William Lewis
@wlewisiii.bsky.social
Fat old US Army NCO. Socialist. Acceptably good photographer. Amateur studying paleo-anthropology. It's always a good day to fight the fascists, at home and abroad. AI - Just say NO!
Leica & Pentax digital
Nikon, Rolleiflex Automat & Super Ikonta film
Leica & Pentax digital
Nikon, Rolleiflex Automat & Super Ikonta film
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If there’s one part of the Constitution and its Amendments that everyone in the US understands and holds sacred, it’s the First Amendment. Free speech may be the only value we all agree on.
If you tell us something was censored, no matter what it is, we will trip over our feet running to see it.
If you tell us something was censored, no matter what it is, we will trip over our feet running to see it.
December 23, 2025 at 1:01 AM
If there’s one part of the Constitution and its Amendments that everyone in the US understands and holds sacred, it’s the First Amendment. Free speech may be the only value we all agree on.
If you tell us something was censored, no matter what it is, we will trip over our feet running to see it.
If you tell us something was censored, no matter what it is, we will trip over our feet running to see it.
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The next time Trump attacks the men and women of the National Park Service, I want you to think of Betty Reid Soskin. We've lost a great public servant--a national treasure. #NationalParks www.berkeleyside.org/2025/12/21/b...
Betty Reid Soskin, once the nation’s oldest park ranger, has died at age 104
She co-founded Reid’s Records in Berkeley, dated Jackie Robinson, delivered cash for the Black Panthers and published a memoir.
www.berkeleyside.org
December 21, 2025 at 11:22 PM
The next time Trump attacks the men and women of the National Park Service, I want you to think of Betty Reid Soskin. We've lost a great public servant--a national treasure. #NationalParks www.berkeleyside.org/2025/12/21/b...
Audio by @ZacSpeaksGiant
YouTube video by Punkey Doodles
youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:56 PM
They would if they could Ala Dostoevsky's Inquisitor...
ICE deported Jesus.
Sad news: someone stole baby Jesus from our anti-ICE nativity. But vandalism cannot stop us. We just adapt and keep on critiquing this administration’s cruelty on immigration. Where’s baby Jesus? We don’t know. He is being detained in a labyrinthian hellscape where his loved ones cannot find him.
December 21, 2025 at 10:41 PM
They would if they could Ala Dostoevsky's Inquisitor...
Truth!
Neither is herpes, but I’ll keep doing my work without either.
AI is not going to go away
December 21, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Truth!
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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition
Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.
www.popsci.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
Report and block that fascist.
@commonsense04.bsky.social
This motherfucking troll is here to cape for Trump and ICE, nothing more.
Reported & blocked, in that order.
Don’t feed the trolls.
This motherfucking troll is here to cape for Trump and ICE, nothing more.
Reported & blocked, in that order.
Don’t feed the trolls.
December 19, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Report and block that fascist.
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This is why no one intelligent should back newsom. His actions are being used as a cudgel to ban trans care
Alabama rep cites Gavin Newson's vote to out trans kids to parents as precedent that the federal government should follow
December 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
This is why no one intelligent should back newsom. His actions are being used as a cudgel to ban trans care
The US Mint announced the 250 anniversary coins and they are ugly as fuck.
www.usmint.gov/news/media-k...
www.usmint.gov/news/media-k...
SemiQ Coin Program Media Kit
To celebrate America's Semiquincentennial (SemiQ) in 2026, the Mint will be updating well-known American coinage. Use this page to find background and images for the circulating nickel, dime, and quar...
www.usmint.gov
December 11, 2025 at 1:48 AM
The US Mint announced the 250 anniversary coins and they are ugly as fuck.
www.usmint.gov/news/media-k...
www.usmint.gov/news/media-k...
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We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over
December 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over
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New video today! Why Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Sam Altman and other wanna-be Silicon Valley gods love to cosplay Star Trek, all while stealing the very future they idolize from us all.
“How Tech Billionaires Turn Star Trek into Fascism”
youtu.be/V-7Spf1cLpU
“How Tech Billionaires Turn Star Trek into Fascism”
youtu.be/V-7Spf1cLpU
How Tech Billionaires Turn Star Trek into Fascism
YouTube video by Jessie Gender
youtu.be
December 4, 2025 at 6:33 PM
New video today! Why Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Sam Altman and other wanna-be Silicon Valley gods love to cosplay Star Trek, all while stealing the very future they idolize from us all.
“How Tech Billionaires Turn Star Trek into Fascism”
youtu.be/V-7Spf1cLpU
“How Tech Billionaires Turn Star Trek into Fascism”
youtu.be/V-7Spf1cLpU
DnD Radio Stations - A Punkey Doodles mash-up
YouTube video by Punkey Doodles
www.youtube.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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Over on Whatever, I'm doing a series on movies I consider "Comfort Watches" - not the greatest movies of all time, necessarily, but some of the most rewatchable. I'm starting the series with easily the most rewatchable movie of 2025: K-Pop Demon Hunters!
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/01/t...
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The December Comfort Watches 2025, Day One: K-Pop Demon Hunters
A couple of years ago I did a series of movie reviews about the movies I enjoy rewatching — not the best movies of all time, or the most important movies, but the ones I’m happy to spen…
whatever.scalzi.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Over on Whatever, I'm doing a series on movies I consider "Comfort Watches" - not the greatest movies of all time, necessarily, but some of the most rewatchable. I'm starting the series with easily the most rewatchable movie of 2025: K-Pop Demon Hunters!
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/01/t...
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/01/t...
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Pick a side. Call yourself centrist all you want, but if you're against dignity and empathy for the marginalized, then you're just another MAGAt. And you can stick that No Labels bullshit right up your ass.
@FuckNoLabels
@FuckNoLabels
December 1, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Pick a side. Call yourself centrist all you want, but if you're against dignity and empathy for the marginalized, then you're just another MAGAt. And you can stick that No Labels bullshit right up your ass.
@FuckNoLabels
@FuckNoLabels
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Christ almighty.
This is an old grift, No Labels was another example, but there have been many over the years including this sort of talk about targeting congressional districts, in ways that are deeply unserious on campaign strategy. But the AI slop hype angle on top of it, just shoot me now.
This is an old grift, No Labels was another example, but there have been many over the years including this sort of talk about targeting congressional districts, in ways that are deeply unserious on campaign strategy. But the AI slop hype angle on top of it, just shoot me now.
Using artificial intelligence to identify Congressional districts where independent candidates could win, an organization called the Independent Center is aiming to disrupt the two-party system. n.pr/48mmSlu
An independent effort says AI is the secret to topple 2-party power in Congress
Using artificial intelligence to identify congressional districts where independent candidates could win, an organization called the Independent Center is aiming to disrupt the two-party system.
n.pr
December 1, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Christ almighty.
This is an old grift, No Labels was another example, but there have been many over the years including this sort of talk about targeting congressional districts, in ways that are deeply unserious on campaign strategy. But the AI slop hype angle on top of it, just shoot me now.
This is an old grift, No Labels was another example, but there have been many over the years including this sort of talk about targeting congressional districts, in ways that are deeply unserious on campaign strategy. But the AI slop hype angle on top of it, just shoot me now.
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Exactly 80 years ago this precise moment (8:40am Hamburg time, Nov. 30, 1945), German submarine commander Heinz-Wilhelm Eck and two of his former subordinates on the U-852 were shot by Allies in Hamburg for killing the survivors of a ship they had sunk. Pete Hagueseth needs to lawyer up immediately.
The Peleus War Crimes Trial
After sinking the Greek steamer Peleus in 1944, the captain ordered his crew to attack the survivors, three sailors survived and faced their attackers in a war crime trial.
www.usni.org
November 30, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Exactly 80 years ago this precise moment (8:40am Hamburg time, Nov. 30, 1945), German submarine commander Heinz-Wilhelm Eck and two of his former subordinates on the U-852 were shot by Allies in Hamburg for killing the survivors of a ship they had sunk. Pete Hagueseth needs to lawyer up immediately.
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Vast Bronze Age city discovered in the plains of Kazakhstan.
www.newscientist.com/article/2504...
www.newscientist.com/article/2504...
Vast Bronze Age city discovered in the plains of Kazakhstan
A major settlement in Central Asia called Semiyarka dating back to 1600 BC had houses, a big central building and even an industrial zone for producing copper and bronze
www.newscientist.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Vast Bronze Age city discovered in the plains of Kazakhstan.
www.newscientist.com/article/2504...
www.newscientist.com/article/2504...
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Dear foreign nationals in war-torn countries, terrorism hot-spots, and amidst our enemies:
If you help the United States, we’ll fuck you over and abandon you. Not the individual servicepeople or intelligence officers — they’ll fight for you. I mean the depraved, soulless leadership of the nation.
If you help the United States, we’ll fuck you over and abandon you. Not the individual servicepeople or intelligence officers — they’ll fight for you. I mean the depraved, soulless leadership of the nation.
So now they’re going to be doing individualized re-review of tens of thousands of Afghan evacuees’ cases on TOP of the re-review of 200,000+ refugees who entered under Biden?
November 27, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Dear foreign nationals in war-torn countries, terrorism hot-spots, and amidst our enemies:
If you help the United States, we’ll fuck you over and abandon you. Not the individual servicepeople or intelligence officers — they’ll fight for you. I mean the depraved, soulless leadership of the nation.
If you help the United States, we’ll fuck you over and abandon you. Not the individual servicepeople or intelligence officers — they’ll fight for you. I mean the depraved, soulless leadership of the nation.
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"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
November 27, 2025 at 2:30 AM
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."