Magpie Valentine 🌻🇺🇦
@maggiefry.bsky.social
I'm a country transplant in the city determined to fill my tiny suburban yard with growing things.
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“We are targeting Venezuela because of DRUGS, not OIL, which is why we are blowing up boats without any drugs and stealing a tanker full of oil.”
December 10, 2025 at 11:04 PM
“We are targeting Venezuela because of DRUGS, not OIL, which is why we are blowing up boats without any drugs and stealing a tanker full of oil.”
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Abolish ICE. That's the moderate position. Jailing everyone involved with ICE is the radical position.
Radical, but not unreasonable.
Radical, but not unreasonable.
December 6, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Abolish ICE. That's the moderate position. Jailing everyone involved with ICE is the radical position.
Radical, but not unreasonable.
Radical, but not unreasonable.
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How about revisit the patriot act and all the dubious legal entities it spawned; like DHS.
December 7, 2025 at 7:49 AM
How about revisit the patriot act and all the dubious legal entities it spawned; like DHS.
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Without Birthright Citizenship, you too could be ripped from your home in the middle of the night.
Without the Equal Protection, the Privilege and Immunities and the Due Process Clauses, you and everyone you love could be declared subhuman and stripped of your most basic and fundamental freedoms.
Without the Equal Protection, the Privilege and Immunities and the Due Process Clauses, you and everyone you love could be declared subhuman and stripped of your most basic and fundamental freedoms.
December 7, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Without Birthright Citizenship, you too could be ripped from your home in the middle of the night.
Without the Equal Protection, the Privilege and Immunities and the Due Process Clauses, you and everyone you love could be declared subhuman and stripped of your most basic and fundamental freedoms.
Without the Equal Protection, the Privilege and Immunities and the Due Process Clauses, you and everyone you love could be declared subhuman and stripped of your most basic and fundamental freedoms.
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It's wild but not surprising that last week the White House was leaning into "these seditious Democrats dared suggest that troops were receiving illegal orders!!!" and this week they are scrambling to figure out who to blame for issuing illegal orders.
December 3, 2025 at 4:00 AM
It's wild but not surprising that last week the White House was leaning into "these seditious Democrats dared suggest that troops were receiving illegal orders!!!" and this week they are scrambling to figure out who to blame for issuing illegal orders.
There are still children missing from the first Trump administration.
Barbarity
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 11:19 AM
There are still children missing from the first Trump administration.
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Since I haven’t seen anyone mention this: When the U.S. commits war crimes it puts our troops in danger also, as it gives a green light to other countries that they can do the same to us
December 2, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Since I haven’t seen anyone mention this: When the U.S. commits war crimes it puts our troops in danger also, as it gives a green light to other countries that they can do the same to us
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Remember in 2000 when Al Gore was repeatedly misquoted as having said he invented the internet and that was seen the eyes of many as disqualifying him from office? Simpler times. Today, Trump makes up lies equivalent to "I invented the internet" 30 times a week and no one bats an eye. Good job media
November 30, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Remember in 2000 when Al Gore was repeatedly misquoted as having said he invented the internet and that was seen the eyes of many as disqualifying him from office? Simpler times. Today, Trump makes up lies equivalent to "I invented the internet" 30 times a week and no one bats an eye. Good job media
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I always love me a good Columbo meme
“Ah, just one more thing, sir. You’re blowing up those boats, saying they’re filled with drugs headed for the US. But then you go and pardon the guy who brought in 400 tons of cocaine. That’s billions of doses. Help me understand that.”
November 30, 2025 at 3:56 AM
I always love me a good Columbo meme
I got a similar thrill from perusing library card catalogues.
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 30, 2025 at 12:12 PM
I got a similar thrill from perusing library card catalogues.
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If you are checking LLM-extruded drivel against a real source anyway, why not just use that source? Why not skip the LLM part entirely?
(it's because in practice, no one actually checks; these things are designed to discourage you from going "off tool")
(it's because in practice, no one actually checks; these things are designed to discourage you from going "off tool")
AI Chatbots Discourage Error Checking
AI hallucinations threaten the usefulness of LLM-generated text in professional environments, but today’s LLMs encourage users to take outputs at face value.
www.nngroup.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:58 AM
If you are checking LLM-extruded drivel against a real source anyway, why not just use that source? Why not skip the LLM part entirely?
(it's because in practice, no one actually checks; these things are designed to discourage you from going "off tool")
(it's because in practice, no one actually checks; these things are designed to discourage you from going "off tool")
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If you're my age, you'll not live to see the US restored to what it was just a dozen yrs ago - not the integrity of, & public faith in, its justice dept; not public confidence in its Supreme Ct; not its respect on the internat'l stage broadly; not the trust of its allies; etc.
So much lost so fast.
So much lost so fast.
November 28, 2025 at 7:18 AM
If you're my age, you'll not live to see the US restored to what it was just a dozen yrs ago - not the integrity of, & public faith in, its justice dept; not public confidence in its Supreme Ct; not its respect on the internat'l stage broadly; not the trust of its allies; etc.
So much lost so fast.
So much lost so fast.
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Whether this was random street crime or targeted political violence, I think it was bad for the president to unnecessarily put the National Guard in harm’s way like this. They simply don’t need to be there.
November 26, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Whether this was random street crime or targeted political violence, I think it was bad for the president to unnecessarily put the National Guard in harm’s way like this. They simply don’t need to be there.
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Sigh
Listen.
Vote for democrats.
Listen.
Vote for democrats.
November 26, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Sigh
Listen.
Vote for democrats.
Listen.
Vote for democrats.
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LEFT: Mark Kelly, shirt covered with medals.
RIGHT: Pete Hegseth, shirt covered with booze.
RIGHT: Pete Hegseth, shirt covered with booze.
November 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
LEFT: Mark Kelly, shirt covered with medals.
RIGHT: Pete Hegseth, shirt covered with booze.
RIGHT: Pete Hegseth, shirt covered with booze.
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There's well over 10,000 unsold new cybertrucks sitting in storage lots all over Texas.
That's $800+ million in unsold inventory
Resistance is NOT futile.
That's $800+ million in unsold inventory
Resistance is NOT futile.
November 25, 2025 at 4:51 AM
There's well over 10,000 unsold new cybertrucks sitting in storage lots all over Texas.
That's $800+ million in unsold inventory
Resistance is NOT futile.
That's $800+ million in unsold inventory
Resistance is NOT futile.
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WTF 🤬
ICE in DC is setting up racially driven checkpoints and roadblocks. This is one on Canal Road. A large number of vehicles can be seen waiting to be towed after these agents disappeared their owners.
ICE in DC is setting up racially driven checkpoints and roadblocks. This is one on Canal Road. A large number of vehicles can be seen waiting to be towed after these agents disappeared their owners.
November 24, 2025 at 12:16 AM
WTF 🤬
ICE in DC is setting up racially driven checkpoints and roadblocks. This is one on Canal Road. A large number of vehicles can be seen waiting to be towed after these agents disappeared their owners.
ICE in DC is setting up racially driven checkpoints and roadblocks. This is one on Canal Road. A large number of vehicles can be seen waiting to be towed after these agents disappeared their owners.
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🇺🇦 Zelensky: The crux of the entire diplomatic situation is that it was Russia, and only Russia, that started this war, and it is Russia, and only Russia, that has been refusing to end it throughout the full-scale invasion.
November 23, 2025 at 5:13 PM
🇺🇦 Zelensky: The crux of the entire diplomatic situation is that it was Russia, and only Russia, that started this war, and it is Russia, and only Russia, that has been refusing to end it throughout the full-scale invasion.
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I think the pod people got him. Seems like an improvement.
November 22, 2025 at 12:50 AM
I think the pod people got him. Seems like an improvement.
The Dept. of Ignorance's removal of a host of professional degrees is not only a further blow to DEI, it's a step closer to authoritarianism. See Timothy Snyder's 'On Tyranny" Chapter Five.
November 21, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The Dept. of Ignorance's removal of a host of professional degrees is not only a further blow to DEI, it's a step closer to authoritarianism. See Timothy Snyder's 'On Tyranny" Chapter Five.
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November 21, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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The extreme and psychotic overreaction by Trump and Stephen Miller to Democratic military vets in the Senate and House urging service members to remember that their oath is to the Constitution and not a man tells us a lot about the Trump admin’s plans for the military.
November 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The extreme and psychotic overreaction by Trump and Stephen Miller to Democratic military vets in the Senate and House urging service members to remember that their oath is to the Constitution and not a man tells us a lot about the Trump admin’s plans for the military.