Spladayum
@spladayum.bsky.social
Raised by pirates aboard the ship Flying Buttress, educated on the Island of Gont in the Archipelago, but transferred to the ISS to study microgravity's effect on cerumen production. I block widely and often.
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This is quite good. Worth a read.
“Fascism always tells the same story.
It claims the nation is superior to all others and demands we return to imagined glories of the past, to the “good old days.” It blames present troubles on a scapegoat, a convenient enemy—it shouts that they deserve violence.”
“Fascism always tells the same story.
It claims the nation is superior to all others and demands we return to imagined glories of the past, to the “good old days.” It blames present troubles on a scapegoat, a convenient enemy—it shouts that they deserve violence.”
My latest essay for @uncannymagazine.bsky.social is live!!
My editor: "I've never published a more important essay." 🥹
My editor: "I've never published a more important essay." 🥹
These Stories Teach Us How to Fight - Uncanny Magazine
Chicago, October 2025. I need you to know we tried. I bought whistles and saline eyewash for my friends, students. The theatre bought 150 whistles. They were gone in days. A neighbor 3D-printed hundre...
www.uncannymagazine.com
January 7, 2026 at 5:03 PM
This is quite good. Worth a read.
“Fascism always tells the same story.
It claims the nation is superior to all others and demands we return to imagined glories of the past, to the “good old days.” It blames present troubles on a scapegoat, a convenient enemy—it shouts that they deserve violence.”
“Fascism always tells the same story.
It claims the nation is superior to all others and demands we return to imagined glories of the past, to the “good old days.” It blames present troubles on a scapegoat, a convenient enemy—it shouts that they deserve violence.”
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If officials can’t bring themselves to arrest someone who is captured on camera from multiple angles killing someone in cold blood, they should just step aside so someone with a backbone can lead
Arrest the murderer and arrest Bovino. Not complicated.
January 7, 2026 at 7:01 PM
If officials can’t bring themselves to arrest someone who is captured on camera from multiple angles killing someone in cold blood, they should just step aside so someone with a backbone can lead
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Mayor Jacob Frey: "They are already trying to spin this as an action of self defense. Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly that is bullshit."
January 7, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Mayor Jacob Frey: "They are already trying to spin this as an action of self defense. Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly that is bullshit."
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A good thread of what we know so far to add to your saved posts for quick access. The original video, witness statements, and also a second, clearer video down-thread.
NEW: An ICE officer killed a person in broad daylight in Minneapolis today — with posted video appearing to contradict the DHS statement claiming self-defense, as the driver appeared to be attempting to drive away when shot.
MPR: www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Video: bsky.app/profile/dani...
MPR: www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Video: bsky.app/profile/dani...
January 7, 2026 at 6:43 PM
A good thread of what we know so far to add to your saved posts for quick access. The original video, witness statements, and also a second, clearer video down-thread.
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What a pleasure it was to write the epic story of plate tectonics - and the woman who brought the theory from the ocean to the land - with the fabulous editors at @highcountrynews.org. Give a read! #womeninstem #science #geology #scicomm
The discovery that the continents are in continuous motion is fairly recent—dating back only to the late 1960s — and one woman was responsible for decoding what it meant for California and much of the West Coast.
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buff.ly/2vAwspH
Drifters and the introduction of plate tectonics - High Country News
How the San Andreas fault and Tanya Atwater’s theory changed geology.
www.hcn.org
January 5, 2026 at 5:43 PM
What a pleasure it was to write the epic story of plate tectonics - and the woman who brought the theory from the ocean to the land - with the fabulous editors at @highcountrynews.org. Give a read! #womeninstem #science #geology #scicomm
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The more you learn about Gene Roddenberry's attitudes towards sex and women, the more you realize they Star Trek succeeded in spite of him rather than because of him.
We have a lot to thank Standards & Practices for.
We have a lot to thank Standards & Practices for.
What's your favourite thing that's been made by an absolute cunt?
January 5, 2026 at 6:15 PM
The more you learn about Gene Roddenberry's attitudes towards sex and women, the more you realize they Star Trek succeeded in spite of him rather than because of him.
We have a lot to thank Standards & Practices for.
We have a lot to thank Standards & Practices for.
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A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.
January 5, 2026 at 5:54 PM
A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.
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Propaganda works - this is also why conservative oligarchs are investing so much to purchase trusted media brands and convert them into propaganda outlets
Excellent piece from @gelliottmorris.com on how your news diet affects your politics and how you view the Trump Regime. Those with a heavy diet of conservative media view Trump favorably, while those with a diet of non-conservative media view him unfavorably.
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/what-your-...
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/what-your-...
What your news diet says about your politics
Breaking down Trump's approval and 2026 midterms vote by Americans' primary news source
www.gelliottmorris.com
January 5, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Propaganda works - this is also why conservative oligarchs are investing so much to purchase trusted media brands and convert them into propaganda outlets
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Also my sense of the Venn diagram of people who say vote scolding is bad and people who say bullying works is one completely overlapping circle.
January 4, 2026 at 9:57 PM
Also my sense of the Venn diagram of people who say vote scolding is bad and people who say bullying works is one completely overlapping circle.
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Elon Musk didn’t get his inspiration for Grok from any work of classic SFF.
He got it from this SNL skit.
Congrats, Elon. You invented the child molesting robot.
He got it from this SNL skit.
Congrats, Elon. You invented the child molesting robot.
World's Most Evil Invention - SNL
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
youtu.be
January 5, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Elon Musk didn’t get his inspiration for Grok from any work of classic SFF.
He got it from this SNL skit.
Congrats, Elon. You invented the child molesting robot.
He got it from this SNL skit.
Congrats, Elon. You invented the child molesting robot.
Yay, another win for the "let's not have labels or count things" Party!
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), run by Oz and his boss, RFK Jr., will no longer require physicians to report vaccination rates.
Instead, they plan to start having doctors report if they’ve discussed “alternative” vaccine schedules.
Instead, they plan to start having doctors report if they’ve discussed “alternative” vaccine schedules.
CMS to stop requiring states to report childhood vaccination levels
www.cidrap.umn.edu
January 4, 2026 at 11:23 PM
Yay, another win for the "let's not have labels or count things" Party!
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Just spoke with the owner, Dante, & learned there is a fundraising page. If you are not in a position to give, please consider sharing this widely. Let's blow through that preliminary # -- immediate access to cash gives options the fire would seem at first to destroy.
giveahand.com/fundraiser/n...
giveahand.com/fundraiser/n...
January 3, 2026 at 11:52 PM
Just spoke with the owner, Dante, & learned there is a fundraising page. If you are not in a position to give, please consider sharing this widely. Let's blow through that preliminary # -- immediate access to cash gives options the fire would seem at first to destroy.
giveahand.com/fundraiser/n...
giveahand.com/fundraiser/n...
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When people argue that renewable energy sources are too expensive, remember that we don’t invade countries to seize wind farms and there are no solar cartels. Fossil fuels have enormous geopolitical, public health, and climate externalities.
January 4, 2026 at 5:03 AM
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Charlie Kirk was a husband and a father. We heard it over and over again
Only certain types of people get to be husbands and fathers. Some people are simply civilians. Faceless, nameless and without consequence. Civilians die. It's what they do
Only certain types of people get to be husbands and fathers. Some people are simply civilians. Faceless, nameless and without consequence. Civilians die. It's what they do
The New York Times has just confirmed that 40 civilians died in President Trump's invasion.
This is the aftermath in one area
This is the aftermath in one area
January 4, 2026 at 5:48 AM
Charlie Kirk was a husband and a father. We heard it over and over again
Only certain types of people get to be husbands and fathers. Some people are simply civilians. Faceless, nameless and without consequence. Civilians die. It's what they do
Only certain types of people get to be husbands and fathers. Some people are simply civilians. Faceless, nameless and without consequence. Civilians die. It's what they do
Thanks again, people "too principled" to vote for a Black woman to keep these choads from destroying the fucking country.
January 4, 2026 at 5:10 AM
Thanks again, people "too principled" to vote for a Black woman to keep these choads from destroying the fucking country.
On leftist opposition to US militarism/foreign policy:
January 4, 2026 at 2:54 AM
On leftist opposition to US militarism/foreign policy:
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The New York Times and Washington Post learned of the impending commission of a major crime and did nothing
(Semafor) - The New York Times and Washington Post learned of a secret US raid on Venezuela soon before it was scheduled to begin Friday night — but held off publishing what they knew to avoid endangering US troops ..
@semafor.com
www.semafor.com/article/01/0...
@semafor.com
www.semafor.com/article/01/0...
January 4, 2026 at 2:15 AM
The New York Times and Washington Post learned of the impending commission of a major crime and did nothing
Yes, exactly.
Just realized that Bari Weiss is doing The Newsroom but from the right
January 4, 2026 at 2:51 AM
Yes, exactly.
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Oppose forced regime change?
KEEP REPOSTING THIS (misspelled, so what) EPSTEIN FILES MEME so "They" can't forget what this is really about.
KEEP REPOSTING THIS (misspelled, so what) EPSTEIN FILES MEME so "They" can't forget what this is really about.
January 4, 2026 at 12:51 AM
Oppose forced regime change?
KEEP REPOSTING THIS (misspelled, so what) EPSTEIN FILES MEME so "They" can't forget what this is really about.
KEEP REPOSTING THIS (misspelled, so what) EPSTEIN FILES MEME so "They" can't forget what this is really about.
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you are now hungry.
For everyone doomscrolling, this is the loudest, gayest, most delicious picture I could find (in 20 seconds lol)
Please imagine the pleasure it would bring you.
Please imagine the pleasure it would bring you.
January 4, 2026 at 2:39 AM
you are now hungry.
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There I was, reviewing my CD-Rom instructional guides in order to pass my dirigible pilot license test when I realized that it's true--technologies we fear will change everything are here to stay--and so I sent a message to that effect to my anti-LLM friend across town via pneumatic tube capsule.
January 4, 2026 at 2:42 AM
There I was, reviewing my CD-Rom instructional guides in order to pass my dirigible pilot license test when I realized that it's true--technologies we fear will change everything are here to stay--and so I sent a message to that effect to my anti-LLM friend across town via pneumatic tube capsule.