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Kelsey Atherton

@atherton.bsky.social

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War, robots, & bad futures but imagining better. I edit @cipolicy.bsky.social's International Policy Journal, opinions my own. Unitarian Universalist. He/him. Husband to @alymay.bsky.social & father of 2. Front takes towards enemies.

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@atherton.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 4:27 AM

7-2, best set of the year?

Deck
1 Liliana the Faultless (FRA) 200
1 Vindictive Triumph (FRA) 162
1 Proft, Sinister Mastermind (FRA) 235
1 Danitha, Spear of Agony (FRA) 227
1 Saheeli, Consul of Oversight (FRA) 203
1 Teyo, Lightshield Expert (FRA) 204
1 Hexhaven Battalion (FRA) 12
1 Edgar, Ancient Bloodlord (FRA) 270
1 Blessed Ghoul (FRA) 123
1 Screeching Soulbreaker (FRA) 65
3 Fatehold Chronologist (FRA) 133
1 Way of the Healer (FRA) 207
1 Thalia, the Survivor (FRA) 205
1 Your Fate Ends Here (FRA) 24
1 Tinybones, Pocket Nuisance (FRA) 237
1 Koth of the Homestead (FRA) 199
1 Campus Crier (FRA) 4
1 Massacre Girl, Most Wanted (FRA) 234
1 Theoretical Necromancer (FRA) 69
1 Lyra, Archangel of Dawn (FRA) 201
1 Surgical Precision (FRA) 22
1 Meticulous Commons (FRA) 184
1 Room of Refuge (FRA) 188
7 Swamp (NEO) 298
8 Plains (NEO) 293

Sideboard
1 Campus Crier (FRA) 4
1 Rank Rat (FRA) 61
1 Eardrum Rattler (FRA) 81
1 Traxos, Scourge Eternal (FRA) 280
1 Danitha, Sword of Hope (FRA) 196
1 Predictive Preparations (FRA) 16
1 Cast Away Doubt (FRA) 51
1 Keeper of the Quiet Hour (FRA) 171
1 Tethermage's Advantage (FRA) 117
1 Academic Ascent (FRA) 2
1 Vigorbloom Vanguard (FRA) 161
1 Solve for Disappointment (FRA) 67
1 Whiplash Wordsmith (FRA) 164
1 Hallway Heckler (FRA) 85
1 Greenhouse Propagator (FRA) 104
1 Artifist Acumen (FRA) 73
@atherton.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 1:30 AM

Tis the season

@chrisgeidner.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 11:48 PMReposted by @atherton.bsky.social

BREAKING: Federal judge order an immediate end to DHS’s pro-Trump propaganda ads. Judge Jennifer Rochon ordered the Trump administration to “cancel or cause to be cancelled“ any remaining ad placements, including for Sunday evening. Tonight, at Law Dork:

@atherton.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 12:45 AM

putting hydraulics on one of these, call that a Low(ly Worm) Rider www.bbc.com/news/article...

@mixmoji.pixigeko.comOct 12, 2026, 12:00 AMReposted by @atherton.bsky.social

😧 + 🌶️

😧 + 🌶️
?Unknown authorOct 11, 2026, 11:07 PMReposted by @atherton.bsky.social

we should have ran more socialists

@atherton.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 4:24 PM

for sale: baby shrews. never shorn

?Unknown authorOct 11, 2026, 3:37 PMReposted by @atherton.bsky.social

There really was a mode of analysis that was lost with Fisher. Imitated, but never duplicated. Clarifying, with similar brevity and force, how white collar and service industry work is integral to the modern working class is probably one of the biggest pedagogic hurdles of the movement.

?Unknown authorOct 11, 2026, 3:35 PMReposted by @atherton.bsky.social

Owing to the extensive use of machinery, and to the division of labour, the work of the proletarians has lost all individual character, and, consequently, all charm for the workman. He becomes an appendage of the machine…

Owing to the extensive use of machinery, and to the division of labour, the work of the proletarians has lost all individual character, and, consequently, all charm for the workman. He becomes an appendage of the machine, and it is only the most simple, most monotonous, and most easily acquired knack, that is required of him. Hence, the cost of production of a workman
@atherton.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 2:26 PM

this is maybe a stupid question but is there any poli-sci research on how the position in the year of elections raises salience of certain issues? Like, fall/winter elections more about the cost of heating, that type of thing.

@costasamaras.comOct 10, 2026, 1:26 AMReposted by @atherton.bsky.social

Many homes in the northeast & in Alaska are heated with heating oil- basically diesel fuel. Now because of the administration’s war & energy policies, families are going to pay a lot more to heat their homes this winter. Our paper shows how folks heat their homes:
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Map of primary heating fuel by US census tract, from our paper  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2753-3751/ae69e6/meta
@nickjbrumfield.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 12:37 PMReposted by @atherton.bsky.social

Oh shit this theory may have legs The Warriors premiered on February 9, 1979 Wanna guess when the first chapter of the Guardian Angels was formed? February 14, 1979

@atherton.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 3:31 AM

put that pussy in a sarcophagus

@atherton.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 3:20 AM

to be a parent in the long Trump era is to pick up your phone and be greeted by video of masked government goons disappearing parents from playgrounds, then wonder exactly how long until this goes from a tragedy documented elsewhere to one you'll be forced to see in person at your own local park

@atherton.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 1:12 AM

searched to see if I'd already said this and folks

@buttpraxis.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 11:55 PMReposted by @atherton.bsky.social

Social media must be destroyed of course but it’s gonna be sad to lose the feeling of discovering your stray delusion is mass psychosis

A whole bunch of people skeeting “Who up immanentizing they eschaton”
@aramshabanian.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 12:31 AMReposted by @atherton.bsky.social

ICE gassed citizens of Salem tonight and slammed into several vehicles with their push-bars, the same tactics they attempted to inflict upon me two days ago for the crime of standing and filming them. The Marion County Sheriff's Office sent a deputy during my incident. He left as they threatened

@gillianbrockell.comOct 10, 2026, 10:55 PMReposted by @atherton.bsky.social

Once again: The ICE Air Operations Handbook allows children as young as 13 to be shackled on ICE flights. All adults are shackled except pregnant and postpartum women (up to two weeks) and, on removal flights only, single parents with young children. That’s according to their own policy.

@hypervisible.blacksky.appOct 10, 2026, 3:54 PMReposted by @atherton.bsky.social

There are a lot of details in here about Zuck releasing a half-baked product, but one thing that really stands out is just how weird these folks are. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...

Meta’s A.I. leaders also incorporated OpenClaw into their own lives. Mr. Friedman hooked his agent up to cameras in his house, where it would instruct him to do things like drink water to stay hydrated.
“It sent me a snapshot frame of me drinking a bottle of water and said, ‘Good job,’” Mr. Friedman said at a recent tech conference.
In another instance, while talking to his agent about ways to get better sleep, OpenClaw took over Mr. Friedman’s self-driving Tesla and redirected him to a grocery store to pick up magnesium pills. At Meta’s annual developer conference last month, Mr. Zuckerberg said he had connected his agent to cameras in his martial arts gym so that it could critique his fighting form.
Yet there were safety concerns. Agents could sometimes go rogue or take over software apps. In February, one agent took over the work computer of a Meta safety researcher, deleting her emails uncontrollably.
“I couldn’t stop it from my phone,” Summer Yue, the researcher, wrote on social media. “I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb.”
?Unknown authorOct 10, 2026, 9:31 PMReposted by @atherton.bsky.social

Bluesky being the website for affluent 38 year olds who gaslight zoomers about their economic prospects is honestly genuinely funny as a punch line

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