It's called Socially Adaptive Aposematism and is intended to deter predators and it works.

So @mayorjacobfrey.bsky.social sends cops to arrest men and women of the cloth and lets the Gestapo terrorize his constituents. Levels of scumbag you can't imagine

Show your papers. Kavanaugh stops. Your gender? We decide. ICE doesn't need a warrant. Abortion is our choice not yours. Immigrants don't deserve due process. State universities can't teach Plato. Civil rights protections are racist. But vaccination requirements threaten our freedom.

Canada needs to end the Safe Third Country Agreement now. I think we can all agree the US is not a safe country.

My hot take is that at minimum a domestic violence conviction should carry a lot more of the shame and restrictions of a sex offender; it should ban you nationally from gun ownership, jobs in law enforcement, schools, pretty much any public sector work. It’s our clearest red flag for future violence

I know we're all focused on Minnesota, and I support the people of the Twin Cities. But I want to remind you that Israel is still doing genocide in Gaza.

It's a big deal for JD Vance to blame the left for ICE violence. It shows he's continuing to give ICE reason to believe they have impunity. There's a pattern here: Vance is taking on the role of putting a softer face on Stephen Miller's authoritarian police state. newrepublic.com/article/2056...

This kid and his father entered via CBP One app. It's just absurd and monumentally unfair for people who availed themselves of lawful channels when they existed by following government processes to suddenly get detained and deported to a third country. newrepublic.com/article/2056...

People are missing a big thing about the saga of the detained 5-year-old. When Vance calls the father an "illegal alien" it seems to reflect a little-known Trump admin move that attempts to nullify asylum claims before they are even heard. This policy is a horror: newrepublic.com/article/2056...

I'm calling bullshit on the media narrative that JD Vance tried to "soften" things in Minneapolis. He blamed the left for ICE violence and called the 5-year-old's father an "illegal alien" even though he's lawfully applying for asylum. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/2056...

Just genuinely, remarkably stupid. Alberta has plenty of provincial debt -- and more each year. Any separation agreement would require it to take on a proportionate share of the federal debt. If anything, an independent Alberta currency would be a recipe for hyperinflation.

I really wish articles like this would start distinguishing between analytical AI and generative AI. By conflating the two, even if unintended, they play into the bankrupt tech bro dreamscape of excessive water use, environmental racism, and plagiarism that gen AI revels in.

This is also why the appeasement, self-defeatist, avoid-confrontations-at-all-costs-so-I-can-sell-books-and-buy-cheap-eggs approach of Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, Patty Murray, Rosa DeLauro, et al. will never work. It has never worked in history, and it will not work in 2026

nine years old

We already had the real-world experience of unvaccinated people getting measles, and it's why we invented the vaccine for measles. It's one thing to be a sociopath playing with the lives of others. It's another to be gleefully stupid about it.

All this “Elbows Up” talk 🇨🇦 yet still Canada is full-steam-ahead on letting American companies like the nightmarish Palentir get rich controlling our tech. WTF? (Follow @jeff.doctor who’s been tracking this) ⭐️

They legit expected that after the supreme court ruling we'd all go "Well golly gee, shucks, I guess that's that, time to adhere to the strict gender norms assigned when the doctor slapped my ass" and they will never stop being mad that we just ignored them instead.

Amazing sob story: "ChatGPT deleted all the work I hadn't done" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I just thought everyone should see this

real scene from upcoming He-man movie (NOT FAKE):

the woke mob is giving He-man pronouns

So you agree? AI doesn't do anything useful?

Sinners, a film about how Black people fought to survive and thrive, about the vampirism of white supremacy, about what people give up to integrate into whiteness, about the gifts of the ancestors who held onto their magic, is the perfect film to watch right now. It is full of hope and possibility ✊🏽

Can I say though “asking me is a futile exercise” is gonna be my new out of office reply

I fear my tipping point into madness is "Thus is un-American" posts in response to ICE terrorizing immigrants. I beg you to open Wikipedia (I would say a book but let's start small) and read up on The Trail of Tears, Fugitive Slave Catchers, Japanese internment, Indian Boarding schools & Jim Crow

This is fucked. I want to underscore that this didn't start w/ Trump. (Some children in my extended family were detained, sent to TX, then deported under Obama, it was awful) Its reprehensible what Trump and co are doing, also reprehensible that the Dems aren't united in calling for ICE to abolished

As with all Canadian petitions, don't forget to check your email after signing to verify the signature!

The only "cultural chauvinism" is yours. This just reiterates why archaeology as it has developed in traditional academia relies on colonial white supremacist frameworks that seek to disposess Indigenous people while claiming superiority. STFU.

she mentions it in passing but look up 'Starlight Tours', this is a method Canadian police have used to kill indigenous men for decades

There was a closeted girl in 1993 who went to her friend's house and played the board game "Pretty Pretty Princess", putting on costume jewelry. She ran home and bragged about how much fun it was, to indifference from her parents. It took her 32 more years to come out. It shouldn't take so long.

there was a closeted little girl in 1986 praying every single night to wake up in the right body, the only prayer she really meant. she instinctively knew it wasn’t safe to tell her parents; she’d be forced to see a priest and confess it took her 38 more years to come out it shouldn’t take so long

There was a closeted little girl in 1989 who felt happy when she'd secretly try on women's clothes or makeup, but who got in trouble when her rural Texas family found out. When her body changed years later she felt wrong and sad It took her 30 more years to come out. It shouldn't take so long.

There was a closeted little girl in 2001, who wanted more than anything to get her ears pierced like all of her friends. She knew what a transsexual was, and was terrified people would find out she was one. It took 16 more years and a suicide attempt for her to come out. It shouldn’t take so long.

Holy fucking shit this is awesome use this now cybernews.com/security/dev...

I had no idea they had that kind of technology

There's a lot of daylight between the Carney we heard at Davos – calling out the US’s exercise of naked power and shredding the so-called rules-based international order – and the Carney who has repeatedly capitulated to Trump since taking office. My conversation with Ryan Jespersen this morning.

i do believe björk is an ageless volcanic goddess with a music habit, yes

I keep thinking about the toxic, pervasive mythology of "rugged individualism" as a driving force in American culture, and how the collective efforts in the Twin Cities right now are proof that the only way through hard times is together, as a community.

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.

Utterly prophetic, was Rev. King and JFK as well...

This is murder, call it what it is.

NOPE. Canadians. Write PM Carney right now and tell him NO to joining Trump's pay-to-play sham board of peace. We don't need to provide legitimacy to this regime's scheming. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

Read books, it destroys ignorance.

@chapotraphousereal.bsky.social "Minnesota is everything Texas fucking thinks they are." Is hands down the best sentence I will hear all month.

american english has a LOT of ableist language in it when you pay attention so DO pay attention because we need to root that shit out, just like we do sexist language, and racist language, and transphobic language none of us without all of us

one of the best things about this whole nightmare has been watching a whole bunch of folks who have clearly never been seriously political in their lives standing up and going, no, absolutely the fuck not, we’re not letting this happen

This is hope giving and a timely reminder to me personally as I constantly feel like I'm failing in this moment because I can't be out in the streets for a lot of reasons. Please, if you are like me and can't be on the front lines, read this thread and remember all contributions matter.

“We are left with little choice and it’s revolting.” #minnesota #fuckice