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Magdalena Kiesel

@crystallinecat.bsky.social
2.2K followers 2.6K following 115 posts

she/her • trans, autistic, disabled, cPTSD, older millennial • coder • kindness fanatic ▪︎ 🐈‍⬛ • Oh, look, a cat sat in this box — dropping everything to pet them! #RefugeesWelcome #Antifa #NoAfD 🌍 München (Munich, Germany)

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 4h
Dude is pushing a full press campaign for explicit white supremacy with a fortune largely built from public money.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 6h
If you see that comment, don’t reply or be mean to them. I think it’s just a misunderstanding. But this was the worst experience of my life and had a HUGE impact on my family. Which was the point. Remember that as the administration does the same to LaMonica McIver, Ilhan Omar, and anyone else.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 6h
HALF of the campaign was under those conditions. We had to miss events for court. All of our comms had to go through multiple lawyers (more bills). And, once again, we had the very real threat of imprisonment looming over us the entire time.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 6h
Saw ANOTHER person say my indictment was the best thing to happen to my campaign. Let me be clear: It severely limited what I could say, where I could go, and what I could do. I had to worry about prison AND legal fees for myself AND my (amazing) field director. Political prosecutions aren’t fun.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 6h
This article is a fascinating exploration of how “next token prediction” by LLM models actually takes place and forms neural networks. It has great visualizations. Example: “cat” and “car” might be connected to the same neuron because they both contain “ca” and the neuron branches out from there.
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Neural Networks Are Already Clean
A working hypothesis about neurons, generalization, and the ecology of circuits.
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Talena @surelyyoujokeme.bsky.social · 3h
Never seen the conveyor belt move so quickly!
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vanoreo @vanoreo.bsky.social · 3h
record: broken
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 2h
RFK is personally responsible for a measles outbreak killing American kids. Stephen Miller has killed more undocumented people than we will know until his tribunal. Pete Hegseth is nerfing anyone in a skiff within 95 miles of Cuba. They get away with it because they are committed to the performance.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 3h
Anyway, good case study here. You can be as evil as you want, you can kill as many people as is possible, you can shove churro ladies into vans then off to black sites in countries they've never even heard of, but if you can't do the performance of fascism — that's when you're in real trouble.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 3h
There it is!
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Katie Zacharia, Trump’s New Press Secretary, Is Fired After 5 Days (Gift Article)
The ouster came as Ms. Zacharia was shadowed by questions about how she had presented her legal career and handled her first press briefing.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h
it's pretty f'd up that the Trump administration is trying to deport my duly-elected member of Congress
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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 6h
We need an ANTI-FASCIST ECONOMICS which puts a floor under people's livelihoods and a ceiling on the extreme concentration of power and wealth. 🔗 Today I am launching my new YouTube channel: youtu.be/Wj_GdHSo7PU
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 20h
wat
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 9h
again this is why you have to retaliate. if they are only afraid of republicans this will happen all over again
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h
AOC: "When no one was watching, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed was getting glasses for kids ... but when no one was looking, Mike Rogers was taking checks from pharmaceutical interests. When no one was watching, he went to go work for them in the revolving door after he left Congress."
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Veronica @veronicaf.bsky.social · 22h
Patted Cadence again this morning and about five minutes after, she decided it was BAPBAPBAP time because HOW DARE. She is ridiculous and hilarious. Previously she had stopped using claws, but today apparently I deserved claws.
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Larry @larrymilly.bsky.social · 14h
Mum says cuteness level is 100% 😉😻 #catsofbluesky
Close up of Larry the cat’s face and front paws crossed
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 19h
The federal government tried to turn our public servants into deportation agents and force New York City to carry out ICE’s cruel agenda. Today, a federal court rejected that effort and upheld our laws. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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US judge tosses Trump administration lawsuit over New York City 'sanctuary' laws
A federal judge on Thursday threw out a Trump administration lawsuit that ​sought to block New York City laws ‌limiting cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, finding the government did not...
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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 19h
This is such a scoop. For many reasons, including: Trump had made a couple of comments about Omar in the first term, but neither she nor Somali Americans were a Trump obsession at that time. (But Somalis _were_ a Miller obsession.) www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Trump officials scrutinized Omar in 2019. They didn’t find citizenship issues.
The earlier review of Omar’s immigration records looked at many of the same issues being investigated now.
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 20h
"The officials... did not specify who in the White House made the decision..." Sorry... how many people are there "inside" this White House who ultimately decide what orders to give the Pentagon? I was led to believe the number was one (1)? www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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EXCLUSIVE: Order to limit Starshield for Ukraine came from inside White House, sources say
The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine ​for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, according to two US officials and a Western official briefe...
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 16h
It's so funny that MapQuest was all but counted out on the mat after taking a beating from Google Maps and Apple Maps but they navigated (lol) this current fuckshit political climate like a fucking boss. Kudos to whomever decided they should position themselves as WokeMaps
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 18h
Sure, Katie Zacharia never passed the bar. But Pete Hegseth has never passed one either.
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GLITTERDXCK RECORDS @glitterdxck.com · 23h
My wife and I recently hung up a progress flag to ward off chuds when the house next to us became vacant, and didn’t think about how it might help struggling kids who see it. Never taking it down now, thank you for sharing
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Noelle @finallynoelle.bsky.social · 19h
Alt text included. My apologies for missing it on the original post but I was a mess reading it.
Dear beautiful women,
I've started this letter like ten times and deleted it every time because every time I start I cry. So I'm just going to write it.
Your flag matters to me. It matters so much that it's flying at a lesbian household where anyone walking by can see it.
I'm a trans girl so I'm not sure you can relate but I'll try. Most days I'm doing math in my head like which hallway is safer, who I can sit near at lunch whether it's worth saying something or just letting it go. I'm so tired. I don't think people who don't have to do it know how tired it makes you.
I walk past your house almost daily. The first time I saw the flag I slowed down without meaning to. It was just hanging there like it was no big deal but to me it was everything. It felt like the people inside would see me as who I actually am and I wouldn't have to explain or prove anything. My shoulders dropped for the first time all day and I almost cried right there in front of your home.
I know that living here isn't easy for gay people like you where not everyone is kind about it so putting that flag up means risking stares, comments or worse. You didn't have to do it. It would have been so much easier to stay quiet. You did it anyway, and that is the bravest thing I've seen anyone do. Every day it stays up it tells people like me that someone is willing to be brave so we don't have to be alone.
Now I look for it. Some days it's the one thing that makes me feel like I'm not imagining that I deserve to be here. When so much of the world feels like it's deciding whether there's room for me your flag says there is. Please keep it up. You might not know it but it's helping me get through the day.
Thank you for your courage, and for leaving the porch light on for the rest of us.
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Noelle @finallynoelle.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
So we fly a pride flag in our front yard in a very conservative neighborhood and it’s been there for the last few years. Someone put this in our mailbox and my goodness…
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Veronica @veronicaf.bsky.social · 10h
Oh my god she is SO pretty. I love her angry little face even if she still doesn't like me much. If you would like to help out with cat food and assorted sundries, we have a throne list for (mostly) foster supplies. throne.com/veronicafoale
A stunningly beautiful grey cat looking off to the side. She is posed like a model and is the best girl ever.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 8h
Videos of the attack show the Israelis beating Heidi Levine with their hands and clubs and kicking her as she lay on the ground. They also reportedly stole all of her camera gear. Here’s WaPo’s comment:
“This morning, a Washington Post photographer, Heidi Levine, was attacked by Israeli settlers while reporting in the West Bank. She was wearing visible markings clearly identifying her as a journalist. While we are relieved that Heidi has received medical care and is sate, we are outraged by this unwarranted attack on a journalist doing her job and urge a thorough investigation and follow-through from authorities.”
— Matt Murray, Executive Editor of The Washington Post
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 8h
American WaPo veteran photojournalist Heidi Levine was severely beaten by Israeli “settlers” in the West Bank, along with Palestinians harvesting olives. Story: www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/1... Here she is in the ambulance:
Woman with gray hair lying in an ambulance appearing stunned

Photo by Jasper Nathaniel
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 9h
Marjorie Taylor Greene comes out with a statement opposing the raid on Ilhan Omar before Chuck Schumer, the leader of the Democratic Party
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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 11h
Ihr seid unglaublich! "Antifaschistische Wirtschaftspolitik" ist 2 Tage nach Veröffentlichung auf Platz 11 der SPIEGEL-Bestseller. Das macht Hoffnung! Und Hoffnung auf eine bessere Alternative zum Status Quo ist der Grund dafür, dass ich dieses Buch geschrieben habe. Danke! 🌹
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Ines Montani 〰️ @inesmontani.bsky.social · 10h
New blog post about Ellf and what's currently missing for NLP and code + data projects with coding agents. If we can make coding assistants good at NLP development, it'll be much easier to build accurate, fast, cheap & private models. So this is what we're working on 🙌 explosion.ai/blog/introdu...
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Introducing Ellf: The missing piece for building NLP with coding assistants · Explosion
Ellf is our new tool that plugs into the coding assistant you already use, like Claude Code, Codex or GitHub Copilot, and gives it the missing pieces to develop custom AI systems.
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FowlerBroncos.bsky.social @fowlerbroncos.bsky.social · 17h
Where are @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social & @schumer.senate.gov? Silence from democratic leadership.
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 17h
I have always stood up to him and that will never change. The pedophile protector will never silence me.
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 17h
Thank you to everyone who stood with me over the years. It’s been a scary journey but I have always been grounded in my work and ability to provide exemplary service to my constituents. Trump and his administration have been after me since I arrived in Congress.
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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 7h
“Fascism is rising from frustration, born out of a crisis of livelihoods. So, we need to reclaim these essentials now.” I spoke to the @theguardian.com's Michael Segalov about ANTI-FASCIST ECONOMICS and making life affordable for all. 🗞️ Read online now. Link below.
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GONZO the Ca'at @gonzo.bsky.social · 11h
Latenite Archival BabbyGonz Time!
Orange and white kitten
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h
Q: Can you name a time when you voted against Trump and it changed the outcome? SUSAN COLLINS: At one point, I had organized people to vote against Sec. Hegseth. At the very last minute one of our Republicans changed his mind. Otherwise he would've been defeated. Q: So it didn't change the outcome
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 23h
lol eat shit buddy
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Elon Musk Settles Class Action Lawsuit Over Duping Trump Supporters
Musk promised voters in the 2024 presidential election a chance to randomly win $1 million. The winners were predetermined.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Same story every time with these guys
Near the end of the lunch, he also launched into a tirade against a Democratic proposal to hike taxes on the wealthiest 0.01% of American households. "The billionaire tax seemed to offend him more than anything we'd done on Al or even crypto," says Bruce Reed, one of the handful of White House advisers who had joined the meeting.
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Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 22h
Elon Musk is single-handedly funding the Ken Paxton campaign:
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 22h
I don't think most Americans understand yet what a global laggard the USA is turning into here. Media instead told us that electric vehicles were a fad that didn't work.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Well-connected Texas journalist Christopher Hooks says that Texas GOP internal polls are “absolutely demented” and that we could be looking at a “Category 5 freakshow result”:
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Been catching up with TX Rs this week and the things I'm hearing about their internal polls are absolutely demented.
Shocking. Like, I can't bring myself to believe them and would feel irresponsible repeating them
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I don't know what to make of it. Texas Dems seem certain to have a good night relative to past performance. But there's a small chance we're going to see a Category 5 freakshow result
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 23h
🙃🙃
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 23h
The way JD Vance says this, he is acting as if Abdul El-Sayed is an immigrant who should "show a little gratitude to the country that gave him everything." Once again, it should be pointed out that El-Sayed was born and raised in Michigan.
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 15/10/2026
French Revolution-era guillotine earrings, dated around 1794. Musée Carnavalet, Paris.
The inverted heads of the king and queen of France form the pendants of these ghoulish earrings while the central guillotine section is suspended from a cap of liberty.

Anon., earrings in the form of guillotines, c.1794, gold and metal gilt
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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 22h
anyone who tells you they have an AI detector they are a grifter who is trying to sell you something that, at absolute best, will only give you some *different* false positives and negatives than you would get with your own eyes, and you don't really need help with the stuff it'll reliably clock
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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 23h
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 23h
“Sauve qui peut”. This is a French phrase that translates literally to something like "save yourself who's able/can" and roughly equates to “run for your life!” or “every man for himself!”, indicating a chaotic or dangerous situation/stampede. Postcard from my collection, no date/info.
Black and white photo of a shorthaired tabby kitten appearing to burst through a sheet of white paper in a dark frame. Text at the bottom reads “sauve qui peut”.
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GONZO the Ca'at @gonzo.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Goodemorning Gonzobongos! I am not habby with tha wethers. No, not at all.
Orange and white cat looking out of a window. He says, "Good morning Gonzobongos! I'm not happy with the weather. No, not at all."
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David Kuszmar @davidkuszmar.com · 15/10/2026
Not until we take care of ourselves first. Then we can try to play creators of non biological life with appropriate safety and consideration to what we might be creating.
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