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Ivan Gayton

@ivangayton.bsky.social

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Sakura and Kaede's dad, free migration advocate, Free Software, humanitarian, mapper, sci-fi/computer nerd, musician, citizen of Earth. He/him

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Ivan Gayton @ivangayton.bsky.social · Feb 15

Hi new people, especially those doing me the honor of following my musings!

I try to follow back anyone who follows me, unless

- Posting/replying history is empty (consider writing a post before following)
- Hateful/MAGA shit
- Crypto
- I fall behind (getting harder to keep up as Bluesky grows)

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Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 13m

Fossil fuels fund fascism. Not just here. Not just there. Everywhere.

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Ivan Gayton @ivangayton.bsky.social · 17h

-the guy with the gold ballroom whose supporters wear his mark upon their foreheads is the savior
-the autistic unarmed teenaged girl who wants to stop environmental collapse and is in jail for trying to deliver aid to war victims may be the Antichrist
-Monkey D. Luffy is Jesus

Got it, all clear

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 20h

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

I am happy that more people see that the police state is a BIPARTISAN project.

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 1d

Good people need to start outing their ICE family members, neighbors, and community members.

They need to be made into pariahs in the places decent Americans gather.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 1d

found exactly the one use of “evil recoils in the presence of Christ” I am willing to sign off on, HOOOOOOOOLY SHIT

Father Larry did not come here to fuck around

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Ivan Gayton @ivangayton.bsky.social · 1d

Jared Leto is like AI. Companies they keep including them in products with unshakable confidence that we will eagerly snap them up.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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Ivan Gayton @ivangayton.bsky.social · 1d

The position of "neutrality" between the US left and right is much like the choice between all possible types of cuisine in the world: McDonald's or Burger King.

www.theverge.com/news/798388/...

OpenAI is trying to clamp down on ‘bias’ in ChatGPT

GPT-5 is better at resisting liberal ‘pressure,’ the company says.

www.theverge.com

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☕️ Jeremy Diamond @dmnd.me · 3d

Actually amazing that practitioners of right wing grievance politics who attain positions of power tend to converge on this cosplay version of people management.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 3d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 3d

Because when you burn down a house and nobody ever rebuilds it, someone is still forced to live in the ashes

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4d

Thatcher was born 100 years ago and her reign feels a lifetime away. Why is her effect on the country still so huge? | Martin Kettle

Today’s politicians need to learn that she is not the answer to contemporary problems, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

www.theguardian.com

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 4d

I wrote they’d do exactly this in a newsletter last week and I don’t know why this wasn’t bleedingly obvious to everyone with sense.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 4d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 5d

Today, Senator Kaine and I will force the Senate to vote on the administration’s decision to blow up ships in the Caribbean.

If a president can unilaterally put people or groups on a list and kill them, there is no meaningful limit to his use of force.

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Ivan Gayton @ivangayton.bsky.social · 5d

I mean, yeah, kinda

Also some wasted time and distraction, but certainly some great things

That I can't really imagine would have happened any other way

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 5d

This very very very bad. I cannot stress this enough. I said that they crossed the Rubicon with arresting Ras Baraka several months ago. This is very bad and portends more bad things for regular people.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 5d

The President of the United States is calling for the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois to be jailed.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 5d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Ivan Gayton @ivangayton.bsky.social · 5d

"C'mon, treat yourself. Just one more mattress! You know you like mattresses, you spent days poring over mattress listings! Sooo firm, so bouncy, you deserve it!"

See also: targeted ads after shopping for a replacement for a broken toilet seat.

Ivan Gayton @ivangayton.bsky.social · 5d

From what I can see it's more federal flab than muscle

What seems to be Trumpist occupation forces disembarking in Chicago. They appear noticably well-fed.

Ivan Gayton @ivangayton.bsky.social · 5d

"Maybe don't die on Jewish hills when you need to attract Independents in order to actually take back the Reichstag."

Ivan Gayton @ivangayton.bsky.social · 5d

I suppose that could have gone either way, but I was thinking the kid, who most likely considered the abrogation of his god-given right to educate everyone with his wisdom from the school of Joe Rogan to be a justification for mass murder of the woke.

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Ivan Gayton @ivangayton.bsky.social · 5d

Saw a clip of a professor—a woman—asked by a young white male student, "may I play Devil's Advocate for a moment?" She responded in a absolutely professional and even tone "No you may not" and carried on with the discussion.

Kid was visibly stunned. Probably ended up on a water tower with an AR-15.

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 5d

"Could you pray for my celebrity sister..."

Oh, um, sorry but no, that's not really something I'd--

"--Dolly Parton?"

*knees hit floor*

‘I was up all night praying’: Dolly Parton’s sister asks fans to ‘pray with me’

Hours after the first post, Freida Parton clarified saying her sister has "been a little under the weather."

www.wsoctv.com

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Ivan Gayton @ivangayton.bsky.social · 5d

The Gravy Seals!

Ivan Gayton @ivangayton.bsky.social · 5d

I think it's the same party that has a partisan supermajority in the Supreme Court. That's the Democrats, right?

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ByteVagabond @bytevagabond.com · 6d

Open Printer: an open-source inkjet printer with no DRM, no subscriptions, and repairable parts.

Sometimes the best innovation is just making things work the way they should have all along.

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