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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 3h

Imagine being a teen egg and your dad, Columbo, finds your trans furry alt on Bluesky

I like to think he'd create his own burner account to post occasional support beneath your takes and never mention that he knew

Then when you "came out," he'd smack his forehead in delighted faux-surprise

ALCA, Goddess of Lust 💜 @flailmorpho.bsky.social · 12h

can you imagine columbo being your dad, you couldn't get away with fucking anything

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Cozca @cozca.bsky.social · 1d

Interview prisoners in Tacoma ICE run by Geo Group. Those we went through ICE processing in Portland, Oregon. Several have already come forward about Geo Group abuse and torture.

It's suspicious no politicians mention Geo Group. There have been zero press on Geo Group in Portland, Oregon.

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Cozca @cozca.bsky.social · 1d

If you get a chance to speak to media today please make sure to bring up Indigenous activists of Portland Oregon abused by Geo Group inside ICE cells in PDX. We need an investigation. We need the torture covered and acknowledged.

No one deserves torture. I mean the legal definition of torture.

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Books to Prisoners (Seattle) @bookstoprisoners.bsky.social · 6h

Today is the 1st day of Prison Banned Books Week, a week examining the catastrophic impact of censorship on information access in carceral facilities. Go to prisonbannedbooksweek.org for updates & actions this week, and SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BOOKS TO PEOPLE IN PRISONS GROUP via books, $, volunteering!

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Big Demon Energy @mayawest.online · 1d

Remember, pornographers have always been on our side. Brave, ready to fight for our friends. Smut is our friend - John Waters

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alex moore @notanotheralex.bsky.social · 5h

i here it cost $0.00 to make an artist's day better (wink-wink ring that bell, hit that like etc)

#art

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

Sen Chris Murphy just wrote to Kristi Noem demanding that she correct DHS's public falsehoods about the shooting.

It's an unusual move: He is calling her to account for government propaganda about the shooting. More should be done like this. 4/

newrepublic.com/article/2019...

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Aris Merquoni @aristgd.bsky.social · 7h

Personally I'm glad I am able to vote, but I think it would have been better for the country to demand equal rights and access for everyone and not allow conservative white women to set the limits of action.

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Aris Merquoni @aristgd.bsky.social · 7h

I think this is an interesting issue to think about. The lack of purity testing meant that there were a lot of conservative women pushing sufferage, but that allowed a great deal of racism in the movement. Would we have been better off in alliance with Black, brown, and immigrant women?

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · Aug 3

This is your occasional reminder that Rose O'Neill, creator of the Kewpies, first published female cartoonist in the United States, and among the first cartoonists to build a merchandising empire on their work, turned out some absolutely baller, romantic-feeling size-difference monster art.

A Rose O'Neill pen and ink drawing, featuring a giant humanoid embracing a smaller one. It is captioned "Man and the Earth."

A Rose O'Neill pen and ink drawing, featuring a giant female satyr embracing a small human male. She appears to be nuzzling him.

A Rose O'Neill pen and ink drawing, featuring a giant female humanoid nuzzling a tiny male humanoid. It is titled "Besieging the lips of the Earth."

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · Jun 21

A vitally important story, memorialized in Norman Rockwell's "Murder in Mississippi."

Normal Rockwell's "Murder in Mississippi." A 1965 painting by Norman Rockwell, which was commissioned for an article titled "Southern Justice" in the American magazine Look. The painting depicts the 1964 murders of civil rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner.

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Aris Merquoni @aristgd.bsky.social · 7h

I grew up taught that racism was bad but I didn't have a lot of Black friends because of the makeup of my schools; only seeing occasional distant role models meant I didn't get experience just. Listening.

Following non-white writers/artists/video makers has improved my assumptions.

Aris Merquoni @aristgd.bsky.social · 7h

At a minimum, if you are white and aren't used to listening to minorities as experts: follow more minorities and just get used to having them be present in your influences

Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 8h

You're high off the No Kings demonstration but don't know what to do next? Decolonize your mind. Practice active anti-racism. Talk to your friends about how you can commit concrete acts that dismantle white supremacy. Think about how you interact with Black people. Unpack your internal biases.

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 11h

At some point, the people of the US are going to have to ask themselves why in 2025, we still have a system of "democracy" that is intentionally designed to give the 60% of pro ethno-state white voters more power than everyone else in the country combined.

Questions for the 40% of white folk.

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 11h

"No Kings" illustrates the uncomfortable truth about US politics: That the > 50% of white US people that want to turn the US into a white ethnostate (their words) is a lot of people. But the > 40% of white US people that don't want this, plus > 50% of brown people and > 90% of Black people, is more.

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Aris Merquoni @aristgd.bsky.social · 9h

Anyway, I think people are on board and getting more on board with making big structural changes to make sure we actually move forward with justice, equity, and inclusion for all. It's clear that the old little stuff not only didn't work, it was designed to fail in this manner.

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Aris Merquoni @aristgd.bsky.social · 9h

I was a suburban white girl who was taught racism was bad, and it has been a long time since I was shocked into noticing that I could not trust most white people to inform me about the structure of racism in this country and its effects.

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Aris Merquoni @aristgd.bsky.social · 9h

A lot of in-group trust of bad actors (racists), and inability of counter narratives to things like copaganda and capitalism co-opting messages, means that liberals have been slow to realize how bad things have been.

Recently it's gotten clear as line after line has been crossed.

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Aris Merquoni @aristgd.bsky.social · 9h

I feel like the difference between liberals and radicals is that liberals know that change is necessary but are worried that upsetting the status quo will hurt people, so change needs to be considered and slow. Radicals see the status quo as inherently dangerous and hurtful now. 1/2?

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Aris Merquoni @aristgd.bsky.social · 10h

TBF the DeLorean does also kind of look like a low-poly model, but that was just cars in the late 70s and 80s. Someone with a good texture map skinned the DeLorean, while the Cybertruck is default poly all the way down.

Lars Hansson @romabysen.bsky.social · 11h

But at least this looked cool and not like a low-poly video game car from the 90's.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 11h

Yeah, I think that's lost on a LOT of people under the age of, like, 30-ish. Doc Brown's time machine was a DeLorean because DeLoreans were stupid garbage. It was a lemon he probably got for $500. Using it was just another thing made him look insane. 80s audiences would have understood that.

vampironique emma houxbois @emmahouxbois.bsky.social · 11h

satire that people misunderstood: they picked the delorean for back to the future as a joke because it was a failed vision of the future

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 11h

The car I instantly thought of when the Cybertruck was announced.

Like... stainless steel body panels? We did that already. It doesn't work. We know for a FACT it doesn't work.

Denise Breen @denisebreen.bsky.social · 12h

On this day in October 1982, John DeLorean was arrested on cocaine charges after an FBI informant solicited him into a drug trafficking scheme. While he was eventually acquitted in August 1984, the legal battle coincided with the bankruptcy of the DeLorean Motor Company in the same year

a black and white photo of a delorean driving down a road

ALT: a black and white photo of a delorean driving down a road

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 13h

if nothing else i feel like the president of the most powerful nation on earth posting a video of him shitting on his own citizens should finally make the democrats and media wake up and stop bleating about norms

just go feral

they are

and we outnumber them

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 17h

That AI slop is like a story a 3-year-old makes up when they get mad at another toddler: "Then I put on my crown and get into my airplane. It says on the side that I'm the king. I fly up so high over the stupid people. I throw poop down all over the mean people. They cry and cry, but I just laugh."

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Aris Merquoni @aristgd.bsky.social · 12h

Reminded for no reason that one of my first online interactions was watching as alt.fan.furry dissolved in arguments about whether they should found alt.furry.lifestyle and I feel like that explains something about me

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