btw the eufy video doorbells can be local-only. If you still find them handy for things like package notifications but don't want them sending shit to the cops.

If you want to talk about condescending and out of touch, I'd say that any Democrat politicians who chuckle at the idea of not having ICE are as condescending as you can get. I'm sick of this idea that being decent to other humans is patronizing but killing them is realpolitik. Go fuck yourself.

i’m a little confused about how “abolish ICE” requires too much explaining to be good politics, but a set of opaque incremental reforms does not.

Let The Right One In (2008)

Still in a tropical fuck storm mood so today's song is braindrops.

People seriously need to go soak their heads about the whole, "The left implemented radical changes to our culture" when what they mean is, "One time I saw a pronoun in an email"

what the hell is this revisionist nonsense? This *did not happen*—except in the minds of the far-right. You're buying their bad faith bullshit. MAGA called for and now is building a white ethnostate b/c *they are white nationalists*. That's what they do. FFS

Would I vote for Gavin Newsom? My answer is it's 2026 and I don't want to think about him.

It's not JUST that it's silly, it's that all of these things are solved problems.

Aura, shit yourself.

stream.place links are now supported in the Live Now beta! OTA update rolling out today. love what @iame.li's building. when you stream there, your LIVE status on Bluesky is auto-updated. very cool demonstration of how Atmosphere apps can interconnect and benefit each other.

im so sorry.. that anchor is fighting for his liiiifeeeee

Ableism isn't really my beat but it's very telling how conservatives view mental health. They see mental illness as, well, illness. A bad thing that keeps you from the best possible outcome, which is normality according to their status quo.

Which side?

I think people should probably consider what it means that thugs are coming into a city, attacking people and accusing them of using children as human shields because there were children there. Because that's where they live. It seems like a rhetorical tactic we may have seen recently elsewhere.

It really is crazy how no matter what any poll will find that 50% of white Americans are like yeah man I love the horrors. Like if we're being honest there's one population that refuses to assimilate and it's not immigrants.

The Zaprudering of Renee Good continues. It’s amazing, really—it’s as if the quality of the footage magically degrades each time it’s analyzed, in a sort of magical process of complicating something that was perfectly clear the first time around. Soon, satellite imagery, perhaps.

this is genuinely incredible

Let's talk about some computer shit instead of everything else just because we need a distraction. I'm loving using Niri. Here's my problem: I'm getting old and I can't see shit and I still have ADHD so it sometimes takes a long time for very specific information to sink in.

Today's video is... Tropical Fuck Storm on KEXP, I'm particularly into Irukandji Syndrome but the whole of Fairyland Codex is great.

A buddy in MN shared a drawing a classmate of his kid made. They've been making thank you notes for parents who have volunteered to carpool them to school so their own parents don't have to risk waiting out by the bus stop.

What none of you seem to comprehend is that while you’re all arguing about stupid shit online, I am running THOUSANDS of complex calculations in my head, and ALL of them are wrong as hell.

2026 remains the Year of the Hater

This is the other thing about all this. It's not like there's a big, substantive affordability platform Democrats have all agreed on that we're supposed to be choosing instead of immigration, Trump's abuses of power and all the rest. People are just saying the word "affordability" right now.

I think it's important to understand there are two kinds of "Trump can't do that": If he can't do it because he's bound by norms and laws then he can and will do it. If he can't do it because he doesn't have the organizational capacity to pull it off, then he's going to bluster but he can't do it.

The University of Arkansas's law school just withdrew the appointment of its new dean six days after hiring her because conservative politicians complained that she filed an amicus brief to the Supreme Court in support of transgender students

I'm sorry but I'm always kinda floored by how fucking stupid they are. Baby brained dipshits. "Could racism explain a 2% difference?" Yes? "Could racism explain why different races have different outcomes?" Yes, absolutely?

This hold an essential lesson about the notions of terror and crime—they are ideological concepts that serve to obscure and justify unjustified violence.

Thanks to some incredible Twin Cities and Chicago folks, we have a whistle party on Saturday! Come out if you live in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. We’ll be folding zines and putting them together with whistles that have been donated for free speech and community safety. Take some to distribute!

🚨BREAKING: ICE unleashes ONSLAUGHT of flash bang grenades and chemical ammunition at unarmed Minneapolis protesters in WAR-LIKE attack. Several protesters struck. Our reporter @zdroberts.bsky.social struck in the head. "I got hit in the head really bad." LIVE NOW ⬇️

Koh: Trump has now spent $30 billion from the last bill for 10,000 more I.C.E. Agents that are going to be on the streets. That $30 billion would cover all the ACA subsidies for a year. It would eliminate all co-pays for prescription drugs for people from a year, and eliminate all medical debt.

I'm so mad right now.

For people elsewhere who have asked how to support Minnesota while we’re overrun with nazi thugs, here’s an excellent list of places that could use financial help. Lots of choices. Thank you so much! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I'm granting beef amnesty. Not just Stancil, but like, right now I don't have beef with anyone because at least we're in agreement on this one thing. We'll be haters when things settle down.

Near Lyndale and 24th Ave in Minneapolis tonight, feds have reportedly shot another person. Preliminary info is shaky for now, hearing two people injured. BORTAC just rolled up in an armored vehicle. A crowd is gathering outside the police tape—MPD presence as well.

a) Dark Mode or Light Mode? b) What color scheme, if you have a preference?

it's an upsetting time but I will say that I am very proud of my new home. I still miss LA because that's just me but I'm glad that, like, the sentiment of resistance is widespread and very strong

Today's music video is... These boys.

This is insane, he's fucking invading countries!

Midwesterner writing porn: ope, lemme just scooch right into ya

Everything going on in Minneapolis is horrific and there need to be trials and people going to prison when we can get ahold of it. But I would also note that it is kind of a demonstration of how stretched thin the feds are that -one- moderately sized urban area requires this level of resource.

I will note that the Minnesota Republicans are as responsible as Trump for inciting this based on racist ass fraud bullshit that they called in an influencer to spread.

Anyway can some twin cities people let me know what the best way to keep track of sightings and goings-on is? DM if you need to.

People need to stop pretending that I'm saying not to vote when I say there are serious problems with our democracy that are not the sole fault of the right but rather the entire power structure. If you're worried that it might depress voter turnout to hear that, yeah man, no shit. It's still true.

This probably isn't a real person but here's the thing: There IS NO ONE WHO WILL PROTECT MY DEMOCRACY. I cannot vote for anyone who will protect me! I have no democratic power to do that! That's my whole problem! It isn't a democracy if who I vote for has no impact on my life!

Not to be confused with the released Trilogy - this Legacy of the Necromancer game was a different, dungeon-crawler RPG from Virgin & Westwood for Amiga/MS-DOS back in 1992. Sadly it was never to see the light of day: www.gamesthatwerent.com/2026/01/lega...

I wish coding was a real job I've been enjoying this rust project

Making a thread of animal videos until I feel less sad. I try to make sure it's not readily available on here and not AI. But I also don't really want to spam the timeline so here we go.