Dappled
@frecklesreign.bsky.social
Catholic, wife, mom.
Loves to read.
Thinks humans should be good to each other.
Loves to read.
Thinks humans should be good to each other.
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GM: Charisma check.
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
February 7, 2026 at 5:01 AM
GM: Charisma check.
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
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I stand with County Executive Calvin Ball as he signs emergency legislation today prohibiting privately owned buildings from being used as ICE detention centers.
Howard County chose dignity, accountability, and its people. Tune into our event now:
bit.ly/4a2VtHw
Howard County chose dignity, accountability, and its people. Tune into our event now:
bit.ly/4a2VtHw
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February 6, 2026 at 4:18 PM
I stand with County Executive Calvin Ball as he signs emergency legislation today prohibiting privately owned buildings from being used as ICE detention centers.
Howard County chose dignity, accountability, and its people. Tune into our event now:
bit.ly/4a2VtHw
Howard County chose dignity, accountability, and its people. Tune into our event now:
bit.ly/4a2VtHw
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New filter blockades announced:
25th & Lyndale
22nd & Pillsbury
Thomas & Ashbury in St. Paul
and our homie reports that we "need more firewood" at the revamped 35th & Bloomington barricade.
25th & Lyndale
22nd & Pillsbury
Thomas & Ashbury in St. Paul
and our homie reports that we "need more firewood" at the revamped 35th & Bloomington barricade.
February 7, 2026 at 6:43 PM
New filter blockades announced:
25th & Lyndale
22nd & Pillsbury
Thomas & Ashbury in St. Paul
and our homie reports that we "need more firewood" at the revamped 35th & Bloomington barricade.
25th & Lyndale
22nd & Pillsbury
Thomas & Ashbury in St. Paul
and our homie reports that we "need more firewood" at the revamped 35th & Bloomington barricade.
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A new form of time crystal has been observed: levitating particles suspended by Sound Waves, interacting nonreciprocally and visible to the naked eye, challenging Newton’s Third Law (for every action (force) in nature, there is an equal and opposite reaction). journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...
Nonreciprocal Wave-Mediated Interactions Power a Classical Time Crystal
A pair of acoustically levitated beads powered by nonreciprocal interactions can spontaneously organize into a continuous time crystal, a state of matter that sustains steady-state oscillations withou...
journals.aps.org
February 7, 2026 at 1:07 AM
A new form of time crystal has been observed: levitating particles suspended by Sound Waves, interacting nonreciprocally and visible to the naked eye, challenging Newton’s Third Law (for every action (force) in nature, there is an equal and opposite reaction). journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...
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In case this gives you a moment of zen, video for sound of frogs having a good time.
February 6, 2026 at 6:06 PM
In case this gives you a moment of zen, video for sound of frogs having a good time.
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"Voter suppression is one of the core tools of authoritarianism. It is how you shift from democracy to autocracy. And for millions of Americans, it’s about to become the norm"
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...
How Autocrats Meddle With Elections
The Trump administration has its eyes on the midterms and beyond.
www.theatlantic.com
February 6, 2026 at 12:09 PM
"Voter suppression is one of the core tools of authoritarianism. It is how you shift from democracy to autocracy. And for millions of Americans, it’s about to become the norm"
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...
Racism is evil.
Last night, Trump posted a video to his social media platform that contained a racist clip showing Barack and Michelle Obama as monkeys. It's still up:
February 6, 2026 at 1:19 PM
Racism is evil.
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Thanks @bsky.app, I can't access Chat messages because of the terrible, data-farming age verification service you contracted to do it. Not only does KWS want my SSN, Credit Card, or ID, (which isn't necessary), but it doesn't work anyway!
February 6, 2026 at 12:38 PM
Thanks @bsky.app, I can't access Chat messages because of the terrible, data-farming age verification service you contracted to do it. Not only does KWS want my SSN, Credit Card, or ID, (which isn't necessary), but it doesn't work anyway!
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I have determined that everything right now is All Too Much and it needs to be Considerably Less, so if reality could just dial it down a fucking iota or two, I think we'd all like that
February 4, 2026 at 8:33 PM
I have determined that everything right now is All Too Much and it needs to be Considerably Less, so if reality could just dial it down a fucking iota or two, I think we'd all like that
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Wow, these paper flowers from 11th-century China are amazingly well-preserved. [thisiscolossal.com]
These 1,000-Year-Old Paper Flowers, Sealed in a Cave, Are a Marvel of Preservation
Among the Mogao Caves' nearly 500 chambers and temples, a space known as Cave 17 revealed thousands of extraordinary objects.
www.thisiscolossal.com
February 4, 2026 at 7:12 PM
Wow, these paper flowers from 11th-century China are amazingly well-preserved. [thisiscolossal.com]
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i want this for canada too, and it will only come through dependable public funding of journalism along the lines that exist in some european (particularly nordic) countries.
we need to stop letting conservatives and old-guard figures who arose in a different era try to discredit public funding.
we need to stop letting conservatives and old-guard figures who arose in a different era try to discredit public funding.
I want smaller newspapers with actual fact-based reporting made by people who are paid more to work less and I'm not kidding.
February 4, 2026 at 6:10 PM
i want this for canada too, and it will only come through dependable public funding of journalism along the lines that exist in some european (particularly nordic) countries.
we need to stop letting conservatives and old-guard figures who arose in a different era try to discredit public funding.
we need to stop letting conservatives and old-guard figures who arose in a different era try to discredit public funding.
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What’s up with the government lawyer who told a federal judge in Minnesota on Tuesday that “the system sucks” and her “job sucks”?
I have you covered at Law Dork:
I have you covered at Law Dork:
"The system sucks," or what a federal lawyer's comments really tell us about the Trump admin
Julie Le's comments are shocking, but they are a problem of the Trump admin’s own making. And it goes way beyond one lawyer new to the Minnesota U.S. Attorney's Office.
www.lawdork.com
February 4, 2026 at 4:00 PM
What’s up with the government lawyer who told a federal judge in Minnesota on Tuesday that “the system sucks” and her “job sucks”?
I have you covered at Law Dork:
I have you covered at Law Dork:
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What real heroism looks like is you drive past a school and it’s 7am and it’s -3 out and there are four dads posted at every door scanning every passing car to be sure it’s not someone coming to take the children. And you drive by at noon and they’re there. And you drive by at 3pm and they’re there
Anyway the real heroes of Minnesota are the countless volunteers doing boring shifts where nothing happens. The mom of three delivering food to 40 families in her kids’ school. The dad standing at the door of an elementary with a whistle for hours. The drivers endlessly looping, seeing nothing.
February 3, 2026 at 1:02 AM
What real heroism looks like is you drive past a school and it’s 7am and it’s -3 out and there are four dads posted at every door scanning every passing car to be sure it’s not someone coming to take the children. And you drive by at noon and they’re there. And you drive by at 3pm and they’re there
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This is excellent. I love the skill and the demonstration of early science.
From 1066 to Robin Hood, longbows are an iconic part of English history - and what's a bow without its arrows? Blacksmith Joe Tyler and craftsman Lewis Beck show us how to make a replica Saxon arrow based on local archaeology!
Watch & Subscribe: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVae...
Watch & Subscribe: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVae...
How to Forge and Fletch a Saxon Arrowhead
YouTube video by Butser Ancient Farm
www.youtube.com
February 4, 2026 at 10:04 AM
This is excellent. I love the skill and the demonstration of early science.
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A #Roman glass bowl in cobalt blue with white irregular swirls; it was made about 2000 years ago, probably in Italy, but ended up in a C1st AD grave in Roman Britain
#AncientBlueSky #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientRome
#AncientBlueSky #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientRome
February 3, 2026 at 8:19 PM
A #Roman glass bowl in cobalt blue with white irregular swirls; it was made about 2000 years ago, probably in Italy, but ended up in a C1st AD grave in Roman Britain
#AncientBlueSky #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientRome
#AncientBlueSky #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientRome
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I am blocked by @pookleblinky.bsky.social so I can't quote this fantastic post of theirs, but maybe you can.
Love their message: we can ABSOLUTELY do this, and I believe it is the primary reason the worst people in the world fought so hard to defeat Mamdani: he will keep his promises. 1/2
Love their message: we can ABSOLUTELY do this, and I believe it is the primary reason the worst people in the world fought so hard to defeat Mamdani: he will keep his promises. 1/2
February 3, 2026 at 8:30 PM
I am blocked by @pookleblinky.bsky.social so I can't quote this fantastic post of theirs, but maybe you can.
Love their message: we can ABSOLUTELY do this, and I believe it is the primary reason the worst people in the world fought so hard to defeat Mamdani: he will keep his promises. 1/2
Love their message: we can ABSOLUTELY do this, and I believe it is the primary reason the worst people in the world fought so hard to defeat Mamdani: he will keep his promises. 1/2
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happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
February 3, 2026 at 4:19 PM
happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
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Even if you don't have time to read all 83 pages of Judge Reyes's opinion barring the Trump administration from rescinding Temporary Protected Status for 350,000+ Haitians, please at least check out the four-page introduction.
It's a tour de force:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
It's a tour de force:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
!["On December 2, 1783, then-Commander-in-Chief George Washington penned: “America is open to receive not only the Opulent & respected Stranger, but the oppressed & persecuted of all Nations & Religions.”1
More than two centuries later, Congress reaffirmed President Washington’s vision by establishing the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program. See 8 U.S.C. § 1254a (TPS statute). It provides humanitarian relief to foreign nationals in the United States who come from disaster-stricken countries. It also brings in substantial revenue, with TPS holders generating $5.2 billion in taxes annually. See Part VI.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem has a different take. [screenshot of tweet].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nwnlnixtjh3qhkwpz2uy5uwv/bafkreicrroq5taft777rmau2ffjlsphbcatlxnwwigf2yekoke533yycim@jpeg)
![has terminated every TPS country designation to have reached her desk—twelve countries up,
twelve countries down. See Section IV.A.2. Her conclusion that Haiti (a majority nonwhite
country) faces merely “concerning” conditions cannot be squared with the “perfect storm of
suffering” and “staggering” “humanitarian toll” described in page-after-page of the Certified
Administrative Record (CAR). See Section IV.A.3.a. She ignored Congress’s requirement that
she “review the conditions” in Haiti only “after” consulting “with appropriate agencies.” 8
U.S.C. § 1254a(b)(3)(A); see Section IV.A.1. Indeed, she did not consult other agencies at all.
See id. Her “national interest” analysis focuses on Haitians outside the United States or here
illegally, ignoring that Haitian TPS holders already live here, and legally so. See Section
IV.A.3.b. And though she states that the analysis must include “economic considerations,” she
ignores altogether the billions Haitian TPS holders contribute to the economy. See id.
The Government’s primary response is that the TPS statute gives the Secretary
unbounded discretion to make whatever determination she wants, any way she wants. And, yes,
the statute does grant her some discretion. But not unbounded discretion. To the contrary,
Congress passed the TPS statute to standardize the then ad hoc temporary protection system—to
replace executive whim with statutory predictability. See Section I.A.
As to irreparable harm, the Government contends that, at most, the harms to Haitian TPS
holders are speculative. But the Department of State (State) warns [screenshot]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nwnlnixtjh3qhkwpz2uy5uwv/bafkreid3cmawech25ummuj2tjvgxsrvufma2kmrijlfpglalwddd3qkikq@jpeg)
February 3, 2026 at 1:06 AM
Even if you don't have time to read all 83 pages of Judge Reyes's opinion barring the Trump administration from rescinding Temporary Protected Status for 350,000+ Haitians, please at least check out the four-page introduction.
It's a tour de force:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
It's a tour de force:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Decided to drop a quick little thing-of-thoughts at the blog about IRON LUNG, should you be a person who cares:
Iron Lung: What A Very Good, Very Weird Thing
Movies like this don’t generally get to exist. Sorry — to rewind here a bit, I saw Iron Lung, the (very indie) Markiplier movie that adapts the David Szymanski game of the same name. To…
terribleminds.com
February 2, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Decided to drop a quick little thing-of-thoughts at the blog about IRON LUNG, should you be a person who cares:
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Blessed Natalia Tułasiewicz pray for us
She was a Polish teacher & Catholic lay apostle who aided those forced from their homes into Nazi labor. Active in the Underground she was imprisoned at Ravensbrück & killed in the gas chambers two days before the camp was liberated. She was beatified in 1999
She was a Polish teacher & Catholic lay apostle who aided those forced from their homes into Nazi labor. Active in the Underground she was imprisoned at Ravensbrück & killed in the gas chambers two days before the camp was liberated. She was beatified in 1999
February 2, 2026 at 10:36 PM
Blessed Natalia Tułasiewicz pray for us
She was a Polish teacher & Catholic lay apostle who aided those forced from their homes into Nazi labor. Active in the Underground she was imprisoned at Ravensbrück & killed in the gas chambers two days before the camp was liberated. She was beatified in 1999
She was a Polish teacher & Catholic lay apostle who aided those forced from their homes into Nazi labor. Active in the Underground she was imprisoned at Ravensbrück & killed in the gas chambers two days before the camp was liberated. She was beatified in 1999
Groundhog Day is such a weird holiday!
February 2, 2026 at 10:39 PM
Groundhog Day is such a weird holiday!
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Amazing coda here.
February 2, 2026 at 11:44 AM
Amazing coda here.
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“Essential reading.” - Bugs B.
“Utter garbage.” - Daffy D.
“Utter garbage.” - Daffy D.
February 1, 2026 at 3:02 PM
“Essential reading.” - Bugs B.
“Utter garbage.” - Daffy D.
“Utter garbage.” - Daffy D.
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The year is 2026. The evil fascist dictator of the United States is a D-list celebrity slumlord with dementia. The heroes of the resistance are the citizens of Minnesota, the Chicago Pope, and Bill Kristol.
Defund ICE.
Disable the grift.
Disempower the Epstein class.
Defy authoritarianism.
Discredit Trumpism.
Deconstruct MAGA.
Defeat the GOP.
Thank you for your attention to these matters.
Disable the grift.
Disempower the Epstein class.
Defy authoritarianism.
Discredit Trumpism.
Deconstruct MAGA.
Defeat the GOP.
Thank you for your attention to these matters.
February 1, 2026 at 6:21 PM
The year is 2026. The evil fascist dictator of the United States is a D-list celebrity slumlord with dementia. The heroes of the resistance are the citizens of Minnesota, the Chicago Pope, and Bill Kristol.