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brian @brian.mutualaid.info · 8d

Spent some of my best times on the computer as a kid making custom WinAmp visualizations. Can’t wait to try this.

Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 8d

Nobody asked for it. We did it anyway.

If you ever used Winamp during the later years, it had an awesome, awesome visualizer called Milkdrop. The Webamp people implemented a workalike called Butterchurn.

Internet Archive now supports Webamp and Butterchurn. Just click on the llama!

brian @brian.mutualaid.info · 12d

If you can spare a few dollars, donate to support families in the Brockton, Massachusetts area impacted by ICE terrorism. gofund.me/984634872

Flyer with raised hands and hearts reading:

Fundraising for Brockton Area Immigrant Families

Please join the Brockton area LUCE network in establishing a revolving fund for local immigrant families directly impacted by detention and fear of being detained.
Any amount will help - please share widely. Your support is critical!

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brian @brian.mutualaid.info · 13d

Thanks for the positive feedback! A good reminder that I still need to migrate my PDS lol…

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Universal Hub @universalhub.com · 18d

No peace for #ICE agents staying at #MedfordMA hotel
www.universalhub.com/2025/no-peac...

Protesters outside Hyatt Place in Medford demand hotel stop renting rooms to ICE, photo by Ron Newman

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brian @brian.mutualaid.info · 26d

Brockton is the City of Champions.

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brian @brian.mutualaid.info · Sep 9

The 3D flyovers of the Moon and Mars (iirc) on that Astronomer CD were pretty sick.

brian @brian.mutualaid.info · Aug 20

I frequently feel like I wayyy overestimated how many people learned anything about the police from the George Floyd uprisings in 2020.

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brian @brian.mutualaid.info · Aug 17

Tears of the Prophets is the first one that comes to mind. RIP Jadzia

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brian @brian.mutualaid.info · Aug 8

noticed this earlier too and had to turn them off. kinda tracks with the quality and attention to detail of the rest of it.

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Joel Mathis @joelmathis.bsky.social · Jul 6

More people nationwide need to know that Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe just did this to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum.

KCUR (Kansas City's best news source) @kcur.org · Jul 5

Gov. Mike Kehoe has vetoed millions of dollars in state support for Kansas City arts and culture nonprofits. The Rabbit Hole lost $400,000, Kansas City Zoo and Starlight lost $1 million, and Negro Leagues Baseball Museum lost $750,000. https://loom.ly/QRQwP7U

Kansas City arts groups ‘left reeling’ after Missouri governor slashes millions from budget

Months after area arts and culture nonprofits saw a loss of funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, Gov. Mike Kehoe has vetoed millions more in state support.

www.kcur.org

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Yawu Miller @yawumiller.bsky.social · Jul 7

Demonstrators gathered outside Gov. Healey’s Arlington home to demand she end 287g agreements allowing the Dept. of Corrections to detain immigrants for ICE.

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Heshan de Silva-Weeramuni @heshan.bsky.social · Jul 8

“Either Governor Healey is oblivious to what’s actually happening with ICE or her values don’t align with the majority of the people in the state. I hope it’s the former.” — Chelsea City Councilor @robertoj.bsky.social.

Reporting by @yawumiller.bsky.social for @flipsidenews.bsky.social.

Protesters press Healey on ICE agreement

A crowd of more than 40 protesters demonstrated in front of Gov. Maura Healey’s Arlington home Monday calling on her to end a Massachusetts Department of Corrections cooperation agreement with ICE.

flipsidenews.net

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · Jul 4

There's a line from the riots of sailors and the enslaved all the way through to 2020 and today. Past the counterrevolutions, coups and propaganda (including official holidays) intended to bury it.

"The great men are going to take all we have." They still are. The question is what we do about it.

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brian @brian.mutualaid.info · Jun 21

I knew it.

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brian @brian.mutualaid.info · Jun 21

(Callie also looks very very soft.)

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brian @brian.mutualaid.info · Jun 21

So sorry to hear this. Callie looks like a beautiful pup. We lost ours two months ago and I miss her every day. We’re so lucky to love and be loved by dogs.

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · Jun 19

Happy #Juneteenth! May every relic of hate burn to a crisp and may Black people be FREE.

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I AM IN TERARS LAUGHING. DR MIA A CRAWFORD JOHNSON WENT TO NOTTOWAY PLANTATION TO WATCH IT BURN DOWN. LMAO

Real shit you should have told me. I would have absolutely went.

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Adrienne @adrienneleigh.bsky.social · Jun 13

This, by the way, is why you should never RSVP to a protest that wants your name & address.

WIRED @wired.com · Jun 13

SCOOP: Details about Saturday’s “No Kings” protest are under watch by domestic intelligence centers, where analysts regularly distribute speculative threat assessments among federal, state, and local agencies, according to an internal alert obtained by WIRED.

UNPAYWALLED:

'No Kings' Protests, Citizen-Run ICE Trackers Trigger Intelligence Warnings

Army intelligence analysts are monitoring civilian-made ICE tracking tools, treating them as potential threats, as immigration protests spread nationwide.

www.wired.com

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · Jun 12

The complete eradication of Rafah - a city with a quarter of a million residents - should and will be remembered as a crime against humanity, amongst the worst modern urbicides

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · Jun 12

When immigrants’ rights are under attack, what do we do?

Clash Montréal @clashmtl.bsky.social · Jun 12

Spraying the ICE agents with paint using a repurposed fire extinguisher appears to be a turning point in this confrontation in Tucson today. Same tactic worked well against around thirty cops at a Montreal protest in Nov. 2024, blinding at least one and forcing a whole unit to retreat down an alley.

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Jeremy Lindenfeld @jeremotographs.bsky.social · Jun 12

Incredibly chaotic scene here in downtown Los Angeles where LAPD have just charged protesters with horses while others fire munitions.

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RANGE Media @rangemedia.co · Jun 12

Things might be about to get wild here. Service is way slowed down. Will do my best to update

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RANGE Media @rangemedia.co · Jun 12

Things have quieted again. Recovering from getting shoved by ICE a few times. As far as I could tell it was just ICE and unmarked contractors, no cops yet. A barricade has been built outside one of the gates. There’s groups of protestors at every gate

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RANGE Media @rangemedia.co · Jun 11

Peaceful protest against ICE in Spokane is happening at 411 W Cataldo after the detainment of a young man who went to his hearing. Over a dozen protestors are sitting in front of the bus , prepared to be arrested. The bus windshield has been spray painted

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