Oak
@oakelm.bsky.social
Learning what I can about the internet.
Post about various things, some of which I wouldn't under sane circumstances.
I like posting music in languages I don’t know.
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Post about various things, some of which I wouldn't under sane circumstances.
I like posting music in languages I don’t know.
Posts regularly deleted using bsky.jazco.dev/cleanup
Klingon relationships should be explored more. Linking one of my most recalled scenes in all of Trek.
youtu.be/aCBfgKukEhM
youtu.be/aCBfgKukEhM
General Martok Wife Sirella Arrives on DS9
YouTube video by April 5, 2063
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December 7, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Klingon relationships should be explored more. Linking one of my most recalled scenes in all of Trek.
youtu.be/aCBfgKukEhM
youtu.be/aCBfgKukEhM
Musk making it clear that a handful of South Africans are really trying to break up world powers to the benefit of China and billionaires with dreams of control.
The most anti-West sentiment is coming from non-westerners claiming their color makes them westerners.
The most anti-West sentiment is coming from non-westerners claiming their color makes them westerners.
December 7, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Musk making it clear that a handful of South Africans are really trying to break up world powers to the benefit of China and billionaires with dreams of control.
The most anti-West sentiment is coming from non-westerners claiming their color makes them westerners.
The most anti-West sentiment is coming from non-westerners claiming their color makes them westerners.
Billionaires and companies like Palantir routinely break laws and make it possible to violate civil rights. The last people to put the idea of public executions into the conversation should be people like Lonsdale. They need a reality check & prosecutors better step up.
MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours°
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
December 7, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Billionaires and companies like Palantir routinely break laws and make it possible to violate civil rights. The last people to put the idea of public executions into the conversation should be people like Lonsdale. They need a reality check & prosecutors better step up.
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Hey Bluesky peeps, could you help spread the word?
My Shirley Jackson Award-nominated gothic fiction book THE ATROCITIES is on sale today for $1.99 on Kindle. I have no idea how long this sale will last.
www.amazon.com/Atrocities-J...
My Shirley Jackson Award-nominated gothic fiction book THE ATROCITIES is on sale today for $1.99 on Kindle. I have no idea how long this sale will last.
www.amazon.com/Atrocities-J...
December 4, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Hey Bluesky peeps, could you help spread the word?
My Shirley Jackson Award-nominated gothic fiction book THE ATROCITIES is on sale today for $1.99 on Kindle. I have no idea how long this sale will last.
www.amazon.com/Atrocities-J...
My Shirley Jackson Award-nominated gothic fiction book THE ATROCITIES is on sale today for $1.99 on Kindle. I have no idea how long this sale will last.
www.amazon.com/Atrocities-J...
This is the first I've heard of this and that is messed up. Really want to know how alarming the interactions between Witkoff and his counterparts in Russia are to career diplomats now.
Why is this happening right after Kushner's entrance on the scene. Will he receive $100b to manage this time?
Why is this happening right after Kushner's entrance on the scene. Will he receive $100b to manage this time?
The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.
Christ on a cracker — these seemingly hostile drones only missed Zelensky’s plane because he was unexpectedly early www.thejournal.ie/drones-dubli...
December 5, 2025 at 9:22 AM
This is the first I've heard of this and that is messed up. Really want to know how alarming the interactions between Witkoff and his counterparts in Russia are to career diplomats now.
Why is this happening right after Kushner's entrance on the scene. Will he receive $100b to manage this time?
Why is this happening right after Kushner's entrance on the scene. Will he receive $100b to manage this time?
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Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
December 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
Already bracing for the absolutely unhinged antisemitism that this scenario will unleash.
President Donald Trump is about to get what he wants -- a Fed chair willing to cut rates deeply. But long-term borrowing costs, including mortgages, aren't going to budge as long as the economy is strong.
Trump May Get the Rate Cuts He Wants — But Not Cheaper Mortgages
Black Friday showed the US consumer remains strong, just as we discussed in this newsletter last week. While this is good news for stocks, much of what we consume, save and invest revolves around interest rates. And I have some bad news for you: higher borrowing costs are here to stay.
bloom.bg
December 3, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Already bracing for the absolutely unhinged antisemitism that this scenario will unleash.
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This is too much.
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
www.thecity.nyc
December 3, 2025 at 2:15 AM
This is too much.
Is the fundamental problem with character-limited social-media, that there is a wider range of interpreted meanings the fewer words used to message?
That those interpretations can be presented & accepted as what was meant to paint a completely different picture; making a mountain out of a molehill.
That those interpretations can be presented & accepted as what was meant to paint a completely different picture; making a mountain out of a molehill.
December 3, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Is the fundamental problem with character-limited social-media, that there is a wider range of interpreted meanings the fewer words used to message?
That those interpretations can be presented & accepted as what was meant to paint a completely different picture; making a mountain out of a molehill.
That those interpretations can be presented & accepted as what was meant to paint a completely different picture; making a mountain out of a molehill.
Seems like Trump, Hegseth, and friends have already decided to take action on Maduro.
Hope people talk about the consequences for them if they get us in a war without the approval of Congress in an area we have limited to none existent military involvement.
Hope people talk about the consequences for them if they get us in a war without the approval of Congress in an area we have limited to none existent military involvement.
December 3, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Seems like Trump, Hegseth, and friends have already decided to take action on Maduro.
Hope people talk about the consequences for them if they get us in a war without the approval of Congress in an area we have limited to none existent military involvement.
Hope people talk about the consequences for them if they get us in a war without the approval of Congress in an area we have limited to none existent military involvement.
We isn't the right subject pronoun to use here if he is talking about Americans. Maybe a distinct category within American but it is obvious their identity is racial which is in opposition to the ideals the US is founded on. Which is why they eventually lose, on a national scale, every time.
here's Trump's full racist rant about MN's Somali community: "Somalians ripped off that state for billions. And they contribute nothing... Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage. These aren't people that work... They come from hell & do nothing but bitch. We don't want them"
December 3, 2025 at 12:12 AM
We isn't the right subject pronoun to use here if he is talking about Americans. Maybe a distinct category within American but it is obvious their identity is racial which is in opposition to the ideals the US is founded on. Which is why they eventually lose, on a national scale, every time.
Air conditioned offices? Where was he when it happened? Hope he wasn’t texting on signal while driving.
Q: So you didn't see any survivors after that first strike?
HEGSETH: I did not personally see survivors. The thing was on fire. This is called the fog of war. This is what you in the press don't understand. You sit in your air conditioned offices and plant fake stories in the Washington Post
HEGSETH: I did not personally see survivors. The thing was on fire. This is called the fog of war. This is what you in the press don't understand. You sit in your air conditioned offices and plant fake stories in the Washington Post
December 2, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Air conditioned offices? Where was he when it happened? Hope he wasn’t texting on signal while driving.
This is why you say Black Lives Matter.
This is why you say Trans Lives Matter.
Protecting the marginalized is good but also protects all of us.
This is why you say Trans Lives Matter.
Protecting the marginalized is good but also protects all of us.
Any one of us could be in the next apartment building that ICE raids in the middle of the night.
Any one of us could be on the next boat that Trump bombs on a whim.
Any one of us could be detained for hours despite being a U.S. citizen.
Authoritarianism hurts all of us.
Any one of us could be on the next boat that Trump bombs on a whim.
Any one of us could be detained for hours despite being a U.S. citizen.
Authoritarianism hurts all of us.
December 2, 2025 at 7:36 PM
This is why you say Black Lives Matter.
This is why you say Trans Lives Matter.
Protecting the marginalized is good but also protects all of us.
This is why you say Trans Lives Matter.
Protecting the marginalized is good but also protects all of us.
Seems like this is all built on the lie that American citizens become more American the longer their families are American.
Not the case.
A citizen is maximum citizen on day 1.
The constitution is the constraint on culture.
Her specific culture is different to the culture everywhere else in the US.
Not the case.
A citizen is maximum citizen on day 1.
The constitution is the constraint on culture.
Her specific culture is different to the culture everywhere else in the US.
Rep. Kat Cammarck: "Today, one in six people in the US is foreign born. That quite frankly is not sustainable to maintain a culture that we are known for here in the United States."
December 2, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Seems like this is all built on the lie that American citizens become more American the longer their families are American.
Not the case.
A citizen is maximum citizen on day 1.
The constitution is the constraint on culture.
Her specific culture is different to the culture everywhere else in the US.
Not the case.
A citizen is maximum citizen on day 1.
The constitution is the constraint on culture.
Her specific culture is different to the culture everywhere else in the US.
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This is an extremely precedented problem for oppressed minority communities. There are always 'better to reign in Hell' types who want to climb up by kicking the ppl around them down further.
The way groups deal with this problem is by building institutions and cultivating self-respect.
The way groups deal with this problem is by building institutions and cultivating self-respect.
December 1, 2025 at 2:55 AM
This is an extremely precedented problem for oppressed minority communities. There are always 'better to reign in Hell' types who want to climb up by kicking the ppl around them down further.
The way groups deal with this problem is by building institutions and cultivating self-respect.
The way groups deal with this problem is by building institutions and cultivating self-respect.
Tell people you know in ICE to quit before they lose themselves enough to think this is a good idea. Same for people creating the tech.
Palantir has received billions to create a surveillance state.
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
www.brennancenter.org
December 1, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Tell people you know in ICE to quit before they lose themselves enough to think this is a good idea. Same for people creating the tech.
Really don't like anti-vax people.
They should switch to fighting inequalities that drive or depend on poverty if they want to focus on unfair health outcomes.
youtu.be/hV3qDAzcQkA
They should switch to fighting inequalities that drive or depend on poverty if they want to focus on unfair health outcomes.
youtu.be/hV3qDAzcQkA
Greatest Vaccine Debate In History | Dave Farina & Dr. Dan Wilson vs Steve Kirsch & Dr. Pierre Kory
YouTube video by Pangburn
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December 1, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Really don't like anti-vax people.
They should switch to fighting inequalities that drive or depend on poverty if they want to focus on unfair health outcomes.
youtu.be/hV3qDAzcQkA
They should switch to fighting inequalities that drive or depend on poverty if they want to focus on unfair health outcomes.
youtu.be/hV3qDAzcQkA
Like if not a single person has been able to get good sleep since 2007 & constantly underestimates what that can do to emotions.
I feel like one of the most underrated explanations for what's happening right now in global politics is that almost everyone has lost their minds.
November 30, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Like if not a single person has been able to get good sleep since 2007 & constantly underestimates what that can do to emotions.
Post your favorite “Transformers” character. Wrong answers only.
November 29, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Post your favorite “Transformers” character. Wrong answers only.
Feel like we should go back to his comments on what happens to elections when a country is at war and talk more about the role congress plays in declaring it.
Just to make him aware.
Just to make him aware.
The president is about to start a war for no real reason. All of the things he has blamed on the country he’s targeting — fentanyl distribution, “emptying the asylums” and sending patients to the U.S., alignment with Tren de Aragua— are provably, obviously false.
Lots of people are going to die.
Lots of people are going to die.
November 29, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Feel like we should go back to his comments on what happens to elections when a country is at war and talk more about the role congress plays in declaring it.
Just to make him aware.
Just to make him aware.
If we received 1/100th of the benefit of doubt they received, we’d all be able to commit crimes in broad daylight and still be able to claim innocence.
Zero reckoning from any of the elites who credulously parroted the absurd idea that the right wing was in favor of free speech.
Public libraries in Tennessee have begun to shut down as they carry out an order from state officials to remove children’s books containing LGBTQ+ themes or characters.
www.rawstory.com/alternet-pos...
www.rawstory.com/alternet-pos...
November 28, 2025 at 11:43 PM
If we received 1/100th of the benefit of doubt they received, we’d all be able to commit crimes in broad daylight and still be able to claim innocence.
Is this what happens when people think movies are real life and want to live up to that?
Just a bunch of nonsense actions for image not realizing that movie shit is trash in real life.
Just a bunch of nonsense actions for image not realizing that movie shit is trash in real life.
November 28, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Is this what happens when people think movies are real life and want to live up to that?
Just a bunch of nonsense actions for image not realizing that movie shit is trash in real life.
Just a bunch of nonsense actions for image not realizing that movie shit is trash in real life.
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The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.
Have @ritholtz.bsky.social interviewing Bill Browder playing in the background.
Bill Browder talks about Sergei Magnitsky and since I feel Magnitsky and people like him deserve to be remembered, here is the episode marked to start slightly before Magnitsky is spoken of.
youtu.be/p891ewFLxVM?...
Bill Browder talks about Sergei Magnitsky and since I feel Magnitsky and people like him deserve to be remembered, here is the episode marked to start slightly before Magnitsky is spoken of.
youtu.be/p891ewFLxVM?...
Bill Browder on High Finance, Murder and Justice | Masters in Business
YouTube video by Bloomberg Podcasts
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November 28, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Have @ritholtz.bsky.social interviewing Bill Browder playing in the background.
Bill Browder talks about Sergei Magnitsky and since I feel Magnitsky and people like him deserve to be remembered, here is the episode marked to start slightly before Magnitsky is spoken of.
youtu.be/p891ewFLxVM?...
Bill Browder talks about Sergei Magnitsky and since I feel Magnitsky and people like him deserve to be remembered, here is the episode marked to start slightly before Magnitsky is spoken of.
youtu.be/p891ewFLxVM?...