Caer Jones
@mystiknomad.bsky.social
A collection of my thinky-thoughts. Expect posts on progressive politics, quotes from M/M romance novels, and anything else that strikes my fancy.
Profile pic is "Merchant's Wife at Tea" by Boris Kustodiev, painted in 1918.
Profile pic is "Merchant's Wife at Tea" by Boris Kustodiev, painted in 1918.
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On the other side of this—win or lose—whether the boycotts shift the balance (they do), we’ll be able to tell our people: we did everything possible. We refused to fund the machine that devours the world.
Please follow and help spread this boycott guide.
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Please follow and help spread this boycott guide.
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Psycho Pete's Living Guide to Boycotting the Big Orange Menace
The beast eats money. Don't feed it with yours.
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December 10, 2025 at 2:56 AM
On the other side of this—win or lose—whether the boycotts shift the balance (they do), we’ll be able to tell our people: we did everything possible. We refused to fund the machine that devours the world.
Please follow and help spread this boycott guide.
psychopete1.substack.com/p/psycho-pet...
Please follow and help spread this boycott guide.
psychopete1.substack.com/p/psycho-pet...
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Firing over 100 immigration judges.
Arresting immigrants outside of their immigration hearings.
Pausing asylum decisions.
And now? Cancelling citizenship ceremonies, the final step to becoming a U.S. citizen.
Just remember that Trump never cared about "legal immigration."
Arresting immigrants outside of their immigration hearings.
Pausing asylum decisions.
And now? Cancelling citizenship ceremonies, the final step to becoming a U.S. citizen.
Just remember that Trump never cared about "legal immigration."
December 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Firing over 100 immigration judges.
Arresting immigrants outside of their immigration hearings.
Pausing asylum decisions.
And now? Cancelling citizenship ceremonies, the final step to becoming a U.S. citizen.
Just remember that Trump never cared about "legal immigration."
Arresting immigrants outside of their immigration hearings.
Pausing asylum decisions.
And now? Cancelling citizenship ceremonies, the final step to becoming a U.S. citizen.
Just remember that Trump never cared about "legal immigration."
One of THE most stressful parts of moving is that my safe foods will have to be completely revamped. Again. Many of my go-tos are HEB-specific, and that grocery store is only in Texas. I'm so glad my dietitian got licensed in Louisiana so she could continue helping me! #ARFID #actuallyautistic
December 9, 2025 at 6:06 PM
One of THE most stressful parts of moving is that my safe foods will have to be completely revamped. Again. Many of my go-tos are HEB-specific, and that grocery store is only in Texas. I'm so glad my dietitian got licensed in Louisiana so she could continue helping me! #ARFID #actuallyautistic
I move in a week. I'm pretty much on schedule despite the hospitalization, but I'm still stressing out. You'd think I'd be used to moving by now! I literally can't count the number of times I've done this.
December 6, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I move in a week. I'm pretty much on schedule despite the hospitalization, but I'm still stressing out. You'd think I'd be used to moving by now! I literally can't count the number of times I've done this.
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842,000 Americans died from overdoses in the last 25 years, 500,000 from opioids. If we’re hunting narco-terrorists we can probably stop blowing up fishing boats and start blowing up boardrooms.
December 5, 2025 at 4:02 AM
842,000 Americans died from overdoses in the last 25 years, 500,000 from opioids. If we’re hunting narco-terrorists we can probably stop blowing up fishing boats and start blowing up boardrooms.
I MEAN.
"Does this feel like or look like a well-run competent administration? It took them 10 months to discover that the United States doesn't grow bananas and that therefore if we tariff bananas that that's not going to bring banana factories on shore."
December 4, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I MEAN.
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You can’t tell if someone is disabled just by looking at them.
There’s no such thing as the “genuinely disabled”.
You are not entitled to a person’s entire medical history just so you can decide whether to believe them or not.
People are not faking disability, most are trying to fake being well.
There’s no such thing as the “genuinely disabled”.
You are not entitled to a person’s entire medical history just so you can decide whether to believe them or not.
People are not faking disability, most are trying to fake being well.
December 4, 2025 at 5:52 AM
You can’t tell if someone is disabled just by looking at them.
There’s no such thing as the “genuinely disabled”.
You are not entitled to a person’s entire medical history just so you can decide whether to believe them or not.
People are not faking disability, most are trying to fake being well.
There’s no such thing as the “genuinely disabled”.
You are not entitled to a person’s entire medical history just so you can decide whether to believe them or not.
People are not faking disability, most are trying to fake being well.
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Probably the most important post you will read today. #HoldFast
An official government account using the word “remigration” is not normal. It’s an imported term from European far-right movements that refers to mass expulsion. Democracies do not use population-purification language. #holdfast #SteadyState
December 1, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Probably the most important post you will read today. #HoldFast
COVID is bad. COVID + a completely separate infection hitting at the same time leads to a very bad holiday week.
Hospitals are no place to spend Thanksgiving. But! I am out now and feeling so much better. All hail antibiotics!
Hospitals are no place to spend Thanksgiving. But! I am out now and feeling so much better. All hail antibiotics!
November 30, 2025 at 4:38 AM
COVID is bad. COVID + a completely separate infection hitting at the same time leads to a very bad holiday week.
Hospitals are no place to spend Thanksgiving. But! I am out now and feeling so much better. All hail antibiotics!
Hospitals are no place to spend Thanksgiving. But! I am out now and feeling so much better. All hail antibiotics!
Anyone who says you can't form tight bonds with #coworkers doing #remotework isn't trying hard enough. I worked in a completely #async team several years ago, with folks across the US and Canada. We've never met in person. And I got so close to some of them that we still chat multiple times a week.
November 21, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Anyone who says you can't form tight bonds with #coworkers doing #remotework isn't trying hard enough. I worked in a completely #async team several years ago, with folks across the US and Canada. We've never met in person. And I got so close to some of them that we still chat multiple times a week.
Finally reading #UnmaskingforLife by #DevonPrice. Excellent so far. The section on work especially calls out things I'd always thought were just me! I haven't gotten to sex and relationships yet but I'm sure that'll be just as insightful. Recommended! #autism #actuallyautistic #booksky
November 21, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Finally reading #UnmaskingforLife by #DevonPrice. Excellent so far. The section on work especially calls out things I'd always thought were just me! I haven't gotten to sex and relationships yet but I'm sure that'll be just as insightful. Recommended! #autism #actuallyautistic #booksky
Trains are better anyway. I love trains. There's no TSA for a train and you get a significantly higher luggage allowance. I've gone from Seattle to New York by train - twice! - and loved the experience both times.
A growing number of Americans are rolling into the holidays by train with Amtrak reporting an increase in riders after federally mandated flight reductions led to thousands of delays and cancellations at major airports nationwide. NBC News' Emilie Ikeda reports.
November 20, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Trains are better anyway. I love trains. There's no TSA for a train and you get a significantly higher luggage allowance. I've gone from Seattle to New York by train - twice! - and loved the experience both times.
The more "agentic AI" bs #Windows pushes the happier I am with #Linux. And the more convinced I am that local data storage is the best data storage. I'm now building my own NAS and learning about #selfhosting. I can organize my own files and write my own emails, thanks, and telemetry isn't required.
November 20, 2025 at 12:03 PM
The more "agentic AI" bs #Windows pushes the happier I am with #Linux. And the more convinced I am that local data storage is the best data storage. I'm now building my own NAS and learning about #selfhosting. I can organize my own files and write my own emails, thanks, and telemetry isn't required.
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AOC: Should this AI bubble pop, we should not be entertaining a bailout of these corporations while healthcare is being denied to Americans and SNAP is being denied to Americans —
November 18, 2025 at 10:02 PM
AOC: Should this AI bubble pop, we should not be entertaining a bailout of these corporations while healthcare is being denied to Americans and SNAP is being denied to Americans —
Absolutely incredible. I had no idea this was a thing! www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu5r...
Coding Trance Music from Scratch (Again )
YouTube video by Switch Angel
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November 18, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Absolutely incredible. I had no idea this was a thing! www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu5r...
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Bastards!!
November 17, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Bastards!!
I'm working on my #DedicantPath material for #ADF (Ár nDraíocht Féin) and I'm growing concerned that my personal ritual calendar won't fit their criteria. I've structured it to fit my local Texas growing season, which I've backed up with sources but doesn't match their fixed Celtic-based schedule.
November 16, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I'm working on my #DedicantPath material for #ADF (Ár nDraíocht Féin) and I'm growing concerned that my personal ritual calendar won't fit their criteria. I've structured it to fit my local Texas growing season, which I've backed up with sources but doesn't match their fixed Celtic-based schedule.
Tried to use #Etsy while signed in using a VPN and they suspended my account. The "#security questions" used to verify me included what city/state I normally log in from, what browser I normally use, and what specific mobile device(s) I use to log in. They TRACK that! That is so creepy! #privacy
November 16, 2025 at 8:06 PM
TIL that it's really easy to take a computer mouse apart for painting. And that like a PC, they can get dusty on the inside. This mouse is old enough that the rubber is wearing away where my thumb goes, so it could have been worse, but there was way more dust inside then I'd thought there'd be!
November 15, 2025 at 2:06 PM
TIL that it's really easy to take a computer mouse apart for painting. And that like a PC, they can get dusty on the inside. This mouse is old enough that the rubber is wearing away where my thumb goes, so it could have been worse, but there was way more dust inside then I'd thought there'd be!
If you were waiting for a reason to #deGoogle, here you go. I was horrified when I found out how much info #Google has on me, going back 10+ years, that was LINKED TO MY ACCOUNT. It wasn't even anonymized! And they're using it (even if indirectly) for #ICE? I say no. #Proton is an easy alternative.
Google Has Chosen a Side in President's Mass Deportation Effort | Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group.
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Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
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November 15, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Wonder when - if ever - MAGA will realize ICE will eventually come after them, too. Trump and his puppets promote beating clergy and protect men who rape little girls. NO ONE is safe from a regime that is this morally bankrupt.
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Wonder when - if ever - MAGA will realize ICE will eventually come after them, too. Trump and his puppets promote beating clergy and protect men who rape little girls. NO ONE is safe from a regime that is this morally bankrupt.
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Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
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He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.
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The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative.
The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative | Euractiv
The court will move its internal work environment to Open Desk, a German-developed open source software
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November 13, 2025 at 12:36 PM
The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative.
The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.