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elena perez @thisiselena.bsky.social · 6h

mint
chocolate
chip
ice
cream

(that's it, that's the skeet.)

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elena perez @thisiselena.bsky.social · 7h

i should add that reposting the post in question makes you an amplifier for the dumb-ity. block and move on!

elena perez @thisiselena.bsky.social · 7h

if you write something provocatively dumb and say "ratio me" all I hear is block block block

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elena perez @thisiselena.bsky.social · 7h

if you write something provocatively dumb and say "ratio me" all I hear is block block block

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elena perez @thisiselena.bsky.social · 11h

gonna think about this for a while

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 14h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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elena perez @thisiselena.bsky.social · Jan 22

sometimes i think about the Great Red Spot on Jupiter, a storm as big as two Earths with wind speeds surpassing 250mph, and raging for something like 200+ years... and how it makes everything here seem so small. Just something else to think about.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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elena perez @thisiselena.bsky.social · 1d

ahh Diane Keaton

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elena perez @thisiselena.bsky.social · 1d

the only people who can be held accountable are those who believe in accountability

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elena perez @thisiselena.bsky.social · 2d

they're gonna figure out how to tie this to the whole return-to-office thing soon

TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 2d

Though Benioff's shift mirrors Silicon Valley's broader accommodation of Trump, the exchange offered a rare glimpse of just how far that repositioning can go. The question now: will other Bay Area tech CEOs follow Benioff's lead and call for federal troops in their own backyard?

Salesforce CEO says National Guard should patrol San Francisco -- stunning his own PR team | TechCrunch

Though Benioff's shift mirrors Silicon Valley's broader accommodation of Trump, the exchange offered a rare glimpse of just how far that repositioning can go. The question now: will other Bay Area tech CEOs follow Benioff's lead and call for federal troops in their own backyard?

techcrunch.com

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Adam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 2d

Every A.I. CEO is like “We invented a robot that can fuck your wife so you have more free time to mow the lawn!”

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elena perez @thisiselena.bsky.social · 2d

"...mow *our* lawn."

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elena perez @thisiselena.bsky.social · 2d

back when girls dressed like kids until they turn 13 and were issued a 39yo's haircut and wardrobe

elena perez @thisiselena.bsky.social · 2d

once you have registered your demeanor, you must sustain that demeanor. demeanors can only be changed in conjunction with a change of employment or during the open demeanor enrollment window.

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elena perez @thisiselena.bsky.social · 2d

each citizen shall be allowed 1 (one) demeanor

thematthill.bsky.social @thematthill.bsky.social · 4d

Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.

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elena perez @thisiselena.bsky.social · 2d

their authoritarian bullshit is so obvi-101, i can only think that most people *do* see it, and they just believe they're safe.

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elena perez @thisiselena.bsky.social · 2d

shout out to Portland ❤️☀️

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elena perez @thisiselena.bsky.social · 2d

in addition to all the many ugly terrible things, sure sucks to see people you care deeply about living in a whole different reality

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jenna newman phd @jennanewman.bsky.social · 3d

Community science! Input from over TEN THOUSAND PEOPLE! From Mexico to Canada! In a natural experiment!

“Bc a total solar eclipse occurs in the same location once every 3 or4 centuries, most free-living birds, like most ppl, have never seen day turn quickly to pm, only to return again mins later”🧪

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 3d

I have to fan-girl for a minute here. My friend @rosvall-lab.bsky.social built an app to gather data on bird behavior during the 2024 solar eclipse. 10,000+ citizen scientists contributed (including my kids), and the resulting paper was published in Science today!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...