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X unveils Bluesky-like "Starterpacks" to help users find accounts that match their interests, curated by X and rolling out in the coming weeks (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/21/x-copies-blues…

X copies Bluesky with a 'Starterpacks' feature that helps you find who to follow | TechCrunch
X says the new feature, similar to Bluesky's Starter Packs, will arrive in the coming weeks.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Common Saints:
🎵 Honey
#CommonSaints
https://commonsaints.bandcamp.com/track/honey-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/7qh5e5AVPHVsfi0NPrxylx

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music
The Wailers:
🎵 She's Coming Home
#TheWailers
https://open.spotify.com/track/39xBJcY6R9L9VjCMfKKqqR

What @… says is what a lot of us have been lamenting since the ICE invasion started. Shouldn’t local police protect citizens from ICE?? Why this hasn’t happened is a really good question. Factors to consider:
- “Obstructing a federal agent” is illegal, and local police / politicians feel constrained by that (even if the agents themselves don’t seem constrained by the actual law at all, only by what they think they can get away with)
- Police can in theory cite federal agents for e.g. traffic violations or illegal plate swapping after the fact, as long as they’re not “obstructing” the agents — but how do you cite a masked person with fake plates who refuses to give ID?
- Some police are visibly supportive of ICE, chumming it up with them and giving literal fist bumps; a nontrivial subset are outright closet Nazis. A lot of people don’t really see any need to go past “ACAB” as a full explanation for all of this — and certainly The ACAB Hypothesis is…um, not really being proved false right now in Minneapolis.
- I think some police quietly resent ICE for stepping on their turf, but that does not seem to have boiled up into actual confrontation in MSP. One police leader here painted it in early Dec as “some people want to instigate a confrontation between Minneapolis Police, and that’s not going to happen.” Police culture says that police should be a neutral party in a dispute between ICE and residents, and actually protecting residents would be taking sides. (Duh, yes, taking sides that way is your literal job, you dumbasses…but I digress.)
- Some police (especially leadership) really want to get on the community’s good side after the murder of George Floyd, and see this as an opportunity, but unfortunately this has materialized entirely as non-interventionist support: “We responded to a 911 call and help a distressed resident after her husband was abducted!” “We transported children left parentless on the streets by ICE safely back to their home!” “Our officers volunteered at the food shelf!” OK, nice, good for you buddy.
So yeah, I’m wondering this too, and am bitter about it. https://tilde.zone/@n1xnx/115928447564126393

13th San Francisco immigration judge fired,
leaving the court decimated
San Francisco’s immigration court,
which started with 21 judges this year,
will soon have just four left
https://missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-immigration-judges-fired-a…

13th S.F. immigration judge fired. Court will soon have just 4 judges left. 
San Francisco’s immigration court will lose three more judges in the coming weeks, two of them to retirement and a third who was fired on Friday.

Happy WKRP Turkey Drop Day to all who celebrate
#Shitpost #Shitposting #ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

Glad to be in one now! It's a good week to put work into hope
From: @…
https://mastodon.me.uk/@rachelcoldicutt/1154…

Rachel Coldicutt (@rachelcoldicutt@mastodon.me.uk)
Attached: 4 images A reminder that the first Society for Hopeful Technologists Community Events are coming up - first one next Thursday https://buttondown.com/society-of-hopeful-technologists/archive/3-a-hopeful-charter-and-first-events/

Blue Origin unveils TeraWave, a satellite communications network for enterprise, data center, and government customers, and plans to begin deployment in Q4 2027 (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/21/bezos-blue-origin-satellite-internet-sp…

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launches satellite internet service to rival SpaceX, Amazon
Blue Origin is looking to send the first of TeraWave's 5,408 satellites into space in the fourth quarter of 2027.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
World News:
🎵 Everything Is Coming up Roses
#WorldNews
https://worldnewsband.bandcamp.com/track/everything-is-coming-up-roses
https://open.spotify.com/track/3AXBbn0MhwKPGJOZFcmiHD

Meta plans to expand ads on Threads to all users globally starting next week; Threads began testing ads in the US and Japan a year ago (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/21/threads-rolls-out-ads-to-all-users-worldwide/

Threads rolls out ads to all users worldwide | TechCrunch
Ads on Threads will roll out gradually to users over the coming months, Meta says.