Imran Merchant
@wiiggin.bsky.social
Software architect in the Twin Cities.
Be kind. Be honest. Be brave.
Things won't get better if we don't talk about them.
Paired with @jessicann713.bsky.social ❤️
He/him
Be kind. Be honest. Be brave.
Things won't get better if we don't talk about them.
Paired with @jessicann713.bsky.social ❤️
He/him
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The official policy of the government of the United States of America is that they will murder anyone they want, that they will tell any lie necessary to justify that murder, and that no one who resists them has any rights they are bound to respect.
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January 24, 2026 at 7:18 PM
The official policy of the government of the United States of America is that they will murder anyone they want, that they will tell any lie necessary to justify that murder, and that no one who resists them has any rights they are bound to respect.
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But he likes beer, so
The #KavanaughStops are becoming #KavanaughKillings
January 24, 2026 at 7:14 PM
But he likes beer, so
Hey @angiecraigmn.bsky.social any thoughts on what you voted for?
January 24, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Hey @angiecraigmn.bsky.social any thoughts on what you voted for?
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The way to reconcile this is their aspiration was always to put down a slave revolt, not fight in one. bsky.app/profile/osit...
We have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.
January 24, 2026 at 6:19 PM
The way to reconcile this is their aspiration was always to put down a slave revolt, not fight in one. bsky.app/profile/osit...
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Sinners is a movie with the guts to say that no matter what you’re facing be it a gang of vampires or racism, it’s never a bad time to learn how to eat pussy good
January 23, 2026 at 10:09 PM
Sinners is a movie with the guts to say that no matter what you’re facing be it a gang of vampires or racism, it’s never a bad time to learn how to eat pussy good
I fucking love Minnesota
It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing
January 23, 2026 at 11:03 PM
I fucking love Minnesota
Look. Look at his little hat.
January 23, 2026 at 11:00 PM
Look. Look at his little hat.
"I became a vampire for two reasons: suck blood, and fuck forever"
JD Vance: "To our fellow Americans we say, you're never gonna find great meaning in a cubicle or in front of a computer screen. But you will find great meaning if you dedicate yourself to the creation and sustenance of human life."
January 23, 2026 at 5:46 PM
"I became a vampire for two reasons: suck blood, and fuck forever"
Tom Emmer thanking you for anything should cause you to walk into the sea, never to be seen again
tom emmer, the GOP majority whip, is thanking angie craig for her vote for the laken riley act and what it’s done to support ICE
this is why you should be supporting peggy flanagan! angie craig will sell you out
this is why you should be supporting peggy flanagan! angie craig will sell you out
January 23, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Tom Emmer thanking you for anything should cause you to walk into the sea, never to be seen again
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In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
January 23, 2026 at 4:01 PM
In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
Outlaw Star blew my baby mind
What's the coolest anime weapon?
IMO, it's the caster gun from Outlaw Star, a combination of a sawn-off shotgun and a grenade launcher that fires bullets that some Taoist mage slapped a talisman on. It's strangely incredibly sensible as a weapon.
Thought we'd just do something fun this morning~
IMO, it's the caster gun from Outlaw Star, a combination of a sawn-off shotgun and a grenade launcher that fires bullets that some Taoist mage slapped a talisman on. It's strangely incredibly sensible as a weapon.
Thought we'd just do something fun this morning~
January 23, 2026 at 4:08 AM
Outlaw Star blew my baby mind
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the list of topics to be discussed at the Council of Nicaea in 325CE
January 21, 2026 at 7:42 PM
the list of topics to be discussed at the Council of Nicaea in 325CE
Hole milk
The really dumb stuff they get so excited about is sometimes welcome just because this dynamic is so funny:
January 19, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Hole milk
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The small army of contract writers on Metroid Prime 4 need to read this lol
Fictional characters aren’t interesting in and of themselves. What makes them interesting is what’s on the page. Or stage, or screen, or whatever.
If you want an audience to find the characters you’re portraying interesting, you have to put what’s interesting about them into your portrayal.
If you want an audience to find the characters you’re portraying interesting, you have to put what’s interesting about them into your portrayal.
January 14, 2026 at 3:34 PM
The small army of contract writers on Metroid Prime 4 need to read this lol
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somali know very well what it means for men in masks to come to your house in broad daylight and take you away or take your father away or take your brother away and to never see them again. it’s how they’ve ended up in minnesota.
January 12, 2026 at 9:12 PM
somali know very well what it means for men in masks to come to your house in broad daylight and take you away or take your father away or take your brother away and to never see them again. it’s how they’ve ended up in minnesota.
And then called her a “fucking bitch”
He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.
January 10, 2026 at 5:25 PM
And then called her a “fucking bitch”
Land acknowledgements are fine, it'd be better if they just went ahead and gave the land back.
Trump talks about Denmark and Greenland just now: "The fact that they landed a boat there 500 years ago doesn't mean that they own the land."
January 9, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Land acknowledgements are fine, it'd be better if they just went ahead and gave the land back.
Craig voted for exactly this outcome
“I said, ‘This political stunt got a woman killed today,’” Craig said in an interview about the exchange. She said Emmer kept telling her to “knock it off” and later to “take a walk.”
www.startribune.com/angie-craig-...
www.startribune.com/angie-craig-...
Angie Craig confronts Tom Emmer in heated exchange after fatal ICE shooting
“I candidly told him that ‘I don’t know who you are; you’re not the man that I knew eight years ago,’” Craig said.
www.startribune.com
January 9, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Craig voted for exactly this outcome
Reconstruction 2.0 is gonna be different huh
January 8, 2026 at 10:22 PM
Reconstruction 2.0 is gonna be different huh
Declaration of Independence type shit
The state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension says they've been informed by the FBI that US DOJ has said FBI will solely lead the investigation into Renee Nicole Good's killing by a federal officer. State investigators no longer have access to "case materials, scene evidence/investigative interviews"
January 8, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Declaration of Independence type shit
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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.” -- James Baldwin
this is why teaching history feels so important to me right now.
The thing I always come back to is how many people never despaired against longer odds, and how arrogant it would be to put myself above them.
January 7, 2026 at 10:31 PM
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.” -- James Baldwin
What you let them do to Palestinians they will do to you
January 7, 2026 at 11:34 PM
What you let them do to Palestinians they will do to you
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And they’ll say they can’t be held accountable because when they pulled the trigger they were afraid for their lives. Their lives which they spent serving an ideology of fear, a machine of fear, a holistic regime of fear. A culture-spanning engine of the ugliest and most dishonest fears there are.
January 7, 2026 at 7:40 PM
And they’ll say they can’t be held accountable because when they pulled the trigger they were afraid for their lives. Their lives which they spent serving an ideology of fear, a machine of fear, a holistic regime of fear. A culture-spanning engine of the ugliest and most dishonest fears there are.