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power to the ice pick (Liz)
@pluplubasch.bsky.social
Feminist killjoy and willful subject. Disability justice advocate (Public Health).😷Queer who refuses to assimilate.

Name’s Liz.

#AuDHD // pronouns she/they
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This is the song that gets me through right now. youtu.be/3aFF09jjZwk?...
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The Trump administration claims that real-time ASL interpretation could interfere with the president's public image management, raising concerns among accessibility advocates.
Trump administration says sign language services 'intrude' on Trump's ability to control his image
The Trump administration claims that real-time ASL interpretation could interfere with the president's public image management, raising concerns among accessibility advocates.
apnews.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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“The work was emotionally exhausting, with chat users confiding intimate details about their real-life relationships, as well as their own emotional trauma, falsely believing they were talking to an unfeeling AI chatbot.”
AI "Companion Bots" Actually Run by Exploited Kenyans, Worker Claims
A new testimony from a remote worker in Kenya details the grueling and exploitative work behind romantic AI chatbots.
futurism.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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In court filings, migrants have said in sworn statements that they’ve been put in the WRAP for “unruly” behavior like asking to speak to their attorney.

More on the WRAP: www.ap.org/news-highlig...

More on ICE contractor Key Lime Air/Denver Air Connection: coloradonewsline.com/2025/10/23/c...
ICE's use of full-body restraints during deportations raises concerns over inhumane treatment | The Associated Press
The Nigerian man described being roused with other detainees in September in the middle of the night. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers
www.ap.org
December 11, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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There’s too much noise out there distracting from things like this, and the exposure of the Everglades Concentration camp using full on torture devices. All of this is only the tip of this genocidal iceberg. You can’t simply vote this away.

Also this is Seattle, in a blue state.
I’ve heard from immigration attorneys that clients say ICE guards lay out the WRAP device (essentially a full-body straitjacket) on the tarmac as a threat — “do what we say or you’re getting the WRAP on the whole flight.”

And here’s proof, from Seattle livestream today via @lalabote.bsky.social.
December 12, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Goddam why does 1918 go so hard
Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918
December 12, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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I kind of love this. And potatoes 🥔
December 11, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Free speech babyyyyyyyy
SCOOP: Trump Admin Is Preparing to Revoke Visas of Critics of Elon Musk’s Twitter

Trump officials are considering revoking the visas of former European Union Commissioner Thierry Breton and Imran Ahmed, @premthakker.bsky.social and @swin24.bsky.social report.

Read:
zeteo.com/p/trump-revo...
SCOOP: Trump Admin Is Preparing to Revoke Visas of Critics of Elon Musk’s Twitter
Trump officials are considering revoking the visas of former European Union Commissioner Thierry Breton and Imran Ahmed, of the Center for Countering Digital Hate.
zeteo.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Wait. Will Arnett is dating Carolyn Murphy?! What a legend.
December 11, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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it’s wild that link is still banned but talib kweli is allowed to harass women on here with impunity
December 10, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Piracy on the high seas.
Trump admin seizes oil tanker off Venezuela coast: Reports
This is a breaking news story.
www.aljazeera.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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We are now living in a 1.5 degree warmed world—with no end in sight (at least not based on current policies or practices).

www.ft.com/content/9e0e...
Three-year temperature average set to exceed 1.5C for first time
Data shows 2025 is on track to be the third-warmest on record after November temperature rise of 1.54C
www.ft.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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swear this is art history in the making!

really powerful really beautiful pieces
December 10, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Is the plan for no one to ever visit the US and no one who is a us citizen to leave?
December 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I didn’t mean to update my iPhone over night. The motions are awful. I hate it. 😢
December 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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"I'm not in denial, I'm in open rebellion" damn that quote goes hard
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”

Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 10, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Really feel for her. What a nightmare. youtu.be/yz4zfBnHksU?...
Grieving mum speaks out about teen son falling in love with an AI bot | 60 Minutes Australia
YouTube video by 60 Minutes Australia
youtu.be
December 10, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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In early 2024, I got to speak to Deans from up & down the West Coast of the US & Canada about "AI". I told them that the only value of ChatGPT for university administrators is as a contrast-dye test to show where resources are lacking.
December 9, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Bogota has had an amazing history of Mayors. youtu.be/Xi0-FHt6jZs?...
December 9, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Holy shit. I did not realize they’re calling the Caribbean boats weapons of mass destruction. youtu.be/C5QGzYFjVaU?...
FIFA Gives Trump a Gold Pacifier & Looming War on Venezuela Gives Jon Iraq Déjà Vu | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
youtu.be
December 9, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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“The latest educator removed from the classroom allegedly told students they would be excused for attending a Friday protest in support of a transgender instructor who was suspended for accurately grading a paper.”
www.advocate.com/news/second-...
Another University of Oklahoma instructor suspended in biblical psychology paper grading controversy
The university is investigating whether the second instructor engaged in "viewpoint discrimination."
www.advocate.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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It's not sustainable to pay for every newsletter and Patreon you want to support. I subscribe to MANY and I am going to have to unsubscribe to some because it is costing me thousands of dollars a year (over $3000). More collectivist options need to be developed.
December 9, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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It's all eugenics. And I wish people could understand how much of this script was written 100 years ago.
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
December 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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too many people want to have kids but don't want to parent
some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
Oh, here's a big surprise. The transphobes don't believe in ADHD either.
December 8, 2025 at 1:59 PM
December 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM