On Lincoln's birthday, it's useful to remember he believed the primary goal of the American experiment was to guarantee "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" and the best way to achieve that goal was through free and fair elections. It's basically the thesis of the Gettysburg Address. 1/2
February 12, 2026 at 12:43 PM
On Lincoln's birthday, it's useful to remember he believed the primary goal of the American experiment was to guarantee "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" and the best way to achieve that goal was through free and fair elections. It's basically the thesis of the Gettysburg Address. 1/2
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I know I’m fixating, but “shooting down party balloons and using it as a pretext for war” is literally the “99 Luftballons” story arc. 🎈🤯 (Even “Miami 2017” didn’t map this closely.)
![Wikipedia entry describing the story arc of “99 Luftballons”:
The lyrics of the original German version tell a story:
99 balloons are mistaken for UFOs, causing a military general to send pilots to investigate. Finding nothing but balloons, the pilots put on a large show of firepower. The display of force worries the nations along the borders and the defence ministers on each side encourage conflict to grab power for themselves.
In the end, a cataclysmic war results from the otherwise harmless flight of balloons and causes devastation on all sides without a victor, as indicated in the denouement of the song: "99 Jahre Krieg ließen keinen Platz für Sieger," which means "99 years of war left no room for victors." The anti-war song finishes with the singer walking through the devastated ruins of the world and finding a single balloon. The description of what happens in the final line of the piece is the same in German and English:
'''Denk' an dich und lass' ihn fliegen," or "Think of you and let it go."[11]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4dp4culto5csbqs5m6ge22fw/bafkreie4ga5vudhvz4e25t5oducxifde6sf2zgal7wugci2bv5ee2qfcoe@jpeg)
February 11, 2026 at 9:20 PM
I know I’m fixating, but “shooting down party balloons and using it as a pretext for war” is literally the “99 Luftballons” story arc. 🎈🤯 (Even “Miami 2017” didn’t map this closely.)
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I’m a non white scholarship private school and Ivy kid
This is :
- anti feminist yes but also racial segregation remixed
- a new brand of shifting societal issues onto women and part of Project Eve so irresponsible yall make my ass itch
- a disturbing signal of an uptick in abuse
I’m a non white scholarship private school and Ivy kid
This is :
- anti feminist yes but also racial segregation remixed
- a new brand of shifting societal issues onto women and part of Project Eve so irresponsible yall make my ass itch
- a disturbing signal of an uptick in abuse
Looking for an edge in college admissions? Just pull your kid from school. Homeschooling, long associated with hippies and religious conservatives in the U.S., is in the middle of a rebrand and a boom.
The Homeschooling Hack
Looking for an edge in college admissions? Just pull your kid from school. Homeschooling, long associated with hippies and religious conservatives in the U.S., is in the middle of a rebrand and a boom.
nymag.com
February 12, 2026 at 2:30 PM
….
I’m a non white scholarship private school and Ivy kid
This is :
- anti feminist yes but also racial segregation remixed
- a new brand of shifting societal issues onto women and part of Project Eve so irresponsible yall make my ass itch
- a disturbing signal of an uptick in abuse
I’m a non white scholarship private school and Ivy kid
This is :
- anti feminist yes but also racial segregation remixed
- a new brand of shifting societal issues onto women and part of Project Eve so irresponsible yall make my ass itch
- a disturbing signal of an uptick in abuse
Thread from an attorney in Minneapolis, up and down.
Legal status doesn’t matter: if you exceed ICE’s melanin threshold, you get snatched. It is ethnic cleansing. There is no other word for it.
The news has shown you video of these often violent detentions. What you don’t see is what happens to these individuals after.
I’ve had a front row seat.
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The news has shown you video of these often violent detentions. What you don’t see is what happens to these individuals after.
I’ve had a front row seat.
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February 12, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Thread from an attorney in Minneapolis, up and down.
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I know a lot of very creative and talented people who love board games, and many have been out of work for so long they've given up
Kendzior's idea seems like a worthy task to fill the time, and maybe even a good way to get paid
Kendzior's idea seems like a worthy task to fill the time, and maybe even a good way to get paid
The Dems should invent a board game where voters get their donor lists and a list of predators from the Epstein files and see how many matches they can make. Voters can play it on the kitchen table so it's a "kitchen-table issue".
I cannot stress enough this is a totally made up conundrum and you do not actually need to field test if talking about how our entire government is controlled by child rapists is interesting.
February 12, 2026 at 2:34 PM
I know a lot of very creative and talented people who love board games, and many have been out of work for so long they've given up
Kendzior's idea seems like a worthy task to fill the time, and maybe even a good way to get paid
Kendzior's idea seems like a worthy task to fill the time, and maybe even a good way to get paid