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N @nealiosaurus.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I did a Prince Andarithio Billups cosplay at @convergencecon.bsky.social. it was so much fun! The staff had an Easter egg. In retrospect, I should have used the face of @paulscheer.com@bsky.social for the orb! Next year... Think I could get a scan of his face? 😂 #StarTrek #LowerDecks #Cosplay

Neal dressed as Prince Billups from Star Trek Lower Decks. Wearing a yellow uniform, with a velvet green sash, and a golden circlet on their head. The staff has a grey dragon claw holding a blue orb.

A closeup of the blue orb with Jean Luc Picard/Patrick Stewart's face on it.

custom Converse AllStar shoes, yellow and black, inspire

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N @nealiosaurus.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

After looking at NASA images from the Artemis II mission, the problems on Earth seem so small, and social media feels so empty... it makes me feel ready to not use social media at all... I'm closer to that every day.

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N @nealiosaurus.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Can we all stop pretending that "The Boondock Saints" is a good movie? #FilmAndMovies #StPatricksDay

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N @nealiosaurus.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Fact: It's not "daylight savings time," it's "daylight saving time." Only one "s" in the phrase, and savings are what you do with a bank account. #dst #SpringForward #DaylightSavings

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N @nealiosaurus.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Do you use "Sign in with Google/Apple/Facebook/etc"? Well that could mean a lot of data is shared back to big tech. Most sites that use a big tech sign-in button allow you to change to a traditional username/password and delink. Check the account settings and switch over. Liberate your data!

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N @nealiosaurus.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Do you have a cloud doorbell cam? Your life is being used to train AI, your video is open to warrantless police access, and employees can get into your data at a whim. ONVIF cameras are self-hosted on your home network. No subscription, and the cameras are priced very reasonably. Dump Big Tech!

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N @nealiosaurus.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Don't you think a condemnation of using Synthetic Text Extruders (aka LLM) in any way is warranted based on the way they work as a technology would be more effective that just condemning one company... The way these models work as a whole are the problem, not just one company. They are all bad.

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N @nealiosaurus.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Post a pic you took, no context. Fen for the zeed!

Pro wrestlers Super Atomic Thunder Frog and Big O Possum pose with their championship belts inside a wrestling ring. Two wrestlers in black and red are crawling on hands and knees behind them. Fans cheer.

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REMbodied @rembodied.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Someone in my building threw away a lefty leaning flyer. My response has been posted in its place.

A cartoon of a man in a red hat, and a t-shirt sung "Icy Boy" tossing a wad of paper in a recycling bin. The man says "I recycle to own the Libb-ruls."

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Aleesa @akuzee.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

New sworn declarations from DHS officials are giving us new numbers in the amount of agents in Minnesota. -When you combine ICE + CBP = at least 4,000 agents were here -ICE: As of Monday, 970 agents remained. As of today, 400 will remain -CBP: As of Monday, the remaining 67 officers left the state

4. During Operation Metro Surge, approximately 3,000 additional ERO officers and HSI agents were detailed to the St. Paul Field Office. These details have come at different times and for varying lengths of time. Typically, the ERO St. Paul Office is staffed with approximately
190 officers covering the five states of Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Iowa. In the Twin Cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis, ERO has approximately 80 officers.
5. As of February 23, 2026, there are approximately 270 ERO officers and 700 HSI agents on detail to the St. Paul Field Office.
6. After February 25, 2026, approximately 107 ERO officers will remain on detail to the St. Paul Field Office. HSI anticipates that there will be approximately 300 agents on detail to the St. Paul Field Office by March 2026.

7. On February 3, 2026, the day I began my duties as the LFC, approximately 1029 CBP employees (including CBP officers, Border Patrol agents, Air and Marine Operations (AMO) personnel and support staff) were assigned to Operation Metro Surge. This number does not include CBP employees assigned to other responsibilities within the Minneapolis/St. Paul area, such as CBP officers assigned to ports of entry.
8. On February 4, 2026, CBP demobilized approximately 680 CBP officers and Border Patrol agents assigned to Operation Metro Surge, leaving approximately 349 CBP officers, Border Patrol agents, AMO personnel and support staff to assist the operation. CBP continued to draw down personnel during the next two and a half weeks.
9. On February 12, 2026, CBP demobilized approximately 200 CBP officers, Border Patrol agents, and AMO personnel leaving approximately 149 CBP officers, Border Patrol agents, AMO
personnel and support staff to assist the operation. Four days later, CBP demobilized approximately 82 additional employees, which included CBP officers, Border Patrol agents, AMO personnel and
support staff, leaving approximately 67 CBP officers, Border Patrol agents, AMO personnel and support staff to assist the operation.
10. CBP will demobilize the remaining 67 CBP employees assigned to Operation Metro Surge by February 23, 2026.

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N @nealiosaurus.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

My #accessibility peeps will know all about this... #PDF is evil, and we can all do some good by not using them.

Meme text: Raise your hand if you've felt personally victimized by a PDF.
Meme image: a crowd of people all raising their hands.
The meme image is from Mean Girls.

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N @nealiosaurus.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

So about that "drawdown" that was promised sure doesn't seem to be happening in the #TwinCities. Most of the #ICE activity is in the suburbs. The People Over Papers app only had arrest reports outside of #Minneapolis.

The people over papers map for 2/17 at 10:20pm. Lots of ICE activity reports mostly concentrated outside of Minneapolis and Saint Paul. Only green pins indicating "sightings of ICE" were reported in Minneapolis city limits. Yellow staging and red active arrest pins are scattered around the suburbs.

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N @nealiosaurus.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Lots of bullshit news flying around about a "DHS shutdown," but remember that the Big [Ugly] Bill funded them for 3 years. ICE is *active* in The Twin Cities metro today. Here is the www.iceout.org People Over Papers map. The goons are out! #ICE #DHS #TwinCities #Minneapolis #Shutdown

A map of ICE sightings in the Twin Cities metro area. Two sightings were reported since 4am Saturday Feb 14.

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N @nealiosaurus.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

If you haven't read Simple Sabotage Field Manual, it's a quick read about how to fight fascism. And it's public domain! www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184

gutenberg.org

Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States. Office of Strategic Services

Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.

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daviss @daviss.org · 30/01/2026

Now: Bruce Springsteen sings “Streets of Minneapolis” in Minneapolis

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N @nealiosaurus.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Renee Good and Alex Pretti's deaths are tragic, of course... That their deaths are drawing attention to the situation in #Minneapolis is needed in the city and nation. One thing that has been bothering me is that so many black and brown people have died or will die as a result of ICE's crackdown.

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N @nealiosaurus.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Some science to back up keeping your hope, and staying in the fight. #ICEout #Minneapolis

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Jonathan Ross worked for Border Patrol before ICE

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N @nealiosaurus.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Opps, said the quiet part out loud! #StarTrek

Gul Dukat from Star Trek Deep Space 9 says "Attention Bajoran workers. I was bored so I kidnapped the grand nagus of the Ferengi Alliance. Hopefully this will distract you all from the Neelix files."
Posted in r/startrekmemes by u/Goodbye-Nasty

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N @nealiosaurus.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

#ControversialOpinion Being on dating apps has given me this opinion... Loving dogs is not a personality trait. #CatPerson

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N @nealiosaurus.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Before a Hundreds of Beavers theater screening last night, there was a short intro where they cut between one character wishing happy holidays, and cutting to another telling the crowd that they don't own most of the media they consume, and to buy physical media.

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N @nealiosaurus.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

The term "Climate Change" was first coined in a 1975 paper on Anthropogenic Global Warming. Later when Global Warming was more broadly known, Republican strategist, Frank Luntz recommended using " #ClimateChange " in counter arguments about #GlobalWarming. In an attempt to shift the narrative.

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mspwhistles.bsky.social @mspwhistles.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Training tonight on Zoom. For security reasons, this won’t be recorded, but we will have some resources to share, and local organizers are working on other training opportunities.

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N @nealiosaurus.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

I might be most excited about this Star Trek minifig. #LEGO #StarTrek

Star Trek TNG's Ro Laren LEGO minifigure hanging out of the LEGO shuttlepod, saying "Get in loser, we're going Maqui'ing"

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Aurin Chowdhury MPLS City Council Member W12 @aurinmpls.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Community! Please share into your networks supporting those who may need some extra support right now. Pop-up pantry today at Arya Cafe (4603 Minnehaha Ave) 2-6pm. Food, coats, kids coats, diapers, toiletries, and more! It’s take what you need.

POP OUT FOR THE
POP UP PANTRY
WEDS, NOV 26 2-6 PM
4603 Minnehaha Avenue, Minneapolis, MN
55406
Food is a human right
Free Food & Home Essentials
Join us for a community pantry offering non-perishable food, hygiene items, and household essentials — all
FREE to those in need.
CHOCO BAR
potato
• Together, we can make a

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N @nealiosaurus.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

I will assume #VPAT quality and reliability is bad if it still includes the first 9 pages of instructions... The instructions say "Remove the first 9 pages of the document." To me, it says that the preparer doesn't take it seriously. They didn't even read the instructions... #accessibility

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N @nealiosaurus.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

This might blow the mind of anyone born after 2000: To watch a video online you had to download a separate video player so that your browser could open the video file. That's why we all went apeshit about YouTube. Suddenly we didn't need to keep QuickTime, Real Player and Flash Player up to date.

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N @nealiosaurus.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Fun fact: Placing an orange traffic cone on the hood of Waymo vehicles makes them stop where they are and they will not move until the cone is removed... Only saying this so that people know what not to do when they see a robo car driving by... Yeah...

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 11/11/2025

🚨 Upcoming #booktalk! 🚨 #CoryDoctorow talks about his new book ENSHITTIFICATION & how the internet broke & how we can fix it. He explores why everything online feels worse & what we can do next. 📆 Fri Nov 21st 🕙 10 AM PT 📍 Online 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-... @AuthorsAlliance.bsky.social

Cover for the book “Enshittification” by Cory Doctorow, featuring a poop emoji with symbols representing expletives. Text reads “Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It.”

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N @nealiosaurus.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

I just finished reading #Enshittification the new book by #CoryDoctorow which I feel is required reading for anyone who wants to understand why the Internet sucks butt these days, and what can be done to fix it. As my next read, Parable of the Sower by #OctaviaButler. It is basically prophesy...

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Once again we must conclude that our ruling class is dumb, gross and smelly.

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N @nealiosaurus.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Nerdsplains D&D spellcasting optimizations by using feats and multi-classing.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Hey Minnesota: ICE is now on the ground in NE Minneapolis. See thread. Stay alert everyone!

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N @nealiosaurus.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

AI Slop and the Sora 2 release reinforces a fact that has been forgotten since the advent of YouTube... "Newness" does not equal "Goodness." We could watch a classic film, or scroll Tik Tok and something "new." One was made to capture your imagination, the other was made to capture your attention.

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N @nealiosaurus.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Android users who used Google Assistant and are annoyed they auto-switched everyone to #Gemini I found out that you can choose to use Assistant as a default! 1) open Google app settings 2) Tap Digital Assistants from Google 3) Tap "Google Assistant" #Android #Google #AIsucks

Android screenshot of Google app settings. An arrow points to the Digital assistants from Google options.

Android screenshot of the Digital Assistants options in the Google app. Google Assistant is enabled. No more Gemini suckage!

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N @nealiosaurus.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Big kudos to MIA for putting GOOD #alt #alttext on their bot account. Love to see it! #accessibility

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N @nealiosaurus.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

People of Ireland don't have the illusions (delusions?) that Americans have about wealth.

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N @nealiosaurus.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

I have a piece in an #art show at Modist Brewing. "This is Spinal Snap" is a skateboard deck with 3D printed worm-esque pieces and lots of paint.

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N @nealiosaurus.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

This is huge news in the #accessibility world. I used to recommend Otter AI to students all the time. #AI companies are again proving that they willingly break the law for revenue (not profit, because no AI company is profitable. www.npr.org/2025/08/15/g...

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Class-action suit claims Otter AI secretly records private work conversations

The suit claims the popular service may be recording and processing millions of users' private conversations without consent.

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404 Media @404media.co · 05/08/2025

ICE Is About To Go on a Social Media and TV Ad Recruiting Blitz 🔗 www.404media.co/ice-is-about...

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N @nealiosaurus.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

@caseyjohnston.bsky.social I finished reading A Physical Education in my second week of StrongLifts workouts. Your book has been revelatory for me! I've always had my own self-image issues, and decided to commit. Thanks for cutting through the shitshow that is the fitness and health industry.

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Animal Flix @animalflix.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

The most majestic thing you will see on #bluesky today. 😇

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N @nealiosaurus.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Ravenscrodt Musicke Guild did a lovely rendition of Dragons Roost from Legend of Zelda: Windwaker But I think that Link on stage is a Woodwindwaker. #CVG2025

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N @nealiosaurus.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

If a drummer came out of retirement, do you think there would be repercussions? #dadjoke

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N @nealiosaurus.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Your #printer is a snitch... No really. Some brands add hidden #tracking dots to all print jobs that can be used to read the serial number on every page. Sooo, don't print anything you don't want getting back to you at home... #privacy #protest #leftist www.eff.org/pages/list-p...

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List of Printers Which Do or Do Not Display Tracking Dots

Warning (Added 2015) Some of the documents that we previously received through FOIA suggested that all major manufacturers of color laser printers entered a secret agreement with governments to ensure...

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N @nealiosaurus.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

This is poetic... Atari wins!

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