Kirsti
@kst.bsky.social
Librarian. Geek. Music is life. I block early & often. “Always fight for the user, never for the system.”— Cory Doctorow.
Corporate suits have never understood.
I got to hear an interesting story about the production of the 2000 movie Groove, which is about a bunch of different people attending a rave one night in San Francisco.
The film was created by a bunch of people in the Bay Area rave scene. when the filmmakers tried to get funding...
The film was created by a bunch of people in the Bay Area rave scene. when the filmmakers tried to get funding...
February 15, 2026 at 6:24 AM
Corporate suits have never understood.
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A thing folks often forget about Revolution-era America is there were pockets of Catholics who’d effectively had their faith suppressed *in America* and, also, French Huguenots who were only here because Catholics in France massacred thousands of them and threw their bodies into the Seine River.
This is your regular reminder that the idea that Christianity is a thing uniform beliefs that everyone within “Western Civilization” believed and agreed on is a fiction that just ignores centuries of Christians killing each other and fighting literal wars over their different beliefs.
The Rubio speech really is appalling, and if you haven’t read it yet, you should.
www.state.gov/releases/off...
www.state.gov/releases/off...
February 15, 2026 at 2:49 AM
A thing folks often forget about Revolution-era America is there were pockets of Catholics who’d effectively had their faith suppressed *in America* and, also, French Huguenots who were only here because Catholics in France massacred thousands of them and threw their bodies into the Seine River.
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The Hague for every person involved in this
A 10-year-old boy recounted fleeing Thursday morning as a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation began near his school bus stop in Lindenwold, New Jersey, saying, "We all were scared."
"We were all scared," says child who ran as ICE operation unfolded near New Jersey school bus stop
Dylan, who is a U.S. citizen, told CBS News the day seemed normal — until he heard his classmates suddenly start shouting "ICE."
cbsn.ws
February 15, 2026 at 3:09 AM
The Hague for every person involved in this
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A friend had to work overnight recently because the llm used by the consultants his managers had hired to do sales analytics for rhe year had come back and told them to discontinue their most popular shoes in middle of hiking season because it randomly hallucinated a better selling shoe.
February 15, 2026 at 12:09 AM
A friend had to work overnight recently because the llm used by the consultants his managers had hired to do sales analytics for rhe year had come back and told them to discontinue their most popular shoes in middle of hiking season because it randomly hallucinated a better selling shoe.
The arguments in Christianity about when a heterosexual couple could be considered married lasted for 1500 years. I'm not even joking.
This is your regular reminder that the idea that Christianity is a thing uniform beliefs that everyone within “Western Civilization” believed and agreed on is a fiction that just ignores centuries of Christians killing each other and fighting literal wars over their different beliefs.
The Rubio speech really is appalling, and if you haven’t read it yet, you should.
www.state.gov/releases/off...
www.state.gov/releases/off...
February 15, 2026 at 2:08 AM
The arguments in Christianity about when a heterosexual couple could be considered married lasted for 1500 years. I'm not even joking.
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The Department of Homeland Security has had to correct information provided to at least five states after its SAVE voter tool misidentified some voters as noncitizens, according to correspondence between state and federal officials.
With @texastribune.org
With @texastribune.org
“Not Ready for Prime Time.” A Federal Tool to Check Voter Citizenship Keeps Making Mistakes.
The Department of Homeland Security pushed out the revamped tool while it was still adding data. That led to widespread misidentification, particularly for citizens born outside the U.S.
www.propublica.org
February 15, 2026 at 2:00 AM
The Department of Homeland Security has had to correct information provided to at least five states after its SAVE voter tool misidentified some voters as noncitizens, according to correspondence between state and federal officials.
With @texastribune.org
With @texastribune.org
Well yes. It's a word generator. It makes shit up.
lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard
February 15, 2026 at 2:00 AM
Well yes. It's a word generator. It makes shit up.
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i’ll end this little brainstorm by just asking what it is, exactly, that the MAGA right likes about the United States, since it explicitly rejects those things that make this nation distinctive — its pluralism, its revolutionary heritage and egalitarian aspirations, and its republican institutions
February 15, 2026 at 1:56 AM
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ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.
CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
February 15, 2026 at 1:51 AM
ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.
Worth reading the whole article
Higher intake of full-fat cheese and cream was linked to a lower dementia risk in a large Swedish study, though only in certain groups.
A 25-year study found an unexpected link between cheese and dementia
A massive Swedish study tracking nearly 28,000 people for 25 years found an unexpected link between full-fat dairy and brain health. Among adults without a genetic risk for Alzheimer’s, eating more full-fat cheese was associated with a noticeably lower risk of developing the disease, while higher cream intake was tied to reduced dementia risk overall. The findings challenge decades of low-fat dietary advice but come with important caveats.
www.sciencedaily.com
February 15, 2026 at 12:34 AM
Worth reading the whole article
Still dealing with pain after a root canal & it's been pretty hard to get under control. Better today but I don't know if it was the NSAID, magnesium, gabapentin, or combination of all 3 that did it.
February 15, 2026 at 12:07 AM
Still dealing with pain after a root canal & it's been pretty hard to get under control. Better today but I don't know if it was the NSAID, magnesium, gabapentin, or combination of all 3 that did it.
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#BHM Day 14: Warmed Earth Embrace 🧶
This is a new colorway & perfect to talk abt today as it's rooted in tenderness, freedom, & quiet intimacy. The colorway draws inspiration from Miguel Ângelo Lupi's 1879 painting depicting a formerly enslaved Black couple seated closely together.
#yarnsky
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This is a new colorway & perfect to talk abt today as it's rooted in tenderness, freedom, & quiet intimacy. The colorway draws inspiration from Miguel Ângelo Lupi's 1879 painting depicting a formerly enslaved Black couple seated closely together.
#yarnsky
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February 14, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Kid reorganized the tea shelves this morning & now I don't need to buy storage tins.
February 14, 2026 at 9:54 PM
Kid reorganized the tea shelves this morning & now I don't need to buy storage tins.
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Yesterday the students in one of my classes discussed this excellent 2018 article by historian Chris Bonner which opens with this incredible story of direct action from 1837 that, sadly, hits especially hard in 2026.
February 14, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Yesterday the students in one of my classes discussed this excellent 2018 article by historian Chris Bonner which opens with this incredible story of direct action from 1837 that, sadly, hits especially hard in 2026.
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In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 5:07 PM
In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”
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#BHM Day 13: Tranquil Teal 🧶
This boy appears in the background of a 17th-cent French painting by François Dagobert Jouvenet, positioned behind a named European figure. The boy is left unnamed himself. This young boy w/ dark skin wears a white turban & a silver collar, & holds a green
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#yarnsky
This boy appears in the background of a 17th-cent French painting by François Dagobert Jouvenet, positioned behind a named European figure. The boy is left unnamed himself. This young boy w/ dark skin wears a white turban & a silver collar, & holds a green
1/8
#yarnsky
February 13, 2026 at 11:51 PM
The Federal Way H Mart has rearranged the store & I feel more emotional about this than I probably should.
February 14, 2026 at 12:28 AM
The Federal Way H Mart has rearranged the store & I feel more emotional about this than I probably should.
Every single one of these fuckers needs to be in jail.
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
February 13, 2026 at 10:49 PM
Every single one of these fuckers needs to be in jail.
I shouldn't have come to Costco on an empty stomach when they're stocked for Lunar New Year.
February 13, 2026 at 10:42 PM
I shouldn't have come to Costco on an empty stomach when they're stocked for Lunar New Year.
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UGH we just can’t have a conversation right now about AI technologies designed expressly to fool people into the belief that they are interacting with sentient agents who care about them so that they will deliver all their private data directly into the hands of a corporate oligarchy
“The proliferation of chatbots where people are inputting sensitive legal information…has created ‘a discovery nightmare.’”
If you assumed your AI chats couldn't be used against you in court, think again
A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that prosecutors could access the Claude chat transcripts of a finance startup founder accused of fraud.
www.businessinsider.com
February 13, 2026 at 6:54 PM
UGH we just can’t have a conversation right now about AI technologies designed expressly to fool people into the belief that they are interacting with sentient agents who care about them so that they will deliver all their private data directly into the hands of a corporate oligarchy
SCA friends did some of the props for the movie The Thirteenth Warrior (filmed in British Columbia). A bunch of us did a viewing when the movie came out on DVD so we could pause to zoom in on "Gerhard's stirrup" & other props they'd made.
4 minutes into watching How To To Get To Heaven From Belfast and the "I know where that is" spotting game has already escalated to "I know who made that scarf" @saraoneill.bsky.social yer notifications must be a melt
February 13, 2026 at 6:58 PM
SCA friends did some of the props for the movie The Thirteenth Warrior (filmed in British Columbia). A bunch of us did a viewing when the movie came out on DVD so we could pause to zoom in on "Gerhard's stirrup" & other props they'd made.
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1/ Issue 228 of The Continent is out: Wagner’s info warriors, post-Prigozhin. Leaked docs reveal their influence in 22 African countries. We focus on South Africa, Mali, CAR, Niger & Angola.
February 13, 2026 at 6:49 PM
1/ Issue 228 of The Continent is out: Wagner’s info warriors, post-Prigozhin. Leaked docs reveal their influence in 22 African countries. We focus on South Africa, Mali, CAR, Niger & Angola.
Over on FB, friend of a friend has made an "AI says this about X" comment & I'm trying to decide how rude it would be to reply, "You should know that AI is just a word-generating machine that makes shit up, not a fact-checker."
February 13, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Over on FB, friend of a friend has made an "AI says this about X" comment & I'm trying to decide how rude it would be to reply, "You should know that AI is just a word-generating machine that makes shit up, not a fact-checker."
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Hugely excited to listen to this one: Meryem is major force in leading Delaware away from an unjust and unstable model of fines & fees, and is doing tremendous work to make meaningful criminal justice reforms that protect lives and individuals' rights, no matter their wealth.
🚨Ep383 Tide Shift Justice🚨
Exec Director of Tide Shift Justice Project, Meryem Dede, joins to discuss her Turkish background, her time as a public defender and the sweeping set of priorities for the newly launched TSJP
🎚️🎛️ @karlstomberg.bsky.social
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Exec Director of Tide Shift Justice Project, Meryem Dede, joins to discuss her Turkish background, her time as a public defender and the sweeping set of priorities for the newly launched TSJP
🎚️🎛️ @karlstomberg.bsky.social
www.patreon.com/posts/150586...
E383 - Tide Shift Justice (w/ Meryem Dede) | R.E. Vanella
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February 13, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Hugely excited to listen to this one: Meryem is major force in leading Delaware away from an unjust and unstable model of fines & fees, and is doing tremendous work to make meaningful criminal justice reforms that protect lives and individuals' rights, no matter their wealth.