Gidget
@galgidget.bsky.social
Happiness is driving on a twisty bit of blacktop in the middle of nowhere | sometimes inappropriate | perpetually sleepy | she/her | queer 💖💜💙 | let me drive your cars | #SaveTheManuals
PFP: me w. my hair covering my face
Banner: a winding road in Cali
PFP: me w. my hair covering my face
Banner: a winding road in Cali
Pinned
This feels…gross?
“Apple did not say how it will use Qai's technology…Q.ai last year filed a patent application to use "facial skin micromovements" to detect words mouthed or spoken, identify a person and assess their emotions, heart rate, respiration rate and other indicators.”
“Apple did not say how it will use Qai's technology…Q.ai last year filed a patent application to use "facial skin micromovements" to detect words mouthed or spoken, identify a person and assess their emotions, heart rate, respiration rate and other indicators.”
Apple acquires Israeli audio AI startup Q.ai
Apple on Thursday said it has acquired Q.ai, an Israeli startup working on artificial intelligence technology for audio.
www.reuters.com
February 3, 2026 at 6:42 AM
This feels…gross?
“Apple did not say how it will use Qai's technology…Q.ai last year filed a patent application to use "facial skin micromovements" to detect words mouthed or spoken, identify a person and assess their emotions, heart rate, respiration rate and other indicators.”
“Apple did not say how it will use Qai's technology…Q.ai last year filed a patent application to use "facial skin micromovements" to detect words mouthed or spoken, identify a person and assess their emotions, heart rate, respiration rate and other indicators.”
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when she's bouncing on it but it's not quite your tempo
February 3, 2026 at 4:20 AM
when she's bouncing on it but it's not quite your tempo
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this is a good one storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 3, 2026 at 12:57 AM
this is a good one storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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What you want is COPWATCHING. The cameras turned on THEM.
February 2, 2026 at 11:11 PM
What you want is COPWATCHING. The cameras turned on THEM.
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If reporters cant ask him whether he’d be willing to accept that level of care himself they should just go home
Dr Oz on rural healthcare: "There's no question about it, whether you want it or not -- the best way to help some of these communities is gonna be AI-based avatars"
February 2, 2026 at 9:18 PM
If reporters cant ask him whether he’d be willing to accept that level of care himself they should just go home
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i have been made aware that an Olympic figure skater for Kazakhstan does a Dune themed routine in a full stillsuit and he is now my personal hero
February 2, 2026 at 5:22 PM
i have been made aware that an Olympic figure skater for Kazakhstan does a Dune themed routine in a full stillsuit and he is now my personal hero
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You now have a pretty good argument to just treat every person in power or with influence pushing transphobia, as a pedophile. At MINIMUM a pedophile apologist. From these emails to JK Rowling trying to have Epstein over for dinner MULTIPLE times, it's just something you have to conclude.
fuck trivers, hes in this one too (you can find the talk on his website)
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
February 1, 2026 at 9:17 PM
You now have a pretty good argument to just treat every person in power or with influence pushing transphobia, as a pedophile. At MINIMUM a pedophile apologist. From these emails to JK Rowling trying to have Epstein over for dinner MULTIPLE times, it's just something you have to conclude.
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my voice is my passport.
verify me.
verify me.
February 1, 2026 at 9:59 PM
my voice is my passport.
verify me.
verify me.
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“Every time we choose the good action or response, the decent, the valuable, it builds, incrementally, to renewal, resurrection, the place of newness, freedom, justice.”
- Anne Lamott
- Anne Lamott
February 1, 2026 at 4:48 PM
“Every time we choose the good action or response, the decent, the valuable, it builds, incrementally, to renewal, resurrection, the place of newness, freedom, justice.”
- Anne Lamott
- Anne Lamott
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I know too much about what we do to incarcerated children in the U.S. I started and ran an organization focused on this for almost 15 years. Immigrant children are being treated terribly.
February 1, 2026 at 2:25 AM
I know too much about what we do to incarcerated children in the U.S. I started and ran an organization focused on this for almost 15 years. Immigrant children are being treated terribly.
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Tear gassed children with no warning in Portland.
February 1, 2026 at 2:39 AM
Tear gassed children with no warning in Portland.
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This multibillion dollar concoction literally has to send a telegram to the mothership to find out whether the sun is shining.
I’m starting to think the people who are excited about “AI agents” have literally never used a computer in their lives
February 1, 2026 at 3:21 AM
This multibillion dollar concoction literally has to send a telegram to the mothership to find out whether the sun is shining.
Celebrating the end of the month on this 237th day of January :)
(I love these so much)
(I love these so much)
February 1, 2026 at 2:02 AM
Celebrating the end of the month on this 237th day of January :)
(I love these so much)
(I love these so much)
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My oldest asked permission to skip class and walk out with his classmates on Monday, of course I said yes. The local indivisible group is organizing to be lookouts for them bc teens protesting earlier this week got drive-by pepper sprayed.
January 31, 2026 at 10:51 PM
My oldest asked permission to skip class and walk out with his classmates on Monday, of course I said yes. The local indivisible group is organizing to be lookouts for them bc teens protesting earlier this week got drive-by pepper sprayed.
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I can’t stress this enough. The state of 4th Amendment law is that the cops can’t force you to type in a passcode but they can force you to swipe your finger or present your face. Never stop using passcodes/passwords to unlock your devices. And consider additional code to unlock Signal.
The FBI was able to access Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson's Signal messages because she used Signal on her work laptop. The laptop accepted Touch ID for authentication, meaning the agents were allowed to require her to unlock it. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 1, 2026 at 12:08 AM
I can’t stress this enough. The state of 4th Amendment law is that the cops can’t force you to type in a passcode but they can force you to swipe your finger or present your face. Never stop using passcodes/passwords to unlock your devices. And consider additional code to unlock Signal.
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It’s so hard to describe what this is like to people who aren’t here. The ICE/BCP occupation seeps into everything. It’s not just the horror of the big stuff. It’s the little stuff, too: helicopters all night, vigilance during every trip out of the house, guilt at having any downtime at all.
I've personally had barely any ICE encounters. I've done patrolling when I can. And my body is just yelling at me that it's wrecked.
Even doing a little bit is fucking taxing. Everyone doing more is a superhero, and I don't think folks who haven't been involved in an occupation understand the toll.
Even doing a little bit is fucking taxing. Everyone doing more is a superhero, and I don't think folks who haven't been involved in an occupation understand the toll.
January 31, 2026 at 5:54 PM
It’s so hard to describe what this is like to people who aren’t here. The ICE/BCP occupation seeps into everything. It’s not just the horror of the big stuff. It’s the little stuff, too: helicopters all night, vigilance during every trip out of the house, guilt at having any downtime at all.
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Celebrating incremental moves by feckless Senators while the reality of what's happening is worse than anyone can imagine is like Amy Klobuchar talking about coffee prices to the people of Minnesota from the comfort of her overstuffed leather chair in DC
I don't like to talk about stories before they are fully reported, but I am writing on ICE in a Minnesota town that isn't Minneapolis. However bad you think it is, it is worse. It is a campaign of pure terror whose only strategic goal is more terror. There is no strategy other than to break people.
January 31, 2026 at 9:49 PM
Celebrating incremental moves by feckless Senators while the reality of what's happening is worse than anyone can imagine is like Amy Klobuchar talking about coffee prices to the people of Minnesota from the comfort of her overstuffed leather chair in DC
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Is it good when a judge has to say this to the government, or
BREAKING: Federal judge orders Adrian Conejo Arias and his minor son, L.C.R., released.
"The Great Writ and release from detention are GRANTED."
"Civics lesson to the government: Administrative warrants issued by the executive branch to itself do not pass probable cause muster."
"The Great Writ and release from detention are GRANTED."
"Civics lesson to the government: Administrative warrants issued by the executive branch to itself do not pass probable cause muster."
![Ultimately, Petitioners may, because of the arcane United States immigration system, return to
their home country, involuntarily or by self-deportation. But that result should occur through a more
orderly and humane policy than currently in place.
Philadelphia, September 17, 1787: "Well, Dr. Franklin, what do we have?" "A republic, if you
can keep it."
With a judicial finger in the constitutional dike,
It is so ORDERED.
SIGNED this 31st day of February [sic], 2026.
Fred Biery
FRED BIERY
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
Credit: Bystander
Matthew 19:14
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January 31, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Is it good when a judge has to say this to the government, or
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It was predictable because it is what cops have been doing for decades.
January 31, 2026 at 6:23 PM
It was predictable because it is what cops have been doing for decades.
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DHS doesn’t even bother trying to lie well. The man whose skull was shattered told the hospital he’d been struck by ICE officers, an ICE officer told hospital staff the guy “got his sh*t rocked,” then when it became clear how badly he was injured, they claimed he deliberately ran into a wall.
January 31, 2026 at 4:59 PM
DHS doesn’t even bother trying to lie well. The man whose skull was shattered told the hospital he’d been struck by ICE officers, an ICE officer told hospital staff the guy “got his sh*t rocked,” then when it became clear how badly he was injured, they claimed he deliberately ran into a wall.
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This is precisely it.
I think they're so bad that it's almost hard to comprehend. A problem that feels too big to solve given what we already know about these people facing zero consequences. I wonder how much of that is baked into this type of reaction: people bracing themselves for the idea that nothing will happen
January 31, 2026 at 6:19 PM
This is precisely it.
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Full rights and citizenship actually means they’re not a “foreign labor class.” And that’s what he’s angry about. He’s mad citizenship is universal rather than restricted to white people like before the civil war bsky.app/profile/gbbr...
Translated "it's fine if they're slaves or indentured servants"
January 31, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Full rights and citizenship actually means they’re not a “foreign labor class.” And that’s what he’s angry about. He’s mad citizenship is universal rather than restricted to white people like before the civil war bsky.app/profile/gbbr...
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So so so many people lied and discounted the brazen mass murder of Palestinian children.
After years of denial and accusing anyone using the numbers of duplicity or Hamas sympathy, the Israeli military now admits — via anonymous briefing to domestic reporters — that the Gaza Health Ministry's death toll from the war is accurate
January 29, 2026 at 11:29 PM
So so so many people lied and discounted the brazen mass murder of Palestinian children.
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tiramisu is called tirawesu if you share it
January 27, 2026 at 9:04 PM
tiramisu is called tirawesu if you share it
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