Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
civilian drone mapping technology and GIS/spatial data consultant, sometimes journalist and writer, monitors small drones in the Ukraine war, humanitarian-aid adjacent, always annoying online. they/them pronouns. minors DNI
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There are numerous reports across the Twin Cities on ICE monitoring pages of drones circling apartment buildings. What valid law enforcement reason could there be for this?
I’m seeking photos and videos of drones used by ICE, like these. Please send any you have my way - trying to better understand the patterns.
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watched Sisu last night and cannot overstate how much I enjoyed “Nazis anger elemental force of determination and vengeance, suffer consequences”
great movie, no notes
great movie, no notes
January 28, 2026 at 1:52 AM
watched Sisu last night and cannot overstate how much I enjoyed “Nazis anger elemental force of determination and vengeance, suffer consequences”
great movie, no notes
great movie, no notes
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This is a lot louder in person than the video conveys.
January 28, 2026 at 2:26 AM
This is a lot louder in person than the video conveys.
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I find both the "enjoy flipping burgers" (from STEM to humanities) and the "you need us watching over you to be ethical" (from humanities to STEM) to be enormously tedious in both directions
January 28, 2026 at 1:42 AM
I find both the "enjoy flipping burgers" (from STEM to humanities) and the "you need us watching over you to be ethical" (from humanities to STEM) to be enormously tedious in both directions
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As a millennial in STEM, I feel the effects of this hard. I generally enjoy my job, but I also *never* questioned whether it was the path I wanted to take until I was in my mid-30s. Because I had several decades of presuppositions to re-evaluate.
I don't dwell on what could have been, but...damn.
I don't dwell on what could have been, but...damn.
January 28, 2026 at 1:43 AM
As a millennial in STEM, I feel the effects of this hard. I generally enjoy my job, but I also *never* questioned whether it was the path I wanted to take until I was in my mid-30s. Because I had several decades of presuppositions to re-evaluate.
I don't dwell on what could have been, but...damn.
I don't dwell on what could have been, but...damn.
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don't forget that his wife went to go sleep with Captain Ketamine for several months
Does literally anybody actually like Stephen Miller, beyond *maybe* his wife and definitely not including his actual family? What is this guy’s constituency, exactly?
Katie Miller is now jumping in to blame CBP and defend her husband.
(All of this shows how vulnerable Stephen Miller is, so we need to keep the pressure on to get him out of the administration.)
(All of this shows how vulnerable Stephen Miller is, so we need to keep the pressure on to get him out of the administration.)
January 28, 2026 at 1:45 AM
don't forget that his wife went to go sleep with Captain Ketamine for several months
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People have been weird about STEM vs humanities for a long time. Growing up we had to deal with teachers who mentally tracked students as one type or the other and adjusted to match without proper consideration. Now well-funded reactionaries want to impose this top down on the US
January 28, 2026 at 1:45 AM
People have been weird about STEM vs humanities for a long time. Growing up we had to deal with teachers who mentally tracked students as one type or the other and adjusted to match without proper consideration. Now well-funded reactionaries want to impose this top down on the US
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I mean, wattaya gonna do wit dat, open a HUMANITIES STORE?
Indeed, I think a core part of our problem right now is that people with humanities degrees and humanities jobs have felt obligated to constantly *apologize* for it for a long time now.
January 28, 2026 at 1:48 AM
I mean, wattaya gonna do wit dat, open a HUMANITIES STORE?
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For the record: I have a degree in philosophy and I write books and if you don't like either you can go fuck yourself
Indeed, I think a core part of our problem right now is that people with humanities degrees and humanities jobs have felt obligated to constantly *apologize* for it for a long time now.
January 28, 2026 at 1:49 AM
For the record: I have a degree in philosophy and I write books and if you don't like either you can go fuck yourself
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I’ve been saying schools need to move towards a THAMES model. AKA just a balanced curriculum.
It deeply annoyed me in college that all the ocean engineers learned the strategy for erecting wind farms, but none of the nuances of navigating fisheries and coastal/marine regulations
It deeply annoyed me in college that all the ocean engineers learned the strategy for erecting wind farms, but none of the nuances of navigating fisheries and coastal/marine regulations
I agree that neither the humanities nor STEM are more important or pure or whatever than the other: the thing is that we need BALANCE between the two poles, and we have very much lost that in modern U.S. society today.
January 28, 2026 at 1:49 AM
I’ve been saying schools need to move towards a THAMES model. AKA just a balanced curriculum.
It deeply annoyed me in college that all the ocean engineers learned the strategy for erecting wind farms, but none of the nuances of navigating fisheries and coastal/marine regulations
It deeply annoyed me in college that all the ocean engineers learned the strategy for erecting wind farms, but none of the nuances of navigating fisheries and coastal/marine regulations
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If his friend has got the weapons, he's a Fed 👏👏
If his friend has got the weapons, he's a Fed 👏👏
If you're running off your mouth
And his buddy lives down south
And his friend has got the weapons, he's a Fed 👏👏
If his friend has got the weapons, he's a Fed 👏👏
If you're running off your mouth
And his buddy lives down south
And his friend has got the weapons, he's a Fed 👏👏
November 23, 2024 at 5:37 AM
If his friend has got the weapons, he's a Fed 👏👏
If his friend has got the weapons, he's a Fed 👏👏
If you're running off your mouth
And his buddy lives down south
And his friend has got the weapons, he's a Fed 👏👏
If his friend has got the weapons, he's a Fed 👏👏
If you're running off your mouth
And his buddy lives down south
And his friend has got the weapons, he's a Fed 👏👏
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"We're studying sociology because Florida is trying to ban it" works well enough for me. But, really, I basically say "A sociological imagination is a useful tool for participatory citizenship" and go.
I agree that it’s high fucking time that we stopped acting like we need to grovel and constantly justify the existence of some of our most incredibly elemental and ancient human pursuits.
Are the humanities the only disciplines whose classes begin with modules speaking to the importance of studying the humanities? "Why study the humanities?" and "Why the humanities are important" must be cliches.
January 28, 2026 at 2:13 AM
"We're studying sociology because Florida is trying to ban it" works well enough for me. But, really, I basically say "A sociological imagination is a useful tool for participatory citizenship" and go.
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fully endorse, and just to careen off this into my own personal riff here: some things may be knowable, but the desire to look for them is indicative of ill intent sufficient to preclude any search.
The U.S. has successfully convinced its people that “the humanities are frivolous and STEM is Important and Real” is basically a law of nature: this is absolute nonsense that we should stop putting up with.
January 28, 2026 at 2:11 AM
fully endorse, and just to careen off this into my own personal riff here: some things may be knowable, but the desire to look for them is indicative of ill intent sufficient to preclude any search.
I should also note that I am someone who has humanities degrees and who *also* has ended up really enjoying doing a lot of STEM-Type-Work professionally: I’m a big fan of both.
And I refuse to play along with the idea that one is superior to the other.
And I refuse to play along with the idea that one is superior to the other.
I agree that it’s high fucking time that we stopped acting like we need to grovel and constantly justify the existence of some of our most incredibly elemental and ancient human pursuits.
Are the humanities the only disciplines whose classes begin with modules speaking to the importance of studying the humanities? "Why study the humanities?" and "Why the humanities are important" must be cliches.
January 28, 2026 at 2:13 AM
I should also note that I am someone who has humanities degrees and who *also* has ended up really enjoying doing a lot of STEM-Type-Work professionally: I’m a big fan of both.
And I refuse to play along with the idea that one is superior to the other.
And I refuse to play along with the idea that one is superior to the other.
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We are not here to generate shareholder value. We are here, as Vonnegut said, to fart around.
Learn to sing, draw a picture, get laid, play dominoes in the park, lowball guys selling project stock cars on your local online yardsale, go count butterflies in a field.
Learn to sing, draw a picture, get laid, play dominoes in the park, lowball guys selling project stock cars on your local online yardsale, go count butterflies in a field.
I agree that it’s high fucking time that we stopped acting like we need to grovel and constantly justify the existence of some of our most incredibly elemental and ancient human pursuits.
Are the humanities the only disciplines whose classes begin with modules speaking to the importance of studying the humanities? "Why study the humanities?" and "Why the humanities are important" must be cliches.
January 28, 2026 at 2:09 AM
We are not here to generate shareholder value. We are here, as Vonnegut said, to fart around.
Learn to sing, draw a picture, get laid, play dominoes in the park, lowball guys selling project stock cars on your local online yardsale, go count butterflies in a field.
Learn to sing, draw a picture, get laid, play dominoes in the park, lowball guys selling project stock cars on your local online yardsale, go count butterflies in a field.
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It’s 2026 and we’re still dealing with the same chuds en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...
January 28, 2026 at 2:08 AM
It’s 2026 and we’re still dealing with the same chuds en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...
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I feel even worse for the fresh graduates who ARE passionate and are seeing employers basically going "I can't trust your degree because too many students can AI cheat" in addition to all those going 'we're not hiring because the robot can do it (it can't)'
I feel genuinely awful for all those kids who got told to get computer science degrees they weren’t actually that passionate about over the last decade, only to get completely walloped on the job market due to the AI craze among executives.
January 28, 2026 at 2:08 AM
I feel even worse for the fresh graduates who ARE passionate and are seeing employers basically going "I can't trust your degree because too many students can AI cheat" in addition to all those going 'we're not hiring because the robot can do it (it can't)'
This is objectively untrue - especially right now, what with the really, really cruel collapse of the market for computer science majors due to AI.
maybe so, but at least you can get a job with STEM. Not so with the humanities
January 28, 2026 at 2:06 AM
This is objectively untrue - especially right now, what with the really, really cruel collapse of the market for computer science majors due to AI.
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A lot of the reasons why I'm as good at my STEM job as I am is either directly because of my humanities degrees and the process of getting them, or because of the family members who raised the sort of person who voluntarily doubled up on humanities degrees.
Indeed, I think a core part of our problem right now is that people with humanities degrees and humanities jobs have felt obligated to constantly *apologize* for it for a long time now.
January 28, 2026 at 2:04 AM
A lot of the reasons why I'm as good at my STEM job as I am is either directly because of my humanities degrees and the process of getting them, or because of the family members who raised the sort of person who voluntarily doubled up on humanities degrees.
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yeah, so while you shouldn’t sort people based on their willingness to step forward in this situation, the list of reps and senators who would do so is pretty fucking short.
video of the moment a man tried spraying something at ilhan omar at her town hall in minneapolis tonight
January 28, 2026 at 1:31 AM
yeah, so while you shouldn’t sort people based on their willingness to step forward in this situation, the list of reps and senators who would do so is pretty fucking short.
the nation really is being destroyed by self-hating wordcels suffering from a bizarre desire to be seen as stemlords
Extra irony that for all that it's a clique of terminal STEM Brain in power the brain trust here is people like Yarvin and Thiel who actually *do* have humanities degrees. Stephen Miller also has a degree in political science!
The U.S. has successfully convinced its people that “the humanities are frivolous and STEM is Important and Real” is basically a law of nature: this is absolute nonsense that we should stop putting up with.
January 28, 2026 at 1:58 AM
the nation really is being destroyed by self-hating wordcels suffering from a bizarre desire to be seen as stemlords
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I just feel more comfortable knowing that no matter how obscure something is that someone is looking into it and there's an expert you can call up if something happens.
January 28, 2026 at 1:57 AM
I just feel more comfortable knowing that no matter how obscure something is that someone is looking into it and there's an expert you can call up if something happens.
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They that cannot draw on three thousand years are living from hand to mouth, yes?
The U.S. has successfully convinced its people that “the humanities are frivolous and STEM is Important and Real” is basically a law of nature: this is absolute nonsense that we should stop putting up with.
January 28, 2026 at 1:54 AM
They that cannot draw on three thousand years are living from hand to mouth, yes?
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Not to mention, having been working on/had my PhD in 19c British lit for 30 years, I can reliably say that no on in my generation or the one immediately ahead of me bragged about the elite uselessness of our degrees ever. Why they are useful has been a changing narrative, but never THAT they were.
January 28, 2026 at 1:52 AM
Not to mention, having been working on/had my PhD in 19c British lit for 30 years, I can reliably say that no on in my generation or the one immediately ahead of me bragged about the elite uselessness of our degrees ever. Why they are useful has been a changing narrative, but never THAT they were.
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[walk out in my Neil Postman Fan Club smoking jacket]
as the technocratic age has developed, we’ve had broad trends to shove the humanities into more “acceptable” forms that we now call “social sciences”
as the technocratic age has developed, we’ve had broad trends to shove the humanities into more “acceptable” forms that we now call “social sciences”
The U.S. has successfully convinced its people that “the humanities are frivolous and STEM is Important and Real” is basically a law of nature: this is absolute nonsense that we should stop putting up with.
January 28, 2026 at 1:53 AM
[walk out in my Neil Postman Fan Club smoking jacket]
as the technocratic age has developed, we’ve had broad trends to shove the humanities into more “acceptable” forms that we now call “social sciences”
as the technocratic age has developed, we’ve had broad trends to shove the humanities into more “acceptable” forms that we now call “social sciences”
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This is extra funny to me because they keep envisioning some network of high level well trained antifa operatives being behind all this instead of what’s really going on: everyone fucking hates them.
Again: sounds like some little MAGA turd convinced some people in Minneapolis to add him to a few gigantic and minimally vetted Signal group chats. Zero fancy technology is required to do this.
Do not flatter the Trump admin by assuming they’re better at this than they actually appear to be.
Do not flatter the Trump admin by assuming they’re better at this than they actually appear to be.
January 28, 2026 at 1:53 AM
This is extra funny to me because they keep envisioning some network of high level well trained antifa operatives being behind all this instead of what’s really going on: everyone fucking hates them.