Kelsey Atherton

Kelsey Atherton

@atherton.bsky.social

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War, robots, & bad futures but imagining better. EIC, International Policy Journal, opinions my own. Unitarian Universalist. He/him. Husband to @alymay.bsky.social & father to a baby.

If you are going to hang out in my mentions please do not embarrass me.

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nonsensical and inconsistent gibberish

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I’m sorry. This is so horrible to read. But it’s in fucking Politico which isn’t exactly Marxist News Monthly so if you have a friend or relative who you need to reach, they should read this www.politico.com/news/magazin...

We Volunteered at a Gaza Hospital. What We Saw Was Unspeakable.www.politico.com American surgeons who witnessed the civilian carnage of the Israel-Hamas war.

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“It’s like a mechanic intentionally breaking your car just so they can sell you the repair.”

This $1,695 smart bassinet’s best features are now behind a premium subscriptionwww.theverge.com The subscription costs $19.99 per month.

"Drones are truly revolutionary tools for allowing pretty much anybody to collect highly detailed aerial information about the world at a very low cost, a capability that used to be restricted to a very small number of people [with access to aircraft]" little-flying-robots.ghost.io/trumps-attem...

Trump's Attempted Assassin Flew A Drone Over the Rally Site: My Thoughtslittle-flying-robots.ghost.io It was Friday evening. I was trying to relax. And then all of a sudden, a dozen people sent me the same link. Drone news. Of course. Why does big-drone related news never seem to drop at 10:00 AM on...

I made it four paragraphs in before I had to stop. War is worse than hell because it happens to living innocents rather than the dead and the damned. Everyone responsible for prolonging this conflict will not see heaven. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

We Volunteered at a Gaza Hospital. What We Saw Was Unspeakable.www.politico.com American surgeons who witnessed the civilian carnage of the Israel-Hamas war.

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This essay by two physicians who volunteered in Gaza is truly one of the most disturbing things I've ever read, and I have read --and seen-- some shit. I was an aid worker for a decade. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

"It was apparently called “Labelle” until it was re-named Rome, because there were seven hills that converged, and because the 19th century was a great era of imperial longing." popula.com/2019/04/18/r...

Rome Applepopula.com How I Learned to Stop Worrying About How to Say Where I’m From

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J.D. Vance pronounces 'Appalachia' wrong, says @zunguzungu.bsky.social, who grew up there. Searing, thoughtful work, more relevant than ever popula.com/2019/04/18/r...

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The main details of this horrifying story have now been confirmed by the IDF (responding to Israeli independent news website Local Call). www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Gaza man with Down's syndrome attacked by IDF dog and left to die, mother sayswww.bbc.co.uk Muhammed Bhar's family wants the Israeli military to investigate his death in Gaza City this month.

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guys it’s friday night you don’t have to do this

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Intra-coalitional disputes are really difficult, because it’s a lot of people who usually agree disagreeing. But as much as I’m prone to “has the right enemies” arguments and negative polarization (if they’re in *that* side, I’m on the other) I really don’t think that works so well here.

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Hell yeah brother this whips

Umwelt is a hell of a thing

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We’re celebrating the release from the Biden-Harris Administration of the first-ever White House-level strategy focused on ending #PlasticPollution 🎉 mbayaq.co/3y19uVT

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a big shout-out to the twin-engined Caudron aircraft of WW1 that featured streamlined noses - particularly the G.6 and R.XI 👄

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Caræsten 🇵🇸

imagine if every PoS terminal, digital signage, workstations, etc all ran a microkernel based embedded OS that runs user code in an isolated virtual machine we could've had it all en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaOS

JavaOS - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

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JD Vance held up the serious diplomatic work of the United States across the Middle East, Africa and Latin America -- where we surely have a few strategic military and economic concerns -- so that he could interrogate career envoys over things like bathrooms and The Gays. Amazing, serious person.

Leaked memo shows J.D. Vance’s anti-woke ideology on foreign affairswww.washingtonpost.com J.D. Vance, Trump’s VP pick, froze dozens of ambassador nominations over LGBTQ issues and diversity hiring, offering a glimpse of his antiestablishment views.

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A reminder of how war kills not just via weapons but also via the onslaught of disease www.theguardian.com/world/articl...

Highly infectious poliovirus found in Gaza sewage sampleswww.theguardian.com Gaza ministry warns thousands of people displaced by the Israel-Gaza war are at risk of contracting the disease which can cause deformities and paralysis

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NEWS: Teamsters VP-at-Large, John Palmer, who has been extremely critical of current President O’Brien’s overtures towards the GOP, has just announced he’s forming an opposition slate and running for president in the 2026 Teamsters leadership election. “We are better than this.”

idea: non-cloud computing

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sign of the times: "Meanwhile, Waffle House added charging cords to the parking lots at two of its Florida restaurants." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

US Public EV Chargers Set to Surpass Gas Stations in Eight Yearswww.bloomberg.com The US added about 700 new public fast-charging stations for electric cars in the second quarter, bringing the nationwide total to nearly 9,000.

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DISCORSE - dashare.zone ADMIN

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Great finds by @wellerstein.bsky.social in 1973's DCPA "Attack Environment Manual": doomsdaymachines.net/p/a-possible...

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I have enormous respect for AOC but www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

Neat diagram of every fraternity member responding "but I turned out fine!"

really astonishing fraternities still exist, based on the legal liability alone

Report details disturbing hazing rituals at UVadailyprogress.com The college has booted yet another fraternity off Grounds after pledges were subjected to unlawful hazing.

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Both the front cover and back cover of this issue of Superfort magazine are offering lots of food for thought re: how to frame race in the firebombing book I'm writing

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I’m in @slate.bsky.social laying out how the SCOTUS immunity ruling helps clear the legal path for Trump’s military deportation scheme

The Supreme Court Just Supercharged the Scariest Part of Trump’s 2025 Agendaslate.com The justices have all but cleared the way for Trump to try his plan out.

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And remember, this ruling today happened in direct conflict with America's desired outcome. The U.S. was one of the only countries to present an argument against ruling that the occupation is illegal, and they failed utterly. Another, rightfully earned, black mark for Biden and his administration.

"...many have begun placing it within a more common, even sadly pedestrian classification: the random shooter. A loner with an AR-15 commits an act of violence, and we typically have nothing to say except that this seems to happen all the time in America." www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...

Are We Already Moving On from the Assassination Attempt on Trump?www.newyorker.com When an act of violence doesn’t lend itself to a clear argument or a tidy story, we often choose not to think about it.

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With the UK restoring UNRWA funding today, the US is now the last remaining donor-state committed to the forced starvation and immiseration of Palestinians in Gaza as a matter of policy.