Geoff A.
@pseudonymice.bsky.social
Been ill, missed the conversations. He/him. Have degrees in history and law. Had a career in politics and research. Mostly just coping with matters beyond my control these days.
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Geoff A.
@pseudonymice.bsky.social
· Apr 24
This post is intended to serve as an anchor point for topics and/or passing thoughts I might want to revisit later. It's purely procedural.
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The period known as Redemption is little known to most Americans — I’d argue intentionally — but it’s the period after the fall of Reconstruction where Black people are stripped of their rights, democracy falls in the South and the system of racial apartheid is entrenched.
December 5, 2025 at 6:32 PM
The period known as Redemption is little known to most Americans — I’d argue intentionally — but it’s the period after the fall of Reconstruction where Black people are stripped of their rights, democracy falls in the South and the system of racial apartheid is entrenched.
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If the military is obeying Trump’s orders to murder random fishermen who pose no threat to the US, what do you think will happen when Trump orders them to fire on protesters in the US?
Because that day is coming, bet on it.
Because that day is coming, bet on it.
December 5, 2025 at 7:38 PM
If the military is obeying Trump’s orders to murder random fishermen who pose no threat to the US, what do you think will happen when Trump orders them to fire on protesters in the US?
Because that day is coming, bet on it.
Because that day is coming, bet on it.
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The normalization of this madness is so quick that we’re debating whether a second illegal strike was wrong after an initial illegal strike with no proof of any crime and we’ve already seen just random murders of fishermen normalized with the excuse they’re running drugs, which isn’t legal either.
December 4, 2025 at 2:37 AM
The normalization of this madness is so quick that we’re debating whether a second illegal strike was wrong after an initial illegal strike with no proof of any crime and we’ve already seen just random murders of fishermen normalized with the excuse they’re running drugs, which isn’t legal either.
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I’ve sometimes fallen into the trap of thinking that complementing a creative person for their work is less sophisticated or desired than discussion or debate about it but very often the best thing you can say to them is hell yeah and that doesn’t make you dumb it just makes you nice
December 4, 2025 at 3:05 AM
I’ve sometimes fallen into the trap of thinking that complementing a creative person for their work is less sophisticated or desired than discussion or debate about it but very often the best thing you can say to them is hell yeah and that doesn’t make you dumb it just makes you nice
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Once again, one of the most consistently replicated findings in the history of experiments is that giving people cash with zero strings attached has massive social benefits for those receiving the cash as well as the community around them
An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
www.streetroots.org
December 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Once again, one of the most consistently replicated findings in the history of experiments is that giving people cash with zero strings attached has massive social benefits for those receiving the cash as well as the community around them
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Libraries aren't just books. They provide gathering places, free internet, and programs like story hours and classes and films. Using your library demonstrates to your local government its importance to your community and can affect funding decisions.
November 27, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Libraries aren't just books. They provide gathering places, free internet, and programs like story hours and classes and films. Using your library demonstrates to your local government its importance to your community and can affect funding decisions.
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At a recent gathering of Rogers Park volunteers, we heard from a neighbor who choked up telling us about their dad turning around and going home when he heard whistles up the street. "One of you may have saved his life that day." It all matters, it really does.
One thing that is tough about rapid response/patrols, besides constantly being threatened by armed secret police, is that for the most part they see the defeats. There are exceptions, but you’ll never know how many people were saved by slowing feds down, whistles, community alerts, etc.
November 21, 2025 at 6:38 PM
At a recent gathering of Rogers Park volunteers, we heard from a neighbor who choked up telling us about their dad turning around and going home when he heard whistles up the street. "One of you may have saved his life that day." It all matters, it really does.
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Fun (terrifying) fact: Moose are so gigantic, they don’t have any predators…except for orcas. In winter/scare months, moose will dive for vegetation and orcas will eat them!
www.forbes.com/sites/scottt...
www.forbes.com/sites/scottt...
November 15, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Fun (terrifying) fact: Moose are so gigantic, they don’t have any predators…except for orcas. In winter/scare months, moose will dive for vegetation and orcas will eat them!
www.forbes.com/sites/scottt...
www.forbes.com/sites/scottt...
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"What if QAnon was right" is very, very dumb and even more dangerous. Not trying to sell books here, but this is why i named last one undertow. As in a current you get tired of swimming against and you just lean back and let it take you out to sea.
November 14, 2025 at 7:11 PM
"What if QAnon was right" is very, very dumb and even more dangerous. Not trying to sell books here, but this is why i named last one undertow. As in a current you get tired of swimming against and you just lean back and let it take you out to sea.
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realized i didn't know the origins of "in the ballpark" meaning "approximately correct" and once again had it reaffirmed that you will never regret looking up the etymology of a word
November 14, 2025 at 3:58 AM
realized i didn't know the origins of "in the ballpark" meaning "approximately correct" and once again had it reaffirmed that you will never regret looking up the etymology of a word
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Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
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New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
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...
www.404media.co
November 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
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I found the most cursed snack chip of all time at the grocery outlet
November 13, 2025 at 4:31 AM
I found the most cursed snack chip of all time at the grocery outlet
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Quick sketch of an idea
November 13, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Quick sketch of an idea
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In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
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I’m a goddamn American don’t tell me what hole to use
October 17, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I’m a goddamn American don’t tell me what hole to use
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As an online MAGA discussion continues, the probability of a laudatory reference or comparison to Hitler or to Nazis all-too-briskly approaches 1.
October 17, 2025 at 8:53 PM
As an online MAGA discussion continues, the probability of a laudatory reference or comparison to Hitler or to Nazis all-too-briskly approaches 1.
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god if I had a house this is so the shit I’d get up to!!!
October 16, 2025 at 3:40 AM
god if I had a house this is so the shit I’d get up to!!!
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This is possibly the all-time funniest real answer to an interview question
October 16, 2025 at 2:24 AM
This is possibly the all-time funniest real answer to an interview question
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after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging
little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia
www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...
little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia
www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...
What Is Really Going on With All This Radioactive Shrimp? - Consumer Reports
Here’s the latest on how shrimp and spices got contaminated with cesium-137, how the FDA has responded, and why consumers should not panic.
www.consumerreports.org
October 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging
little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia
www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...
little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia
www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...
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My dope friend Adrian, who is trans, interviewed 90 transgender Texans. His project is finally out: www.dallasnews.com/news/politic...
We surveyed 90 trans Texans. Most said they’re living in fear and weighing a move
Respondents said anti-trans policies have complicated their sense of home in Texas and pushed them to consider leaving the state.
www.dallasnews.com
October 9, 2025 at 12:59 PM
My dope friend Adrian, who is trans, interviewed 90 transgender Texans. His project is finally out: www.dallasnews.com/news/politic...
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The petition for Rodney Taylor, a disabled double amputee being held in an ICE camp, is over 3300 signatures!
Rodney has been in the US since he was 2 years old.
He was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE grabbed him.
He’s in solitary confinement & facing deportation to Liberia
Rodney has been in the US since he was 2 years old.
He was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE grabbed him.
He’s in solitary confinement & facing deportation to Liberia
Help Rodney Taylor, a Disabled Double Amputee Being Held by ICE
Rodney has been in the country more than 40 years. He's in solitary confinement in Georgia, being denied disability accommodations and having his medical needs ignored. He must be released.
www.disabledginger.com
October 9, 2025 at 5:40 AM
The petition for Rodney Taylor, a disabled double amputee being held in an ICE camp, is over 3300 signatures!
Rodney has been in the US since he was 2 years old.
He was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE grabbed him.
He’s in solitary confinement & facing deportation to Liberia
Rodney has been in the US since he was 2 years old.
He was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE grabbed him.
He’s in solitary confinement & facing deportation to Liberia
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Usually a fan of Tim Harford, and i suppose the "what if we just thought of it in terms of economics" approach is intellectually useful. But to know a bit more about actual subject than he does. A predictable outcome of charging everyone $100k (or £ or €) would be massive debt-linked exploitation
Should we put a high price on work visas?
The US wants to make the immigration of skilled workers more expensive; the UK cheaper. Who’s wrong?
www.ft.com
October 9, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Usually a fan of Tim Harford, and i suppose the "what if we just thought of it in terms of economics" approach is intellectually useful. But to know a bit more about actual subject than he does. A predictable outcome of charging everyone $100k (or £ or €) would be massive debt-linked exploitation
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When the Orwellian named Dept of Homeland Security was created … MANY of us predicted that it would eventually be doing all the things that it is doing right now
Pinning it uniquely on Trump really misses the point in a bunch of ways
Pinning it uniquely on Trump really misses the point in a bunch of ways
October 6, 2025 at 12:24 AM
When the Orwellian named Dept of Homeland Security was created … MANY of us predicted that it would eventually be doing all the things that it is doing right now
Pinning it uniquely on Trump really misses the point in a bunch of ways
Pinning it uniquely on Trump really misses the point in a bunch of ways