Pal (she/they)
@palguy88.bsky.social
Your ol' pal. librarian. Trans, she/they pronouns
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I have seen three videos now, all of them contradict Tricia's statement. And every single journalist who interacts with her knows that she lies all the time in ways that can be proven, which should also be stated in the piece.
the nyt says that no version of events in minneapolis can be "verified independently." but that's not true! there are multiple videos proving that the ICE version of events is a total lie. maybe the nyt can, y'know, watch one of them? www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
January 7, 2026 at 7:06 PM
I have seen three videos now, all of them contradict Tricia's statement. And every single journalist who interacts with her knows that she lies all the time in ways that can be proven, which should also be stated in the piece.
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We’ve seen police killings rise in the immediate aftermath of the most successful prosecution of police murders in recent memory.
January 7, 2026 at 7:24 PM
We’ve seen police killings rise in the immediate aftermath of the most successful prosecution of police murders in recent memory.
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I want people to realize prosecuting the police is always a long shot and even when successful that it hasn’t produced any observable change in behavior from the police in general.
January 7, 2026 at 7:22 PM
I want people to realize prosecuting the police is always a long shot and even when successful that it hasn’t produced any observable change in behavior from the police in general.
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jesus christ what are we doing here people www.wsj.com/tech/ai/hosp...
January 7, 2026 at 3:17 PM
jesus christ what are we doing here people www.wsj.com/tech/ai/hosp...
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I love that people are shitting on this left and right and meanwhile 4 different lesbian group chats I am in all went "hell yeah, girl. What an icon."
Congratulations to Kristen Stewart, who may have managed to already wear the worst outfit we're going to see all year. You are not prepared for the scrolldown:
tomandlorenzo.com/2026/01/kris...
tomandlorenzo.com/2026/01/kris...
Kristen Stewart Promotes THE CHRONOLOGY OF WATER on LATE NIGHT WITH SETH MEYERS - Tom + Lorenzo
We can say with utter certainty that, despite her many years of wearing fucked-up fashion and our many years of lovingly (or not) documenting her choices,
tomandlorenzo.com
January 7, 2026 at 4:49 AM
I love that people are shitting on this left and right and meanwhile 4 different lesbian group chats I am in all went "hell yeah, girl. What an icon."
I need to know more about this person
January 7, 2026 at 2:10 AM
I need to know more about this person
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Today is Kathe Koja’s birthday!!! This is also a reminder that Kathe is one of the greatest living authors of horror/dark fiction and she had the most explosive, remarkable debut since Barker’s Books of Blood. They don’t crash land on the horror scene like they used to. Love you, Kathe! ❤️
January 6, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Today is Kathe Koja’s birthday!!! This is also a reminder that Kathe is one of the greatest living authors of horror/dark fiction and she had the most explosive, remarkable debut since Barker’s Books of Blood. They don’t crash land on the horror scene like they used to. Love you, Kathe! ❤️
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🔊the Top Ten By Year: 1949 Film Zine available NOW for pre-order🔊
📗20 pages of original collage work & writing on the films of 1949. writing on over 25 works, dozens more referenced. support this diy labor of love, curation, and curiosity📗
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📗20 pages of original collage work & writing on the films of 1949. writing on over 25 works, dozens more referenced. support this diy labor of love, curation, and curiosity📗
ships in 2-3 weeks
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January 3, 2026 at 8:17 PM
🔊the Top Ten By Year: 1949 Film Zine available NOW for pre-order🔊
📗20 pages of original collage work & writing on the films of 1949. writing on over 25 works, dozens more referenced. support this diy labor of love, curation, and curiosity📗
ships in 2-3 weeks
www.etsy.com/listing/4435...
📗20 pages of original collage work & writing on the films of 1949. writing on over 25 works, dozens more referenced. support this diy labor of love, curation, and curiosity📗
ships in 2-3 weeks
www.etsy.com/listing/4435...
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Imagine losing everything to war and still having to pay rent. Please give what you can to help my friend Sama'a.
Tinyurl.com/samaasfamily
Tinyurl.com/samaasfamily
My home was destroyed by the occupation, and now I am living in a rented place.
I need to secure $500 to pay the landlord — if I can’t, we will be evicted.
This amount means a safe roof and security for my children. If you can help… your support is life to us.
- Sama’a
tinyurl.com/SamaasFamily
I need to secure $500 to pay the landlord — if I can’t, we will be evicted.
This amount means a safe roof and security for my children. If you can help… your support is life to us.
- Sama’a
tinyurl.com/SamaasFamily
January 6, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Imagine losing everything to war and still having to pay rent. Please give what you can to help my friend Sama'a.
Tinyurl.com/samaasfamily
Tinyurl.com/samaasfamily
Man, rip bela tarr. Will never not be wild to me that he was younger than me when he made Satantango. Only 45 when he made Wreckmeister. Always was an old master even when young. And the mentoring he did is such a gift to the world
January 6, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Man, rip bela tarr. Will never not be wild to me that he was younger than me when he made Satantango. Only 45 when he made Wreckmeister. Always was an old master even when young. And the mentoring he did is such a gift to the world
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"what do you expect dems, who have NO POWER, to do???" and then they do this 8 times a month
On the first day back following the kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro & first lady Cilia Flores, 6 Senate Democrats vote yea to confirm Keith Bass as an Assistant Secretary of Defense by a vote of 50-35.
January 5, 2026 at 11:55 PM
"what do you expect dems, who have NO POWER, to do???" and then they do this 8 times a month
first day back at work in a week and i find out that two of the bigger right wing wackjob websites found out about my library and put it all over the internet and we have gone viral and are now getting death threats (death threats directed at children at times)
January 5, 2026 at 11:03 PM
first day back at work in a week and i find out that two of the bigger right wing wackjob websites found out about my library and put it all over the internet and we have gone viral and are now getting death threats (death threats directed at children at times)
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The Bin Laden attack (which had its own extrajudicial issues) had public support of 90%. Which is to say being underwater from the get-go is so bad.
"Do you support or oppose the US using military force to overthrow Nicolás Maduro and bring him and his wife to the US to face trial?"
Oppose: 39%
Support: 36%
Unsure: 25%
YouGov / Jan 3, 2026
Oppose: 39%
Support: 36%
Unsure: 25%
YouGov / Jan 3, 2026
January 4, 2026 at 2:36 AM
The Bin Laden attack (which had its own extrajudicial issues) had public support of 90%. Which is to say being underwater from the get-go is so bad.
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Friendly reminder that W's Iraq invasion had 65% bipartisan approval when it started, even with debate about whether or not Saddam Hussein actually had WMDs. So the fact that this can't even crack 60% within the GOP is telling. 60% own-party support would typically kill a policy immediately.
Jan 3 poll of 1,902 U.S. adults (+/-2.8 points)
% who support | oppose the U.S. running Venezuela following the U.S. military's capture of President Nicolás Maduro
U.S. adults 34% | 41%
Democrats 16% | 64%
Independents 26% | 43%
Republicans 60% | 16%
today.yougov.com/topics/polit...
% who support | oppose the U.S. running Venezuela following the U.S. military's capture of President Nicolás Maduro
U.S. adults 34% | 41%
Democrats 16% | 64%
Independents 26% | 43%
Republicans 60% | 16%
today.yougov.com/topics/polit...
January 4, 2026 at 1:52 AM
Friendly reminder that W's Iraq invasion had 65% bipartisan approval when it started, even with debate about whether or not Saddam Hussein actually had WMDs. So the fact that this can't even crack 60% within the GOP is telling. 60% own-party support would typically kill a policy immediately.
Cowards
NEW: Plans for secret U.S. raid to capture Maduro leaked to the Washington Post and New York Times before it happened, but both decided not to publish to protect U.S. troops - Semafor
January 4, 2026 at 3:44 AM
Cowards
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"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.
January 3, 2026 at 1:24 PM
"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.
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if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live
January 3, 2026 at 5:00 PM
if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live
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So now there’s a real sense of “this could happen again immediately without any lead time,” and that’s really frightening.
Also, a lot of us spent years being like “they’re lying about doing this to keep us safe, they’re doing this for profit,” so sort of stunlocked by seeing it so openly admitted
Also, a lot of us spent years being like “they’re lying about doing this to keep us safe, they’re doing this for profit,” so sort of stunlocked by seeing it so openly admitted
January 3, 2026 at 5:03 PM
So now there’s a real sense of “this could happen again immediately without any lead time,” and that’s really frightening.
Also, a lot of us spent years being like “they’re lying about doing this to keep us safe, they’re doing this for profit,” so sort of stunlocked by seeing it so openly admitted
Also, a lot of us spent years being like “they’re lying about doing this to keep us safe, they’re doing this for profit,” so sort of stunlocked by seeing it so openly admitted
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I know it’s probably deeply annoying to see Americans go “holy shit, the nakedness of this” after our history of indigenous genocide and global regime change, but what is especially scary about this is that the more recent bullshit alibis at least took some time to drum up and put into place.
Trump: "We're going to have our very large United States oil companies go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure and start making money for the country. And we are ready to stage a second and much larger attack if we need to do so."
January 3, 2026 at 5:00 PM
I know it’s probably deeply annoying to see Americans go “holy shit, the nakedness of this” after our history of indigenous genocide and global regime change, but what is especially scary about this is that the more recent bullshit alibis at least took some time to drum up and put into place.
Wild that this person is so widely accepted as some sort of paragon of peace when she’s been shown to be corrupt a billion times over
Maria Corina Machado in November at the American World Business Forum in Miami promising a “massive privatization program” in Venezuela
January 3, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Wild that this person is so widely accepted as some sort of paragon of peace when she’s been shown to be corrupt a billion times over
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it is incredible that the entire high level legal apparatus of the United States is "anything that helps people is impossible, anything that kills people is permitted"
January 3, 2026 at 2:24 PM
it is incredible that the entire high level legal apparatus of the United States is "anything that helps people is impossible, anything that kills people is permitted"
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It's illegal for the president to relieve student loan debt. It's completely fine for the president to unilaterally decide to have the head of a foreign nation black bagged on foreign soil.
January 3, 2026 at 2:36 PM
It's illegal for the president to relieve student loan debt. It's completely fine for the president to unilaterally decide to have the head of a foreign nation black bagged on foreign soil.
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People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.
January 3, 2026 at 2:01 PM
People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.
This is all fucking awful and horrifying and I’m really upset and angry and scared but it would be pretty hilarious if these end up being jury trials and they get not guilty verdicts
January 3, 2026 at 3:22 PM
This is all fucking awful and horrifying and I’m really upset and angry and scared but it would be pretty hilarious if these end up being jury trials and they get not guilty verdicts