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Tam
@tamat.bsky.social
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Just a nerd. They/them and he/him are fine. Avatar by @firehouselight.bsky.social and banner by FightBeast. Opinions are my own.
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lucyknisley.bsky.social
"Haunted"
#IceOut #IceOutComics
A comic in black/white/blue. Lucy rolls her bike through an alley, by a crew building a fence. Narration: My neighbors hired a crew to rebuild their fence. Crew member: "Do you need us to move our stuff out of the way?" Lucy: "Oh! No, you're all good, thanks!" Lucy: "Have a good one!" Crew member: "You, too!" Narration: I was teaching when my phone started lighting up with alerts from the rapid response network and neighbor chat. Lucy's back is to us as she shows a group of enthusiastic children something on a notebook. Behind her, her phone in her bag is buzzing. Narration: By the time the lesson was over, they were already gone. Lucy is reading messages on her phone. Messages: Alert: black SUV Sighting: be on alert for... Confirmed abductionL alley between ----- and ----. SUV plates... We tried to get them inside, but it was too... ...Contacting an I.R. lawyer. Heading to Broadview later today. Lucy is riding her bike home. Narration: On the ride home, I kept thinking "If I'd been there, could I have warned them? Would my ICIRR* training have helped?" *Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. Get trained and know your rights at ICIRR.org. Narration: I'd taken the training after Halloween, when the violent ICE raids had locked down our schools and driven our neighbors indoors. (Image of a halloween bucket in the shape of a jack-o-lantern) Narration: Halloween is fun here-- The community filling the streets and opening our doors to one another. But this year's was tense, frightened and subdued. Haunted. Lucy is standing in the alley, staring at the newly built fence. Narration: When I got home, it was all done. The other two guys who had gotten inside in time stayed and finished the build. The new fence is superimposed with the brief exchange from earlier in the comic ("Have a good one" You, too") Narration: I see it every day and think about how those guys built this in the spot where strangers in masks took their friend. Narration: How many other places in our communities are similarly haunted? (Drawings of sidewalks, buildings, streets and windows)
February 5, 2026 at 5:20 PM
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beanycoffee.bsky.social
Image from the webcomic Achewood where the character says: Hey guys! Guess who just got yelllleeed aaat! The face is replaced by the Adobe logo
February 4, 2026 at 1:03 AM
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coelasquid.bsky.social
Looooooolllllllllllll they made Disney angry
Screenshot From the adobeanimate community on Reddit Updates on the Status of Adobe Animate (Text Preview) Hey everyone, my name is Mike Chambers, and I work on the community team at Adobe- Commentary on screenshot- "Adobe Animate is in maintenance mode. While we are no longer adding new features to Animate, we will continue to support it and provide ongoing security and bug fixes. More importantly, Animate will continue to be available for both new and existing users. This is a change from what we communicated in the email yesterday for the status of Adobe Animate, its time-frame, and availability." "To be clear, we are not discontinuing or removing access to Adobe Animate and it will continue to be available to both existing and new customers."
February 4, 2026 at 12:02 AM
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pixequil.com
maintenance mode
Panel 1: Exec: "Ok guys ok ok we won't kill Adobe Animate." Crowd: "Phew" "thank fuck" "That's better" "I'm still switching to something else." "No yeah you really should" Panel 2: Exec: "Unfortunately we will also stop adding new features to it." Crowd: "WOO!!!" "It's a dream come true!" "Yeah!" "Finally!" Exec: "... um. Why are they cheering"
February 4, 2026 at 12:14 AM
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acvalens.com
Most journalists have moved on from this story. Thank you Mashable and @raxsha.bsky.social for covering

mashable.com/article/adul...
Adult creators are still getting debanked — and so are others
"The line in the sand continues to shift."
mashable.com
January 30, 2026 at 1:29 PM
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alexburby.bsky.social
I keep seeing the “reminder don’t use Adobe here are the alternatives” image going around and folks, the problem is not just that Adobe sucks, the problem is they’re blocking legal access to decades of art files utilized by individuals and entire teams
February 2, 2026 at 8:01 PM
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markagee.bsky.social
The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll
January 30, 2026 at 11:21 PM
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kurrymx.bsky.social
Sinners... but make it Leyendecker
#SinnersMovie
December 14, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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zoewithasword.bsky.social
Absolutely losing my mind over Ava, THE ROCK'S DAUGHTER, quitting WWE despite them offering her a raise to keep working a pretty cushy kayfabe general manager gig and then the day after her contract ends she posts this
and now that i can say this with mY full chest, ice and that entire administration.
February 1, 2026 at 7:28 PM
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scalzi.com
I missed the first of these when it happened and choose not to seek it out online but I appreciate the metaphor gods working overtime on this one
crobertcargill.bsky.social C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 4d
The President shit himself on live TV. Melania bombed. The Epstein files are sending shockwaves through the Alt Right. Liam and his dad are back home. A Texas district that was DEEP red for 35 years flipped blue. Pretti's killers have been identified.

Small wins, but you can feel the change coming.
February 2, 2026 at 2:13 AM
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robertdownen.bsky.social
Reminder to Texans that tomorrow (Monday) is the last day to register to vote in the March elections
February 1, 2026 at 3:50 PM
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dragonfish.bsky.social
O cool The hypothesis that the elite were trying to segrigate trans people from society purely to keep us as sex slaves was real, but only for trans women since they see trans men as undesirable for sex and want them eliminated which is EXACTLY THE POLICIES AND RHETORIC WE'RE SEEING HAPPEN RIGHT NOW
A disgusting email sent by Robert Trivers to Jeffrey Epstein. Im sorry that I'm not going to transcribe how fucking vile it is, but it basically just talks about trans women as flesh lights and how pointless trans men are because they would've made good girls. It's fucking vile and awful and I hate it and it's literally exactly the type of rhetoric we see from the "protect the children!" Crowd who ONLY care about keeping trans boys from transitioning and probably keeping trans girls as sex slaves in private.
February 1, 2026 at 1:35 PM
tamat.bsky.social
Almost to the end I believe, so let's see if we can't push to the credits! Starting now!
tamat.bsky.social Tam @tamat.bsky.social · 20d
Starting up Pokemon Legends Z-A's DLC: Mega Dimension on stream right now! Come see how the story progresses at www.twitch.tv/Tamat2009
Pokemon Legends Z-A Mega Dimension Logo with two Mega Raichu bursting out of a wormhole that Hoopa is holding open.
February 1, 2026 at 3:06 AM
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jameelawahlgren.bsky.social
One more reason my soul shrivels up every time I hear someone say "I just used chatgpt to ____"
An imagine explaining that OpenAI is Trump's largest donor
January 31, 2026 at 5:32 PM
tamat.bsky.social
Night 4! Starting to get to the latter part of the DLC I think. Starting now!
tamat.bsky.social Tam @tamat.bsky.social · 20d
Starting up Pokemon Legends Z-A's DLC: Mega Dimension on stream right now! Come see how the story progresses at www.twitch.tv/Tamat2009
Pokemon Legends Z-A Mega Dimension Logo with two Mega Raichu bursting out of a wormhole that Hoopa is holding open.
January 31, 2026 at 4:59 AM
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solomonmissouri.bsky.social
4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government
January 30, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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wilfredotorres.bsky.social
For Liam.
January 30, 2026 at 7:04 AM
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ddayen.bsky.social
It took all day to get to exactly where this was always going to land.
sahilkapur.bsky.social Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 7d
🚨 The Senate has agreed to a deal to vote on 5/6 full appropriations bills and replace the DHS funding measure with a 2-week stopgap bill, per multiple sources. That gives time to negotiate on the Dem demands for ICE and CBP restraints.
January 29, 2026 at 10:43 PM
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jortsthecat.bsky.social
“been through a lot”
amyklobuchar.com Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar.com · 7d
Minnesotans, we’ve been through a lot.

And I believe this moment calls for grit, resilience, and faith in each other.

I believe we must stand up for what’s right. And fix what’s wrong.

Today, I’m announcing my candidacy for Governor. youtu.be/SiV3xVkX-kg
Amy Klobuchar for Governor
YouTube video by Amy Klobuchar
youtu.be
January 29, 2026 at 11:08 PM
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ddayen.bsky.social
For those who think it's premature to make this analogy:
This was how Republicans talked about the IRS funding one month after it passed. They made it their mission to roll that back. Now they're even getting Democrats to vote for it.
federalnewsnetwork.com/budget/2022/...
Barely a month after the IRS got $80 billion to rebuild its workforce and upgrade its legacy IT, House Republican leaders are making repealing this funding their top legislative priority ahead of this November’s elections. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), speaking in Pittsburgh on Friday to promote the House Republicans’ legislative agenda, said a GOP-controlled House would introduce legislation that would block the IRS from receiving funds from the Inflation Reduction Act that President Joe Biden signed into law in August. “On that very first day that we’re sworn in, you’ll see that it all changes. Because on our very first bill, we’re going to repeal 87,000 IRS agents. Our job is to work for you, not go after you,” McCarthy said.
January 29, 2026 at 4:42 PM
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ddayen.bsky.social
Latest intel: The 5 govt funding bills will pass, & the 6th, the DHS bill, will get a continuing resolution to buy time to negotiate whatever these conditions in ICE are. The fight right now btwn Schumer & the White House is how long that CR will be. The WH wants 3 months; Schumer wants 1-2 weeks.
January 29, 2026 at 3:25 PM
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dieselbrain.bsky.social
Please continue to contact your representatives and urge them to:

-oppose age verification laws
-rescind existing AV laws
-protect peoples rights to use VPNs
-protect section 230
mikestabile.bsky.social Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 8d
The failure of age-verification laws is now turning into a War on VPNs. The British government and a number of US states are now proposing that VPNs be banned entirely, or only accessible to those who have surrendered to facial scans, ID check and other identity verification.
'The UK war on VPNs is an embarrassment' – backlash grows over proposed VPN age-checks
Critics are warning against proposals to restrict VPN access — but will the plans actually become law?
www.techradar.com
January 28, 2026 at 10:57 PM
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originalist.bsky.social
"They got working whites to hate the very people that want them to have more pay, clean air, water, healthcare and power to fight back against big banks & corps"

Billionaires, Charlie Kirk, "Murdoch’s role in destabilizing democracy in North America, Europe Australia
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
January 28, 2026 at 7:35 PM
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ilhanmn.bsky.social
I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work.

I don’t let bullies win.

Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.
January 28, 2026 at 2:26 AM
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amonns.bsky.social
some more recent commission work - everybody say hi
January 2, 2026 at 9:16 PM