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Katy
@katynicoud.bsky.social
justice, abolition, reparations

Working for the kids at @hilltopartists.bsky.social

Sylvie Fleury, ''Moisturizing Is the Answer'', 1996, neon installation

https://wearttacoma.com
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"IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE is rich in the purest sense of the word because it is so many things: a romantic drama, a capitalist critique, an existential crisis, a chronicle of 20th century American history. But more than anything else, it’s one of the all-time great Dad movies." - Bryan Miller
Ask Dad, He Knows: It’s A Wonderful Life’s Legacy Of Failure and Fatherhood
It’s A Wonderful Life is rich in the purest sense of the word because it is so many things; but more than anything else, it’s one of the all-time great Dad movies.
www.brightwalldarkroom.com
December 25, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, found himself in the bowels of a Vogon constructor ship, nursing a terrible transmaterial hangover, made only all the worse by the incessant poetry piped out over the ships loudspeaker, and his startling lack of any available towels
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, eventually became a Queen! Not dark but beautiful and terrible as the Dawn! Treacherous as the Seas! Stronger than the foundations of the Earth!
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, eventually found himself on a planet called Third Earth, where he had a long-running quarrel with a group of anthropomorphic cats
December 24, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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For within these rings was bound the strength and the will to govern each race But they were all of them deceived, for Tiny Tim, who did NOT die
December 24, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Now Earth, Which Could Die, was dead and gone, and only Tiny Tim, WHO COULD NOT DIE, remained.

He did not think this to be a merry Christmas.
December 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, was somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, beat on, boat against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, reckoned he got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she’s going to adopt him and sivilize him and he can’t stand it. He been there before.
December 24, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, lived long enough to see himself become the villain
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, crawled through a river of shit and came out clean on the other side.
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, eventually became a Queen! Not dark but beautiful and terrible as the Dawn! Treacherous as the Seas! Stronger than the foundations of the Earth!
December 24, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, killed and killed and killed.
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, must let the world think he is dead, until he can find a way to control the raging spirit that dwells within him.
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, walked 47 miles of barbwire
Used a cobra snake for a necktie
Got a brand new house on the roadside
Made from rattlesnake hide
December 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, eventually became a Queen! Not dark but beautiful and terrible as the Dawn! Treacherous as the Seas! Stronger than the foundations of the Earth!
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, eventually found himself on a planet called Third Earth, where he had a long-running quarrel with a group of anthropomorphic cats
December 24, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, where the shadows lie, One Tim to rule them all, One Tim to find them, One Tim to bring them all, and in the darkness, bind them.
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, blew up the Death Star.
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, has a machine gun now. Ho! Ho! Ho!
December 24, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, was present at the end of the universe, having witnessed every black hole evaporate and every proton decay. Even so, Death would not come.
December 24, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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every time
December 24, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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8. @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social are the authors of The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want, a book that The Guardian calls “refreshingly sarcastic” and Business Insider calls a “funny and irreverent deconstruction of AI.”
Taking on the AI Con | TechPolicy.Press
Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna are the authors of The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want, just out from Harper Collins.
www.techpolicy.press
December 22, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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For many, the end of the year is an opportunity to catch up on reading or to purchase books as gifts. In 2025, a number of authors joined the Tech Policy Press podcast, providing fresh insights into how technology interacts with people, politics, and power. Check out the list:
Tech Policy Press: The Year in Books 2025 | TechPolicy.Press
In 2025, a number of authors joined the Tech Policy Press podcast, providing fresh insights into how technology interacts with people, politics, and power.
www.techpolicy.press
December 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
December 22, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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James Talarico exposes GOP private school voucher scam:

“Elon Musk is a Texas resident and is eligible for these funds.

He has 8 children. That's $2 million in funds for Elon Musk.

You're taking tax dollars of plumbers and nurses to subsidize families who already have kids at private schools."
December 22, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Slabtown, Northwest, Portland, OR
#pdx #murals #streetart
December 22, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.

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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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The Pentagon just failed their EIGHTH STRAIGHT AUDIT.

Congress cannot continue funneling hundreds of billions of dollars to a completely unaccountable agency while American families can’t afford food or health care. www.militarytimes.com/news/pentago...
Pentagon fails financial audit for 8th year in a row
DOD is the only one of the government’s 24 major agencies never to pass.
www.militarytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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the vice president is a klansman
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Homeland Security has worked 33% fewer hours on child exploitation cases this year.

Why? Because Trump has diverted law enforcement resources AWAY from combating child trafficking so he can go after anyone who looks Latino or speaks Spanish.
December 18, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care:

I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care. 

Your health care is still legal and protected. 

I'll always fight for you.
December 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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HAPPENING NOW: 100s of striking Starbucks workers and community allies are gathering in front of Starbucks's headquarters in Seattle.

If the company continues to ignore our calls for fair contracts and resolving unfair labor practices, we'll keep getting louder! #NoContractNoCoffee
December 18, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Muting a Black woman to claim the vote was unanimous is so incredibly on the nose
The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.
December 18, 2025 at 10:22 PM