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Mezentine

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Chicago-based. Bikes. Books. Photography. Lot of politics.

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Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social · Apr 29

"Peace if possible.

Justice at any rate."

I came across that quote a few years ago while reading a biograph of Timuel Black. I think about those words.

I think about those words a lot.

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Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social · 10h

A possibility that this exists because an exec saw how obsessed his son got building a sick gaming PC.

Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social · 10h

Didn’t it come out that Disney thinks they’re failing to appeal to young-to-adolescent boys, despite both the Marvel and Star Wars purchases being made for that exact purpose?

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 23h

cowabummer

comic panel featuring Batman and a cow standing dramatically in the rain. Batman says "this is where I watched my parents die, cow tools cow."

The cow responds, her word bubble containing only the lump-with-handle cow tool.

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Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social · 10h

The only world worth fighting for is one where this is never able to happen.

Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social · 10h

Feminism has gone too far? No, feminism has not gone nearly far enough.

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Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social · 10h

Fuck these people to hell.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11h

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social · 12h

Taylor should watch Solaris (1972)

Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social · 15h

Are they going to actually meddle with people's ballots? Probably not! Probably not even these guys are *actually* going to go that far. But the number of people who can say with certainty that it isn't happening is going to keep slipping, and elections are only going to get more chaotic.

Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social · 15h

I have, through everything, remained steadfast that all of the election results between 2016 and now were "legitimate", insomuch as I do not believe there was any real interference *with the ballots that were cast*. A move like this, of course, is meant to fuck with even people like me.

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 16h

Oh www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/p...

CNN headline: Former GOP election official buys Dominion Voting
Systems, says he'll push for paper ballots

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 15h

NEW: A federal judge hands win to clergy (and others) who say ICE agents violated their religious freedom by, among other things, shooting them with pepper balls.

Also: a pastor tells me senior Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino personally shoved him last week. religionnews.com/2025/10/09/f...

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 15h

I gotta say, it's a bit rich relaunching Vertigo, "Comics! They're not just for kids!", after being lily livered cowards who hurled a trans writer under the bus for making a Kirk joke.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 16h

Jessica Ramos? The "I'm gonna endorse the predator Cuomo even though he's not even going to give me the time of day" Ramos? Is gonna say Mamdani going on *hunger strike* to win hundreds of millions of dollars of relief for taxi drivers isn't working hard enough? Fuck you know about working?

"Jessica Ramos, a state senator from a nearby district, who also ran for mayor this year, has said, “I wish he was a harder worker.”"

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Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social · 18h

Not that I expected anything different but its a truly deranged line of reasoning to try and roll out in front of a judge.

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Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social · 18h

Under this reasoning, there is no theoretical limit on the violence spiral of the federal government breaking the law to abuse residents in order to seize control and enact even more violence when people inevitably resist abuse.

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 19h

Perry: How do you respond to the plaintiffs' contention that any unrest, any violence is the fault of how federal agents are interacting with members of the public? Does it matter if their conduct is why they can't execute federal laws?
Hamilton: No.

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Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social · 19h

I believe there was some age verification functionality in a limited context that a lot of people had to upload IDs for, I don't recall all the specifics.

Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social · 19h

Please do not use any software function that requires you to upload your ID whenever humanly possible.

404 Media @404media.co · 20h

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 20h

Greetings from U.S. District Court Judge April Perry’s courtroom in the Dirksen Federal Courthouse. Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul is present, waiting for the high stakes hearing to begin. @wttw.bsky.social

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 21h

FULL STORY: As lawyers for the Trump administration defended the president’s unprecedented decision to send National Guard troops to Chicago despite the objections of Gov. Pritzker and Mayor Johnson, officials acknowledged that California troops had also been sent to Illinois. @wttw.bsky.social

Judge to Decide Whether to Block National Guard Deployment as Trump Sends California Troops to Illinois

Lawyers for the Department of Justice told U.S. District Court Judge April Perry the president deployed the National Guard because “levels of violence against federal law enforcement executing their l...

news.wttw.com

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Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social · 21h

Man, Etsy has been going downhill for a while but in this last year its basically become entirely useless, huh?

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 22h

The Atlantic, the NYT, the Post, the Free Press, Persuasion ... god, so many others ... they did it. They participated in the destruction of norms against bigotry & now bigotry is running rampant, out in the open, at the highest levels.

Great work everyone.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 22h

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.

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Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social · 22h

Ugh true

Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social · 22h

I've been trying out "GenAI" because I think Generative AI is a good umbrella term, but its easily confused for General AI, which these are not, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social · 23h

Keeping a very close eye on this.

Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 23h

Hundreds could be freed from ICE custody after a warrantless arrest ruling. blockclubchi.co/42sGDWA

Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social · 23h

You're never really going to get me to go to bat for the Catholic Church but if we have to have a pope its probably good that he says stuff like this.

112. At times, Christian movements or groups have arisen which show little or no interest in the
common good of society and, in particular, the protection and advancement of its most vulnerable and disadvantaged members. Yet we must never forget that religion, especially the Christian religion, cannot be limited to the private sphere, as if believers had no business making their voice heard with regard to problems affecting civil society and issues of concern to its members. [125]
113. Indeed, "any Church community, if it thinks it can comfortably go its own way without creative concern and effective cooperation in helping the poor to live with dignity and reaching out to everyone, will also risk breaking down, however much it may talk about social issues or criticize governments. It will easily drift into a spiritual worldliness camouflaged by religious practices,

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