Tom Eastman
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It might seem obvious that if you value something, you'll make an effort to get better at it.
What's less intuitive is that if you make an effort to get better at something you're not good at, you'll learn its value.
What's less intuitive is that if you make an effort to get better at something you're not good at, you'll learn its value.
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“this moment requires you not to worship your own life anymore” audience is stone cold “this moment requires you to put your life between them and their targets” audience erupts
i know there’s a selection bias here but. there is a Hunger in this room i’ve never seen before
i know there’s a selection bias here but. there is a Hunger in this room i’ve never seen before
January 25, 2026 at 2:00 AM
“this moment requires you not to worship your own life anymore” audience is stone cold “this moment requires you to put your life between them and their targets” audience erupts
i know there’s a selection bias here but. there is a Hunger in this room i’ve never seen before
i know there’s a selection bias here but. there is a Hunger in this room i’ve never seen before
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One of the things I've learned from bluesky is that while I would agree it's pretty much an echo chamber, an echo chamber doesn't have to be isolating or pacifying if it's filled with curious, inquisitive, and self-aware people. Being surrounded by people like yourself who actually care about...
January 25, 2026 at 1:02 AM
One of the things I've learned from bluesky is that while I would agree it's pretty much an echo chamber, an echo chamber doesn't have to be isolating or pacifying if it's filled with curious, inquisitive, and self-aware people. Being surrounded by people like yourself who actually care about...
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Reminder:
If you get exhausted and burn out and give up, you lose. If you stay in, you win. Just by existing, you win!
So taking little breaks for joy is fine! Good actually!
Helping other people find joy, gives you joy too! Joy is not conserved! The laws of thermodynamics don't apply to joy!
If you get exhausted and burn out and give up, you lose. If you stay in, you win. Just by existing, you win!
So taking little breaks for joy is fine! Good actually!
Helping other people find joy, gives you joy too! Joy is not conserved! The laws of thermodynamics don't apply to joy!
mekka okereke :verified: (@[email protected])
Reminder:
If you get exhausted and burn out and give up, you lose. If you stay in, you win. Just by existing, you win!
So taking little breaks for joy is fine! Good actually!
Helping other people f...
hachyderm.io
January 23, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Reminder:
If you get exhausted and burn out and give up, you lose. If you stay in, you win. Just by existing, you win!
So taking little breaks for joy is fine! Good actually!
Helping other people find joy, gives you joy too! Joy is not conserved! The laws of thermodynamics don't apply to joy!
If you get exhausted and burn out and give up, you lose. If you stay in, you win. Just by existing, you win!
So taking little breaks for joy is fine! Good actually!
Helping other people find joy, gives you joy too! Joy is not conserved! The laws of thermodynamics don't apply to joy!
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Pam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump.
Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.
Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.
January 25, 2026 at 12:35 AM
Pam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump.
Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.
Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.
I've gone to great lengths to turn off autoplay on bluesky, but for some reason embedded quoted posts auto play snuff films in my feed.
January 24, 2026 at 10:36 PM
I've gone to great lengths to turn off autoplay on bluesky, but for some reason embedded quoted posts auto play snuff films in my feed.
I live in the timezone where every morning I wake up after the murder, but before we know the name of who was murdered.
January 24, 2026 at 9:29 PM
I live in the timezone where every morning I wake up after the murder, but before we know the name of who was murdered.
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Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
White. Hot. Rage.
January 24, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
White. Hot. Rage.
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ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.
January 24, 2026 at 4:51 PM
ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.
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Settings > Content and Media > Autoplay Video and GIFs
Turn it off, now.
Turn it off, now.
January 24, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Settings > Content and Media > Autoplay Video and GIFs
Turn it off, now.
Turn it off, now.
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Discworld QOTD, from Night Watch
"Two types of people laugh at the law: those that break it and those that make it."
"Two types of people laugh at the law: those that break it and those that make it."
Discworld QOTD, from Witches Abroad
January 24, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Discworld QOTD, from Night Watch
"Two types of people laugh at the law: those that break it and those that make it."
"Two types of people laugh at the law: those that break it and those that make it."
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![a Kirby frame, inspired by Anthony Moser
Frame (F is happening!): The protestor had a gun!
Negation (F is not true!): The observer had a gun permit
Kirby (K is happening. That's why they're saying F): THEY ARE NAZI DEATH SQUADS
[eats the frame saying "gun man bad"]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eawrzkefxggvqbrmagkhsmcc/bafkreifkywskuzbxiuoyfbasyous2f2fsvuukhcckmiet43f4yhwtslo4e@jpeg)
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Democrats can and must make it clear there will be trials and anyone even somewhat associated with ICE will face them. Maybe give a quit-your-job deadline on appeasement and give people 72 hours. I don't know. But currently the plan is to let them murder us in the street and get away with it.
January 24, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Democrats can and must make it clear there will be trials and anyone even somewhat associated with ICE will face them. Maybe give a quit-your-job deadline on appeasement and give people 72 hours. I don't know. But currently the plan is to let them murder us in the street and get away with it.
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Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.
January 24, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.
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We must stop funding DHS.
January 24, 2026 at 6:21 PM
We must stop funding DHS.
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The second most disturbing thing about today's ICE murder is that ICE rounded up and removed the witnesses. I just pray that woman in pink (and anyone else) texted her video to a friend first.
January 24, 2026 at 5:32 PM
The second most disturbing thing about today's ICE murder is that ICE rounded up and removed the witnesses. I just pray that woman in pink (and anyone else) texted her video to a friend first.
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Absolutely impeccable timing for this. Exquisite. Pristine.
January 24, 2026 at 2:41 AM
Absolutely impeccable timing for this. Exquisite. Pristine.
I'm gonna make the prediction now. Death flights are going to start in the next few months. When we eventually find out I'll refer back to this post.
Congratulations america. You've graduated to disappearing people.
Google "death flights" for where you're headed.
Google "death flights" for where you're headed.
NEWS: Last night, the Department of Homeland Security detained a Palestinian who helped lead the Columbia encampment.
Agents told him his visa was revoked. He said he had a green card. They were confused—then said that was revoked too.
His attorney demanded a warrant. Agents hung up instead.
Agents told him his visa was revoked. He said he had a green card. They were confused—then said that was revoked too.
His attorney demanded a warrant. Agents hung up instead.
January 24, 2026 at 4:24 AM
I'm gonna make the prediction now. Death flights are going to start in the next few months. When we eventually find out I'll refer back to this post.
Yeah. They're secret police and y'all democratically elected a repressive regime.
January 24, 2026 at 4:21 AM
Yeah. They're secret police and y'all democratically elected a repressive regime.
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It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing
January 23, 2026 at 8:16 PM
It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing
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This something I want people to understand. If you don’t get their names, they’re just gone. There’s no arrest record and the snatch-and-grabs can last seconds. People simply disappear and we can’t find out who they are or what happened to them.
They seem to be making a habit of it.
This child was taken 10 days ago, no idea who he is, if he is with his family or even if his family knows what happened to him.
This child was taken 10 days ago, no idea who he is, if he is with his family or even if his family knows what happened to him.
January 23, 2026 at 4:54 PM
This something I want people to understand. If you don’t get their names, they’re just gone. There’s no arrest record and the snatch-and-grabs can last seconds. People simply disappear and we can’t find out who they are or what happened to them.
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This is a banger of an ad.
Help us make hope normal again.
Join the Green Party now.
Join the Green Party now.
January 22, 2026 at 8:57 PM
This is a banger of an ad.
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I'll say yet again: Trump & his party do something virtually every day that constitutes a more violent & alarming suppression of speech than anything that happened during the entire alleged tyranny of woke. Every day. Yet the entire Free Spech army has just vanished into mist.
I wrote on the shameful situation re: the recession of a deanship to Emily Suski at the University of Arkansas Law. What was the reason? Prof. Suski signed an amicus brief supporting trans rights. The Arkansas legislators admitted that was it! Horrible outcome. ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
A Law School Dean Signed a Brief Defending Trans Rights. She Lost Her Job Because of It
The revocation of Emily Suski’s job offer at the University of Arkansas sends a chilling message to law professors everywhere.
ballsandstrikes.org
January 22, 2026 at 6:49 PM
I'll say yet again: Trump & his party do something virtually every day that constitutes a more violent & alarming suppression of speech than anything that happened during the entire alleged tyranny of woke. Every day. Yet the entire Free Spech army has just vanished into mist.
New Zealand news media actually is surprising even my cynical-ass self with it's sheer level of bootlicking craven spinelessness.
January 22, 2026 at 6:38 PM
New Zealand news media actually is surprising even my cynical-ass self with it's sheer level of bootlicking craven spinelessness.
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This thread is so much. 😭
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
January 22, 2026 at 4:23 AM
This thread is so much. 😭
All time maximum till next summer
Heatwave and fire warnings as parts of Victoria expected to approach ‘all-time maximum record’ temperatures
Heatwave and fire warnings as parts of Victoria expected to approach ‘all-time maximum record’ temperatures
At least five days of temperatures above 40C forecast for parts of South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales
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Victorians are being warned to brace for another heatwave, with temperatures set to soar towards record levels in some parts of the state, putting authorities on alert in fire-affected areas.
South Australia and parts of New South Wales have also been told to prepare for hot weather, due to what Bureau of Meteorology senior meteorologist, Kevin Parkyn, described as a “dome of heat” that has caused record-breaking heat in Western Australia moving east. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 6:24 AM
All time maximum till next summer