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Mike Lensi
@clinamina.bsky.social
I love the natural world and philosophies thereof. Lege feliciter.

Permanent obsessions:
* animal tracks
* philosophy of mind / perception
* Japanese history / culture
* world history
* cats
* your mom

Temporary obsessions:
* shogi
* knives
* your dad
Pinned
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One book 📚
One film 🎥
One album💿
One show 📺
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Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 2:37 AM
www.nhm.ac.uk/wpy/peoples-...

This deer speared its rival so hard it now carries the rotting head around. SO. FUCKING. METAL.

#nature #NatureIsMetal #photography
Never-ending Struggle | Wildlife Photographer of the Year | Natural History Museum
A sika deer carries the interlocked severed head of a rival male that had died after their battle. In autumn, male sika deer fight over females by clashing their antlers. This deer won the fight, bu...
www.nhm.ac.uk
February 5, 2026 at 2:41 AM
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Read this. Reread it. Reread it until it sinks in.
January 28, 2026 at 7:46 PM
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A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
January 25, 2026 at 12:28 PM
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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.
January 25, 2026 at 1:15 AM
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MLK writing from prison: "You deplore the demonstrations that are presently taking place in Birmingham. But I am sorry that your statement did not express a similar concern for the conditions that brought the demonstrations into being."
Martin Luther King Jr. Warned About The Anti-Abolish-ICE Democrat
The heritage that valued order over justice during the civil rights movement animates the Democrat elected and consultant who wants to "retrain" a nativist death squad
www.forever-wars.com
January 19, 2026 at 5:57 PM
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I genuinely love how his righteous anger is MN-accent-ed.
This dude is intense and correct
January 15, 2026 at 2:25 PM
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“The genius of representative democracy is that it separates how we as citizens feel about the system of government from how we feel about the government of the day”
fivebooks.com/best-books/a...
The Administrative State
Harvard economist Paul Tucker recommends the best books on liberalism's dilemma, and offers a deep exploration of "the administrative state".
fivebooks.com
January 12, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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The message from the White House this morning is that, once again, it falls on ordinary American citizens to remain calm and professional when dealing with the heavily armed agents of the government because they are very emotional and might fly off into a murderous rage at the slightest insult.
January 11, 2026 at 3:19 PM
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What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?
January 12, 2026 at 1:44 AM
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"Could all of us, wherever we live, find a bit more wildness and nature on our doorstep?"
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Local Adventures
Wonderful as it would be to climb Mount Everest or row across the Atlantic, not all of us will get the chance to go on an epic adventure. But that doesn't mean we can't go exploring. Alastair…
fivebooks.com
January 10, 2026 at 7:01 PM
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🚨 The White House is now actively covering up a murder.
January 8, 2026 at 4:25 PM
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Mayor Jacob Frey: "They are already trying to spin this as an action of self defense. Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly that is bullshit."
January 7, 2026 at 6:39 PM
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ICE and CBP have a habit of turning themselves into victims in cases where they're the ones wielding violence
January 7, 2026 at 8:38 PM
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ICE agents are now killing Americans with impunity. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9CJ...
ICE officer fatally shoots driver in Minneapolis
YouTube video by Minnesota Reformer
www.youtube.com
January 7, 2026 at 7:11 PM
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trump did january 6th. republicans did january 6th. violent traitors did january 6th. they stormed the capitol, destroyed the building and threatened to kill members of congress. ashli babbitt was a violent insurrectionist. the capitol police protected people. these are truths we need to repeat.
January 6, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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Of course the ENTIRE PREMISE of modernity is that we've found an alternative to the law of the strong

That this is why the world is infinitely richer, freer, more peaceful than it was four hundred years ago

But sure, might irreducibly makes right, why not
Here is the Trump Doctrine, as articulated by Stephen Miller in his truly frightening interview with Jake Tapper this afternoon. It is very much like the doctrine of the dictators we fought and defeated in World War II and of Putin today. It is un-American at its very core.
January 6, 2026 at 6:32 AM
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Trump’s doing mob boss politics again — this time on a global scale.

He doesn’t have a plan for what comes next, just another half-baked scheme to help his friends get richer.
January 6, 2026 at 1:19 AM
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Mindscape 339 | Ned Block on Whether Consciousness Requires Biology. #MindscapePodcast

www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026...
January 5, 2026 at 2:34 PM
A secular shrine. Depressed people often divest themselves of worldy goods; to live is to live amongst material. Healthy minds hook themselves into this material world responsibly. Collecting is ethical mental health.

#BookSky #Books #ResponsibleMaterialism #Ethics #Philosophy #Shrine
January 4, 2026 at 7:43 PM
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hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison
January 3, 2026 at 7:02 AM
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Guess we shouldn’t be surprised when the Department of War starts one.
January 3, 2026 at 8:23 AM
This one’s for my fellow plane otakus. The aircraft of Jiro’s dreams, the inverted gull-wing prototype of the A5M Claude, aka Mitsubishi Experiment-9 Single-Seat Fighter (九試単座戦闘機). From Studio Ghibli’s most underrated film “The Wind Rises”.

#オタク #飛行機オタク #スタジオジブリ #ジブリ #風立ちぬ #WW2 #堀越二郎
January 2, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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RIP to one of the best to ever do it. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Spanish woman who found fame for botching fresco restoration dies
Cecilia Giménez's effort to restore the painting Ecce Homo earned the artwork the nickname "Monkey Christ".
www.bbc.com
December 30, 2025 at 3:06 PM