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Reposted by Robert Arnold

@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003

when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

January 12, 2026 at 8:04 PM

Robert Arnold

@late-adopter.bsky.social

Such good, clear thinking: pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...

Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

pluralistic.net

December 10, 2025 at 8:45 PM

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

listen to this king. a team with low morale is ineffective. relatedly, a team with high morale is effective. also relatedly: we are going to win

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · Nov 20

“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”

Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter

Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter

Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.

www.motherjones.com

November 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM

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Good Boy

@goodboy.bsky.social

A horrible story but god bless this woman so accurately reading the ICE goons for filth here

Marisa said she is eft with nothing BUt questions.
"What if I would have been armed," she 2 said. "You're breaking in. What am 1 supposed to think? My initial thought was we were being robbed-that my daughters, being females, were being kidnapped. You have guns pointed in our faces. Can you just reprogram yourself and see us as humans, as women? A little bit of mercy. Care a little bit about your fellow human, about your fellow citizen, fellow resident. We bleed too. We vork. We pleed justlike anybody else bleeds. We're scared. You could see our faces that we were terrified. What makes you so much more worthier of your peace? What makes you so much more worthier of protecting your children? What makes you so much more worthy of your citizenship? What makes you more worthy of safety? Of being given
the ight t that they took from me to protect my daughters?"

April 29, 2025 at 3:17 PM

Robert Arnold

@late-adopter.bsky.social

Last night I saw Athina Rachel Tsangari's new film Harvest at SFFILM. It's a truly great film. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbCc...

HARVEST | Official Trailer | Coming Soon

YouTube video by MUBI

www.youtube.com

April 19, 2025 at 11:40 PM

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God

@thegodpodcast.com

Gotta correct the media again on something. The administration is not sending migrants to a mega prison in El Salvador. They’re sending human beings to a concentration camp.

April 5, 2025 at 5:39 PM

Robert Arnold

@late-adopter.bsky.social

Finally saw Crossing (letterboxd.com/film/crossin...). It's the best film I've seen so far this year.

Crossing (2024)

Lia, a retired teacher from Georgia, learns from her young neighbor, Achi, that her long-lost transgender niece, Tekla, has crossed the border into Turkey. In search of Tekla, Lia travels to Istanbul ...

letterboxd.com

March 22, 2025 at 10:59 PM

Robert Arnold

@late-adopter.bsky.social

aeon.co/essays/thoug...

Thought-tinkering – the Korean German philosopher Byung-Chul Han | Aeon Essays

Byung-Chul Han’s relentless critiques of digital capitalism reveal how this suffocating system creates hollowed-out lives

aeon.co

March 4, 2025 at 10:08 PM

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Julie Jenkins

@juliejenkinsnp.bsky.social

This response from @sbearbergman.bsky.social to @hildur.bsky.social’s post has changed my week— it is so wholesome, and human, and so the energy we all need right now. And Kerstin Langenberger, the naturalist who posted “I am on my way with the necessary equipment”? This woman is the hero we need.

My feed today on BlueSky included a post from Icelandic writer Hildur Knútsdóttir, who saw the original exchange on a Reykjavik Facebook page - someone posted to say that it appeared a cygnet was frozen to the ice and dying. As people worried online about how or whether it would be possible to help, naturalist Kerstin Langerberger replied to the post, saying: “I am on my way with the necessary equipment.” Langenberger brought a friend, some thermoses of warm water, and a surfboard in case the ice failed - the necessary equipment - and thawed then freed the baby swan, which promptly flew off.

There are a number of things I appreciate about this story, but it’s Langenberger’s statement that resonates for me. That is what I aspire to, to see injury or difficulty or something gone to trouble and decide: I am on my way with the necessary equipment. But also, to hold on to the understanding that sometimes the necessary equipment is the resolve to try and a friend who will help, and that sometimes I *am* the necessary equipment - the friend who shows up to make myself useful under the direction of an expert.

There are a lot of moments these days that I find it very, very hard to do the next thing, or indeed to do anything. The world is so, so difficult. I often feel useless or overwhelmed or exhausted or just really fucking sad. But I am going to try starting the days by saying, with all the starch that I imagine a naturalist willing to chance the ice in darkness to save a baby bird might possess:

I am on my way with the necessary equipment.

December 10, 2024 at 2:19 PM

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Brendel

@brendelbored.bsky.social

I feel like this was the greatest celebrity post of all time because you initially want to make fun of it because we’re all irony poisoned jerks but the sheer scale of human compassion overwhelms it and you end up going yes Vincent I also want to help a pig see the stars for the first time