Vivek

Wait what!??

@kitana-eh.bsky.social and I were talking the other day about how much more it sucks to be a self-aware boiling frog than not.

So you’re telling me the Wizard of Oz presented itself as a towering force of overwhelming technology, only to be unmasked as just some guy, off-screen?

NEW NEIGHBORHOOD COFFEE SHOP MAKES TURKISH COFFEE I AM SO HAPPY HEY WHY ARE YOU VIBRATING WOW WEIRD LOL

Riker plays the trombone. Data finds emotions. Masks. Lwaxana makes Picard uncomfortable. The senior staff plays poker. The senior staff discover they're in a time warp while playing poker 😂😂😂

Gawd I love The Inner Light as a hook. Maybe Darmok? Or something like Time's Arrow where the cast is just enjoying themselves?

Image of the Statue of Liberty silhouetted against a red background. Text: A VOTE FOR AMAZON IS A VOTE FOR ICE / UN VOTO PARA AMAZON ES UN VOTO PARA ICE / www.nodesertdatacenter.com

White text on red background: What!? Project Blue is a data center for Amazon Web Services. AWS has a long-standing partnership hosting software for Palantir, a surveillance company that collects and analyzes data for ICE, making it easier for them to find and abduct people (www.notechforice.com). What you can do: Call the mayor and your city council representatives and tell them to vote no on Project Blue at their study session August 6. No delays. We know enough to end this now!

¿¡Qué!? Proyecto Blue es un centro de datos para Amazon Web Services. AWS tiene una larga relación de colaboración alojando software para Palantir, una empresa de vigilancia que recopila y analiza datos para ICE, facilitándoles la localización y el secuestro de personas (notechforice.com/?lang=es). Lo que tú puedes hacer: Llamar a la alcaldesa y a tus representantes en el concejo municipal para decirles que voten NO al Proyecto Blue en su sesión de estudio el 6 de agosto. Sin demoras. ¡Sabemos lo suficiente para acabar con esto ya!

Project Blue = Amazon = ICE

#tucson #tucsonaz #desertlife #nodesertdatacenter #artforchange #waterislife #arizonaliving

Fleeing Texas was the only way Democrats could block Trump’s plan to rig the midterms “The Republican members have outsourced our democracy to Mar-a-Lago”

Re-gerrymandering a state to rig an election & then threatening to arrest and expel the members protesting that election rigging is pure authoritarianism

Texas Dems who fled state are fighting for very survival of American democracy www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

QUESTION: A related one on this. You know, the Administration has been very, very clear in public about wanting Sri Lanka to do more to protect civilians and aid workers, including the joint, you know, comments by Foreign Secretary Miliband and Secretary Clinton the other – yesterday. And today, we have a report saying that a Red Cross worker was killed in a shelling. Do you have any fresh ideas on how to try to get the Sri Lankan Government to stop the killing of civilians and, in this case, an aid worker, since the rhetorical efforts clearly have not borne fruit for many weeks now? MR. KELLY: Well, I mean, I think we’re as frustrated as everybody else in the international community about the situation in Sri Lanka. We’re deeply disturbed by these reports, including the one, Arshad, that you just mentioned. We’re working very closely with the international community to maintain pressure on all sides. At the same time, we’re working with the UN and with our allies to try and develop a

Again, as people were dying in May 2009

Authorities and commentators will talk and talk and talk about how they're trying to make sure civilians aren't dying WHILE CIVILIANS ARE DYING.

YouTube video by Vivekster Feed Gaza protest in Tucson 7/24/25

As Israel literally starves hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza to death, Tucsonans answered a global call to action on July 24, 2025 by gathering and marching to the offices of Senator Mark Kelly (not on Bluesky?) and @gallego.senate.gov.

In the US, so much of what the state should do has been outsourced to corporate philanthropy to fund and for nonprofits to carry out. What are these ginormous foundations doing to respond to this moment when the federal government is defunding everything?

So he's maha MAHA?

My Life in Protest From Vietnam to No Kings I was 17 at my first protest. Now I’m 77 and still taking to the streets.

The summer of '25:

"B-2 bombers were dropping bunker busters on Iran…a state representative and her husband had just been shot dead in their home…hundreds were protesting ICE, whose agents were snatching up allegedly undocumented day laborers…even a union leader…Trump brought in the National Guard"

A photo of a man at a protest with the words: DEFEND SAM WEINSTEIN, JUAN ORGANISER & ANTI-ZIONIST JEW CHARGED WITH INCITEMENT TO JOIN A PROTEST AT THE BBC International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network STARVATION I PART OF US-BRAEL PLAN TO PESTIDY GAZ ZIONISM: RACIST IMPERIALIST GENOCIDAL WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6™ 9:30 AM RALLY OUTSIDE WESTMINSTER MAGISTRATES' COURT NW1 5BR INTERHATIONAL IJAN NETWORK

On a very serious note, my dad Sam Weinstein is being persecuted by the UK government because of his pro-Palestine organizing. If you’re in the London area this week, please consider coming out to support him as he faces what is a brazen attack on Palestinians and civil rights.

It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.

5 Ways that Trump Rapidly Ramped Up Immigration Detention Through threats and incentives, the administration conscripted local jails, federal prisons and private companies to detain immigrants.

The Trump administration is using federal jails and facilities as well as reopening shuttered facilities to detain a historic number of immigrants, the Marshall Project team reports

www.themarshallproject.org/2025/08/01/t...

In the US, so much of what the state should do has been outsourced to corporate philanthropy to fund and for nonprofits to carry out. What are these ginormous foundations doing to respond to this moment when the federal government is defunding everything?

Devastating.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has provided invaluable programming and knowledge to all of us, but especially those in the hardest to reach, least connected crevices of our country. There’s no sector of our society that will be left un-wrecked by this administration.

I think they are going to stick "Nose" in there.

Since @mckenziefunk.com & I published yesterday, we've already received new reports of more arrests like this. Some families just find the car left in the road, with no sign of their loved one

Please reach out if you have more info on immigration arrests

Signals: nicolefoy.27 or 212-379-5757 (Mac)

This is a dagger through the heart.

They still going to call it Brown University or change it to White?

This is why I'm so joyful lately!

Y'all don't see the dark parts but I have not yet succumbed to the darkness so weeeeeee!!!! 💃🏾🪩

Age verification? Don't you mean A/S/L?

CALL TO ACTION: Rally against project blue 6 August, 2025 City Hall, 255 W. Alameda (Tucson) 12:30pm: study session 4pm: bonus rally/protest 5:30pm: Mayor & Council meeting We must show our strength in numbers & pack City Hall. See you there!

NO DATA CENTER: Rally against Project Blue Pack the chambers! * The Mayor and Council Study Session is a big deal! It's the first time council members will discuss Project Blue together... * Rally will start at 4pm at City Hall... * Planning to speak? Arrive by 5pm to fill out a speaker card for call to the audience at the public hearing

LLAMADO A LA ACCIÓN Reunión contra Project Blue 6 August, 2025 12:30pm: Sesión de estudio 4pm: El extra rally/protesta 5:30pm: Reunión del alcalde y del consejo Debemos mostrar nuestra fuerza en números y reunirnos en el Ayuntamiento. ¡Nos vemos allí!

¡La sesión de estudio del alcalde y consejo es muy importante! Es la primera vez que los miembros del consejo discutirán juntos el Proyecto Azul... El Rally comenzara las 4pm en el Ayuntamiento... Planeas hablar? Llegue antes de las 5pm para completar una tarjeta de orador para la convocatoria a la audiencia en la audiencia publica...

And then, what we really need folks to show up for: Mayor and City Council study session on Wed, 8/6. Come for the rally, stay for the meeting, let them know we don't want this monster sucking up our resources! Register here to let us know you're coming! www.mobilize.us/nodesertdata...

Flyer, light text on dark background: The City Manager will be hosting two more propaganda sessions for Project Blue with his developer friends. SHINE A LIGHT. Thursday, 7/31 5-7pm virtual on Microsoft Teams. Join us in person for a watch party! Catalina United Methodist Church, 2700 E. Speedway Blvd. Monday 8/4 5-7pm: Tucson Convention Center Bring your questions about the resources Project Blue will consume, the lack of transparency in the process, and what it means to have an Amazon data center in our community Defend the land | Defend the water | Defend the community www.nodesertdatacenter.com

White text on dark background: At the so-called "public information meeting" in Vail on July 23, 2025: • The City Manager acted as a representative for the developer, not for us, putting the interests of a shell corporation over our interests. • All of the presenters were from the development company, or supported the project. • When community members brought our own concerns and questions, we didn’t get direct answers. • They had NOTHING to say about accountability or enforcement if the developer or Amazon violate the agreement. The City Manager wants city council and the community to trust these corporations with our scarce water and expensive power. We say no!

What the next week looks like in Tucson:
W 7/30: Virtual Learning Session from the Watershed Management Group: watershedmg.org/event/virtua...
Th 7/31: Watch party and discussion for a propaganda session for the data center: www.mobilize.us/nodesertdata...
M 8/4: In-person propaganda meeting at TCC

Hi from Pima County, Arizona, Bluesky! We're working to stop the development of a giant data center in the Sonoran Desert that will house Amazon Web Services. Find out more at www.nodesertdatacenter.com. If you want in, sign up for updates and opportunities to participate at tinyurl.com/NDDCjoinus

Chris was part of the cohort that organized the first union for Amazon workers on Staten Island; it’s time to lift up his voice.