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Rowan Driftwood

@rowandriftwood.bsky.social
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Fanfic writer, tea drinker, hobby genealogist, professional archaeologist, GenX, Queer (they/þei/xe), Burien (greater Seattle area).

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Rowan Driftwood @rowandriftwood.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
The archaeologist at work, Spring 1985.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I really want people to check in with the organizations that have been pushing back on surveillance for 10+ years. Just to be blunt, there are a lot of folks who realized yesterday that surveillance is bad and many are suggesting well-intentioned but misguided strategies for fighting it talk to us
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The Needling @theneedling.com · 21/01/2026
Uninvaded Seattle Beginning to Feel Like Trump Doesn’t Even Think It Has Antifa Anymore: tinyurl.com/mrynhxyk
Man in gray hoodie sadly looking out of a window on gray day in Seattle
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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Venezuela, MN, Greenland, etc, are not "distractions" from Epstein or anything else. They are all connected in that they are the fruits of unqualified and unstable people given absolute power and wielding it in ways that profit them and hurt others. It's not a conspiracy, it's an ethos.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.
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Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 04/01/2026
Nicolás Maduro "wasn’t captured," says Venezuelan reporter Andreína Chávez in Caracas. "This is a kidnapping. The United States has just kidnapped a constitutionally elected president."
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Maduro Abducted as Trump Says “We Are Going to Run” Venezuela
Amy Goodman and Juan González host breaking news coverage on U.S. forces attacking Venezuela and seizing Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. We speak to Venezuelan reporter Andreína Chávez in Caracas...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 03/01/2026
People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 03/01/2026
The United States carried out a large-scale attack on Venezuela overnight and captured President Nicolás Maduro, U.S. President Trump says in a statement.
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Rowan Driftwood @rowandriftwood.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
The west coast has successfully entered 2026.
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Rowan Driftwood @rowandriftwood.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
The gay hockey show has been so good for my soul, as a writer of AU fanfiction.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 24/12/2025
The news about Harlequin translators getting fired en masse? You should care about that. They're doing it there because they think nobody gives a shit about romance and so it's fine to experiment with it first.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Her family has now been told she has been deported, despite US District Judge Brendan Hurson ruling Thursday that she could not be deported pending a hearing...attorneys said Monday that they have...confirm[ed] with the hospital she was born in Maryland." bit.ly/3MMdJvz
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ICE detains woman whose lawyer insists is US citizen. DHS says she isn't
Federal agents arrested Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales on her way home in Baltimore, Maryland.
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The Needling @theneedling.com · 22/12/2025
New Children’s Book ‘Good Afternoon Moon’ Celebrates Seattle’s Painfully Early Sunsets: tinyurl.com/yrze7kp8
Children's book cover of "Good Afternoon Moon" with a clock reading 4:19 p.m. and a window showing the Space Needle next to the moon in the night sky
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Rowan Driftwood @rowandriftwood.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Time for The Lion in Winter, the best holiday movie!
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Rowan Driftwood @rowandriftwood.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Happy Solstice! Now the light returns! 🌅
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Wayback Machine grabbed the original Epstein files dump before that photo of Trump got pulled. You can't get to the individual PDF page for the missing image, but if you click "download all files" and download it locally you can find the now-deleted file in: IMAGES / 0001 / EFTA00000468.pdf
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Data Set 1 Files
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 21/12/2025
“This is utterly divorced from reality."
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“Divorced from Reality”: Fact-Checking Trump’s Speech on the Economy
President Trump praised the state of the U.S. economy in a primetime address Wednesday evening, even though new government statistics show the nation’s unemployment rate is at a new four-year high of ...
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The Seattle Times @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
King County warns of toilet rats after record flooding
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King County warns of toilet rats after record flooding
Rats could climb up your toilet as a result of recent flooding from atmospheric rivers, King County officials say. Enter "wet rat winter."
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 19/12/2025
The Trump administration is reportedly seeking to denaturalize 100 to 200 U.S. citizens per month.
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“Terror & Fear”: Trump Moves to Denaturalize Citizens, End Birthright Citizenship, Halt Visa Lottery
The Trump administration is ramping up efforts to strip more naturalized immigrants of their U.S. citizenship, with The New York Times reporting that officials are seeking 100 to 200 cases per month. ...
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Reminder that in June, 2016, a suit (w/witnesses) was filed against Trump re: his repeated raping of a 13 year-old child at an Epstein party. (She wasn't a "teen," in anything but the most technical of senses. She was a 7th, maybe an 8th grader.) We've known he was a child rapist THIS WHOLE TIME.
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Attorney: Donald Trump Will Have To Answer Teen's Rape Accusation In Court
A woman claims Trump raped her at a party in 1994 when she was just 13 years old.
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Rowan Driftwood @rowandriftwood.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
“Get Me Through December” by Allison Kraus and Natalie MacMaster is still and always the mood of the season at this time of year.
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LunchCounterPunch @theultrasecret.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
The transition from yelling fake news to fake documents is seamless of course; a white supremacist regime is attempting to make us all inauthentic unless they say otherwise.
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Rowan Driftwood @rowandriftwood.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
They can call anyone “illegal” and declare their documents fake. If there isn’t due process for everyone, there is no due process for anyone.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
In a world without Section 230: 😩 Big Tech companies everyone hates would win. Giants like Meta and Google have armies of lawyers to navigate compliance 😩 Alternative platforms like Bluesky and Mastodon would likely shut down, along with Wikipedia, review sites, how-to resources, small forums, etc
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
NEW: They kept saying they were gonna do it and now they've done it A group of clowns (Senators) have introduced a bill to FULLY REPEAL Section 230. No reform, no replacement, just utter destruction of all online free speech. We can't let this happen. Share & take action www.badinternetbills.com
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Bad Internet Bills
All of the bad internet bills. One website.
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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
The mothers of these kids know. Moms know they’re coming for their kids, and they feel powerless and terrified
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The Needling @theneedling.com · 18/12/2025
Asked why no one outside the state of Washington cares enough about its flooded communities that just lost everything they own right before Christmas, today the nation admitted it just kinda assumed the PNW was always living underwater in some sort of giant puddle like that.
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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Once again a reminder: We can have trans rights, bodily autonomy, gender nonconformity, and freedom of expression, or we can have none of these things. There’s no third option.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 17/12/2025
Conditions at the Northwest Detention Center are unacceptable—and a year of Trump's cruel mass deportation campaign has made the situation far worse.   I'm sounding the alarm on overcrowding, lack of medical care, food, & more at ICE facilities. We need answers and accountability.
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Exclusive: WA Congress members flag deteriorating conditions at Tacoma detention center in letter to ICE
Conditions have deteriorated for detainees at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma, warn several Washington Congress members, as Immigration and Customs Enforcement detains more immigrants at...
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Sage Deviant 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Revolutionary optimism is the disciplined confidence that because trans lives are forced to invent ways of surviving capitalism, we also possess the skills needed to abolish it. Despair only serves existing power structures. Collective struggle for total intersectional liberation now. ⚧️
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
“Oil… oil… oil… oil… oil… oil…” TLDR: It was never about drugs
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Every major news organization should be writing about how insane this is and how, if he takes this country to war (tomorrow?), it is the act of a madman.
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
I see people claiming that videos are "obviously Ai" and they're just pointing to compression artefacts that any video might have. Seems concerning that we're overestimating how easy it is to spot.
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Harriet - Pumpkin Spite @akaharriet.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
Headline: "Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot" by Jan Martindale Dec. 10 2025
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 15/12/2025
Holy hell. Go Now evacuation order issued for Tukwila after the Green River levee breaks. Seattle metro area itself was managing to avoid the worst of the flooding so far, but it looks like our luck is running out... komonews.com/news/local/f...
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GO NOW: Flash flood evacuation issued for Tukwila area after Green River levee failure
The National Weather Service in Seattle has issued a flash flood warning for west central King County, Washington, following the failure of the Green River Leve
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
A wrong Grok post making up a white guy who stopped the Australian mass shooting.BBC
'Hero' who wrestled gun from Bondi shooter named as Ahmed al Ahmed
Emily Atkinson
Sun, December 14, 2025 at 1:06 p.m. CST
2 min read

A "hero" bystander who was filmed wrestling a gun from one of the Bondi Beach attackers has been named as 43-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed.

Video verified by the BBC showed Mr Ahmed run at the gunman and seize his weapon, before turning the gun round on him, forcing his retreat.

Mr Ahmed, a fruit shop owner and father of two, remains in hospital, where he has undergone surgery for bullet wounds to his arm and hand, his family told 7News Australia.
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Folks on Washington state community Facebook groups are arguing about whether images of local flood damage are real or not. Generative AI is making it so much harder for people to get the reliable information they need to make decisions during disasters.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
99 percent of the world’s cocaine comes from Colombia, Bolivia and Peru, not Venezuela. No fentanyl is made in Venezuela But it does have the world’s largest oil reserves.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/12/2025
In order to "protect women" Texas made it so that women have to go through armed guards with an ID check. They literally created a potty police.
Three uniformed state troopers stand inside a government building near a sign directing visitors to women’s restrooms and elevators, with wood-paneled walls and columns in the background.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/12/2025
Later when a guard pushes his wheelchair, he does it while “popping a wheelie” the whole time. Why? So the migrant’s leg irons don’t drag on the ground. Yes. He can’t walk, but he’s still shackled. 2/
As described in the post.
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/12/2025
ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote: propub.li/3MTlm33
Handwritten notecard. Prompt at the top asks: What object was most devastating for you to lose, and how have you been coping? Answer below: Dentures. Were thrown away and coping isn't somthing I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?
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Rowan Driftwood @rowandriftwood.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
@wnsdpod.bsky.social If you cover The Lion in Winter, it will make my entire December. Best Christmas movie for people who need perspective on their own terrible family dynamics.
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a man in a hooded robe stands next to a woman in a white dress
ALT: a man in a hooded robe stands next to a woman in a white dress
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The Needling @theneedling.com · 09/12/2025
Federal Way Light Rail Extension Opens Stations to Star Lake and 5 Other Fictional Universes: tinyurl.com/bdhyymyk
Real photo of Star Lake Light Rail Station sign
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 21/11/2025
🧵 Oregon's Direct Cash Transfer results Location: Oregon (across 3 counties) Participants: 117 homeless youths ages 18-24 Control group: No Amount: $3,000 + $1,000/mo Duration: 2 yrs After 6 months, 63% were in their own homes. At the end of the two years, 91% of participants were stably housed.
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Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
Oregon gave homeless youths cash payments with no strings attached. Read how it helped.
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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
The tech industry wants to put AI in everything. It also wants the Trump administration to block all AI regulation in the states. Thankfully, it seems there is no appetite to do so in Congress. This EO will have the same legal impact as a wish cast upon a coin. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/u...
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Trump Promises Executive Order to Block State A.I. Regulations
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