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@pynchokami.bsky.socialSep 8, 2026, 6:17 AM

"I got arrested in an inflatable unicorn costume, so my baseline dignity is pretty shot."
A sharp exhale through Sofi's nose. "A what?"
"Full body. De-escalation tactic, allegedly. Cops don't shoot unicorns on live video." (5/22)
#BerkeleyTapes

@pynchokami.bsky.socialSep 8, 2026, 6:17 AM

Jess looked up anyway, right at the sensor. "Oh. Right. Obviously."
Then, back down: "Sorry. I pictured a normal ceiling." "You don't want them looking at you."
"They're already looking at everyone. I don't think I'm moving the needle." (4/22)
#BerkeleyTapes

@pynchokami.bsky.socialSep 8, 2026, 6:17 AM

Two bunks down, a girl sat with her knees to her chest. "I'm Jess."
"Sofi."
She didn't look up.
"Don't stare at the light housing. Mic's in the fixture." (3/22)
#BerkeleyTapes

@pynchokami.bsky.socialSep 8, 2026, 6:17 AM

A rust-ringed sink dripped over a floor drain. On the cinderblock wall, ghosted under cheap paint, backwards yellow letters bled through: OLD DOORS MAKE GOOD FENCES. Someone had tried to cover it and hadn't quite managed. (2/22)
#BerkeleyTapes

@pynchokami.bsky.socialSep 8, 2026, 6:17 AM

Somewhere in the cell, it's still someone's birthday. #BerkeleyTapes #SFF #AmWriting🧵

Theresienstadt (Terezín) Ghetto, Bohemia, 1941–1945. Children's drawings preserved at the Pinkas Synagogue, Prague.

Photo of three framed children's drawings displayed under glass in a museum case. At top, a color drawing in orange and yellow pastel depicts a room with two windows and a table set with a menorah, labeled as a Hanukkah scene by Irena Karpelesová, with her birth date, deportation date, and death date printed beneath. Below it, two pencil sketches side by side, each showing three costumed, cartoonish figures, one attributed to Zdenka Müller, the other to Pavel Neumann, both artists' birth, deportation, and death dates listed on the placards beneath. Roughly 15,000 children passed through the ghetto; fewer than 150 are known to have survived the war. Many of the drawings came out of secret classes run by Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, a Bauhaus-trained artist and prisoner who smuggled in paper and taught children in defiance of a ban on formal education. Before her own deportation to Auschwitz in 1944, she packed roughly 4,000 drawings into two suitcases and hid them in the ghetto walls. They were found after liberation and now belong to the Jewish Museum in Prague. Children in detention and children in war zones still draw pictures of home. The impulse hasn't gone anywhere; neither, it turns out, has the need to.