Aditya M
@almostinfamous.bsky.social
photographer, photography teacher, public transport taker and e-bike user. occasionally grumpy. Pls try to add alt text to your images.
All my own photos are cc-0 (public domain dedication)
https://flickr.com/almostinfamous/
All my own photos are cc-0 (public domain dedication)
https://flickr.com/almostinfamous/
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The Trump admin is seeking SNAP data for the same reasons it is seeking Social Security and IRS data: to identify undocumented immigrants. It is not interested in rooting out waste, fraud and abuse. But the Post editorial board treats it as a major scandal that blue states don't hand over that data.
January 5, 2026 at 12:34 AM
The Trump admin is seeking SNAP data for the same reasons it is seeking Social Security and IRS data: to identify undocumented immigrants. It is not interested in rooting out waste, fraud and abuse. But the Post editorial board treats it as a major scandal that blue states don't hand over that data.
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The paper that buried the leak about the Venezuela mission vs the publication that didn’t.
January 5, 2026 at 12:57 AM
The paper that buried the leak about the Venezuela mission vs the publication that didn’t.
. The dog whistle is now a fog horn.
No.
Social safety nets crumble when we wrap them in neoliberal rhetoric aimed at dividing people and deluding them into thinking that everyone--except some tiny group of perfect poor--should be able to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps, even if their boots have been nailed to the floor.
Social safety nets crumble when we wrap them in neoliberal rhetoric aimed at dividing people and deluding them into thinking that everyone--except some tiny group of perfect poor--should be able to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps, even if their boots have been nailed to the floor.
January 5, 2026 at 1:33 AM
. The dog whistle is now a fog horn.
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Miles Caton has won Best Young Actor/Actress at the Critics Choice Awards.
January 5, 2026 at 12:23 AM
Miles Caton has won Best Young Actor/Actress at the Critics Choice Awards.
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The piss tank on the ISS is now 69% full.
January 5, 2026 at 1:12 AM
The piss tank on the ISS is now 69% full.
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The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.
January 5, 2026 at 1:10 AM
The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.
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First, use alt-text even if you’re posting an image of text.
Second, this is an exploration of how GenAI shapes and expresses erotic desire in response to prompts. If anything, this is closer to performance art or installations like the brillo box.
The AI isn’t making the art here.
Second, this is an exploration of how GenAI shapes and expresses erotic desire in response to prompts. If anything, this is closer to performance art or installations like the brillo box.
The AI isn’t making the art here.
January 4, 2026 at 2:16 AM
First, use alt-text even if you’re posting an image of text.
Second, this is an exploration of how GenAI shapes and expresses erotic desire in response to prompts. If anything, this is closer to performance art or installations like the brillo box.
The AI isn’t making the art here.
Second, this is an exploration of how GenAI shapes and expresses erotic desire in response to prompts. If anything, this is closer to performance art or installations like the brillo box.
The AI isn’t making the art here.
SeRiOUs JouRnaLIsM
(Semafor) - The New York Times and Washington Post learned of a secret US raid on Venezuela soon before it was scheduled to begin Friday night — but held off publishing what they knew to avoid endangering US troops ..
@semafor.com
www.semafor.com/article/01/0...
@semafor.com
www.semafor.com/article/01/0...
January 4, 2026 at 2:32 AM
SeRiOUs JouRnaLIsM
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You ever think about how the Roman Senate kept meeting centuries into the reigns of emperors. Hanging out, shooting the shit, giving speeches, and play-acting that their positions of privilege remained positions of power.
January 3, 2026 at 6:36 PM
You ever think about how the Roman Senate kept meeting centuries into the reigns of emperors. Hanging out, shooting the shit, giving speeches, and play-acting that their positions of privilege remained positions of power.
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“Well… we can’t just keep filing impeachment articles all the time.”
Yes you can! If the man is committing impeachable offenses on the regular, you’re acquiescing to a standard that raises the bar for impeachable offense to absurd levels.
Yes you can! If the man is committing impeachable offenses on the regular, you’re acquiescing to a standard that raises the bar for impeachable offense to absurd levels.
How are voters meant to understand how serious things are if in lieu of shouting fire AND going into building with hoses, you're simply posting fire safety suggestions on social media?
Not introducing articles of impeachment is a message that Trump hasn't committed impeachable offenses.
Not introducing articles of impeachment is a message that Trump hasn't committed impeachable offenses.
January 4, 2026 at 1:32 AM
“Well… we can’t just keep filing impeachment articles all the time.”
Yes you can! If the man is committing impeachable offenses on the regular, you’re acquiescing to a standard that raises the bar for impeachable offense to absurd levels.
Yes you can! If the man is committing impeachable offenses on the regular, you’re acquiescing to a standard that raises the bar for impeachable offense to absurd levels.
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And what happened there...
European conquest of the islands of the Canarian archipelago lasted almost a century (1402-1496). Genocide in the Canary Islands was via attrition and the aggregate result of violence.
The Canary Islands were one of the 1st places in Atlantic to have plantations of enslaved African in the 15th c.
The Canary Islands were one of the 1st places in Atlantic to have plantations of enslaved African in the 15th c.
The Canary Islands: First Stop of Imperialism - JSTOR Daily
Before the New World, Europeans arrived in the Canary Islands and set the model for the enslavements, genocides, and radical ecological transformations to come.
daily.jstor.org
January 4, 2026 at 2:28 AM
And what happened there...
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We had a good run
2026 could be great. We simply don't know.
January 3, 2026 at 4:08 PM
We had a good run
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in order for something new to be birthed people have to stop papering over this past and acting as if the present is some kind of mutation birthed from grifters and corporations that is not true to the spirit of the original - and not what it was, which was pretty fucked up from the getgo.
January 4, 2026 at 1:33 AM
in order for something new to be birthed people have to stop papering over this past and acting as if the present is some kind of mutation birthed from grifters and corporations that is not true to the spirit of the original - and not what it was, which was pretty fucked up from the getgo.
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A few hundred people are gathered in downtown portland to protest the Trump administration’s attack on Venezuela. A broad coalition of groups is present. Maybe 350 people here so far.
January 3, 2026 at 11:54 PM
A few hundred people are gathered in downtown portland to protest the Trump administration’s attack on Venezuela. A broad coalition of groups is present. Maybe 350 people here so far.
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this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier
January 3, 2026 at 10:57 PM
this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier
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do people realize that fascism isn't so much "at war with the very concept of legitimacy" NOW, as that's one of the facets of fascism in the first place?
January 4, 2026 at 1:17 AM
do people realize that fascism isn't so much "at war with the very concept of legitimacy" NOW, as that's one of the facets of fascism in the first place?
Oh that's something people are allowed to do?
Zohran Mamdani, the new mayor of New York City, called President Trump on Saturday to personally object to strikes the U.S. had conducted in Venezuela and to the capture of its leader, Nicolás Maduro. Mamdani accused Trump of violating international law.
Zohran Mamdani Called President Trump to Criticize Venezuela Strikes
Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York accused President Trump of violating international law. It was the first time he had criticized the president since their White House meeting.
nyti.ms
January 4, 2026 at 1:17 AM
Oh that's something people are allowed to do?
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Maduro’s biggest mistake? Not going on Joe Rogan.
January 4, 2026 at 12:57 AM
Maduro’s biggest mistake? Not going on Joe Rogan.
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The global elite have decided they can't really risk letting us have "the news" anymore, so they've just...turned it off. I mean there's still stuff like this, but it's essentially a journalism-shaped placeholder. Like the cardboard TV in a furniture store showroom.
Shop for marble, threaten Iran, capture Maduro: Trump's dizzying holiday routine reut.rs/3YV06Nf
Shop for marble, threaten Iran, capture Maduro: Trump's dizzying holiday routine
U.S. President Donald Trump capped the holidays with an unprecedented strike on Venezuela, overseeing a surprise snatch-and-grab operation early on Saturday targeted at Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro.
reut.rs
January 4, 2026 at 1:06 AM
The global elite have decided they can't really risk letting us have "the news" anymore, so they've just...turned it off. I mean there's still stuff like this, but it's essentially a journalism-shaped placeholder. Like the cardboard TV in a furniture store showroom.
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demolition of expertise
Okay here’s an actual take: the fascist international is at war with the very concept of legitimacy.
Their messaging is so fucking incoherent. Maduro was an illegitimate leader who lost in 2024, which is why we're replacing him with his VP instead of the person who won in 2024. We did this to stop fentanyl, which is why he's indicted for cocaine.
We're also occupying Venezuela via Zoom call.
We're also occupying Venezuela via Zoom call.
January 4, 2026 at 1:07 AM
demolition of expertise
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Folks bypass things like the fact that NYPD activated drones and 30 cop cars for a demonstration of 1000 people in freezing weather today. The levels of surveillance and potential repression are taken as regular order in this country.
January 4, 2026 at 12:36 AM
Folks bypass things like the fact that NYPD activated drones and 30 cop cars for a demonstration of 1000 people in freezing weather today. The levels of surveillance and potential repression are taken as regular order in this country.
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this fantasy of the open internet was sold primarily to appeal to the diminishing sense of possibility in the real world. it introduced new ideas especially about intellectual property but also was largely dominated by highly gatekept, insular, toxic in-groups and rarely able to fulfill that promise
January 4, 2026 at 1:11 AM
this fantasy of the open internet was sold primarily to appeal to the diminishing sense of possibility in the real world. it introduced new ideas especially about intellectual property but also was largely dominated by highly gatekept, insular, toxic in-groups and rarely able to fulfill that promise
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This is a new evil spawned from the ancient capitalist hydra, we need to be using historical context to fan the flames of what the FUCK and not just retreating to smug well this is how empire has always worked you can't be surprised by it
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
January 3, 2026 at 5:36 PM
This is a new evil spawned from the ancient capitalist hydra, we need to be using historical context to fan the flames of what the FUCK and not just retreating to smug well this is how empire has always worked you can't be surprised by it
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won’t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
-Wisława Szymborska, “The End and the Beginning” (t. Cavanagh & Barańczak)
#everynightapoem #war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won’t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
-Wisława Szymborska, “The End and the Beginning” (t. Cavanagh & Barańczak)
#everynightapoem #war
June 22, 2025 at 2:17 AM
After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won’t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
-Wisława Szymborska, “The End and the Beginning” (t. Cavanagh & Barańczak)
#everynightapoem #war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won’t pick
themselves up, after all.
Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.
-Wisława Szymborska, “The End and the Beginning” (t. Cavanagh & Barańczak)
#everynightapoem #war