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Ruby, evil witch and spooky crone @anontranshoe.bsky.social · 5m

please help, I have no money for a hotel and have nowhere else to go tonight

Ruby, evil witch and spooky crone @anontranshoe.bsky.social · 1h

my roommate just asaaulted me with a baseball bat, I can’t safely return home and I need to find a place to stay for me and my cat

will post a fundraiser later, but rn I need emergency money for a hotel tonight
c/a razorgrrl

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daria argento @mommywiseau.bsky.social · 18m

I'm at the best of times. I'm at the worst of times. I'm at the combination best of times and worst of times

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Kim Crawley (she/her) 😷🍉 @stopgenai.com · 18m

"Trump's cronies aren't what broke public health."

Exactly. Broken ever since the government said "the vaxx means you can take off your mask!" and broken since HIV was supposedly not worth funding research for because it's a "gay disease". 🙃

If you're maskless, you're part of the destruction.

Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · Aug 16

If your doctor tells you kids don't get #longCOVID, it's "all in your head", respirators don't protect you, or aren't more effective than medical masks, you've already come face to face with why this is such a serious problem.

Poor understanding of science is fixable - in those who recognize it.

Trump’s cronies aren’t what broke public health

The structural blind spots that undermine medical progress and how to fix them.

canadahealthwatch.ca

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 17m

Here is an example from 2020

Each time the same thing: I go to take a vid, things seem normal.
Within a few seconds my screen would go black, video would continue to record anywhere from 3-5 seconds, then stop on its own. The video files in my gallery are always a black square that's not viewable

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 17m

In 2020 the camera app that comes on the phone was blocking me from the ability to take video each time the feds were out or if 1 was near certain federal buildings.

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 17m

Over the last few weeks especially I have noticed my phone doing some weird things, very reminiscent of the weirdness I experienced in 2020 when the feds were out.

If any journalists want to chat, especially if you're on the cyber security / surveillance tech beat, feel free to reach out.

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 17m

Great article with some onsite analysis of cellular signals indicating the use of cell-site simulators at ICE protests in Portland, Oregon

Exclusive: Fake cellphone tower may have surveilled protesters at Portland ICE facility

Law enforcement officials may have deployed a secretive cellphone surveillance technology last weekend at Portland’s ICE facility.

san.com

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Craig Jenkins @craigsj.bsky.social · 43m

tired of blather from public intellectuals that haven't understood the political moment at any point in the last ten years

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 3h

Yes.

“Everyday we wake up
and collectively make
a world together; but
which one of us, left to
our own devices, would
ever decide they wanted
to make a world like this
one?”

— David Graeber, “Bullshit Jobs: A Theory”

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 7h

The US is a straight-up police state, more egregious than the vast majority of ‘totalitarian regimes’ we (in the Global North) grew up being warned about.

Picture the Feds took with supposed Latin Kings leader (whose wife says he’s being framed) is 100% inspired by the IDF

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Ruby, evil witch and spooky crone @anontranshoe.bsky.social · 1h

my roommate just asaaulted me with a baseball bat, I can’t safely return home and I need to find a place to stay for me and my cat

will post a fundraiser later, but rn I need emergency money for a hotel tonight
c/a razorgrrl

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Ruby, evil witch and spooky crone @anontranshoe.bsky.social · 1h

my roommate just asaaulted me with a baseball bat, I can’t safely return home and I need to find a place to stay for me and my cat

will post a fundraiser later, but rn I need emergency money for a hotel tonight
c/a razorgrrl

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Chris Vogel @chrisvogel.bsky.social · 9h

A tweet by Jenny Nicholson posted n September 8, 2025 at 7:09 p.m. which 1M views which reads: 'How come major film studios keep being like Jared Leto may have allegations, but at least he looks weird, stars in box office bombs, and is not a good actor'

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 7h

There’s a reason they’re not. -‘: the longer we avoid confronting why the worse this gets

John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 17h

Good people need to start outing their ICE family members, neighbors, and community members.

They need to be made into pariahs in the places decent Americans gather.

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Ruby, evil witch and spooky crone @anontranshoe.bsky.social · 8h

I'd watch a film about that sweet old scottish lady hunting thatcher down and driving a stake thru her heart and wreathing her neck with garlic to ensure she doesn't come back from the dead

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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 18h

Like, sorry to folks who believe you should never criticize a politician you think does some good sometimes, but if they're in charge of the guys wearing brown shirts clubbing people with giant wooden bats and they're not putting a stop to it, they're doing something wrong.

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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 18h

What they say while assaulting people is specifically designed to give them immunity (despite already having qualified immunity!) from their actions. The ISP is basically yelling "stop punching yourself" while attacking peaceful protesters.

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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 18h

I want to add this, because if you haven't been in this situation, maybe you don't know. When a cop in riot gear is shoving you and yelling "GET BACK," there's usually nowhere to actually get back to, because there's a crowd of people behind you and you literally can't move at the pace they want.

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 20h

state police continue to push protesters down 25th street. at one point, cops swarmed a group of people and pushed them to the ground.

multiple people arrested.

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Fae’rynn (Phantom Futch) @faerynnistired.itch.io · 15h

i once asked a question on twitter for cis and trans lesbians to respond to basically asking how many of us felt mutually predatory towards the other and the response was nearly universal that ALL of us feel predatory towards the other

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Bugs, Beleaguered Babysitter of the Booger Brothers @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 8h

abolish is

i mean a thing we could do but it seems

inadequate

onion person @junlper.beer · 12h

we need to abolish this shit

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Kim Crawley (she/her) 😷🍉 @stopgenai.com · 8h

"No Kings" is a liberal psyop. Fuck them.

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Boo!-story (disturbingly absent) @withouthistoryband.bsky.social · 9h

(stolen from a friend)
Gender affirming train ticket

Screenshot from a train app with the date and the journey Nottingham to Manchester Piccadilly. The abbreviation reads NOT -> MAN

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Fae’rynn (Phantom Futch) @faerynnistired.itch.io · 15h

like cis lesbian’s attraction to women (in general) is demonized. many of the ways trans women are cast as predators is repackaged lesbophobic rhetoric.

“useless lesbian” is a meme because we all feel scared of so much as saying Hello to a girl we think is cute

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Fae’rynn (Phantom Futch) @faerynnistired.itch.io · 15h

*gets on my soap box* this idea that cis and trans women (in general) and especially cis and trans lesbians don’t have massive amounts of overlapping experiences and anxieties is a function of our oppression as women—as queer women—and is vital to resist

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Mina the Husky (and her human) @agburanar.bsky.social · 16h

(And none of this "different time" BS, either.

Agents of the Spanish Crown investigated him for being too cruel to "the savages" in 1501.

Can you imagine how nasty a person needs to be for 16th century European nobility to go "hey, dude, you think maybe you are taking it a bit far?")

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