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Mike Lensi
@clinamina.bsky.social
250 followers 160 following 150 posts
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
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Mike Lensi @clinamina.bsky.social · Jan 27
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One book 📚
One film 🎥
One album💿
One show 📺
Cover of the book "Beyond Concepts" by Ruth Millikan. Poster for the movie "Kaze Tachinu" aka "The Wind Rises" by Studio Ghibli. Alternative album cover for (2010-era) Kanye West's "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy". Poster for Shōgun, 2024 TV series.
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crindivisible.bsky.social
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
clinamina.bsky.social
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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dollydagger6.bsky.social
Read this. Reread it. Reread it until it sinks in.
January 28, 2026 at 7:46 PM
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astrokatie.com
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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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
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samthielman.com
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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hiromunagahara.bsky.social
I genuinely love how his righteous anger is MN-accent-ed.
gaykwon.bsky.social Street Sharks Explained 🇨🇺🇵🇸 @gaykwon.bsky.social · Jan 15
This dude is intense and correct
January 15, 2026 at 2:25 PM
clinamina.bsky.social
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a...

#cats #tracks #medieval
A Cat Left Paw Prints on the Pages of This Medieval Manuscript When the Ink Was Drying 500 Years Ago
An exhibition called "Paws on Parchment" tracks how cats were depicted in the Middle Ages through texts and artworks from around the world—including one example of a 15th-century "keyboard cat"
www.smithsonianmag.com
January 14, 2026 at 11:49 AM
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fivebooks.com
“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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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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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justinwolfers.bsky.social
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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fivebooks.com
"Could all of us, wherever we live, find a bit more wildness and nature on our doorstep?"
fivebooks.com/best-books/l...
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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meidastouch.com
🚨 The White House is now actively covering up a murder.
January 8, 2026 at 4:25 PM
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atrupar.com
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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qjurecic.bsky.social
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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bayesianboy.bsky.social
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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marisakabas.bsky.social
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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hurricanexyz.bsky.social
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
geoffgarin.bsky.social Geoff Garin @geoffgarin.bsky.social · Jan 6
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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kim.senate.gov
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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seanmcarroll.bsky.social
Mindscape 339 | Ned Block on Whether Consciousness Requires Biology. #MindscapePodcast

www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026...
Title card for Mindscape podcast episode with Ned Block
January 5, 2026 at 2:34 PM
clinamina.bsky.social
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
Two tiers of a bookshelf. Various trinkets and artworks adorn the top. The other shelf contains sundry philosophy texts, a model airplane, and some pocket knives. Theee tiers of a bookshelf. Various trinkets and artworks adorn the top. The middle shelf contains sundry philosophy texts, a model airplane, and some pocket knives. The lower shelf is mostly filled with Japanese history and cultural materials.
January 4, 2026 at 7:43 PM
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erinys.uwu.lgbt
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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klonick.bsky.social
Guess we shouldn’t be surprised when the Department of War starts one.
January 3, 2026 at 8:23 AM
clinamina.bsky.social
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
1/48 scale model of the WW2-era Mitsubishi Type-9 prototype, on fake grass with a little tree and an autumn-leaves background for maximum ambiance. Still frames from the Studio Ghibli animated movie The Wind Rises. Top view of scale model airplane, in progress. 1/48 scale model airplane - Mitsubishi Type-9 prototype - in front of some ukiyo-e reprints.
January 2, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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aaronrosspowell.com
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