@ottavia.bsky.social
American living in Berlin. No follows, likes, or skeets so that my feed doesn't get so interesting/entertaining that I spend too much time on here. Reposts reflect what I'm about. Profile pic is Sam Gilliam (FAN CRAZE, 1973).
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masked, unidentified goons who assault and murder with impunity. a literal gestapo.
This is the ICE agent who murdered a woman by shooting her multiple times in the face.
January 7, 2026 at 7:36 PM
masked, unidentified goons who assault and murder with impunity. a literal gestapo.
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> every domain expert when non-domain-experts balk at how much work it is to have an undergraduate understanding of their domain
A lot of you suffer from skill issues
January 7, 2026 at 4:31 PM
> every domain expert when non-domain-experts balk at how much work it is to have an undergraduate understanding of their domain
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I will happily run a crash course on military history and theory for liberal policy people.
It is not hard stuff, but it is important stuff.
It is not hard stuff, but it is important stuff.
this is where i am at: THERE IS NO ONE ELSE. do you want to outsource your military policy to steven miller? no? how about the dc blob? also no? THEN LEARN WHAT THE FUCK HOW TO MILITARY
www.breakingbeijing.com/p/there-is-n...
www.breakingbeijing.com/p/there-is-n...
January 7, 2026 at 12:17 AM
I will happily run a crash course on military history and theory for liberal policy people.
It is not hard stuff, but it is important stuff.
It is not hard stuff, but it is important stuff.
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yeah this is very connected to my general "suffering is not a political credential and we shouldn't expect it to be" ministry - it's a lot to ask of a hungry person that they couch their feelings about their hunger in a broad critique of the food system (and, in any case, confused imo)
January 4, 2026 at 10:49 PM
yeah this is very connected to my general "suffering is not a political credential and we shouldn't expect it to be" ministry - it's a lot to ask of a hungry person that they couch their feelings about their hunger in a broad critique of the food system (and, in any case, confused imo)
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I am so conflicted about this. On the one hand, I can't blame anyone oppressed for prioritizing the end to their oppression any more than I can blame someone starving for eating. On the other hand, if it's short of universalism, it isn't what we need in a political party (let alone an actual party)
January 4, 2026 at 10:46 PM
I am so conflicted about this. On the one hand, I can't blame anyone oppressed for prioritizing the end to their oppression any more than I can blame someone starving for eating. On the other hand, if it's short of universalism, it isn't what we need in a political party (let alone an actual party)
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The ignorance of folks who are flailing in their efforts to make sense of this moment does not make them the enemy, and verbally slapping them around won't make you feel better for very long. They are poor stand-ins for your actual enemies.
January 3, 2026 at 11:27 PM
The ignorance of folks who are flailing in their efforts to make sense of this moment does not make them the enemy, and verbally slapping them around won't make you feel better for very long. They are poor stand-ins for your actual enemies.
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I beg Americans to imagine an EU strike force -- stop laughing! -- abducts Trump only, and the next day Brussels is talking about how JD Vance will have to comply and an A350 full of CEOs from windmill, non-GMO cheese, and metric ruler firms is headed for Manhattan to discuss terms
And there ya have it…
Officials from top Wall Street firms will be traveling to Venezuela to investigate “investment prospects” of the country. “The trip will feature about 20 officials from the finance, energy and defense sectors.”
Officials from top Wall Street firms will be traveling to Venezuela to investigate “investment prospects” of the country. “The trip will feature about 20 officials from the finance, energy and defense sectors.”
Finance Industry Eyes Investment Opportunities in Venezuela
Some on Wall Street are already considering possible investment opportunities in Venezuela following the capture of Nicolás Maduro, according to Charles Myers, chairman of consulting firm Signum Globa...
www.wsj.com
January 3, 2026 at 8:15 PM
I beg Americans to imagine an EU strike force -- stop laughing! -- abducts Trump only, and the next day Brussels is talking about how JD Vance will have to comply and an A350 full of CEOs from windmill, non-GMO cheese, and metric ruler firms is headed for Manhattan to discuss terms
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History is full of examples of democratic systems producing legalized cruelty. The idea that “this is just liberal democracy at work” has always been how people justify harms they don’t personally feel.
December 30, 2025 at 3:07 PM
History is full of examples of democratic systems producing legalized cruelty. The idea that “this is just liberal democracy at work” has always been how people justify harms they don’t personally feel.
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This, combined with "vice signaling" (taking pride in antisocial behavior) has given us the reign of the Stupid Asshole, something most people are against, but can only be remedied if we're not too polite to talk about it
An essential development over the past decade-plus is that the ignorant went from feeling chastened when their ignorance was revealed to banding together and deciding that, actually, they were right. They might disagree at times, but they agreed that ignorance itself was an indicator of trust.
December 29, 2025 at 6:46 PM
This, combined with "vice signaling" (taking pride in antisocial behavior) has given us the reign of the Stupid Asshole, something most people are against, but can only be remedied if we're not too polite to talk about it
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Reminder that years ago it was found out that the FBI straight up made up a whole bunch of fake forensic sciences, plural. People have gone to jail and been executed due to literally pseudoscience.
Hair forensics, for instance, is totally nonsense.
They admitted it.
slate.com/news-and-pol...
Hair forensics, for instance, is totally nonsense.
They admitted it.
slate.com/news-and-pol...
The FBI Faked an Entire Field of Forensic Science
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December 30, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Reminder that years ago it was found out that the FBI straight up made up a whole bunch of fake forensic sciences, plural. People have gone to jail and been executed due to literally pseudoscience.
Hair forensics, for instance, is totally nonsense.
They admitted it.
slate.com/news-and-pol...
Hair forensics, for instance, is totally nonsense.
They admitted it.
slate.com/news-and-pol...
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Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
December 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
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The ability to ask these questions as if they weren‘t stupid & dishonest has been a key aim of both the new world-wide right-wing movement and of the Kremlin. They want us to think there‘s no truth, only opinion; no morality, only power; that all choices are morally equivalent, & only tribe matters.
"This small liberal arts college used to be a haven for artistic misfits and free thinkers. Now it has been taken over by authoritarian politicians. Are these two things the same?"
December 28, 2025 at 3:48 PM
The ability to ask these questions as if they weren‘t stupid & dishonest has been a key aim of both the new world-wide right-wing movement and of the Kremlin. They want us to think there‘s no truth, only opinion; no morality, only power; that all choices are morally equivalent, & only tribe matters.
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Gotta test these ideas in the world not just stay in the land of analysis where you don't confront the contradictions of the ideas.
December 28, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Gotta test these ideas in the world not just stay in the land of analysis where you don't confront the contradictions of the ideas.
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And that’s part of the problem a lot of people assume Black thinkers are simply acting out of revenge and hatred against white people rather than examining and exploring the dynamics within their communities and larger context.
December 27, 2025 at 2:25 PM
And that’s part of the problem a lot of people assume Black thinkers are simply acting out of revenge and hatred against white people rather than examining and exploring the dynamics within their communities and larger context.
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[somberly] You cannot serve both god and money [upbeat music hits] Until now. Introducing god as a service
December 25, 2025 at 11:20 PM
[somberly] You cannot serve both god and money [upbeat music hits] Until now. Introducing god as a service
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concentration camps.
ICE documents reveal plan to hold 80,000 immigrants in warehouses
The Trump administration wants to build seven large-scale deportation hubs to speed up deportations, internal ICE documents show.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 24, 2025 at 1:55 PM
concentration camps.
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How do you justify helping give these morally and ethically repugnant billionaires access to teachers and children via their tech, which is based on theft and notorious for both incorrectness, disinformation, and racist/bigoted propaganda?
December 23, 2025 at 10:22 PM
How do you justify helping give these morally and ethically repugnant billionaires access to teachers and children via their tech, which is based on theft and notorious for both incorrectness, disinformation, and racist/bigoted propaganda?
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you can tell so much about people by whom they give the benefit of the doubt to
December 23, 2025 at 12:47 AM
you can tell so much about people by whom they give the benefit of the doubt to
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Exactly this: the administration’s concentration camps should be a howling, daily outrage, a scandal of historic proportions.
Bari’s complaint was “there’s nothing new here” and while that’s untrue it’s also irrelevant
“we intentionally sent people to be tortured in a hellhole and bragged about it and The Hague is too good for everyone involved” is a story that simply cannot be told enough
“we intentionally sent people to be tortured in a hellhole and bragged about it and The Hague is too good for everyone involved” is a story that simply cannot be told enough
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Exactly this: the administration’s concentration camps should be a howling, daily outrage, a scandal of historic proportions.
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This is the one cool trick of the grievance right. Harass academics in the name of free speech. Preferences for white people in the name of intellectual diversity. etc
The most impressive thing about Bari is her ability to violate ethical principles while indignantly claiming to defend them.
Weiss concluded: “We need to be able to make every effort to get the principals on the record and on camera. To me, our viewers come first, not a listing schedule or anything else. And that is my North Star, and I hope it's the North Star of every person in this newsroom.”
December 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM
This is the one cool trick of the grievance right. Harass academics in the name of free speech. Preferences for white people in the name of intellectual diversity. etc
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This is the institutionalization of Turning Point's professor watchlist. It invites mass harassment and declares war on independent ideas. If unlearned sociopaths can influence your teaching through threats, academic freedom is essentially dead.
It’s the entire point. There’s no plan to make this meaningful for students. No plan to use it administratively. Its design and implementation signals its only real intent. It’s best and easiest use case is for systematic harassment and to scare faculty into complying in advance.
We know the students don’t read the syllabuses. So who will? Right-wing activists looking for excuses to hound profs.
December 20, 2025 at 1:53 PM
This is the institutionalization of Turning Point's professor watchlist. It invites mass harassment and declares war on independent ideas. If unlearned sociopaths can influence your teaching through threats, academic freedom is essentially dead.
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imo they need to give up being on the Dawkins/Harris/etc right wing side of the science wars and accept that they are a comms discipline
December 19, 2025 at 3:34 PM
imo they need to give up being on the Dawkins/Harris/etc right wing side of the science wars and accept that they are a comms discipline
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Congratulations, those of you who decided to platform fringe voices and create a climate of fear and hate out of ignorance because those voices insisted a non-problem was a problem. They're now on an HHS stage trying to ruin children's lives. You will live with the harm you have done forever.
December 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Congratulations, those of you who decided to platform fringe voices and create a climate of fear and hate out of ignorance because those voices insisted a non-problem was a problem. They're now on an HHS stage trying to ruin children's lives. You will live with the harm you have done forever.