TKarney
@pecunium.bsky.social
I write things (sporadically https://www.patreon.com/Pecunium) I make things (yarn, woven goods, minor woodworking). I take photographs (and teach photography).
I'm moderately polymathic (though maths are not my thing)
Welcome to my place
I'm moderately polymathic (though maths are not my thing)
Welcome to my place
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The DFL candidate in a MN House special election in St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her's former district defeated her Republican rival by a 91-point margin last night.
Her won the district by 67 percentage points in 2024.
Her won the district by 67 percentage points in 2024.
Democrats win two special elections for Minnesota House seats
The results will restore the state House to a 67-67 tie before the legislative session that begins in February.
www.startribune.com
January 28, 2026 at 3:57 PM
The DFL candidate in a MN House special election in St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her's former district defeated her Republican rival by a 91-point margin last night.
Her won the district by 67 percentage points in 2024.
Her won the district by 67 percentage points in 2024.
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If you need good news: highly endangered North Atlantic Right Whales are having lots of babies suddenly. 21 mother-calf pairs have been recorded so far, double last season! Endangered by fishing lines and ship strikes, less than 400 remain. But this is hopeful news
www.wired.com/story/a-nort...
www.wired.com/story/a-nort...
A North Atlantic Right Whale Baby Boom Is On—but the Species Remains at Risk
Researchers have documented the births of nearly two dozen North Atlantic right whale calves this season. It’s an encouraging sign for a species whose population is estimated to be below 400.
www.wired.com
January 28, 2026 at 4:29 PM
If you need good news: highly endangered North Atlantic Right Whales are having lots of babies suddenly. 21 mother-calf pairs have been recorded so far, double last season! Endangered by fishing lines and ship strikes, less than 400 remain. But this is hopeful news
www.wired.com/story/a-nort...
www.wired.com/story/a-nort...
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Russia has tightened control over information about its battlefield losses in Ukraine, cutting off data and closing one public loophole after another. The effort has not stopped the evidence of the dead from surfacing.
'Impossible to ban grief' — how Russia tries and fails to hide its casualties in Ukraine
Russia has tightened control over information about its battlefield losses in Ukraine, cutting off data and closing one public loophole after another. The effort has not stopped the evidence of the de...
kyivindependent.com
January 28, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Russia has tightened control over information about its battlefield losses in Ukraine, cutting off data and closing one public loophole after another. The effort has not stopped the evidence of the dead from surfacing.
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January 28, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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New post at CAMPAIGN TRAILS on the movement to unmask ICE and the lessons we can take from the earlier, successful movement to unmask the KKK.
Masks Off
Over the past year and, in particular, over the past month, the United States has suffered an alarming rise in the number of verbal threats, physical assaults, and even murders committed by agents of ...
campaign-trails.ghost.io
January 28, 2026 at 4:36 PM
New post at CAMPAIGN TRAILS on the movement to unmask ICE and the lessons we can take from the earlier, successful movement to unmask the KKK.
Warrior Snail.
Not the quickest to anger, but me and the WarBunnies will fuck you up, if we have to.
Not the quickest to anger, but me and the WarBunnies will fuck you up, if we have to.
January 28, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Warrior Snail.
Not the quickest to anger, but me and the WarBunnies will fuck you up, if we have to.
Not the quickest to anger, but me and the WarBunnies will fuck you up, if we have to.
Tell me Senator, when did this happen?
2023.
The problem is endemic. The reform we need is to do away with the detention system altogether.
2023.
The problem is endemic. The reform we need is to do away with the detention system altogether.
Anadith Danay Reyes Álvarez died in government custody.
She had sickle cell and congenital heart disease but couldn’t access timely and adequate medical care.
We need to reform immigration detention.
She had sickle cell and congenital heart disease but couldn’t access timely and adequate medical care.
We need to reform immigration detention.
January 28, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Tell me Senator, when did this happen?
2023.
The problem is endemic. The reform we need is to do away with the detention system altogether.
2023.
The problem is endemic. The reform we need is to do away with the detention system altogether.
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This is a hell of a way to wake up on Wednesday. Good morning @gbrumfiel.bsky.social!
For DOE, as the inheritors of the promotion side of the AEC equation, rulemaking for their orders has always been a little a little different and less subject to public comment than NRC. But, uhh, not like this.
For DOE, as the inheritors of the promotion side of the AEC equation, rulemaking for their orders has always been a little a little different and less subject to public comment than NRC. But, uhh, not like this.
The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules
The rewrite was done to speed up the construction of a new generation of nuclear reactors. Critics warn it could compromise safety and public trust.
www.npr.org
January 28, 2026 at 4:35 PM
This is a hell of a way to wake up on Wednesday. Good morning @gbrumfiel.bsky.social!
For DOE, as the inheritors of the promotion side of the AEC equation, rulemaking for their orders has always been a little a little different and less subject to public comment than NRC. But, uhh, not like this.
For DOE, as the inheritors of the promotion side of the AEC equation, rulemaking for their orders has always been a little a little different and less subject to public comment than NRC. But, uhh, not like this.
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If I were inclined to attribute planning to people trying to demolish regulations, it is easier to start with DOE than NRC and then you can point at DOE and say "Wellllll, they have these rules. Shouldn't everyone?"
January 28, 2026 at 4:44 PM
If I were inclined to attribute planning to people trying to demolish regulations, it is easier to start with DOE than NRC and then you can point at DOE and say "Wellllll, they have these rules. Shouldn't everyone?"
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The efforts to make changes to the NRC to make them more "friendly" have not gone well. They are the inheritors of the inspection & enforcement side of the AEC equation. The reason the AEC was split into two was conflict in interest in being both promoter/developer and regulator/enforcer.
January 28, 2026 at 4:39 PM
The efforts to make changes to the NRC to make them more "friendly" have not gone well. They are the inheritors of the inspection & enforcement side of the AEC equation. The reason the AEC was split into two was conflict in interest in being both promoter/developer and regulator/enforcer.
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The seed money is being spread over 5 years because I don't have that much liquid cash all in a lump 🤪
But I will be matching $1-for-$1 whatever we can raise for their "Day of Giving" in March
But I will be matching $1-for-$1 whatever we can raise for their "Day of Giving" in March
January 28, 2026 at 4:39 PM
The seed money is being spread over 5 years because I don't have that much liquid cash all in a lump 🤪
But I will be matching $1-for-$1 whatever we can raise for their "Day of Giving" in March
But I will be matching $1-for-$1 whatever we can raise for their "Day of Giving" in March
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Apart from ::gestures broadly::, I've decided to take the plunge and set up a (small) endowment fund at the NCSU Libraries
Stayed there overnight quite a bit back when I was homeless (nearly 30 years ago now 👴🏼🫠) and want to give something back to them
Stayed there overnight quite a bit back when I was homeless (nearly 30 years ago now 👴🏼🫠) and want to give something back to them
January 28, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Apart from ::gestures broadly::, I've decided to take the plunge and set up a (small) endowment fund at the NCSU Libraries
Stayed there overnight quite a bit back when I was homeless (nearly 30 years ago now 👴🏼🫠) and want to give something back to them
Stayed there overnight quite a bit back when I was homeless (nearly 30 years ago now 👴🏼🫠) and want to give something back to them
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Reactionaries are such cowards they can’t even imagine someone displaying courage
January 28, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Reactionaries are such cowards they can’t even imagine someone displaying courage
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The era of the “Universal Social Media Site”, the one everybody posted on (and therefore largely killed blogs and forums) was a decade-long aberration, from roughly 2010-2020, and the internet is gradually re-fragmenting.
I have been of the opinion for about five years now that we are all mostly clinging to the *idea* of social media. But that it has not existed, as we mean it, since Jack sold Twitter. The minute capital lined up to fold social media into its technocratic political consolidation, it stopped existing.
January 27, 2026 at 4:48 PM
The era of the “Universal Social Media Site”, the one everybody posted on (and therefore largely killed blogs and forums) was a decade-long aberration, from roughly 2010-2020, and the internet is gradually re-fragmenting.
And still he persisted
CNN reporting that a week before Alex Pretti was killed, 5 agents tackled him and he suffered a broken rib. CNN says he stopped his car after he saw ICE agents interacting with a family on foot and began to blow his whistle. Source tells CNN Pretti believed “That day he thought he was going to die”
January 28, 2026 at 4:25 PM
And still he persisted
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Hatted Ravelry
Reminder that two of Ravelry's top patterns right now are melt the ice hat (knit) and melt the ice hat (crochet)
A reminder — there are *millions* of social sites on the internet, like Storygraph for your reading and Ravelry for your knitting, etc. It’s only the biggest, run by the extremist fascists, that do these terrible things. Don’t define the internet by a handful of apps run by 5 sociopaths.
January 28, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Hatted Ravelry
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ICE is still kidnapping people and gassing pre-schools in Minnesota, but the administration shuffled around a couple people whose names have appeared in headlines because they count on national political journalists thinking only people whose names show up in headlines are real.
January 28, 2026 at 2:10 PM
ICE is still kidnapping people and gassing pre-schools in Minnesota, but the administration shuffled around a couple people whose names have appeared in headlines because they count on national political journalists thinking only people whose names show up in headlines are real.
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If I were the liberal equivalent of Alex Jones I’d spend months discussing how Trumps immediate statement after the attack on Ilan Omar was to discuss how someone might fake an assassination attempt to elicit sympathy.
January 28, 2026 at 1:44 PM
If I were the liberal equivalent of Alex Jones I’d spend months discussing how Trumps immediate statement after the attack on Ilan Omar was to discuss how someone might fake an assassination attempt to elicit sympathy.
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Out of curiosity, I just ran a few paragraphs from The Butchering Art through an AI checker and it got flagged: 88% AI. This book was released in 2017, and AI machines were subsequently trained off it. How many writers are getting flagged for AI because of the literal theft of their work(s)? Insane.
OMG - f*ck AI for ruining the em-dash for writers. I use them all the time. Of course, what a shock that AI uses them since they were trained off my voice and other authors' voices.
I'm a writer who has specifically been directed *not* to use em-dashes because "they mean it was written by AI." I can detect AI writing, but it is not simply a matter of the punctuation used.
December 30, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Out of curiosity, I just ran a few paragraphs from The Butchering Art through an AI checker and it got flagged: 88% AI. This book was released in 2017, and AI machines were subsequently trained off it. How many writers are getting flagged for AI because of the literal theft of their work(s)? Insane.
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Here's the Heritage Foundation all-in on repealing Section 230 so that litigious Christian nationalists can dictate the speech rules for the entire Internet
It's so embarrassing so many Dems are falling for this www.teenvogue.com/story/some-d...
It's so embarrassing so many Dems are falling for this www.teenvogue.com/story/some-d...
January 28, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Here's the Heritage Foundation all-in on repealing Section 230 so that litigious Christian nationalists can dictate the speech rules for the entire Internet
It's so embarrassing so many Dems are falling for this www.teenvogue.com/story/some-d...
It's so embarrassing so many Dems are falling for this www.teenvogue.com/story/some-d...
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This very well articulates a rough idea I’ve had for a while which is that intellectual property theft is the wrong framing to understand what’s happening (and courts will legitimize it for pennies on the dollar anyways, as we’ve seen), but mass dispossession / enclosure is much more apt
January 28, 2026 at 1:28 PM
This very well articulates a rough idea I’ve had for a while which is that intellectual property theft is the wrong framing to understand what’s happening (and courts will legitimize it for pennies on the dollar anyways, as we’ve seen), but mass dispossession / enclosure is much more apt
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New in PN: The investigation is the coverup
"At the same time on Tuesday that the White House was speed-dialing journalists about Trump's supposed 'pivot,' it was weaponizing its own investigation to ensure Pretti’s murderer can never be prosecuted."
"At the same time on Tuesday that the White House was speed-dialing journalists about Trump's supposed 'pivot,' it was weaponizing its own investigation to ensure Pretti’s murderer can never be prosecuted."
The investigation is the coverup
Trump's "pivot" on Pretti is just a head fake.
www.publicnotice.co
January 28, 2026 at 12:53 PM
New in PN: The investigation is the coverup
"At the same time on Tuesday that the White House was speed-dialing journalists about Trump's supposed 'pivot,' it was weaponizing its own investigation to ensure Pretti’s murderer can never be prosecuted."
"At the same time on Tuesday that the White House was speed-dialing journalists about Trump's supposed 'pivot,' it was weaponizing its own investigation to ensure Pretti’s murderer can never be prosecuted."
The number of people who want to believe the CBP is Ian Fleming's KBG, with it's own SMERSH, and not a bunch of thugs with a culture of us/them violence is maddening.
No, they are not targeting people for murder. Pretending they are only helps them, by furtering the idea of "Competent Fascists"
No, they are not targeting people for murder. Pretending they are only helps them, by furtering the idea of "Competent Fascists"
January 28, 2026 at 2:59 PM
The number of people who want to believe the CBP is Ian Fleming's KBG, with it's own SMERSH, and not a bunch of thugs with a culture of us/them violence is maddening.
No, they are not targeting people for murder. Pretending they are only helps them, by furtering the idea of "Competent Fascists"
No, they are not targeting people for murder. Pretending they are only helps them, by furtering the idea of "Competent Fascists"