WarpInReality
@warpinreality.bsky.social
Swimming in the primordial internet ooze
Dovie'andi setovya sagain...
Dovie'andi setovya sagain...
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"I'm not in Minnesota -- what can I do to help?"
A list of ideas!
A list of ideas!
January 11, 2026 at 10:33 PM
"I'm not in Minnesota -- what can I do to help?"
A list of ideas!
A list of ideas!
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They’re like vampires. Don’t let them in. If they say they have a warrant, ask to see the warrant through the peephole. Make sure it’s signed by a judge
Never open your door for the cops or ICE.
Never
Never
January 12, 2026 at 2:42 AM
They’re like vampires. Don’t let them in. If they say they have a warrant, ask to see the warrant through the peephole. Make sure it’s signed by a judge
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My grandma lived in WWII nazi-occupied France, where she met my American GI grandfather. Those people saw some SHIT. The truly unprecedented time was the post-war peace, and of course that was mainly a post-war story we were fed HERE. We have an unprecedented view of geopolitical stability
Comfort is right. We are living in precedented times: Yeats wrote the Second Coming about the horrors of the WW1, and things got better (for a bit, then worse, etc.) People lived through the fall of Rome & kept on making jokes & having babies & finding meaning in their lives & I can, too.
January 11, 2026 at 4:14 PM
My grandma lived in WWII nazi-occupied France, where she met my American GI grandfather. Those people saw some SHIT. The truly unprecedented time was the post-war peace, and of course that was mainly a post-war story we were fed HERE. We have an unprecedented view of geopolitical stability
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It is indeed a “wake up and read the declaration of independence” kind of day, especially the parts enumerating what King George III was doing:
www.archives.gov/founding-doc...
www.archives.gov/founding-doc...
January 9, 2026 at 4:15 PM
It is indeed a “wake up and read the declaration of independence” kind of day, especially the parts enumerating what King George III was doing:
www.archives.gov/founding-doc...
www.archives.gov/founding-doc...
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Nobody wants to hear that the secret to an enduring writing career is:
"Write another book."
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"Write another book."
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The true secret to my long career: As a midlist writer hanging on to my career one book at a time, I can only control the work I do, not outcomes.
So I work: Drafting Novel W while waiting for edit notes on Novel F. When edits & draft are done, I'll return to the half finished & overdue Novel L.
So I work: Drafting Novel W while waiting for edit notes on Novel F. When edits & draft are done, I'll return to the half finished & overdue Novel L.
January 11, 2026 at 12:59 AM
Nobody wants to hear that the secret to an enduring writing career is:
"Write another book."
😆
"Write another book."
😆
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Hey MSP people who want to join the MSP feed, here are instructions! If you ever DM'd or tagged Ian asking to be added, that won't work -- you need to fill out the form.
Here’s a link to the instructions! Note that turnaround is not immediate, this is a volunteer labor of love 💕
Hi! Update to how you join the Minneapolis and St. Paul feed bc my screenshot was out of date. 1. Fill out the Google Form (linked in next post). 2. Wait 48-72 hours, maybe longer (vol-led so we're on it but not asap). 3. Then you have to add yourself to the feed.
January 10, 2026 at 4:28 AM
Hey MSP people who want to join the MSP feed, here are instructions! If you ever DM'd or tagged Ian asking to be added, that won't work -- you need to fill out the form.
o_o
it might be the chinese century but this shit has definitively been the minneapolis decade
January 11, 2026 at 4:31 PM
o_o
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“i think ‘no kings’ is too nice a slogan”
—old lady at protest today
—old lady at protest today
January 10, 2026 at 9:41 PM
“i think ‘no kings’ is too nice a slogan”
—old lady at protest today
—old lady at protest today
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We think it will be one or the other. More often, it's both.
This is from Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology
This is from Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology
January 11, 2026 at 12:49 AM
We think it will be one or the other. More often, it's both.
This is from Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology
This is from Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology
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My father used to tell me stories about how in the USSR the history books were edited and altered every year and everyone was supposed to nod and smile and pretend that nothing had happened and the "new history" had been there all along.
Just sayin'.
Just sayin'.
White supremacists successfully rewrote history after the Civil War, so much so that today people deny what the slave states had proudly proclaimed back then: it was about slavery. And now this group is rewriting history today. They are lying. They are liars. They are liars.
January 6, 2026 at 10:16 PM
My father used to tell me stories about how in the USSR the history books were edited and altered every year and everyone was supposed to nod and smile and pretend that nothing had happened and the "new history" had been there all along.
Just sayin'.
Just sayin'.
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Platforms are just tools. Tools we should be able to control. Tools that should work for us and make our lives actively better. If they don't, what are we doing here?
If you do nothing else in 2026, take back your time and attention from the people who fragment and manipulate you.
If you do nothing else in 2026, take back your time and attention from the people who fragment and manipulate you.
The farther we get into 2026, the more I'm endorsing folks to learn the mod tools on the social medias they use and apply them aggressively. Yes, it's stupid to have to lock replies to a post saying "I don't really like pancakes" to followers only and turn off quote posts, but...people are wild.
January 5, 2026 at 11:21 PM
Platforms are just tools. Tools we should be able to control. Tools that should work for us and make our lives actively better. If they don't, what are we doing here?
If you do nothing else in 2026, take back your time and attention from the people who fragment and manipulate you.
If you do nothing else in 2026, take back your time and attention from the people who fragment and manipulate you.
Hell, someone might have said this IC in TC Garou too!
WTF! Seriously?!?!
January 5, 2026 at 6:18 AM
Hell, someone might have said this IC in TC Garou too!
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Whatever one thinks of the attack on Venezuela, you have to admire the skill and strategic precision of the military forces that stormed Madura's fortress and so effectively removed the Epstein Files from the headlines.
January 4, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Whatever one thinks of the attack on Venezuela, you have to admire the skill and strategic precision of the military forces that stormed Madura's fortress and so effectively removed the Epstein Files from the headlines.
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New addition to the franchise just dropped
January 4, 2026 at 2:42 PM
New addition to the franchise just dropped
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Hotel lobby in DC, 12 years ago. Those holes in the backs of the chairs creeped me out profoundly.
January 2, 2026 at 7:10 AM
Hotel lobby in DC, 12 years ago. Those holes in the backs of the chairs creeped me out profoundly.
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Good morning
Me heading into 2026
Me heading into 2026
January 2, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Good morning
Me heading into 2026
Me heading into 2026
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I'm so grateful to everyone I spent time with for this report - they were so gracious to talk to me & welcome me to their homes, despite their relentless workload.
My latest, after spending time with garment workers in Bangladesh: www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
December 28, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I'm so grateful to everyone I spent time with for this report - they were so gracious to talk to me & welcome me to their homes, despite their relentless workload.
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I also spent a day in the park in Dhaka and wrote about it here: www.irishtimes.com/world/2025/1...
December 28, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I also spent a day in the park in Dhaka and wrote about it here: www.irishtimes.com/world/2025/1...
Cartographer of an alien dimension? Seems I do that practically already sometimes...
A student of magic
December 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Cartographer of an alien dimension? Seems I do that practically already sometimes...
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CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was.
You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
Deported and Imprisoned Archives
A case-by-case investigation that examines the Trump administration’s claims that these immigrants are all “sick criminals” and “terrorists” and that shows what they suffered during months in one of t...
www.propublica.org
December 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was.
You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
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Just kill your entire twitter account. It's time.
December 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Just kill your entire twitter account. It's time.
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Not now, haunted Victorian shoes
Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach
Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach
More than 400 leather hobnailed boots, thought to date back to the 19th Century, have been found.
www.bbc.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Not now, haunted Victorian shoes
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1/4 A tangential stripper story: a bunch of strippers came to one of my Colorado signings and since I didn't know they place, they took me out on the town. We went to a bunch of clubs, laughed, tipped a lot of dancers, and drank a lot of free drinks...
I've known a lot of Portland strippers and they are absolutely the best people.
December 24, 2025 at 3:30 AM
1/4 A tangential stripper story: a bunch of strippers came to one of my Colorado signings and since I didn't know they place, they took me out on the town. We went to a bunch of clubs, laughed, tipped a lot of dancers, and drank a lot of free drinks...