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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Maybe the most important political story of our time. People just want the bullshit to stop.
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71% of Americans Say They're Completely Exhausted
A CDC report shows that people are not feeling relaxed and restful in the United States.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
In the guide, Flock tells the story of how they were able to overcome public opposition and opposition from the city's privacy commission to keep their cameras in the city:
 h e n Oakland's City Council considered its LPR
program, t h e discussion b e c a m e o n e of t h e most
scrutinized public safety technology debates in the
s t a t e . M o r e t h a n 1 4 0 p u b l i c c o m m e n t s w e r e
submitted. The Privacy Advisory Commission
opposed the proposal, and the Public Safety
C o m m i t t e e d e a d l o c k e d b e f o r e t h e i s s u e r e a c h e d
t h e full council.
T h e discussion was n o longer about whether the
technology worked. It was about whether t h e city
c o u l d g o v e r n it responsibly.
Rather than focusing solely on crime reduction, city
leaders centered t h e conversation o n oversight.
They demonstrated live audit logs, explained
approval requirements, outlined independent
compliance reviews, a n d showed how
accountability w o u l d function i n p r a c t i c e . T h e
result was a 7-1 council vote in favor of t h e program.
T h e l e s s o n i s instructive. The conversation shifted
w h e n officials s t o p p e d asking t h e public t o trust
t h e t e c h n o l o g y a n d s t a r t e d s h o w i n g h o w t h e
technology could be audited, reviewed, and held
a c c o u n t a b l e . Tr u s t m o v e d f r o m a s s u m p t i o n t o
e v i d e n c e .
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Michael Ichioka @ichioka.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Every time I see historical photos of the key system in Oakland, I feel the civic equivalent of phantom limb pain.
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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
If you're a writer early in your career, please pitch us! We don't pay a ton, but we do pay, and we have a great editorial team.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
In the seventh month of the second year of the second term, the heat will become unbearable, the skies will turn red, and bowels will loosen across the land.
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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 04/07/2026
new metaphor just dropped
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 26/05/2026
okay, long weekend over. hope you finished all the extra projects you intended to do around the house with that time because this was your last chance to get it done without all your friends and loved ones knowing. the bulletin of who slacked off this afternoon goes out first thing in the morning
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Michael Ichioka @ichioka.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Not yet, probably tonight!
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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
If you're a transit psycho like me, then you might find this brilliant project by Jack Weiss just as satisfying as I do: it's a live music map of LA Metro Transit—every time a train arrives at a station, it plays ambient tones. It's absolutely wonderful metromusic.weisswideweb.com
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LA Metro: Ambient - Generative Music by Jack Weiss
Real LA Metro train arrivals trigger a live generative ambient score. Each line has its own synth voice. The harmony shifts through seven modes across the day. A project by Jack Weiss.
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Siobhan Beeman @siobhan.northsky.social · 13/04/2026
The “Calvin’s dad explains two types” meme, inspired by a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon.

Clockwise from top left:
1) Calvin’s dad walks into frame to find Calvin trying to operate a record player. The dad says: “There are only two industries left in America: gambling, and fraud.”

2) The dad shows where the record goes, and how to turn on the player, while Calvin watches. Dad says “Derivatives? Gambling. AI? Fraud. Video games? Gambling. Social media? Fraud.” Calvin says “yeah”.

3) With one hand open palm up, Calvin’s dad cheerfully explains to Calvin out of frame below him, “The stock market looks like gambling, but it’s actually fraud.”

4) In bed in a dark room, Calvin clutches at his pillow, eyes wide in existential terror. There is no text in the panel.
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 11/02/2026
Zoning Out Is Good For You. Deep sleep cleans your brain, but so can zoning out, daydreaming, and being bored. So put down that phone every once in awhile... [kottke.org]
kottke.org
Zoning Out Is Good For You
Sleeping cleans your brain. Research suggests that zoning out, daydreaming, and being bored can perform a similar function without the need for deep sleep. So put down that phone occasionally and let your brain chill for
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.)  If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.
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Nathan Edwards @grackle.space · 13/01/2026
Listen, I can't say for sure a new notebook won't fix me. Maybe I've just been buying the wrong notebooks.
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Oblique Strategies @obliquestrategies.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
thing on the list
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James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
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Michael Ichioka @ichioka.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Thank you @emilystjams.bsky.social for reminding me of the existence of this @themountaingoats.bsky.social banger: youtu.be/z-lwTmJtEsg
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the Mountain Goats - Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
YouTube video by Josh Keck
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Michael Ichioka @ichioka.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
I initially read this as Green Room and was very confused
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Ninargh 🐈‍⬛ 🎃 👻 @ninawils.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Relatable Corvid
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Michael Ichioka @ichioka.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
First Omen was insanely good, way better than the average legacyquel
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Michael Ichioka @ichioka.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Near Dark Cure Red Rooms +1
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Michael Ichioka @ichioka.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
@eastbayyesterday.bsky.social had a great interview with the author, very interested in this as well
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
the thing is if you have a six hour day for eight hours pay & full employment you now have time to enjoy walking your dog. to cook yourself something at leisure. to enjoy taking care of your dwelling. the answer isn't magic robots. it's unions, it's workers getting the means of production
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Japan Post just announced they will no longer deliver mail to the United States, joining Germany, Austria, Denmark, Italy, France, and Sweden.
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Michael Ichioka @ichioka.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Truly bleak times
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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
new goals
Page from a Richard Scarry children's book. Called "Summer Activity Checklist". Shows various cute pigs doing things like: eat pickle, pick dandelion. Play ball, sing love songs
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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
the new york times got rid of its public editor some time ago, so I took the position out for a spin www.theverge.com/culture/7000...
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How The New York Times is (still) getting gamed by the right
And blowing its credibility in the process.
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Michael Ichioka @ichioka.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
It’s been pretty disappointing to see brands who trumpet “Made in USA”/“Made in LA” stay silent on this
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Michael Ichioka @ichioka.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Came here to post this 🫡
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Densho @denshoproject.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Historian & activist Yuji Ichioka—known for coining the term “Asian American” with Emma Gee, as well as unearthing untold Japanese American history such as Issei leftists, sex workers, & Japanese nationalism in pre-war Nikkei communities—was born #OTD in 1936. encyclopedia.densho.org/Yuji_Ichioka/
Yuji Ichioka speaking at an Asian Americans for Peace march and rally in Los Angeles, January 17, 1970.
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Michael Ichioka @ichioka.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Bravo - it's heartening to see two writers I love doing the right thing.
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Michael Ichioka @ichioka.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
media.tenor.com
a man in a jacket says i say we take off and nuke .
Alt: Clip from Aliens (1987): Ripley: I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. Hicks: [looks at her silently] Ripley: It's the only way to be sure.
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Michael Ichioka @ichioka.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
media.tenor.com
a woman is holding a pitcher of lemonade in front of a man and a woman with #thegoodplace written in the corner
Alt: a woman is holding a pitcher of lemonade in front of a man and a woman with #thegoodplace written in the corner
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East Bay Booksellers @ebbooksellers.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
This is not especially eloquent, I know, but fuck this. www.sfgate.com/california-p...
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Signs to police 'negative' history went up at Manzanar. Historians are nervous.
"It sends a pretty clear message that your story is not welcome here."
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Jessica Christian @jachristian.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
This time-lapse video of protesters marching down Broadway in Oakland for No Kings Day gives an idea of how many people turned out today @sfchronicle.com
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Michael Ichioka @ichioka.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Don’t tempt me with a good time…
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 12/06/2025
HAPPENING NOW: Judge Charles Breyer (brother of retired SCOTUS justice Stephen) hears arguments on whether to grant California's emergency motion to limit Trump's deployment of the National Guard in LA. 🧵
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ceej @ceej.online · 11/06/2025
it’s not fair to judge me by my words alone. or actually my actions either. please judge me based only on my idea of myself that I hold in my own head
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Michael Ichioka @ichioka.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Jay Dubs
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Peretsky @peretsky.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
You’re not allowed to stop making art. You’re not allowed to stop scratching this itch of creative fulfillment. It doesn’t matter how often you do it so as long as you continue to do it. You’re not allowed to give up. It’s war.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
when i tell people i'm afraid to leave the country and they ask why, well, this is why:
youtu.be
Hasan Piker Detained By ICE | Hasan Daily
YouTube video by Hasan Daily
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ceej @ceej.online · 04/05/2025
it’s not my fault that the same exotic synthetics developed by the world’s most advanced material science labs to handle the brutal conditions faced by elite mountain athletes just so happen to keep my pits dry after a long day of sitting at the computer
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Gabrielle Drolet @gabrielledrolet.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Cartoon with caption by my buddy @jackhauen.bsky.social
Two people riding bikes in Amsterdam. One says “if anyone proposed this in my town I’d kill them”
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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
sweat the small stuff
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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 25/04/2025
Man, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on @bookshop.org for not mincing words, though:
Every April, we celebrate Independent Bookstore Day to remind us how vital indie bookstores are to our communities and society. It’s a day of joy and solidarity, and significant financial impact for these bookstores.

This year, Amazon is undercutting that with a “Book Sale” on the same day—a calculated move by a company that has already put half the bookstores in the country out of business, controls over 60% of the market and sells far more books than all indie bookstores combined. The people at Amazon responsible for the timing of their "Book Sale" should be ashamed, but they are shameless.
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Michael Ichioka @ichioka.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Absolutely shameful shit here.
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Michael Ichioka @ichioka.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
One of the hardest truths of my 30s
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Michael Ichioka @ichioka.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Rebel Ridge is excellent
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Michael Ichioka @ichioka.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Yes! The Pitt also smartly uses the med students as a way to have the other doctors explain things without it feeling infodump-y
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