Tessera
Folgen

callie!

@strilondian.bsky.social

she/her • twunnysomethin • 🏳️‍🌈 • 🎷

439 Posts361 Follower279 Folgt
Jay Tholen@jaytholen.net · 4w ago

Hypnospace Outlaw fans: We want to put on a show with a full band and the original OST artists including The Chowder Man, Barnaby, Fre3zer, Basidia, and possibly Seepage and Klyfta. If you'd attend, PLEASE fill out this form with your city. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Would you attend a live Hypnospace Outlaw concert?

Hello! Would you want to experience the music of Hypnospace Outlaw, live? I'm Jay Tholen, the creator of Hypnospace Outlaw, and along with Mike Rose from our publishing label No More Robots, we're c...

docs.google.com

Owen Dennis: Infinity Train/Among Us Show creator@owendennis.com · 4w ago

New rule: If you interview a billionaire, you also must interview however many people it would take per year at minimum wage to earn that same amount of money. Ex: Bezos makes $9,600,000,000 per year Min wage worker makes $15,080 per year 1 Bezos interview = 636,605 minimum wage earner interviews

gwen howerton@kissphoria.bsky.social · 4mo ago

in the early days of the net websites used to have messages like "welcome to my amazing webzone, i hope you enjoy the things i've collected that represent my strange mind." now they're just like "by clicking this box you agree to recieve targeted advertisements in your dreams"

Cooper Lund@cooperlund.online · 5mo ago

“Oh so someone who has made a bunch of mistakes in their life can’t be a Senator?” Yes, I believe there should be much higher standards for being in the Senate than for getting a regular job. That’s not hard for me to internalize.

Wyatt Sinclair@crumblsucks.wyattswickedgoods.com · 5mo ago

Legally, you can refuse to ever say stop when the waiter at Olive Garden tells you to say stop when he's grating your cheese. You can use this to fill an entire Olive Garden with cheese until everyone dies. Use this knowledge wisely.

Phil McDuff@mcduff.bsky.social · 5mo ago

So this is the kind of move that would normally qualify someone for asylum. This is overt persecution of a minority.

Jessica Kant@jessdkant.bsky.social · 5mo ago

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

Radley Balko@radleybalko.bsky.social · 6mo ago

25 years ago, a bunch of libertarians moved to NH to take over state government. Jason Osborne, one of those "Free Staters," has since risen to be majority leader in the state house. How is he fighting for "liberty?" By helping Stephen Miller build a 324,000-foot prison for migrants and refugees.

Communities nationwide push back against proposed ICE facility sites

A proposed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Merrimack is continuing to spark strong reactions from residents and local officials.

wmur.com

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6mo ago

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting. 2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value. 3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE. 4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on. 5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle." 6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground.7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack. 8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video. 9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk. 10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun. 11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him. 12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes.13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times. 14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him. 15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1. 16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground. 17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building. 18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bearwitness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values. I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct. Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.
Josh Gerstein@joshgerstein.bsky.social · 6mo ago

JUST IN: Lawyers file declaration in federal court from first-hand witness to immigration agents' shooting of a US citizen onlookers today. Minneapolis Mayor Frey said details would be used to bolster case for ousting ICE from city. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS@dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

Alex Pretti from his early days working at the VA
Governor Tim Walz@governorwalz.mn.gov · 6mo ago

I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening. The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.

Seth Miller@wandrme.paxex.aero · 6mo ago

HB1703 is absolute trash. I used far more colorful language with the prime sponsor yesterday. May as well install a toll booth at trail heads and make sure to charge people a tax on their sneakers, too, for walking on the same trails. #nhpolitics

Doug Swain@smithyjones389.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The purported goal is to fund cycling infrastructure. This estimates it'd bring in 400k a year. Not very much. And not clear how you provide proof you own the bike? I'm for the goal but this feels like an anti-cycling bill. @wandrme.paxex.aero curious how you see it?

WMUR@wmur9.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Karishma Manzur, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, discusses her race against Chris Pappas, her support for abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the Trump administration’s actions in Venezuela.

Karishma Manzur: Pappas is ‘just there’ in Washington, not fighting Trump | CloseUp

Karishma Manzur, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, discusses her race against Chris Pappas, her support for abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the Trump administration’s actions in Venezuela.

wmur.com