Arthur H Walker
@arthurhwalker.bsky.social
Author of the Uroboros Saga science fiction series.
Creative Director at Raging Rickshaw Games.
Creative Director at Raging Rickshaw Games.
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BREAKING: Platform Ventures, the development company that owns a south Kansas City warehouse that federal agents toured last month to consider for an immigrant detention center, announced today that it is not moving forward with the sale.
Kansas City developers halt sale of warehouse for ICE detention center as public pressure mounts
Federal officials first toured the building in January, sparking speculation over whether the owners had sold the building to the U.S. government. Media reports suggested the sale was part of a push to use warehouses across the country as immigration detention centers.
www.kcur.org
February 12, 2026 at 5:07 PM
BREAKING: Platform Ventures, the development company that owns a south Kansas City warehouse that federal agents toured last month to consider for an immigrant detention center, announced today that it is not moving forward with the sale.
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The Trump administration has announced it is targeting major LGBTQ+ healthcare centers, threatening to shut them down unless they stop providing trans youth care.
It appears to violate, at least in spirit, a court order in Oregon stopping them from doing this.
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It appears to violate, at least in spirit, a court order in Oregon stopping them from doing this.
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Trump Administration Targets Major LGBTQ+ Health Care Centers In Latest Legal Attack
The administration has referred four clinics: Callen-Lorde, LA LGBT Center, The Institute for Family Health, and Whitman-Walker for investigation.
www.erininthemorning.com
February 12, 2026 at 6:08 PM
The Trump administration has announced it is targeting major LGBTQ+ healthcare centers, threatening to shut them down unless they stop providing trans youth care.
It appears to violate, at least in spirit, a court order in Oregon stopping them from doing this.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
It appears to violate, at least in spirit, a court order in Oregon stopping them from doing this.
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Meet the Hell Cats: Four women veterans, all Democrats, running for Congress. They hope their backgrounds in the military and national security will be exactly what their party needs in their swing seat races.
Meet the Hell Cats — a key to Democrats’ hopes of taking the House
A Signal group chat has become a support system and a strategy hub for these Democratic women veterans running in high-stakes races.
19thnews.org
February 12, 2026 at 1:22 AM
Meet the Hell Cats: Four women veterans, all Democrats, running for Congress. They hope their backgrounds in the military and national security will be exactly what their party needs in their swing seat races.
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Ali slept overnight on his friend’s grave after a funeral marked by singing and dancing, gestures so dangerous in Iran they can lead to arrest.
As graves fill with victims of the IRGC crackdown, funerals are shedding quiet submission and erupting into song, movement, and noise.
As graves fill with victims of the IRGC crackdown, funerals are shedding quiet submission and erupting into song, movement, and noise.
So many Iranians killed, funeral traditions are changing
As the Iranian regime’s violence disrupts burial traditions, some Iranians are reinventing how they mourn by publicly singing and dancing.
www.counteroffensive.news
February 12, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Ali slept overnight on his friend’s grave after a funeral marked by singing and dancing, gestures so dangerous in Iran they can lead to arrest.
As graves fill with victims of the IRGC crackdown, funerals are shedding quiet submission and erupting into song, movement, and noise.
As graves fill with victims of the IRGC crackdown, funerals are shedding quiet submission and erupting into song, movement, and noise.
“Don’t you ever accuse me of a crime,” Bondi fired back.
Let's take what she said out of the context of the article for a moment. For sure, read the article, and the transcript (I'm on the hunt), but think about what she saying here. 🧵
thehill.com/homenews/hou...
Let's take what she said out of the context of the article for a moment. For sure, read the article, and the transcript (I'm on the hunt), but think about what she saying here. 🧵
thehill.com/homenews/hou...
thehill.com
February 12, 2026 at 1:02 AM
“Don’t you ever accuse me of a crime,” Bondi fired back.
Let's take what she said out of the context of the article for a moment. For sure, read the article, and the transcript (I'm on the hunt), but think about what she saying here. 🧵
thehill.com/homenews/hou...
Let's take what she said out of the context of the article for a moment. For sure, read the article, and the transcript (I'm on the hunt), but think about what she saying here. 🧵
thehill.com/homenews/hou...
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Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
February 10, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
There is a theme. Not just from Bondi or Bovino, either. Trump's associates often have assumed they would be lauded as heroes for their actions.
Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground
February 11, 2026 at 8:44 PM
There is a theme. Not just from Bondi or Bovino, either. Trump's associates often have assumed they would be lauded as heroes for their actions.
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Here's what DHS doesn't want you to know: Working for ICE is one of the safest jobs in America — and last year was the second-safest year for the agency on record.
And the doxxing? It hasn't actually happened even once.
The masks are justified by a lie. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-s-mask...
And the doxxing? It hasn't actually happened even once.
The masks are justified by a lie. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-s-mask...
ICE's Masks Are All a Lie
Working for ICE is actually less dangerous than being an elementary school student in America.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
February 10, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Here's what DHS doesn't want you to know: Working for ICE is one of the safest jobs in America — and last year was the second-safest year for the agency on record.
And the doxxing? It hasn't actually happened even once.
The masks are justified by a lie. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-s-mask...
And the doxxing? It hasn't actually happened even once.
The masks are justified by a lie. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-s-mask...
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Mothership now has 2,000 paid subscribers!!! To say we're thrilled is an understatement. We're proud to say we've been able to significantly increase our freelance budget thanks to this support. Keep on pitching, writers! 💜✨
February 10, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Mothership now has 2,000 paid subscribers!!! To say we're thrilled is an understatement. We're proud to say we've been able to significantly increase our freelance budget thanks to this support. Keep on pitching, writers! 💜✨
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@nicolecarpenter.bsky.social: @meredithgran.com's storytelling (deft, funny, and honest) lays bare that truth in a way that's both stunning and excruciating; it's one of the most affecting games I've played in some time.
www.mothership.blog/perfect-tide...
www.mothership.blog/perfect-tide...
Perfect Tides: Station to Station is you, me, and Meredith Gran at 18
How can a narrative point-and-click make my heart beat so fast?
www.mothership.blog
February 3, 2026 at 5:13 PM
@nicolecarpenter.bsky.social: @meredithgran.com's storytelling (deft, funny, and honest) lays bare that truth in a way that's both stunning and excruciating; it's one of the most affecting games I've played in some time.
www.mothership.blog/perfect-tide...
www.mothership.blog/perfect-tide...
Visual asset I made for a recent game jam. This is Lumen the escaped laboratory slime, and his trusty headlamp. It was a much needed distraction I'm glad for. Helping young people make games feels like an open revolt against the suffocating banality of the current political climate.
February 10, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Visual asset I made for a recent game jam. This is Lumen the escaped laboratory slime, and his trusty headlamp. It was a much needed distraction I'm glad for. Helping young people make games feels like an open revolt against the suffocating banality of the current political climate.
Recent court documents claim TikTok knew their Live feature was being used to exploit and harm children, but did nothing because the money was good. Now they're part of Trump's Surveillance State ...
Welp... off to write totally fictional dystopian scifi.
commerce.utah.gov/2025/02/21/u...
Welp... off to write totally fictional dystopian scifi.
commerce.utah.gov/2025/02/21/u...
February 10, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Recent court documents claim TikTok knew their Live feature was being used to exploit and harm children, but did nothing because the money was good. Now they're part of Trump's Surveillance State ...
Welp... off to write totally fictional dystopian scifi.
commerce.utah.gov/2025/02/21/u...
Welp... off to write totally fictional dystopian scifi.
commerce.utah.gov/2025/02/21/u...
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Allow us to reflect for a moment, if you will, on a fabulous first week of publishing here at Mothership. Snowy allegory by @midimyers.com.
www.mothership.blog/the-moguls-a...
www.mothership.blog/the-moguls-a...
The moguls again
On difficult ski terrain, difficult games, and difficult career choices
www.mothership.blog
February 2, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Allow us to reflect for a moment, if you will, on a fabulous first week of publishing here at Mothership. Snowy allegory by @midimyers.com.
www.mothership.blog/the-moguls-a...
www.mothership.blog/the-moguls-a...
As of August of this year I'll have been a paying user of Discord for ten years. They had a really good run. Sad to have to start looking for alternatives.
kotaku.com/discord-will...
kotaku.com/discord-will...
Discord To Require Age Verification By Face Scan Or ID Starting In March
Teen-by-default is coming to all Discord accounts in March
kotaku.com
February 9, 2026 at 5:40 PM
As of August of this year I'll have been a paying user of Discord for ten years. They had a really good run. Sad to have to start looking for alternatives.
kotaku.com/discord-will...
kotaku.com/discord-will...
Yep. Treating AI like it has the capacity for this facet of human identity is definitely misleading, and designed to mislead people.
Anthropomorphizing the user interface of a sociotechnical apparatus?
Sounds like a marketing project.
Sounds like a marketing project.
“She compares her work to the efforts of a parent raising a child. She’s training Claude to detect the difference between right and wrong while imbuing it with unique personality traits.”
February 9, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Yep. Treating AI like it has the capacity for this facet of human identity is definitely misleading, and designed to mislead people.
This is the most important journalism I've been following since the conflict began.
Good morning readers, Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.
The Counteroffensive’s Ukraine team is taking a week's break to rest, spend time with family, and restore our strength.
In this piece, we share our team's plans for recovery over the next week.
The Counteroffensive’s Ukraine team is taking a week's break to rest, spend time with family, and restore our strength.
In this piece, we share our team's plans for recovery over the next week.
We’re approaching our breaking point
Due to harrowing conditions, The Counteroffensive’s Ukraine team is taking a week’s break to rest, spend time with family, and restore our strength.
www.counteroffensive.news
February 9, 2026 at 2:26 PM
This is the most important journalism I've been following since the conflict began.
During the Pandemic friends and I circle the wagons; sync schedules, share stewardship, create better lines of communication.
Temporary arrangement until things stabilize.
Anyone know when that'll be? 😐
Temporary arrangement until things stabilize.
Anyone know when that'll be? 😐
February 8, 2026 at 8:06 PM
During the Pandemic friends and I circle the wagons; sync schedules, share stewardship, create better lines of communication.
Temporary arrangement until things stabilize.
Anyone know when that'll be? 😐
Temporary arrangement until things stabilize.
Anyone know when that'll be? 😐
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Coworker got real concerned about me mid shift, "hey gadda you okay you just let out a deep and bone-weary sigh"
I assured her everything was ok, but eventually had to fess up that I was just thinking REALLY hard about donkey kong.
I assured her everything was ok, but eventually had to fess up that I was just thinking REALLY hard about donkey kong.
February 8, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Coworker got real concerned about me mid shift, "hey gadda you okay you just let out a deep and bone-weary sigh"
I assured her everything was ok, but eventually had to fess up that I was just thinking REALLY hard about donkey kong.
I assured her everything was ok, but eventually had to fess up that I was just thinking REALLY hard about donkey kong.
Ten minutes later I'm asking myself if David Copperfield is in the Epstein Files.
Welp, so much for this analogy. Both examples presented might be gross. 😕
Welp, so much for this analogy. Both examples presented might be gross. 😕
What I want from AI is akin to David Copperfield making the Statue of Liberty disappear as a paying and delighted audience member.
What AI does now is a trick on par with your uncle (that never washes his hands) pulling a coin out of your ear (that he keeps) and you're his captive audience.
What AI does now is a trick on par with your uncle (that never washes his hands) pulling a coin out of your ear (that he keeps) and you're his captive audience.
February 7, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Ten minutes later I'm asking myself if David Copperfield is in the Epstein Files.
Welp, so much for this analogy. Both examples presented might be gross. 😕
Welp, so much for this analogy. Both examples presented might be gross. 😕
What I want from AI is akin to David Copperfield making the Statue of Liberty disappear as a paying and delighted audience member.
What AI does now is a trick on par with your uncle (that never washes his hands) pulling a coin out of your ear (that he keeps) and you're his captive audience.
What AI does now is a trick on par with your uncle (that never washes his hands) pulling a coin out of your ear (that he keeps) and you're his captive audience.
February 7, 2026 at 3:30 PM
What I want from AI is akin to David Copperfield making the Statue of Liberty disappear as a paying and delighted audience member.
What AI does now is a trick on par with your uncle (that never washes his hands) pulling a coin out of your ear (that he keeps) and you're his captive audience.
What AI does now is a trick on par with your uncle (that never washes his hands) pulling a coin out of your ear (that he keeps) and you're his captive audience.
I would try to be sad about this if I wasn't too busy playing indie games and small studio releases that don't require NVIDIA's bloated hardware. I love AI conceptually, but the current model and options leave a lot to be desired.
www.engadget.com/gaming/pc/nv...
www.engadget.com/gaming/pc/nv...
NVIDIA reportedly won't release new graphics cards this year
Gamers, schmamers. We have AI data centers to power!
www.engadget.com
February 7, 2026 at 3:20 PM
I would try to be sad about this if I wasn't too busy playing indie games and small studio releases that don't require NVIDIA's bloated hardware. I love AI conceptually, but the current model and options leave a lot to be desired.
www.engadget.com/gaming/pc/nv...
www.engadget.com/gaming/pc/nv...
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January 16, 2026 at 11:01 AM
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Timeline cleans with snowflake-sized baby lagoon jellyfish.
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🎥 jelliesfarm www.instagram.com/jelliesfarm?...
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January 25, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Timeline cleans with snowflake-sized baby lagoon jellyfish.
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🎥 jelliesfarm www.instagram.com/jelliesfarm?...
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🎥 jelliesfarm www.instagram.com/jelliesfarm?...
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This rules. Kick Bovino out of every fucking bar in the country.
Border Patrol boss Gregory Bovino tossed from Las Vegas bar
Former U.S. Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Gregory Bovino was reportedly asked to leave a Las Vegas bar out of safety concerns for the venue’s customers.
lasvegassun.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:58 PM
This rules. Kick Bovino out of every fucking bar in the country.