Y'all, it matters that journalists are being arrested on US soil for existing as journalists. Remember when we told y'all fascist regimes look a particular way. This is that.

Anyone still think it's not fascism?

You know, I was ABOUT to make a run at finishing off my last 2 achievements in @megabonk.bsky.social tonight. Turns out there was another update a few days ago. Back to the grind, I guess. On a happier note, though: HAAAATTTTSSSSSSSSSSSSS notyourreal.dad #IndieGames

Okay, holy crap. This is not what I was expecting to see today. Can't say I'm upset about it though.

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Leonard Maltin reviewing "The Promise" (1979) "Boy loves girl. Girl loses face in car accident. Boy thinks girl dead. Girl gets new face from plastic surgeon. Boy falls for old girl's new face. Viewer runs screaming from room."

Street art memorializing Alex Pretti in Seattle. Per r/Seattle, it was painted on a building facing Swedish Hospital in the First Hill neighborhood www.reddit.com/r/nursing/co...

The Good Place

Just a random Irving Berlin song from 1941, covered recently by Lizzy & the Triggermen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDkh...

Quick warning for Kickstarter users below. KS Trust and Safety will literally NEVER contact you via DMs. Report this message if you get it.

It literally cannot happen quickly enough. This is the MINIMUM required at this point.

I just finished creating the tracking spreadsheet for my #vss365 story (chrismarks.ca/vss365.php). I now have detailed pages for characters, locations, tech, creatures, story, plot, and miscellaneous other things. This will make it much easier to keep the story going in a way that makes sense. 1/

This isn't about "training issues." The murderer who executed Renee Good has been with ICE for 10 years, and according to DHS, the murderer who executed Alex Pretti has been there for 8 years. These aren't "new recruits," or officers that can be "retrained." ICE can't be reformed. Abolish ICE.

My friend @tinychaosmouse.bsky.social needs a new wheelchair. She's a good egg and deserves all the good things. If you're able, please share and consider donating. gofund.me/d75ba1dfc

Literally every UBI trial that's ever been has shown a positive result, both financially and socially. There is no rational reason not to be doing this.

Is anyone else unable to load the Department of Homeland Security feed?

THE ICE BREAKER SCHEDULE IS OUT oengus.io/marathon/ice... Join us on Friday, Jan. 30th starting at 11:00am ET for a weekend full of the best speedruns we could find in support of Minnesota against ICE!

For the millionth time: if you don't like being called Gestapo, then don't do the things the Gestapo did.

Trump is actively work to break our country apart. The plan has been in the works for a long time. There is a lot of dark money on the table. Prime Minister Carney needs to deal with the quisling front group being used to sell our nation out.

I have verified this post is real. Now we just need the House and Senate Democrats to carry this energy forward and impeach everybody they can for treason.

Drop the names of any Canadian companies you’ve seen working with ICE in the comments. I’m aware of Gardaworld, Roshel, Hootsuite. Would love to gather any and all other names.

PM Carney calls on Canadians to buy Canadian

For a man who insists he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize, Donald Trump sure does go to war against his own country a lot. Isn't there a word for that?

Watch it to the end. Listen to what the guy says during the credits.

"On no, China's going to track American users and store their personal information." Every accusation is a confession.

Remember when Donald Trump insisted that TikTok be sold to an American company because he said China would use it to spy on Americans? Good times.

Demonstrators as far as the eye can see. Current status of the march in Downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota for Ice Out of Minnesota. They are turning onto 3rd Street from 5th Avenue.

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

“The MAGA cancer has been growing within the Conservative Party for years. It’s the Conservatives who traffic in disinformation and take cues from the Trump political playbook. It’s the Conservatives who imported America’s culture war.”

Sinners is a fantastic film and everyone should watch it twice.

Carney was only the third person to get a standing ovation at Davos. The first was Mandela and the second Zelenskyy. To say we are proud Canadians is an understatment. 🇨🇦😊

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

The last time the US took this attitude, the White House got burned down

Lil' comic about hope and longing 💗

I...I think we're finally at the final boss? Like the actual final boss? Live with Silksong, maybe for the last time! www.twitch.tv/the_lozelda/

I mean, he's literally correct... 🤷

Trump hasn't been in office a full year.

If you care about the state of the world, you owe it to yourself to watch this speech from Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in its entirety, or read the transcript.

I call on my fellow artists and musicians to denounce this horrible act of imperialist aggression. Protest with your voice and your money. Support Canadian art and goods. And prepare for the worst until it isn’t.

“We are taking the sign out of the window.” A bracing speech. Everyone should read it in its entirety. paulwells.substack.com/p/the-carney...

Danish MEP Anders Vistisen to Donald Trump :"Let me put this in words you might understand: Mr. President, fuck off."

I went to Truth Social to verify this is real. All the screenshots you've seen from there are genuine. He's posting private messages from world leaders. He's depicting himself planting an American flag on Greenland. And he's claiming all of North America. He is as evil and dumb as you think he is.

When - if - this passes into history for the USA, do not forget. Do not let things be 'smoothed over'. Yell like blazes, because forgetting and smoothing over is how we ended up where we are right now. Remember.

It's TIME...FOR...Miller’s Music Mondays! twitch.tv/jasoncharles...

Heiltsuk Nation, a member of the Coastal First Nations (CFN) in B.C. is condemning Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre for spreading what it calls “dangerous disinformation” about the group.

Europe may begin selling U.S. assets in response to a new conflict with the US—a move that could trigger a dollar collapse, Bloomberg reports. Deutsche Bank analysts warn Washington’s key vulnerability is living off global financing—and Europe may decide it no longer wants to bankroll the U.S.

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

🧵 I just did some work on my hosted #vss365 page chrismarks.ca/vss365.php to make it more useful. Along the way I fixed a couple things: there was a missing paragraph break at one point, and apparently I'd completely skipped copying my post over one day. So, those got fixed. Good job, me! 1/4

I read somewhere (don't know if it's true) that enough people have been disappeared from Minnesota for them to lose a congressional seat. Curious, yes?