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Lizy @lizysimonen.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Imagine if it happened today. None would believe it. He could do the funniest thing.

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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is. GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart. But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.

Boromir from THE LORD OF THE RINGS, holding The One Ring. He thought he could use it for good, but everything done with the ring turns to evil. He was one of the mightiest warriors of middle earth, and he could not resist its powers. Others even mightier fell to the ring. Do you think you are stronger than them? The One Ring is generative AI.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

You would get so many more amazing books if you had Universal Basic Income. Not even the most dream-scenario AI could compete with the creativity of a world of authors no longer afraid of affording rent.

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Lizy @lizysimonen.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I'm not a Finnish citizen yet so if you are please support this initiative!

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Lizy @lizysimonen.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Assassin's Creed: Wild West

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Lizy @lizysimonen.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

He's not a fop but I'd suggest Roy Mustang. Terrifying war criminal, effective rebellion leader, likely to set fire to important paperwork rather than complete it.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 05/03/2026

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 26/02/2026

Because of the National driver register, since their licenses are suspended, trans folks cannot move to another state and get a new license until they remove the suspension on their existing Kansas license. They can't even escape this by moving to another state.

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Lizy @lizysimonen.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Five women authors by whom I've read at least five books: -T. Kingfisher -Ann Leckie - N.K. Jemisin -Martha Wells -Susan Cooper

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Paratonia @paratonia.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

In Finland Valentine's Day is celebrated as a day of friendship. Happy Friend's Day, everyone!

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Blueskyese and Xian share an obvious common root as both being Twitteric languages, the difference is that after the split Xian became a hybrid Twitteric/Channer-linkedin tongue, while Blueskyese changed less overall but did pick up some tumbleric and redditor loanwords

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Lizy @lizysimonen.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I'm scheduled for a very important medical appointment on Monday morning, so please send good thoughts etc. Pals can DM me but otherwise it won't be public.

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Lizy @lizysimonen.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Loot that drops after defeating me: -library card (already registered with your info!) -a sprinkling of Lego -two pencils and a small notebook, blank -an open bag of sour gummy candy -a health potion, just kidding it's paracetamol with a side of antacids, antihistamines, and lactase tablets

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Kelly Vargas writes about what happened to her, her husband, and their 6yo daughter in the family camp in Texas. Filth, illness, medical abuse—her child has lasting complications from being injured by a staff member. We don't know the half of what's happening in the camps, but we know enough.

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My Daughter Lived the Liam Ramos Nightmare. It Turned Out Worse for Us.

The constant threats took a toll on my health. My daughter’s health deteriorated even faster.

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Lizy @lizysimonen.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Counting Stars by OneRepublic has this high pitched squeak that repeats regularly throughout the track. In 2014, I was driving long distances daily in a pickup truck with only radio. I HATE that song and that goddamn squeak.

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Elizabeth Shockman @eshockmanwrites.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

We know that 4more children from Liam's school are still in ICE custody in TX. But we still do not know how many children from MN in total have been detained by ICE.

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Lizy @lizysimonen.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

The photo of Liam's abduction made me tear up every time I saw it. And then seeing him so sick in confinement was heartbreaking. Blessings on everyone who worked to bring him and his dad home. Keep fighting until every abducted child, youth, and adult is free.

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Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨 @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

One more reason my soul shrivels up every time I hear someone say "I just used chatgpt to ____"

An imagine explaining that OpenAI is Trump's largest donor

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 31/01/2026

One thing about the Lutherans with they put that teva laden foot down… they put it DOWN!!!

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

George Washington University, 1970 student protest against the shootings at Kent State and Jackson State.

A dorm with a sign saying They can’t kill us all

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Lizy @lizysimonen.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

If you're a human who enjoyed Culinary Class Wars Seasons 1 and 2 and you haven't watched Chef & My Fridge (the 2025 season), you are missing half of CCW. Like okay yeah, you saw the serious cooking. But don't you want the lore???

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Lizy @lizysimonen.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Never mind jobs you've had, tell me five classes you took at university 1) Religion & science fiction 2) Non-classical logic 3) Japanese archery 4) Reading the Qu'ran 5) Introduction to bagpiping My liberal arts college didn't believe I took bagpiping while abroad. I never got the credits.

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Publishing for Minnesota is a response from bookish folks to ongoing ICE raids causing harm to immigrant communities, our neighbors across the country. Funds raised from the auction support those most impacted, in urgent need ❤️‍🩹 Auction opens Thursday, January 29 📚 www.32auctions.com/publishingforMN

I DONATED:
Mychal Threets
MYCHAL THE LIBRARIAN!
A Library-Bookish Social Media Collaboration!
And social media feedback!
Publishing for Minnesota's fundraiser auction.
Auction opens Thursday January 29th
www.32auctions.com/publishingforMN

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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 27/01/2026

As public opinion turns, reports from within Mount Doom suggest Orc Lieutenant Gothmog is to be relieved of command and withdrawn from Gondor back to Minas Morgul where he is expected to soon retire. Sauron hopes this ends the matter and the Fellowship will now go home and stop blowing whistles.

A picture of the Orc Lieutenant Gothmog amidst his ranks of orc troops at the Battle of Gondor.

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Lizy @lizysimonen.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Not to get churchy on main but there's this thing called repentance...

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Lizy @lizysimonen.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Particularly disappointed at the Mayo Clinic here. Yes I know corporations are going to corporate but Mayo has a special place in my heart so that one hurts. The Wild and Vikings should be ashamed.

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Lizy @lizysimonen.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The "Don't Tread on Me" people becoming "Comply or Die" overnight is the most pathetic thing I've seen since I learned who Greg Bovino is. Absolutely loser shit.

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 24/01/2026

You could actually structure your moral code around the idea that law enforcement doesn't exist to execute people. You don't have to create perfect victim narratives, you can just refuse to accept that the state gets to kill people.

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Guy Pradel @pradaldi.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

For my followers in the EU, there is an European citizens’ initiative you can sign to demand the full suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement. If you are for BDS this would be a huge step up. eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/#...

Justice for Palestine
Stop EU trade with criminals

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting.
2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value.
3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE.
4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on.
5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle."
6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground.

7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack.
8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video.
9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk.
10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun.
11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him.
12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes.

13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times.
14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him.
15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1.
16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground.
17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building.
18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bear

witness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values.
I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct.

Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.

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Sara Spector @miriam2626.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

"Make them shoot you in public before they murder you in private" Grandma Miriam, Holocaust survivor.👇

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 25/01/2026

BTW when I say abolish ICE, I mean abolish it entirely and replace it with exactly nothing. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. That's it.

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Leigh Kunkel @leighkunkel.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

People are being murdered because our politicians think their reelection campaign is more important than our lives

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I am doing my best to respond to this without a string of expletives. But let's be very clear. What just happened in Minnesota was cold blooded murder of a civilian by out of control federal agents, aided and abetted by the entire Trump administration and their fascist enablers.

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em cassel @biketrouble.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

once again i am asking literally anyone in a position of power to do literally anything so that our neighbors stop getting fucking murdered in the street

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Lizy @lizysimonen.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

As a Minnesotan and a human being, I am devastated for my former home state and city right now. These past weeks have been wretched. Yesterday was beautiful, but now we are back in the darkness.

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

the people who were scolded relentlessly for celebrating this moment nine years ago have been completely vindicated. punching a nazi in the face now polls higher than any member of congress. (source: i made it up but it feels very true in my heart)

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Lizy @lizysimonen.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

The real way to get Internet Interaction Points is to be confidently wrong online.

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Hannah Bluish @hannahbluish.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

I contain mountainous volumes of unfathomable existential anxiety & also whimsy

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Lizy @lizysimonen.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Super fun to be avoiding US imports while being a US import.

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Lizy @lizysimonen.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

I use Qobuz and you can too. Delete Spotify.

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SaraAAAGHH A GHOST!!! Ford 🐍🎨👻 @angeloslh.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 13/01/2026

just a reminder that we aren’t even seeing the worst of what is happening in Minneapolis from someone detailed at the Whipple Federal Building yesterday

Eyewitness account:
Good morning,
My name is Brandon Siguenza, and l am a US citizen from Minneapolis. Yesterday, while doing legal observation, ICE stopped their cars to harass my friend and me. They sprayed pepper spray into the vent of our vehicle. We held our hands in the air and told them we were not obstructing, that the car was in park and they were free to drive forward and away. There was no active immigration raid. They returned to their cars, and drove forward a bit, then decided to stop again. They surrounded us, smashed the windows of our car, opened the doors (they were unlocked), ripped my friend and I out of the car and arrested us on charges of obstruction.
I was put in an unmarked SUV, separated from my friend.
As I was put in the back seat an ICE agent tore the whistle off my neck and said "I'll be taking this, I might need it later." My phone was knocked out of my hand while being arrested. As we drove away I asked the driver and the passenger if they wouldn't mind buckling my seatbelt, as they were driving erratically. I was ignored. I asked them if I could have the handcuffs loosened, as I was losing circulation, and was told no. At one point the passenger realized his own driver's license was in the backseat next to mine, and tried to surreptitiously grab it without me seeing it.
We were taken to the Whipple federal building, where I saw dozens of brown people being processed in an unheated garage. I was frisked, told of my charges, and saw buses and vans being prepped. I later learned that these were being filled with detainees and driven to the airport for deportation. As we were led in, I noticed that the building was very busy. I got the impression that one of the 2 agents bringing me around was being trained. At multiple points throughout my stay, government agents were unable to open doors, not sure where they were meant to be going, and overall confused and overwhelmed. They couldn't figure out how to use the building phones, or complai…

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