Todd Walker
@toddwalker.bsky.social
He/him. Ephemera collector, idea connector. Anti-fascism, graphic design, Zen Buddhism, progressive politics, neo-Luddism, and more. I have friends everywhere.
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Todd Walker
@toddwalker.bsky.social
· Dec 30
The conditions of one’s birth - country, parents’ wealth and education, language, etc. - are the biggest lottery ticket you never paid for. To be proud of any of it or look down on others’ lot is the pinnacle of delusion.
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there are times when you have to tell your lawyers that they have a cute idea but no
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 12:51 AM
there are times when you have to tell your lawyers that they have a cute idea but no
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It says a lot about our country that the FBI had no interest in interviewing Brett Kavanaugh but wants to talk to Mark Kelly.
November 26, 2025 at 12:34 AM
It says a lot about our country that the FBI had no interest in interviewing Brett Kavanaugh but wants to talk to Mark Kelly.
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Hong Kong neon fantasy. A composite series using the cities old neon signs www.keithmacgregorphotography.com/km-165-natha...
November 25, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Hong Kong neon fantasy. A composite series using the cities old neon signs www.keithmacgregorphotography.com/km-165-natha...
I don't care what the Philistines say, the Utah Olympics design is pretty cool. London 2012 all over again. And that's a classic, in my book.
November 25, 2025 at 10:36 PM
I don't care what the Philistines say, the Utah Olympics design is pretty cool. London 2012 all over again. And that's a classic, in my book.
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ICE has just under four years to spend $29.9 billion, they are going to outsource AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE to contractors because money is essentially not a problem anymore for the agency.
NEW: ICE has torn up its $180M cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program and is now guaranteeing private surveillance firms at least $7.5M each, with potential payouts reaching $281M per vendor. The change signals a shift from “pilot” to full-scale outsourcing of street-level investigative work.
ICE Offers Up to $280 Million to Immigrant-Tracking ‘Bounty Hunter’ Firms
Immigration and Customs Enforcement lifted a $180 million cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program while guaranteeing multimillion-dollar payouts for private surveillance firms.
www.wired.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:31 PM
ICE has just under four years to spend $29.9 billion, they are going to outsource AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE to contractors because money is essentially not a problem anymore for the agency.
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Libraries are free for you to use, serve the public good, are great, support creators financially and, I cannot be clear enough about this-- ARE FREE FOR YOU TO USE-- so pirating books makes you kind of an asshole, not some Marxist revolutionary.
If the book you want isn't there *request it.*
If the book you want isn't there *request it.*
November 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Libraries are free for you to use, serve the public good, are great, support creators financially and, I cannot be clear enough about this-- ARE FREE FOR YOU TO USE-- so pirating books makes you kind of an asshole, not some Marxist revolutionary.
If the book you want isn't there *request it.*
If the book you want isn't there *request it.*
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I was like, why did I gain hundreds of followers, and then I saw this
November 25, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I was like, why did I gain hundreds of followers, and then I saw this
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FT's actual headline from its verified account. Not a parody!
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates on.ft.com/4ij0yh8
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates
A burning platform
on.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:50 PM
FT's actual headline from its verified account. Not a parody!
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can’t fucking catch a breath
make it stop
make it stop
November 25, 2025 at 7:31 PM
can’t fucking catch a breath
make it stop
make it stop
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nirav shah not mincing words re: the new principle deputy director of CDC. good report from @apoorvanyt.bsky.social
🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/h...
🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/h...
November 25, 2025 at 6:50 PM
nirav shah not mincing words re: the new principle deputy director of CDC. good report from @apoorvanyt.bsky.social
🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/h...
🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/h...
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David Sacks is a lying sack of shit who will take any handout he can get, every single time, and every American should treat him as a conniving, extorting enemy at all times.
November 24, 2025 at 11:25 PM
David Sacks is a lying sack of shit who will take any handout he can get, every single time, and every American should treat him as a conniving, extorting enemy at all times.
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Another one for the "just give needy folks some money for fuck's sake" file
"$1,000 a month as part of a state program experimenting with giving homeless youths cash payments for two years with no strings attached."
"Of the 117 youths [..] who completed Oregon's two-year pilot program, 91% reported being in stable housing."
#Oregon #USA #Housing #Nonprofit
"Of the 117 youths [..] who completed Oregon's two-year pilot program, 91% reported being in stable housing."
#Oregon #USA #Housing #Nonprofit
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
November 25, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Another one for the "just give needy folks some money for fuck's sake" file
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No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should
November 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should
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@vanhollen.senate.gov is correct.
@vanhollen.senate.gov is correct.
Data centers are important for many reasons BUT consumers should NOT have to pay higher bills to facilitate the huge amounts of electricity they eat up.
The richest companies on the planet are building these centers and they should bear the costs — not you.
The richest companies on the planet are building these centers and they should bear the costs — not you.
November 25, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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@vanhollen.senate.gov is correct.
@vanhollen.senate.gov is correct.
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The "anarchist violent extremist actors" being referred to here are the volunteer court watchers
They are citizen volunteers
They are You & I
our neighbors & friends
and Brad Lander 🤬
They are citizen volunteers
They are You & I
our neighbors & friends
and Brad Lander 🤬
NYPD Confirms Involvement in FBI Probe Targeting Volunteer Observers in Immigration Court
An FBI document referred to activists at immigration courts as “anarchist violent extremist actors” and cited a "sensitive source with excellent access” to an encrypted chat.
www.thecity.nyc
November 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
The "anarchist violent extremist actors" being referred to here are the volunteer court watchers
They are citizen volunteers
They are You & I
our neighbors & friends
and Brad Lander 🤬
They are citizen volunteers
They are You & I
our neighbors & friends
and Brad Lander 🤬
Maybe the most gargantuan bee I’ve ever seen in my life
November 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Maybe the most gargantuan bee I’ve ever seen in my life
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ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
I’m reading @jennitaur.bsky.social’s “How to Do Nothing” and very pleased to see she’s here on Bsky… with just 10 posts.
November 25, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I’m reading @jennitaur.bsky.social’s “How to Do Nothing” and very pleased to see she’s here on Bsky… with just 10 posts.
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The premise of the meme is that there are innocent people under those bombs in either picture. Now, I'm no purist, I understand that sometimes you have to make compromises to live in this world...but there are many countries on earth where their government bombs nobody and we should aim for that.
I hate this sort of meme.
“The only difference between the parties is whether the power to destroy human civilization rests in the hands of leaders who think gays, women, and black people should have their rights acknowledged.”
Even if true, how is Rainbow B-52 not infinitely preferable?
“The only difference between the parties is whether the power to destroy human civilization rests in the hands of leaders who think gays, women, and black people should have their rights acknowledged.”
Even if true, how is Rainbow B-52 not infinitely preferable?
November 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The premise of the meme is that there are innocent people under those bombs in either picture. Now, I'm no purist, I understand that sometimes you have to make compromises to live in this world...but there are many countries on earth where their government bombs nobody and we should aim for that.
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“[They] pose absolutely no threat to the US... But this isn’t really about fighting terrorism. It’s about scaring the left and shifting the discussion away from far-right terrorism, which is where most real attacks are coming from in recent years.”
It's always distraction and projection.
#Pinks
It's always distraction and projection.
#Pinks
Anti-fascist groups named as US terror threats ‘barely exist’, experts say
Designation of groups from Italy, Germany and Greece labelled ‘ridiculous’ as experts say no active threat posed
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:38 PM
“[They] pose absolutely no threat to the US... But this isn’t really about fighting terrorism. It’s about scaring the left and shifting the discussion away from far-right terrorism, which is where most real attacks are coming from in recent years.”
It's always distraction and projection.
#Pinks
It's always distraction and projection.
#Pinks
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2025 ed. of James Baldwin Review is out #Free
"One can speak of the fall of an empire at that moment when … no one anywhere aspires to the empire’s standards.
This is the charged dangerous moment when everything must be reexamined, must be made anew…" - J.B.
www.manchesterhive.com/view/journal...
"One can speak of the fall of an empire at that moment when … no one anywhere aspires to the empire’s standards.
This is the charged dangerous moment when everything must be reexamined, must be made anew…" - J.B.
www.manchesterhive.com/view/journal...
November 25, 2025 at 3:20 PM
2025 ed. of James Baldwin Review is out #Free
"One can speak of the fall of an empire at that moment when … no one anywhere aspires to the empire’s standards.
This is the charged dangerous moment when everything must be reexamined, must be made anew…" - J.B.
www.manchesterhive.com/view/journal...
"One can speak of the fall of an empire at that moment when … no one anywhere aspires to the empire’s standards.
This is the charged dangerous moment when everything must be reexamined, must be made anew…" - J.B.
www.manchesterhive.com/view/journal...
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"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
November 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
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A package hasn't "shipped" if you've only "created the label"
November 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
A package hasn't "shipped" if you've only "created the label"