James Panek
@thepanekroom.bsky.social
Gadabout, Street Pie-Seller, Paid Mourner (Sliding Scale). 42 years old, oh god
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I finally finished this Enterprise D LCARS cross stitch! Was supposed to take about a year, but longcovid had other plans for my brain and ability to count. So it's been over four years instead. It has a bazillion-jillion stitches in it.
January 23, 2026 at 7:06 PM
I finally finished this Enterprise D LCARS cross stitch! Was supposed to take about a year, but longcovid had other plans for my brain and ability to count. So it's been over four years instead. It has a bazillion-jillion stitches in it.
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I do not agree with what is going on and I wish it to stop
February 17, 2025 at 11:03 AM
I do not agree with what is going on and I wish it to stop
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I guess I do think if you participated in the arrest of a five-year-old you are probably just fundamentally incompatible with society. That you are not a safe person for humanity to be around, generally
January 22, 2026 at 3:31 AM
I guess I do think if you participated in the arrest of a five-year-old you are probably just fundamentally incompatible with society. That you are not a safe person for humanity to be around, generally
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remember always the poster's credo: no one deserves the benefit of the doubt except me
January 22, 2026 at 5:19 PM
remember always the poster's credo: no one deserves the benefit of the doubt except me
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NEWS! My next book, TRANSLUNAR, about a closeted trans woman who's an astronaut in the sixties, is coming out in fall 2027! It'll be on Wildthorn, Tor's brand-new general fiction imprint -- a dream, as it lets me work with @englelaird.bsky.social on my literary and historical fiction as well as SFF.
January 21, 2026 at 5:00 PM
NEWS! My next book, TRANSLUNAR, about a closeted trans woman who's an astronaut in the sixties, is coming out in fall 2027! It'll be on Wildthorn, Tor's brand-new general fiction imprint -- a dream, as it lets me work with @englelaird.bsky.social on my literary and historical fiction as well as SFF.
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'London Back Gardens', Islington (2016) by Melissa Scott-Miller
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January 20, 2026 at 7:50 AM
'London Back Gardens', Islington (2016) by Melissa Scott-Miller
scottmillerart.com
scottmillerart.com
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Maybe we should stick to a message this simple.
January 19, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Maybe we should stick to a message this simple.
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You cannot overstate how startling it is to see a politician just say the thing with clarity and poise. No fearful hemming. No overwrought qualifying down til it’s meaningless. No lingering sense that there is a loyalty to a donor class or an ideology of stasis that they’d never admit to.
Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."
January 20, 2026 at 6:17 PM
You cannot overstate how startling it is to see a politician just say the thing with clarity and poise. No fearful hemming. No overwrought qualifying down til it’s meaningless. No lingering sense that there is a loyalty to a donor class or an ideology of stasis that they’d never admit to.
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"Fascist governments are condemned to lose wars because they are constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy." - Umberto Eco, "Ur-Fascism"
To those saying “nuh-uh, ICE picked Minneapolis because they WANTED the city to rise up as one against them” -
no, pretty sure they expected a scattering of blue-haired protesters they could easily crush for content + tacit support from other whites, not the organized total resistance they got.
no, pretty sure they expected a scattering of blue-haired protesters they could easily crush for content + tacit support from other whites, not the organized total resistance they got.
ICE and MAGA really did bet the farm on all of Minneapolis’s white people going “oh yes, please take away our disgusting, evil non-white-foreigner neighbors, oh thank you so much.”
it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.
it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.
January 19, 2026 at 3:03 AM
"Fascist governments are condemned to lose wars because they are constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy." - Umberto Eco, "Ur-Fascism"
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Everyone get gayer and transer now
January 19, 2026 at 3:40 AM
Everyone get gayer and transer now
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I can't trust politicians who are anti-trans. Not because I'm "only searching for perfection" which is what centrists will be accusing me of for the rest of my life, it's because if you're not pro-trans you'll be garbage on lots of other issues too. Being anti-trans NEVER exists in a vacuum.
January 17, 2026 at 9:42 AM
I can't trust politicians who are anti-trans. Not because I'm "only searching for perfection" which is what centrists will be accusing me of for the rest of my life, it's because if you're not pro-trans you'll be garbage on lots of other issues too. Being anti-trans NEVER exists in a vacuum.
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I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
January 16, 2026 at 12:17 AM
I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
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Furthermore,
January 15, 2026 at 8:27 PM
Furthermore,
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Keep getting back to that GK Chesterton quote. We don’t need stories to tell us dragons exist. We need them to tell us they can be defeated.
January 15, 2026 at 9:44 PM
Keep getting back to that GK Chesterton quote. We don’t need stories to tell us dragons exist. We need them to tell us they can be defeated.
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The raven, the merchant, and the bodyguard. Decided to ink up an old, winter-y sketch while it's still cold out. 🌨️
January 15, 2026 at 4:28 PM
The raven, the merchant, and the bodyguard. Decided to ink up an old, winter-y sketch while it's still cold out. 🌨️
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If I was taking my six month old to the hospital because some fucking mall cop reject detonated a flashbang near her and my city leadership was talking about "not taking the bait" I would be incandescent with rage.
January 15, 2026 at 5:27 AM
If I was taking my six month old to the hospital because some fucking mall cop reject detonated a flashbang near her and my city leadership was talking about "not taking the bait" I would be incandescent with rage.
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I've misplaced the teapot.
January 15, 2026 at 12:40 PM
I've misplaced the teapot.
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Yes
January 13, 2026 at 11:37 PM
Yes
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Yeah watching this on repeat it’s pretty much going to be the rest of my day.
January 12, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Yeah watching this on repeat it’s pretty much going to be the rest of my day.
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participants from Benin's Vodun Day Festival, celebrated every January 10th.
January 13, 2026 at 12:48 AM
participants from Benin's Vodun Day Festival, celebrated every January 10th.
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