Crab Wells
@crabofdoom.bsky.social
🦀 🔞 comic & smut artist / fanficcer / swear a lot / news reblogs / FFVII & XV fan / thrifter / he / they / trans masc / pagan / anti-fascist
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ICE is still here in Minnesota.
The only difference in the “drawdown” I am seeing is a shift from the Bovino actions that were done for confrontation and conflict for the cameras to more snatch and grabs that are no less awful, if more dispersed.
Until they are all home.
Until we are all safe.
The only difference in the “drawdown” I am seeing is a shift from the Bovino actions that were done for confrontation and conflict for the cameras to more snatch and grabs that are no less awful, if more dispersed.
Until they are all home.
Until we are all safe.
Two female ICE agents popped the hood of their car and knocked on the door of a mechanic born in Mexico. He went out to help.
“A bunch of agents jump out and tackle him, essentially restraining him, and take him away...His six kids are now without their father." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
“A bunch of agents jump out and tackle him, essentially restraining him, and take him away...His six kids are now without their father." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
ICE drawdown? Indications point to steady enforcement activity outside the Twin Cities
Some people who observe ICE activity are skeptical about a large scale drawdown of agents in the state. There are indications that activity has decreased in the Twin Cities, but has continued outside ...
www.mprnews.org
February 19, 2026 at 2:29 AM
ICE is still here in Minnesota.
The only difference in the “drawdown” I am seeing is a shift from the Bovino actions that were done for confrontation and conflict for the cameras to more snatch and grabs that are no less awful, if more dispersed.
Until they are all home.
Until we are all safe.
The only difference in the “drawdown” I am seeing is a shift from the Bovino actions that were done for confrontation and conflict for the cameras to more snatch and grabs that are no less awful, if more dispersed.
Until they are all home.
Until we are all safe.
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We were told to scrub "biodiversity" from our websites because of this shit.
February 19, 2026 at 12:51 AM
We were told to scrub "biodiversity" from our websites because of this shit.
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this is why we don’t comply in advance.
relatedly, this is why i am irate at every children’s hospital that cancelled their gender affirming care programs without a fight. when you have the law and the facts on your side you especially have to fight back.
relatedly, this is why i am irate at every children’s hospital that cancelled their gender affirming care programs without a fight. when you have the law and the facts on your side you especially have to fight back.
February 19, 2026 at 12:43 AM
this is why we don’t comply in advance.
relatedly, this is why i am irate at every children’s hospital that cancelled their gender affirming care programs without a fight. when you have the law and the facts on your side you especially have to fight back.
relatedly, this is why i am irate at every children’s hospital that cancelled their gender affirming care programs without a fight. when you have the law and the facts on your side you especially have to fight back.
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Artists! QRP with your hands!
Hard to narrow it down. I also love hands.
Hard to narrow it down. I also love hands.
February 18, 2026 at 7:21 PM
Artists! QRP with your hands!
Hard to narrow it down. I also love hands.
Hard to narrow it down. I also love hands.
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1. DHS surges 3,000 officers to Minneapolis without doing anywhere near enough prep first.
2. Hundreds of habeas cases overwhelm local courts.
3. Dozens of DOJ lawyers quit in disgust/anger.
4. The DOJ brings in JAGs to cover.
5. A JAG was just held in contempt and fined $500/day for ICE's failures.
2. Hundreds of habeas cases overwhelm local courts.
3. Dozens of DOJ lawyers quit in disgust/anger.
4. The DOJ brings in JAGs to cover.
5. A JAG was just held in contempt and fined $500/day for ICE's failures.
February 18, 2026 at 11:09 PM
1. DHS surges 3,000 officers to Minneapolis without doing anywhere near enough prep first.
2. Hundreds of habeas cases overwhelm local courts.
3. Dozens of DOJ lawyers quit in disgust/anger.
4. The DOJ brings in JAGs to cover.
5. A JAG was just held in contempt and fined $500/day for ICE's failures.
2. Hundreds of habeas cases overwhelm local courts.
3. Dozens of DOJ lawyers quit in disgust/anger.
4. The DOJ brings in JAGs to cover.
5. A JAG was just held in contempt and fined $500/day for ICE's failures.
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So it turns out we didn’t need to comply in advance.
February 18, 2026 at 8:27 PM
So it turns out we didn’t need to comply in advance.
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I made a tool that turns PCB designs into 3D-printable molds. you sandwich copper tape between the parts, sand the ridges, and you have a real working PCB. no etching, no chemicals. I am losing my mind
castpixel.itch.io/pcb-forge
castpixel.itch.io/pcb-forge
February 18, 2026 at 12:09 PM
I made a tool that turns PCB designs into 3D-printable molds. you sandwich copper tape between the parts, sand the ridges, and you have a real working PCB. no etching, no chemicals. I am losing my mind
castpixel.itch.io/pcb-forge
castpixel.itch.io/pcb-forge
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"Is there technology the left is excited about?" is the kind of question you only ask if you're wildly naive about technology.
mRNA vaccines. Heat pumps. Offshore wind. Urban mining. Sodium batteries.
But god forbid we're not fawning over every new implementation of Making Computers Bad At Math.
mRNA vaccines. Heat pumps. Offshore wind. Urban mining. Sodium batteries.
But god forbid we're not fawning over every new implementation of Making Computers Bad At Math.
February 18, 2026 at 2:58 PM
"Is there technology the left is excited about?" is the kind of question you only ask if you're wildly naive about technology.
mRNA vaccines. Heat pumps. Offshore wind. Urban mining. Sodium batteries.
But god forbid we're not fawning over every new implementation of Making Computers Bad At Math.
mRNA vaccines. Heat pumps. Offshore wind. Urban mining. Sodium batteries.
But god forbid we're not fawning over every new implementation of Making Computers Bad At Math.
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I have eaten
the disks
that were in
production
and which
you were probably
saving
for your PC
Forgive me
they were so capacious
so fast
and so NVMe
gizmodo.com/because-of-a...
the disks
that were in
production
and which
you were probably
saving
for your PC
Forgive me
they were so capacious
so fast
and so NVMe
gizmodo.com/because-of-a...
AI Companies Bought Out All of Western Digital’s Hard Drives for 2026 Already
Thanks to data center demands, Western Digital has committed all of its HDDs for at least the rest of the year.
gizmodo.com
February 18, 2026 at 5:05 PM
I have eaten
the disks
that were in
production
and which
you were probably
saving
for your PC
Forgive me
they were so capacious
so fast
and so NVMe
gizmodo.com/because-of-a...
the disks
that were in
production
and which
you were probably
saving
for your PC
Forgive me
they were so capacious
so fast
and so NVMe
gizmodo.com/because-of-a...
This would of course end immediately, if the US took over Iceland. Which is all the more reason to tell our government to eat shit.
I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.
And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.
And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.
I’m constantly astounded at the sheer level of artistic production coming out of Iceland. Novels, movies, music. Amazing.
February 18, 2026 at 11:56 PM
This would of course end immediately, if the US took over Iceland. Which is all the more reason to tell our government to eat shit.
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americans will be like “everything is a sequel or remake” and then defund school arts programs
I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.
And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.
And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.
I’m constantly astounded at the sheer level of artistic production coming out of Iceland. Novels, movies, music. Amazing.
February 18, 2026 at 2:53 PM
americans will be like “everything is a sequel or remake” and then defund school arts programs
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This is an insane story start to finish. $65k a year "AI school" heavily surveils students, generates nonsensical questions that "does more harm than good," scrapes from competitors. Stores hours of video of children insecurely. Lots more:
www.404media.co/students-are...
www.404media.co/students-are...
'Students Are Being Treated Like Guinea Pigs:' Inside an AI-Powered Private School
Leaked documents reveal the inner workings of Alpha School, which both the press and the Trump administration have applauded. The documents show Alpha School's AI is generating faulty lessons that som...
www.404media.co
February 17, 2026 at 3:49 PM
This is an insane story start to finish. $65k a year "AI school" heavily surveils students, generates nonsensical questions that "does more harm than good," scrapes from competitors. Stores hours of video of children insecurely. Lots more:
www.404media.co/students-are...
www.404media.co/students-are...
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If you're a streamer or someone who makes widgets/overlays for streams, then Eric and I have just released a cool website that we hope will help you out!
ekg.gg
A full SDK and devkit for making widgets, a marketplace to buy & sell (or get for free) widgets, and a real-time scene editor.
ekg.gg
A full SDK and devkit for making widgets, a marketplace to buy & sell (or get for free) widgets, and a real-time scene editor.
February 18, 2026 at 3:23 AM
If you're a streamer or someone who makes widgets/overlays for streams, then Eric and I have just released a cool website that we hope will help you out!
ekg.gg
A full SDK and devkit for making widgets, a marketplace to buy & sell (or get for free) widgets, and a real-time scene editor.
ekg.gg
A full SDK and devkit for making widgets, a marketplace to buy & sell (or get for free) widgets, and a real-time scene editor.
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The second best time to quit using Unity is now:
just when you think it can't get any worse, you read: "At the Game Developer Conference in March, we’ll be unveiling a beta of the new upgraded AI,which will enable developers to prompt full casual games into existence with natural language only"
February 17, 2026 at 7:44 PM
The second best time to quit using Unity is now:
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Finished up my first custom barrette design! I made a raven. Available to buy on FB once the post is approved in the group. Very happy with this one. It is 6 1/2" x 3 1/2". #indigenous #indigenousart #beadwork #crow #raven #barrette #art #beading
February 15, 2026 at 9:40 PM
Finished up my first custom barrette design! I made a raven. Available to buy on FB once the post is approved in the group. Very happy with this one. It is 6 1/2" x 3 1/2". #indigenous #indigenousart #beadwork #crow #raven #barrette #art #beading
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Fuck your ChatGPT, if I want to see a caricature of myself I will make the effort to go to the seaside and pay £15 for a cruel man to give me body dysmorphia like we’ve always done.
February 11, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Fuck your ChatGPT, if I want to see a caricature of myself I will make the effort to go to the seaside and pay £15 for a cruel man to give me body dysmorphia like we’ve always done.
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if i were not vaxxed to the gills i would be dead on the floor right now. this still sucked WITH the vaccine. jesus fucking christ on a fucking cracker i have avoided this for SIX YEARS, you ABSOLUTE GARBAGE LOSERS
February 18, 2026 at 11:43 PM
if i were not vaxxed to the gills i would be dead on the floor right now. this still sucked WITH the vaccine. jesus fucking christ on a fucking cracker i have avoided this for SIX YEARS, you ABSOLUTE GARBAGE LOSERS
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i guess sort of an overarching theme is that once you enter the reactionary slide toward something like authoritarianism or fascism, your theory of mind really narrows down to a pinhole, which is antithetical to creating art
one thing that i find interesting about this is that established artists — like, people who are objectively good at it — all seem to stop producing interesting work once they turn right wing
The decline of right wing cultural production is just due to the fact that they don’t like culture, they like the signifiers of culture, ie “classic sculpture means white people are better.” They don’t like art at all except for this purpose. They don’t even like the nerd stuff they whine about
February 18, 2026 at 10:01 PM
i guess sort of an overarching theme is that once you enter the reactionary slide toward something like authoritarianism or fascism, your theory of mind really narrows down to a pinhole, which is antithetical to creating art
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How many beads do you guess are in this? The full reveal of "If You Have Anxiety, Just Think About The Eventual Heat Death Of The Universe", part of @quirkyfox.bsky.social's Bubblegum Dystopia show, on now quirkyfox.co.nz/products/if-...
#🐡 #sciart #nebula
#🐡 #sciart #nebula
February 18, 2026 at 9:58 PM
How many beads do you guess are in this? The full reveal of "If You Have Anxiety, Just Think About The Eventual Heat Death Of The Universe", part of @quirkyfox.bsky.social's Bubblegum Dystopia show, on now quirkyfox.co.nz/products/if-...
#🐡 #sciart #nebula
#🐡 #sciart #nebula
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Happy 5th Landing-iversary to the Perseverance Mars Rover!
I made this illustration to celebrate the landing 5 years ago and it’s still an all-time personal favorite.
#sciart #spaceart #marsrover #illustration
I made this illustration to celebrate the landing 5 years ago and it’s still an all-time personal favorite.
#sciart #spaceart #marsrover #illustration
February 18, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Happy 5th Landing-iversary to the Perseverance Mars Rover!
I made this illustration to celebrate the landing 5 years ago and it’s still an all-time personal favorite.
#sciart #spaceart #marsrover #illustration
I made this illustration to celebrate the landing 5 years ago and it’s still an all-time personal favorite.
#sciart #spaceart #marsrover #illustration
A couple years ago, my mom thrifted a Toshiba Satellite laptop for $10. It's been working fine ever since, even if it's old, but as of today, it's battery is so dead, the universal charger wasn't being recognized. Works okay again with the battery popped out. Replacements are only $20, new...
February 18, 2026 at 9:42 PM
A couple years ago, my mom thrifted a Toshiba Satellite laptop for $10. It's been working fine ever since, even if it's old, but as of today, it's battery is so dead, the universal charger wasn't being recognized. Works okay again with the battery popped out. Replacements are only $20, new...
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i wanted to doodle a shinra rebel seph but ended up putting a decent amount of effort into it jbhgusrtd ah well #arttime #sephiroth #ff7
February 2, 2026 at 5:43 AM
i wanted to doodle a shinra rebel seph but ended up putting a decent amount of effort into it jbhgusrtd ah well #arttime #sephiroth #ff7
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Chat, is it bad when the wannabe dictator who demanded a billion dollars from the worst polluters on earth in exchange for everything they want comes into power and suddenly your energy costs go up?
The Trump Administration’s Actions Are Increasing Utility Bills in Michigan
Nearly 4.2 million, or 82 percent of electric utility customers in Michigan, will pay more for electricity this year due to new Trump administration policies.
www.americanprogress.org
February 18, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Chat, is it bad when the wannabe dictator who demanded a billion dollars from the worst polluters on earth in exchange for everything they want comes into power and suddenly your energy costs go up?
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Seeing the kind of hell these people put Hunter Biden, who has an addiction and traumas few could comprehend, and knowing these two silver-spined kids skate by with billions is supposed to nauseate us into submission, right?
Trump’s Sons Say Their Open Corruption Is Our Fault
Trump’s Sons Say Their Open Corruption Is Our Fault
newrepublic.com
February 18, 2026 at 9:08 PM
Seeing the kind of hell these people put Hunter Biden, who has an addiction and traumas few could comprehend, and knowing these two silver-spined kids skate by with billions is supposed to nauseate us into submission, right?
If he just changed his politics to her politics, he would cease to be "political" to her, which shows you her argument is bullshit. His politics are in accordance to his understanding of God & in opposition to the ones she--& Trump--want him to have, & people listen to him, so that's a problem.
Leavitt accuses Pope Leo XIV of being “partisan, political, and controversial.”
February 18, 2026 at 9:09 PM
If he just changed his politics to her politics, he would cease to be "political" to her, which shows you her argument is bullshit. His politics are in accordance to his understanding of God & in opposition to the ones she--& Trump--want him to have, & people listen to him, so that's a problem.