austin_walker
@austinwalker.bsky.social
Writer, Podcaster, Game Designer | Friends at the Table | A More Civilized Age | Shelved by Genre | Formerly: Possibility Space, Waypoint, Giant Bomb, Paste Games
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Just days into 2026, the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has sparked protests around the US.
If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.
If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.
How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance
Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.
www.wired.com
January 8, 2026 at 6:35 PM
We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.
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January 8, 2026 at 6:09 PM
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this is your mission. roll up to this daycare in full tactical gear to harass some kids and teachers. when you get spooked by your own shadow like a panicked horse and start shooting your gun, our pedophile president will call the person you shot a terrorist. good luck soldier
January 8, 2026 at 2:33 PM
this is your mission. roll up to this daycare in full tactical gear to harass some kids and teachers. when you get spooked by your own shadow like a panicked horse and start shooting your gun, our pedophile president will call the person you shot a terrorist. good luck soldier
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It’s easy to think that schools in Minneapolis are closed because the Feds murdered someone in the street but no, the actual reason is that while that was happening, the Feds were busy doing other heinous shit across the city like tear-gassing a school
“The move came after officials at Roosevelt High School said armed U.S. Border Patrol officers came on school property during dismissal Wednesday and began tackling people, handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons on bystanders.” — www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Minneapolis schools cancel classes after Border Patrol clash disrupts dismissal at Roosevelt
Minneapolis schools closed for the week citing safety concerns after an encounter involving armed Border Patrol agents near Roosevelt High School.
www.mprnews.org
January 8, 2026 at 1:31 PM
It’s easy to think that schools in Minneapolis are closed because the Feds murdered someone in the street but no, the actual reason is that while that was happening, the Feds were busy doing other heinous shit across the city like tear-gassing a school
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i know we're all busy but i just overheard a plumber say "parlez-vous français ? non ? you motherfuckers don't even speak french, do you" to a pair of french bulldogs
January 8, 2026 at 2:18 PM
i know we're all busy but i just overheard a plumber say "parlez-vous français ? non ? you motherfuckers don't even speak french, do you" to a pair of french bulldogs
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A reminder that the Dragons Dogma Online project can always use more volunteers, even if it's just finding more old info to recreate things, translators, IT people, lots of things!
ドラゴンズドグマ・オンラインのプロジェクトでは、常にボランティアを募集しています！物事の再現のために古い情報を探すことから、翻訳者やITの経験者など、さまざまな方の協力が必要です。
#DDON #DDO #DragonsDogma
ドラゴンズドグマ・オンラインのプロジェクトでは、常にボランティアを募集しています！物事の再現のために古い情報を探すことから、翻訳者やITの経験者など、さまざまな方の協力が必要です。
#DDON #DDO #DragonsDogma
December 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
A reminder that the Dragons Dogma Online project can always use more volunteers, even if it's just finding more old info to recreate things, translators, IT people, lots of things!
ドラゴンズドグマ・オンラインのプロジェクトでは、常にボランティアを募集しています！物事の再現のために古い情報を探すことから、翻訳者やITの経験者など、さまざまな方の協力が必要です。
#DDON #DDO #DragonsDogma
ドラゴンズドグマ・オンラインのプロジェクトでは、常にボランティアを募集しています！物事の再現のために古い情報を探すことから、翻訳者やITの経験者など、さまざまな方の協力が必要です。
#DDON #DDO #DragonsDogma
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I wish you were on the mountains with us in rain, wind, fog, lost and frightened.
January 8, 2026 at 7:41 AM
I wish you were on the mountains with us in rain, wind, fog, lost and frightened.
Don't know how long I'll play for but you know what, why not, let's play some of the Dragon's Dogma Online fan localization for a bit
twitch.tv/friendsatthetable
twitch.tv/friendsatthetable
What would happen if Austin started playing Dragon's Dogma Online? Let's find out
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Let's Start Dragon's Dogma Online | Chill Late Night Stream with Austin
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January 8, 2026 at 3:02 AM
Don't know how long I'll play for but you know what, why not, let's play some of the Dragon's Dogma Online fan localization for a bit
twitch.tv/friendsatthetable
twitch.tv/friendsatthetable
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The sheer number of videos of the shooting is horrific, but in the vein of what @prisonculture.bsky.social has been saying, it proves how many people cared enough to show up where ICE was and record them. It wasn't just one or two legal observers, and when Good was shot, they didn't abandon her.
January 8, 2026 at 12:19 AM
The sheer number of videos of the shooting is horrific, but in the vein of what @prisonculture.bsky.social has been saying, it proves how many people cared enough to show up where ICE was and record them. It wasn't just one or two legal observers, and when Good was shot, they didn't abandon her.
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spent the whole last five years stressing that they must give much much more money and increasingly elaborate equipment to law enforcement of every stripe and painting it as foolhardy and possibly unamerican to think otherwise. it took all sorts of congresses and presidents to tighten this screw.
January 8, 2026 at 12:48 AM
spent the whole last five years stressing that they must give much much more money and increasingly elaborate equipment to law enforcement of every stripe and painting it as foolhardy and possibly unamerican to think otherwise. it took all sorts of congresses and presidents to tighten this screw.
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the 2024 dem platform beat its chest about a dhs surge
The only way we protect ourselves from ICE is by winning the midterms.
January 8, 2026 at 12:37 AM
the 2024 dem platform beat its chest about a dhs surge
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I am a simple person who thinks that telling the truth about things is important. I watched the video footage of this shooting, and the killing is casual and unhurried. DHS and aligned political actors are very ready to present a story of rushed, panicked violence, and it just is not true.
NEW: At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday.
DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.
Our latest:
DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.
Our latest:
DHS Is Lying To You About ICE Shooting a Woman
At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.
www.404media.co
January 7, 2026 at 11:14 PM
I am a simple person who thinks that telling the truth about things is important. I watched the video footage of this shooting, and the killing is casual and unhurried. DHS and aligned political actors are very ready to present a story of rushed, panicked violence, and it just is not true.
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Yes you do not and should not have to see that video, but it’s very important we have them because many of our major US news institutions have entrenched an insane dissembling of reality and regurgitation of authoritarian narratives under guise of ‘objectivity’.
the nyt says that no version of events in minneapolis can be "verified independently." but that's not true! there are multiple videos proving that the ICE version of events is a total lie. maybe the nyt can, y'know, watch one of them? www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
January 7, 2026 at 8:38 PM
Yes you do not and should not have to see that video, but it’s very important we have them because many of our major US news institutions have entrenched an insane dissembling of reality and regurgitation of authoritarian narratives under guise of ‘objectivity’.
Yes, for sure. It's not that they *aren't* scared. It's that such a fear is a product of an ideological project. A project that gives cops carte blanche to transmute fear into violence, and which convinces people who should love their neighbors to instead fear them enough to excuse those cops.
tbf, I can believe theyre scared. because if anyone in america is made up of the most chickenshit people on earth, its cops.
January 7, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Yes, for sure. It's not that they *aren't* scared. It's that such a fear is a product of an ideological project. A project that gives cops carte blanche to transmute fear into violence, and which convinces people who should love their neighbors to instead fear them enough to excuse those cops.
And they’ll say they can’t be held accountable because when they pulled the trigger they were afraid for their lives. Their lives which they spent serving an ideology of fear, a machine of fear, a holistic regime of fear. A culture-spanning engine of the ugliest and most dishonest fears there are.
Any one of us could be shot or kidnapped because an ICE agent doesn’t like the look of us. Are you prepared to be murdered in cold blood while “news” sources repeat the claim you were “weaponizing your vehicle” trying to leave your driveway? They want you to accept that. They want to make it normal
January 7, 2026 at 7:40 PM
And they’ll say they can’t be held accountable because when they pulled the trigger they were afraid for their lives. Their lives which they spent serving an ideology of fear, a machine of fear, a holistic regime of fear. A culture-spanning engine of the ugliest and most dishonest fears there are.
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These are the people they are sending into our neighborhoods. Keep that in mind when they mention an "accidental" shooting.
An off-duty ICE agent was just confronted in Minneapolis after people noticed a Nazi SS lightning bolt tattoo on his neck.
If you’re proud enough to ink it on your neck, why are you running when people notice?
If you’re proud enough to ink it on your neck, why are you running when people notice?
January 7, 2026 at 5:05 PM
These are the people they are sending into our neighborhoods. Keep that in mind when they mention an "accidental" shooting.
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losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people
really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?
really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?
January 7, 2026 at 6:25 PM
losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people
really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?
really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?
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Worth noting that Minnesota Public Radio is NOT doing that. They're interviewing people on the ground, chasing down witnesses and facts, and treating ICE statements with the appropriate amount of skepticism.
Sigh. The NPR national news brief at the top of the hour mentioned the shooting and simply cited the DHS statement.
I truly don't think mainstream journalists in the U.S are prepared to cover state violence
January 7, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Worth noting that Minnesota Public Radio is NOT doing that. They're interviewing people on the ground, chasing down witnesses and facts, and treating ICE statements with the appropriate amount of skepticism.
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Absolutely horrific details about an ICE shooting in Minneapolis.
A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times."
Bovino was there.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times."
Bovino was there.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
January 7, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Absolutely horrific details about an ICE shooting in Minneapolis.
A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times."
Bovino was there.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times."
Bovino was there.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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Emergency response vigil organized by @miracmn.bsky.social tonight.
January 7, 2026 at 6:02 PM
Emergency response vigil organized by @miracmn.bsky.social tonight.
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It takes an enormous amount of courage to stand there, keep filming, and scream "What the fuck, you asshole" at someone wearing a badge who just shot and killed one of your neighbors in cold blood.
I need people to wrap their minds around the fact that here in Minneapolis, ICE broke the window of a vehicle yesterday, pepper sprayed the occupants, and arrested them, and shot another observer in the face today, and OBSERVERS ARE STILL GOING OUT TO PROTECT THEIR NEIGHBORS AT MASSIVE PERSONAL RISK
I’m eating lunch, I’m having a panic attack, I’m charging my phone, and then I’m going back out to try and keep my neighborhood safe.
January 7, 2026 at 6:13 PM
It takes an enormous amount of courage to stand there, keep filming, and scream "What the fuck, you asshole" at someone wearing a badge who just shot and killed one of your neighbors in cold blood.
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one of the things i hate most about this persistent line of argument is the implication that any of these actions would be fine if groceries were cheaper
The White House is laser focused on threatening a military takeover of Greenland.
Where’s the same focus on lowering costs?
Where’s the same focus on lowering costs?
January 7, 2026 at 4:10 PM
one of the things i hate most about this persistent line of argument is the implication that any of these actions would be fine if groceries were cheaper
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Union formed on Dec 18, 2025.
Studio closure confirmed on Jan 7, 2026.
Studio closure confirmed on Jan 7, 2026.
Ubisoft closes Halifax studio weeks after devs vote to unionize
Workers at the Canadian studio voted to unionize in December in search of security in an era of 'studio closures, layoffs, and increasing instability.'
www.gamedeveloper.com
January 7, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Union formed on Dec 18, 2025.
Studio closure confirmed on Jan 7, 2026.
Studio closure confirmed on Jan 7, 2026.
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i hope this era teaches a lot of guys that actually you don't want to live in a deregulatory paradise since such a thing must feed on marks, and fair chance that's you
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Polymarket disputes capture of Maduro amounted to invasion
More than $10.5mn has been wagered on contracts seeking to predict when the US will ‘invade’ Venezuela
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January 7, 2026 at 10:02 AM
i hope this era teaches a lot of guys that actually you don't want to live in a deregulatory paradise since such a thing must feed on marks, and fair chance that's you
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deeply sad to hear this
RIP Béla Tarr. I attended an all day retrospective of his work when I was in my 20s at Lincoln Center. It was memorable, even if I did fall asleep at one point during Werckmeister Harmonies. It all felt like a delirious fever dream. Beautiful, slow, and heady. And lots of animals.
January 7, 2026 at 2:50 AM
deeply sad to hear this