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Dr. Fade
@fade.bsky.social
Classicist, writer, that sort of stuff. Currently teaching Latin to the youth. Yes, my dog's name is Adverb.
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Murder. And not just the one who pulled the trigger.
Holy shit.

Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.”

www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
Live Updates: Newly Released Records Detail Chaos During Fatal ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
www.nytimes.com
January 16, 2026 at 12:16 PM
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one of my sort of recurring Themes that I care about in history is: when we change the name of a place (a room, a street, a house, a website) is how long people do the "Gamma, formerly known as Delta" thing. it varies a lot and is really interesting to me
It's quite funny that my institution has decided to renumber all its rooms lately, but doesn't give out a nice concordance upon doing so. So if you've written down an old-style room number, it's basically impossible to work out what that would be now.
January 16, 2026 at 12:15 PM
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as a Canadian it is my solemn duty to inform you all that Heated Rivalry is not an accurate depiction of what it’s like to date someone who has spent the entirety of their formative years sustaining head injuries at 5 in the morning
January 16, 2026 at 4:53 AM
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might have peaked here with procgen bots speaking truth
Fellas, is it morally justifiable to log off?
January 16, 2026 at 4:59 AM
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anyway good night
January 16, 2026 at 5:51 AM
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damn it my ace ass has lived this
January 16, 2026 at 6:52 AM
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I would actually die for Roxy. she has a good soul
January 16, 2026 at 7:04 AM
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Long boi
January 16, 2026 at 9:28 AM
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General reminder for historians that this is how we're meant to dress for TV.
January 16, 2026 at 10:14 AM
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I have read it over & over again. I come back to it as I come back to Pablo Neruda's Canto XII From The Heights of Macchu Picchu (www.poemhunter.com/poem/canto-x...) and Eavan Boland's "That The Science of Cartography Is Limited" www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-06-19-bk-5888-story.html
That the Science of Cartography Is Limited, by EAVAN BOLAND
--and not simply by the fact that this shading of forest cannot show the fragments of balsam, the gloom of cypresses, is what I wish to prove.
www.latimes.com
January 16, 2026 at 10:56 AM
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Upper east side from the central park reservoir before dawn
January 16, 2026 at 11:26 AM
By the time I posted this pic he'd curled up in a tight ball again to pointedly ignore the activity and lights of foolish early-rising humans.

He believes strongly in getting his full 16 hours of sleep each day.
January 16, 2026 at 12:09 PM
He would like to speak with the manager about this whole "morning" business.
January 16, 2026 at 12:07 PM
Good morning from Adverb, who has some concerns.
January 16, 2026 at 12:05 PM
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For my stress knitters, a place in need.
Yes! Hats and scarves are great!!!!
January 16, 2026 at 4:04 AM
...I kinda hate that this is the perfect way to describe it, yes.
January 16, 2026 at 3:59 AM
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New favourite example of an eggcorn!
Heard a lad earlier talking about ‘Belgian whistles’

“A basic website costs 10k or 25k upwards if you want all the Belgian whistles”

BELGIAN WHISTLES
January 16, 2026 at 3:18 AM
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For my out-of-state friends wanting to help Minneapolis, Sanctuary Supply Depot is a grassroots mutual aid effort to support unhoused folks here. They take cash as well as in-kind donations: linktr.ee/sanctuarysup...
January 16, 2026 at 3:52 AM
I swear to god they are going to drive me right back to Christianity just so I can throw them out of it.
January 16, 2026 at 12:55 AM
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Still furious about the NYT sending five reporters (or at least that’s the byline) to talk to retired people at ten am at Ye Olde Pickle Factory in fucking Nisswa.

Yeah retired white rural Minnesotans are conservative and scared of brown people and generally pro cop. This ain’t news.
January 16, 2026 at 12:28 AM
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I've been quietly agitating for years for someone to do a lush costume drama series about Cushman's life and circle. Entire social networks of artistic and social-activist lesbians!

At the museum, I had the good luck to be able to meet Karli Wurzelbacher, the exhibit's curator who I interviewed +
January 16, 2026 at 12:39 AM
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Ghosting is praxis
With the influx of thousands of 🧊 dudes in town I really hope locals are absolutely fucking with them on the dating apps.
January 16, 2026 at 12:04 AM
Oh so that's why everyone is suddenly making snarky comments about being live on Twitch.
January 16, 2026 at 12:24 AM
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Basically Cecilia will poke around a bit of chicken she thinks smells unusual.

Napoleon will look at it and demand to know why it isn't dipped in Chilli sauce
January 16, 2026 at 12:07 AM
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still thinking about the girl who beat Path of Pain on a dance pad. hope she’s having a great day
watching a guy do a knife only resident evil speedrun and also he's using a guitar hero controller and i gotta say, i think people have gotten too good at videogames
January 15, 2026 at 6:23 PM