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Alexander Zimmerman

@b-traven.myatproto.social
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Mutineer on ship of Capital & State. Exiled public Librarian bunking in so-called Maine, US. Luddite currently sailing the Non-Profit Tech seas. All the music, all the tea.

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Elizabeth Preston @inkfish.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
It was SUCH a treat to write this story for Audubon, which includes my sister @akpresto.bsky.social's crow friends Sal and Pal, @carlbergstrom.com sneaking across campus in a tunnel, philosopher @thomvandooren.bsky.social, and me meeting thousands of crows at once: www.audubon.org/magazine/are... 🧪
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Are Crows Really Our Friends?
An investigation into the state of corvid–human relations.
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Firestorm Books @firestorm.coop · 14/06/2026
"The Government Doesn't Want You To Read These Zines" – new benefit zine packets from South Bend Commons! All proceeds go to Prairieland Defendants. firestorm.coop/products/253... @dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social
A screenshot from firestorm.coop showing the product page for "The Government Doesn't Want You To Read These Zines". The product image is styled like a redacted document and the page shows that 18 packets are available.
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Alexander Zimmerman @b-traven.myatproto.social · 23/06/2026
...It does not ask permission from a single owner to grow. It seeds, it spreads, it adapts to the conditions of the people who tend it. The same impulse that pushes a wildflower through cracked concrete can push our tools toward openness, if we design for it on purpose." #mozfest #mozillafestival
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Alexander Zimmerman @b-traven.myatproto.social · 23/06/2026
"A wilded technology is one designed like a grove rather than a fortress: interoperable where today’s systems wall us in, plural where they flatten us into a single profile, regenerative where they extract until there is nothing left..." - Zeina Abi Assy www.mozillafoundation.org/en/festival/...
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Wilding at Mozilla Festival 2026
What happens when we loosen rigid systems so communities and tech evolve naturally? Join Mozilla Festival in Barcelona, October 28-30th, 2026. Badges on sale now.
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Lucy Parsons Labs @lucyparsonslabs.com · 17/06/2026
Across the country, resistance to tech harms are now the cultural zeitgeist. As organized in this work, we see it as critical to expand our demands beyond "privacy" towards lives lived with dignity. truthout.org/articles/resistance-to…
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Resistance to Flock Cameras and Police Surveillance Is Exploding
Backlash to Flock cameras and AI systems is exploding after scandals, including police using the tech to stalk women.
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Alice Stollmeyer @stollmeyer.eurosky.social · 17/06/2026
W seems for Boomers who don't get tech? 🤑 for-profit 🔒 now closed source? 🕵️ may use your data to train AI 🦹‍♂️ dodgy tech bro on the Board 🪪 needs govt ID verification & face scanning 🤖 40 million existing ATP users are NOT verified Building EU Big Tech won't save democracy! h/t @elenarossini.com
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Elena Rossini ⁂ @elenarossini.com · 17/06/2026
SCOOP: In early June the European Commission unveiled its Tech Sovereignty Plan, which emphasized their commitment to #OpenSource. Just recently, they migrated their main ATproto accounts to #WSocial, a for-profit network that has quietly gone closed-source. blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-pub...
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W Social, Public Institutions and the Theater of European Digital Sovereignty
European public institutions are betting big on digital sovereignty and open source software. And yet they recently moved their Bluesky accounts to W Social, a private, for profit network owned by Swe...
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New_ Public @newpublic.org · 16/06/2026
Here’s @rude1.blacksky.team, Founder and CEO of @blackskyweb.xyz and Excellence Award Winner of the #OpenSocialAwards. Blacksky is a beacon of choice, community, and agency in a bleak social media landscape. They’re building the tools they need and sharing them with everyone.
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
🔥 Whale Shark gliding through Bioluminescent Algae looks like its floating through space. By Mike Nulty
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Spooky Femme Peter Lorre 🙀 @sarahkite.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Seen tacked to a community board on my walk
laminated flyer pushpinned to a community board. we see a photo of a coyote, and the text reads:

HAVE YOU SEEN THIS DOG?

[photo of a coyote]

DUMMY THAT'S A COYOTE.
OH MY GOD WHAT DO I DO???:
—NO ACTION REQUIRED
—IT IS WILDLIFE IN THE WILD (!)
-HERE TO EAT DELICIOUS RODENT
-LET HER COOK
—NOT INTERESTED IN YOU, LOL GET OVER YOURSELF BABE;)
—KEEP DOGS ON LEASH AND CATS INDOORS
-(LIKE YOU SHOULD BE DOING ANYWAY)
—YOTE IS A RESPECTED NEIGHBOR AND CRITTER CONTROL PROFESSIONAL
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Mira🌺 @deepgreens.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Ordinary World…🌺 #BeachLife
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Alexander Zimmerman @b-traven.myatproto.social · 20/03/2026
P̶r̶e̶p̶p̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶2̶0̶2̶5̶.̶ ̶ ̶ 2̶0̶2̶6̶. Evergreen.
Thelonious Monk's Underground album cover, depicting an armed Monk at the piano in a basement full of objects one might find in a French WWII Resistance basement.
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Alexander Zimmerman @b-traven.myatproto.social · 14/03/2026
prairielanddefendants.com
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Support the Prairieland Defendants | DFW Support Committee
The future of political freedom in America is on trial in North Texas. Learn about the case and why it matters for anyone who cares about civil liberties.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
NEW: One of the most progressive institutions in the U.S., The New School, has begun destroying its humanities departments. They have cancelled one of their most popular classes, "Global Soccer and World Politics." We are going to teach it anyway. karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-new-sc...
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The New School Cancelled Their Class on Global Soccer and World Politics. We Are Going To Teach it Anyway.
When institutions abandon critical thinking, we build our own classrooms.
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SpaeKona @spaekona.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
East end There is this rocky beach down the road from me...I frequently go here and get my ocean fix. #oilpainting #boldcoast #downeast #mainer
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
'Storm light' by UK contemporary printmaker Mikki Bowers #WomensArt
Print featuring the silhouette of a bare hedgerow under a purple sky filled with birds flying in group formation
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon. Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 14/02/2026
Individually, each post could easily be dismissed, but taken together, they seem to form something more deliberate: a stream of repurposed Nazi propaganda for the everyday person’s feed.
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The US government will not stop sharing Nazi propaganda
And their supporters are loving it.
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Xun-ling Au 歐迅灵 🏴 @xunlingau.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
This is an incredible labour of love. Do read the thread as well as it has some important points to know.
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
ALSO last thing, I think it’s worth pointing out how the urgent necessity for collective *action* organically pushed things centered around protests/rallies from empty stunts or performance to trainings and community patrols and making and sharing and widespread, indefatigable DOING.
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The Maine Monitor @themainemonitor.org · 13/02/2026
Perfect Fit, a police supply company in Bangor #Maine, has a contract worth hundreds of thousands of dollars to outfit a growing number of #immigration enforcement agents with badge holders. Read more for free 👇 themainemonitor.org/immigration-...
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The immigration enforcement boom is helping this Maine company
Perfect Fit has a contract to outfit a growing number of immigration enforcement agents with badge holders.
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Jen Fifield @jenafifield.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
NEW: A federal tool meant to find noncitizens on voter rolls is consistently marking citizens as noncitizens, especially if they were born outside the U.S., causing chaos as election clerks try not to disenfranchise voters, @zachdespart.bsky.social and I found. 🧵 www.propublica.org/article/save...
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“Not Ready for Prime Time.” A Federal Tool to Check Voter Citizenship Keeps Making Mistakes.
The Department of Homeland Security pushed out the revamped tool while it was still adding data. That led to widespread misidentification, particularly for citizens born outside the U.S.
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005.
CBP's misconduct scandal is so long-running that today it would be old enough to drink.
In total, according to CBP's own discipline reports, over the 20 years from 2005 to 2024 - the last year numbers are available
- at least 4,913 CBP officers and Border Patrol agents have been arrested themselves, some multiple times. (In 2018 alone, a single CBP employee was arrested five times.) To put that number in perspective:
• The population of CBP agents and officers who have been arrested would make it roughly the nation's fourth largest police department - equal to the size of the entire Philadelphia police.
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Ben Ewen-Campen @benforward3.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back. Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
nytimes.com
Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 13/02/2026
"Racist people are firing and laying off Black women at three times the rate of other women." 😬Yikes! It sounds bad when you say it like that! "Black women are losing jobs at 3 times the rate." Much better! Makes it sound like the Black women just need to be more careful or better at their jobs!
essence.com
Black Women Are Losing Jobs At Three Times The Rate Of Other Women | Essence
New labor data shows Black women accounted for a disproportionate share of job losses across 2025, especially in federal, education, and care-sector roles.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 13/02/2026
Well holy fucking shit. Ring cancelled their partnership with Flock. Keep pressure on them to stop volunteering their feeds to state, local, and federal agencies, though, because that part's still going.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Every single time a story like this is reported, we must assume that there are many many more that do not.
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SpaeKona @spaekona.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Boot Head You hike thru a mile of woods-go uphill and the path opens to this exquisite cliffside ocean view. One of my top 3 spots in downeast Maine. Just Epic. #oilpainting #downeast #boldcoast #blueskyartist #maine
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 02/08/2025
TikTok has some amazing niche content and if you’re in to linguistics at all it’s got you covered. This guy does amazing content on dialect. Part 1/2
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MdDoogie3 @mddoogie3.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/
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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
After a trial over the last few years, Ireland has launched a permanent scheme giving a basic income of €325 a week for artists. 2,000 will be eligible, and successful recipients will be chosen at random from applicants, who must be "professional artists" (definition tbc).
bbc.co.uk
Ireland announces scheme to provide basic income for artists
The Basic Income for Artists (BIA) project is believed to be the first permanent one of its kind in the world.
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RITTÆR @rittaer.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Great work by @francescabria.bsky.social & Team, who have mapped out the mechanisms and networks in the engine room of American tech fascism. The past year should serve as a stark warning to all liberal democratic states of how quickly a democratic constitutional order can be destroyed.
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 11/02/2026
A Dakota prayer camp has gone up across the highway from Whipple Federal Building to protest U.S. immigration enforcement. Organizers draw connections between current practices and historical injustices.
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Indigenous group speaks out against immigration enforcement with prayer camp
A Dakota prayer camp has gone up across the highway from Whipple Federal Building to protest U.S. immigration enforcement. Organizers draw connections between current practices and historical injustic...
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Sam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
NEW: Jonathon Redondo-Rosales, a 36-year-old LA protester, spent six months in jail accused of assaulting a federal officer with a *cloth hat.* A judge tossed out the DOJ’s case, accusing govt of acting in “bad faith” and engaging in “prosecutorial harassment“ that could “chill lawful protest”
theguardian.com
Case dismissed against LA protester accused of assaulting federal officer with cloth hat
Judge says US government acted in ‘bad faith’ in case of Jonathon Redondo-Rosales, 36, who spent six months in jail
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rae mariz @raemariz.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
I’ve never clicked on a link so fast. I’m obsessed with SFF stories that engage with caregiving in speculative worlds, but I realized while reading that all my favorites are WRITTEN stories, not onscreen. I’ll list some in thread below. Please add more examples! I’m always looking for more!
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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
“For stubbornly attached units, you can also use the flat side of the hammer in a straight-on strike, repeated until the item is rendered into a pile of splinters that can be swept up using an everyday broom and dustpan.”
hamiltonnolan.com
Remove Your Ring Camera With a Claw Hammer
Home and life improvement.
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
my takeaways reading about a bunch of horrific shit in history is that the things you want are: -to have hiding spaces -to not let the state disarm you (small arms genuinely matter even when artillery exists) -to maintain access the means of communication -to build diplomatic ties with outsiders
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Alexander Zimmerman @b-traven.myatproto.social · 11/02/2026
ICE expanding in downtown Portland! "The One City Center building in Portland, Maine, where ICE plans to expand its offices, is within walking distance to at least six churches, a mosque, one synagogue, and a Salvation Army adult rehab center." #Maine #MEPolitics #PortlandME #ICEout #AbolishICE
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Anyone in Lewiston Maine around today? I'm looking to meet queer folks who have been volunteering to support immigrant communities in particular! Currently posted up at Blue Jay Coffee - come say hi! (I'm definitely working but I won't use anyone's info who doesn't want to be in a story.)
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Alexander Zimmerman @b-traven.myatproto.social · 11/02/2026
I've lived with this aloe plant for over a decade, and never even knew it could / would bloom?!? Is this a bad sign that the plant is stressed (make babies before death type signals)? I'm thrilled to see this, but also worried for my friend. #houseplant #aloe #succulent #aloevera #bloom
Aloe plant stalk and flower head against window, looking out into a snowy yardAloe plant and stalk with flower head against window, looking out into a snowy yard.
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Alexander Zimmerman @b-traven.myatproto.social · 11/02/2026
Omg this classic showed up again just in time
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mfeebeling.bsky.social @mfeebeling.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
If you follow Joanne Freeman she reported last week that Holocaust survivors living in assisted living homes, I think in Florida, we asking home administrators if they could hide their Haitian nurses and care-givers in their apartments to keep them safe.
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse
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gradient.horse
Draw a horse, watch it run!
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."

Elmo
@elmo
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That Bunny was AMAZING. Elmo thinks he should be called Good Bunny! Elmo loves you, Mr. Good Bunny! ❤️🎶🐰
Based Yankee
@thebasedyankee
You and Bad Bunny should be deported
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 09/02/2026
Bro literally came out and said “it’s our labor and culture that has always made the Americas great: y’all are just the beneficiaries of slave owners from sea to shining sea,” and I am here for it.
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𝐝𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐞🎃🍂👻 @londonfog.swifties.social · 09/02/2026
PBS kids is sending me
A PBS kids post of buster from Arthur with sunglasses on waving with the caption “we always loved a bad bunny”
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Red Emma’s @redemmas.org · 07/02/2026
A poster hanging in a bookstore. The design is  a modern reinterpretation of a tarot card, with a person pierced by ten swords doomscrolling their phone. The text reads “everything is fine”
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Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
"The border is a factory for making racism and racist violence."
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Mosh Lee @mosh.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
A nice way to support one of the pioneers in independently built & operated ATProto infra is via Open Collective: opencollective.com/blacksky
opencollective.com
Blacksky - Open Collective
Decentralized social media built for community power, culture, and collective freedom.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors. Great work everyone.
The Board of Governors decided, unilaterally, that no published textbook in the field of sociology could be used in compliance with the law for an Intro to Sociology class. None.
Victor: There's not a single existing textbook on the market that could be used that would qualify under state law?
Zachary: Correct.
Victor: I'm sorry, that's kind of funny. Like, the absurdity of not a single sociology textbook getting past the censors. I mean, it makes me kind of proud of our colleagues, but...
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