Chip
@dinosaurrobo.bsky.social
Mostly on here to talk about cartoon robots, so be advised.
Archivist in Maryland. Also on Mastodon as [email protected]
Archivist in Maryland. Also on Mastodon as [email protected]
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Brief operational term of art 🧵 to help better define what we're experiencing. What we're experiencing is state terror. I've seen a lot of terms thrown around for what the Trump admin is doing w/ICE, CBP, & other federal law enforcement (LE). The now largely out of use term is state terror. 1/
January 17, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Brief operational term of art 🧵 to help better define what we're experiencing. What we're experiencing is state terror. I've seen a lot of terms thrown around for what the Trump admin is doing w/ICE, CBP, & other federal law enforcement (LE). The now largely out of use term is state terror. 1/
If you see this, post a Transformer.
January 17, 2026 at 5:00 PM
If you see this, post a Transformer.
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This is one of the most badass, inspirational things I've ever heard
!!!!!
January 15, 2026 at 6:14 PM
This is one of the most badass, inspirational things I've ever heard
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They're literally taking hostages
"Homeland Security refused to release more information, unless the tribe 'entered into an immigration agreement with ICE.'"
I don't even know what to say at this point except fuck ICE and fuck the settler colonial government of the so-called united states
apnews.com/article/ice-...
I don't even know what to say at this point except fuck ICE and fuck the settler colonial government of the so-called united states
apnews.com/article/ice-...
Oglala Sioux Tribe says three tribal members arrested in Minneapolis are in ICE detention
The president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe in South Dakota said three of the four tribal members detained by ICE agents in Minneapolis last week have been transferred to an ICE facility and called for th...
apnews.com
January 15, 2026 at 3:36 AM
They're literally taking hostages
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Holy hell, what an obituary
Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime’s Nuclear Program
www.nytimes.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Holy hell, what an obituary
NYT had to give up on diners. In 2016 they’d interview people idling at a diner on the middle of the work day, report that rural America is now 100% MAGA, and later you’d find that the county went for Clinton. That they now have to ask the day drinkers at the worst bar in America tells us something.
wait wait, these people are literally in hell, this is a scene from hell as depicted in "america horror" or "school spirits" or whatever
January 15, 2026 at 4:48 PM
NYT had to give up on diners. In 2016 they’d interview people idling at a diner on the middle of the work day, report that rural America is now 100% MAGA, and later you’d find that the county went for Clinton. That they now have to ask the day drinkers at the worst bar in America tells us something.
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Either Palestine becomes free, or every place gradually becomes Gaza.
they’ll blame you for being in their way even when they’re the ones who invaded the neighborhood where your baby was sleeping inside your home
January 15, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Either Palestine becomes free, or every place gradually becomes Gaza.
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My husband was on the 2 train and a guy started braying about how Renee Good deserved to die and her "lesbian lover" did too. My husband got pissed and said, "You're absolutely disgusting." "Fuck you!" the guy said. "Fuck YOU!" my husband said. The guy left.
See? We just need to talk to each other.
See? We just need to talk to each other.
January 14, 2026 at 11:46 PM
My husband was on the 2 train and a guy started braying about how Renee Good deserved to die and her "lesbian lover" did too. My husband got pissed and said, "You're absolutely disgusting." "Fuck you!" the guy said. "Fuck YOU!" my husband said. The guy left.
See? We just need to talk to each other.
See? We just need to talk to each other.
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Feel like it should be bigger news that the regime is now deploying chemical weapons against domestic protests.
I was supposed to be in bed an hour ago but sending links and videos to people so they know to avoid the green gas (zinc chloride).
Once a lab steward, always a lab steward.
Seriously, I was a chemist twenty years ago, you do NOT want heavy metal toxicity. It fucks you up in weird ways.
Once a lab steward, always a lab steward.
Seriously, I was a chemist twenty years ago, you do NOT want heavy metal toxicity. It fucks you up in weird ways.
January 15, 2026 at 12:20 PM
Feel like it should be bigger news that the regime is now deploying chemical weapons against domestic protests.
My representative keeps voting for the worst bills and her only primary challenger is some weirdo whose priority is banning credit cards; he’ll get single digits.
If we get a blue wave will it make a difference? Am I supposed to believe that?
If we get a blue wave will it make a difference? Am I supposed to believe that?
The House voted 341 to 79 to fund Trump's war-mongering foreign policy agenda.
Only 57 Democrats voted NO.
clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/rol...
Only 57 Democrats voted NO.
clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/rol...
January 15, 2026 at 1:18 AM
My representative keeps voting for the worst bills and her only primary challenger is some weirdo whose priority is banning credit cards; he’ll get single digits.
If we get a blue wave will it make a difference? Am I supposed to believe that?
If we get a blue wave will it make a difference? Am I supposed to believe that?
Post your favorite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only.
January 14, 2026 at 11:38 AM
Post your favorite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only.
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You (yes, you) should watch Aura Battler Dunbine
January 14, 2026 at 2:38 AM
You (yes, you) should watch Aura Battler Dunbine
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People don't want to accept that the primary reason that we have Trump today is that the previous administration completely failed. It should have never gotten to the point where it was in the so-called hands of the voters. It was already too late by then.
SEOUL, Jan 13 (Reuters) - South Korea's special prosecutor on Tuesday requested the death penalty for former president Yoon Suk Yeol on charges of insurrection over his brief imposition of martial law in December 2024.
January 13, 2026 at 6:58 PM
People don't want to accept that the primary reason that we have Trump today is that the previous administration completely failed. It should have never gotten to the point where it was in the so-called hands of the voters. It was already too late by then.
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Let's do this.
youtu.be/KUSwocntUMY?...
youtu.be/KUSwocntUMY?...
January 13, 2026 at 3:45 AM
Let's do this.
youtu.be/KUSwocntUMY?...
youtu.be/KUSwocntUMY?...
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I spent most of my childhood summers at a YMCA camp on the Flatrock River. It’s a tributary of the White, which is tributary of the Wabash. And as Jim Nabors reminded us every Memorial Day Sunday in his booming tone, “WHEN I DREAM ABOUT THE MOONLIGHT ON THE WABASH, THEN I LONG FOR MY INDIANA HOME.”
The Mississippi by birth, but my heart and soul belong to the Willamette.
My favorite Twitter prompt was "RT this with your home river," so reskeet this with your home river.
Mine is the Patuxent.
Mine is the Patuxent.
January 12, 2026 at 11:34 PM
I spent most of my childhood summers at a YMCA camp on the Flatrock River. It’s a tributary of the White, which is tributary of the Wabash. And as Jim Nabors reminded us every Memorial Day Sunday in his booming tone, “WHEN I DREAM ABOUT THE MOONLIGHT ON THE WABASH, THEN I LONG FOR MY INDIANA HOME.”
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At long last, China has built the megawatt-scale airborne wind system from the classic sci-fi novel "Do build the megawatt-scale airborne wind system to produce 10x more energy".
NEW: China is testing a megawatt-scale airborne wind system that captures stronger high-altitude winds, potentially producing up to 10× more energy with 40% less material and 30% lower costs. It could also be quickly deployed to supply emergency power after disasters.
January 11, 2026 at 4:12 AM
At long last, China has built the megawatt-scale airborne wind system from the classic sci-fi novel "Do build the megawatt-scale airborne wind system to produce 10x more energy".
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The Virgin Democratic Party Establishment Candidate: "ICE isn't coordinating with local police. This is no way to bring down prices!"
The Chad Episcopalian Bishop: "I have instructed my priests to prepare for martyrdom."
The Chad Episcopalian Bishop: "I have instructed my priests to prepare for martyrdom."
At last night’s candlelight vigil for Renee Nicole Good, Bishop Rob Hirschfeld of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire announced he had asked the clergy of the diocese to get their affairs in order and to make sure they have their wills written ...,
January 11, 2026 at 3:52 AM
The Virgin Democratic Party Establishment Candidate: "ICE isn't coordinating with local police. This is no way to bring down prices!"
The Chad Episcopalian Bishop: "I have instructed my priests to prepare for martyrdom."
The Chad Episcopalian Bishop: "I have instructed my priests to prepare for martyrdom."
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the ICE officer calling a woman he just murdered a “fucking bitch” is visceral, but imo the most material new information in the latest video is that she very clearly turns the wheel away from the officer right before it happens
January 9, 2026 at 7:15 PM
the ICE officer calling a woman he just murdered a “fucking bitch” is visceral, but imo the most material new information in the latest video is that she very clearly turns the wheel away from the officer right before it happens
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Czech poster GODZILLA VS. MONSTER ZERO (1965)
January 9, 2026 at 1:34 PM
Czech poster GODZILLA VS. MONSTER ZERO (1965)
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blogged it defector.com/how-hard-is-...
January 8, 2026 at 6:08 PM
blogged it defector.com/how-hard-is-...
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Rest in power to Keith Porter who was murdered by an ICE agent in Los Angeles.
It’s terrible that his name is just now being circulated, but now that it is, continue to say his name.
It’s terrible that his name is just now being circulated, but now that it is, continue to say his name.
Advocates want legal action after man shot and killed by off-duty ICE agent in Northridge
Advocates argue that the off-duty ICE agent wasn't trained for the situation and should have called police and waited for them to arrive.
abc7.com
January 9, 2026 at 6:04 AM
Rest in power to Keith Porter who was murdered by an ICE agent in Los Angeles.
It’s terrible that his name is just now being circulated, but now that it is, continue to say his name.
It’s terrible that his name is just now being circulated, but now that it is, continue to say his name.