Jesse Farrell
@jfarrell.eurosky.social
🏳️⚧️ powerlifter, unfree software repairbot, cat mum.
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@_jfarrell on Twitter; @[email protected] in fediverse.
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Pro-democracy, antifa-scist.
Capitalism is a choice.
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@_jfarrell on Twitter; @[email protected] in fediverse.
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Pro-democracy, antifa-scist.
Capitalism is a choice.
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Today is David Graeber's birthday. He'd have been 65 years old today.
His ideas are still here and his message is more important than ever before which must remind us that a better world is possible.
His ideas are still here and his message is more important than ever before which must remind us that a better world is possible.
February 12, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Today is David Graeber's birthday. He'd have been 65 years old today.
His ideas are still here and his message is more important than ever before which must remind us that a better world is possible.
His ideas are still here and his message is more important than ever before which must remind us that a better world is possible.
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Labour has brought back section 28 against trans and non-binary individuals. I lived through section 28 last time. I suffered the harms of it. This will do the same thing. Not even allowing young people to socially transition is plain wrong. It prevents them finding their own identity.
February 12, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Labour has brought back section 28 against trans and non-binary individuals. I lived through section 28 last time. I suffered the harms of it. This will do the same thing. Not even allowing young people to socially transition is plain wrong. It prevents them finding their own identity.
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What women on the left already knew before the files came out is that men can imagine a world of class consciousness (Chomsky), a universe more expansive than ever before known (Hawking), a world where you can live forever (Attia) but not a world where women are fully human.
February 12, 2026 at 6:49 PM
What women on the left already knew before the files came out is that men can imagine a world of class consciousness (Chomsky), a universe more expansive than ever before known (Hawking), a world where you can live forever (Attia) but not a world where women are fully human.
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Sunrise in the City at Sears Tower. This morning in Chicago at along the north branch of the river.
February 12, 2026 at 1:29 PM
Sunrise in the City at Sears Tower. This morning in Chicago at along the north branch of the river.
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More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News
About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.
apple.news
February 12, 2026 at 1:35 AM
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
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Excellent piece from Parker Molloy:
The NFL Told You Why It Booked Bad Bunny
The league's own executives explained the strategy, on the record, for years. Conservative media pretended it wasn't happening.
open.substack.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:35 PM
Excellent piece from Parker Molloy:
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Donald Trump is VERY EXCITED about all of our shitty right wing propaganda "local news" companies merging into one larger, shittier company
Donald Trump Endorses Nexstar-Tegna Merger, And FCC Chair Responds: “Let’s Get It Done”
The merger is still undergoing an FCC review.
deadline.com
February 9, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Donald Trump is VERY EXCITED about all of our shitty right wing propaganda "local news" companies merging into one larger, shittier company
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Cannot believe that I got to profile an extraordinary filmmaker, who happens to be the mother of NYC’s new mayor, and think about intersections of art and politics, and how familial love might produce a buffer against the corrosive politics and cynicism of our time. My story about Mira Nair:
What Mira Nair Taught Zohran Mamdani
The mayor’s famous filmmaker mother reveals the origins of his ferocious ambition.
www.vulture.com
February 10, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Cannot believe that I got to profile an extraordinary filmmaker, who happens to be the mother of NYC’s new mayor, and think about intersections of art and politics, and how familial love might produce a buffer against the corrosive politics and cynicism of our time. My story about Mira Nair:
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This is an interesting piece about how NYT is using AI in its newsroom. (tl;dr: they generate transcripts of the podcasts they're tracking, those transcripts gets summarized, those summaries get delivered in a report to journalists)
When actress Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle ad became a culture war flashpoint last summer, Times journalists noticed, in part through the reports, that right-wing podcast figures were shaping the backlash. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/how-...
How The New York Times uses a custom AI tool to track the “manosphere”
The daily podcast round-up is just one way the Times is adopting in-house AI transcription and summarization tools.
www.niemanlab.org
February 12, 2026 at 1:25 AM
This is an interesting piece about how NYT is using AI in its newsroom. (tl;dr: they generate transcripts of the podcasts they're tracking, those transcripts gets summarized, those summaries get delivered in a report to journalists)
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Yesterday Ekko Astral announced our second album with a lead single called “lil xan goes to washington”
Today I reveal why we wrote a story about Lil Xan: it was a nickname I went by with my close friends before I transitioned.
Here is the most vulnerable thing I’ve ever written. Hope you read.
Today I reveal why we wrote a story about Lil Xan: it was a nickname I went by with my close friends before I transitioned.
Here is the most vulnerable thing I’ve ever written. Hope you read.
How Lil Xan taught me to love an end to all things.
On the lead single for “the beltway is burning,” Ekko Astral’s second album.
medium.com
February 12, 2026 at 1:49 PM
Yesterday Ekko Astral announced our second album with a lead single called “lil xan goes to washington”
Today I reveal why we wrote a story about Lil Xan: it was a nickname I went by with my close friends before I transitioned.
Here is the most vulnerable thing I’ve ever written. Hope you read.
Today I reveal why we wrote a story about Lil Xan: it was a nickname I went by with my close friends before I transitioned.
Here is the most vulnerable thing I’ve ever written. Hope you read.
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Heraskevych’s choice to forfeit the medal chance instead of give up the memorial helmet is the biggest story in Ukraine today. Everyone is heartbroken but there is a unanimous consensus that this was what had to happen rather than to give up.
February 12, 2026 at 1:41 PM
Heraskevych’s choice to forfeit the medal chance instead of give up the memorial helmet is the biggest story in Ukraine today. Everyone is heartbroken but there is a unanimous consensus that this was what had to happen rather than to give up.
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Today's newsletter: New piece: after the Guthrie kidnapping, the Kirk assassination, and both Minneapolis shootings, the same thing happened every time. People asked AI to "enhance" blurry footage. AI invented faces.
www.readtpa.com/p/computer-e...
www.readtpa.com/p/computer-e...
Computer, Enhance
People keep running crime footage through AI thinking they’re helping. They’re not.
www.readtpa.com
February 12, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Today's newsletter: New piece: after the Guthrie kidnapping, the Kirk assassination, and both Minneapolis shootings, the same thing happened every time. People asked AI to "enhance" blurry footage. AI invented faces.
www.readtpa.com/p/computer-e...
www.readtpa.com/p/computer-e...
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and (c) there doesn’t appear to be any other viable progressive challengers
@aoc.bsky.social should run for president because (a) 2028 is the year she could win, and (b) we desperately need a president who actually is enthusiastic about crushing fascism. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/why-aoc-sh...
Why AOC Should Run for President
Two words: Analilia Mejia
www.everythingishorrible.net
February 12, 2026 at 5:48 PM
and (c) there doesn’t appear to be any other viable progressive challengers
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Hegseth wants to feed AI with classified information. He is also the least qualified Secretary of Defense in modern history and has led an unprecedented purge of experience in the military’s top ranks.
The Pentagon Wants to Raw Dog the Latest AI Models on Classified Systems
Defense officials are pushing tech companies to loosen restrictions on their most powerful models as the military expands its use of AI.
gizmodo.com
February 12, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Hegseth wants to feed AI with classified information. He is also the least qualified Secretary of Defense in modern history and has led an unprecedented purge of experience in the military’s top ranks.
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left this up overnight and you guys DID send enough to pay two rents 😭
so instead of having to find six families to adopt rents today, I only need four 🥰
so instead of having to find six families to adopt rents today, I only need four 🥰
February 12, 2026 at 3:43 PM
left this up overnight and you guys DID send enough to pay two rents 😭
so instead of having to find six families to adopt rents today, I only need four 🥰
so instead of having to find six families to adopt rents today, I only need four 🥰
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#clearthelist Please retweet. I am a fourth grade nyc teacher in a title I school. I would love some help with our wishlist with school supplies, books, and more. I appreciate you and any help you can provide. Thank you www.donorschoose.org/classroom/23... www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
eeyore and winnie the pooh hugging with the words " big hearts deserve big hugs " above them
ALT: eeyore and winnie the pooh hugging with the words " big hearts deserve big hugs " above them
media.tenor.com
February 7, 2026 at 9:58 PM
#clearthelist Please retweet. I am a fourth grade nyc teacher in a title I school. I would love some help with our wishlist with school supplies, books, and more. I appreciate you and any help you can provide. Thank you www.donorschoose.org/classroom/23... www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
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gosh he might be concerned
Johnson: 'It Would Be Inappropriate’ If DOJ Surveilled Jayapal's Epstein Searches
www.huffpost.com
February 12, 2026 at 5:49 PM
gosh he might be concerned
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you missed the best one
February 12, 2026 at 4:21 PM
you missed the best one
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The Atlantic is Atlanticking extremely hard this morning
February 12, 2026 at 4:21 PM
The Atlantic is Atlanticking extremely hard this morning
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Just going to note again, because somehow we've all completely retconned this and I feel like I'm taking crazy pills, that pound-for-pound Biden had one of the most draconian border security regimes of any U.S. president ever, second only to Trump, *many of whose policies he inherited and kept*
Not going to read them all because jesus fucking christ but this is nasty work from Friedersdorf
February 12, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Just going to note again, because somehow we've all completely retconned this and I feel like I'm taking crazy pills, that pound-for-pound Biden had one of the most draconian border security regimes of any U.S. president ever, second only to Trump, *many of whose policies he inherited and kept*
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The idea that this is all a backlash to some kind of Biden open-borders regime is premised whole-cloth on a falsehood, a deliberate lie that supposedly Reasonable Thinkers have adopted as truth. It's. just. not. true.
February 12, 2026 at 4:28 PM
The idea that this is all a backlash to some kind of Biden open-borders regime is premised whole-cloth on a falsehood, a deliberate lie that supposedly Reasonable Thinkers have adopted as truth. It's. just. not. true.
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Pre-Trumpism, could you fathom a member of Congress having to reiterate that expressions covered under the First Amendment are not a crime — to govt officials? And certainly not justification for gassing, jailing...or summary execution by masked, armed agents of the state.
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under questioning by Rand Paul, ICE officials confirm that yelling at officers is not assault and recording officers is not a crime
February 12, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Pre-Trumpism, could you fathom a member of Congress having to reiterate that expressions covered under the First Amendment are not a crime — to govt officials? And certainly not justification for gassing, jailing...or summary execution by masked, armed agents of the state.
📺 bsky.app/profile/atru...
📺 bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Heckuva job, Bari.
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February 12, 2026 at 3:56 AM
Heckuva job, Bari.
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