Laura
@holochromatic.bsky.social
Nerdy shit, politics, Twins baseball (and other MN sports), disability, music, television, LGBTQIA+. She/her, they/them, or any mix of the above. AKA TrixieBastard, FordHoiberg, Tinypop elsewhere
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Donate to Support Fox in Her Urgent Move and Housing Needs, organized by Laura Cole
Hello! My name is Laura, and I am creating this fundraiser for my mother, … Laura Cole needs your support for Support Fox in Her Urgent Move and Housing Needs
gofund.me
My mother is being evicted from her home so that her landlord can sell the property. She's older and lives on her own. She was blindsided by & has had no opportunity to save funds to cover the costs of a move. Please share far and wide, as she may only have a couple of weeks!
gofund.me/619d2df42
gofund.me/619d2df42
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One of our Shakopee observers witnessed ICE pepper spray a baby today in Chanhassen.
(Yes. You read that right.)
The agent knew the baby was there. ICE does not make our communities safer. End Operation Metro Surge NOW!
(Yes. You read that right.)
The agent knew the baby was there. ICE does not make our communities safer. End Operation Metro Surge NOW!
December 14, 2025 at 12:43 AM
One of our Shakopee observers witnessed ICE pepper spray a baby today in Chanhassen.
(Yes. You read that right.)
The agent knew the baby was there. ICE does not make our communities safer. End Operation Metro Surge NOW!
(Yes. You read that right.)
The agent knew the baby was there. ICE does not make our communities safer. End Operation Metro Surge NOW!
My mother is being evicted from her home so that her landlord can sell the property. She's older and lives on her own. She was blindsided by & has had no opportunity to save funds to cover the costs of a move. Please share far and wide, as she may only have a couple of weeks!
gofund.me/619d2df42
gofund.me/619d2df42
Donate to Support Fox in Her Urgent Move and Housing Needs, organized by Laura Cole
Hello! My name is Laura, and I am creating this fundraiser for my mother, … Laura Cole needs your support for Support Fox in Her Urgent Move and Housing Needs
gofund.me
December 14, 2025 at 1:53 AM
My mother is being evicted from her home so that her landlord can sell the property. She's older and lives on her own. She was blindsided by & has had no opportunity to save funds to cover the costs of a move. Please share far and wide, as she may only have a couple of weeks!
gofund.me/619d2df42
gofund.me/619d2df42
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Just came back here to share a more detailed obituary written by her friend for the @thesicktimes.org.
It includes her activism in support of 🇵🇸, and her advocacy and support for people with Long Covid.
thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...
It includes her activism in support of 🇵🇸, and her advocacy and support for people with Long Covid.
thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...
Alice Wong, disability activist and luminary, dies at 51 - The Sick Times
Alice Wong platformed and uplifted people with Long COVID in her final chapter as a lifelong disability advocate and storyteller.
thesicktimes.org
November 16, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Just came back here to share a more detailed obituary written by her friend for the @thesicktimes.org.
It includes her activism in support of 🇵🇸, and her advocacy and support for people with Long Covid.
thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...
It includes her activism in support of 🇵🇸, and her advocacy and support for people with Long Covid.
thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...
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A nice obituary for Alice, who was going to be recognized as one of The Post 50.
I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman.
#GiftLink
wapo.st/49WOdx1
I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman.
#GiftLink
wapo.st/49WOdx1
Alice Wong, disability rights advocate and wordsmith, dies at 51
Alice Wong, a transformational leader for disability rights and justice, who founded the Disability Visibility project to magnify disabled culture, died Nov. 14.
wapo.st
November 16, 2025 at 12:22 AM
A nice obituary for Alice, who was going to be recognized as one of The Post 50.
I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman.
#GiftLink
wapo.st/49WOdx1
I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman.
#GiftLink
wapo.st/49WOdx1
Well, I know what I'm doing on Tuesday 😍😍😍
November 16, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Well, I know what I'm doing on Tuesday 😍😍😍
So sad that it's the last Uptown Farmers Market for the season. It's been great for our neighborhood and I'm going to miss it a lot. See you next summer!
September 25, 2025 at 8:35 PM
So sad that it's the last Uptown Farmers Market for the season. It's been great for our neighborhood and I'm going to miss it a lot. See you next summer!
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This baby flamingo is so adorable… 🥰
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July 31, 2025 at 10:42 PM
This baby flamingo is so adorable… 🥰
🦩
🦩
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Winds of Yawanawa #268 by Yawanawa and Refik Anadol
https://opensea.io/assets/ethereum/0x7a63d17f5a59bca04b6702f461b1f1a1c59b100b/268
https://opensea.io/assets/ethereum/0x7a63d17f5a59bca04b6702f461b1f1a1c59b100b/268
July 1, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Winds of Yawanawa #268 by Yawanawa and Refik Anadol
https://opensea.io/assets/ethereum/0x7a63d17f5a59bca04b6702f461b1f1a1c59b100b/268
https://opensea.io/assets/ethereum/0x7a63d17f5a59bca04b6702f461b1f1a1c59b100b/268
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The Right really is in disarray because they cannot seem to figure out if they should push “Zohran Mamdani is going to bring Sharia Law” or “Zohran Mamdani treats his wife with too much equality” as a smear campaign, so they are doing both.
June 28, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The Right really is in disarray because they cannot seem to figure out if they should push “Zohran Mamdani is going to bring Sharia Law” or “Zohran Mamdani treats his wife with too much equality” as a smear campaign, so they are doing both.
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A convicted felon married to an immigrant is lecturing us that the real problem is immigrants and felons—America's leadership is a joke.
June 29, 2025 at 5:05 PM
A convicted felon married to an immigrant is lecturing us that the real problem is immigrants and felons—America's leadership is a joke.
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The Trump administration is dropping charges against ms-13 gang leaders after the gang leaders agreed to use their power as gang leaders to support Nayib Bukele politically in El Salvador. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/u...
June 30, 2025 at 10:57 AM
The Trump administration is dropping charges against ms-13 gang leaders after the gang leaders agreed to use their power as gang leaders to support Nayib Bukele politically in El Salvador. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/u...
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This sentence, typed in her dissent, should scare the living fuck out of everyone in this country.
"This Supreme Court is an existential threat to the rule of law."
– Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
"This Supreme Court is an existential threat to the rule of law."
– Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
June 28, 2025 at 2:11 PM
This sentence, typed in her dissent, should scare the living fuck out of everyone in this country.
"This Supreme Court is an existential threat to the rule of law."
– Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
"This Supreme Court is an existential threat to the rule of law."
– Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
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“ICE gets a bigger budget than the Marine Corps” is a simple fact that should be communicated very widely because it clearly expresses how crazy and radical this is
With this budget, ICE alone would have nearly as large a detention operation as all 50 states' prison systems combined. Bigger budget than the Marine Corps. Police-state levels of spending
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
June 29, 2025 at 2:26 PM
“ICE gets a bigger budget than the Marine Corps” is a simple fact that should be communicated very widely because it clearly expresses how crazy and radical this is
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The Congress Avenue bridge in Austin, Texas contains a colony of 1.5 million Mexican free-tail bats, the largest urban colony in the US.
It's a maternity colony, where momma bats give birth & raise their pups.
Some adaptations they have to high-density living:
(📷: Imagine Austin)
It's a maternity colony, where momma bats give birth & raise their pups.
Some adaptations they have to high-density living:
(📷: Imagine Austin)
June 30, 2025 at 12:43 PM
The Congress Avenue bridge in Austin, Texas contains a colony of 1.5 million Mexican free-tail bats, the largest urban colony in the US.
It's a maternity colony, where momma bats give birth & raise their pups.
Some adaptations they have to high-density living:
(📷: Imagine Austin)
It's a maternity colony, where momma bats give birth & raise their pups.
Some adaptations they have to high-density living:
(📷: Imagine Austin)
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"Grandfathering" is hardly a protective policy because of how common churn is in Medicaid — a phenomenon that will be exacerbated by work requirements and more frequent eligibility redeterminations, both fundamentally paperwork hassles that will make temporary lapses in Medicaid coverage.
News: Sen. Rick Scott amendment lowering federal match for Medicaid expansion has been filed. Would be "grandfathering" in beneficiaries until 2030 at 90 percent match, lower state-specific rate kicks in in 2031. Cost savings of $313 billion
full copy: cdn.sanity.io/files/ifn0l6...
full copy: cdn.sanity.io/files/ifn0l6...
cdn.sanity.io
June 30, 2025 at 12:43 PM
"Grandfathering" is hardly a protective policy because of how common churn is in Medicaid — a phenomenon that will be exacerbated by work requirements and more frequent eligibility redeterminations, both fundamentally paperwork hassles that will make temporary lapses in Medicaid coverage.
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Too much Democratic Party rhetoric is couched in the premise that Republicans are being led astray, when the reality is that they love the worst possible shit every time
June 30, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Too much Democratic Party rhetoric is couched in the premise that Republicans are being led astray, when the reality is that they love the worst possible shit every time
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I just received a contract on Docusign for review and signing, and it offered to give me an AI-generated summary that I could read instead to save time.
That's AN AI-GENERATED SUMMARY ***OF A CONTRACT***, in case you need to let that sink in.
That's AN AI-GENERATED SUMMARY ***OF A CONTRACT***, in case you need to let that sink in.
June 30, 2025 at 7:38 AM
I just received a contract on Docusign for review and signing, and it offered to give me an AI-generated summary that I could read instead to save time.
That's AN AI-GENERATED SUMMARY ***OF A CONTRACT***, in case you need to let that sink in.
That's AN AI-GENERATED SUMMARY ***OF A CONTRACT***, in case you need to let that sink in.
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![r/tipofmytongue
u/chafos • 3y • 5
[TOMT] What are those dogs that look coconuts called?
Solved
They're not really dogs exactly but if a dog was made of coconuts and had a different shapes head, it'd be them.
Edit: Sorry for the typos on this post. It was late at night and I was trying really hard to remember what Capybaras were called.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:awzzrtrcrvpnxi3ph2sbhxwv/bafkreievjfayjquqjedie3cjnuzhrgnwmfzd56glyewbtapexopq5blvhe@jpeg)
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🎶and a partridge in an RVeeeeee🎶
By the numbers, Clarence Thomas has been treated to:
• At least 38 destination vacations;
• 26 private jet flights;
• 12 VIP passes to pro & college sporting events;
• 2 stays at luxury resorts;
• 1 standing invite to an uber-exclusive golf club
(Published 2023)
• At least 38 destination vacations;
• 26 private jet flights;
• 12 VIP passes to pro & college sporting events;
• 2 stays at luxury resorts;
• 1 standing invite to an uber-exclusive golf club
(Published 2023)
Clarence Thomas’ 38 Vacations: The Other Billionaires Who Have Treated the Supreme Court Justice to Luxury Travel
The fullest accounting yet shows how Thomas has secretly reaped the benefits from a network of wealthy and well-connected patrons that is far more extensive than previously understood.
www.propublica.org
June 30, 2025 at 1:17 PM
🎶and a partridge in an RVeeeeee🎶
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Would be super nice if there were consequences for this type of thing
New: Kristi Noem secretly took a cut of political donations.
A dark money group routed the funds to Noem's Delaware LLC, tax records show. The original source of the money remains unknown.
www.propublica.org/article/kris...
A dark money group routed the funds to Noem's Delaware LLC, tax records show. The original source of the money remains unknown.
www.propublica.org/article/kris...
Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations
A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...
www.propublica.org
June 30, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Would be super nice if there were consequences for this type of thing
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I’ve never like the idea on the Left that there’s no need for persuasion or coalition-building, people will support us if they can hear us because we’re right, and it’s disheartening to see Zohran’s win, which came of the back of the cross-endorsement with Lander, held up as proof of it.
June 30, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I’ve never like the idea on the Left that there’s no need for persuasion or coalition-building, people will support us if they can hear us because we’re right, and it’s disheartening to see Zohran’s win, which came of the back of the cross-endorsement with Lander, held up as proof of it.
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The world sux, so please enjoy this precious lil mousie being just THRILLED to grab some berries (his wee lil haaaaands)
June 17, 2025 at 3:04 AM
The world sux, so please enjoy this precious lil mousie being just THRILLED to grab some berries (his wee lil haaaaands)