Skippy the jedi droid
@slightlylyons.bsky.social
Autistic, nerd, socialist, space enjoyer, Bluesky edlrich horror.
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🚨 Gaza’s Health Ministry warns of a “slow-motion mass death” driven by Israel’s medical siege.
Since the ceasefire, more than 400 people have been killed, but far more are dying from blocked medicine and collapsed care, the Director General says. Only 10% of needed medical supplies have...
Since the ceasefire, more than 400 people have been killed, but far more are dying from blocked medicine and collapsed care, the Director General says. Only 10% of needed medical supplies have...
December 28, 2025 at 11:42 PM
🚨 Gaza’s Health Ministry warns of a “slow-motion mass death” driven by Israel’s medical siege.
Since the ceasefire, more than 400 people have been killed, but far more are dying from blocked medicine and collapsed care, the Director General says. Only 10% of needed medical supplies have...
Since the ceasefire, more than 400 people have been killed, but far more are dying from blocked medicine and collapsed care, the Director General says. Only 10% of needed medical supplies have...
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"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 9:10 AM
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
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be the sand darth vader doesn't want to see in the world
December 28, 2025 at 5:48 AM
be the sand darth vader doesn't want to see in the world
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My pick for 2025 best actor and supporting actor.
December 28, 2025 at 5:57 AM
My pick for 2025 best actor and supporting actor.
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Local ICE leader arrested for strangling a woman he lives with and is now being held in the Butler County jail (where ICE has been holding people)
www.citybeat.com/news/update-...
www.citybeat.com/news/update-...
UPDATE: Cincinnati ICE Leader Accused of Strangling Woman Now Faces Federal Charge, Booked into Butler County Jail
"This may be the first time an ICE agent is incarcerated in his own ICE jail," said Lynn Tramonte, executive director of the Ohio Immigrant Alliance.
www.citybeat.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Local ICE leader arrested for strangling a woman he lives with and is now being held in the Butler County jail (where ICE has been holding people)
www.citybeat.com/news/update-...
www.citybeat.com/news/update-...
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Update. The ICE supervisor, who is 47, was arrested for domestic violence against his non-citizen partner who he started a relationship when she was 18 and he was 40.
www.fox19.com/2025/12/22/i...
www.fox19.com/2025/12/22/i...
December 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Update. The ICE supervisor, who is 47, was arrested for domestic violence against his non-citizen partner who he started a relationship when she was 18 and he was 40.
www.fox19.com/2025/12/22/i...
www.fox19.com/2025/12/22/i...
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RFK Jr.’s changes to the vaccination schedule will kill thousands of American children. But my liberal neighbors handed out apples and raisins on Halloween. I have never felt more politically homeless.
December 28, 2025 at 12:17 AM
RFK Jr.’s changes to the vaccination schedule will kill thousands of American children. But my liberal neighbors handed out apples and raisins on Halloween. I have never felt more politically homeless.
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The Post was around 50% as deranged in its de Blasio coverage, but he didn’t come into office with the massive outside force that Mamdani is bringing. Gonna be a test of the paper’s influence; it beats him up every second but he’s got a posse saying “shut the fuck up.”
Insane NY Post column suggesting that the new First Lady who is sad about leaving her longtime neighbors in a not fancy NYC neighborhood is an ungrateful brown woman
December 28, 2025 at 2:04 AM
The Post was around 50% as deranged in its de Blasio coverage, but he didn’t come into office with the massive outside force that Mamdani is bringing. Gonna be a test of the paper’s influence; it beats him up every second but he’s got a posse saying “shut the fuck up.”
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Behold as I try to find someone who has a set of Charm Person Dispel Dice and would rather not have them anymore. I can trade other dice, or buy them. Ping me if that's you?
December 28, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Behold as I try to find someone who has a set of Charm Person Dispel Dice and would rather not have them anymore. I can trade other dice, or buy them. Ping me if that's you?
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All of the money that changed hands in the Teapot Dome scandal totaled less than $10 million after adjusting for inflation, and it was considered so corrupt we still teach it in high school government classes a century later.
Corruption so pungent, it wafts right off the page:
Lobbyists who do pardon deals “say their going rate is $1 million. Pardon-seekers have offered some lobbyists close to the president success fees of as much as $6 million if they can close the deal.”
Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Lobbyists who do pardon deals “say their going rate is $1 million. Pardon-seekers have offered some lobbyists close to the president success fees of as much as $6 million if they can close the deal.”
Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Inside the New Fast Track to a Presidential Pardon
Even some of the president’s closest advisers have been surprised by a number of the recent series of pardons.
www.wsj.com
December 27, 2025 at 9:24 PM
All of the money that changed hands in the Teapot Dome scandal totaled less than $10 million after adjusting for inflation, and it was considered so corrupt we still teach it in high school government classes a century later.
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To recap:
*The Trump administration illegally renamed the Kennedy Center. They broke the law.
*Now they are suing a guy who refused to perform because of the name change for $1 million.
*The Trump administration illegally renamed the Kennedy Center. They broke the law.
*Now they are suing a guy who refused to perform because of the name change for $1 million.
The Kennedy Center is planning legal action after jazz musician Chuck Redd canceled an annual holiday concert. Redd pulled out after President Trump's name appeared on the building. n.pr/49tB0uS
Kennedy Center vows to sue musician who canceled performance over Trump name change
The Kennedy Center is planning legal action after jazz musician Chuck Redd canceled an annual holiday concert. Redd pulled out after President Trump's name appeared on the building.
n.pr
December 27, 2025 at 11:08 PM
To recap:
*The Trump administration illegally renamed the Kennedy Center. They broke the law.
*Now they are suing a guy who refused to perform because of the name change for $1 million.
*The Trump administration illegally renamed the Kennedy Center. They broke the law.
*Now they are suing a guy who refused to perform because of the name change for $1 million.
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Watched the volleyball scene from Top Gun with my kids.
Imagine watching that and thinking America needed gays in the military.
Imagine watching that and thinking America needed gays in the military.
December 27, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Watched the volleyball scene from Top Gun with my kids.
Imagine watching that and thinking America needed gays in the military.
Imagine watching that and thinking America needed gays in the military.
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its really just that simple, theres an entire network of well-funded morons that can turn “litter boxes in classrooms” into a giant campaign issue whereas “armed goons sending kindergarten teachers to slave labor camps” gets ignored
December 27, 2025 at 4:04 PM
its really just that simple, theres an entire network of well-funded morons that can turn “litter boxes in classrooms” into a giant campaign issue whereas “armed goons sending kindergarten teachers to slave labor camps” gets ignored
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perfect metaphors don’t exis—
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 6:35 PM
perfect metaphors don’t exis—
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I find WTYP really funny because it *is* designed as featuring visuals but the most content-altering part is Roz doing the John Madden pen
‘Painful to hear!’ How podcasts’ rush to video is turning them into dreadful listens
‘Painful to hear!’ How podcasts’ rush to video is turning them into dreadful listens
From Joe Marler’s visual-only stunts to the incomprehensible shuffling sounds Steven Bartlett recently subjected headphone users to, dodgy audio experiences are on the rise
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I find WTYP really funny because it *is* designed as featuring visuals but the most content-altering part is Roz doing the John Madden pen
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A leaked DoJ memo calls for prosecutors to charge people who film ICE with “domestic terrorism”
They don’t want their atrocities documented.
They don’t want a historical record.
They don’t want the world to know.
That’s why we have to keep filming. Keep speaking out.
They don’t want their atrocities documented.
They don’t want a historical record.
They don’t want the world to know.
That’s why we have to keep filming. Keep speaking out.
Justice Department says filming immigration raids is 'domestic terrorism'
A leaked Justice Department memo directs federal prosecutors to press “domestic terrorism” charges against individuals who record immigration operations.
reason.com
December 27, 2025 at 3:39 AM
A leaked DoJ memo calls for prosecutors to charge people who film ICE with “domestic terrorism”
They don’t want their atrocities documented.
They don’t want a historical record.
They don’t want the world to know.
That’s why we have to keep filming. Keep speaking out.
They don’t want their atrocities documented.
They don’t want a historical record.
They don’t want the world to know.
That’s why we have to keep filming. Keep speaking out.
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"Everywhere I went in Chicago, there were community members patrolling streets, following government agents, warning victims, and pushing back any way they could — and always, the whistles around their necks, the sign you’re around allies."
(via @hammerandhope.bsky.social)
(via @hammerandhope.bsky.social)
War at Home
A record of ICE’s assault on immigrants and the people’s resistance.
hammerandhope.org
December 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
"Everywhere I went in Chicago, there were community members patrolling streets, following government agents, warning victims, and pushing back any way they could — and always, the whistles around their necks, the sign you’re around allies."
(via @hammerandhope.bsky.social)
(via @hammerandhope.bsky.social)
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Anyone paying even the slightest bit of attention could see that was happening.
December 27, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Anyone paying even the slightest bit of attention could see that was happening.
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Filming them committing terrorism is now itself an act of terrorism?
December 27, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Filming them committing terrorism is now itself an act of terrorism?
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Wow does this piece suck! Another very good reminder that "realistic", "pragmatic", "adult" etc have all just become half-hearted mumbled stand-ins for "better things aren't possible"
Like: eliminating the combustion engine is NEVER ATTAINABLE? like ever? We'll be selling them in the year 4000? WTF
Like: eliminating the combustion engine is NEVER ATTAINABLE? like ever? We'll be selling them in the year 4000? WTF
December 27, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Wow does this piece suck! Another very good reminder that "realistic", "pragmatic", "adult" etc have all just become half-hearted mumbled stand-ins for "better things aren't possible"
Like: eliminating the combustion engine is NEVER ATTAINABLE? like ever? We'll be selling them in the year 4000? WTF
Like: eliminating the combustion engine is NEVER ATTAINABLE? like ever? We'll be selling them in the year 4000? WTF
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This has been the autocrat’s playbook for a decade or two: have friendly oligarchs buy up independent media and then they impose government-friendly editorial policies so the autocrat doesn’t have to get their hand directly dirty killing the free press.
Iowa-based journalist Laura Belin compares Bari Weiss' adventures at CBS to Putin's makeover of supposedly independent Russian media, which she covered for RFE-RL twenty years ago. www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/12/25/o...
On "fair" reporting and what happened at "60 Minutes"
Laura Belin: I was alarmed (though not surprised) when CBS News boss Bari Weiss intervened to stop “60 Minutes” from airing a segment.
www.bleedingheartland.com
December 27, 2025 at 2:24 PM
This has been the autocrat’s playbook for a decade or two: have friendly oligarchs buy up independent media and then they impose government-friendly editorial policies so the autocrat doesn’t have to get their hand directly dirty killing the free press.
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Nothing could better sum up where we are as a culture
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Nothing could better sum up where we are as a culture
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The median INS agent did not carry a weapon on their person.
The median ICE officer carries both a long and short gun.
They were heavily militarized based on an absurd premise that Al Qaeda was going to "invade America" in meaningful numbers for the actual reason of disciplining labor
The median ICE officer carries both a long and short gun.
They were heavily militarized based on an absurd premise that Al Qaeda was going to "invade America" in meaningful numbers for the actual reason of disciplining labor
December 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The median INS agent did not carry a weapon on their person.
The median ICE officer carries both a long and short gun.
They were heavily militarized based on an absurd premise that Al Qaeda was going to "invade America" in meaningful numbers for the actual reason of disciplining labor
The median ICE officer carries both a long and short gun.
They were heavily militarized based on an absurd premise that Al Qaeda was going to "invade America" in meaningful numbers for the actual reason of disciplining labor
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The first thing ICE did when it was created was raiding meat processing plants in the Midwest and south to help quell labor disputes over safety violations and keep those who weren't detained from getting legal protections as many had kids who grew up locally and were citizens with political power.
December 27, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The first thing ICE did when it was created was raiding meat processing plants in the Midwest and south to help quell labor disputes over safety violations and keep those who weren't detained from getting legal protections as many had kids who grew up locally and were citizens with political power.
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School districts in meatpacking towns in Iowa were running ICE drills back in like 2005 because there were raids that left hundreds of kids stranded after school with no parents. It's always been horrific
The first thing ICE did when it was created was raiding meat processing plants in the Midwest and south to help quell labor disputes over safety violations and keep those who weren't detained from getting legal protections as many had kids who grew up locally and were citizens with political power.
December 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
School districts in meatpacking towns in Iowa were running ICE drills back in like 2005 because there were raids that left hundreds of kids stranded after school with no parents. It's always been horrific