Aaron
@atakins.bsky.social
I’m #gay, I’m a #technologist, I have #ADHD, I think we should #eattherich, and I repost a lot.
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“If Iran shots [sic] and violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America will come to their rescue.” Dj $rump. Okay so who’s gonna rescue us?
January 7, 2026 at 10:55 PM
“If Iran shots [sic] and violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America will come to their rescue.” Dj $rump. Okay so who’s gonna rescue us?
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“'The guy, I’m telling him like, "Please step off the school grounds," and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he knocked me down,' an official at Roosevelt High School said. 'They don’t care. They’re just animals. I’ve never seen people behave like this.'"
Minneapolis schools cancel classes after Border Patrol clash disrupts dismissal at Roosevelt
Minneapolis schools closed for the week citing safety concerns after an encounter involving armed Border Patrol agents near Roosevelt High School.
www.mprnews.org
January 8, 2026 at 2:09 PM
“'The guy, I’m telling him like, "Please step off the school grounds," and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he knocked me down,' an official at Roosevelt High School said. 'They don’t care. They’re just animals. I’ve never seen people behave like this.'"
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Non-consensual image creation / "deep-fake porn" has been a problem for a while that the legal system has only just begun to grapple with but part of what makes the Grok thing much worse is that it's delivered instantly & directly into replies to punish women for publicly speaking or even existing.
X basically industrialized the creation of fake porn of women who don't consent. Others did it first, but Grok made it normalized and centralized: publicly visible, instantly creatable by anyone, regardless of who's being targeted and dehumanized. Only question now is will X suffer any consequences
January 7, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Non-consensual image creation / "deep-fake porn" has been a problem for a while that the legal system has only just begun to grapple with but part of what makes the Grok thing much worse is that it's delivered instantly & directly into replies to punish women for publicly speaking or even existing.
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What happened in Minneapolis wasn’t law enforcement. It was murder. Prosecute them. Strip their immunity. Get them the hell out of our communities.
January 8, 2026 at 3:51 AM
What happened in Minneapolis wasn’t law enforcement. It was murder. Prosecute them. Strip their immunity. Get them the hell out of our communities.
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Should the Google & Apple App stores be hosting the Twitter App now that it’s physically turning photos of kids & others into porn?
Grok has put a bikini on one of the dead victims of the recent Swiss fire !
It's probably the most appalling thing I've seen... 🤬
It's probably the most appalling thing I've seen... 🤬
January 7, 2026 at 8:16 PM
Should the Google & Apple App stores be hosting the Twitter App now that it’s physically turning photos of kids & others into porn?
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Sunday Jan 4, when we were freaking out over the Venezuela military operstion, the Guardian published an exposé on the 32 people who died in ICE custody in 2025—the agency’s deadliest year in more than two decades
This article has short write-ups on every single one of the 32 people.
No pay wall.
This article has short write-ups on every single one of the 32 people.
No pay wall.
2025 was ICE’s deadliest year in two decades. Here are the 32 people who died in custody
The deaths came as the Trump administration ramped up immigration enforcement, detaining a record number of people
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2026 at 10:48 PM
Sunday Jan 4, when we were freaking out over the Venezuela military operstion, the Guardian published an exposé on the 32 people who died in ICE custody in 2025—the agency’s deadliest year in more than two decades
This article has short write-ups on every single one of the 32 people.
No pay wall.
This article has short write-ups on every single one of the 32 people.
No pay wall.
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News flash: he's not joking...
Read "‘Dictator’ Trump Floats Idea of Canceling Midterm Elections" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-6V389lPG/j...
Read "‘Dictator’ Trump Floats Idea of Canceling Midterm Elections" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-6V389lPG/j...
‘Dictator' Trump Floats Idea of Canceling Midterm Elections (The Daily Beast)
Donald Trump mused about canceling the 2026 midterms during his appearance before a room full of GOP lawmakers.
The president visited the Kennedy Cen...
l.smartnews.com
January 7, 2026 at 3:15 AM
News flash: he's not joking...
Read "‘Dictator’ Trump Floats Idea of Canceling Midterm Elections" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-6V389lPG/j...
Read "‘Dictator’ Trump Floats Idea of Canceling Midterm Elections" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-6V389lPG/j...
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This is Renee Good.
She was a mother of a six-year-old child.
She was an American citizen.
She described herself as a “poet and writer and wife and mom and shitty guitar strummer from Colorado.”
And she was gunned down in cold blood and broad daylight by Trump’s ICE agents.
She was a mother of a six-year-old child.
She was an American citizen.
She described herself as a “poet and writer and wife and mom and shitty guitar strummer from Colorado.”
And she was gunned down in cold blood and broad daylight by Trump’s ICE agents.
January 8, 2026 at 12:08 AM
This is Renee Good.
She was a mother of a six-year-old child.
She was an American citizen.
She described herself as a “poet and writer and wife and mom and shitty guitar strummer from Colorado.”
And she was gunned down in cold blood and broad daylight by Trump’s ICE agents.
She was a mother of a six-year-old child.
She was an American citizen.
She described herself as a “poet and writer and wife and mom and shitty guitar strummer from Colorado.”
And she was gunned down in cold blood and broad daylight by Trump’s ICE agents.
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Greetings from Kyiv,
where generators are singing,
St Nicholas drives by,
and snow is falling.
I love our spirit.
May the world see it.
where generators are singing,
St Nicholas drives by,
and snow is falling.
I love our spirit.
May the world see it.
December 31, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Greetings from Kyiv,
where generators are singing,
St Nicholas drives by,
and snow is falling.
I love our spirit.
May the world see it.
where generators are singing,
St Nicholas drives by,
and snow is falling.
I love our spirit.
May the world see it.
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Scoundrels and grifters and traitors, oh myyy.
December 29, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Scoundrels and grifters and traitors, oh myyy.
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The president of the United States is unhinged and seriously mentally ill.
Republicans won’t do a thing about it, which makes them complicit to whatever horrors come next.
Republicans won’t do a thing about it, which makes them complicit to whatever horrors come next.
December 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
The president of the United States is unhinged and seriously mentally ill.
Republicans won’t do a thing about it, which makes them complicit to whatever horrors come next.
Republicans won’t do a thing about it, which makes them complicit to whatever horrors come next.
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Usually I can’t wait for a sequel but…
December 26, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Usually I can’t wait for a sequel but…
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Wait. Thiel is warning US about a hi-tech surveillance state? The guy behind PALANTIR?
December 27, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Wait. Thiel is warning US about a hi-tech surveillance state? The guy behind PALANTIR?
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Researchers made a new YouTube account & found that 104 of the first 500 videos recommended to its feed were AI slop. 1/3 of the 500 videos were “brainrot”, a category that includes AI slop & other low-quality content made to monetize attention.
Worth reading! YT is doing nothing to combat this.
Worth reading! YT is doing nothing to combat this.
More than 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are ‘AI slop’, study finds
Low-quality AI-generated content is now saturating social media – and generating about $117m a year, data shows
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Researchers made a new YouTube account & found that 104 of the first 500 videos recommended to its feed were AI slop. 1/3 of the 500 videos were “brainrot”, a category that includes AI slop & other low-quality content made to monetize attention.
Worth reading! YT is doing nothing to combat this.
Worth reading! YT is doing nothing to combat this.
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If ICE can threaten arrest for filming, then journalists, watchdogs, and protesters can all be silenced the same way. You don’t have freedom of the press if recording police is treated as terrorism. #holdfast
www.cato.org/blog/dhs-pol...
www.cato.org/blog/dhs-pol...
The Government Unconstitutionally Labels ICE Observers as Domestic Terrorists
A free country must have an absolute wall of protection for those who record government actions.
www.cato.org
December 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM
If ICE can threaten arrest for filming, then journalists, watchdogs, and protesters can all be silenced the same way. You don’t have freedom of the press if recording police is treated as terrorism. #holdfast
www.cato.org/blog/dhs-pol...
www.cato.org/blog/dhs-pol...
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Vaccines on the childhood schedule have been tested in controlled trials with millions of participants. They are continuously monitored for safety after being rolled out. It has made the diseases it targets so rare that many parents have never seen them.
RFK Jr. wants to scrutinize the vaccine schedule – but its safety record is already decades long
Federal officials are questioning the safety of the vaccine series children receive. Here’s the story of how the childhood vaccine schedule came about.
theconversation.com
December 23, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Vaccines on the childhood schedule have been tested in controlled trials with millions of participants. They are continuously monitored for safety after being rolled out. It has made the diseases it targets so rare that many parents have never seen them.
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Greetings from Kyiv.
Morning began with missiles.
My train to visit my mom left without me –
I couldn’t leave my dearest ones during the attack.
Mom said her whole town is without power.
Slept poorly. Warcoffee time. More missiles on the way.
Morning began with missiles.
My train to visit my mom left without me –
I couldn’t leave my dearest ones during the attack.
Mom said her whole town is without power.
Slept poorly. Warcoffee time. More missiles on the way.
December 23, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Greetings from Kyiv.
Morning began with missiles.
My train to visit my mom left without me –
I couldn’t leave my dearest ones during the attack.
Mom said her whole town is without power.
Slept poorly. Warcoffee time. More missiles on the way.
Morning began with missiles.
My train to visit my mom left without me –
I couldn’t leave my dearest ones during the attack.
Mom said her whole town is without power.
Slept poorly. Warcoffee time. More missiles on the way.
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Felon47 is the deranged one...
December 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Felon47 is the deranged one...
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Curious to learn more about CECOT?
Hear Juan, Andry, and Wilmer share firsthand how the Trump administration branded them as gang members without evidence and deported them to the brutal El Salvadoran prison.
This @pbsnews.org documentary is available on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lku5...
Hear Juan, Andry, and Wilmer share firsthand how the Trump administration branded them as gang members without evidence and deported them to the brutal El Salvadoran prison.
This @pbsnews.org documentary is available on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lku5...
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
www.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Curious to learn more about CECOT?
Hear Juan, Andry, and Wilmer share firsthand how the Trump administration branded them as gang members without evidence and deported them to the brutal El Salvadoran prison.
This @pbsnews.org documentary is available on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lku5...
Hear Juan, Andry, and Wilmer share firsthand how the Trump administration branded them as gang members without evidence and deported them to the brutal El Salvadoran prison.
This @pbsnews.org documentary is available on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lku5...
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1/ State control of the media is Fascism with a capital F.
December 22, 2025 at 1:50 PM
1/ State control of the media is Fascism with a capital F.
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The National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado is to be dismantled after >50 years at the forefront of global research on climate science & monitoring—the latest step in the administration’s climate Lysenkoism.
This affects weather forecasting, too!
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This affects weather forecasting, too!
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
December 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM
The National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado is to be dismantled after >50 years at the forefront of global research on climate science & monitoring—the latest step in the administration’s climate Lysenkoism.
This affects weather forecasting, too!
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This affects weather forecasting, too!
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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This @peterbakernyt.bsky.social paragraph is a perfect summary of our descent into authoritarianism.
He’s not even editorializing. He’s just reporting what’s happened, and what we’ve become numb to. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...
He’s not even editorializing. He’s just reporting what’s happened, and what we’ve become numb to. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...
December 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM
This @peterbakernyt.bsky.social paragraph is a perfect summary of our descent into authoritarianism.
He’s not even editorializing. He’s just reporting what’s happened, and what we’ve become numb to. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...
He’s not even editorializing. He’s just reporting what’s happened, and what we’ve become numb to. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...
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WOW. They're not going to air their special on CECOT. I'd like to know who made this decision, and whether the federal government had a hand in it.
December 21, 2025 at 10:22 PM
WOW. They're not going to air their special on CECOT. I'd like to know who made this decision, and whether the federal government had a hand in it.
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The solution is right above us. Solar panels on existing buildings, car parks, and along highways generate clean power without sacrificing farmland or wild spaces. Let's use our built world first. #Renewables #Innovation
December 22, 2025 at 2:27 AM
The solution is right above us. Solar panels on existing buildings, car parks, and along highways generate clean power without sacrificing farmland or wild spaces. Let's use our built world first. #Renewables #Innovation