@serafinak.bsky.social
(she/her) San Diego area. I enjoy: travel, crochet, movies, playing the piano, learning languages, yoga, baking, concerts (especially pop punk/emo), photography, motorcycles. But my feed is mostly political reposts
When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.
"Would you prefer to pay X% in taxes" has a *very* different answer depending on how many concentration camps, death squads, billionaires, and starving children a country has.
A big part of tax discourse is that normal people would not give a single shit about how much they were paying in taxes if those taxes went to helping people, and that it is extremely obvious that this is not what taxes are actually going toward.
we recently made the switch to electric (finally) ourselves and I absolutely adore the Ioniq EV9. It's also true for road trips (youth basketball tournaments in central PA) it takes a bit more thinking/planning. But, after a few of those you get completely used to it and it's smooth sailing.
"Grammarly has never been interested in writing, or even improving it. Its only interest is in making money...The company's business model is designed to make people feel insecure about their own writing so that they believe that they need an AI assistant to do something as simple as send an email."
REST IN PEACE TO BREONNA TAYLOR (June 5, 1993 – March 13, 2020)
"The sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better."
The Defense Secretary calling for a billionaire ally of the government to take over a media outlet & make it more pro-government. This is what authoritarianism looks like. But in other countries they try & hide it.
It’s almost like Putin and Netanyahu control our foreign policy.
Just a reminder that the Democratic Party enables Republicans to do whatever damage they can when they’re in power and then cleans it up while telling everyone that they really wish things could change but it just isn’t time to do it yet. Because of the messes, of course.
The fire danger is going to be unreal this year. I strongly suggest stocking up on N95s and air purifiers if you can.
While millions are struggling to make ends meet, Donald Trump is exploiting the presidency to get even richer through shady crypto deals and blatant self-dealing.
New "Golden Age" for whom, exactly?
If they die, they cannot complain. Feature not a bug of a system.
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🇺🇸 Rep. @tedlieu.bsky.social says there is “ample evidence” in the full Epstein files alleging Donald Trump raped children. “This is all on videotape.”
One half of all television is urban fantasy set in a speculative universe in which police serve a positive societal function
I'm going to enjoy this win today. 👏
GDC's 2026 IGF winner calls out U.S. cruelty at home and abroad
I keep seeing people ask about the 25th Amendment.
Guys. His entire Cabinet is walking around in shoes that don’t fit because they’re scared to take them off.
The 25th is never happening.
it took just over a year to get from "I'll lower costs on day one" to "I'm raising prices and it's good, actually"
Christian Bloom, 12/2016
"that was nine years ago. how fucking prescient was Bloom?"
- Jeff Tiedrich, 3/12/26
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Memoir writing advice for bad people
that phrase "appreciate their sex" has been rattling around in my head since i read this. it's the most succinct, haunting distillation of the dystopian, trans-less world these people want to create: not one truly without trans people but one in which we are compelled to believe something we don't.
Here is @aoc.bsky.social thankfully telling everyone exactly what to do to stop a concentration camp from being built where you live.
Please take it to heart and take action.
If any news outlets are covering this and want to talk to a trans Genomics PhD who specialized in human genetics and the evolution of sex, please reach out to me
This is complete nonsense scientifically. It's fascist eugenics, not biology
Setting a horrifying precedent for genocide
how is "mayor chooses his words carefully" a NYT story but "president chooses his words like a haunted magic 8 ball on meth" not
Another tough day for team “there’s no point in complaining about AI, just accept it.”
Some folks treated me like a naive child for believing we had the money to cancel a portion of student loan debt
Everybody who claimed it was just about the kids should be whacked in the shins
This post is from a few months ago and rings more true every day
4/ Ok, so what ARE the goals? It seems, primarily, destroying lots of missiles and boats and drone factories.
But the question that stumped them: what happens when you stop bombing and they restart production?
They hinted at more bombing. Which is, of course, endless war.
