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that alien huddled and lurking behind xyr computer screen yes, my cat and I are roosting on piles of yarn they/their/them and xe/xyr/xem

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zota @zota.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Packaging LLMs as first-person chatbots was entirely a product decision. There is no need, and no innocent reason, to make a fake persona the interface for a hyper-dimensional language crystal. Whatever utility they do have is deliberately obscured by pretending they're an entity.
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syntaxofthings.bsky.social @syntaxofthings.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
It is really pissing me off how much my arm hurts and won't let me knit
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syntaxofthings.bsky.social @syntaxofthings.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Ahhh I did not know it was a recurring disk horse
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syntaxofthings.bsky.social @syntaxofthings.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Living in blissful ignorance over here
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Aren Aizura @incommensurati.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Feds are out in Minneapolis and St Paul this morning, arresting observers and people who protested Metro Surge. There are maybe 5-6 that I know of so far, that’s 5-6 too many. We knew this could happen. Check in with your people and secure your devices.
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syntaxofthings.bsky.social @syntaxofthings.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I'm jealous of everyone taking this class
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syntaxofthings.bsky.social @syntaxofthings.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
What the fuck
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Laura Tempest Zakroff @ltzwitch.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
3 of my sigil designs from the archives that are especially poignant for Pride (but also all year-round). Info on each can be found on my Patheos blog by searching the name of the sigil with mine.
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Siri // 🥀🐺 @sirivplouff.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Oh hey! Yes! I am the author of not one but TWO books! “Lessons from the Empress” is a reflection on tarot for creativity, co-authored with @mxcassandrasnow.bsky.social. “Queering the Runes” does just that - looking at the runes from a queer perspective. Available wherever you get your books!
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syntaxofthings.bsky.social @syntaxofthings.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
New club: sabotaging bodies yaaaaay 🙄
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syntaxofthings.bsky.social @syntaxofthings.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Trying not to knit too much today because my arms hurt but also dealing with frustration of on-boarding to a new project. Somebody save me.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 07/06/2026
There are currently more bills attacking trans youth’s right to play sports across the U.S. than there are trans youth in school sports.
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syntaxofthings.bsky.social @syntaxofthings.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
open.substack.com/pub/zuhdae/p...
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Ignorance Isn't Harmless
On able-bodied privilege, masking, and the accountability most of us are avoiding
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syntaxofthings.bsky.social @syntaxofthings.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Love that 🫠
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syntaxofthings.bsky.social @syntaxofthings.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
And that's why I'm trying creatine I guess
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syntaxofthings.bsky.social @syntaxofthings.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Look if there were a cure for brain fog and fatigue I'd take it right fucking now
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syntaxofthings.bsky.social @syntaxofthings.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Lol welp I do like Saturn I guess
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syntaxofthings.bsky.social @syntaxofthings.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
If you're not exhausted are you even alive
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syntaxofthings.bsky.social @syntaxofthings.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
And people were *booed* for calling it out. We are clearly not welcome at the DFL. God what the fuckery. I hate all of this so much.
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syntaxofthings.bsky.social @syntaxofthings.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Jen told me before the convention that she was going and this is NOT what we thought the hazards would be because IT'S WELL KNOWN
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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 02/06/2026
There's nothing more childish and embarrassing than wacko extremist party activists, except maybe a sure-thing candidate for governor who threatens to quit a political convention if she can't run unopposed.
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Sources: Sen. Amy Klobuchar threatened to leave DFL convention during challenge from left • Minnesota Reformer
While backstage at the Democratic-Farmer-Labor convention Friday night, Sen. Amy Klobuchar loudly declared her frustration and said she was going to abandon the convention after delegates nominated a…
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syntaxofthings.bsky.social @syntaxofthings.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I wrote to @minnpost.bsky.social just now after reading this article because I'm so angry how they minimized the impact of strobe lights on the people who are affected. I then canceled my $25 per month donation. You're perpetuating ableism and NO THANKS.
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Jen D @thejenchantress.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I refuse to believe this is who we are. Because if this is how the party in inclusion treats people with disabilities, there's no point even trying.
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syntaxofthings.bsky.social @syntaxofthings.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I'M SO FUCKING PISSED ABOUT ALL OF THIS
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Jen D @thejenchantress.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
while the other delegates around me jumped in, only one official, my local rep @davidformn40b.bsky.social, assisted. He stayed with me, escalated the issue, and helped get the lights turned off. He also checked in with me the next day to make sure I was okay
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Jen D @thejenchantress.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
- strobe lights are prohibited by convention rules - the accommodations team seems to have not known this, as it was not mentioned in their response. I was told there would be a sensory room free of flashing lights (which wouldn't help *after* I've had a seizure)
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Jen D @thejenchantress.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I am one of the people [epileptic] who was impacted by the strobing swag the @klobuchar.senate.gov campaign handed out at the DFL state convention. Here are some fun facts:
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Jen D @thejenchantress.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Tldr: I want to file a formal complaint to the @dfl.org regarding the strobes handed out by the @klobuchar.senate.gov campaign. I want an investigation into how this happened and details of how it will be prevented. I also want a public apology to those of us affected
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syntaxofthings.bsky.social @syntaxofthings.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
I'm watching this video on annotating books and it's making a great argument at the end: youtu.be/3L3fWRQqrUE?... Truly, we have way too much information bombarded at us all the time, and are we doing the right thing for ourselves if we're not doing any deep thinking?
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annotating books will end your doomscrolling 📜
YouTube video by The Book Leo
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Holy shit.
Minnesota are granting the petitions and
people are coming home (though not without ICE obstructing and demeaning them at every step). But then ICE started transferring people out of state as quickly as possible, often within
eight hours, thwarting the local habeas efforts. Every day now, chartered deportation flights leave from the Twin Cities airport carrying
people with their hands and feet in shackles. Observers report other adaptations. ICE have gone from wearing tactical army gear to Midwestern civilian garb; I have even seen photos of agents in keffiyehs. They have changed their cars and their Icence plates: from out-of-state to in-state, to blotted plates
or none at all.
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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
This is the second time an ICE employee has been arrested in in a Bloomington, MN underage sex trafficking sting www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
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Siri // 🥀🐺 @sirivplouff.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
ICE hasn’t left Minnesota. We’re over 70 days in to this occupation.
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 09/02/2026
Hey we live in hell so how about buying some wound treatment for medics who have to be out on the street patching up their neighbors instead of *not* doing that and living the lives they lead before the goonsquad came to town.
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Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥 @leftlanesmith.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Oh, I get it. It never mattered if the development of AI was successful or profitable or people liked it or used it at all – all that mattered was that we get to the point where nobody fully trusts anything they see, reality is always questionable, and plausible deniability rules. Proof evaporates.
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syntaxofthings.bsky.social @syntaxofthings.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Was this actually surprising or was I the only one who noticed that women in his books were sex objects I have a lot of Isaac Asimov books I like, but I wasn't going to assume he was a good man
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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
One reason Minneapolis remains in the world's eye is we have one of the most robust & independent media ecosystems remaining in the country. You all need this...and more! @mprnews.org @startribune.com @sahanjournal.bsky.social @minnesotareformer.com @minnpost.bsky.social @racketmn.com etc.
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 04/02/2026
All in all, while Le's frustrated asides got the most attention, this hearing is most shocking for how little control there is over ICE. Even an experienced and respected AUSA like Anna Voss can't get them within a mile of compliance.
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Kristen Evans @paperalphabet.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
i know that this is an unpopular take, but everyone starting their own newsletter as a revenue stream is not a sustainable model for writing and reporting or for people who love and want to pay for media.
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syntaxofthings.bsky.social @syntaxofthings.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Do my air quality reports take tear gas into account? How much tear gas do you think is in Minneapolis yesterday and today? Breathing has been such a struggle lately, and now my eyes hurt too. I'd like a reason why.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 04/02/2026
the $75 million Jeff Bezos set on fire for that Melania propaganda piece could have funded most independent newsrooms for literally decades
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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Defund billionaires.
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syntaxofthings.bsky.social @syntaxofthings.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Just in case you may need such things. I stopped wearing contacts last week just because, well, all of it.
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syntaxofthings.bsky.social @syntaxofthings.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Getting ready for an appointment in Minneapolis like: Got masks? Got snazzy new glasses? Got their goggle accessory? Got whistles? Got water in case of accidental exposure to chemicals? You know, if you live in Minneapolis and are not really okay right now, I get it. No one should feel normal.
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
This is like the 214th thing in the past year that would have been a bona fide Scandal in the late 1900s
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Black Hart of Saint Paul @blackhartstp.com · 28/01/2026
You walk into this bar and show your ICE mugshot, you don't pay a dime.
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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 29/01/2026
Local businesses now feel compelled to plead the 4th.
FOURTH AMENDMENT WORKPLACE

WE PROTECT ALL...

WORKERS PATRONS COMMUNITY MEMBERSPlease be aware that this is a

Fourth Amendment Establishment.

We uphold the right of the people to be secure against Inst unreasonable searches and seizures.

Please present a signed judicial warrant, ns or things this venue,
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syntaxofthings.bsky.social @syntaxofthings.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I am so excited for this
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 28/01/2026
Bruce Springsteen really said “damn y’all missed the point of Born In The USA, lemme make it even more clear”
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syntaxofthings.bsky.social @syntaxofthings.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
YAAAAAAY
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