Zakisbak
@zakisbak.bsky.social
plays music, makes coffee, reads radical left theory/history, eats and eats and eats. he/him. white, but anti-white. cis. @zakisbak on twitter
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B a s e d
December 19, 2025 at 12:01 AM
B a s e d
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new monarca upstander training by UNIDOS scheduled for january 7 at hennepin united methodist church in loring park. register here:
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December 16, 2025 at 12:24 AM
new monarca upstander training by UNIDOS scheduled for january 7 at hennepin united methodist church in loring park. register here:
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“Dutch people cycle an average of 2.6km each per day. If this pattern was replicated worldwide, annual carbon emissions would drop by 686 million tonnes.
This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia.” @euronews.com
This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia.” @euronews.com
Cycling like the Dutch would slash the world’s carbon footprint
If everybody cycled like the Dutch, we could offset the UK or Australia’s entire carbon footprint.
www.euronews.com
December 13, 2025 at 10:01 PM
“Dutch people cycle an average of 2.6km each per day. If this pattern was replicated worldwide, annual carbon emissions would drop by 686 million tonnes.
This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia.” @euronews.com
This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia.” @euronews.com
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Hanging out with babies rules. This guy is the size of a Build A Bear and he's never even seen anything before. He just got here!
December 14, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Hanging out with babies rules. This guy is the size of a Build A Bear and he's never even seen anything before. He just got here!
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There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
December 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
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MnDOT should quantify how much poison will be spewed, how racially disparate the death & suffering, how many young brains they want to fry, how much cancer is acceptable, before settling on a course to rebuild or expand an urban interstate.
Read the recap, watch the highlights or full recording of the @mndot.mn.gov PAC meeting, and RSVP for the upcoming formal public comment meetings.
www.ourstreetsmn.org/2025/12/11/w...
www.ourstreetsmn.org/2025/12/11/w...
What Happened at the Latest MnDOT Policy Advisory Committee Meeting? - Our Streets
There has been increasing pressure from elected officials, members of the Rethinking I-94 PAC, and the public to restore the at-grade options in the next stage of the project process and to fix flaws ...
www.ourstreetsmn.org
December 11, 2025 at 8:32 PM
MnDOT should quantify how much poison will be spewed, how racially disparate the death & suffering, how many young brains they want to fry, how much cancer is acceptable, before settling on a course to rebuild or expand an urban interstate.
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🚨 #TERRIFYING ‼️
#ICE illegally broke into a home in #Burnsville, #Minnesota, 'without a warrant', searched the entire residence, broke down doors, and detained #U.S. citizens.
#ICE illegally broke into a home in #Burnsville, #Minnesota, 'without a warrant', searched the entire residence, broke down doors, and detained #U.S. citizens.
December 8, 2025 at 8:38 PM
🚨 #TERRIFYING ‼️
#ICE illegally broke into a home in #Burnsville, #Minnesota, 'without a warrant', searched the entire residence, broke down doors, and detained #U.S. citizens.
#ICE illegally broke into a home in #Burnsville, #Minnesota, 'without a warrant', searched the entire residence, broke down doors, and detained #U.S. citizens.
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They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
December 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
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If you live in Minneapolis and your street sign is blue, you live on a snow emergency route and you should not park on it tonight
Minneapolis has declared a snow emergency. Parking rules will begin at 9 p.m. tonight, Nov. 30. https://www.minneapolismn.gov/getting-around/snow/snow-emergencies/snow-parking-rules/
November 30, 2025 at 7:50 PM
If you live in Minneapolis and your street sign is blue, you live on a snow emergency route and you should not park on it tonight
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This is all true but
1) under no definition are we currently at war with Venezuela under domestic US law
2) since we aren’t, the initial strike was just as much a murder as the follow up
The failure to understand this by a huge range of actors is really driving me up the wall.
1) under no definition are we currently at war with Venezuela under domestic US law
2) since we aren’t, the initial strike was just as much a murder as the follow up
The failure to understand this by a huge range of actors is really driving me up the wall.
If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
November 30, 2025 at 11:07 PM
This is all true but
1) under no definition are we currently at war with Venezuela under domestic US law
2) since we aren’t, the initial strike was just as much a murder as the follow up
The failure to understand this by a huge range of actors is really driving me up the wall.
1) under no definition are we currently at war with Venezuela under domestic US law
2) since we aren’t, the initial strike was just as much a murder as the follow up
The failure to understand this by a huge range of actors is really driving me up the wall.
Anyone in need of an(other) ACAB Christmas song? Here's Paul Brady's performance of Arthur McBride and the Sergeant:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBGk...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBGk...
Arthur McBride - Paul Brady 1977
YouTube video by Mick Connell
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Anyone in need of an(other) ACAB Christmas song? Here's Paul Brady's performance of Arthur McBride and the Sergeant:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBGk...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBGk...
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Maannn, I don’t like when people screenshot young people learning a thing for the first time. That’s a thing they get to be a little embarrassed about one time and then someone corrects them. That’s a normal thing.
November 20, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Maannn, I don’t like when people screenshot young people learning a thing for the first time. That’s a thing they get to be a little embarrassed about one time and then someone corrects them. That’s a normal thing.
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One day, we will have a geomagnetic storm so massive that it destroys Starlink satellites and sets data centers on fire. And then we'll party in the streets under the most epic aurora.
November 12, 2025 at 3:50 AM
One day, we will have a geomagnetic storm so massive that it destroys Starlink satellites and sets data centers on fire. And then we'll party in the streets under the most epic aurora.
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This is one of the best accounts I’ve read and I wish every newspaper would run it and every college would invite students to a community conversation where it would be read out and students given space and time to talk and think about it.
But, at least, you can read it.
But, at least, you can read it.
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
This is one of the best accounts I’ve read and I wish every newspaper would run it and every college would invite students to a community conversation where it would be read out and students given space and time to talk and think about it.
But, at least, you can read it.
But, at least, you can read it.
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We have to keep shoveling all money, labor, water, and the environment into this mulcher so it will one day attain sentience and solve climate change, the first of which is impossible and the latter is a problem we have known the cause of and solution to for over a hundred years
is it better for countries to invest in boring things like transport and energy infrastructure or should they invest all their money in useless chatbots that talk in reddit-voice on the vague and completely unsubstantiated hope that they'll be able to do something profitable one day
November 10, 2025 at 11:45 AM
We have to keep shoveling all money, labor, water, and the environment into this mulcher so it will one day attain sentience and solve climate change, the first of which is impossible and the latter is a problem we have known the cause of and solution to for over a hundred years
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And I've been doing politics for long enough to know clearly that the entire Senate Democratic caucus agreed to this decision to fold. Open your eyes. The 8 who "broke" did so with the complete blessing of Schumer and their colleagues. You don't have to play along because this is not a game. The end
November 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
And I've been doing politics for long enough to know clearly that the entire Senate Democratic caucus agreed to this decision to fold. Open your eyes. The 8 who "broke" did so with the complete blessing of Schumer and their colleagues. You don't have to play along because this is not a game. The end
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this isn’t a uniform opinion by any means, and my sample is smol, but it’s a data point. i still hope everyone understands that federal workers aren’t the reason why democrats folded. they’re stuck in the middle
November 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
this isn’t a uniform opinion by any means, and my sample is smol, but it’s a data point. i still hope everyone understands that federal workers aren’t the reason why democrats folded. they’re stuck in the middle
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In a normal democracy, a total collapse of party leadership would result in an no-confidence vote and immediate snap elections to find leaders who can lead
November 10, 2025 at 3:18 AM
In a normal democracy, a total collapse of party leadership would result in an no-confidence vote and immediate snap elections to find leaders who can lead
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Most of y’all are old enough to remember but it bears repeating, Democrats couldn’t peel off a single member of the Republican caucus in the initial fight to enact the ACA, even after they watered down the plans to attract them.
Republicans got 8 Democrats in what’s essentially a vote to repeal.
Republicans got 8 Democrats in what’s essentially a vote to repeal.
Democrats have been fighting for months to address America's healthcare crisis
For the millions who will lose coverage
For people with cancer who won't get the care they need
For working families who can't afford to pay $25K more a year for healthcare
We will keep fighting
For the millions who will lose coverage
For people with cancer who won't get the care they need
For working families who can't afford to pay $25K more a year for healthcare
We will keep fighting
November 10, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Most of y’all are old enough to remember but it bears repeating, Democrats couldn’t peel off a single member of the Republican caucus in the initial fight to enact the ACA, even after they watered down the plans to attract them.
Republicans got 8 Democrats in what’s essentially a vote to repeal.
Republicans got 8 Democrats in what’s essentially a vote to repeal.
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
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“For many employees of small businesses and self-employed individuals, the individual market functions as their main source of comprehensive health insurance outside of traditional employer coverage.”
www.kff.org/affordable-c...
www.kff.org/affordable-c...
November 10, 2025 at 11:41 AM
“For many employees of small businesses and self-employed individuals, the individual market functions as their main source of comprehensive health insurance outside of traditional employer coverage.”
www.kff.org/affordable-c...
www.kff.org/affordable-c...
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
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![[Scene is a BEACH. A little kid is running towards the shore. Speech bubbles that follow are mostly coming from THE SEA, which is sort of talking to us.]
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THE SEA:
Happens all the time.
2
THE SEA:
One second they’re a kid thoughtlessly running into me for joy
[Show kid running towards the sea]
3
THE SEA:
And the next, they’re an adult standing there
contemplating my sublime, death-like endlessness.
[Show the kid instantly transformed into an adult, hands on hips, boringly contemplating the horizon].
4
THE SEA:
I mean, I get it. I’m the *Sea*.
I don’t really do the whole ‘time’ thing.
But it always seems to happen so *quick*.
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THE SEA:
Right. One way to fix this.
[Shoe the waves licking up against their toes]
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PERSON [shocked from cold]:
JESUS
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THE SEA:
Come on
a bit further ….
[Person paddles out into the water a bit]
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THE SEA:
That’s it…
bit further…
[Person wades to waist height]
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THE SEA:
Right.
[Person standing still waist height in sea]
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THE SEA:
HAVE THAT.
[BIG WAVE goes over them]
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[They are instantly transformed back to a kid again]
KID [laughing]:
UURGHHAHA
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THE SEA:
Works every time
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40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion