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Earthling who's along for the ride on our little blue dot.
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Steve @steveonearth.bsky.social · Dec 15
Evergreen post.
shakespeare.lol William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · Dec 15
O, horrible, O, horrible, most horrible!
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maladroithe.bsky.social
Hey y’all remember on Jan 6th when women got on Tinder in DC and honeypotted all those rioters and sent a good clutch of ‘em to jail based on shit they admitted to in the DMs? Look I’m just saying they got Tinder in MN.
January 26, 2026 at 1:55 AM
steveonearth.bsky.social
🥹🥹🥹

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peopleWatching 110 - Nostalgia
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January 26, 2026 at 8:35 PM
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mistericarus.bsky.social
Hey kid, wanna see a pretty as all hell Doom map with fancy liquid textures?

Get your new edition of Doom Mod Madness right here.

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January 24, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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kinofabino.bsky.social
January 25, 2026 at 5:24 AM
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maladroithe.bsky.social
Nobody should have to go on a fucking PR tour to combat misinformation about their dead kid hours after his death, fucking nobody
January 25, 2026 at 1:01 AM
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maladroithe.bsky.social
The sickening cruelty of forcing parents who just lost their beloved child to publicly rebuke a fantastical pack of lies about said child before his body is even cold
January 25, 2026 at 1:01 AM
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apparatchikwannabe.bsky.social
yeah the very grim truth of nonviolence is that the two primary things it does are “demonstrate that violence will not move the opposition, that they can brutalize us and we will not abandon our cause” and “garner wider sympathy via being brutalized by the state”
January 24, 2026 at 7:43 PM
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angus.bsky.social
" I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front [of] 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."
January 25, 2026 at 1:23 AM
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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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mistericarus.bsky.social
Hell yeah it's Mr Fucker.
mjjii.com banana chip @mjjii.com · 2d
mr fucker
digital art. a bald man wearing sunglasses jumping in the air. he’s surrounded by the words fucker, mr fucker, a pair of sunglasses, a speech bubble that says mr fucker, a mouth, a poorly drawn cube, a comic bang effect, and a swirl
January 24, 2026 at 12:46 PM
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123simco.bsky.social
January 23, 2026 at 8:27 PM
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maladroithe.bsky.social
I’m hard pressed to imagine a more “are we the baddies” photo than a bunch of clergy kneeling, backs to an ICE officer, his baton visible
A lineup of clergy kneeling with their backs to an ICE officer
January 24, 2026 at 12:46 AM
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jonathanmladd.com
❤️❤️❤️
January 23, 2026 at 9:18 PM
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diane.dianeduane.com
ST:SFA afterthought: Dammit, starship floors should go soft and impact-absorbent when you fall onto them. This is a selective materials & inertial-damping issue! Should’ve been fixed centuries ago. (And some unmentionable politicos are complaining about *eyeglasses??* Pitiful science-starved loons.)
January 22, 2026 at 7:38 PM
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sfboswell.bsky.social
*taps the sign* people who argue with you about terminology actually aren't interested in solving the root problem.
joelhs.bsky.social Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 6d
“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)
From Senator Chris McDaniel: “Lately, some folks have taken to calling ICE “the Gestapo.” It sounds fierce. It feels righteous. But it isn’t true, and it isn’t harmless. The Gestapo was a secret police force. No warrants. No courts. No lawyers. And no appeals. People vanished in the night, not because they broke the law, but because the law no longer meant anything. The knock on the door was the sentence. ICE isn’t that. Not even close. ICE is a public agency enforcing laws passed by elected officials. Its agents file reports. They seek warrants. They lose cases. Judges stop them. Lawyers challenge them. Some detainees go home. That’s not tyranny. That’s bureaucracy, for better and worse. You can hate immigration policy. You can argue enforcement is too harsh, too sloppy, or too broad. You can work to have the law changed if you wish. That’s a republic doing what it’s supposed to do. But when you call ordinary law enforcement “the Gestapo,” you cheapen real evil. You turn history into a slogan and suffering into a metaphor. And once every badge is tyranny, no tyranny is left to recognize. In Mississippi, I was raised to believe words should earn their weight. This one hasn't yet. It throws around the language of dictatorship while living under a system where courts still rule, lawyers still argue, and the government still loses. That difference matters. Because the day enforcement becomes secret, unchecked, and answerable to no one, we won’t need to borrow names from history. We’ll know exactly what we’re dealing with. And we’ll wish we’d kept our words honest.”
January 20, 2026 at 7:26 PM
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diane.dianeduane.com
Thread. (Cheerful disclosure: Started out writing fanfic, more than 50 years ago. Haven’t stopped.) 😄
ingloriousgigi.bsky.social Georgina Kiersten @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social · 17d
I actually had a discussion about this yesterday. The hate for fanfiction has 4 components:

1) It directly defies capitalism. Capitalism tells us that only things that are profitable are of worth. Most fanfic is free and so people equate free to bad. 🧵 #fanfiction
jpagaduanauthor 8h I have been told often that posting my fanfic on my author social media accounts is unprofessional. But I simply don't give a fuck. Fanfic is a legitimate sub-genre of literature, and I am proud to be a fanfic author. I am not ashamed to say I am a fanfic writer and stake my professional brand on that. Besides, I take my fanfic just as seriously as my original stuff. And if that is off-putting to you? 🤷🏾‍♂️ Then take your business elsewhere, friend. the hate against fanfic is wild to me. For one thing, it's hardly a new invention. What do you think Dante's Inferno is?
January 20, 2026 at 9:24 AM
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maladroithe.bsky.social
Holy Fifth Amendment Batman
January 19, 2026 at 4:08 AM
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rincewind.run
behold, courtesy of my amazing wife, the coolest thing anyone has ever made for me

the Imperial Ministry of Silly Walks
The ministry of silly walks, cross-stitched, with darth vader, darth maul, the emperor and kylo ren all doing silly walks
January 16, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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marawilson.bsky.social
I wrote about my experiences being sexually exploited as a child, and what we need to do to make sure AI doesn’t make that a reality for millions of children.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My picture was used in child abuse images. AI is putting others through my nightmare | Mara Wilson
I was a child actor, exploited by strangers on the internet. Now millions of children face the same danger
www.theguardian.com
January 18, 2026 at 2:20 AM
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testzero.bsky.social
We've done a good job hitting the "Please silence your cell phone" policy in theaters.

Now we need to press the "Remember to turn it back on when you leave" aspect.

Now you don't get to go out to dinner with us because we've been trying to contact you for the last 3 hours.
January 18, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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testzero.bsky.social
Graphics without gameplay is a movie.
Story without gameplay is a book.
Gameplay without either is still a game.
January 17, 2026 at 3:56 AM
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thespaceshipper.com
Voyager is 31!

"Much will be made of the political correctness of this new venture, not least in that the captain of this ship is a woman".

A woman, captain of a ship 😱

Just a reminder that we've come a long way, and that the reactionary whiners of today are just the latest in a long line. 🖖
TELEVISION REVIEW Now for a Politically Correct 'Star Trek'. By JOHN O'CONNOR "Sequence under way. Engage!" And the "Star Trek" franchise blasts off once again. Consider mere-ly this one statistic being bandled about by the producers: There are already more than 325 hours of "Star Trek" productions, including the original series (which began in 1966), the seven feature films and the television spinoffs, "Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)" and "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)." And now, with the centerpiece of the new United Paramount Network, Trekkers can focus their notoriously intense scrutiny on "Star Trek: Voy-ager," the first of the series created after the death of the "Star Trek" creator, Gene Roddenberry. Much will be made of the political correct-ness of this new venture, not least in that the captain of this ship is a woman, but "Star Trek" has long been a multicultural champion of erasing prejudices of all sorts. This time it just goes a bit further. After all, it's the 24th century. Capt. Kathryn Janeway, played with unmistakable authority by Kate Mulgrew, takes the U.S.S. Voyager to search for a ship belonging to the Maquis, Federation colonists unhap-py with a new treaty. The problem is that the captain's chief of security is an undercover agent on the missing ship. But the Voyager, with 15 decks and "bioneural" circuitry, is soon swept up in a displacement wave that pushes the star ship 70,000 light years away on the other side of the galaxy. The Federationists and the Maquis are forced to work together for survival. It's an ingenious concept, bringing the series back to its early days of anything-can-happen suspense. Cap-tain Janeway spells it out: "We're alone in an uncharted part of the galaxy. We have no idea of the dan-gers we'll have to face. Somewhere we'll find a way back." Tonight's two-hour pilot is certain-ly a marvel of special effects. Com-paring early "Star Trek" with this is like comparing "The Great Train Robbery" with St…
January 16, 2026 at 8:31 PM
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blazeward.bsky.social
my will is 11 years old and was kind of insane when I originally created it. Updating it this week and getting to reflect on how much has changed.

Also, what has happened to my literary catalog in 11 years.

ARTISTS: DO YOU HAVE A WILL? Copyright is 70 years after your death and you have heirs.
January 16, 2026 at 9:18 PM
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muellershewrote.com
NEW: Jonathan Ross, the ICE thug who murdered Renee Good, was NOT TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL according to police reports. He was taken to the Federal Building. He was NOT INJURED. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
January 16, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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clairewillett.bsky.social
a non-zero number of pasty-faced ICE goons who are fully ancestry dot com-pilled about being like .0002% Irish will have their day sincerely, authentically ruined by this knowledge, and that makes it so beautiful to me
January 15, 2026 at 9:25 PM