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yamainu 🏳️‍🌈

@yamainu.bsky.social
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Here, queer. Intersectional feminist nerrrd and lover of intellectual freedom. Lift up voices. Tear down barriers. 🤘 #IowaCityWorldCity 🖖⚽️🏀🐈 Regenerates 1d4 fucks-to-give per long rest, up to a max of 10. Hoping for true Bluesky decentralization someday.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Harris County TX. He's hospitalized: "ICE claimed the man ran in front of the agents' vehicle and was struck. However, the surveillance video appears to show the SUV veering left through empty parking spaces before running the man over..." abc7.com/story/ice-ru...
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ICE agent strikes man with car during pursuit in Texas, authorities say: VIDEO
Surveillance video shows the moment an unmarked SUV carrying ICE agents ran over a man during a pursuit at a shopping center in Texas.
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Brian Kane @briank3387.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Not a bad idea
A Twitter post reads: "Today I'm coining a new internet slang term: ai;dr. AI, didn't read. Start using this to reply to comments that are obviously written by AI and watch what happens."
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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I absolutely love threads like these. Methodology change *means you are measuring something in a different way* kills me that we just gloss over it constantly
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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The *chef’s kiss* of this is he’s trying to convince people to trust him with their data
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Rob 🇨🇦 @rockinbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
#31DaysOfHalloween Squirrel took a bite out of Jack .
Squirrel on Jack-o’-lantern
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 10/10/2026
A new documentary lays bare the human failings of Elon Musk—and the faith people put in him anyway, Megan Garber argues:
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‘Elon Is a Nuke’
A new documentary makes the case that Elon Musk is a human of mass destruction.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026
Here is my pitch for anyone who has worries about rail: I think that building out rail is a necessary (but not sufficient) step in transforming American cities from totally car dependent to slightly walkable, in a way that no other form of transit is.
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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 09/10/2026
If you praise the Confederacy, everyone knows what you're doing. If you praise Rhodesia, though, you still get that little frisson of naughtiness, the little tingle of rebelliousness that can power you through the drudgery of your eight-hour shift at your dad's car dealership.
motherjones.com
How a defunct white supremacist state became a cult favorite on the Right
From battleground candidates to Elon Musk, Republicans can't stop posting wistfully about Rhodesia.
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Techdirt @techdirt.com · 09/10/2026
Hey Platforms: Your Violent Content Policies Are About To Meet The Pentagon’s Firing Squad There is plenty of coverage everywhere you look about how Pete Hegseth and... www.techdirt.com/2026/10/09/hey-pla…
techdirt.com
Hey Platforms: Your Violent Content Policies Are About To Meet The Pentagon’s Firing Squad
There is plenty of coverage everywhere you look about how Pete Hegseth and the Pentagon have announced plans to livestream the firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan, the Army officer who shot up Fort Hood, killing 13 people and wounding dozens more. There is plenty of debate about the moral atrocity that is a firing...
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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 09/10/2026
Yes. And worse: looks like it has to be explained to people who think caring for their children is, you know, somebody *else's* job. Because (alas) some parents *don't* feel this in their bones. I had one of those. :/
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Lauren 🎃'Neal @laurenoneal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
People come up with conspiracy theories because it's not enough for them to feel right, they also have to feel everyone else is wrong. In somewhat the same way, it's not enough for AI cultists to deny humanity to certain classes of people, they also have to grant it to the computer.
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Meredith Rose (from the grave) 👻 @mrose.ink · 09/10/2026
People seem to be having a hard time deciding whether everything that comes out of AI developers is marketing, or evidence of cultish religious beliefs, and I posit to you: those are two motivations that have similar expressions.
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WIRED @wired.com · 09/10/2026
The Justice Department is considering a perjury and obstruction of justice case against Cassidy Hutchinson, a former White House aide who testified against Donald Trump to the January 6 committee.
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The DOJ Is Weighing Perjury Charges Against Cassidy Hutchinson
The Justice Department is considering a perjury and obstruction of justice case against Cassidy Hutchinson, a former White House aide who testified against Donald Trump to the January 6 committee.
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Andrea Phillips @andrea.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
You really shouldn't be mean to Claude, but it's not because Claude's feelings will get hurt, it's because you're shaping how your brain behaves around real people also
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Shit. He really did say this. www.youtube.com/shorts/ca3C4...
youtube.com
Palmer Luckey on his idea for using oxytocin to help strengthen marriages
YouTube video by Peter H. Diamandis
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Today in my Civil War class, we talked about the Dakota War of 1862 & how the U.S. government hanged 38 members of the Dakota tribe. It was the largest mass execution in U.S. history. It was a weird coincidence that we covered this today and students of course drew some parallels to the news.
An image of the execution of 38 members of the Dakota Tribe
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Shitbag Trump, Jeffrey Epstein’s best friend, who was found liable for sexual abuse / rape in court, sanctioned the ICC because the Nobel Peace Prize went to Navi Pillay, a former ICC judge who helped establish rape as an act of genocide. Let that sink in. Rubio fully complicit.
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Taka Hanazawa @takahanazawa.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Rwanda
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Betty C. Jung @bettycjung.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The ICC has publicly indicted ​more than 70 people, including world leaders and major figures in global conflicts. In addition to Netanyahu, it has sought the arrest of Hamas figures. Others who have been indicted include Russian President Vladimir Putin,
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WokeWendy @harleygirl1988.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
So we talk about when the AI bubble bursts, but I think we need to also talk about the collapse in how the internet is financed. AI is filling each part of the internet, each cog, with slop, which is undermining the attention economy. It’s decreasing attention and distracting onto vaporware.
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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It’s cool that I live inland and am about to get hit by a hurricane.
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Bex 🖤🏴 @thinlyveiledtruth.cryptoanarchy.network · 09/10/2026
Jfc all I can say is "INCOMING!!" Sooo many neighborhoods lighting up with ICE rn. 😢
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Eliza Orlins @elizaorlins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
An ICE agent fired into a man's car in Marble Hill this afternoon with a 5-year-old in the backseat. DHS released his arrest record and blamed sanctuary politicians, and never said what led an agent to open fire. ICE's own investigators are handling the case. youtu.be/ZhaotE2PuJU
youtu.be
ICE Agent Shoots Man in His Car With His 5-Year-Old in the Backseat
YouTube video by Eliza Orlins
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 09/10/2026
Term limits and an ethics code are as popular as ever, but Supreme Court expansion at 68 percent among Democrats and 56 percent *among independents*?? The first candidates to figure out that "I will vote to add at least four seats on day one" is a winning message are gonna absolutely clean up.
Party ID	Favor or oppose
Favor	Oppose
Enforce strict ethics code for justices
Republican	91	9
Independent	81	19
Democrat	91	9
Limited terms for justices
Republican	71	29
Independent	75	25
Democrat	88	12
Increase number of justices
Republican	35	65
Independent	56	44
Democrat	68	32
Marquette Law School Poll, national survey, Sept. 2-9, 2026
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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Bodhisattva Comrade Spacemonkey @bodhisp4cem0nkey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Well, he's gotta do something to distract from the likelihood that ICE shooting a father, with his small child in the car, in the Bronx, just provoked the entirety of New York City a month ahead of the Midterms.
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IfICouldFly369 @ificouldfly369.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
youtube.com/live/ymlDDSv...
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BREAKING: NYPD CLASH With Protesters After ICE SHOOTS Man in Bronx | LIVE PROTESTS
YouTube video by MeidasTouch
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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
They're here! They're here! The Comedy Wildlife Awards finalists are here! www.comedywildlifephoto.com/gallery/fina...
an angry birda squirrel(?) with grass in his mouth looking scaryA praying mantis looking casual
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Book Nerd @booknerdy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Posting for those thinking that plague thingy in Russia is “ no biggie.”
Map of USA/ Russia
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Stefan E. Jones @stefanejones.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Another city full of people that won't buckle down, cower, give up, or forgive. #FuckIce #AbolishIce
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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · 07/10/2026
This is shameful of the countries who buckled under the pressure www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ request
Lithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website
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yamainu 🏳️‍🌈 @yamainu.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
@heykellyjensen.bsky.social starting the conference off right by showing where we are and how we got here re #censorship and #bannedbooks. But not before shouting out her mentor, a good beautiful person whose lack we still feel and after whom we’ve named a conference award. Something got in my eye.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
The woman who shouted "people will die" at Joni Ernst, India May, is a nurse and a librarian who first got involved in politics by going to a town hall about bills aiming to defund libraries. Now she's running for state house. eu.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...
What does India May want to accomplish in the Iowa House?
May said she first got involved in Iowa politics earlier this year when she attended a town hall held by the state legislators in her area, including Thomson.

In part, May said she went to oppose a bill that would deny state funding to libraries that are members of the American Library Association and Iowa Library Association, and another that would remove an exemption in Iowa's obscenity law that shields libraries and educational institutions. Neither bill ultimately passed.

"I’m a nurse and a librarian, and I went to my first town hall this year to advocate for libraries and realized that there were a lot more pieces of legislation that were harmful on the Iowa level that I didn’t even hear about until it was too late," she said.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 07/10/2026
Brendan Carr is illegally destroying U.S. media consolidation limits so that Trump-friendly local broadcast TV companies (Sinclair, Nexstar, Tegna) can all merge and pummel local TV news consumers with propaganda. This is even pissing off major cable companies, who say it's unfair to them:
arstechnica.com
Cable lobby to sue Trump FCC over repeal of national TV ownership cap
Cable industry to sue, says FCC can't repeal TV ownership limit set by Congress.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Fusionism had many inputs but above all it was heavily shaped by the Cold War. Social conservatism and free-market ideas were conjoined (never entirely comfortably) only by having a perceived shared enemy in communism, as in actual Stalin and Mao atheistic communism. That's not coming back.
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Meredith @ameredol.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I was asked to review some code changes today. The colleague responsible was feeding my questions about it on Slack into an LLM and then pasting back whatever the LLM had responded.
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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
RIP to a great actress and wonderful human, Eva Marie Saint. In 1996, I was fortunate to meet her, her husband, Bill Moyers, and Jonathan Kozol when they were promoting a documentary about public education inequalities based upon Kozol's book "Savage Inequalities."
NY Times headline 

Eva Marie Saint, Oscar Winner for ‘On the Waterfront,’ Is Dead at 102

Image of Cary Grant and Saint on Mt Rushmore from the film North by Northwest
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It's a pouty act of revenge. OpenAI clearly tried to solve every Millennium Problem and every "top ___ unsolved math problems" list, made a lot of genuine progress but couldn't get the brass rings, so they dumped their whole pile on the math community, snarling "you're so smart, you figure it out."
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The reason young people vibe with liminal horror is that the wealthy have spent the last half century destroying all anthropological spaces they can exist in, leaving *only* non-places en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-place
en.wikipedia.org
Non-place - Wikipedia
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
finally trying Andor and if you told me some old imperial guy was saying to juke the crime stats within 20 minutes i would have been here sooner
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Meredith McClaren @iniquitousfish.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
'I stole or set fire to everything you had. And now that there's nothing left, I take my leave in this glorious golden parachute.'
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yamainu 🏳️‍🌈 @yamainu.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I’m truly done with these faux-friendly, aw-shucks, carefully obfuscational presentations on the new jail proposal. You can see people absorbing it all and making room in their stomachs and wallets to eat this shit sandwich. Dishonest shitlibs are no better than MAGA. Disgusting. #JoCo #VoteNO
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Nilah "Nine Jobs" Magruder @nilahmagruder.com · 06/10/2026
this is the funniest shit tho, the cereal is STANDING UP
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John Cutting @fortunasaga.com · 06/10/2026
When trying to fix it goes wrong
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yamainu 🏳️‍🌈 @yamainu.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I do not, by choice, partake of religion, not because I find it addictive but because I strongly dislike the taste regardless of flavor.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Hypocrisy is a virtue to fascists.
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
RETVRN to when this was a movie studio’s idea of an expensive folly
Bernadette Peters. Jessica Harper and Steve Martin in Pennies From Heaven singing a tune
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