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A detail I initially missed, minor compared to everything else, but I found it interesting: One of the effects of the US issuing sanctions against the ICC was "the video platform YouTube removed more than 700 videos documenting evidence of possible war crimes." pixelunion.eu/blog/2026/10...

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How the US is sidelining the ICC through tech, again | PixelUnion - Free your photos from American tech platforms

The US sanctions on the International Criminal Court show how exposed you are when your digital infrastructure is in foreign hands.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 5h

The machine did not "go rogue." The machine belongs to and is the responsibility of the people who own it. Hold those people accountable for their goddamn machine.

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Silmaria 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 4h

I'm not sure I've ever seen a comment section turn on someone as hard as that one. He was weird and kinda creepy in the video, too. Kinda culty, ngl.

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Silmaria 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 4h

A retro youtuber thought his audience would like an AI slop movie he "made". Y'all, I sucked as a 2D animator. My attempts at directing live-action were abominable. My specialty was making things go boom. Absolutely nothing I ever made was as bad as that and he's getting lit the fuck up in comments

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Silmaria 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 7h

Showing the kids Army of Darkness. Time for cultural education!

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Silmaria 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 7h

This isn't gonna be a one-day thing, we need to have people keeping an eye out like we did last winter, but more sustainably.

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Silmaria 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 8h

They were doing it in Minneapolis, too, even after they took their employees.

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Justin Falcone @justinfalcone.com · 10h

Sign reading "Hail Mary full of grace, kick ICE out of this place

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Harebrained @harebrained.bsky.social · 11h

Hey NY, Chicago here. I made you some graphics cause we're all on the same team. Fuck ICE.

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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 12h

zoom meetings in October

Somebody has had the genius idea to make a Halloween decoration with a really cheap Ikea desk and a chair with a skeleton sitting on it and behind the computer in front of the skeleton is a TV with a zoom call Active with four other skeletons all logged on

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Silmaria 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 11h

It's more common outstate, and rural areas in general, but overall less common here than some other states from what I've observed. I think we get too cold for it to flow well.

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Silmaria 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 12h

This is just cartoonish levels of voter intimidation.

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Silmaria 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 12h

I can't door knock 'cuz it's exactly the sort of activity that destroys me, so... Gee, I'm so worried about Peggy's campaign! :D

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Robert Haider @roberthaider.bsky.social · 13h

Put another way: the City could cover the full funding gap with nine days worth of MPD overtime pay.

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Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 23h

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Silmaria 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 12h

I'd document the folks driving and parking on the bike lane, but I'd fill up my camera roll and I ain't narcing on them anyway.

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Silmaria 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 12h

-neighborhood. Many of them are in wheelchairs or on canes, too, so it's not like there's a lot of good alternatives. 99% a bike lane chick, but this one needed to be thought out better. Total daily traffic probably isn't off the rails high, but it comes in intense pulses, as it were.

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Silmaria 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 12h

The way they did the bike lane in front of this place is just awful. It took a bad situation regarding traffic and car accidents and made it so, so much worse. Most places this would be great, but there's these huge pulses of people being dropped off and picked up every day and it snarls the whole-

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Silmaria 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 13h

I really need a camp stool or something for these stationary watches, though.

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Silmaria 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 13h

Hung out with some lovely ladies from the local Lutheran Church today, doing ICE patrol outside the local mosque. Still out here, still keeping an eye on things. It was really nice to have a month where I didn't feel compelled to look inside except car that went past, but I guess we're here now.

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Undead JTorg moans "We need more trains" @jtorg.bsky.social · 15h

Reposting because this drive is still active and I haven't been asking much since the "drawdown", but my Somali neighbors are under attack again, so please support one of their strongest neighborhoods. The beautiful Cedar-Riverside. Thanks.

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Silmaria 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 14h

Oh god no, it's ruinously expensive unless you're super well established already. Just buying a booth is about a gazillion dollars.

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amityf @amityf.bsky.social · 16h

A call for all Minnesotans: show up at your neighborhood mosque today; whistles, signs--We Love our Neighbors, We Love our Somali Neighbors. Show up, between 12 and 2 (prayer time). (this is the post you should reshare, buds).

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Silmaria 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 15h

Maybe a long-term lease will enable MRF to make some improvements. Basically nothing has been changed in over 20 years, when I went back two years ago it was just a more run-down version of what I'd left. bringmethenews.com/minnesota-li...

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Minnesota Renaissance Festival announces 20-year agreement with landowner

Mid-America Festivals and Bryan Rock Products expect to finalize the agreement by the end of the year.

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✊🏼Indigiqueer Hummingbird @riotousmuse.bsky.social · 15h

OH YAY!!! Good local indie bookstore news, Minneapolis! 📚

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 16h

if you don’t keep up with the youth i want you to know they’ve renamed “tramp stamps” to “cake toppers” which feels like the first advancement for feminism in a long time

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Witch Cabell, PhD @cabell.bsky.social · 17h

Also some ppl are apparently claiming these data show kids “going cis/straight” which, while not SURPRISING, still makes my little sociologist stomach ache. These are not longitudinal data! They are cohort snapshots! They tell you NOTHING about individual trajectories of gender or sexual identity!!!

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Witch Cabell, PhD @cabell.bsky.social · 17h

Still need to read up on the actual research behind that WP headline, but just for starters from @juliaserano.bsky.social: The underlying data come from YRBS, a CDC survey administered to adolescents in the same schools that have largely gone all in on targeting queer & trans kids for the fascists

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Nick TenBrink @nick-tenbrink.bsky.social · 17h

Goose Rave #honk

Goose Rave.

Loose gravel sign altered to read Goos Rave.

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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 17h

When Edward Teller was chair of the early AEC Reactor Safeguards Committee, he was considered extremely conservative in his safety demands. His reasoning was that even one catastrophic accident could destroy all public enthusiasm for a technology he believed was important.

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Silmaria 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 17h

My body has been a pile of sad the last few days. My back is so bad, out of the blue, I can barely walk.

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Silmaria 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 17h

And kids aren't dumb, they assume school administrators will know who answered what, or could find out. So even if they're out to anyone, a lot of them aren't going to put it on a survey.

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Silmaria 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 17h

Glad I'm just doing clean sweep in the neighborhood tomorrow.

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Silmaria 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 17h

They stopped that pretense a few years ago, just like a lot of Dems stopped the pretense about caring about LGBTQ+ folks. If they're willing to throw trans folk under the bus, they will throw any queer group under the same bus.

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Silmaria 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 17h

I had a really cool dream and then had to wake up in a world without a cd player and cassette deck on my stereo.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026

I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.

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Jason Chavez @jchavezmpls.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Solidarity with New York City from Minneapolis. We stand with New Yorkers resisting ICE. Additionally, this afternoon, a neighbor was kidnapped by ICE on East Lake Street, so we must continue to stay vigilant here at home. 1/

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Jason Chavez @jchavezmpls.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Don't forget your whistle and pick up shifts to observe when you can. As always, Abolish ICE. Jason Chavez 2/

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Woman holds up an “I am Jane doe” protest sign in front of the White House and its security fencing.

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Laurel Krahn @windowseat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A big autumnal Mega Vouch for Ian, who does so much for so many. 💜

orange gold Mega Vouch with an autumn leaf

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Mayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social : “ABOLISH ICE”

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Cartilage Pizza @cartilagepizza.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

People worried about a 30-year mortgage but not who their neighbors would be in 30 years doesn’t make sense to me. Fund our schools

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Sigrid Ellis @sigridellis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I have contacted everyone as well. My household relies on @hourcar.bsky.social

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

at one point segregation and anti miscegenation laws polled off the charts in south carolina. should we have been ok with a democratic candidate who said black people were less than human so we can "win first"? no? then why the fuck is it ok to do this against trans people? hint: it isnt.

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Silmaria 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

From satire to sad reality in six months. siiiiiiiiiigh

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