Data Bear 🏳️🌈
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Data and Politics.
Engineer, then academic, now engineer again.
Daytime is AI/ML research.
I care a lot about the open Internet and security. Wikipedia administrator.
Very San Francisco with an ATLien heart.
A widow who misses their husband. 🏳️🌈
Engineer, then academic, now engineer again.
Daytime is AI/ML research.
I care a lot about the open Internet and security. Wikipedia administrator.
Very San Francisco with an ATLien heart.
A widow who misses their husband. 🏳️🌈
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Data Bear 🏳️🌈
@dataandpolitics.net
· Oct 15
The Blurring
What I live with isn't forgetting, it's the blurring. A meditation on grief, memory, and continuing without answers three years after loss.
www.dataandpolitics.net
Three years after my husband died, I’m still trying to prove our life together was worth losing his family.
What I live with isn’t forgetting — it’s the blurring of memory.
On the third anniversary, I wrote about grief, memory, and continuing without answers.
www.dataandpolitics.net/the-blurring/
What I live with isn’t forgetting — it’s the blurring of memory.
On the third anniversary, I wrote about grief, memory, and continuing without answers.
www.dataandpolitics.net/the-blurring/
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10,000 people honoring Renee Nicole Good
at the site of her murder
at the site of her murder
January 8, 2026 at 3:09 AM
10,000 people honoring Renee Nicole Good
at the site of her murder
at the site of her murder
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Gorgeous, sweet Dottie's first portrait of 2026.
January 6, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Gorgeous, sweet Dottie's first portrait of 2026.
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i want to stress again that every time i try to explain this shit to normal people i sound like i have to be institutionalized
January 5, 2026 at 12:16 AM
i want to stress again that every time i try to explain this shit to normal people i sound like i have to be institutionalized
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(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 1:45 AM
(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...
Are we at war with Venezuela?
January 4, 2026 at 1:15 AM
Are we at war with Venezuela?
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It's almost difficult to communicate to people who've never worked in the industry how nearly useless Venezuelan oil is.
Everyone claiming that is why this is happening (on all sides!) is either deeply stupid or just lying.
Everyone claiming that is why this is happening (on all sides!) is either deeply stupid or just lying.
January 3, 2026 at 3:57 PM
It's almost difficult to communicate to people who've never worked in the industry how nearly useless Venezuelan oil is.
Everyone claiming that is why this is happening (on all sides!) is either deeply stupid or just lying.
Everyone claiming that is why this is happening (on all sides!) is either deeply stupid or just lying.
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one of the dumbest parts of this is the idea that oil producers actually want their holdings in venezeula back, which they do not. it’s a war for oil no one really wants.
January 3, 2026 at 9:00 PM
one of the dumbest parts of this is the idea that oil producers actually want their holdings in venezeula back, which they do not. it’s a war for oil no one really wants.
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A deluge of work on regime change after the 2003 invasion of Iraq yielded strong (and rare) agreement in IR: it doesn't work & has terrible consequences. @profdownes.bsky.social's book Catastrophic Success lays it out, but it's right there in the title. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
January 3, 2026 at 1:41 PM
A deluge of work on regime change after the 2003 invasion of Iraq yielded strong (and rare) agreement in IR: it doesn't work & has terrible consequences. @profdownes.bsky.social's book Catastrophic Success lays it out, but it's right there in the title. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
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grim posthumous scenario i had not previously considered: you post a picture of the missile headed straight for you, and are memorialized by a bunch of random assholes complaining about alt text
![A Bluesky user based in Venezuela posted 'I live near a military air base and five earth-shaking explosions were just heart.'
User @thenordic.bsky.social (a random asshole) replied 'was it too hard for you to to [sic] add a link?' along with a link to an AP piece. Quick, don't look, what do you think the odds are that this user responded gracefully to being told that OP was on the ground and reporting firsthand?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ycbmujtxprrwbkiw3x5qsyz4/bafkreieh2ddespqvcqdhpfy4g2higsw4lfiguzpaxs3rdessztcokmww6i@jpeg)
January 3, 2026 at 8:21 AM
grim posthumous scenario i had not previously considered: you post a picture of the missile headed straight for you, and are memorialized by a bunch of random assholes complaining about alt text
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This is a very beautiful building.
January 3, 2026 at 8:15 AM
This is a very beautiful building.
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You have to wonder if the strikes on the "drug boats" were just a way to test which generals would follow illegal orders wrt an undeclared war with Venezuela and weed out those who wouldn't.
November 22, 2025 at 10:55 PM
You have to wonder if the strikes on the "drug boats" were just a way to test which generals would follow illegal orders wrt an undeclared war with Venezuela and weed out those who wouldn't.
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This person went on a buying spree over the past 24 hours. Fresh wallet. Only existed since Dec 27th and has only bet on Venezuela-related markets.
polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...
polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...
January 3, 2026 at 7:49 AM
This person went on a buying spree over the past 24 hours. Fresh wallet. Only existed since Dec 27th and has only bet on Venezuela-related markets.
polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...
polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...
I am having an Iraq War seizure fever dream.
January 3, 2026 at 8:21 AM
I am having an Iraq War seizure fever dream.
What the literal fuck.
January 3, 2026 at 8:16 AM
What the literal fuck.
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Tomorrow morning Jan 3, the Sun and Moon align to pull the Earth's seas toward SF, with tides peaking over +7' around 10:30 am. We're fortunate there's little rain expected then. If you have luxury of time, visit the bayshore to see our near-future baseline
Tomorrow’s high tide will be the highest tide since 1998. 🌕
Perigean tide on a storm surge, Monterey Bay. #KingTides #MitchellsCove 🌊
January 3, 2026 at 4:53 AM
Tomorrow morning Jan 3, the Sun and Moon align to pull the Earth's seas toward SF, with tides peaking over +7' around 10:30 am. We're fortunate there's little rain expected then. If you have luxury of time, visit the bayshore to see our near-future baseline
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a loss to San Francisco and to me personally. we played there for years and years until there was really no way for us to play there. "too big" I guess but I will never be bigger in my mind than what the Bottom of the Hill is in my heart.
breaking (heart) news for SF music heads www.coyotemedia.org/san-francisc...
Beloved SF Club Bottom of the Hill to Close at the End of 2026
One of the city’s last independent music venues, Bottom of the Hill has survived waves of gentrification, COVID closures, and more throughout its 35 years. Now, owners say it’s last call — on their ow...
www.coyotemedia.org
January 3, 2026 at 12:47 AM
a loss to San Francisco and to me personally. we played there for years and years until there was really no way for us to play there. "too big" I guess but I will never be bigger in my mind than what the Bottom of the Hill is in my heart.
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Took advantage of a brief break in the rain for a walk with Morrigan.
January 2, 2026 at 9:07 PM
Took advantage of a brief break in the rain for a walk with Morrigan.