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Sarah West

@slwest382.bsky.social
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Systems algorithm engineer in the medical device industry. Neuroscientist trained in motor and computational neuroscience; signal processing, algorithms, data analysis. Animal and dog sport enthusiast.

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Dove | merelydovely | 🍉🇵🇸 @merelydovely.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I saw the latest reveal of the Murderbot graphic novel page, on which Murderbot clearly has brown skin, and went "wait, wasn't the graphic novel original character design for Murderbot white?" Yes, it was! They changed it because they LISTENED TO FAN FEEDBACK!
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Paul Cornell @paulcornell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Here it is! Our definitive graphic novel #Murderbot , revised look approved by @marthawells.com ! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cos...
A page of the graphic novel, revealing Murderbot to be androgynous and of medium dark skin colour, with a buzzcut.
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Sarah West @slwest382.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Benny's main job from sunrise to sunset is Neighborhood Busy-Body. No package delivery or loose cat will go unremarked on.
A black dog sits on the back of a couch, staring out a window overlooking a residential street.
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ManyDogs Project @manydogsproject.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
What do YOU want to know about dog behavior? 🐶 Take our survey, which will help shape the direction of future research. Open to all dog enthusiasts over 19, worldwide! 🐕 Survey: ssp.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cGhF6eGPOGJYHSS Please share widely! 🐾 #Dogs #DogScience #CanineScience
Flyer: ManyDogs Logo and QR code at top. Banner text: What does the dog community want to know? Take our survey on canine science interests and help shape the direction of future ManyDogs studies! Who can participate? Anyone over 19 (people who just like dogs, guardians, professionals and researchers). How long will it take? Approximately 10 min. Learn more about ManyDogs at https://manydogsproject.github.io/
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Sarah West @slwest382.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
@merriam-webster.com, why isn't the word "maintenance" spelled like "maintain"? I spell it wrong every time.
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Sarah West @slwest382.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
It's wild that so many people think of kids' sports only as means to an end to championships and scholarships, and not as the social and responsibility-building recreational activities they are for 99% of the kids participating. Let kids be kids. This is a post about trans kids in sports.
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Sarah West @slwest382.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Aspen: "Somebody shot me today." Me: "No, you mean you 'got a shot'. The nice vet tech gave it to you." Aspen: "They shot me right in the butt." Me: "But you also got cheese wiz immediately after. I'm surprised you even remember the shot." Aspen: "... the cheese was pretty good, I guess."
A yellow dog lying on a bed looking at the camera with big eyes
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Red Dirt Girl and Her Hound @reddirtgirlhound.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
A gentle reminder to take of yourself. Mental health is health care. What better way then to hear it from a sled dog 🐕 All credit to Emily On The Trail Emily Ford who shared this on fb and insta. I dont think she would mind putting this here. #UglyDogs
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Sarah West @slwest382.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Somebody please give a litter of puppies a microscope brand theme. Some names to choose from include: Andor Oxford Leica Nikon Olympus Zeiss Fisher Kodak Bosch Lomb Pretty great, right??
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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 11/05/2026
The new illustrated Subterranean edition of Queen Demon! Art by Rovina Cai.
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Blair Braverman @blairbraverman.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I’m very excited to announce my new podcast! I'll be telling true stories of survival, starting with the story of Ada Blackjack, who was stranded for two years in the high Arctic. If you subscribe now to What to Carry, What to Burn on your fav podcast app, you’ll get the first episodes on May 12!
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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Had a great time listening to @marthawells.com talk all things Murderbot last night at Third Place Books!
My hand holding Martha Wells' latest novel, Platform Decay, in an auditorium
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Sarah West @slwest382.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Millennial girls who grew up watching Iron Will (1994) and Balto (1995), how's your recreational sled dog team doing? #uglydogs
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MaryVarshini108 🐕🛷 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦😷 @maryvarshini108.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
If you are a longtime follower and admirer of Blair's (we call ourselves the #uglydogs) you will read this and remember the vast joy of discovering her and her team. Her ability to share with us the beauty and wonder of her world is exceptional. If you are new, welcome! You too belong on the team. 🎁
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‘Their Power Feels Like Mine’: A Dog Sled Racer Says Goodbye to Her Pack
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Sarah West @slwest382.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
This guy in my neighborhood bulletin board group said this crap to me, right after quoting like a whole page of Eric Schwalm at me.
Screenshot of an interaction on Facebook.
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 26/01/2026
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition. We’ve also added a list of additional recommended reading:
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Free Ebooks: Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice an...
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 24/01/2026
The officer who fatally shot a Minneapolis man during a protest is an 8-year Border Patrol veteran, federal officials say.
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Police chief calls for calm after a man is shot and killed during Minneapolis immigration crackdown
Federal immigration officers have shot and killed a man in Minneapolis, drawing hundreds of protesters in a city already shaken by another fatal shooting weeks earlier.
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JEEMS, dog servant @jamesfrye.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Once again, stop giving a pass to the regime by assuming these agents are new and poorly trained. The default position should be that they are experienced, trained, and doing what they have been trained to do.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 24/01/2026
I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening. The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Hey Tom you shameless soulless piece of shit, come to the Cities and find me ONE non-Minnesotan, I double dog dare you. Jesus will look you in the eye when you die and say "I never knew you."
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Kate @k8c.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
People are the most important thing, but the gutting of the BWCA breaks my already broken heart. It's such a blow. I want every MN GOP rep who voted for that gone.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Liam Ramos, a preschooler ICE detained the five-year-old Minnesota boy as he returned home from school and transported him to a detention center in Texas.
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Charlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
The executive director of a food pantry reports ICE tailing volunteers and showing up at her house www.kare11.com/article/news...
She said she and her volunteers have been tailed by ICE, and that agents have even shown up at her residence because some of the delivery vans they use are registered in her name.
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ceej @ceej.online · 22/01/2026
There is going to come a time in your life when you are chatting with a guy, at a barbecue or something, a new coworker maybe, a dad at school drop off, and he tells you he used to be in ICE. You’re going to need to spit on that guy
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
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Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 21/01/2026
This is a photo of someone being tortured, not someone being restrained
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/01/2026
Yes, immigration agents not only took Arnoldo's phone, the 10th grader had to use Find My Phone to locate it — in a vending machine for used electronics, close to an ICE detention center. Read the full story here: www.propublica.org/article/vide...
"Arnoldo had filmed much of the incident, but agents had taken his phone. He used Find My to locate the phone — at a vending machine for used electronics miles away, close to an ICE detention center. The footage, which ProPublica has reviewed, backed the family’s account of the chase."
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Sarah West @slwest382.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Ron Swanson would be so disappointed.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
America is now at the heavily armed secret police doing warrantless door-to-door house raids in search of undesirable ethnicities and/or political dissenters stage. The difference from well known historical cases is down to scale.
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 12/01/2026
For other lawyers in private practice in the Twin Cities: how are you making plans to help? How are making yourself *available* to help? Personally: I have 2 trials this week, but once those are squared away I'm not taking any cases which require heavy upfront time until the occupation is over.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 12/01/2026
The Oglala Sioux Tribe is trying to locate four members detained by ICE agents in Minneapolis.
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Tribal leaders say ICE is detaining American Indians during immigration sweeps
The Oglala Sioux Tribe is trying to locate four members detained by ICE agents in Minneapolis.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Reports and videos show ICE agents asking American citizens whether they’ve “learned their lesson over the last few days” are deeply troubling. Language like this implies intent and raises serious questions about premeditation and mindset on the scene.
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 10/01/2026
A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
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maimonides nutz @maimonidesnutz.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
if you're looking for a non-appropriative alternative: "may their memory be a revolution" started in the Orthodox Jewish community for victims of domestic violence, but it was suggested by the head of the organization that came up with it for George Floyd, so I think it's ok to use more broadly
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 10/01/2026
I want to emphasize for people again: there's a bunch of AI stuff going around of people confronting ICE agents. It's fake. It's slop. Verify before reposting.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
This is what I think of when I recognize that the lies Tricia McLaughlin, Kristi Noem, Stephen Miller, JD Vance, and Trump all told about Renee Good's killing are INCONSISTENT. They're not just inconsistent with the video. They're inconsistent with each other.
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Portia @portianoir.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Rest in power to Keith Porter who was murdered by an ICE agent in Los Angeles. It’s terrible that his name is just now being circulated, but now that it is, continue to say his name.
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Advocates want legal action after man shot and killed by off-duty ICE agent in Northridge
Advocates argue that the off-duty ICE agent wasn't trained for the situation and should have called police and waited for them to arrive.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
ICYMI: Our new (in December) paper offers advice for early career scientists who want their research to help influence conservation and management policy. Lots of people say that they want to do this, but lack the policy training to do it meaningfully and usefully. Our paper can help! 🧪🦑🌍🦈
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Shark scientists want their research to help save threatened species, but don’t know how. Our new paper can help.
Sharks are some of the most threatened animals on Earth, and accordingly many scientists who study sharks want their research to be useful for conservation. However, most scientific training does n…
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
NEW: Data released by ICE shows that virtually the entire growth of detention in the last few months has been among people with no criminal record at all - no prior convictions (no matter how minor) and no pending criminal charges.
Chart showing "Detention Population, Among Those Arrested in the interior, by Criminal Record, May 2019 through January 27, 2026. There are three lines on the graph: prior conviction, pending criminal charges, and no criminal record. from 2019 through January 2025, "prior conviction" is by far the highest, followed by pending charges much lower down and "no criminal record" the lowest. During the Biden admin, very few people arrested by ICE in the interior and detained had no criminal record. Beginning in January 2025, all three lines jump, but the highest spike is among those with no criminal records. By September, that has become the single largest. Since that point, there are now thousands more people in detention with no criminal record than people with prior convictions.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
A married couple was shot in Portland by federal agents. Early reports indicate the agents involved were US Customs and Border Protection (CBP). The individuals were taken to the hospital. The reason shots were fired has not been publicly explained. More details to come as information is confirmed.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Let’s talk about something. The fact that the ICE agent who murdered Renee Good was dragged by a moving vehicle in a prior incident is not a defense, it actually makes the situation much worse for him.
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JEEMS, dog servant @jamesfrye.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
For context: disinformation sources have been spreading the name of the CEO and publisher of the StarTribune as the name of the ICE murderer. Completely vile.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
The ICE agent who murdered Renee Nicole Good and fled the scene has deleted all of his social media accounts. The Trump administration says he is currently at home on paid leave, enjoying time with his family. After this administration, we are going to need a Nuremberg Trials 2.0.
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Madeleine Vasaly @madeleinevasaly.com · 08/01/2026
Minneapolis.
Demonstrators at the January 7, 2026, evening vigil for Renee Nicole Good. A tall flag reads "Fuck ICE."
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Oh sorry, I haven’t been online that much tonight, I’ve been forced to help organize a safety patrol at my kid’s daycare, because ICE stopped by today.
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