Jenny
@jennybirb.bsky.social
she/her; avatar from https://bsky.app/profile/autumnsketching.bsky.social
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I love Starfleet Academys theme of the kids challenging the notion that Starfleet is an inherently good institution by virtue of its liberal progressive legacy alone but instead must change through accountability for its past harm & by refusing to create a homogenized culture that subsumes diversity
January 10, 2026 at 9:35 PM
I love Starfleet Academys theme of the kids challenging the notion that Starfleet is an inherently good institution by virtue of its liberal progressive legacy alone but instead must change through accountability for its past harm & by refusing to create a homogenized culture that subsumes diversity
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This makes me happy. I hope they find their sunlight.
January 10, 2026 at 10:26 PM
This makes me happy. I hope they find their sunlight.
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I am accidentally researching a topic that finance bros are into and I cannot believe there is a single human alive dumb enough to listen to finance bros. Holy crap how does that industry exist scammers on scammers on dumbass scammers.
January 10, 2026 at 11:51 PM
I am accidentally researching a topic that finance bros are into and I cannot believe there is a single human alive dumb enough to listen to finance bros. Holy crap how does that industry exist scammers on scammers on dumbass scammers.
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Slightly diminish a band:
Sleat Kinney
Sleat Kinney
Slightly diminish a band:
They Might Be Unusually Large
They Might Be Unusually Large
Slightly diminish a band
Something Something
Something Something
January 10, 2026 at 11:57 PM
Slightly diminish a band:
Sleat Kinney
Sleat Kinney
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You are doing the right thing. It sucks to be under siege but you are under siege. And you won't be free while these law enforcement agencies continue to exist.
I can't describe how bad Minneapolis feels right now. My neighbors are pulling kids out of school. The public schools are offering remote learning until 2/12. We are having conversations in our alleys about how to protect ourselves. It feels like a military occupation with a blockade.
The US Department of Agriculture suspends all federal funding to Minnesota, effective immediately.
January 11, 2026 at 12:09 AM
You are doing the right thing. It sucks to be under siege but you are under siege. And you won't be free while these law enforcement agencies continue to exist.
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Holy shit, I'm so excited that Zack is covering Babylon 5.
January 11, 2026 at 12:15 AM
Holy shit, I'm so excited that Zack is covering Babylon 5.
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what if your⚓officers' uniforms didn't just show rank, but encoded what gods they survived meeting?
wrote about designing naval uniforms as worldbuilding—color as theology, insignia as mythology, and why competence can look like divinity 🔱
full craft breakdown:
wrote about designing naval uniforms as worldbuilding—color as theology, insignia as mythology, and why competence can look like divinity 🔱
full craft breakdown:
How to Make Your Officers Look Like Gods
Naval fiction has given us competence. I want to give you apotheosis. What happens when you bring Gothic symbolic density to naval fiction. A craft guide to designing uniforms, insignia, and material ...
logbook.deadstar.black
November 4, 2025 at 4:07 PM
what if your⚓officers' uniforms didn't just show rank, but encoded what gods they survived meeting?
wrote about designing naval uniforms as worldbuilding—color as theology, insignia as mythology, and why competence can look like divinity 🔱
full craft breakdown:
wrote about designing naval uniforms as worldbuilding—color as theology, insignia as mythology, and why competence can look like divinity 🔱
full craft breakdown:
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This game is way too easy.
January 9, 2026 at 12:59 AM
This game is way too easy.
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The sheer number of videos of the shooting is horrific, but in the vein of what @prisonculture.bsky.social has been saying, it proves how many people cared enough to show up where ICE was and record them. It wasn't just one or two legal observers, and when Good was shot, they didn't abandon her.
January 8, 2026 at 12:19 AM
The sheer number of videos of the shooting is horrific, but in the vein of what @prisonculture.bsky.social has been saying, it proves how many people cared enough to show up where ICE was and record them. It wasn't just one or two legal observers, and when Good was shot, they didn't abandon her.
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This is especially pertinent given that Greenland is the only polity in the Americas that is majority indigenous.
This idea that either Greenlanders OR Canadians would ever be just given equivalent voting status or citizen status upon annexation is the most amazingly naive assumption, on a long list of amazingly naive assumptions among people talking about this.
You also have libs who support Canada getting annexed because then the Democrats would win every election. As if Canadians would ever forgive those who helped destroy our country
January 7, 2026 at 6:24 PM
This is especially pertinent given that Greenland is the only polity in the Americas that is majority indigenous.
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Always a good idea to turn off auto-play videos; choose what you see and what you don't.
if you do not want to watch the video, go to settings > content and media and uncheck the "autoplay videos and gifs" box right now
January 7, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Always a good idea to turn off auto-play videos; choose what you see and what you don't.
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given that this happened after 1919 too, it makes me wonder if the reason public health didn't take off until the 20th century wasn't just science, but the lack of incentive: if humans dont' reward govts that protect them from disease or punish those that don't, then why try? Easier to blame others.
January 7, 2026 at 7:04 PM
given that this happened after 1919 too, it makes me wonder if the reason public health didn't take off until the 20th century wasn't just science, but the lack of incentive: if humans dont' reward govts that protect them from disease or punish those that don't, then why try? Easier to blame others.
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India lost *millions* of people, there were people out on the streets begging for oxygen canisters and beds, Twitter turned into a bulletin board to find the same because the government abandoned the people, corpses were floating down rivers. & India forgave, forgot, and voted the same gov in.
there’s a thread on reddit right now called “was COVID really that bad?” and it is interesting to read people’s accounts five years out
there seems to be a collective trauma response where people (outside of healthcare workers) don’t remember how many people died
someone called it anticlimactic
there seems to be a collective trauma response where people (outside of healthcare workers) don’t remember how many people died
someone called it anticlimactic
January 7, 2026 at 6:51 PM
India lost *millions* of people, there were people out on the streets begging for oxygen canisters and beds, Twitter turned into a bulletin board to find the same because the government abandoned the people, corpses were floating down rivers. & India forgave, forgot, and voted the same gov in.
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Horrific, horrific day and a good time to get off the internet and find something to do to make the world a better place.
January 7, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Horrific, horrific day and a good time to get off the internet and find something to do to make the world a better place.
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Though its related to my interests, I have to be careful about reading into Japan in WW2 and the Cultural Revolution because I start getting nightmares.
I really dislike the internets belief that "to understand a conflict you must watch the atrocities on an endless loop."
I really dislike the internets belief that "to understand a conflict you must watch the atrocities on an endless loop."
literally anybody whose *actual job* involves having to watch atrocity videos will tell you it's hugely psychologically self-destructive and not something you should voluntarily put yourself through on a daily basis.
Nobody is supposed to be able to "handle" witnessing atrocity and those who think they can are lying to themselves! You're fucking yourself up to feel holy! That's a hairshirt!
January 7, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Though its related to my interests, I have to be careful about reading into Japan in WW2 and the Cultural Revolution because I start getting nightmares.
I really dislike the internets belief that "to understand a conflict you must watch the atrocities on an endless loop."
I really dislike the internets belief that "to understand a conflict you must watch the atrocities on an endless loop."
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@govpritzker.illinois.gov
Illinois State Police have been cooperating & assisting ICE. Ive watched countless videos of our own officers brutally assault peaceful protestors. After the actions in Minnesota today I want to see this cooperation end. I will not support you or any future election bid.
Illinois State Police have been cooperating & assisting ICE. Ive watched countless videos of our own officers brutally assault peaceful protestors. After the actions in Minnesota today I want to see this cooperation end. I will not support you or any future election bid.
January 7, 2026 at 7:39 PM
@govpritzker.illinois.gov
Illinois State Police have been cooperating & assisting ICE. Ive watched countless videos of our own officers brutally assault peaceful protestors. After the actions in Minnesota today I want to see this cooperation end. I will not support you or any future election bid.
Illinois State Police have been cooperating & assisting ICE. Ive watched countless videos of our own officers brutally assault peaceful protestors. After the actions in Minnesota today I want to see this cooperation end. I will not support you or any future election bid.
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making robots that look like people is almost always a choice to sacrifice efficient form for the feeling of owning a person
January 7, 2026 at 5:57 PM
making robots that look like people is almost always a choice to sacrifice efficient form for the feeling of owning a person
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There’s a good bit in Martha Wells’ Fugitive Telemetry abt how annoying Murderbot finds it when (sentient) bots are programmed to mimic human mannerisms that don’t make sense given their actual sensory inputs, which were built BY HUMANS, just to make humans more comfortable (this is also abt autism)
making robots that look like people is almost always a choice to sacrifice efficient form for the feeling of owning a person
January 7, 2026 at 6:06 PM
There’s a good bit in Martha Wells’ Fugitive Telemetry abt how annoying Murderbot finds it when (sentient) bots are programmed to mimic human mannerisms that don’t make sense given their actual sensory inputs, which were built BY HUMANS, just to make humans more comfortable (this is also abt autism)
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ENEMY COMMUNICATIONS INTERCEPTED STOP
CONSIST SOLELY OF QUOTE AWAWA UNQUOTE WITH DIFFERING NUMBER OF WAS STOP
HAVE REFERRED TO CRYPTANALYSIS STOP
CONSIST SOLELY OF QUOTE AWAWA UNQUOTE WITH DIFFERING NUMBER OF WAS STOP
HAVE REFERRED TO CRYPTANALYSIS STOP
January 7, 2026 at 8:03 PM
ENEMY COMMUNICATIONS INTERCEPTED STOP
CONSIST SOLELY OF QUOTE AWAWA UNQUOTE WITH DIFFERING NUMBER OF WAS STOP
HAVE REFERRED TO CRYPTANALYSIS STOP
CONSIST SOLELY OF QUOTE AWAWA UNQUOTE WITH DIFFERING NUMBER OF WAS STOP
HAVE REFERRED TO CRYPTANALYSIS STOP
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even if we make it through 2029 without invading a nato member state, Europe still has to be re-arm asap. Your security cannot be dependent on the 20,000 stupidest people in Pennsylvania in perpetuity.
January 7, 2026 at 1:43 PM
even if we make it through 2029 without invading a nato member state, Europe still has to be re-arm asap. Your security cannot be dependent on the 20,000 stupidest people in Pennsylvania in perpetuity.
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Here’s a fun top five: things that are consensus among historians but are essentially unknown by the public. Richard I, a bad king of England. Roman Empire, fell in 1453. Paul, more important than Jesus. Witch burning, a modern phenomenon not a medieval one. Britain last invaded in 1688. Yours?
As someone who wrote a dissertation on that damnable Frenchman; one can only hope.
January 5, 2026 at 9:44 PM
Here’s a fun top five: things that are consensus among historians but are essentially unknown by the public. Richard I, a bad king of England. Roman Empire, fell in 1453. Paul, more important than Jesus. Witch burning, a modern phenomenon not a medieval one. Britain last invaded in 1688. Yours?