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Kolya Flower

@kolyaflower.bsky.social
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union man; public health worker

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 28/09/2026
current state of the fix social media playbook: *nationalize facebook and hold it to rigorous privacy and content moderation standards *break up google and make youtube robustly fund a streaming PBS *turn off x the everything app *keep linkedin the same. that'd be a good bit *begin The Tribunals
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Kolya Flower @kolyaflower.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
every campaign mailer sent to our house - two Dem voters living in a deep blue area with high GOTV levels - has been for a GOP candidate, just completely shit data work probably between $10-25 wasted on us alone: great start but these are rookie numbers
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Kolya Flower @kolyaflower.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
one thing about getting roped into a fantasy football league after quitting the fantasy sports 6 years ago is how quickly it is coming back to me why I quit
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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
this is one of the most inspirational photos i have ever seen www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Japan Has No Space for Solar Farms Apart From Old Golf Courses
The perfectly manicured fairways at Minohara Country Club wind through the forested hills of Gunma Prefecture about two hours from downtown Tokyo. In a few years, they’ll disappear under row-upon-row ...
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Kolya Flower @kolyaflower.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
got in trouble watching the football for insisting that the players can kiss with teeth to express their shared joy and not be read as gay
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Kolya Flower @kolyaflower.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for the Future
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
There are over 25,000 international college athletes across the NCAA, making up almost 13% of the entire college athlete population. If the NCAA and universities won’t protect these students from ICE, this recruitment must be understood as predatory. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/s...
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ICE has abducted a college athlete. What are the NCAA and universities going to do about it?
Aminata Seck’s detention shows the bargain facing international college athletes: universities eagerly recruit them, but support can disappear when their immigration status becomes precarious.
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Kolya Flower @kolyaflower.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
in re: job interview discourse: once had an interview where one of the job procedures had the acronym CASH and I looked them in the eyes and said "cash rules everything around me" and then my brain instantly wiped that memory until I got the job and one of the panel emailed me "CREAM get the money"
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Kolya Flower @kolyaflower.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
night shift supervisor
the moon looking very sexy behind translucent clouds
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Go on. Keep proving the point of the documentary, fellas.
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for 'Musk' (Exclusive) — The Hollywood Reporter
The Alex Gibney doc has received denials from YouTube, Meta, TikTok and X on running the trailer. Its U.S. distributor is appealing.
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Kolya Flower @kolyaflower.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Tumblr post from stonedtrek:

I never question what I would do in the Star Trek universe if I was not in Starfleet. I'd be this guy who's job at Picard's favorite Paris cafe is evidentially to be the bong sommelier 

Image of Picard looking annoyed at an obsequious host while a man in a pink shirt with puffy sleeves holds several different colored tubes
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Flazlo @fleezlow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I'm just thinking back to COVID when our pundits and media intellectuals were incensed and enraged about kids falling behind in their education because we were doing remote schooling.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 24/09/2026
Overall, the United States has entirely too goddamn many people who legitimately believe The End is Nigh in positions of massive power. We have to fix that.
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Kolya Flower @kolyaflower.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Our very local paper featured a story about some lady taking a shit on the floor of the nearby resale shop after being denied a return and every member of the family passed that article around
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Kolya Flower @kolyaflower.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
you simply need to know things in order think critically, especially about the outputs from the billionaire and fascist-aligned thinking-replacement machine all kinds of arguments can sound logical if you don't know shit but break down in the face of one (1) or more fact
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit
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Kolya Flower @kolyaflower.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
algorithm: it's more dudes noodling around in weird time signatures! me: pass algorithm: but what if I told you they wear sick outfits that conceal the prog dorks within?? me: ...ok you got me
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Kolya Flower @kolyaflower.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
very nearly my fit when I was 19 and reading the verdict as a jury foreman for a weed trial
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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Dems replaced action on trans rights with hollow statements, then dropped those statements, then embraced anti-trans rhetoric. Now supporting anti-trans laws and blocking pro-trans ones. At every step the "they're betraying us" radicals were correct and "be patient" liberals were completely wrong.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026
whenever i hear some variation on "but what if trump does X or Y or Z" i think of this ulysses s. grant remark to a subordinate during the wilderness campaign.
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I'm really sad about the death of one of my favorite wikipedia editors so here's a thread of some of the greatest articles he wrote
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Kolya Flower @kolyaflower.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
why, I was just telling my kid the other day what a tremendous piece of shit Bush II was and how anyone pretending he was a good 'un compared to that mean boorish old Trump is AT BEST a complete fool, but I was not expecting contemporary doings to vindicate me so quickly
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Kolya Flower @kolyaflower.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
dating the weed guy in the early 2000s:
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David Bailey @drgdave.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If Democrats won't take on Musk now, when it would help expand the size of their blue wave, there's no reason to think they'll do a goddamned thing about him once they're in power.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 22/09/2026
jason benetti you are my GOAT
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Kolya Flower @kolyaflower.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
oh did the metro Detroit $5.49/gallon gas do something
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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
theguardian.com
Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they relate to feminism
Theatre told that Facebook and Instagram filter out ads mentioning ‘social topics’ such as civil rights or feminism
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.
apnews.com
AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 21/09/2026
The government moving or hiding jailed people to avoid review by courts isn't some loophole in our habeas corpus rights. This government behavior has been considered a violation of the people's habeas corpus rights since at least the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_...
Jailors were forbidden to move prisoners from one prison to another or out of the country to evade the writ. In case of disobedience jailers would be punished with severe fines which had to be paid to the prisoner.[5][6]
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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
If the value of protecting endangered species isn't obvious to you, imagine instead that it is protecting the last ruin of an ancient civilization from being bulldozed for something not particularly important. Imagine the ruin is 30 million years old.
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Malevolent Maelstrom @chemicalchaos.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Hey its fucking wierd more of the dems platform isnt "we will give you abortion rights back"
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Return of the Cmonmacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is a very good point and the thing to understand is that’s not what’s happening on either side. The republicans are identifying all the people they want to target for degradation and a repeal of their civil rights. The democrats are giving a list of who they’re okay to do that to.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It’s not “third-country deportation,” it’s an extraordinary rendition, complete with torture and enforced silence by the “host” country’s thugs. And it’s a direct consequence of never imposing punishment on the CIA for doing this during the War on Terror.
nytimes.com
A Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. Deportees
Witnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program.
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
But would the president screen it in the White House? Also yes
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026
It’s going to be really funny when this is all over and all these companies are like oh, that hate campaign we ran against you for years? Yeah, we were just kidding
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 18/09/2026
This guy who assaulted a sitting member of Congress got 28 years and 10 months less jail time than a Texas resident who transported a box of zines that contained constitutionally protected content opposing ICE reason.com/2026/06/25/t...
reason.com
Texas man gets 30 years in prison for transporting 'anti-government' pamphlets
The case stems from a violent anti-ICE protest, but critics say the government's prosecution threatens First Amendment rights.
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Kolya Flower @kolyaflower.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Venture capital now controls what used to be a decent hospital and we just had the kind of experience that makes you question every interaction as a revenue stream
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Kolya Flower @kolyaflower.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
whew let me just say I think it is Not Great that one's choice of hospital systems in metro Detroit is either Catholic and/or venture capital/private equity
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Kolya Flower @kolyaflower.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
weeks ago: partner: what do you think about this new CDC director? me: I don't know one single thing about her except she was happy to take a job with this administration which means she almost certainly will suck shit
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Look, the thing you gotta understand about these 18th century figures is that they were men of their time and so can't be judged by our modern standards but also you must not criticize them because they were models of perfection that our children should seek to emulate.
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Kolya Flower @kolyaflower.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
love when the vice president is like
Tweet from Samantha

ISIS STOP ITTTTTTT. like for real STOP
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
one of the things that became clear during the DOGE saga is that a lot of anger about "corruption" is aimed at actual gov't employees who, it turns out, have to bring their own coffee machines into the office so that taxpayers aren't funding it, meanwhile consultants get this treatment
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If we take the baseline screaming outrage of the period as “Honest, regular people are going absolutely apeshit with rage at the idea rich men should face allegations of sexual harassment”, then I think that gets right to the core of it and you see how everything else works on similar lines.
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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 16/09/2026
I'm going to say a related thing to this thing, not a "this thing I'm saying is more important than this" thing: I'm not sure a lot of folks understand (1) how absolutely the fuck foul this advertising is and (2) how close we are to seeing ads like this about criminalizing people who have abortions
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Mike DODGERS is too cowardly to show up to debate me.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I don't think people really understand the psychic impact of knowing that multiple times a day every day your friends, family, coworkers, neighbors, and everyone who could ever have any power over you is being flooded with agitprop designed to make them hate you
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Kolya Flower @kolyaflower.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
adult kickball season begins anew
Shot of a lit up rex field with people moving, shot through a window screen
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aaron @imaaronrobert.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
rip bob mackie 😭🤍✨
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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The details make it clear that the University of Michigan is fully collaborating with fascists because it sees a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to destroy a labor movement. Lots of universities would be willing to do this given the invitation. I expect they will.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/09/2026
crypto, car dealerships and MLMs. ripe targets for political and policy reasons.
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