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Cid
@cidneverwas.bsky.social
Inquire within for more than is on the tin...

My first social media account outside of Tumblr.
Just a randumb, depressed, GAD/SAD & CFS addled Millennial.
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it turns out there were a lot of institutions you could simply whine and buy your way into. this includes most of the legal academy and the press. these things were load bearing institutions for 20th century america
starting to feel like putting "does democracy still exist" exclusively in the hands of a profession that doesn't have any standards besides is your writing readable and do your arguments make sense to college students was an unwise idea
i feel like we have this dynamic where conservative constitutional “scholars” just like lie about the plain textual meaning of the reconstruction amendments while liberal scholars are doing the john ganz scrapbook tweet in response
December 8, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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we don't yet have a good shorthand for the ideological and corporate zone characterized by the paypal mafia alumni, cryptocurrency, and affiliated VCs, do we
December 7, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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it’s not just AI slop: they’re breaking shit constantly now

since the latest update, random things will crash Explorer and my taskbar will restart, Discord kept freezing until I turned off notifications, and trying to scroll in Chrome with some games alt-tabbed is a glitchy mess
December 7, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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I am pro-immigrant, pro-trans rights, and anti-capitalist.
December 7, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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MacOS also getting worse each update.

The capital class just hates labor and hates the consumer. I'm not sure how else to explain this
it’s not just AI slop: they’re breaking shit constantly now

since the latest update, random things will crash Explorer and my taskbar will restart, Discord kept freezing until I turned off notifications, and trying to scroll in Chrome with some games alt-tabbed is a glitchy mess
"Stop this nonsense. No one wants this."
December 7, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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What did the Nazis do with valuable items of Jewish people they deported or sent to concentration camps? They did the same thing that Nazi ICE rats are doing with the property of Hispanic people.
December 6, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Yes. @paxll.bsky.social‬ USPS was spun off from the US Post Office Department to be a fake semi-private thing exactly to create the situation it is in now: ritual humiliation by posting "losses" even though it is revenue positive
December 7, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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They want us all dead or unable to fight back. Billionaires are a danger to our existence.
“Billionaires have taken control of this country in ways we’ve never seen before, and it is hurting all of us. Progressives in Seattle who won spoke pretty unapologetically about that reality,” says a newly elected Seattle city council member.
Progressives Win in Seattle, Changing Directions on Public Safety
Voters ousted a mayor who oversaw a surge in encampment sweeps, and a Republican prosecutor who pursued punitive policies toward homeless people and drug users.
boltsmag.org
December 7, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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have you ever read Four Futures? one of the Bad Endings of capitalism is Exterminism: "what if the rich no longer have any use for the poor, unwashed masses that yearn for material goods?"
jacobin.com/2011/12/four...
Four Futures
One thing we can be certain of is that capitalism will end.
jacobin.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Just really depressed, tired and empty feeling...
a black and white drawing of a cat with the words " you have died bitter and alone retry "
ALT: a black and white drawing of a cat with the words " you have died bitter and alone retry "
media.tenor.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Defending schools is a growing challenge for rattled educators in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C., where heavily armed men strapped with tactical vests are swarming neighborhoods, snatching people from the arms of loved ones and from the streets. labornotes.org/2025/12/ice-...
ICE Raids Turn Schools into Battlegrounds to Defend Students | Labor Notes
labornotes.org
December 3, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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The Department of Homeland Security officially launched what they’re calling “Operation Catahoula Crunch” in New Orleans on Wednesday, aiming to arrest 5,000 people in southeast Louisiana and into Mississippi.

It's the administration’s latest stop in a cross-country immigration crackdown.
ICE launches "swamp sweet" in New Orleans, targets 5,000 arrests
“You have parents who are scared to send their children to school,” the city’s mayor-elect, Helena Moreno, said.
www.motherjones.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Activists have a plan to lower Americans’ energy bills: public power. It’s a proven alternative to utilities that have squeezed billions from ratepayers, showing our infrastructure can serve a public good, not a private profit. From James Baratta: trib.al/a1roqYL
Lightning in a Bottle - The American Prospect
Regulatory capture is at the root of the affordability crisis in electricity. Public power could offer a way out.
trib.al
December 3, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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The latest in our series on drivers of the affordability crisis: climate change.
Too often we neglect how weather patterns affect crop yields, how hurricanes and floods raise the cost of everything from food to water, how colony collapse makes things more expensive. @gurleygg.bsky.social reports.
The Cost of Climate - The American Prospect
Extreme weather and changes in seasonal patterns are fundamentally altering the landscape, in cities and in farming communities. You’re going to pay for it.
prospect.org
December 4, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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OpenAI designed the affirming tone of ChatGPT to goose engagement because their business model depends on it. Blanket affirmation and encouragement is how we get people turning to ChatGPT as a therapist AND how we get suicide instructions, deepening delusions, and this shit. It's the business model.
New from 404 Media: ChatGPT told a violent stalker to continue running his misogynistic and threat-filled podcast despite the “haters,” and to visit more gyms to find women. The man stalked women in multiple states, including touching and following from work

www.404media.co/chatgpt-spot...
ChatGPT Told a Violent Stalker to Embrace the 'Haters,' Indictment Says
A newly filed indictment claims a wannabe influencer used ChatGPT as his "therapist" and "best friend" in his pursuit of the "wife type," while harassing women so aggressively they had to miss work a...
www.404media.co
December 4, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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THREAD: The NYT won't show you what's happening in Gaza.

Hillary Clinton says you're too dumb to understand it.

Netanyahu wants billionaires to control what you see.

Obama's speechwriter thinks your brain is broken.
December 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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The Trump administration has axed another group of judges from immigration courts
Trump keeps firing immigration judges
Eight New York City judges have been terminated as the White House continues its purge of the courts.
www.motherjones.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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When the obituaries are written for the American Experiment, significant space will be devoted to how both major political parties burned the country to the ground to prop up a genocidal regime on the other side of the world.
December 3, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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@48hills.bsky.social covers what most media won’t: Luries war on the poor.

“Former Sup. Dean Preston points out on Bluesky that the city’s policies on the unhoused these days are remarkably similar to an executive order issued by Donald Trump called “ending disorder on America’s streets.”
SF's plan for crime and unhoused people looks more and more like Trump's every day - 48 hills
Mayor's plans seem awfully similar to Trump executive orders
48hills.org
December 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Biden (and Obama before him) should have listened to James MacGregor Burns.

End judicial supremacy
December 5, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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When we topple MAGA, I want to be clear that a Schumer/Jefferies/Pelosi/Clinton Democratic party is not going to work for me.

It will need to be vote blue for what they'll do.
Mamdani, AOC, Talib, Jayapal, @katforillinois.bsky.social We have leadership worth believing in.
December 4, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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"Many states have done what Congress refuses to: pass meaningful laws that increase privacy and protect rights... Preemption undoes all that work. It lowers the ceiling for privacy and protections, rather than raising the floor." [email protected] www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2025-12...
Statement: Fight for the Future opposes federal preemption of state privacy & digital safety laws
The following statement can be attributed to Matt Lane (he/him), Senior Policy Counsel at Fight for the Future: Bills like KOSA have unnecessarily divided advocates for Big Tech accountability. While ...
www.fightforthefuture.org
December 4, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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🍅 SPECIAL ISSUE RESEARCH 🍅

The tomato dad1 mutant lacks jasmonate biosynthesis, forming seedless fruits. Expression data shows spatiotemporal localization of jasmonate regulates fruit set primarily by modulating gibberellin metabolism - Nomura et al.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

#PlantScience 🧪
December 7, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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December 7, 2025 at 9:34 AM