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Minnesota Reformer@minnesotareformer.com · yesterday

ICE agent Christian Castro, who is charged with shooting Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis in Minneapolis on Jan. 14, was released from a Texas county jail this morning. A federal judge yesterday declined to force Texas authorities to extradite Castro to Minnesota, paving the way for his release.

NEW: You don't see this everyday. Wyoming GOP voters rejected a ton of Republicans who wanted to crack down on voting. They ousted nearly all members of House Elections Committee, incubator of new restrictions. And: SoS primary was won by a man who rejects fraud claims + defends election workers.

Wyoming Voters Oust GOP Faction that Wants to Crack Down on Elections  - Bolts

In a break with the Trump era, the winner of the secretary of state primary strongly defends election systems, and the far-right Freedom Caucus lost a lot of ground in the legislature.

boltsmag.org

Peter Cullen, the legendary voice actor known for voicing Optimus Prime in the "Transformers" franchise, has died at 85

'Transformers' Voice Actor Peter Cullen Dead at 85

Peter Cullen, famous for voicing Optimus Prime in the 'Transformers' franchise, is dead.

tmz.com

Discussion requires good faith. It's important to establish that anything outside of that is a con and nonsense. Treat it as such.

Deva Woodly@devawo.bsky.social · 5d ago

It’s important to be clear that the truth value of a subject does not become debatable just because somebody wants to debate. Ether. Wandering wombs. Devils in red heads, the cursed left handed. Flat earth. Phrenology. Humors. Race science. “Debate me bro!” It’s fine for the answer to be: no.

It is morally obligatory to assure this judge never has a moment of peace ever again.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 6d ago

“A 1-year-old baby appeared in immigration court without legal representation in Arizona and received an instruction: File an asylum application before the next hearing or face deportation.”

I am just going to put this here for no particular reason. www.kickstarter.com/projects/Jag...

Coming soon: Lonely Timbers - Tire-toi une bûche

A TTRPG about french-canadian lumberjacks in the early 20th century. Un JDR des bûcherons québecoises du début du XXe siècle.

kickstarter.com

Have called all my electeds to leave a message, and told them that "abolish ICE" is now the milquetoast stance for cowards. PROSECUTE ICE.

Archangel Beth@archangelbeth.bsky.social · 6d ago

Prosecute ICE.

Someone called this type of move "carbon offsetting for transphobia" awhile back

Jackie Powell@classicjpow.bsky.social · 6d ago

Breanna Stewart spent 15 minutes talking to reporters about all of this. Stewart told us that the royalties from her Harry Potter shoes have been donated to the @trevorproject.bsky.social.

This is what a hero looks like

William Gibson@greatdismal.bsky.social · last wk.

Just cancelled Mongolian publication deal for something of mine because the translation would have been done by AI.

If someone is awful to you on the phone, they are still awful.

Nadine Batchelor-Hunt@nadinebh.bsky.social · last wk.

I'm probably shouting into the void with this one, but if people stopped dividing people from the person they see on Twitter/their screens/on the airways - and stopped allowing them to dodge accountability because 'they're nice in real life!' - our industry would be in a much healthier state

The Spreadsheet People are who caused the Bronze Age Collapse.

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · last wk.

I come from a long line of spreadsheet people. I am a spreadsheet man. My father was a spreadsheet man. My grandfathers were shoe men and random farm job men respectively but I'm sure had Excel been around they wouldn't be able to resist them siren song of the cells. My daughter will toil in sheets.

I will never tire of seeing creeps with perv glasses get their asses handed to them

All the adults working on the wizard bigot show made an active decision to endorse a vile campaign of hate. We do not in any way have to reward them for that, let alone sympathize with their plight. Which they CHOSE.

Mo Ryan@moryan.bsky.social · 3w ago

what you will hear actors, writers and directors etc bleat is -- when you translate it from self-pity word salad -- "I don't want you to make me feel bad about the active decision I made." nah. they knew better and did it anyway. no part of that is on us

"If Israel wanted to wipe out the [Palestinians] in Gaza, they could have done it in a few weeks." 1) This is not the argument you think it is 2) The person who wrote it couldn't even call them Palestinians in their genocide denial Pathetic.

New from 404 Media: we solved which AI company is buying massive shipments of rare books, scanning and destroying them to train AI. We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

404media.co

smartphones have never ascended to this level of technological achievement (sound on)

People in Kentucky need to start calling in wellness checks on Mitch McConnell.

The settlers are now what they have always been: a state sponsored slo-mo invasion force that the Israeli government can performatively disavow and criticise when they find it opportune. That was always the idea.

hoooooooooooly shit dudes we aren’t just excommunicating schismatic priests now, we are de-priesting them btw this is not directly related to the big schism, this sounds like a case they were investigating for over a year, but it’s the same flavor of sedevacantist batshit I am 👀 at this

Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net · 2w ago

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One of the worst things about right now is that individual acts immediately becomes a stand-in for some bigger thing You aren't attacking a person who believes X or did X, you are attacking X itself. Which means you can be especially cruel, because X isn't a person, it's a concept that should die

Chris Berez@chrisberez.bsky.social · 2w ago

Holy fucking shit Jason Arday found dead

Bring back women carrying hatpins to deal with mashers and cads!

Sam Cole@samleecole.bsky.social · 2w ago

mosseri promised IG would fix this problem a month ago, literal years after it became a real problem, and I was still able to find endless pages of videos where women are telling these freaks to FUCK OFF on no uncertain terms. mind boggling www.404media.co/meta-ray-ban...

It would take little effort to set up a steam boiler to make it look like a steam system to fool the 12 year old child.

Angry@angrystaffer.bsky.social · 2w ago

I don’t understand the logic in scrapping the electromagnetic aircraft launch system (EMALS), and neither do the navy personnel who operate these carriers. Just changing shit for no reason.

I have a storygame I can't crowdfund yet because I can't find anyone to do an unguided playtest. It is frustrating.

@rickriordan.bsky.social isn't a transphobe and also has cool books and a show. So maybe buy his books and watch his shows instead of the bigot's?

Sean T. Collins@seantcollins.com · 2w ago

The push for Harry Potter the TV show is going to be completely enormous—they're debuting it on fucking Christmas—and it is the responsibility of TV critics to contextualize this as rewarding the world's most transphobic billionaire (which is saying something) in everything we write about it.

Every time you engage with Harry Potter by buying her merch, promoting the IP, or going to the theme parks, you are making life harder for trans people.

ᚅᚓᚃ ᚆᚐᚔᚏᚇᚑ ᚃᚆᚑ ᚇᚔᚄ@ciara2001.eurosky.social · 3w ago

And you just know that the media will run with "NHS waste millions defending trans cases" instead of "crackpot forces NHS to legal action" because that's what they did in the Peggie case already

People are far too polite to those acting in bad faith. It's alright to make fun of these people loudly and repeatedly.

Oliver Willis@owillis.bsky.social · 3w ago

something most democrats still dont understand is that "fuck off" is a perfectly valid response to 99.999999999% of the right's criticisms, which are always made in bad faith

If it looks like an Amazon delivery and drives like an Amazon delivery, then it's an Amazon delivery, right? Not according to Amazon. Big companies like Amazon have built a vast network of subcontractors who deliver their packages while shielding them from accountability.

In a world where children are being blown up, the US president is a rapist, gas is five dollars a gallon, and large parts of North America are on fire... Don't be the fucking weirdo whose big issue is where someone goes to the bathroom. Priorities, you assclown.

vanoreo@vanoreo.bsky.social · 3w ago

this is really the only thing that needs to be said when some psycho keeps arguing about gametes

Matt Damon in The Last Duel is the absolute best portrayal of a medieval knight on screen, ever: He's ignorant, obsessed with his reputation, a fool of a killer convinced the world owes him more. He doesn't even kill le Gris because of the sexual assault, but because of the stain on his honor.

inner_panda@inn3rpanda.bsky.social · 3w ago

matt damon is delightfully unhinged in the last duel. real jackass “my honor is besmirched” vibes