Kara Amens 🏳️🌈
@karads9.bsky.social
Engineering student, StarTrek fan, Ghostbuster, theme park and Churro enthusiast and Cosplayer ..and I do Twitch streams sometimes. She/her #notacylon
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Kara Amens 🏳️🌈
@karads9.bsky.social
· Nov 23
Hi all my new followers, it’s been a crazy week
I imagine most of you know me from the ‘other place’
But if not I’m Kara, and I typically post about Star Trek and other fun nerdy stuff
I also make costumes and props and I’m part of a Ghostbusters group that raises money for children’s hospitals
I imagine most of you know me from the ‘other place’
But if not I’m Kara, and I typically post about Star Trek and other fun nerdy stuff
I also make costumes and props and I’m part of a Ghostbusters group that raises money for children’s hospitals
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BREAKING: First Order officials are reportedly worried that, if the New Republic requires stormtroopers to remove their helmets, 75% of troopers will quit rather than be ostracised by the rest of the galaxy.
January 27, 2026 at 3:08 PM
BREAKING: First Order officials are reportedly worried that, if the New Republic requires stormtroopers to remove their helmets, 75% of troopers will quit rather than be ostracised by the rest of the galaxy.
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Aside: Some hardcore Trek fans don’t seem to like the new Starfleet Academy show, but honestly I think a Star Trek that is bros helping bros make their beds properly, and learning to use empathy to disarm their enemies, in a YA format, is exactly what we need right now from that franchise.
January 27, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Aside: Some hardcore Trek fans don’t seem to like the new Starfleet Academy show, but honestly I think a Star Trek that is bros helping bros make their beds properly, and learning to use empathy to disarm their enemies, in a YA format, is exactly what we need right now from that franchise.
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This is embarrassingly on-the-nose textbook “psychology of fascism” stuff. Bitter, impotent tools getting to feel powerful by proxy watching brutality done on their behalf.
Tim Pool: “I’m not licking the boot. It’s my boot. I voted for it. I’m the one stomping…”
This mindset is genuinely pathetic.
It’s an alpha fantasy: watching state violence and imagining you’re exercising power rather than the one submitting to it.
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This mindset is genuinely pathetic.
It’s an alpha fantasy: watching state violence and imagining you’re exercising power rather than the one submitting to it.
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January 27, 2026 at 1:00 PM
This is embarrassingly on-the-nose textbook “psychology of fascism” stuff. Bitter, impotent tools getting to feel powerful by proxy watching brutality done on their behalf.
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I spoke to Waco's Kaleb Blain, a transgender pitmaster working to create space for trans people in Texas BBQ. After being doxxed, attacked online and let go from Terry Black's, he's now forging his own path:
"I have to do this for the rest of my life."
www.chron.com/culture/arti...
"I have to do this for the rest of my life."
www.chron.com/culture/arti...
After a doxxing, a transgender Texan pitmaster forges his own way
"There's not a queer space in barbecue yet, so let's create one."
www.chron.com
January 26, 2026 at 10:01 PM
I spoke to Waco's Kaleb Blain, a transgender pitmaster working to create space for trans people in Texas BBQ. After being doxxed, attacked online and let go from Terry Black's, he's now forging his own path:
"I have to do this for the rest of my life."
www.chron.com/culture/arti...
"I have to do this for the rest of my life."
www.chron.com/culture/arti...
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The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired
January 27, 2026 at 2:07 AM
The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired
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When I say this agency [ICE and CBP] CAN’T be reformed this is why.
January 26, 2026 at 6:24 PM
When I say this agency [ICE and CBP] CAN’T be reformed this is why.
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And yeah, he infamously built his online following by mass following and mass unfollowing people to try to drive up his follower count. He's a loser. I wouldn't trust anything he has to say about TikTok or anything else.
January 26, 2026 at 7:40 PM
And yeah, he infamously built his online following by mass following and mass unfollowing people to try to drive up his follower count. He's a loser. I wouldn't trust anything he has to say about TikTok or anything else.
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Setting aside the fact that Murphy helped pass the bill that handed TikTok to Trump allies, I really don't think anyone should be citing that David Leavitt account for anything. Dude's bad news.
I know it's hard to track all the threats to democracy out there right now, but this is at the top of the list.
January 26, 2026 at 7:32 PM
Setting aside the fact that Murphy helped pass the bill that handed TikTok to Trump allies, I really don't think anyone should be citing that David Leavitt account for anything. Dude's bad news.
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USS Excelsior delivers Dr. Rosalind Lear and Ensign Tuvok to Ceti Alpha V in search of historical records of the exile of Khan Noonian Singh.
Blender render inspired by the excellent Star Trek: Khan audio drama, which I have just started listening to.
Excelsior model by Chris Kuhn.
Blender render inspired by the excellent Star Trek: Khan audio drama, which I have just started listening to.
Excelsior model by Chris Kuhn.
January 15, 2026 at 10:12 AM
USS Excelsior delivers Dr. Rosalind Lear and Ensign Tuvok to Ceti Alpha V in search of historical records of the exile of Khan Noonian Singh.
Blender render inspired by the excellent Star Trek: Khan audio drama, which I have just started listening to.
Excelsior model by Chris Kuhn.
Blender render inspired by the excellent Star Trek: Khan audio drama, which I have just started listening to.
Excelsior model by Chris Kuhn.
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Jan. 25, 1926: A future in which people around the world will watch events in real time, using devices that fit in their pockets, is foreseen by inventor Nikola Tesla. What sounds like "the magic crystal of fairy tales" will be made a reality by advances in radio technology. 1/2
January 25, 2026 at 3:28 PM
Jan. 25, 1926: A future in which people around the world will watch events in real time, using devices that fit in their pockets, is foreseen by inventor Nikola Tesla. What sounds like "the magic crystal of fairy tales" will be made a reality by advances in radio technology. 1/2
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The stained glass community says fuck ICE
January 26, 2026 at 4:09 AM
The stained glass community says fuck ICE
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TikTok has been under new leadership for like a day and I made a slideshow with posts from the ICE rally today and it immediately got out under review and is not being published. Incredible.
January 26, 2026 at 3:15 AM
TikTok has been under new leadership for like a day and I made a slideshow with posts from the ICE rally today and it immediately got out under review and is not being published. Incredible.
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these right wing clowns continuing to express absolute shock over the organizing of the left also reflects a deeply sexist ignorance of the fact that EXPERIENCED, INCREDIBLY EFFICIENT AND HARDWORKING VOLUNTEERS, PRIMARILY WOMEN, RUN THE FUCKING SHOW WITH ALMOST EVERYTHING GOOD IN THIS COUNTRY
I mostly just stay off Twitter altogether but after double checking that the Walter Hudson post was still up I ran across this and just had to share so the Romancelandians who bought hand warmers could hear about the PROFESSIONAL GRADE LOGISTICS.
January 26, 2026 at 12:44 AM
these right wing clowns continuing to express absolute shock over the organizing of the left also reflects a deeply sexist ignorance of the fact that EXPERIENCED, INCREDIBLY EFFICIENT AND HARDWORKING VOLUNTEERS, PRIMARILY WOMEN, RUN THE FUCKING SHOW WITH ALMOST EVERYTHING GOOD IN THIS COUNTRY
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That general strike scared them, eh?
January 25, 2026 at 7:56 PM
That general strike scared them, eh?
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"How many people does it take before it becomes wrong?
A thousand?
Fifty thousand?
A million?
How many people does it take, admiral?"
- Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: Insurrection
A thousand?
Fifty thousand?
A million?
How many people does it take, admiral?"
- Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: Insurrection
January 25, 2026 at 7:18 PM
"How many people does it take before it becomes wrong?
A thousand?
Fifty thousand?
A million?
How many people does it take, admiral?"
- Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: Insurrection
A thousand?
Fifty thousand?
A million?
How many people does it take, admiral?"
- Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: Insurrection
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hey everybody lifelong tech expert here
> "system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility
that's not how anything works they're lying and destroying evidence hope that helps
> "system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility
that's not how anything works they're lying and destroying evidence hope that helps
And what is happening inside ICE detention centers? 404 Media also learned that the federal government claimed that the day after it was sued for allegedly abusing detainees at an ICE detention center, a “system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility.
ICE Says Critical Evidence In Abuse Case Was Lost In 'System Crash' a Day After It Was Sued
The government also said "we don't have resources" to retain all footage and that plaintiffs could supply "endless hard drives that we could save things to."
www.404media.co
January 25, 2026 at 5:26 PM
hey everybody lifelong tech expert here
> "system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility
that's not how anything works they're lying and destroying evidence hope that helps
> "system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility
that's not how anything works they're lying and destroying evidence hope that helps
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Bovino framing performing basic acts of parenting like transporting your children as using them as human “shields” is a tell and red flag.
These people see themselves as engaged in war, not immigration enforcement.
These people see themselves as engaged in war, not immigration enforcement.
Bovino: "When you choose to use your five-year-old child as a shield to evade law enforcement, that is a choice that someone makes…"
January 25, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Bovino framing performing basic acts of parenting like transporting your children as using them as human “shields” is a tell and red flag.
These people see themselves as engaged in war, not immigration enforcement.
These people see themselves as engaged in war, not immigration enforcement.
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Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics
Let us all have the courage displayed by the residents of Minneapolis.
January 25, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics
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I just want to say that 1) AltWatcher is doing the lord's work and 2) the altnps account, in my opinion, needs to be outright banned - and I don't say that merely because I loathe it, but because it's unbelievably unhealthy for this fake, plagiarizing, qanon-lite account to have this influence.
AltNPS posted about Alex Pretti's murder 25 times since this morning. During that time, they spread misinformation about the shooting, lied about knowing the shooter's name, and generally flooded the zone with shit.
They're trying to milk this story for all it's worth.
They're trying to milk this story for all it's worth.
January 25, 2026 at 7:04 AM
I just want to say that 1) AltWatcher is doing the lord's work and 2) the altnps account, in my opinion, needs to be outright banned - and I don't say that merely because I loathe it, but because it's unbelievably unhealthy for this fake, plagiarizing, qanon-lite account to have this influence.
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The red line has come and gone.
Primary any Democrat that is not 100% with us against tyranny.
We are dying while they compromise. Enough.
Primary any Democrat that is not 100% with us against tyranny.
We are dying while they compromise. Enough.
January 25, 2026 at 4:18 AM
The red line has come and gone.
Primary any Democrat that is not 100% with us against tyranny.
We are dying while they compromise. Enough.
Primary any Democrat that is not 100% with us against tyranny.
We are dying while they compromise. Enough.
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BTW when I say abolish ICE, I mean abolish it entirely and replace it with exactly nothing. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. That's it.
January 25, 2026 at 2:32 AM
BTW when I say abolish ICE, I mean abolish it entirely and replace it with exactly nothing. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. That's it.