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Queer (she/they) white bi. 30s. MN. Musician (primarily violin). Occasionally writer. Multifandom, personal, & political account. I am anti-genAI.

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Babe, wake up, new sarcastic but entirely worthwhile internet abbreviation just dropped

11.02.2026 23:16 πŸ‘ 2714 πŸ” 879 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 8

Today’s military strikes on Iran β€” carried out by the United States and Israel β€” mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.

28.02.2026 17:50 πŸ‘ 17232 πŸ” 3596 πŸ’¬ 183 πŸ“Œ 218

No one should be using ChatGPT or partnering with OpenAI for anything.

28.02.2026 13:07 πŸ‘ 2606 πŸ” 650 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 30
Alysa Liu wins the Olympic gold medal for the United States
Alysa Liu wins the Olympic gold medal for the United States YouTube video by Olympics

I urge you to stop what you're doing and watch Alysa Liu's free skate from yesterday. I have never seen anything like this. I understand why sports writers are born now. I have never seen anyone as free from the burdens of this world as this pierced Oakland girl spinning to Donna Summers.

20.02.2026 16:52 πŸ‘ 5451 πŸ” 1382 πŸ’¬ 152 πŸ“Œ 324
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Veterans slam new VA rule for determining disability ratings The new rule states that a disability level must be based on how well a veteran functions while on medication and not on the underlying impairment.

As expected, MAGA is coming after disability benefits for combat veterans.

Here's just one example of the rule's impact: Veterans taking anti-depressants for PTSD will be forced to stop taking the medication in order to retain their disability payments.

18.02.2026 04:30 πŸ‘ 255 πŸ” 134 πŸ’¬ 20 πŸ“Œ 43
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DEADLOCH SEASON 2 TRAILER, I REPEAT DEADLOCH SEASON 2 TRAILER

from: www.instagram.com/reel/DU2bYIc...

17.02.2026 19:56 πŸ‘ 103 πŸ” 43 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 15

Omg high praise indeed!! I’ll take it ❀️

14.02.2026 03:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you!! I heard Em Beihold’s Brutus and Hot Goblin and they wouldn’t leave me alone until I made them about Merlin characters πŸ˜†

13.02.2026 16:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Morgana Pendragon | I wish I had your life
Morgana Pendragon | I wish I had your life YouTube video by Otsanda

Once again I come to you with a new (mostly lighthearted) bbc merlin fanvid to another Em Beihold song. This time it’s the song Brutus and it’s all about Morgana and some of her relationships:

12.02.2026 19:15 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
Headline in today's Guardian that reads "Reading and writing can lower dementia risk by almost 40 percent, study finds. Cognitive health in later life is 'strongly influenced' by lifelong exposure to intellectually stimulating environments, say researchers."

Headline in today's Guardian that reads "Reading and writing can lower dementia risk by almost 40 percent, study finds. Cognitive health in later life is 'strongly influenced' by lifelong exposure to intellectually stimulating environments, say researchers."

This is why you need to be reading books and writing your own emails, by the way. When you outsource your thinking abilities, you risk turning your brain into soup. Heavy dependence on AI has already been linked with severe cognitive decline. What you don’t use, you will lose.

11.02.2026 23:04 πŸ‘ 499 πŸ” 200 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 5

One of every thousand American residents has been taken into custody by ICE in the last year.

10.02.2026 21:11 πŸ‘ 5967 πŸ” 2749 πŸ’¬ 45 πŸ“Œ 55
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@discord.com This you?

09.02.2026 15:26 πŸ‘ 490 πŸ” 92 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Hey @discord.com this is a TERRIBLE idea. You’re going to alienate your most devoted users and drive us to alternate platforms.

09.02.2026 21:03 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
From a Comrade
19h. C
One of the nuts things about organizing in the Twin
Cities right now is that even the most long term
organizers who've been here for decades can't keep
track of all the resistance that is going on. There are
so many self-organized crews just doing work that in
any conversation with someone from another
neighborhood you might stumble over a whole
collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think
of. There's a crew of carpenters just going around
fixing kicked-in doors. There are tow truck drivers
taking cars of detained people away for free. People
delivering food to families in hiding. So many local
rapid response groups that the number is uncertain
but somewhere between 80 and the low hundreds-
especially when one considers that several
immigrant communities have their own non-English
rapid response networks usually uncounted in the
main English-language directories. People standing
watch outside daycares and schools.
This whole resistance has so many poles of initiative
and leadership, so many layers of self-organization,
that it's extraordinarily difficult for the state to
repress or for opportunists be they Democrats or
movement-riding parties) to co-opt and control. Of
course, that's built up through many years and
decades of organization, and not only through
explicitiv political campaigns or formations built
during times of crisis and rupture like 2020. It is also
built through day-to-day mutual aid, culture building,
workplace and tenant organizing, and simple, basic
relationship building among neighbors and
coworkers here.

From a Comrade 19h. C One of the nuts things about organizing in the Twin Cities right now is that even the most long term organizers who've been here for decades can't keep track of all the resistance that is going on. There are so many self-organized crews just doing work that in any conversation with someone from another neighborhood you might stumble over a whole collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think of. There's a crew of carpenters just going around fixing kicked-in doors. There are tow truck drivers taking cars of detained people away for free. People delivering food to families in hiding. So many local rapid response groups that the number is uncertain but somewhere between 80 and the low hundreds- especially when one considers that several immigrant communities have their own non-English rapid response networks usually uncounted in the main English-language directories. People standing watch outside daycares and schools. This whole resistance has so many poles of initiative and leadership, so many layers of self-organization, that it's extraordinarily difficult for the state to repress or for opportunists be they Democrats or movement-riding parties) to co-opt and control. Of course, that's built up through many years and decades of organization, and not only through explicitiv political campaigns or formations built during times of crisis and rupture like 2020. It is also built through day-to-day mutual aid, culture building, workplace and tenant organizing, and simple, basic relationship building among neighbors and coworkers here.

From a Comrade
19h. C
One of the nuts things about organizing in the Twin
Cities right now is that even the most long term
organizers who've been here for decades can't keep
track of all the resistance that is going on. There are
so many self-organized crews just doing work that in
any conversation with someone from another
neighborhood you might stumble over a whole
collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think
of. There's a crew of carpenters just going around
fixing kicked-in doors. There are tow truck drivers
taking cars of detained people away for free. People
delivering food to families in hiding. So many local
rapid response groups that the number is uncertain
but somewhere between 80 and the low hundreds-
especially when one considers that several
immigrant communities have their own non-English
rapid response networks usually uncounted in the
main English-language directories. People standing
watch outside daycares and schools.
This whole resistance has so many poles of initiative
and leadership, so many layers of self-organization,
that it's extraordinarily difficult for the state to
repress or for opportunists be they Democrats or
movement-riding parties) to co-opt and control. Of
course, that's built up through many years and
decades of organization, and not only through
explicitiv political campaigns or formations built
during times of crisis and rupture like 2020. It is also
built through day-to-day mutual aid, culture building,
workplace and tenant organizing, and simple, basic
relationship building among neighbors and
coworkers here.

From a Comrade 19h. C One of the nuts things about organizing in the Twin Cities right now is that even the most long term organizers who've been here for decades can't keep track of all the resistance that is going on. There are so many self-organized crews just doing work that in any conversation with someone from another neighborhood you might stumble over a whole collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think of. There's a crew of carpenters just going around fixing kicked-in doors. There are tow truck drivers taking cars of detained people away for free. People delivering food to families in hiding. So many local rapid response groups that the number is uncertain but somewhere between 80 and the low hundreds- especially when one considers that several immigrant communities have their own non-English rapid response networks usually uncounted in the main English-language directories. People standing watch outside daycares and schools. This whole resistance has so many poles of initiative and leadership, so many layers of self-organization, that it's extraordinarily difficult for the state to repress or for opportunists be they Democrats or movement-riding parties) to co-opt and control. Of course, that's built up through many years and decades of organization, and not only through explicitiv political campaigns or formations built during times of crisis and rupture like 2020. It is also built through day-to-day mutual aid, culture building, workplace and tenant organizing, and simple, basic relationship building among neighbors and coworkers here.

message from MN

07.02.2026 06:19 πŸ‘ 1293 πŸ” 511 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 79
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The US is manufacturing a famine in Cuba.

This is not a natural disaster - it made by the US.

✍️ Urge the World Central Kitchen to feed Cuba & break their silence while the US uses hunger as a weapon.

www.codepink.org/wck

08.02.2026 15:47 πŸ‘ 36 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 3
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Smiles :]

11.05.2025 00:02 πŸ‘ 2792 πŸ” 1294 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 105
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Help Rodney Taylor, a Disabled Double Amputee Being Held by ICE Rodney has been in the country more than 40 years. He's in solitary confinement in Georgia, being denied disability accommodations and having his medical needs ignored. He must be released.

Please speak up for Rodney. A year in an ICE camp is beyond comprehension.

Public pressure works.

If enough people speak up, a life may be saved.

Many of the deaths in ICE custody have been due to medical neglect… let’s make sure Rodney isn’t one of them.

04.02.2026 05:57 πŸ‘ 1618 πŸ” 1638 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 32
WATCH: Minneapolis resident and U.S. citizen Aliya Rahman describes being detained by ICE
WATCH: Minneapolis resident and U.S. citizen Aliya Rahman describes being detained by ICE YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

I’m sharing Aliya’s entire opening statement. We owe it to her, and those who no longer have a voice, to watch. youtu.be/zrcW8SZtYpI?...

04.02.2026 03:44 πŸ‘ 19545 πŸ” 8850 πŸ’¬ 694 πŸ“Œ 716
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β€œ.. Not a single Republican member of Congress showed up to the public forum .. on the violence inflicted by federal immigration agents, featuring testimony from the brothers of Renee Good ..”

@newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/post/206100/...

03.02.2026 23:09 πŸ‘ 5849 πŸ” 2584 πŸ’¬ 263 πŸ“Œ 236

Dem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50

Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it

03.02.2026 04:05 πŸ‘ 10620 πŸ” 2375 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 22

I've done threads about Pizza Lucé recently and not just about ordering brownies from them. They got a lot of hate on Facebook for closing for the strike & their social media person handled it well. They sent me a gift card after my husband died & I told them what their food had meant to us. ❀️ 🧡

02.02.2026 18:41 πŸ‘ 122 πŸ” 33 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

oh come ON

what unholy horseshit is this?

02.02.2026 17:52 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

20 infants detained by ICE!!!

02.02.2026 04:34 πŸ‘ 110 πŸ” 59 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

JK Rowling's team invited Jeffery Epstein to the deathly hallows play and to a Harry potter dinner.

www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

01.02.2026 16:52 πŸ‘ 6896 πŸ” 2564 πŸ’¬ 168 πŸ“Œ 1047

Today is February 1st. The fact that @governorwalz.mn.gov and @mayorjacobfrey.bsky.social have not called for or supported an eviction moratorium to help our friends and neighbors who can't go to work because they are hiding out of fear is cruelty, plain and simple.

01.02.2026 16:50 πŸ‘ 40 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

You’re describing an emergency. The world is also watching you and waiting for you to do something.

Are you going to establish an eviction moratorium? Rent is due today.

01.02.2026 13:44 πŸ‘ 3454 πŸ” 874 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 8

Important to understand that:

Normal people hate Trump.
Normal people hate ICE.
Normal people hate fascists.
Normal people hate secret police executing people in the street, shooting priests in the head with pepper balls, and kidnapping little kids with Spider-Man backpacks and bunny hats.

01.02.2026 14:27 πŸ‘ 685 πŸ” 207 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 7

Blessings on @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social for helping make this happen.

Abolish ICE. Shut down the concentration camps. Impeach Noem, Trump, and everyone else responsible.

01.02.2026 16:18 πŸ‘ 264 πŸ” 80 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

This is Georgia Fort's website β€” the independent journalist also arrested today for covering the anti-ICE protest, along with Don Lemon. Donations to her page support her journalism β€” and I'm sure now her legal defense for doing that journalism.

30.01.2026 19:04 πŸ‘ 277 πŸ” 169 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0