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Salsifice @mercross.bsky.social · 1h

You said something you apparently do today sucks, so yeah, you got suggestions about features the app already has.

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Salsifice @mercross.bsky.social · 17h

A credible source 🙄

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I am in Cap Haitien interviewing people deported from the United States. I have been doing this kind of work for almost a decade and it literally does not get more dire than this. People have lost everything they built in the U.S. and are terrified and have no place to go or way to live.

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Salsifice @mercross.bsky.social · 18h

It's stunning how gross some people are and how this does not keep them from society and power. The level of mustache twirling would not be credible in fiction.

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Salsifice @mercross.bsky.social · 19h

Tags can be bulk applied and removed, making them better than favorite for bulk box management. The examples I gave are simplified from what I actually use multiple times a day to instantly make box space. There are certainly other ways to do it.

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Salsifice @mercross.bsky.social · 19h

What you suggested would be a recurring annoyance for the many times you want to transfer a 3* Pokemon. Search strings can be saved and given nicknames, making managing your box with bulk tags and transfers the work of seconds after just a little setup work. People are trying to help you.

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Salsifice @mercross.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Searches and tags are powerful for tasks like this. You can search something like "age0&count0-5,3*,4*" to find mons u caught today w high IV or that you have fewer than 6 of, review, tag the ones you like with "keep." Then something like "0*,1*,2*&age0&!#keep" to find ones you want to transfer.

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Salsifice @mercross.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I read that as very intentional.

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Salsifice @mercross.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“one of the most serious interstate aggressions in our Nation’s history,” 🧐

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Salsifice @mercross.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This needs pre-crime projection, really. Detect when you're procrastinating in such a way that you will be stuck running errands in school traffic.

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Salsifice @mercross.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Do better, North Carolina. This is god-awful.

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Salsifice @mercross.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Final battle language. This ass thinks he's the second coming of Aslan.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 28/09/2026

From my ICE Air FAQ:

What can I do?
Demand the administrators of airports in your state set up public livestreams for ICE flights and cancel contracts with ICE Air partners. Support Rep. Jasmine Crockett's TRACK ICE Act, which would require ICE to release flight data and publicly report uses of force on ICE flights. Make sure your retirement fund isn't invested in ICE charter airlines; if it is, pressure the fund managers to divest. Spread the word about conditions on ICE flights. Donate to nonprofits and funds that help migrants in detention. Tell the FAA and your lawmakers that shackling on ICE flights should stop immediately. Protest outside companies that partner with ICE Air, and demand their investors divest (that means you, Bill Gates).
Observe ICE flight transfers at your local airport and document what you see - you can contact. in DC on Bluesky for public-observation points and flight forecasts.

If you are an airline worker, tell your union to demand the FAA enforce federal aviation regulations on ICE flights. Help pilots and flight attendants for ICE Air charter airlines find new jobs. And if you work for one of these companies, you can send me information anonymously on Signal at gbrockell.44, or via encrypted email at brockell at proton dot me.
Name and shame! What companies are working with ICE Air?
The airlines currently flying for ICE Air are:
Global X Air, Eastern Airlines/Eastern Air
Express, Key Lime Air/Denver Air Connection, Omni Air International, Air Wisconsin, Journey Aviation, and Talon Air.
Avelo Airlines stopped flying for ICE on Feb. 8. Air Transport Service/Gryphon operated ICE flights in 2025, likely including at least one third-country removal to Rwanda, but appears to have stopped in fall 2025.
Bighorn Airways also briefly flew ICE flights but appears to have stopped.

Can my blue-state airport refuse ICE flights clearance to land?
Unfortunately, no. In 2019, local officials in Washington state attempted to stop ICE flights landing at Seattle's Boeing Field via county executive order. The Department of Justice challenged the order, with a judge ruling in 2023 that public-use airports cannot refuse aircraft operated by or on behalf of the federal government.
In response, county officials now require all ICE flights at Boeing Field to load and unload on a public livestream, which has provided invaluable information to immigration attorneys and activists, and hopefully prevents some abuse by ICE agents and guards. (Though not all of it, see below video.)

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Salsifice @mercross.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What's opposition to solar and wind power?

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Salsifice @mercross.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Republicans want you to depend on your employer and big business, because Republicans depend on & serve the ultra wealthy owners. The President explicitly wants you to depend on him and his whim, and adulate him for it. "I alone can fix it." He's just fucking it up and building his ballroom.

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Salsifice @mercross.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We really need to fund transit.

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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

When Trump launched “the largest deportation operation in the history of our country” without ICE facilities to accommodate it, inhumane overcrowding was inevitable. Judge Kaplan’s 9/24 ruling shows the results. Diagrams simulating a NYC holding cell in Aug 2025 look like slave ships. 1/5

Hold Room 1(820.78 sq. ft.)
With 87 people
(out of 193 people total)
Lying Down/Sitting
Diagram showing the largest tenth-floor hold room containing eighty-seven detainees in which each rectangle represents one lying-down detainee with the average height and shoulder width of an adult man and each circle represents one sitting-down detainee with the average shoulder width of an adult man. PX303, Ex. 1.

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Salsifice @mercross.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Love this for her. Little worried that the guy said something about paying members of both parties so there might be another shoe to drop.

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PSL_4Loko @psl4loko.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The whole speech is good, but this part in particular is particularly relevant now. www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/publ...

A screenshot of a section of the linked speech by former President Harry Truman:

I've seen it happen time after time. When the Democratic candidate allows himself to be put on the defensive and starts apologizing for the New Deal and the fair Deal, and says he really doesn't believe in them, he is sure to lose. The people don't want a phony Democrat. If it's a choice between a genuine Republican, and a Republican in Democratic clothing, the people will choose the genuine article, every time; that is, they will take a Republican before they will a phony Democrat, and I don't want any phony Democratic candidates in this campaign.

But when a Democratic candidate goes out and explains what the New Deal and fair Deal really are--when he stands up like a man and puts the issues before the people--then Democrats can win, even in places where they have never won before. It has been proven time and again.
We are getting a lot of suggestions to the effect that we ought to water down our platform and abandon parts of our program. These, my friends, are Trojan horse suggestions. I have been in politics for over 30 years, and I know what I am talking about, and I believe I know something about the business. One thing I am sure of: never, never throw away a winning program.
This is so elementary that I suspect the people handing out this advice are not really well-wishers of the Democratic Party.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 18/09/2026

Ahmed Soliman has been missing for a week.

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Deirdre @dlpr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Yet you seemed to think you were smart enough to regulate women's bodily autonomy, healthcare, big pharma, banks, farmers....

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Salsifice @mercross.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Offspring. Evidence of having had sex. The child, not the mom.

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Salsifice @mercross.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Electing a Republican is more likely to move a district farther right than to produce a future better Democrat imo. Before not voting I'd do a lot of stop volunteering, donating, and write/call them about my dissatisfaction. But there are surely things a Dem could do to lose my vote.

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Salsifice @mercross.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Waffles aren't the end of the world and I still hope the best for him, but it wouldn't be my choice for how to appeal to red state voters.

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Salsifice @mercross.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If conceding the issue prevented getting attacked on it those meager pluralities (2%, really?) might mean something. Or if this were an important issue for voters. It's got emotional weight, but it's got nothing to do with the price of diesel. This gets seen as a weak waffle, even if it wasn't.

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Salsifice @mercross.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

As if helping care for family members is highly reimbursed work. Would be surprised if these programs don't save the govt money, but they are surely more human than putting all our grandparents and disabled kids in institutions to achieve some economy of scale.

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Salsifice @mercross.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Did Ivanka get him pregnant?

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Salsifice @mercross.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Deliver his own grandchild?!

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Salsifice @mercross.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

$5k to every adult could change lives but Donald Trump can't pay it. Trump's burning all our money to pay for his losing war, tax cuts for the ultra wealthy, contracts for his corrupt cronies, the masked immigration goons scooping up legal immigrants. That's why this yes-man Congress has to go.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/09/2026

I cannot stress enough how bad the situation is for the people ICE expelled to Equatorial Guinea right now. Grateful to Ahmed Soliman for talking with me despite the retaliation against him every time he goes on the record. prospect.org/2026/09/09/s...

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‘Shoot Him!’: Police Threaten Third-Country Nationals Imprisoned in African Hotel - The American Prospect

‘I’m fighting for my life,’ said Ahmed Soliman after the latest in a string of abusive incidents in Equatorial Guinea, where ICE expelled him five months ago.

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Salsifice @mercross.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Biting my tongue when i learn what the otherwise interesting people i game with believe. Game lobbies and chat rooms really get you out of your bubble, that is all.

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Leek Duck @leekduck.com · 04/09/2026

Armored Mewtwo makes its long-awaited return to 5-star raid battles during Pokémon GO Fest: Mega Finale. It will be available Saturday, September 5, and Sunday, September 6, 2026. Join global raids with Raid NOW: 🥊 leekduck.com/raidnow/

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Salsifice @mercross.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Cc @tweedpipe.bsky.social The main thing I took away from that section of Being a Beast - otters are nasty.

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Salsifice @mercross.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"the effects don’t show up until 20 to 24 months after Urban Alchemy arrives on each street corner." 🧐

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Sigh. Taps sign. Again. You DO NOT want legislative term limits. They're bad. We know they're bad. We know this with as much certainty as it's possible to know anything in the social sciences. We have mountains of evidence from the 17 states that have tried it. No good comes from term limits.

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Salsifice @mercross.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Somebody wishes the results were different so they've gotta cast doubt and pretend there's a problem. Y'know, science.

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Salsifice @mercross.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I feel like he might change it again when he realizes he went for the smallest one. Anyway for the moment the mnemonic can be SHAME instead of HOMES.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Remember if you’ve ever heard a Republican claim they’re actually ok with immigration but just want all the immigrants to do it legally, they were lying

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Salsifice @mercross.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

State legislatures really need to lock down accrued vacation time policies. It always stuns me that many states don't require it to be paid out, but it seems fixable.

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Salsifice @mercross.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I suspect the factors are initial cost, keeping them charged, and keeping them from getting stolen, none of which are directly helped by forcing lights into new bike purchases.

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Salsifice @mercross.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Those who can manage ADHD with exercise and clean living, God bless, but the story of one filmmaker *with a paycheck on the line* isn't countervailing evidence to the studies that proved our standard treatments. It's harmful, fear-mongering propaganda. For shame.

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Salsifice @mercross.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The exam effect is terrible but less bad than i thought tbh, but the homework score difference is crazy. And faster.

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Salsifice @mercross.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

They're labeled - It's normalized exam scores against normalized homework scores. Idk what it means though. People who have ai make really good homework then flop on the exam. Is the implication that they're leaning solely on ai while others are doing some of their own work?

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Salsifice @mercross.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Look, being on a stupid looking carrier might lower their testosterone, no matter how much safer and more efficient it is.

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