cereal experiments neon

slapping my knee

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

waking up every single day in 2026

Here is the User Guide for ELITE, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE 404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, which lets ICE bring up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address.

A manual for ICE's immigrant-targeting computer system, Palantir ELITE, was leaked today.

Let's look at it, then step back to evaluate how far we've come along a dangerous road and where that road might take us. 🧵

Sight in San Francisco (from a friend)

the most embarrassing thing about me is how much i like guys harmonizing with themselves in falsetto

YO WHAT

my only notes to people under 30: your 30s aren't for ditching fandom, they're for re-evaluating all the "cringe" stuff you liked as a teenager through the lens of someone who can appreciate it fully, going, "that owned, actually," and becoming even more unhinged about it. please look forward to it.

a staggeringly large portion of patreon's traffic is from iOS

The first General Strike in 80 years We're at war, and now people are fighting back like never before

Today is the day. Right now hundreds of Minnesota businesses and institutions are shut down. Thousands of people are refusing to work. There’s a massive picket at the airport. Minnesota’s resistance to ICE today is changing the tenor our fight against fascism.

www.jphilll.com/p/the-first-...

gassing up my friends >>>>>>>

HEY EVERYBODY thanks for listening to my set i hope you’re enjoying the music thanks for coming how is EVERYONE DOING ???? i just liked these tracks so i wanted to play them for you i hope you enjoy the music

Just bumping this up again!

Charisma is an indispensable, brilliant trans artist, organizer, community node, bookseller and so much more.

They just had to leave their home AGAIN. 😭

Times are hard all over, but I'd be so grateful if you could give whatever you can spare 💗🏳️‍⚧️💗

This is a metaphor for the tech industry overall circa 2025

i didn’t realize until just now that not everyone grew up with everybody around them having strong, passionate opinions on which automakers are the best

Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...

Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group.

this is PRETTY bad

www.fda.gov/inspections-...

this is also a solvable problem

consider: turn the spoon sideways

Just now, a national trans healthcare felony ban for youth has passed the US House, with 10 year prison terms.

3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.

4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.

It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.

Story to come.

where do they sell these??

first thing i thought when i saw @meodai.bsky.social's Poline is that i wanted it for my bedroom, so i vibe coded it into a HomeAssistant card that makes my room feel like the palette github.com/stith/poline...

Hi so I'm homeless right now and really need help.
@habariqueenby.bsky.social and I, with the help of our close friend @genderplasmic.bsky.social, have launched a gofundme to secure housing for both of us. If you cant give please consider sharing, anything helps<3

BREAKING: 30 more Starbucks locations are joining the strike.

Starbucks workers in 25 cities are jumping into the week-long strike.

Now @sbworkersunited.org members at 95 stores in 65 cities have walked off the job.

fund this

😭

three pieces of art showing prints of ink patterns mounted to reclaimed and weathered wood by small brackets

image of a vertically mounted image showing splatter across the frame

image that shows what looks like a wave cresting

image that shows a swirl

spent some time touching these up before submitting them to a call for art :)

the series is called "Leviathan", they're made by video microscopy of ink in alcohol, imaged on a high resolution black and white CRT

“life”

everyone nods, knowingly