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APacuska

@apacuska.bsky.social
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Freelance IP paralegal, textile artist, engager in shenanigans

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APacuska @apacuska.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
I often feel that way about abstract and modern art…. because I generally don’t like it, not because it isn’t art. Much of it is uncomfortable, at which point I know for a certainty that I must sit with it and confront my discomfort. Which… is the very nature if art.
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APacuska @apacuska.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
RIGHT?!
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APacuska @apacuska.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Stop avoiding calling yourself a liberal too.
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APacuska @apacuska.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
They are also pretty notorious for poorly redacting pdfs.
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APacuska @apacuska.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
So…. They didn’t even properly redact the files?
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APacuska @apacuska.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Is the UK saying “here, hold my pint” to the US?
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APacuska @apacuska.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Flex nibs are next! Nibs are binary: either thick lines or thin.
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APacuska @apacuska.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
All of law enforcement is about to record their celiac condition. (Celiac is no joke.)
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APacuska @apacuska.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Why weren’t they arrested for the photo in Red Square. That shit’s illegal…. (Don’t) ask how I know this.
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APacuska @apacuska.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
It’s a 5YP. Which means we can foil it like a 5YP.
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APacuska @apacuska.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Expectations are not the point. Documentation and testimony is.
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APacuska @apacuska.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
But there’s no money for those programs. /s
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APacuska @apacuska.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Why are you assuming this is an either or?
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APacuska @apacuska.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Hmmm, it’s almost like we saw this coming.
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APacuska @apacuska.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Yes, and it is the same issue here, and we also cannot punish 30-60%. That is why I said we need to address the root cause. There will always be people who like authoritarianism. Building resilient institutions an participatory populations help this. Apathy is a death knell.
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APacuska @apacuska.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
This.
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APacuska @apacuska.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
And what are Germans doing about AdF? These parties are rising for a reason, and they will keep rising unless we address the root causes, not the people themselves. If you only punish the people and the symbols they will keep cropping up.
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APacuska @apacuska.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
I don’t disagree, and I think we should have done the same thing Germany did after WW2 wrt Nazi symbolism after the Civil War. But they didn’t, and we will need to decide what to do now.
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APacuska @apacuska.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Not to mention most progressives were raised by them … and got out. We already heard you; we know.
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APacuska @apacuska.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
4/ but without that reflection they are mostly just stuck in loss and survival mode. While it is not an excuse, it does explain why the numbers seem so big. There are many problems with our current system. But to fix them will take acknowledgement, sustained effort, and commitment.
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APacuska @apacuska.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
A core of his supporters are just hateful and like thus, yes, but far more of that “half” keep seeing [fill in minority group/not them] get ahead and don’t understand why they can’t. They often lack education or opportunity or self reflection, and they are often voting against themselves.
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APacuska @apacuska.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
They act like it’s half the country, but only about 31% voted for him. 30% stayed home. Punishing those who give the orders and the leaders of those who follow them usually does the job. 3/
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APacuska @apacuska.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Or Pinochet. There are other examples as well. Some of them weren’t executed, but losing the power they created and watching it collapse is a significant punishment to a person who wants power. 2/
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APacuska @apacuska.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
It takes commitment and sustained effort, but history suggests they do get punishment. Have you never heard of Hitler, Franco, or Mussolini? Or their regimes?
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APacuska @apacuska.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Reminds me of Jan 22, 1905
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APacuska @apacuska.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
I’ll go in with you on a goat or a sheep - if we do it right we can add catering.
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APacuska @apacuska.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
I love that too.
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APacuska @apacuska.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Plus there are other protests in Annapolis, Rockville and Silver Spring which were likely to pull from that population as well.
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APacuska @apacuska.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Following an illegal order is illegal.
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APacuska @apacuska.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Quartering also means in private citizens’ homes.
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APacuska @apacuska.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Well that is certainly a claim.
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APacuska @apacuska.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
There are solid arguments he has also done 2, 9, 15, and all of 24 as well.
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APacuska @apacuska.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Anyone else seeing that trend in *which* regions lost connectivity.
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APacuska @apacuska.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Mine too.
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APacuska @apacuska.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
The best part of you writing a non fiction book …. Is getting to read it, ideally en route to Helsinki.
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APacuska @apacuska.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
I own 2, and about 10 spinning wheels, dozens of spindles, 3 sewing machines (one is a treadle), and enough wool to supply me for the rest of my life. I still prefer to buy clothes because it takes a long time and I have a mortgage to pay.
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APacuska @apacuska.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Mostly they just send them to the front lines first. The playbook hasn’t changed.
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APacuska @apacuska.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
3/ Erdogan declared childless women “deficient” in 2016 in his demand. Because it is necessary to have to right people creating more of the right people, to have an authoritarian dictatorship.
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APacuska @apacuska.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
2/ Trump is flowing the dictatorship play book. Hungary has just proposed making mothers exempt from taxes if they have more babies. That it’s across these dictatorships is the real story. And yes, it’s racist. Russia has always been racist.
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APacuska @apacuska.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
That is beside the point. You can’t say it’s a sudden change when a) it has existed for 80+years, b) over half a million women already have it, and c) it was announced in 2022 so it doesn’t coincide with what you think. 1/
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APacuska @apacuska.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
He started reminding people of that years ago and reinforced the Order in 2022. The timing and purpose is perfectly consist with that of 1944. It’s also a dead giveaway for population loss in Ukraine. This is only a surprise if you generally ignore Putin’s stated purpose (restoration of the USSR).
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APacuska @apacuska.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Heroine mothers have been a thing since 1944.
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APacuska @apacuska.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Dissidents in the USSR did so for 70 yrs. Productive has many approaches.
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APacuska @apacuska.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
No trash removal….
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APacuska @apacuska.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
And they are all related.
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APacuska @apacuska.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
The Dept of Energy has what to do with this? I think you mean DoEd?
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APacuska @apacuska.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
And the mire they shut down, the fewer opportunities to train new doctors.
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APacuska @apacuska.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Longer
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APacuska @apacuska.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Louder!
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