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David Mason

@dpmason.bsky.social
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Memphis-based Using this to learn and share stuff about procedural graphics and audio. Instagram: dp.mason GitHub: dp-mason ArtStation: dpmason

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 17/09/2026
The Trump admin has decimated American science budgets, taking away life saving opportunities, and the potential for groundbreaking discoveries. This is how you destroy American innovation. apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com
Trump administration has cut or frozen $177 billion in grants across every state, analysis shows
An analysis finds that the Trump administration has cut or frozen up to $177 billion in federal grants since the president took office for his second term.
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Indivisible Memphis @indivisiblememphis.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
🚨 IMMIGRANT PANTRY EMERGENCY FUNDING UPDATE 🚨 We are stretched to the snapping point. After last week’s storms left more than 100,000 people across the Memphis area without power, we went into crisis mode. Our own requests for food assistance increased, while we also began 1/ #momsky#sheshed
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David Mason @dpmason.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Have you ever wanted to make a classic WinAmp skin? It can be pretty labor intensive. I wanted to make one a few months ago and I got carried away making a new format for winamp skins that streamlines the design process. Check it out! www.bamp.skin github.com/dp-mason/bamp
screenshot of the webapp that I made for the conversion tool www.bamp.skinanother screenshot of the skin converter webapp on www.bamp.skinscreenshot of blender project where i am creating a winamp skin and a winamp player with the skin loaded into it stacked on top
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Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
What do you call people who starve kids and their parents in a nation in perpetual food surplus? Evil. Evil will do.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
MEMPHIS’ @repcohen — who voted not to cut funding to Israel — says he left the progressive caucus over 🇮🇱, calls the progressive caucus “the socialist caucus”, and claims (without evidence) “antisemitism” was involved Criticism of 🇮🇱 is not antisemitism www.cnn.com/2026/07/18/p...
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
BREAKING NYT: The Trump admin just issued subpoenas to several journalists for The New York Times, after the outlet reported on security concerns involving Trump's Qatari-gifted Air Force One. The subpoenas seek to force the reporters to testify before a federal grand jury on Wednesday.
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Times Journalists Subpoenaed as Trump Escalates Pressure on Media
The Justice Department is seeking to compel testimony from reporters who wrote about the new Air Force One. The Times called the move a “brazen act.”
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
BREAKING: The Trump White House just ousted all three sitting members of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission — hamstringing the bipartisan agency ahead of the midterms. The EAC helps state and local officials run elections, including by certifying election equipment.
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Trump ousts remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission ahead of midterms
The dismissals hamstring a key bipartisan agency just months before the midterms.
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David Mason @dpmason.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I fucking love vcv rack wtf
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
A few years ago, when the push to make Juneteenth a federal holiday had really started to hit the news, I asked my dad what he knew about the holiday, as a white Texan man born in 1942. He said he was aware of it as “the one day a year Black people were allowed in all the parks”
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David Mason @dpmason.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Looking for an external GPU to use with Blender, the 3D modeling software. Really funny AI generated article: thehandymanhaven.com/best-egpu-fo...
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Best Egpu For Blender [Updated On: June 2026]
Sometimes, holding a piece of tech in your hand reveals more than a thousand specs. I’ve tested a range of eGPUs for Blender, and the weight and solid build
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
New: a software update to Amazon delivery vans is automatically turning off the vans' AC after 10 minutes or even 30 seconds in certain cases. Just as summer arrives and temperatures are getting dangerously hot www.404media.co/software-upd...
404media.co
Software Update Automatically Turns off Amazon Delivery Drivers’ AC During Dangerous Summer Heat
A new software update is turning off the AC in Amazon delivery vans after 10 minutes or 30 seconds under certain conditions.
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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
AI data centers consumed ~1 trillion liters/264 billion gallons of water in 2025. This is comparable to the annual water usage of 1.8 million Americans. AI data centers are currently consuming the same rate of water as the entirety of the world's bottled water industry. www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
yahoo.com
AI Data Centers’ Water Consumption Breaks 264 Billion Gallons in 2025 as Devastating Drought Hits Nearly 63% of U.S.
Americans across multiple states are being urged to conserve water as drought conditions intensify, reservoirs shrink, and utilities issue increasingly urgent warnings. At the same time, a different k...
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David Mason @dpmason.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-pr...
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Zero-product property - Wikipedia
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Local fox nashville running a poll about @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn and the @TNGOP stripping representation from Memphis: fox17.com/question/pol...
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David Mason @dpmason.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
why dont all libraries install adblocking filters on their internet traffic? genuine question. is that considered censorship or something? it would improve access to information.
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Bad Hand Books @badhandbooks.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 15/04/2026
The state’s legislation could provide a blueprint for others considering moratoriums, amid growing pushback across the country to the rapid rollout of infrastructure underpinning the build-out of AI. ft.trib.al/bb7koE6
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 10/04/2026
"Student whose eye intersected in space-time with a projectile misplaces his eye"
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Indivisible Memphis @indivisiblememphis.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Endorsement Alert!‼️ #sheshed
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parseword @parseword.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Rishi Mody ' ® @rishimody
we're about to speedrun this realization across every institution in society aren't we

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staysaasy@staysaasy • Mar 15
I'm on week five of trying to vibe code a replacement for some dumb saas that we use and it's so incredibly frustrating that I'm slowly realizing it's actually a quite complex and thoughtful piece of software.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
"A man free of patriarchy is a man who has found not only every woman's humanity, but one who has at last discovered his own. The actual path to liberation for lonely men is feminism—because pursuing an identity based on dominating others is self-isolating." www.the-reframe.com/fix-your-hea...
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Fix Your Hearts or Die
It's a invitation, not a threat. The path to liberation for lonely men is feminism.
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
everyone loved the tech industry's free music and friendship machines of 20-30 years ago. it's unclear what could be causing people to feel the opposite about the industry's new racism and insanity machine
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Blender @blender.org · 17/02/2026
Who knew that Blender could help us study the stars? 🌌 In this new User Story, Ph.D student @jamshidi3d.bsky.social explains how he used Geometry Nodes for his research in cosmology. www.blender.org/user-stories... #b3d #geonodes #cosmology #research #userstory
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Cosmology with Geometry Nodes — Blender
Learn about the real-life scientific applications of GeoNodes in Cosmology research.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Minnesota's top investigative agency says federal government has formally refused to hand over evidence and information in the killing of Alex Pretti www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
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FBI formally refuses to share evidence in Alex Pretti killing, Minnesota investigators say
Minnesota's top investigative agency said Monday the federal government has formally refused to hand over evidence and information in the killing of Alex Pretti.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
I've been thinking a lot lately about how communities in the Antebellum North organized to protect Black Americans from kidnapping enslavers, and also how witnessing (and resisting) such kidnappings slowly radicalized a critical mass of white Northerners against slavery www.salon.com/2017/08/05/w...
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"We waked up stark mad Abolitionists" - Salon.com
Inside the New England big money, made off of slavery, that also funded the fight to keep slavery out of Kansas
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance.

But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain.

He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again.

He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.
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parseword @parseword.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
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Downtown restaurant sees 70% revenue drop after National Guard books adjacent hotel, per co-owner
The National Guard troops have their food provided, eliminating the restaurant’s primary customer base at the hotel.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex
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David Mason @dpmason.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Memphis ice storm satellite imagery from 2026/29/01
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 25/01/2026
Minnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Don't forget the Supreme Court's role facilitating ICE's brutality and racism in Minneapolis. SCOTUS lifted an injunction that limited racial profiling in immigration enforcement on Sept. 8. The federal assault on Chicago began the next day. Then came the Twin Cities. SCOTUS greenlit these horrors.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 24/01/2026
ICE attacked an observer after they tailed a group of clergy on a spiritual pilgrimage. Our digital producer @sam.vp just so happened to be with the clergy on their journey. He spoke with the observer who was attacked and others who witnessed the assault.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
“The agent, Tracee Mergen, left her job as a supervisor in the F.B.I.’s Minneapolis field office after bureau leadership in Washington pressured her to discontinue a civil rights inquiry into the immigration officer, Jonathan Ross…”
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F.B.I. Agent Who Tried to Investigate ICE Officer in Shooting Resigns
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Matthew Vinge @mvinge.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
I'm on the Green Line towards downtown Minneapolis ICE OUT protest. The train filled immediately. Even 20 stops away from our destination we reached capacity. People are cheering at every stop when they see people waiting to board because we are all starting to realize how big this is.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 23/01/2026
Not like us
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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
I know I keep posting about this but every time I check, the list gets longer and longer and longer. Hundreds and hundreds of places, everything from huge local institutions to small spots that will definitely struggle. No exaggeration, it's the most astonishing act of solidarity I've ever seen.
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 22/01/2026
It’s hard to accurately describe what is happening in Minneapolis without sounding crazy. Unmarked rental vans all over the city, with people in military gear and no id jumping out of them to take captive anyone who looks nonwhite or who makes political speech they disagree with.
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Mike Spangenberg @mikespangenberg.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Just got an email from my kid’s basketball coach outlining the safety precautions the host school has put in place, including when and how they’ll go into lockdown if the federal secret police show up. Again, schools making plans to protect children from their own government.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Judge Kacsmaryk writes to say that the First Amendment only protects "public discourse necessary to self-government," as he slurs drag and holds it not protected.
FINDINGS OF FACT AND
CONCLUSIONS OF LAW
INTRODUCTION
Founding-era letters, pamphlets, charters, and even draft Constitutions reflect the
religious and philosophical pluralism of the Colonies and their people: one-part Natural Law,
one-part Enlightenment, one-part Religion. See Jud Campbell, Natural Rights and the First
Amendment, 127 YALE L.J. 246, 284 (2017). In aggregate, these documents reflect a shared
First Amendment vision: Free Speech, Press, Petition, and Assembly rights combine to
protect and elevate the public discourse necessary to self-government—not self-expression
in all forms, and certainly not the libertine “expressive conduct” absolutism envisioned by
Plaintiff Spectrum WT. See id. at 256, 287.1 And not a sexualized striptease in the presence
of minors. See Woodlands Pride, Inc. v. Paxton, 157 F.4th 775, 786 n.9 (5th Cir. 2025).2
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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Brief operational term of art 🧵 to help better define what we're experiencing. What we're experiencing is state terror. I've seen a lot of terms thrown around for what the Trump admin is doing w/ICE, CBP, & other federal law enforcement (LE). The now largely out of use term is state terror. 1/
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John Abernathy @john-abernathy.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
For people elsewhere who have asked how to support Minnesota while we’re overrun with nazi thugs, here’s an excellent list of places that could use financial help. Lots of choices. Thank you so much! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Stand With Minnesota: Resource Hub
Causes to Donate to in Minnesota to Help Our Communities Defend Themselves from ICE This list is now available/shareable at standwithminnesota.org *Note: I am from Minnesota, and these come from peo...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
“They chased him, he got home and when we closed the door they shot him.” MN orgs/electeds say👇🏽this is the family calling the police with ICE outside, after a man was shot in the leg with a pregnant woman & child inside Different than DHS’ shovel story: www.instagram.com/reel/DThEdD8...
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
A week ago I think I knew maybe 3 parents at my kid’s preschool, and now I know almost all of them, and have steeled myself to give my life for their kids and their teachers if I need to.
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen *Everyone has stories like this*
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Majority Report @majorityreport.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Original post + larger image of warrant examples
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