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@approxatbest.bsky.social
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I can never give a direct explanation of what I experience or think. Best I can do is an approximation. Broken brained Wannabe shitty writer (mostly surrealism and body horror)

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 12h
this is the only reason why certain people wanted to know—and spread—her name without her consent. so they can abuse her, too.
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Cornell’s Jane Doe is ‘terrified’ after death threats and a swatting incident, her lawyer says | CNN
One month ago, the woman now known to America as Cornell’s Jane Doe was living in New York City and trying to break into the hotel industry, her lawyer says. Now she’s facing threats and hiding out at...
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Approximation, at best @approxatbest.bsky.social · 7h
What a fool
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14h
This ICE agent’s entire Instagram feed, “shooter.914,” is guns, watches, energy drinks, and alcohol.
A shooter.914 post showing a blue handgun and Reign energy drinkThe console of a car with an energy drink and handgun in the cup holders. In the foreground, shooter.914’s wrist with a fancy watch in it. Background: Two assault rifles and a Monster energy drink A screenshot of his whole account showing more of the same
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 14h
ICE agent fired 7 rounds into car with 5-year-old inside in Marble Hill, authorities say | ABC7 NY abc7ny.com/post/ice-off...
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ICE agent fired 7 rounds into car with 5-year-old inside in Marble Hill, authorities say
There are growing calls for transparency Friday morning after an ICE agent shot a man in Manhattan, with his 5-year-old son in the backseat of his car.
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WIRED @wired.com · 16h
An ICE agent on the scene of a shooting in upper Manhattan on Thursday has repeatedly been accused in federal court of unlawful arrests and using force during arrests in New York and Minneapolis, a WIRED investigation finds.
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ICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal Arrests
Brenden Cuni, an ICE supervisor, has been accused of excessive force and tackling a pregnant woman to the ground. Several of his arrests were later found to be unlawful in federal court.
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 12h
“Thank you very much. If you clap a little bit more I may share this prize with Trump,” she said.
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🇲🇽🕷️rustbelt rebel🕷️🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
That’s why it’s not just abolish ICE and it’s not just abolish the concentration camps. Policing and incarceration are integral to system of terror and control.
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Approximation, at best @approxatbest.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
In propose we call him CornCob Rob #survivor #survivor51 #rob #robantonson
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404 Media @404media.co · 08/10/2026
Body cam footage obtained by 404 Media reveals the first Flock camera searches ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge, and highlights how the system has turned otherwise mundane traffic stops into interrogations for drivers. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social scopp here: www.404media.co/watch-footag...
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Dax 🏳️‍⚧️🏴🇵🇸🌲 @trillsymbiont.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is the thing. Anarchist resistance to rapists is based on anarchist resistance to fascists. Would you get in the mentions of an antifascist account revealing someone was a Nazi and go “SO YOU DONT BELIEVE PEOPLE CAN CHANGE AND BE FORGIVEN SPECIAL BOYS?!” No not these fucking people
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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Anyway it feels important to me to remind people of the context that my work comes from, a very highly disabled one. It feels important to me that people who like my work know that writing is an activity that also flares me. Not out of pity, just, yeah, know the cost is different for me.
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Approximation, at best @approxatbest.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
📢📢"What is required of us is to understand that the authoritarianism expressed by abusers is as dangerous and reactionary as authoritarianism expressed by fascists"
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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If I’m against centering “accountability” and the “restoration” of abusers and rapists, what is it I think should be done about them?? Well, I lay exactly that out in this piece here. Use the tactics of anti-fascism! butchanarchy.medium.com/tactics-for-...
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Tactics for the Fight Against Abuse: Learning from Anti-Fascism
Our fight is not unidirectional. It is against all forces that wish to constrict, co-opt, and wipe out the autonomy of others.
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Parents, when you want a soda:
A coke fountain machine with a hand drawn sign taped to it reading, and I quote: No, water
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"they're crazy" guess what rape does to your mental health! "she's broke" guess what rape does to your finances! "he's bitter" guess what surviving rape does to your vision of the world!
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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
If you don't see the entire police state as your personal mortal enemy & the enemy of all that could have been good in this country, I don't fuck with you so know that. No such thing as a cop who's ethical, moral, or a good person. No things police do that are good. @161bklyn.myatproto.social
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Michael Peterson @madpadre.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I’m ok with bad things happening if they only happen to Altman.
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
need more women in video games because what do you MEAN I can't layer outerwear over a minidress on my GTA character???
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
what a loser. he can't even be a ghoul correctly.
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🇲🇽🕷️rustbelt rebel🕷️🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And from what I saw? She only admitted the girl was a victim after there was so much outrage over threatening the girl with murder charges.
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🇲🇽🕷️rustbelt rebel🕷️🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And yeah, the sheriff that was initially saying the girl was a victim and a perpetrator is a Latina and gay. www.countyofmonterey.gov/government/d...
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Approximation, at best @approxatbest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Omg I HATE that sheriff. Straight up garbage and consistent garbage at that
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🇲🇽🕷️rustbelt rebel🕷️🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
are you even going to TRY to escape your father?
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🇲🇽🕷️rustbelt rebel🕷️🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
That child was 13 years old when her father impregnated her. And SHE as the one they were looking for to charge with murder. Now if you are 14 years old and just gave birth and left a child that you know died and now they’re threatening to charge you with murder-
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🇲🇽🕷️rustbelt rebel🕷️🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Here’s story. abc7.com/story/14-yea...
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14-year-old girl, father wanted after baby found dead on side of road in Monterey County
Authorities are searching for a 14-year-old they suspect murdered her newborn, and her father, who is accused of impregnating his teen daughter.
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🇲🇽🕷️rustbelt rebel🕷️🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It took weeks for the DA to finally separate from the sheriff (who is a Latina, I think!) and say and put out an amber alert and say oh wait, the girl is a victim. The girl still hasn’t been found.
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🇲🇽🕷️rustbelt rebel🕷️🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The entire Cornell situation is sitting alongside the story I read about a 14 year old girl that gave birth to her father’s child on the side of the road (with her father right there) and left the baby, who wound up dying. That girl was initially wanted for murder. Not the father. The girl.
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🎃HalloDeeny🎃 they/them @geraldinepiche.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
How many of us must be fed to these monsters before the myth of the promising young man" dies. Because it is a myth. These fuckers are in charge, the incompetent dipshits they are and even if some good would come out of them (which, no) , I guarantee that its not worth it. We are worth better
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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If the first thing on your mind after hearing some popular figure you admire is a rapist is about what you can do to help the rapist I don’t trust your intentions and never will.
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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The person who needs to be intentionally restored to the community in the aftermath of intimate violence is the victim of that violence. To do that often requires attacking the perpetrators’ power/access to victims. Asking “but how can we fix their heart?” as a bystander is deeply inappropriate.
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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The disproportionate concern with “rehabilitating” abusers and rapists (nearly always code for maintaining their position and recovering their social status) is actually part of the problem.
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😡moth😀 @7amkickoff.com · 02/10/2026
This isn't Loki style chaos, this is just the fully dumbest guy. Reminds me of early Survivor when Rudy ran around trying to answer trivia questions and just said "I don't know" 20 times. people.com/survivor-pro...
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‘Survivor’ Producer Has to Intervene When Player Attempts to Break One of the Game’s Biggest Rules
A producer on ‘Survivor’ had to intervene when Rob Antonson tried to vote for himself to save Eric Macksoud from being eliminated.
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Approximation, at best @approxatbest.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hola, I write liminal horror with a little bit of gore and body horror sprinkled in. I listen to a lot of pop (rock, rap, disco) and 90's r&b
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TheRealityComics @therealitycomics.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For the #HorrorWritersChat: I'm Keith, I lean into comedy, so even my horror stuff has tinges of comedy (less jokey, more wry). I approached my most-recent #Horror project about 2 people torturing each other like an angry romcom. Music? Classic Rock and '80s New Wave. And women that ROCK!
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
whenever we get close to seeing a systemic problem with policing, media rushes to frame it as a training problem. however, police culture is at the core of its mistreatment of victims and rape cases. policing is a tool of white supremacy AND *male* supremacy
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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Clinton-Era Laws Passed 30 Years Ago Enabled Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Agenda. Here’s How We Turn the Page. Clinton’s ‘96 laws provided the legal foundation for mass detention, rapid deportations, and the evasion of due process. truthout.org/articles/cli...
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Clinton-Era Laws Passed 30 Years Ago Enabled Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Agenda.
Clinton’s ‘96 laws provided the legal foundation for mass detention, rapid deportations, and the evasion of due process.
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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Because abusers are so unwilling to end their control, the most deadly part of an abusive relationship is when victims attempt to leave it. This is another reason you don’t try to force victims to “just leave.” Only they can know when that is a truly viable option.
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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It is the ABUSER who is making the choice to maintain a relationship structured by their coercive control. And no excuses they may have for their commitment to intimate authoritarianism diminishes that choice. The abuser is the one that won’t let the relationship end, because they benefit from it.
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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It is for the same reason that you DO apply as much pressure as you can (within the boundaries set by the victim) on the abuser. To effect the power imbalance. The person who exerts the control is the problem to be addressed, not the victim or their choices.
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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The essence of an abusive relationship is entrapment. The abuser’s coercive control (in tandem with structural oppression) makes it so their victim *cannot* leave. This is why you DON’T shame victims for “staying,” you give them access to as many resources as you can. To effect the power imbalance.
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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The people who need to be pressured to leave relationships are abusers, not the victims who they entrap. The main message shouldn’t be “leave relationships that are controlling” (which focuses on a victim’s behavior) but “leave relationships you can’t maintain without being controlling.”
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
She also adjusted her pace to ensure the injured cub could keep up. By 2008, he was observed hunting on his own & at the age of 20 is King of the Fat Bears, holding his own at the crowded Brook Falls. A story of a mother's love, sacrifice & a little cub who became a champion fat bear. 🥹
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How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack
Discover how Bear 89 became Backpack, why his nickname predates his leg injury, and how his mother Holly adjusted to her cub’s needs.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Here's Backpack as a yearling in 2007, unable to put weight on the injured paw. Holly took her cub & moved upriver, away from aggressive bears who might harm him at Brooks Falls. Fishing was harder for the pair, and she risked both of them struggling or starving, but he was SAFE.
Backpack in 2007, nursing an injured paw that is turned under, so that he can't put any weight on it.  If you're wondering why they didn't provide vet care, it's their policy not to interfere when an injury is natural and not caused by human activity.

I think this photo is by David Kopshever, National Park Service?  It's on a blog linked below.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.
From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water.  I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there?  God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"
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Rick Healey, piecing it together @twotothefifth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I once saw it opined that one of the earlier indications of civilization is a healed foot injury, since that shows that the injured was cared for. I can only hope this nascent bear civilization does a better job than we did.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If rapists actually faced consequences for their actions we wouldn’t have nearly as many rapists. In reality many rapists actually benefit from their actions
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Seeing people post about how unfair the “mob justice” against the Cornell rapists is doesn’t really move me when there is no justice for survivors. The system doesn’t work; it enacts further punishment on the victims. Society is even crueler. So spare me the “mob justice” rhetoric about the accused
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.
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