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Caræsten 🇵🇸

@cara.city

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I spend a lot of time thinking about all the ghosts that live in old electronics. Preservation, art, old tech. 18+ only Something beautiful is going to happen. (she / they) Writing: antientro.pics Patreon: www.patreon.com/caraesten

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · Aug 30

excited to announce the fourth issue of New Session, the world's premiere telnet-based literary magazine

"Upheaval"

submissions are open today, and close November 7th, for a December release

read the guidelines and theme here: anewsession.com/issue4

Image of a CRT screen showing Upheaval repeated over and over, with New Session Issue 4 and December 2025 in the text

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 6m

awww I'm glad I could help, truly!

Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 11m

I really feel like everyone gets some bad advice at the beginning, god knows I did. I just hope I managed to avoid passing any of it on, lol

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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 4h

An underreported part of US campus repression post-2023 was the pivot to making “[IDF] military veteran” a protected class coterminous with “[pro-occupation Israeli/Jew]”. Students protesting the Gaza war were charged with *discrimination based on veteran status*. migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-appl...

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 19m

If the regime does go after DSA, the appropriate response will be for as many people as possible to become dues-paying members.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Jonathan Choe to Trump: "Another group right now that is behind antifa and working with antifa very closely based on the research that we have right now that we're gonna give to you and your team are the Democratic Socialists of America."

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 21m

this is why I posted my insta btw (instagram.com/caraessie), I just know I'm gonna catch a ban one of these days and I wanna have an option for another online space for talking about my art once that happens

Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · 23m

I'll stay here until I'm banned, but imo this last week or so has been Team Bsky writing their intentions on the wall in letters of fire, so get fallback plans in order imo

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 51m

just a BIG fyi here: use your hackRF combined with a UHF frequency guide to scan any channel's frequency before you broadcast. you REALLY REALLY REALLY don't want to clobber EMS services! not only is it something you'll get fined for, it also actively hurts people

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 2h

someone read the subtitle and went "nope, there isn't!"

Cover of Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher with the subtext is there no alternative?

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · Jun 26

most artists would fucking hate AI art but I think Salvador Dali would get super into it actually

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niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 5h

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 6h

watched one battle after another again last night with @femmeandfauna.bsky.social

Caraesten letterboxd review, one battle after another, 2025

Five stars
This filmn
brought to you by Fathers' For Drunk Driving, the sworn enemy of Mothers' Against Drunk Driving

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 8h

In a fight between Pritzker and and police, who is going to win? This is what happens when both parties allowed law enforcement to become one of the most powerful political actors in the country -- a taxpayer-funded political movement that wants to kill people.

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🔪🔪Jonah 🔪🔪 @chateaucat.bsky.social · Dec 8

"We are from 25 to 30 million strong, and we are armed. And we are conscious of our situation. And we are determined to change it. And we are unafraid."

Emory Douglas, Warning to America, June 27, 1970

An Emory Douglas illustration of a Black woman holding a large gun. On her sleeve is pinned a button that reads "self-defense." Top text reads "We are from 25 to 30 million strong, and we are armed. And we are conscious of our situation. And we are determined to change it. And we are unafraid." Bottom text reads "Warning to America"

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 1d

hair update: it's red

Cara with short electric red hair taking a mirror selfie

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 1d

y'all I've done this every year for the last two years, it was always gonna happen

Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 1d

what if I had red hair

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 1d

He hasn't signed the other bills yet, but he still has days to do so
This headline is misleading for not mentioning that.

The gender education veto is bad, but far from the most important trans rights bill on his desk.

There's still time to contact Newsom for the rest!

www.gov.ca.gov/contact/

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 1d

The firehose is public, any jackass with an AI to train already has access to every single image. This is intentional, same reason why your list of people you block is public, built right into the system.

It's the "we have no input" part that's the problem.

Your images are already stolen.

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 1d

The thing with bluesky using AI to moderate images isn't that it's training on them, think for 10 fucking seconds about it, but that they are saying "yeah we outsourced that shit entirely, we got no control over it. It says label, we label" etc

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 1d

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Max Read @maxread.info · 5d

today's newsletter: a consideration of the many wonderful cars in One Battle After Another, in particular Willa's 2005 Yaris, Sensei's T-Bird Super Coupe and Bob's boosted 1991 Nissan Sentra SE-R

The Oscar Should Go to Bob Ferguson's 1991 Nissan Sentra SE-R

'One Battle After Another' as a car movie

maxread.substack.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

#AZ07

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RAJU: You swore in 2 GOP members during pro forma session. Why not swear in Grijalva? Does it have to do w/her signature on Epstein petition?

JOHNSON: It has nothing to do with that. We'll swear her in when everybody is back

R: Why not now?

J: Uh - we'll schedule it, I guess, as soon as she wants

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 1d

a question which will be answered shortly

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 1d

also, if you buy a brand-new Model Y Standard over a Kia or Hyundai you should not be allowed to have a driver's license

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 1d

what if I had red hair

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 1d

i don't think they should reopen the government. it's funny that they're already talking about figuring out how to pay the soldiery. your majesty the mercenaries are beginning to grumble about their wages but im sure it will be fine

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Roko's Brocialist @bombsfall.bsky.social · 19d

People who aggressively dismissed broader economic and systemic concerns from the left and became morbidly obsessed with trans people and pronouns for years: Over the years the left has focused too much on their pronouns and not enough on the economy and our pressing systemic problems

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