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dudes rock

Tapping the sign again... 😮‍💨

Live in Europe, can confirm.

Why Trump’s Attack on Refugees Could Hurt Grandma It’s immigrants from ‘shithole’ countries who care for our elderly, and nobody’s lining up to take their place.

"The [nursing home] director said many of her Jewish residents were distraught at the prospect of losing their Haitian caregivers—and asked if they could hide them, as some gentiles had done for Jews during the Holocaust."

www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-atta...

It's not often we get to report on hopeful news

Alaa Hamoudi won in the EU's top court against Frontex! This opens doors for many survivors of Frontex pushbacks.

@bdeeb.bsky.social tells how he reported on Alaa's case back in 2020 with @bellingcat.com. And how this evidence ended up in court.

@olof-loves-ai.bsky.social check it out!

Bluesky Map Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!

bluesky-map.theo.io

I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

My armchair post-game assessment of the Super Bowl halftime show is that Culture is winning the Culture War.

YOUR RING CAMERA IS AN ICE AGENT [a drawing of a ring camera with an ice agent dragging a person away in its field of vision] "In October of 2025, Amazon's Ring announced its partnership with FLOCK, an A.I. surveillance group that freely shares its footage with ICE, the secret service, and the navy. Flock customers can use A.I. tools to sift through footage to assist in all manner of operations (like raids and deportations) without a warrant. Unplug Ring! Melt ICE! Protect your neighbors! See: https://blog.ring.com/about-ring/ring-expands-community-requests-to-additional-community-safety-partners/ https://www.404media.co/ice-secret-service-navy-all-had-access-to-flocks-nationwide-network-of-cameras/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp9MwZkHiMQ https://www.aclum.org/campaigns-initiatives/get-the-flock-out-resource-guide/

jack asked if i would sketch up a poster to tell people in nearby neighborhoods about the partnership between flock and ring, and this is what i came up with. it can be printed on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.

when my pets went missing my neighbors helped us find them, not surveillance.

you know what's cheaper and safer than a ring camera? a fake camera. I've had one since my last porch theft three years ago and it even fooled the eye of a cop trying to get me to snitch on my neighbors. you can't subpoena a recording that doesnt exist.

I will eventually shut up about this but Bad Bunny’s use of the power lines is an outstanding example of how to communicate about climate and energy issues. Not about who is the smartest nerd in the room and spewing numbers but about people’s actual lives. Genius.

Puerto Rico hasn't had reliable power in a decade.

The grid sends occasional surges through the wires that fry appliances.

Electricity rates are among the highest in the entire U.S.

Heat waves are getting intense in the summer, and outages mean A/C is no guarantee for an aging population.

In other words: waste their time and wear them down. Lots of drawn-out, low-risk interactions.

This is a matter of temporal attrition - how many hours and resources can you force them to allocate every day and how certain are they that they can exercise their power - you raise the opportunity cost of very action even if they encounter no resistance if they have to allocate more officers.

But barricades aren't intended to effectively keep people out indefinitely because they can't be defended against lethal force here. Ignoring money, the real value is controlling space and time, increasing systemic entropy, forcing immediate allocation of manpower and resources.

Even though ICE was assigned billions and billions by Congress recently, that money is earmarked for contractors and graft so they're loathe to spend it. Moreover, despite the money they're effectively shortstaffed even when they try to flood the zone, so they shift resource spending to the locals.

I tell you what, Ring figured out exactly how to weaponize white people’s empathy in service to a corporately controlled surveillance state.

Tell them it will find your dog.

Its neat that congress has never defined an official language for the USA.

Some scam "tattoo artist" account @inkyazmine2456.bsky.social DMing me to ask if I already have any tattoos

Say it with me:

"Officer, I'm not answering any questions without my lawyer present. Am I being detained or an I free to go?"

Fr tho don't be giving out personal information to strangers, or even just answering random questions.

It's generational work for a reason. We pay our dues forward by standing up for humanity today.

Secondary bets like this are usually illegal / disallowed because they encourage market manipulation and fraud.

Depending on how the numbers align, it'd be a guaranteed thing to win the secondary bet for more than the cost of throwing the primary bet. Which creates some messed up market incentives.

Successfully moved the family group chat to Signal 😎

This underscores that the root of many bike/pedestrian conflicts is the fact that we are all sharing small amounts of space not allocated to cars. The best solution is infrastructure that reduces conflicts between modes of travel.

everyone please check on your adhd friends; they’re probably solving problems that didn’t exist when they woke up

dey/dem for my east coast nonbineys

fr tho

In America, the freedom to associate is a conspiracy.