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Mo Ryan
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writer. gardener. cailleach na luatha 🦋
moryan.com 💚
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I’m writing a book about Battlestar Galactica. I wrote a book about Hollywood titled Burn It Down. I’ve been a critic & journalist for 100 years. More at links above 🌸 Abolish ICE
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Timeline cleanse: one of our two new rescue cats, Chappell Ryan. This faaaace! 😻
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ICE is still here in Minnesota.

The only difference in the “drawdown” I am seeing is a shift from the Bovino actions that were done for confrontation and conflict for the cameras to more snatch and grabs that are no less awful, if more dispersed.

Until they are all home.

Until we are all safe.
Two female ICE agents popped the hood of their car and knocked on the door of a mechanic born in Mexico. He went out to help.

“A bunch of agents jump out and tackle him, essentially restraining him, and take him away...His six kids are now without their father." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
ICE drawdown? Indications point to steady enforcement activity outside the Twin Cities
Some people who observe ICE activity are skeptical about a large scale drawdown of agents in the state. There are indications that activity has decreased in the Twin Cities, but has continued outside ...
www.mprnews.org
February 19, 2026 at 2:29 AM
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Listen closely to every word of this
February 19, 2026 at 1:16 AM
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The Ash Wednesday procession through the Chicago suburb of Melrose Park from Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church - honoring immigrants, immigration detainees and those killed by ICE & Border Patrol - has begun.

Chicago Archbishop and Cardinal Blase Cupich is near the head of the march.
February 19, 2026 at 1:50 AM
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Olympic highlight in this house.
February 18, 2026 at 5:36 PM
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With Haven Watch volunteers outside the immigration detention center in Fort Snelling — before they met freezing detainees released at the gate and gave them blankets.
February 19, 2026 at 3:25 AM
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Moon and Mercury setting next to the Griffith Observatory just moments ago. Found a good spot to take photos.
#Photography #Astrophotography
February 19, 2026 at 3:49 AM
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I have finally turned my messy thread about misogyny as a supremacist ideology, and white supremacy's dependance on misogyny to function, into a slightly less messy Medium post.

Read and/or share at will!
Misogyny is a supremacist ideology.
A lightly adapted social media thread.
emily-hauser.medium.com
February 19, 2026 at 5:17 AM
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So Bree hinted at this story a few days ago, but I want to circle back now that I have permission to share it.

WHISTLES OUT: A WHISTLE CREW MYSTERY
and the lady in our inbox who caused us to go into a Whistles Out: a Benoit Blanc Mystery spiral for half the day because she had rallied so many people to request whistles to the same town that we thought it was a scam, but no she just convinced like 700 people to mobilize and we love her so much
February 19, 2026 at 2:37 AM
Great thread, I agree with every single point Micah makes, and he doesn’t even get into one of the primary reasons I despise the pile of dog poo known as TROS with the intensity of 10 million suns — the way they fucked over the character of Rose. All too illuminating & unforgivable. Cowards.
okay you know what we're doing this

why rise of skywalker is the worst crime ever committed against cinema and the very concept of a coherent fictional universe: a thread
it is not interested in plot, it is not interested in worldbuilding, it is not interested in anything except throwing random disconnected snapshots of nostalgia at you

rise of skywalker kicks over the sandbox and leaves you uninterested in star wars in a way the prequels never did
February 19, 2026 at 3:14 AM
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organized by @clairewillett.bsky.social and @theflytrapmedia.com with host and MC @tekla.bsky.social

in support of:

--The Marsha P. Johnson Fund for BIPOC trans people in Portland
--The Twin Cities ICE Relief Fund
--UNITE HERE Local #17 (MN hospitality workers union) Hardship Fund
February 18, 2026 at 10:30 PM
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ATTENTION BLUESKY

you don't want to watch the State of the Union next week

you want to watch a PowerPoint party telethon of your favorite Bluesky super posters delivering their most unhinged hot takes to raise money for mutual aid in Twin Cities and Portland

Poster's Madness for a good cause!!!!
February 18, 2026 at 10:28 PM
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I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.

And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.
I’m constantly astounded at the sheer level of artistic production coming out of Iceland. Novels, movies, music. Amazing.
February 18, 2026 at 2:23 PM
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2026 basically
February 18, 2026 at 4:23 PM
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I just loved how clear it was that this guy with his doctorate in theology has watched the whole show at least ten times and thought SO deeply about every single frame just like the rest of us

also not for nothing but this is WAY longer than their usual pieces. they really let him cook
@clairewillett.bsky.social HOW DARE YOU MAKE MY ATHEIST ASS CRY AT THAT SPIRITUAL MEDITATION ON HEATED RIVALRY.

HOW. DARE.

😭

(It’s beautiful)
February 18, 2026 at 3:46 AM
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GUYS

GUYS OMFG

my favorite LGBTQ Catholic site published a Lenten spiritual meditation on “Heated Rivalry” and it’s genuinely so beautiful I cried??? it’s all about how queer identity/self-acceptance and queer community and queer love (including, yes, all the onscreen queer sex) are sacred things
Finding God at the cottage: A meditation on "Heated Rivalry" - Outreach
In the television show "Heated Rivalry," viewers are invited to contemplate how hope takes flesh in one's own life as a beloved child of God.
outreach.faith
February 18, 2026 at 3:35 AM
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I've been thinking a lot about what that might look like this year, and I decided that what felt right to me was using it to sit in some degree of real human detail with all the other 40+ individuals who were killed by ICE since Trump's inauguration, including but not limited to the most visible two
February 18, 2026 at 10:10 AM
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I get asked a lot what I'm giving up for Lent, and this year the answer is nothing. this is what I'm doing instead, and I'll tell you why, and you're invited to join in with me however it fits into your own spiritual or contemplative practices.

drive.google.com/file/d/15NhY...
Lenten Rosary For Victims of ICE.pdf
drive.google.com
February 18, 2026 at 10:10 AM
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🚨 Deadloch 🚨 S2 🚨 Trailer! 🐊
February 18, 2026 at 5:24 AM
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I've got this new breathing exercise I learned in meditation where you breathe in slowly through your nose and then when you exhale you breathe fire and destroy your enemies
February 18, 2026 at 4:45 AM
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The linked page has links to print the zine holders, and downloads of all of the literature. It also has a link to ongoing project from another of our members: zines translated into 29 (and counting!) languages:

drive.proton.me/urls/YA9HPYR...
February 18, 2026 at 3:14 AM
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One of our members designed these boxes! The 3d printed zine holders work with many filament brand boxes, and they've uploaded all the printables as well.

Folks in our group have been bringing them to local businesses & then going back to refill!

whistlecrew.samurailink3.com/filament_box...
February 18, 2026 at 3:12 AM
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OCEANS ARE NOW BATTLEFIELDS
February 18, 2026 at 2:49 AM
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well hey there Hugo voters

especially now that the story’s complete, i wanna say

STAR TREK VOYAGER: HOMECOMING is eligible in the Best Graphic Story or Comic category

if you deem it worthy of nominating, that’d be cool

ok thank you 🩷
Nominations are now open for the 2026 Hugo Awards!

Emails are going out to eligible nominators (those who became a member of LAcon V by January 31, 2026, or were a member of the Seattle Worldcon 2025) about how to set up their LAcon V virtual convention account.
February 18, 2026 at 3:58 AM
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GUNG HEI FAT CHOY
SUN NEEN FAI LOCK
SUN TAI GEEN HONG

Happy Lunar New Year!
February 17, 2026 at 1:58 AM