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57ARK 🔆🍉 @57ark.bsky.social · 4h

i have been sitting still and ̶g̶e̶t̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶d̶i̶s̶t̶r̶a̶c̶t̶e̶d̶ ̶r̶e̶a̶d̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶l̶e̶s̶b̶i̶a̶n̶ ̶e̶r̶o̶t̶i̶c̶a̶ ̶ JOB HUNTING for a couple hours, and it just feels like i've been slowly rising into the air for the last while now. think my vagus nerve is broken or something.

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.bsky.social · 5h

you folks don't even know what a world where bottom surgery was just totally normalized would actually look like & who its most avid participants would be. you haven't met the amount of cis women who have been like "damn i wish i could experience what having both parts is like" unprompted

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 7h

Why would a billionaire want a functioning paper? Functioning papers cover shit like “did you know this billionaire makes his workers pee into bottles instead of taking a break” and “you pay way more tax than a guy with ten yachts”

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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CEO of chillin @osmote.net · 6h

GET THEIR ASSES

Batallon Bakunin @batallonbakunin.bsky.social · 1d

Standing ground against the cops who came to the defense of the Spanish fascists.

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57ARK 🔆🍉 @57ark.bsky.social · 6h

as of right now, there is *no* functional public safety net in most countries for disabled people who are at high risk of covid (or other infections, especially during winter). begging people on the internet who claim to be our comrades in the fight for liberation is *literally all we can do*.

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57ARK 🔆🍉 @57ark.bsky.social · 6h

The more i think about it, the more that last part pisses me off. disabled people *can't* actually show others the door when it comes to IRL. on the internet, sure, we can block people, but the whole point is the desperate attempt to get our 'comrades' to take basic steps to keep everyone safe.

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57ARK 🔆🍉 @57ark.bsky.social · 6h

"trust me bro, it's what they're all NOT saying, that's what they're REALLY saying".

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57ARK 🔆🍉 @57ark.bsky.social · 6h

Disabled people are, in fact, typically rational assessors of the threat environments they inhabit. Their pleas with their "community" to mask aren't mutually exclusive with that, and frankly, disabled people showing others the door for being asshats about masking is very rational threat assessment.

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57ARK 🔆🍉 @57ark.bsky.social · 6h

Hey, I just want you to know that when you look back on this, and see everyone shaming you and OP (with receipts!), you should be aware that they were completely right to do so, and that both you and OP are not only wrong, you're wrong in service to something that actively endangers people's lives.

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57ARK 🔆🍉 @57ark.bsky.social · 6h

Well fucking put!!!

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Jack Klompus 🖕🎃🖕 @klompusjack.myatproto.social · 7h

What is this Universal Public Masking? It sounds like a thing you made up in your head because someone asked you to mask.

Joad The Wet Sprocket @joadsprocket.bsky.social · 21h

I am not interested in living in a society of Universal Public Masking and neither are most people. This ask is not reasonable, and the invocation of solidarity in service of it is ridiculous.

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57ARK 🔆🍉 @57ark.bsky.social · 6h

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Is the giant mob of disabled people demanding "universal public masking" in the room with us right now? Or is that maybe 🤡👟🔍🐴 hyperbole?

57ARK 🔆🍉 @57ark.bsky.social · 6h

It is not a failure of solidarity when someone who remembers the Tuskegee Syphilis study isn't comfortable getting an injection from a doctor.

It is a failure of solidarity to be an informed Western "lefty" in community with disabled folx and then to ignore their pleas for basic health practices.

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57ARK 🔆🍉 @57ark.bsky.social · 6h

It is not a failure of solidarity when someone who remembers the Tuskegee Syphilis study isn't comfortable getting an injection from a doctor.

It is a failure of solidarity to be an informed Western "lefty" in community with disabled folx and then to ignore their pleas for basic health practices.

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57ARK 🔆🍉 @57ark.bsky.social · 7h

I'm not interested in living in a society of universal public masking either, but I can't afford the years of my life that catching covid again would cost me, and a society entirely free of covid has been obfuscated by those in power by their ongoing failure to actually address an ongoing pandemic.

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57ARK 🔆🍉 @57ark.bsky.social · 7h

Take the disparity in messaging between people like @vxundergroundre.bsky.social who go out of their way to share the kind of harrowing hell that's just everyday risk eval for disabled folx, and the glib attitude of clowns who are like "give it up buddy, I never self regulate for anyone, ever 😎"

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57ARK 🔆🍉 @57ark.bsky.social · 7h

I love how a basic public health measure (wearing a mask when sick) got turned into a wildly exaggerated claim (universal public masking) despite the fact that no disabled person could ever realistically expect people who are our "community" to do the right thing, unprompted, en masse, to begin with

Joad The Wet Sprocket @joadsprocket.bsky.social · 21h

I am not interested in living in a society of Universal Public Masking and neither are most people. This ask is not reasonable, and the invocation of solidarity in service of it is ridiculous.

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LAND BACK @geeee.bsky.social · 8h

My ancestors were almost wiped out by colonizers and their smallpox so you'll have to excuse me if I don't consider you a leftist if you refuse to mask. I'm not letting this generation of colonizers kill me because they don't understand basic science.

A post from @joadsprocket.bsky.social that reads "I am not interested in living in a society of Universal Public Masking and neither are most people. This ask is not reasonable, and the invocation of solidarity in service of it is ridiculous." The post is quoting a blocked post by @chantzy.bsky.social which reads "Dear liberals, if you identify as a leftist who believes in intersectional justice & fighting fascism, please wear a mask in public. It's one small act of solidarity with millions living with long Covid - and a reminder that caring for others includes protecting their health"

The second post by @joadsprocket.bsky.social reads "Also a fine example of 'anyone not doing what I want them to is a Liberal."

The third post by @joadsprocket.bsky.social is a screenshot of the original chantzy.bsky.social post with the caption "ope"

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57ARK 🔆🍉 @57ark.bsky.social · 8h

Mehdi Hasan being like "okay but Palestine has awful leadership" as though that should be uniquely disqualifying in the face of Trump and Netanyahu lmao

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Thalia 🐺🏳️‍⚧️ @sapphicwolf.seeks.quest · 2d

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57ARK 🔆🍉 @57ark.bsky.social · 17h

DON'T FUCK WITH LIL' TUFF

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 19h

This concentration of wealth has progressed with every US presidency. And then people ask

“How did we get here?”

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Apr 13

Here's a cool thing:

This is a graph of women in computing over time.

Look what happened in 1982.

$A graph showing % of women majors in various fields from 1965 to 2010. Women were on par in every field until the mid-80s, and then precipitously dropped to a fraction it had once been while the other fields kept getting more rep.$

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Nikki 'Samyazan Scion' Ophan @nikkiophan.bsky.social · 22h

whole gobermint gone, whole econony ded, society melting, collapse of the american empire, all because some evil ass freaks REALLY REALLY REALLY wanted to fuck you even harder than they already are, and like the many rapes they've collectively committed, they aren't taking no for an answer

bear in american flag shirt lifting his sunglasses to look at a melting pizza that looks like a mushroom cloud

text says "IDS HABIDDING"
"IDS DO LADE"
"U WOODEN LISEN"
"Y DOZEN U STOBBIT?"
"ALL IS LOTS"
"IDS HOBLETS"

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57ARK 🔆🍉 @57ark.bsky.social · 18h

subdivide the US until it's entirely in Rhode Island sized partitions

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 1d

Sigh. Guess it's that one day a year we have to utter that assholes name.

For Immediate Release
Italian-American Trade Unionists of America Condemn Columbus on Columbus Day

The ltalian-American Trade Unionists of America (IATUOA) has once again reaffirmed its condemnation of Christopher Columbus on Columbus Day.
"We only mention the son of a bitch's name once a year and it's when we announce that he's a son of a bitch on his name day," the IATUOA Executive Committee announced from a dark, smoke-filled room in the Italian-American Club of Shamokin, PA.

The IATUOA, founded on the principles of cultural solidarity through bargaining, mutual aid, shared dining experiences, and anti-imperialism, believes Columbus represents the antithesis of these core values. Based on his writing and contemporary accounts, Columbus was a greedy, self-indulgent strunz, a jerk-off that gleefully engaged in the enslavement and genocide of indigenous people for personal gain and fame.

Further, this fucking guy, supposedly Genoese, rarely spoke or wrote in Ligurian or any Italic language. What kind of "Italian" does that?

Italian-Americans deserve recognition and a holiday in the United States, but also deserve a figure worthy of their name. "If you're gonna name the fuckin' day Columbus Day, you might as well go-all in and make the fucking holiday Columbus/Mussolini Day to piss on a few more graves,"' the IATOUA Executive Committee further scoffed

As of this time,the IATUOA DaVinci Genealogy Caucus still questions the authenticity of Columbus' Italian ancestry. Based on this, and the organization's position that Columbus is "a piece of shit" the organization maintains its position that Italian-Americans (as well as indigenous people) deserve a holiday that truly recognizes our heritage and not one that celebrates a jackass.

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june 🧛‍♀️ @juneever.green · 1d

Marisa Tomei as Mona Lisa Vito in My Cousin Vinny (1992).

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