panoptigoth
@panoptigoth.bsky.social
Great Lakes nomad and occasional metalsmithing. Interdisciplinary hinterlands: library systems, 19th and 20th century spiritualism, STSish. I am never speaking for my employer.
The whole thread is a joy, truly.
My Latin speaking peeps: @shadowspar.bsky.social was looking for a good Latin equivalent of "fuck around, find out" and this was my attempt, but I know it's not perfect; who's got better?
This took me a pleasant side quest of refreshing my Latin obscene vocabulary and it's a *very* loose rendering, but I humbly offer "sī scortāris, pēdīcāberis", which if I've got my conjugations right (always a big if) is "if you go whoring around, you're going to get fucked"
January 31, 2026 at 1:21 AM
The whole thread is a joy, truly.
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He destroyed university research and the federal government for this.
Trump’s deployments of troops to US cities cost taxpayers $496 million. "Over the second half of 2025, the Trump admin. deployed the National Guard [or] Marines to six US cities: Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Memphis, Portland Oregon, Chicago, and New Orleans." breakingdefense.com/2026/01/nati...
National Guard deployments to US cities cost almost half a billion dollars, says CBO - Breaking Defense
The Trump administration has already spent nearly $500 million on domestic National Guard deployments, with monthly costs being further broken down by the CBO.
breakingdefense.com
January 31, 2026 at 12:53 AM
He destroyed university research and the federal government for this.
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I can't get over Epstein being evil enough to be banned from XBox Live, that sounds like an Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt joke
January 31, 2026 at 1:16 AM
I can't get over Epstein being evil enough to be banned from XBox Live, that sounds like an Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt joke
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Hasan Piker was banned from Twitch yesterday. Today, he livestreams on YT (which he never does) to 95,000 viewers. He peaks closer to 70K on Twitch.
He discussed how he's going to get some contingency plans together in case Twitch continues to ban him for speaking out against Zionism/ICE.
He discussed how he's going to get some contingency plans together in case Twitch continues to ban him for speaking out against Zionism/ICE.
January 30, 2026 at 8:34 PM
Hasan Piker was banned from Twitch yesterday. Today, he livestreams on YT (which he never does) to 95,000 viewers. He peaks closer to 70K on Twitch.
He discussed how he's going to get some contingency plans together in case Twitch continues to ban him for speaking out against Zionism/ICE.
He discussed how he's going to get some contingency plans together in case Twitch continues to ban him for speaking out against Zionism/ICE.
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xbox live took stronger action against jeffrey epstein than the entire us government
![To: 'eevacation mail.com 'eevacation@gmail.coml
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Subject: E-STOP: Message to Impacted Users
Title: Xbox LIVE - E-STOP: Message to Impacted Users
Xbox LIVE
E-STOP: Message to Impacted Users
Dear Xbox LIVE member,
This message is to notify you that Xbox LIVE has permanently suspended the Xbox LIVE
account associated with this email address. This action is based on the New York Attorney
GeneralAs partnership with Microsoft and other online gaming companies to remove New York
registered sex offenders from online gaming services to minimize the risk to others, particularly
children. As a result, any Xbox LIVE account associated with this email address will not be able
to connect to Xbox LIVE.
If you have an Xbox LIVE Gold subscription, or any unused Microsoft points, we are refunding
the remaining value of those to you within 30 days.
If you do not receive a refund within 30 days, or if you feel that you have been banned
incorrectly, please send Microsoft a notice using the process at www.xbox.com/notice.
Sincerely,
Xbox LIVE
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January 30, 2026 at 11:10 PM
xbox live took stronger action against jeffrey epstein than the entire us government
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MICROSOFT: "We're putting AI in Windows!"
CUSTOMERS: "No, please don't do that."
MICROSOFT: "You'll drink this fucking AI even if we have to hold your nose closed and use a vice to keep your jaws open."
CUSTOMERS: "That only sounds bad."
MICROSOFT: "Why have customers abandoned Windows?"
CUSTOMERS: "No, please don't do that."
MICROSOFT: "You'll drink this fucking AI even if we have to hold your nose closed and use a vice to keep your jaws open."
CUSTOMERS: "That only sounds bad."
MICROSOFT: "Why have customers abandoned Windows?"
scoop: Microsoft is working to rebuild trust in Windows. The head of Windows tells me Microsoft will focus on "addressing pain points we hear consistently from customers." Full details in my Notepad newsletter this week, gift link here 👇 tinyurl.com/win11trust
Microsoft is working to rebuild trust in Windows
2026 is all about improving Windows
tinyurl.com
January 29, 2026 at 5:16 PM
MICROSOFT: "We're putting AI in Windows!"
CUSTOMERS: "No, please don't do that."
MICROSOFT: "You'll drink this fucking AI even if we have to hold your nose closed and use a vice to keep your jaws open."
CUSTOMERS: "That only sounds bad."
MICROSOFT: "Why have customers abandoned Windows?"
CUSTOMERS: "No, please don't do that."
MICROSOFT: "You'll drink this fucking AI even if we have to hold your nose closed and use a vice to keep your jaws open."
CUSTOMERS: "That only sounds bad."
MICROSOFT: "Why have customers abandoned Windows?"
I am grateful to be employed and it is a real trip to focus on work right now.
January 29, 2026 at 5:55 PM
I am grateful to be employed and it is a real trip to focus on work right now.
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Yes. They also “lost” in Los Angeles last summer and just yesterday they carried out a record number of kidnappings here in the city.
please remember that no matter how many “ICE is losing in MN” articles you read today, there is still a very real, urgent, ongoing crisis in Minnesota.
people need food and they need rent money. that has not changed.
people need food and they need rent money. that has not changed.
January 29, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Yes. They also “lost” in Los Angeles last summer and just yesterday they carried out a record number of kidnappings here in the city.
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The ethos of Trumpism is the ethos of the most pathetic schoolyard bully: I can say and do anything to you, but if you say anything back, I will run mewling to the teacher.
Just despicable liars nad snivvelers.
Just despicable liars nad snivvelers.
Homan: "I begged for the last two months on TV for the rhetoric to stop. I said in March -- if the rhetoric doesn't stop, there is gonna be bloodshed. And there has been. I wish I wasn't right. I don't want to see anybody die."
January 29, 2026 at 4:36 PM
The ethos of Trumpism is the ethos of the most pathetic schoolyard bully: I can say and do anything to you, but if you say anything back, I will run mewling to the teacher.
Just despicable liars nad snivvelers.
Just despicable liars nad snivvelers.
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icymi the folks at Simon Fraser University have a concise appeal to shed the Zionist state's software www.sfufacultyforpalestine.ca/sfu-statemen...
Boycott Ex Libris
June 10, 2024
Dear Dean Bird and Associate Dean Jordan,
We, members of SFU Faculty for Palestine, are writing to ask SFU Library to terminate the Library’s contract with Ex Libris.
Ex Libris (Clariva...
www.sfufacultyforpalestine.ca
January 29, 2026 at 2:26 PM
icymi the folks at Simon Fraser University have a concise appeal to shed the Zionist state's software www.sfufacultyforpalestine.ca/sfu-statemen...
They all have the most intense fantasies about assault. It’s never “my kid was assaulted“ but it’s always “here is my elaborate, detailed fantasy about my/a child being assaulted.”
these people get off on being deliberately stupid, they are irredeemable at this point.
January 29, 2026 at 2:22 PM
They all have the most intense fantasies about assault. It’s never “my kid was assaulted“ but it’s always “here is my elaborate, detailed fantasy about my/a child being assaulted.”
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New at Can We Still Govern: Here is one thing I wish more people understood about government. There is a lot of rent-seeking by private vendors in our social safety net. Trump's policies will make this worse.
@lukef.bsky.social breaks it down. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-means-...
@lukef.bsky.social breaks it down. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-means-...
The Means-Testing Industrial Complex
The vendors getting rich from putting administrative burdens on the poor
donmoynihan.substack.com
January 29, 2026 at 2:07 PM
New at Can We Still Govern: Here is one thing I wish more people understood about government. There is a lot of rent-seeking by private vendors in our social safety net. Trump's policies will make this worse.
@lukef.bsky.social breaks it down. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-means-...
@lukef.bsky.social breaks it down. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-means-...
Looooooool crab buckets the likes of which we’ve never seen!
"Everything I've done, I've done at the direction of the president and Stephen," Noem told a person who relayed her remarks to Axios.""
Anyone paying attentions - it's been President Miler calling the shots.
Now the vipers are going after each other. 🐍🐍🐍
Anyone paying attentions - it's been President Miler calling the shots.
Now the vipers are going after each other. 🐍🐍🐍
January 27, 2026 at 11:59 PM
Looooooool crab buckets the likes of which we’ve never seen!
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WELP
This is one of the biggest reasons why they lost
This is one of the biggest reasons why they lost
Q: The demand was to get ICE and CBP out. To replace Bovino with Tom Homan...do you think that's a satisfactory change?
TIM WALZ: "I'm gonna give them the benefit of the doubt. ...My hope is that Tom Homan is different...that he is a true law enforcement professional."
TIM WALZ: "I'm gonna give them the benefit of the doubt. ...My hope is that Tom Homan is different...that he is a true law enforcement professional."
January 27, 2026 at 11:50 PM
WELP
This is one of the biggest reasons why they lost
This is one of the biggest reasons why they lost
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Nice review from @publisherswkly.bsky.social www.publishersweekly.com/9780063484320
January 27, 2026 at 11:29 PM
Nice review from @publisherswkly.bsky.social www.publishersweekly.com/9780063484320
In fairness, Bari Weiss doesn't know how to do that either.
Bari Weiss to CBS News staff during this morning’s meeting unveiling the network’s new strategy: “We are not producing a product enough people want.”
January 27, 2026 at 7:53 PM
In fairness, Bari Weiss doesn't know how to do that either.
As usual I have submitted my goals for the year and as usual they are structured for an entire army and not....just me.
Oh well, it's work that has to be done.
Oh well, it's work that has to be done.
January 27, 2026 at 7:43 PM
As usual I have submitted my goals for the year and as usual they are structured for an entire army and not....just me.
Oh well, it's work that has to be done.
Oh well, it's work that has to be done.
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I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street
Minneapolis police chief Brian O'Hara says that the victim was a 37-year-old white man and US citizen with no criminal record and that he was a legally permitted gun owner.
January 24, 2026 at 6:29 PM
I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street
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Samuel de Champlain receiving a hug from a snow ghost
January 27, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Samuel de Champlain receiving a hug from a snow ghost
I can't stop laughing that they took his Twitter away, it's like punishing a child.
January 27, 2026 at 3:58 PM
I can't stop laughing that they took his Twitter away, it's like punishing a child.
Oh no you guys the secret police have morale problems!
January 26, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Oh no you guys the secret police have morale problems!
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most ridiculous timeline
NEW: The Trump administration is planning to use AI to write federal regulations despite the risk of hallucinations.
“We don't even need a very good rule,” the Transportation Department’s top lawyer said of the plan, per meeting notes reviewed by ProPublica. “We want good enough.”🧵
“We don't even need a very good rule,” the Transportation Department’s top lawyer said of the plan, per meeting notes reviewed by ProPublica. “We want good enough.”🧵
January 26, 2026 at 7:45 PM
most ridiculous timeline
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Yes, literally.
Abolish the Border, Abolish the Police Reading List
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and police repression, we offer an extensive reading list about border and police ab...
www.haymarketbooks.org
January 25, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Yes, literally.