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Now I'm home shaking up pineapple juice Bourbon egg bitters honey about to re-watch Paddington in Peru
January 27, 2026 at 2:03 AM
feather.bsky.social
can't feel cozy right now because my cat is acting strange and we can't take her to the vet because of the blizzard... light a candle for my beloved Hana 🖤︎🖤︎🖤︎
January 25, 2026 at 10:04 PM
feather.bsky.social
Love to sit here and say insane things to passing adventurers
January 23, 2026 at 7:46 PM
feather.bsky.social
@maxbittker.bsky.social want to make sure you caught my tribute to a classic fucked up early website (the sewing machine website with huge stack of unclosed

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feather.bsky.social Tfthggggttrf @feather.bsky.social · 20d
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January 21, 2026 at 4:36 PM
feather.bsky.social
this type of stats-based apocalyptic flattening is quietly deranged but also so appealing to me. write in Norma Desmond for Super Smash Brothers 18 / Space Jam III / AvPvND. "marksmanship"!
January 21, 2026 at 2:25 AM
feather.bsky.social
Just had a very deep convo with Solid Sam and I promised that I'd have a harsh noise cd-r out on Feb 14 and if not I'd give them $100 cash
January 21, 2026 at 12:03 AM
feather.bsky.social
Elle Fanning's birth name was Blunt Passing
January 20, 2026 at 1:02 PM
feather.bsky.social
cow tools news
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows
Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in different ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees
www.theguardian.com
January 20, 2026 at 1:42 AM
feather.bsky.social
We had all this heavy cream in the employee fridge today so I took some home and made BUTTER. Now I'm crying because so many will never reach my level
January 20, 2026 at 12:06 AM
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tombubul.bsky.social
Attached in full & worth reading , alt text is across all four bsky.app/profile/cmon...
Renfrew Christie, a South African scholar whose undercover work for the African National Congress was critical in hobbling the apartheid government’s secret nuclear weapons program in the 1980s, died on Dec. 21 at his home in Cape Town. He was 76. The cause of death was pneumonia, his daughter Camilla Christie said. President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa paid tribute to Dr. Christie after his death, saying his “relentless and fearless commitment to our freedom demands our appreciation.” The A.N.C., in a statement, called Dr. Christie’s role “in disrupting and exposing the apartheid state’s clandestine nuclear weapons program” an “act of profound revolutionary significance.” From the doctoral dissertation he had written at the University of Oxford on the history of electricity in South Africa, Dr. Christie provided the research needed to blow up the Koeberg Nuclear Power Station; the Arnot coal-fired power station; the Sasol oil-from-coal facilities that produced the heavy water critical to producing nuclear weapons; and other critical sites. The explosions set back South Africa’s nascent nuclear weapons program by years and cost the government more than $1 billion, Dr. Christie later estimated. By the time the bombs began going off, planted by his colleagues in uMkhonto we Sizwe, the paramilitary wing of the A.N.C., Dr. Christie was already in prison. He was arrested by South African authorities in October 1979 on charges of “terrorism,” three months after completing his studies at Oxford, and spent the next seven years in prison, some of that time on death row and in solitary confinement. “While I was in prison, everything I had ever researched was blown up,” he said in a speech in 2023. Terrorism was a capital offense, and Dr. Christie narrowly escaped hanging. But as he later recounted, he was deliberately placed on the death row closest to the gallows at the Pretoria Maximum Security Prison. For two and half years, he was forced to listen to the hangings of more than 300 prisoners. “The whole prison would sing for two or three days before the hanging, to ease the terror of the victims,” Dr. Christie recalled at a 2013 conference at the University of the Western Cape on laws regarding torture. Then he recited the lyrics of an anti‐apartheid folk song that reverberated in the penitentiary: “‘Senzeni-na? Senzeni-na? What have we done? What have we done?’ It was the most beautiful music on earth, sung in a vile place.” “At zero dark hundred,” he continued, “the hanging party would come through the corridors to the gallows, slamming the gates behind them on the road to death. Once they were at the gallows there was a long pause. Then — crack! — the trapdoors would open, and the neck or necks of the condemned would snap. A bit later came the hammering, presumably of nails into the coffins.” In an interview years later with the BBC, he said the “gruesome” experience affected him for the rest of his life. Dr. Christie acquired his fierce antipathy to apartheid at a young age, growing up in an impoverished family in Johannesburg. Many of his family members fought with the Allied forces against the Germans in World War II, and “I learned from them very early that what one does with Nazis is kill them,” he said at a 2023 conference on antinuclear activism in Johannesburg. “I am not a pacifist.” At 17, he was drafted into the South African Army. A stint of guard duty at the Lenz ammunition dump south of Johannesburg confirmed his suspicions that the government was building nuclear weapons. “From the age of 17, I was hunting the South African bomb,” he said at the conference. After attending the University of the Witwatersrand, he received a scholarship to Oxford, which enabled him to further his quest. For his doctoral dissertation, he chose to study South Africa’s history of electrification, “so I could get into the electricity supply commission’s library and archives, and work out how much electricity they were using to enrich uranium,” he told the BBC. From there, it was possible to calculate how many nuclear bombs could be produced. Six such bombs had reportedly been made by the end of apartheid in the early 1990s; the United States had initially aided the regime’s nuclear program. Thanks to the system of forced labor, South Africa “made the cheapest electricity in the world,” Dr. Christie said, which aided the process of uranium enrichment and made the country’s nuclear program a magnet for Western support. (South Africa also benefited from its status as a Cold War ally against the Soviet Union.) Dr. Christie turned his findings over to the A.N.C. Instead of opting for the safety of England — there was the possibility of a lecturer position at Oxford — he returned home and was arrested by South Africa’s Security Police. He had been betrayed by Craig Williamson, a fellow student at Witwatersrand, who had become a spy for the security services and was later granted amnesty by South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. After 48 hours of torture, Dr. Christie wrote a forced confession — “the best thing I ever wrote,” he later told the BBC, noting that he had made sure the confession included “all my recommendations to the African National Congress” about the best way to sabotage Koeberg and other facilities. The Koeberg Nuclear Power Station in Cape Town was one of the sites Dr. Christie helped sabotage, setting back apartheid South Africa’s nascent nuclear weapons program. Credit...Esa Alexander/Reuters “And, gloriously, the judge read it out in court,” Dr. Christie added. “So my recommendations went from the judge’s mouth” straight to the A.N.C. Two years later, in December 1982, Koeberg was bombed by white A.N.C. operatives who had gotten jobs at the facility. They followed Dr. Christie’s instructions to the letter. “Of all the achievements of the armed struggle, the bombing of Koeberg is there,” Dr. Christie said at the 2023 conference, emphasizing its importance. “Frankly, when I got to hearing of it, it made being in prison much, much easier to tolerate.” [...] He attended King Edward VII School in Johannesburg and was conscripted into the army immediately after graduating. After his discharge, he enrolled at Witwatersrand. He was twice arrested after illegally visiting Black students at the University of the North at Turfloop, and was also arrested during a march on a police station where he said the anti-apartheid activist Winnie Mandela was being tortured. He didn’t finish the course at Witwatersrand, instead earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Cape Town in the mid-1970s before studying at Oxford. At Cape Town, he was a leader of the National Union of South African Students, an important anti-apartheid organization. On June 6, 1980, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison under South Africa’s Terrorism Act, with four other sentences of five years each to run concurrently. “I spent seven months in solitary,” Dr. Christie said in the 2023 speech. “Don’t let anybody kid you: No one comes out of solitary sane. My nightmares are awful.” After his years in prison, he was granted amnesty in 1986 as the apartheid regime began to crumble. (It officially ended in 1994, when Nelson Mandela became the country’s first Black president.) He later had a long academic career at the University of the Western Cape, retiring in 2014 as dean of research and senior professor. [...] Asked by the BBC whether he was glad he had spied for the A.N.C., Dr. Christie didn’t hesitate. “I was working for Nelson Mandela and uMkonto we Sizwe,” he said. “I’m very proud of that. We won. We got a democracy.”
January 19, 2026 at 10:20 PM
feather.bsky.social
Talked to the new manager about doing Motown Mondays at the grocery store, I think it's a go
January 19, 2026 at 2:37 PM
feather.bsky.social
Str8 up do not want to think about 2016
January 17, 2026 at 10:33 PM
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davidrussellmoore.bsky.social
Here is an up-to-date interactive of companies getting paid by ICE as the agency raids cities. From Trump-donating prison contractors like GEO Group to MAGA firms like Palantir to brand names like Deloitte and others. Free:
The Companies Behind ICE
Sludge built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration.
readsludge.com
January 16, 2026 at 8:39 PM
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corwoodtonight.bsky.social
Waiting for the death of ice
The lightness of the morning streets
The confidence of the wind

0803:3:65
January 15, 2026 at 5:40 PM
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depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social
wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
January 15, 2026 at 1:47 PM
feather.bsky.social
Taterbug has a great instagram business flipping antique jums-- it's really nice even if you don't have the Gasoline Weirdo context
January 10, 2026 at 3:07 PM
feather.bsky.social
Been listening to lots of Mark Fisher lectures at work and this week I downloaded an audiobook of someone else reading the transcript of his last semester of classes, which builds up to what might've been his last book. It's nice, but eerie, and very very very hauntologied. RIP :(
January 9, 2026 at 4:05 PM
feather.bsky.social
Don't know if this is online mind or regular (?) but I'm desperate to goss about my coworkers like its a television programme
January 9, 2026 at 2:12 PM
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seva.bsky.social
abolish ice is the moderate position to be honest. whichever candidate promises to nuremberg the ice agents has my vote at this point
January 7, 2026 at 8:39 PM
feather.bsky.social
Fuck this I'm going to get an ice cream cone
January 7, 2026 at 9:04 PM
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sweetvoiced.bsky.social
reblog for prosperity in the new year
craigslist posting with blurry photo of a grey lionhead rabbit with caption "Free monies"
November 15, 2025 at 2:11 AM
feather.bsky.social
I take my role as Greg's webmaster very seriously remoteoutposts.com
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January 7, 2026 at 12:22 AM
feather.bsky.social
you guys ever fuck with rosemary tea? it's just rosemary in hot water and it tastes exactly like only rosemary and nothing else, which i respect. i sip it in peace, harming no one, and pretend i'm a roasted potato. ymmv
January 5, 2026 at 11:50 PM
feather.bsky.social
Started aggressively saying Ellen's name in Shabba Ranks vox even tho kids (in their 30s) have zero recall for Mr Lover Lover
January 5, 2026 at 6:33 PM
feather.bsky.social
Got someone new making the cookies at work and I'm trying to explain "quality control" b/w "this one looks like it's gonna break" but she's not picking up what I'm laying down. Kinda more of a week 2 concept
January 5, 2026 at 6:13 PM