nathan
@amperesand.bsky.social
weird machine enthusiast / loud noise enjoyer / incident responder / wandering soul (birmingham al)
If you're reading this, my cat and I have boarded a one-way flight out of the United States. The Trump administration wrongfully denied my work permit renewal; after months of demanding that they follow the law, we have run out of legal recourse, and I have no choice but to leave the country. (🧵)
Support Alex's Emergency Relocation + Next Steps on Give In May
Alex is leaving the US after his work permit renewal was wrongfully denied by Trump's USCIS.
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New & Notable: Alternately dazzling and jittery, the latest from Max Cooper is a spiraling constellation of electronic sound.
Feeling Is Structure, by Max Cooper
10 track album
maxcooper.bandcamp.com
Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.
NEW: NAACP on Supreme Court allowing Alabama to redraw map to dilute power of Black voters "We are witnessing a return to Jim Crow. Anybody who is alarmed by these developments—as everybody should be—better be making a plan to vote in November to put an end to this madness"
Of the 160 years since states like Alabama & Louisiana lost the Civil War, their Black citizens have been able to vote on remotely equal terms for (generously speaking) maybe 65 SCOTUS is a disgrace
Bandcamp Friday begins in T-minus 12 hours! From midnight to midnight PDT, we'll waive our revenue share and pass the funds directly to artists and labels.
Todays my birthday!! ε( ꜆´ω`)꜆Here's some art I've done if you wanted to support me by sharing my art <3 ε( ꜆´ω`)꜆
Gotta put the new Bandcamp integration to use with one of the best EPs of 2025 eprom.bandcamp.com/album/disk-u...
Disk Utility, by G Jones, Eprom
4 track album
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Change your passwords, ShinyHunters don't fuck around: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...
SoundCloud confirms breach after member data stolen, VPN access disrupted
Audio streaming platform SoundCloud has confirmed that outages and VPN connection issues over the past few days were caused by a security breach in which threat actors stole a database containing user...
bleepingcomputer.com
spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
If judges can refuse to officiate gay weddings, gay defendants should be able to refuse to be heard by those judges. If they can’t be compelled to perform the most heteronormative of functions, why would anyone believe they are capable of putting their biases aside for something with higher stakes?
got to experience autechre live for the first time, it was an incredible audio experience in total darkness. they played banger after banger for 90 minutes. the openers played stellar sets too, kudos to cygnus and mark broom for creating an amazing atmosphere 🖤✌🏻
Would be a good time to shut down Dreamforce. If I have friends who are still speaking there, this is a good reason to cancel.
Ryan Mac 🙃@rmac.bsky.social · 11mo agoMarc Benioff went full Tom Cotton to @heatherknightsf.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...
it would be neat if searching for a link on #bluesky only showed the link preview once and aggregated all the posts containing it below
not usually one to share across social media, but y'all need to know what's going down in central alabama www.instagram.com/p/DNEapWzBupj/
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AL.com@al.com · last yr.🔗: https://www.al.com/news/2025/08/alabama-immigration-advocate-detained-by-ice-in-traffic-stop-family-says-just-heartbreaking-and-discouraging.html According to family, Giovanna Martinez was pulled over by a Leeds police office for going one mile per hour over the speed limit.
More natural disasters are hitting the U.S. than ever before. But too often, our crisis warning systems depend on Facebook and Twitter/X, social media platforms that are fading in popularity and have been engineered to hide vital information from people when they need it most. This needs to end:
We Have to Stop Using Facebook and X to Warn People About Disasters
In the early morning hours of July 4th, as the Guadalupe River reached catastrophic heights, city officials in Kerr County, Texas turned to an all-too familiar mechanism for getting the word out to ar...
little-flying-robots.ghost.io
one of my favorite things that GDPR has provided is that I can know the exact date I first listened to G Jones' album "The Ineffable Truth" www.spotify.com/us/account/p...
Pretty neat read for mycology nerds 🍄https://blog.seas.upenn.edu/penn-engineers-turn-toxic-fungus-into-anti-cancer-drug/
Penn Engineers Turn Toxic Fungus into Anti-Cancer Compound - Penn Engineering Blog
Penn-led researchers have turned a deadly fungus into a potent cancer-fighting compound. After isolating a new class of molecules from Aspergillus flavus, a toxic crop … Read More ›
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Time for some real talk: @thexylom.com, the only Asian American-run news outlet covering science, climate, and the environment, will run out of funding in July if we don't secure $7,500 by the end of the month. I might lose my job at a time while waiting for a visa extension -- a nightmare scenario.
Urgent! Every Dollar Counts!
We grow science with words, and are the only Asian American-run science newsroom: independent, nonprofit, led by Gen-Z! The Xylom needs to raise $7,500 by the end of the month to stay afloat. Please…
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Harvey Milk served his country honorably — first in uniform, then in public office. Taking his name off this Navy ship sends a clear message, and it’s one of disrespect and cruelty.
when you turn 31.709 years old, you've lived a billion seconds on this planet