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Gene Locicero (he/him)

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Hi! I'm an Android dev who also enjoys museums🖼️, books and libraries 📚, gaming 🎮, paper craft ✒️, zines 🖨️, sewing 🧵, embroidery 🪡, boardgames and TTRPGs🎲 Proudly Queer and Nonbinary 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 4h
The Wayback Machine lets you travel through more than a trillion saved web pages. 🏛️ ‣ Find an old website. ‣ See how a familiar site changed. ‣ Recover something that's disappeared. ‣ Check what a page looked like years ago. The web has a history. Go explore it. web.archive.org #ToolsYouCanUse
Four "Tools You Can Use" Wayback Machine campaign tiles arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top left, a cream and blue tile with a folder icon reading "Wayback Machine" and "Explore more than 1 trillion web pages saved over time." Top right, a cream tile with bold black text: "Explore more than 1 trillion web pages saved over 30 years." Bottom left, a cream tile with a screenshot of the Internet Archive Wayback Machine homepage, with its search field circled in red. Bottom right, a cream tile with bold black text, "See how the web has changed over time," and a small multicolor line-art icon of the Internet Archive's columned building.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 4h
Dude Wipes Introduces New Flushable Khakis theonion.com/dude-wipes-introduces-…
Dude Wipes Introduces New Flushable Khakis
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 4h
If I went to Switzerland and won a Swiss watch precision contest, I would literally never talk about anything else
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 18h
I went to Geneva a few weeks ago and spoke on a panel about the nature of time for a Geneva Watch Days event. While I was there, on a lark, I entered a competition to most precisely calibrate a Swiss watch. And today I found out that I won! 😃 www.instagram.com/reel/Dd6hUTB...
Me peering through a little magnifier at a tiny watch mechanism connected to some monitoring equipment, while making adjustments with a small screwdriver
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Gender Liberation Movement @genderlib.com · 5h
As hospitals across the country cave to the Trump administration’s threats to cut federal funding and abandon trans youth, actor Elliot Page speaks out. In New York City, NYU Langone, Mount Sinai, and NewYork-Presbyterian abruptly ended care for trans kids in response to these threats.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 15h
I do not think we should have a death penalty. I don't think it is any kind of deterrent. I think it's barbaric. I think it makes us all worse people. All of us. And we just don't have to do this to ourselves. We could abolish it, and we should.
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 17/06/2025
As seen in the resistance to federal raids around the country over the past week! We send out these stickers for the costs of production and shipping alone. Make it clear that immigrants are welcome in your community—and ICE mercenaries are not. store.crimethinc.com/collections/...
A roll of 1000 stickers sitting on a large banner of identical design, both reading

Immigrants Welcome
The border is not a wall—it’s a system of control. It doesn’t protect people; it pits them against each other. It doesn’t foster togetherness; it breeds resentment. It doesn’t keep out predators; it gives them badges and guns.

The border does not divide one world from another. There is only one world, and the border is tearing it apart.

crimethinc.com/bordersA sticker, reading

Immigrants Welcome
The border is not a wall—it’s a system of control. It doesn’t protect people; it pits them against each other. It doesn’t foster togetherness; it breeds resentment. It doesn’t keep out predators; it gives them badges and guns.

The border does not divide one world from another. There is only one world, and the border is tearing it apart.

crimethinc.com/borders
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Gene Locicero (he/him) @code-kobold.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
That is wild after she cleared it with the city. Unfortunately it sounds like the mini horse is an esa and not a service animal. The only recognized service animal besides dogs is mini horses. If she could show there is a particular task the horse does for a disability should could claim under ADA
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Universal Hub @universalhub.com · 29/09/2026
Don't even think of moving to Newton with a mini-horse whdh.com/news/city-of...
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City of Newton denies woman’s request to keep mini horse in backyard - Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News
NEWTON, MASS. (WHDH) - The Newton Health and Human Services Department has denied a resident’s request to keep her miniature horse in her backyard, intensifying<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https...
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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I started tracking and I've spent roughly 20 hours on the phone dealing with doctor office, insurance AND pharmacy errors versus 45 minutes total of actual face to face care in the past six months. Not an exaggeration
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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 27/09/2026
Would you like to know how to make a zine? Here's easy step-by-step instructions on how to make your own without the use of a computer by @thorazos.bsky.social etsy.com/listing/6936...
Thuban Press Guide to Analog Self Publishing
Step-by-Step Instructions to Make Your Own Book Without a Computer
by Julia Gfrörer
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DD Ward ..."Interim Pirate Queen" @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I hope the transphobic queers see this and understand the cost of their betrayal. Selling out your comrades rarely ends well.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One of my goals in writing this book was to get a copy in every college library so that survivors entering the Title IX system would know what they were getting into—and be able to use that knowledge however they wanted. But a lot of schools banned the book.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The main reason you haven’t heard about campus sexual violence in a few years is because Trump and SCOTUS have made it much, much harder for survivors to come forward. You might vaguely remember that Title IX was a big battleground in his first term. And that we lost.
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poorly drawn cats @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
so comfy
a poorly drawn cat sleeping peacefully in an awkward, twisted positiona white cat sleeping peacefully on floral bedding while in a very peculiar pose
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What about her future? What about how hard she worked to be there? What is to become of her life now? What process of justice could possibly right these wrongs? And how much more will she lose in the process of trying to get it? How much more of this are we all supposed to tolerate?
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Universal Hub @universalhub.com · 28/09/2026
To try to win back a $20-million Roxbury road grant, Boston offered to eliminate proposed curbside EV chargers; regime refused, city is now suing www.universalhub.com/2026/try-win...
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If children had any political power, instead of being treated like property, we wouldn't be in such a mess. Exhibit A: Attacks on Critical Race Theory started in schools as "parents' rights" and book bans-- within 7 years, this morphed into an anti-DEI purge of adults in workplaces and academia.
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Rose @starlightwishes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Most people don't know that the first rights that protected children were copied from rights that were already on the books protecting animals. That says an awful lot.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Because for a lot of men and women, dominating children is the only absolute, god-like power they will ever have in this existence.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
KBJ is this close 🤏🏾 to referring to Chief Justice John Roberts as Chief Justice Save-A-Ho ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/ketan...
screenshot of two paragraphs excerpted from the linked article. excerpt reads as follows:

At a public appearance in March 2026, Jackson attributed the spike to a corresponding “uptick” in “the court’s willingness to get involved.” Indeed, the Court has granted more than 70 percent of the administration’s requests. In her speech on Thursday, Jackson talked about what those grants look like in practice. She specifically highlighted the Court’s shadow docket orders allowing Trump to slash the Department of Education’s workforce, cancel hundreds of millions of dollars in government grants, and, as she put it, authorize “roving ICE patrols to conduct race-based searches and seizures of Latino residents in Los Angeles.”

With these grim examples, Jackson illustrated how transforming the emergency docket into a “special avenue that certain privileged litigants can use selectively” puts people in danger, and compromises both the functioning of the judiciary and the Court’s credibility with the public. And in Friday’s dissent, she similarly rejected the idea that the government is injured and requires emergency response services from the Supreme Court “whenever it is prevented from violating the law.”
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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 28/09/2026
A woodcut of a bird beside the text "pretty sure i'm dead and this is hell"
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McJulie @mcjulie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When I talk about how we need a big “gospel tent revival” of the American Civil Religion, this is exactly what I’m talking about.
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Gene Locicero (he/him) @code-kobold.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yes there were "primary" men that went as well but still, more land for the king means more land to give to vassals which means those second sons get a chance at actual inheritance Look I had to write a 20k word history essay for my IB diploma, I'm going to use that knowledge dammit!
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Gene Locicero (he/him) @code-kobold.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Oh nooooo, it just clicked that this is literally the crusades all over again They wanted the Christian nations to stop fighting each other & also stop killing their older brothers so they conveniently decided to send these "secondary" men to the east to steal more land/money & stop annoying them
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
also worth noting that Trump's first Department of Education intentionally weakened Title IX protections to make college even better for rapists. unfortunately, Biden's admin didn't fully undo the damage.
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Godless Communist Orc @16tonsthericher.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Extremely powerful and courageous editorial. It takes some real grit to call out an administration like this and name names when official channels fail. Worth your time to read, and shame on those who were supposed to protect their students.
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel shows Sarah, the protagonist, working at a desk. A brain next to her says, "We need to take breaks!"
The second panel zooms in on Sarah's face. She is annoyed. She says, "What if I don't listen to you?"
The third panel shows the brain smiling.
The fourth panel shows the brain reaching towards a lever. The brain says, "I'LL MAKE YOU."
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Boston French Toast Alert System @bostonfrenchtoast.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
NWS at 1:52 p.m. "Area of most concern continues to be the east coast of MA, especially south of Boston." Also: "NE winds will be relentlessly gusty through Sunday, gusting 35-45 mph for most inland locations and as high as 45-55 mph along the coast at times." forecast.weather.gov/product.php?...
forecast.weather.gov
National Weather Service
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Onion Sports @onionsports.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wired For Performance: The Cutting-Edge Tech Of NFL Uniforms theonion.com/wired-for-pe...
SLEEVES: KEEP PLAYERS MODEST IN THE EYES OF THE LORDMICROSCOPIC “END RACISM” PATCH
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Cats with Jobs ⚒️ @catworkers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So many bookstore cats... 📚 📹 Cupboard Maker Books
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 25/09/2026
“The chips can operate for about 15 minutes in space before needing to be shut down so they can cool off, said Travis Beals, Google’s senior director of product management for Project Suncatcher.” What could possibly go wrong?
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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is bullshit.
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Ryan Sophia McCall (菲菲) @scudubydubop.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The photos you were shown in school of Nazi book burnings are from the raid on the Institute for Sexual Science. They were burning us, our history, our belonging in this world. It is still burning. You either choose to help put out the fire or accept it.
Nazi book burning
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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 24/09/2026
"There has to be a better way of connecting and sharing and existing together, a way that isn't locked into the exploitative doom loops and psychic death of what we currently have. A way that's built around humans again, not around algorithms. A way that values connection instead of confrontation."
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“The customer is always wrong, now” is a great way to capture how specialize finance has ruined everything from our favorite store to your political process. Margins are now the only customer. The only voter. We have but one real way to exert power over any of it anymore.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.
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Boston Sex Workers and Allies Collective (BSWAC) @bostonswac.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Tonight we went out to support the striking workers at Encore casino! Casino workers and sex workers both face the stigma of working in a “vice” industry. Sex workers often work at casinos, and we appreciate the hard work of all the staff. Encore, pay your workers a fair wage!
Three white woman holding protest signs in front of a green manicured lawn and a tall ornate light up sign reading Encore. The signs say “Sex workers support casino workers,” “Boston sex workers support Encore workers,” and “Sex workers stand in solidarity with Encore workers.”
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Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team · 23/09/2026
tawk. 🗣️
Rudy mozilla wildposting
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Once again, Theory of Moral Sentiments is "How do we define a good person?" and Wealth of Nations is "See this fucking capitalism thing? Only let good people in charge or it'll blow our face off" then capped my Marx's Capital which is "Hey, we blew our fucking faces off, what the fuck?"
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I'm betting the documents will definitely *not *be Smith's "Companies colluding to raise prices is the real problem" or "Excess profits are the real problem" or "you have to pay your workers a living wage" from Wealth or "admiring rich people is in fact a moral failing" from Moral Sentiment.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
you don't get this kind of writing in the new york times www.404media.co/woman-arrest...
Police detained Powell, a freelance photographer in Springfield, as people filed out of the room. “I don’t have a lot of experience getting tickets or being detained,” Powell told 404 Media. “So this is kind of new for me.”

Footage obtained by 404 Media showed several people leaving the city council meeting and yelling at city leaders. Powell said he was the only person put in handcuffs, detained, and ticketed at that moment. The Springfield Police Department did not return 404 Media’s request for comment.

“Well, I said: ‘Jeff Schrag is a cuck.’ I said: ‘Fuck you Jeff.’ I said: ‘Worthless’ and then, also, the final thing I said was: ‘Jeff Schrag has a tiny, stinky, cock,’” Powell explained. “I just let myself get handcuffed and let them do whatever power trip they wanted to do. Got my ticket and left.”

Powell said he was only in handcuffs for five minutes. “They just wanted to put on a show,” he explained. Powell added that he planned to fight the charge in court. “I’ve already sought legal representation, so we’re going to see where it gets […] I don’t think I should have been put in cuffs. I read the law, the city ordinance, and it said that I should have just been asked to leave.”
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The Onion @theonion.com · 23/09/2026
USDA Replaces Food Stamps With One Giant Rutabaga To learn more about America's gaping wealth gap, head to youtube.com/politizane.
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Link with longer explanation: www.masshist.org/database/1668
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MHS Collections Online: Diagram to show the drill the Anti-Man-Hunting League had for the running off of a slave or man-hunter
Massachusetts Historical Society, Collections Online: Diagram to show the drill the Anti-Man-Hunting League had for the running off of a slave or man-hunter
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Ben Wurgaft @benwurgaft.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
When this comes up I always think of @seeshespeak.bsky.social’s essay on not-reading, an attack on the elite posture of being too busy and important to read: thepointmag.com/criticism/in...
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In Praise of Not Not Reading | The Point Magazine
The campus where I work can hardly be labeled a bastion of literary enthusiasm. But, every spring, for a brief, three-day period, it does its best to pretend otherwise.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The author had a bad time, but it was really fun to read about it!
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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 23/09/2026
Sarah flying British Airways is genuinely worse than that time she got caught up in an attempted military coup
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Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca · 22/09/2026
periodic reminder that Wizard Zines has an educational use policy if you want to use them in your university courses! wizardzines.com/education/
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tim d (he/him) @doormouse12.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
this weekend, we went down to boston's Polish Triangle (south of Andrew Sq Station)-- and got some deeee-lish food. def recommend! check out these deli's / tiny grocery stores if you get the chance: - Euromart - DJ's - Baltic
a display of polish sausagesgiant polish waffle cookies, and misc foodpolish candy!polish potato chips!
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
When I started writing about this I guess I expected to write a more straightforward defense of Parker. But, I thought back, and remembered a couple times when she was angry with me, and how brutal she'd been about it.
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