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Colin Peters (Scary Pumpkin)

@colinpeters.bsky.social

750 followers 150 following 5K posts

I write and draw and code. 本を書く。絵を描く。ソフトを作る。Post-Canadian living in Japan, failing to do most of the things I put in my bio. 日本語でもOK。Still not a DJ. Avatar: My face in blurry closeup Banner: My dog surfing the Net Also on mastodon.social at colinpeters.

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Colin Peters (Scary Pumpkin) @colinpeters.bsky.social · Mar 17

Via beige.party/@ira/1141748...

THIS TOO SHALL PASS BUT LIKE HOLY FUCK embroidered in hoop in traditional style with roses and ye olde country-style lettering

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Colin Peters (Scary Pumpkin) @colinpeters.bsky.social · 1h

“I won 90% of the popular vote for my third term!”
“Sir, these are the midterms sir. You didn’t—“
“Shut the fuck up! You’re fired!”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18h

we charge our hyundai ioniq 5 around once every two to three weeks at a muncipal charger and i’d say it runs about $9 for 250 miles of range.

How Much It Costs to Drive an E.V. and a Gas Car in Every State

www.nytimes.com

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 7h

Be the sort of person where even the rumor of your demise sparks a global depressive spiral and not the Ewok celebration from Return of the Jedi

PBS News @pbsnews.org · 10h

“There are just a lot of rumors flying around. But I figured if you heard it from me, you’d know that I was okay,” Dolly Parton said in a new two-minute video posted on Instagram. “I’m not ready to die yet. I don’t think God is through with me. And I ain’t done working.” https://to.pbs.org/4hc1DXB

'I'm not dying': Dolly Parton responds to concerns about her health

Late last month Parton postponed her first Las Vegas residency in 32 years, citing “health challenges.”

www.pbs.org

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 11h

“If we can’t use the citizen-led initiative petition process, we’re done, we’re cooked. We don’t even have the ability to do a petition to get the initiative petition process back,” says the president of the League of Women Voters Missouri.

Under this GOP Measure, All of Missouri’s Recent Popular Initiatives Would Have Failed

Lawmakers just advanced a constitutional amendment to drastically raise the bar for approving citizen ballot measures. Voters get to weigh in on the scheme next year.

boltsmag.org

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 9h

18,457 names of children murdered by Israel in two years. Those are just the names we have so far.

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Colin Peters (Scary Pumpkin) @colinpeters.bsky.social · 2h

“Sir, I think there are a lot of brown people working in meat packing plants and on farms, although I’ve never been to one of those. I think poor children should be doing those jobs. Have you considered creating death squads to address this?”

Colin Peters (Scary Pumpkin) @colinpeters.bsky.social · 2h

“Sir, have you considered suspending Habeas Corpus to deal with the crisis of me feeling weird about there being so many brown people driving taxis and serving me in restaurants?”

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 9h

Reporter: "Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending Habeus Corpus to not only deal with these insurrectionists across the nation but also to continue rapidly deporting illegal aliens?"

Trump: "I'd rather leave that to Kristi [Noem]"

Colin Peters (Scary Pumpkin) @colinpeters.bsky.social · 3h

That’s actually an optimistic scenario. Unregulated militia and/or random gun-toting “concerned about election integrity” Republicans would be more likely to kill people, I think.

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Colin Peters (Scary Pumpkin) @colinpeters.bsky.social · 6h

I believe there’s a reasonable chance at this point that by the midterms we’ll have military guards at urban polling stations turning away people who “don’t look right” or “look like troublemakers.”

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 8h

Donald Trump is breaching the Constitution and breaking the law.

A show of force so he can militarize our cities because of the 2026 elections.

We need to stand up together and speak up.

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Ryan Bort @ryanbort.bsky.social · 13h

MAGA lawmakers regularly share its content. Elon called it "one of the best accounts on X." It's run by a Macedonian who has never set foot in America — and who illegally donated to a U.S. congressional campaign.

Great stuff from @jsweetli.bsky.social:

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The Viral MAGA Accounts Run by a Man Who Has Never Been to America

Two influential MAGA social media accounts are run by Rumen Naumovski, a Macedonian who may have illegally donated to a U.S. election.

www.rollingstone.com

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Hunter Felt @hunterfelt.bsky.social · 8h

"So everyone you disagree with is a Nazi?"

No. But the Nazis sure are!

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 10h

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 13h

You cannot be fucking serious

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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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 8h

I have taken
the freedom of speech
that was in
the Constitution

and which
you were probably
using
for peaceful protest

Forgive me
the courts said they were
so agitating
and so irritating

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 2d

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Signal @signal.org · 5d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

signal.org

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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 11h

I want a live cam fixed on the judges face when the DOJ enters this into evidence

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Karen Dalton Beninato 🐦 @kbeninato.bsky.social · 8h

Slogan for any candidate 2026 & 2028:

Aren't you tired?

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Colin Peters (Scary Pumpkin) @colinpeters.bsky.social · 7h

His whole bio was basically, “I’m not a troll if I had a point.” Jfc. It was not a difficult decision.

Colin Peters (Scary Pumpkin) @colinpeters.bsky.social · 7h

Lol no, I’m kidding, I’ll have forgotten about it by lunch I expect.

Colin Peters (Scary Pumpkin) @colinpeters.bsky.social · 7h

It is with a heavy heart that I block a stranger who may have had a point with those three or four replies but those points were answerable with, “It was an example, dude,” and “Thanks for pointing out the nuance I was aware of but omitted for time and space reasons.”

Colin Peters (Scary Pumpkin) @colinpeters.bsky.social · 7h

Early in the morning in this case.

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Mistress Matisse @mistressmatisse.bsky.social · 8h

OK, she really said that they arrested “the girlfriend of the founder of ANTIFA”

The girlfriend

of the FOUNDER

of - anti fascism?

Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 9h

lest anyone think the girlfriend line was a hilarious joke I concocted...

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Colin Peters (Scary Pumpkin) @colinpeters.bsky.social · 8h

Block early, block often.

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 1d

🧠 Alzheimer’s reversed in mice

A new study found that injecting nanoparticles can 'remind' the blood–brain barrier to function properly again, restoring normal brain activity in mice. Human trials could follow within years.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#SciComm #Alzheimers 🧪

Rapid amyloid-β clearance and cognitive recovery through multivalent modulation of blood–brain barrier transport - Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy

Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy - Rapid amyloid-β clearance and cognitive recovery through multivalent modulation of blood–brain barrier transport

www.nature.com

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Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC (Friday only!) @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 1d

And I really need cis people to understand THAT is the kind of shit dysphoria and repression with do to you.

My own stepmom saw what I was doing and offered me a clear, quiet gesture of support and care and the only way my terrified brain could process it was BETRAYAL and SHAME

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 1d

GHOTI = 🐟

I first came across "ghoti" in Nicolas Slonimsky's autobiography "Perfect Pitch," but it's deployment as an example of the vagaries of the English language far precede that usage.

gh, pronounced /f/ as in enough
o, pronounced /ɪ/ as in women
ti, pronounced /ʃ/ as in nation

Ghoti - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org