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[reading-writing-revolution]

[itsfullofstars]

ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY January 18, 2026 This infrared view of Jupiter by Webb is illuminating. High-resolution infrared images of Jupiter from the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) reveal, for example, differences between high-floating bright clouds -- including the Great Red Spot -- and low-lying dark clouds. Also clearly visible in the featured Webb image are Jupiter's dust ring, bright auroras at the poles, and Jupiter's moons Amalthea and Adrastea. The footprint of large volcanic moon Io's magnetic funneling of charged particles onto Jupiter is also visible in the southern aurora. Some objects are so bright that light noticeably diffracts around Webb's optics creating streaks. Webb, which orbits the Sun near the Earth, has a mirror over six meters across making it the largest astronomical telescopeever launched -- with over six times more light-collecting area than Hubble. Image: https://ift.tt/v3IhMwP via NASA https://ift.tt/D1s2cT6 APOD --> https://ift.tt/93XTrWA

[birdship]

being in your 30s is cool because you can buy yourself children's toys and then use your superior adult abilities and skills to play with them way better and more efficiently than any child

[real-language-facts]

lifetime ban from the boba shop for ordering a kiki tea

[serotonesque]

Took a big step and messaging a friend I acted embarassingly towards.

Holy fuck is psychosis embarassing.

A million feelings of the desire to puke, knowing it's not worth it to my mental health to go through every single example of embarassing behavior during that period.

='(

Isolating as fuck. I miss one of my old best friends badly but he stopped responding to me entirely, and I think I need to just move on.

[serotonesque]

I'm steadily improving. I continue to feel more like my old self again, as much as I think that's even possible. Vitamins seem to be helping a lot, but I wish I knew more specifics.

I guess until I can see a doctor again I'm going to consider it as B12 issues =/ ..? And try to get more of that in my diet, or just start taking B12 pills.

This was, by far, the most traumatic experience I had in my life. And it lasted so damn long :( I've recovered from prior PTSD before, and I know that I can't force the element of time in that healing. We're getting there, bit by bit.

I fucking hate PTSD. I wish I weren't so haunted.

[serotonesque]

God looking over shit that happened during my episode fucking sucks. Fucking sucks so much.

I'm safe and free now but holy fuck, does it suck that I didn't have more support back then. And I'm sure I was exhausting/frightening =/

God do I need to get to a place with better healthcare years ago.

[reading-writing-revolution]

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[serotonesque]

Got yet another 5k charge, this time from the poverty clinic who apparently charge more than my old independent practice therapist did.

This mound of debt is just completely unsurmountable esp when I still need help to ever make money again. And it's hard to see the fucking point in even trying when I'm in this deep.

[somejoyinmudville]

real quick if anyone is confused: professional athletes are paid a lot of money because they generate a lot of money. if you believe that professional athletes should not be paid a proportional share of the revenue they generate, you are anti worker's rights and also fundamentally do not understand how labor works

[somejoyinmudville]

like hey. im a communist. i am not arguing for rich people. i am arguing for workers to get paid what they are worth for the labor they perform. athletes being paid a lot of money is not a hill you have to die on. it is not a consideration you should be incorporating into your political and economic policy. athletes are not special, they are workers, and if you say "this worker does not deserve to be paid what they are owed" you are anti labor and you should not be trusted under any circumstances.

[somejoyinmudville]

also like. arguing that white male athletes should not be adequately compensated for their labor is really not the leftist win you think it is when wnba players get 9% of the leagues revenue and pwhl players are forced to work second jobs. if you think the recognizable names of major men's sports shouldn't be compensated, what do you think about workers rights for bench players and 4th liners in women's sports who are paid astronomically less?

[coshayphinelove]

I know I haven't posted regularly on this blog in years but I'm not seeing a whole lot of posts on this site about what's happening in Minneapolis right now. And the posts I am seeing are not covering the scope of it. I'm genuinely surprised because tumblr is usually where I find out about things organically through my feed. So I'm making a post about it.

A brief summary of events, from someone who pays attention and also lives here, best taken with a grain of salt and some fact checking:

2020: George Floyd is murdered by Minneapolis police. There are weeks of protests about it. It makes national news. Protests happen in DC. The infamous Trump and his bible photo shoot happens.

2024: Gov. Tim Walz is Kamala Harris' running mate in the presidential election. He starts the "they're just weird" thing. Is folksy, Trump personally hates him.

November 2025: ICE starts showing up to "crack down" on "illegal immigrants" in our Somali community. I may remember the numbers wrong, but something like 90% of our Somali neighbors are either naturalized or were born here. People distribute ICE whistles and are on high alert. Localized to the twin cities.

December 2025: Nick Shirley is paid by a bunch of MN Republicans to do an exposé on daycare fraud. I didn't hear much about this. All I really know is this was an ongoing investigation that MN officials were already taking care of and some of the guilty parties have already gone to court from a COVID era food assistance program. Mostly, if not all, legal US citizens. He did a really bad job at doing journalism and just showed up to day cares with a camera crew and went "YUP nobody's here" as if they weren't in lock-down procedure because some fuck ass white men showed up with camera equipment that could easily be mistaken for guns. I believe. I will fact check all of this and will correct myself in a reblog if necessary. (source but not all the details that I remember hearing about but they said there was no recorded evidence of fraud)

Conservative internet explodes. Kristi Noem sends a mess of agents. I know it's more than a thousand more. They call it Operation Metro Surge. They are going everywhere. There are protests. People try to interrupt the arrests. It's a lot.

1/7/2026: Renee Nicole Good is shot by an ICE agent in the middle of a protest. A few blocks away from where George Floyd was killed. Broad daylight. In front of a crowd. While she was following instructions to turn her vehicle around. Jonathan Ross, the piece of shit Nazi who did it, was recording on his phone the whole time, switched his phone to his non dominant hand so he could more effectively shoot her in the face from 2 feet away. Claims self defense, several angles immediately disprove him. He releases his video, he calls her a "fucking bitch" as her corpse drives away. Does not help him at all. (source) He has not been seen since. Some photos/reports exist of a bunch of agents showing up to his house and taking some tubs and art away. His wife is an immigrant. (source but it's the daily mail so grain of salt.)

Not hours later they go raid a school and tear gas a bunch of kids. (source). Minneapolis has switched to distance learning. I'm not sure about St. Paul.

The last week: There are up to 3,000 ICE agents here. Keep in mind Minneapolis and St. Paul only have 600 or fewer police officers each. So these dudes are roaming in packs. It's 2-4 dudes to a car and 2-5 cars per pack. People are "commuting with" ICE agents to honk and alert people that they're there. People are going on patrols with their neighbors.

ICE is no longer asking "are you a citizen." They are simply walking up to you and taking you into custody. They are going door to door. They have started just breaking the door down if you don't comply. They are driving recklessly to just grab pedestrians and drivers alike (source). People are afraid to go get groceries. It's all over the state. I am learning names of cities in places I thought were just factory farm land and I've lived here my whole life because they're doing raids there. I had to text my family in the suburbs because I saw reports of my small little hometown an hour away getting door knocks today.

It's insane and I am not doing it justice. There are thousands of masked federal agents roaming around all of Minnesota with no warrant or specific goal. They are just trolling around looking for people. They are detaining anyone and everyone. They are beating people. They are pepper spraying people. They are kidnapping people. They are acting unconstitutionally, aggressively, and unpredictably. They are creating situations that are dangerous so that they can try to justify beating or shooting their way out. I will run an errand and then get fed a tiktok that was shot from the Cub Foods that I just left and there's 20+ ICE vehicles parked there now. They're taking people from work, from day care, from schools, from shopping centers.

Iceout.org tracks ice sightings. This is a screen shot with the date set to 12/1/2025.

And from today.

They have cut off SNAP and WIC benefits. Just for us. Not any other state, just Minnesota. They're saying it's because of fraud but I think it's because they hate that we use federal funds to give free breakfast and lunch to every public school student.

And this is breaking just now, 1/13/2026: the DOJ is trying to investigate Renee Good's widow. 4 people have resigned about it. (source). I don't even want to read the article to see what they're saying.

So that's a brief history.

Unicorn Riot is doing a lot of good reporting and they don't seem to have the spin that a lot of local news stations will have where they downplay everything. This article specifically goes into a lot of the specific instances of brutality.

It's also a rumor on TikTok that all of the videos of ICE and protests and the such and the like are being geo locked. So my feed is all footage of people being detained and talking about the "commuting" they're doing and what they're seeing but people outside of the state are not seeing it. So if you're also on that infernal app, try searching for Minneapolis or Minnesota and see what you see. I'm kind of curious if this is true. Because I've been living and breathing ICE and doomsday prepping content for a week. I'm sure those two topics aren't connected.

I don't really know what my goal with this post is. I'm tired. I'm in the first ring of suburbs, so it's been pretty quiet. But I have friends in south Minneapolis. And I'm worried for them. And I know it's a matter of time before my quiet pocket is affected. Because they're coming door to door.

Pay attention to Minnesota, I think an example is being made of us.

[leebrontide]

Update- Minnesota republicans are taking this opportunity to try to impeach Govt Waltz, who has already declared that he will not seek re-election in November because of Republican death threats against him and his family. Because of the "fraud". But actually because Waltz is speaking very plainly about what is happening here.

St Paul has gone to partial virtual learning for anyone who doesn't feel safe sending their kids to school.

Every school I know now has safety patrols.

The school districts are not mincing words about the clear and present threat. Everyone in the area is completely clear that we are under violent occupation.

Most of the white people ICE grab, are released within days, because ICE can't even keep track of who was grabbed by who over what. However, they are still subjected to beatings, gassing, having their home and car windows smashes, etc.

Local police are advising compliance with the blatant human rights violations and total lack of due process, because they are cowards.

Even conservative Minnesotans are balking at the total lack of due process and open violence against unresisting people for doing things like taking videos. I know a guy who was in his house recording ICE, and they smashed his home window, dragged him out over the broken glass, beat him while screaming slurs, smashed his phone, and detained for three days.

We need your help to spread the truth about what is going on. Find the videos and share them on any platform you have. Make noise about what's happening. Get your "don't tread on me" relatives whipped up about it if you can.

We need republicans to be afraid, otherwise ICE plans to be here for half a year attacking us.

If human rights can be revoked because Trump doesn't like your state, then they aren't rights anymore, they are favors dispensed by your king.

[maxknightley]

in the contemporary world, the most fundamental human right - and, it often seems, the least protected one - is "being both Allowed and Able to go Somewhere Else." the rest is commentary.

[maxknightley]

the torments of prison are predicated on Not Letting You Leave. the most terrifying and degrading aspects of childhood are predicated on Not Letting You Leave. misogynists wail and moan and fearmonger about divorce and equal opportunity employment because they Allow Wife To Leave. borders and immigration restrictions exist, in no small part, to Prevent People From Leaving countries where they will be exploited and/or oppressed. fuck you for trying to leave. fuck you for exerting any control over your life whatsoever. that makes you the one at fault, actually.

[str-ngeloop]

david graeber described three fundamental freedoms: freedom to move, freedom to disobey orders, and freedom to reorganize social relations

[prudencepaccard]

fundamental human right

[meangirlnurse]

there are so many women in relationships with men who have literally no redeeming value and for the life of me i will never understand

[meangirlnurse]

like i routinely see situations where the woman is the breadwinner of the family, if not the only one of the two with a job, and she's also doing all the domestic labor. and then he isn't even nice to her

[snigepippi]

They live in Alloromantic Ideology and Sunk Cost Fallacy World.

[meangirlnurse]

LOVE the smugness and the obtuse worldview that prevents you from correctly identifying the underlying issues of structural misogyny. keep up the great work

[meangirlnurse]

“alloromantic ideology” ahhh so you think this phenomenon happens the same way to “alloromantic” lesbians and “alloromantic” gay men?

or were you just so excited to sneer the phrase “alloromantic ideology” that you didn’t stop to use your fucking brain

[ot3]

i kinda don't like those posts that are like "it feels so good to be a hater in private instead of bullying people" because i don't think the only two options for negative opinions are Privacy or Bullying. being a hater in a public forum is perfectly fine, and even the most vitriolic negative opinions are not automatically bullying just because someone who might have their feelings hurt by them sees them. there's a difference between being negatively impacted by something you see and being actually targeted by negativity.

[ot3]

seeing someone drop an absolute dogshit off the mark screed against something you love that is not actually harmful in any real way but nevertheless activates the enrage phase of your boss battle and then learning to either just block them or keep scrolling without it ruining your day is a valuable skill. and i think we've all seen what spaces that demand constant positivity end up like. developing an inconsequential bullshit tolerance is necessary to be a well balanced member of a social species.

[innerchildabortionclinic]

Most men dont think women actually like anime because as kids you were called a loser virgin by most women if you watched anime, lol. Women are allowed to watch whatever they want without really being judged by other people, men arent or they might be "weird" or gay lol

again, always surprised I get incel anons given the content of my posts--I do understand it's hard for you to comprehend that women are people who have many of the same experiences as men, but women who liked anime at a younger age were also in fact considered losers by peers if they were particularly enthusiastic about it. i've been told to my face many times! I was a 'loser' at all four schools I went to, in fact

[innerchildabortionclinic]

i'm more and more starting to believe the statement: "the reason men do not think women were hurt in the same ways they were, is they don't see those women as human because they were not attractive to them." the girl who was tormented by other students doesn't exist because she didn't wear cute clothes and makeup, she was awkward, she was invisible. but! there's many girls like her! especially if autistic and in public school. she will be reminded her existence is wrong until she learns to be a woman properly in her mid 20s

but I really only think about this stuff when i'm reminded of it--i've kind of moved past grade school, unlike some of you evidently

[innerchildabortionclinic]

one observation someone made about class divides in social dynamics was the demonization of confidence among lower classes*, especially starting from a young age. it's really quite insidious because confidence is the one thing that can get you ahead in life regardless of where you start--even if people see you as audacious (as i've been called on here), they subconsciously accept there must be some valid reason you seem to think so highly of yourself, or at the very least, know it's not worth changing your mind. this is why the "personality hire" type of person exists. anyway baller life hacks

*i've observed this in my personal life even in the school system. on a systemic level it is meant to keep you down, on a personal level it is meant to keep you safe--fighting for your own dignity is brutally punished if you are poor and/or marginalized in other areas.

[innerchildabortionclinic]

anyway, YOU 🫵 start microdosing on narcissism now. especially around people of a higher status. it's the only way to get into heaven

[kaspbrakeddie]

trapped in a time loop called i just gotta make it through this phase of the menstrual cycle