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Thomas Crofts

@hypermetrix.bsky.social

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professor (medieval lit and classics), drummer (punk). east tennessee. hometown: san antonio, tx. poemz at commoncrofts (https://commoncrofts.blogspot.com/)

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Thomas Crofts @hypermetrix.bsky.social · Jan 26

Nicanor Parra:

basta de profecías apocalípticas
ya sabemos QUEL MUNDO SE ACABÓ

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The Dangerous Ones @thedangerousones.com · 4d

This.
Is.
Brilliant.

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Thomas Crofts @hypermetrix.bsky.social · 3d

I repeat, their souls are in hell.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

“There’s a baby!”

Guns drawn. Windows smashed. With a 1 month old in the car. (They did this as he was coming home from an immigration court appointment— which is illegal in Colorado: coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...)

Thomas Crofts @hypermetrix.bsky.social · 4d

Their souls are in hell.

Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 5d

Four U.S. citizen children were detained in an ICE raid—zip-tied, separated, held for hours.

Imagine if these were your precious little ones! Can you close your eyes to this depravity? Please don't.

Remember

If this could happen to these little kids, it can happen to yours.

Speak out now!

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 5d

Attn Black people, stop scrolling.

This is not a drill: Chicago

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Medievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social · 7d

A Medieval Cat’s Paw Print: How a Mischievous Feline Made its Mark on History www.medievalists.net/2024/10/medi... #Cats

A Medieval Cat's Paw Print: How a Mischievous Feline Made its Mark on History - Medievalists.net

Imagine stumbling upon a centuries-old manuscript and discovering an unexpected visitor had left its mark – a cat’s paw, immortalised in ink. This quirky image, a medieval equivalent of your cat…

www.medievalists.net

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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · Aug 28

beautiful

I am here to be rude, because this is a rude technology, and it deserves a rude response.
Miyazaki said, "I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself." Scam Altman said we can surround the solar system with a Dyson Sphere to hold data centers. Miyazaki is right, and Altman is wrong.
Miyazaki tells stories that blend the ordinary and the fantastic in ways people find deeply meaningful. Altman tells lies for money.
And I'm glad they're lies. Because the makers of Al aren't damned by their failures, they're damned by their goals. They want to build a genie to grant them wishes, and their wish is that nobody ever has to make art again. They want to create a new kind of mind, so they can force it into mindless servitude. Their dream is to invent new forms of life to enslave.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16d

What “fascism” means

Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DO6EvDz...

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Thomas Crofts @hypermetrix.bsky.social · 27d

Are not his bills hung up as monuments
whereby whole cities have escaped the plague
and thousand desperate maladies been eased?

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Thomas Crofts @hypermetrix.bsky.social · 28d

Euge! Of course you'd already be fired in Texas.

Thomas Crofts @hypermetrix.bsky.social · Sep 5

Look at those wheels. Despite her mother's bullshit, I bet she knows she majorly scored.

Thomas Crofts @hypermetrix.bsky.social · Jul 11

Truth

Thomas Crofts @hypermetrix.bsky.social · Jun 27

Good for them, but troubling that only the group under attack is speaking out. Their colleagues in congress of all backgrounds should be raising hell.

Thomas Crofts @hypermetrix.bsky.social · Jun 8

Fucking hell.

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · May 31

Hard truth:

Most people in the US see the reality of mass deportation, and are horrified.

But more than half of all white folk in the US *support* mass deportation.

And everyone: stop lying to me and pretending that you didn't know that it would be this. You knew.

Lie to yourself. Not to me.

Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · May 31

These people were following the law and went to check in with immigration like they are supposed to.

This woman's immigration case was dismissed, which made her immediately undocumented.

So ICE took her into custody.

The air conditioning was off in the back of the truck.

"I can't breathe."

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Thomas Crofts @hypermetrix.bsky.social · May 27

Same.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · May 27

CBS reporter Scott Pelley:

This is a warning that I fear many will look back on in five or six years and think “he was so right”.

If you haven’t already shared this, please do.

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Thomas Crofts @hypermetrix.bsky.social · May 14

Well, maybe there's some *kairos* afoot: I was just about to throw myself into the letters, which will be the more poignant now; glad to have your essay for company.