Tessera

Seeing Stars

@turquoise919.bsky.social

Antifascist. Politics, cats, culture, craft, the intersection of religion/art/philosophy/science/math. Analytic idealist. Akashic priestess. Learning and knowledge are sacred. We live the reality we imagine for ourselves. More Tiamat Less Apsu.

8846 Posts1021 Follower 102 Folgt

Dr. Damien P. Williams has to go the way his blood beats @wolven.blacksky.app · 4mo ago

Since I don't remember if I shared it, here's my talk "Fascist Bullshit: How ‘Generative AI’ Enacts & Enables Authoritarianism and Eugenics" at the symposium "Virtual Power: AI, Ableism, Racism, and Fascism," at the Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change 6 conference, from January of this year:

Day 2 Session 3 - Symposium: Virtual Power: Al, Ableism, Racism, and Fascism

YouTube video by Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change

youtu.be

Seeing Stars @turquoise919.bsky.social · 4h ago

Shocking. In other news temps reached the 90s in the Arctic today.

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 8h ago

The Trump regime admitted in court filings that the cancellation of clean energy grants for Hawaiʻi was because the state voted for Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, rather than the previously stated reasons of advancing energy needs or economic viability.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h ago

El-Sayed: "Once a government agency like ICE is told it has impunity to do the worst things and violate the highest law of the land, which is the Constitution itself, I don't think you can reform or retrain. I think we need to start from scratch ... I think we need to abolish it."

Seeing Stars @turquoise919.bsky.social · 6h ago

If more companies were created with the goal of supporting a whole community and not a single family, there would be a lot more freedom for everyone to live lives full of music and art and travel.

Mike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social · 7h ago

JD Vance Blames El-Sayed’s Win on ‘Self-Hating White Liberals’ www.mediaite.com/media/tv/jd-...

JD Vance Blames El-Sayed’s Win on ‘Self-Hating White Liberals’

Vice President JD Vance claimed Wednesday on Fox News that Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Dr. Abdul El-Sayed's primary victory was simply a result of "self-hating white liberals."

mediaite.com

Seeing Stars @turquoise919.bsky.social · 7h ago

They certainly have my support to sue the DOJ. Just unbelievable that people were arrested at all. They lost a whole month for this delusion of the naked emperor? It’s awful.

DianaResists@dianaresists.bsky.social · 7h ago

Arrested at Reflecting Pool, woman details ‘heartbreaking’ toll on her. Trump’s DOJ dropped four cases after prosecutors said they received Interior Department documents showing that the damage was probably caused by “a botched” contractor job. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Flemming Erik Carlson @flemmingcarlson.bsky.social · 8h ago

😳 www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-...

It’s 90 degrees in the Arctic right now

The Arctic is heating faster than the rest of the planet. New data illustrate how dire that is

scientificamerican.com

KaJo503 @kajo503.bsky.social · 9h ago

Whitehouse: Every Vote For Blanche Is A Vote For An Epstein Cover Up “He’s been hiding stuff, and they know it,” Whitehouse said about Republicans voting to confirm Todd Blanche. crooksandliars.com/2026/08/sen-...

Whitehouse: Every Vote For Blanche Is A Vote For An Epstein Cover Up

“He’s been hiding stuff, and they know it,” Whitehouse said about Republicans voting to confirm Todd Blanche.

crooksandliars.com

Texas transplant to California @gutbucket52.bsky.social · 9h ago

New Mexico sues DOJ and Todd Blanche, alleging they blocked Epstein probe www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

New Mexico sues DOJ and Todd Blanche, alleging they blocked Epstein probe

The lawsuit was filed on the same day New Mexico is releasing a report of its preliminary findings from an ongoing probe into Epstein and his ranch in Stanley.

nbcnews.com

Seeing Stars @turquoise919.bsky.social · 11h ago

And one that is a Trump donor. I’m sure their priority is not those kids.

News 📰@some-news.bsky.social · 11h ago

The Trump administration is set to award a $150 million contract to a Texas law firm without immigration expertise to represent migrant children in custody.

Mitchie's Mom@marianherra.bsky.social @marianherra.bsky.social · 12h ago

Thanks trump regime. www.freep.com/story/news/l...

Food recalls keep growing. Eggs, lettuce, soup and more affected

From eggs to lettuce, a wave of food recalls has been front and center. Here is what you need to check for in your kitchen and what to do.

freep.com

Disgusted.@tmnc.bsky.social · 16h ago

"the Republican Party would have an abuser problem, if it had any moral center at all — but it doesn’t"

Max Miller fucking sucks. Republicans don’t care.

because they fucking suck, too.

open.substack.com

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h ago

Max Miller on why he's staying in the race: "When we go back to 2015 and 2016, & people in the media looked at President Trump, & everyone came out with allegations. Dozens of women, dozens of crazy allegations, dozens of nasty criminal misconduct. And you know what he did? He stayed in the fight."

Seeing Stars @turquoise919.bsky.social · 15h ago

Support the candidate running against GOPs latest abusive member, who threw scalding water at his wife and somehow broke the collarbone of a toddler. Tell Max miller WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH y MEN LIKE HIM. There are plenty of good men and good people who could serve the people of Ohio. Don’t elect scum.

Anonymous Choice ☮️@tcepser.bsky.social · 16h ago

I live in Max Miller's district. No way he has the support he thinks he has! #VoteBlue #Ohio & if you don't live here, follow his Democratic opponent on BlueSky, repost his posts & support him too! @Poindexterforcongress.com

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 17h ago

The audience needs to be reminded that Jared Isaacman is an Elon Musk protégé who was put in his position at NASA at Musk's insistence. His job is to transfer the budget of NASA to SpaceX to the extent he can possibly do so. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 19h ago

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman on rockets crashing into the moon: "It's not a big deal right now. The moon has clearly seen better days."

@pawyai25.bsky.social · 20h ago

Check out this article from USA TODAY: US judge grants DOJ request to dismiss January 6 cases against Oath Keepers www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

US judge grants DOJ request to dismiss January 6 cases against Oath Keepers

The ruling tosses out convictions of Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and other members of the group who were convicted of seditious conspiracy.

usatoday.com

Bruce Maiman @maimzini.bsky.social · 20h ago

Every person in this photo says Trump betrayed them. Yet they spent a decade building a movement that supported his cruelty, lies, and corruption. Only now have they found a conscience? And n ow we should take them at their word? How do we decide who deserves trust? open.substack.com/pub/brucemai...

After Trump: Who Do We Trust?

Redemption, opportunism, and the uneasy question of who belongs in the American fold.

open.substack.com

M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 21h ago

www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti... Sleazy Trump Diarrhea Donor...💩

Taylor Farms tied to cyclospora outbreak as prison labor report resurfaces

Goods produced through prison labor were worth about $11 billion in 2022.

yahoo.com

Seeing Stars @turquoise919.bsky.social · yesterday

Once upon a time this would have been such a huge story

Hoodlum 🇺🇸@nothoodlum.bsky.social · yesterday

A civilian medical plane went down after an experimental US military GPS jamming test reportedly disrupted its radar. Every person aboard lost their life. www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...

Swiffy @swiffy.bsky.social · yesterday

Nichols has this right. Trump should resign, and failing that, it should be the easiest call for our politicians to impeach and remove him. He didn't deserve the second chance. He's already a massive failure. He can't do the job, can't keep us safe. Every day he weakens us more. Trump needs to go

Tom Nichols@radiofreetom.bsky.social · yesterday

The war in Iran has shown that Trump’s inability to perceive reality has become truly dangerous. Iran is a disaster, but Trump’s irrationality could create other, even more perilous situations. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

@bishopcharles.bsky.social · 2d ago

Wait, Did the Republican Party Only Just Realize That It Hired a Bunch of Yahoos and Morons, and That’s Why It’s Falling Apart? - Esquire apple.news/ACEHy5fZ9T2q...

Wait, Did the Republican Party Only Just Realize That It Hired a Bunch of Yahoos and Morons, and That’s Why It’s Falling Apart? — Esquire

I’ve seen this coming ever since Reagan opened the Gates of Mordor back in 1980.

apple.news

Red Lori Bright Eyes A Fucking Bitch @redloribrighteyes.bsky.social · last yr.

Everything that is wrong with the GOP can be explained in these 4 charts The principles of Abuse The failures of racism The Special Snowflake chart The Virtue/Abuse Quadrant chart redloraine.wixsite.com/website/post...

A chart of an asshole - each pucker of the rose represents another spoke on the wheel of abuse - it includes things like abuse, exploitation, transphobia, misogyny, sexual assault

n The inability to tolerate discomfort
n No self awareness
n A lack of a strong internal sense of self that isn’t rooted in hate
n Which creates a lack of selfactualization outside of racist tropes

n Not being able to selfsoothe
n An inability to sort out general information using a basic logic familiarity
n No distinction between external fears & internal biases
n A difficulty in changing perspective which translates into being trapped

n Which all creates
a self identify rooted in the persecution
of others
n Internally understanding
these actions as wrong means that they will always doubledown because to do otherwise
would dismantle
their entire self

Repeating this process is unsustainable.
Come away from racism. Work on all of these faults
within yourself. Learn how to change your brain.

1. Always distort the truth to make you seem favorable and frame the target of abuse as unfavorable.
2. Always misrepresent your motives to be beneficial while hiding the principles of abuse that are being used in whatever action is taken.
3. Frame any call to responsibility or consequences as invalid, and deny, deflect, distract, and attack the source of those calls.
4. Always promise what the targets of manipulation want, frame what you are doing as delivering what they ask for, and then do whatever you want anyway.
5. Undermine any circumstances that stand in your way for example if a wilderness area you want to exploit is pristine, get in and make an oil spill then there is nothing left to protect; or if you want to destroy public education install an abuser, destroy the agency, point at it as a failure of government and then implement your private education plan for profit.
6. Isolate the targets of abuse by dismantling support systems, cutting off access to resources, and opposing anything that could bolster the targets of abuse.
7. Always take the best and leave the least possible for the targets of abuse such as funneling PPE dollars to military contractors while heath care workers use trash bags for protection.
8. Always use unfavorable circumstances to your advantage and if possible, turn circumstances against the targets of abuse such as allowing COVID to ravage blue states while funneling dollars to red states.
9. Always blame the victim for anything bad that happens to them or anything that you do to them.
10. Always pretend to be the victim in any situation, co-opt any symbols or methods your targets use for selfdefense.
11. Never allow scrutiny of your actions and always reject any investigations.
12. Use high control, propaganda, fear, threats, and manipulation to manage the victims of abuse.
13. Never admit to any wrong.
14. Whatever you want to do is the only thing that is important and any suffering you cause along the way is inconsequential or ev…

A quadrant chart is a type of data visualization that divides a scatter plot into four quadrants, often used to identify trends, patterns, and relationships between two variables.
THIS chart drafts the intersections of virtue and abuse - showing the most and least of each. The republican government exists in the most abuse and least virtue of the chart

Seeing Stars @turquoise919.bsky.social · 2d ago

The losers? 342 MILLION Americans. But rich GOP get everything they want. Fuck the people.

Cathey🌎🦋🗽☮️❤️‍🧡💛💚💙💜🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 💙 💛🇵🇷 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇵🇦 🇬🇱 ⭐️@cleverhandlebars.bsky.social · 2d ago

Blanche and Trump Snooker Cornyn and Tillis Very disappointing.

Seeing Stars @turquoise919.bsky.social · 2d ago

So unfair

Ross Murray@inlayterms.bsky.social · 2d ago

This is the counterintuitive, outside the box thinking we need. If the South has gerrymandered so much in the south that only a Republican can win a general election, then Black southerners should register as a Republican to vote in the Republican primary to start to moderate the candidates.

onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 3d ago

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

In Wisconsin, a police officer allegedly used Flock to check whether his ex-girlfriend had gone to an abortion clinic, according to a police affidavit for a case set for trial this month.
In Kansas, a police chief who tracked his ex through Flock sneaked up on her while she was intimate with another man, a state police certification body alleged, leading to his firing.
In Florida, a deputy speeding to stop a young actress he’d added to a watch list for a license-plate tool called Guardian nearly caused a head-on crash, according to a police report and video from his dashboard camera. The deputy was arrested in March, and his attorney declined to comment.
And in California, prosecutors said a former deputy, Alexander Vanny, used Flock as part of a months-long campaign of “stalking” and “humiliating” his former fiancée that also involved following her around town and installing a hidden camera in her roommate’s bathroom, according to a sentencing brief.

Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 2d ago

I Remember, Hope you do….

Seeing Stars @turquoise919.bsky.social · 3d ago

Well, the intelligent ones tend to like things that make sense so….

Nicholas Toloudis@toloudis.bsky.social · 3d ago

""The organizations that bring young staffers to Washington, D.C. have spent the last decade prioritizing blind ideological loyalty instead of competence or intelligence,” said a senior GOP congressional staffer....“We have a generation of rabid, incompetent idiots.”"

Seeing Stars @turquoise919.bsky.social · 3d ago

Don’t actually need classified info to know this. But also, they won’t hesitate to commit more.

David Combest@decombest.bsky.social · 3d ago

Classified documents reveal Trump Pentagon committed 'murder': senator - Alternet.org www.alternet.org/boat-strike/

Seeing Stars @turquoise919.bsky.social · 3d ago

Another one?

April@apriljoy.bsky.social · 3d ago

Congressman Neal Dunn [R-FL] hasn't worked since June 10th but Desiree Townsend reported he worked at the end of June. That was just his team. The Dems & media are failing us so severely we've got dead politicians collecting checks without a word from them.

Seeing Stars @turquoise919.bsky.social · 3d ago

The entire gop needs to burn to the ground.

David Not Dave@zenmobius.bsky.social · 3d ago

In a normal world, this would be disqualifying for the Attorney General position. This is organized crime level shit that the GOP is letting happen all to appease their would-be god king toddler in chief.