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Queer Armorer @queerarmorer.bsky.social · 1d

How to Zero a Rifle:

A basic but super necessary topic for people to get. If your zero is off your shooting won’t be straight and despite being queer this is the one time I’ll say not being straight is a bad thing.

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How to Zero a Rifle

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Blast Professing @gaymerherb.bsky.social · 1d

just think, you could be in Kwigillingok, Alaska where people's houses are literally floating away and the news won't cover it because it's an Indigenous community, stay grateful and send some $$

Rick Thoman @alaskawx.bsky.social · 1d

If you're able, please consider a donation to the Alaska Community Fund to help people in western Alaska impacted by ex-typhoon Halong even as winter is bearing down. All the money donated goes to the region. Quyana. #Alaska #AlaskaSky

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Screen shot of the ACF Western Alaska Disaster Relief 2025 Fund:

"In response to recent severe storms, including Typhoon Halong, that devastated Alaska's western coast, local community organizations and regional partners have come together to establish the Western Alaska Disaster Relief Fund, housed at the Alaska Community Foundation.
Two major storm systems struck western Alaska in rapid succession, bringing record flooding, extreme winds, and extensive damage from Kwigillingok to Kotzebue. Homes have been damaged and destroyed, critical infrastructure compromised, and subsistence resources disrupted. The Western Alaska Disaster Relief Fund will provide support to affected communities for immediate relief, recovery support, and long-term resilience, including disaster preparedness initiatives. Distribution decisions will be guided by advisors including regional leaders and stakeholders, ensuring resources reach affected communities based on locally identified needs.

The Western Alaska Disaster Relief Fund brings together a growing list of local, regional, and statewide partners endorsing the fund, including:

Association of Village Council Presidents
Alaska Federation of Natives
Alaska Native Heritage Center
Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium
Bethel Community Services Foundation
Calista Corporation
Healthy Alaska Natives Foundation
First Alaskans Institute
Kawerak, Inc.
Native Peoples Action
Maniilaq Association

Yukon Kuskokwim Health Corporation"

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Animal Ag Reality @animalagreality.bsky.social · 1d

Milk is murder. Milk is rape. Milk is kidnapping. Milk is abuse.

Milk is unjustifiable. #GoVegan

RileyTChiweeieT14381 @rileytchiweenie2.bsky.social · 1d

Taking newborn calves from their mothers is standard in the dairy industry. They have no choice, we do: soy, oat, rice…. The dairy industry is also the meat industry.

Choose compassion / #vegan over cruelty:

Challenge22.com 🌱

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Luis Castillo Silva @theeluisifer.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Indigenous People’s Day, y’all!

A fallen statue of Christopher Columbus whose face Ian planted in the street where it belongs

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Dr. Ayla 🍉 @draylasays.bsky.social · 1d

This is what it’s like to be Palestinian: Israel threatening you with “severe consequences” if you express any joy at the homecoming of your loved ones from captivity in Israeli prisons, where they’ve been tortured for decades.

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1d

While Israelis celebrated the return of captives from Gaza, Israel warned Palestinian families against holding celebrations over the return of prisoners – some who had been held for decades. Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh explains.

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 3d

Tractors like this are used to spray pesticides in Apple orchards in upstate NY. "John" shares that having to pick in just-sprayed fields — or even near current spraying— is one of the issues that have caused workers to unionize. #WeFeedYou

A tractor that is used for spraying the orchard at the side of a apple field

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Whatstheirface @whatstheirface.bsky.social · 7d

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 4d

people are going to post AI slop...sometimes they just do not realize it at the time and have the good graces to delete it

but if they are told and keep posting it your safest action is just to block them because they will continue to spread it

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Ted Cruz called the FBI on me @weareronin.bsky.social · 3d

Elgin, Illinois. ICE is placing undercover agents with folks exercising their first amendment rights.

Expect them to incite violence next.

Beware the agent provocateur.

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Lute @banjocollie.bsky.social · 3d

Please share and consider helping if you're able!
www.gofundme.com/f/please-help-marwans-family-survive-war?attribution_id=sl:180c1853-1e33-4568-83da-7953b1f9894c&lang=en_US&ts

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KD📚🌎🌊🇺🇸 @kdnerak33.bsky.social · 3d

There is no leader of Antifa.
There is no girlfriend of the leader of Antifa.

They are creating imaginary people so they can justify going after real people.

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 3d

Halloween is coming soon. Lupe" sent us this photo of the pumpkins he helped harvest in the Bakersfield CA area. He shares he is proud of the work he and other farm workers do to bring fruits and vegetables to the tables across America. #WeFeedYou

A field full of pumpkins that were harvested by Farm workers

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Saeed ((( Blanket Man ))) 🌟 @sssssaeeeeeeeeed.bsky.social · 6d

‼️This is final call for help‼️

These days, we are struggling more than ever 😔

Food is very scarce and the situation is difficult 😭

We are still alive only because of your donations 😔

Please, don't ignore us 🙏

gofund.me/cff04ac94

✅ @mommunism.bsky.social

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Lute @banjocollie.bsky.social · 5d

Boosting this

Lute @banjocollie.bsky.social · 11d

Sharing this fundraiser for my friend who just got Section 8 housing but still has no income. She has low vision and had to flee an abusive home but hasn't got her SSI application approved yet.

Please share this and donate if you can!

#mulualaid
#lgbtq
#disabilities

gofund.me/480bbef33

Donate to Support Blossom, organized by Monarch's Rose Blossom

Hello! My name is Blossom! I am finally housed thanks to Section 8 and generosity from local ch… Monarch's Rose Blossom needs your support for Support Blossom

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Lute @banjocollie.bsky.social · 5d

Please share this and consider donating if you can!

Rami 🍉 @mido0012.bsky.social · 5d

Why did you stop supporting us?
Why are you leaving Kinda sick and hungry?
Where are the rescuers, where are our friends?
Even with the ceasefire, we have no work, no income, no food.
Please, don’t turn your backs on us , we still need you desperately.❤️‍🩹
tinyurl.com/HelpRamiFamily

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onion person @junlper.beer · 6d

it always blows my mind when these people act like “the left just calls everyone nazis” these days and it’s like no. we’re calling nazis nazis! there just happens to be a lot of them in and around the government these days!

Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 6d

More history from this Nazi adulated by the Trump team. These are explicit, proud Nazis who scream and cry and call every referee they can find when you quote their Nazism back to them.

Multiple tweets from Nazi Jack Posobiec in 2016 making "jokes" involving the Nazi code "1488."

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sasha ↙︎↙︎↙︎ 🌹🏴 @2damntrans.bsky.social · 6d

I don't understand how there are people who can understand that what is happening to Ukraine is unjust but at the same time don't care about Palestine, or even support the Israeli govt. You're either against imperialism and occupation, or you're not.

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Lute @banjocollie.bsky.social · 5d

They look like they could use some sunlight. Bit of ghostly bunch

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Sherry w/ a whY @justiceforall.bsky.social · 5d

Parents always say ‘if your friends jumped off a bridge, would you?’

Yet those same parents will use others as an excuse when it comes to our unnecessary, outdated & barbaric use of animals, because everyone else is still doing it, right? 😟

#OneBillionScreams #WakeUp

Graham Use ALT @grahamm.bsky.social · 6d

You prefer to see yourselves as doing nothing evil, nothing out of the ordinary, just behaving innocuously like everyone else. Yet simultaneously you subject us to gratuitous violence, mutilation & brutal massacres. You are perpetrators of atrocities.

We are #OneBillionScreams

Several one week old male calves hang upside down from their back legs on a conveyor in an Australian slaughterhouse, bleeding out after having had their throats slashed. The tiled walls are spattered with spilled infant blood.

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TrundlelinB @trundlelinb.bsky.social · 6d

#StopDeforestation🔥🌲🫁🌳🪚🪾🪓🪵🪹
#BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife 🌴🪔🛢️🌴🍦🌴🍫🌴💄🌴🧴
#makehalloweenpalmoilfree 🎃👻🎃👻🎃👻🎃👻
#Halloween 🎃
#GlobalBoiling🥵🔥🌍🔥
#KeepItInTheGround 🛢️⛽🪨⚒️👑⛏️💎
#stopgreenwashing 🍫🤢💄🤢🧴🤢
#ExctinctionIsForever 🦖🦕🦤...🦧🦜🐆🧑‍🍼??
#BiodiversityCrisis 🦧🌳🦍🐅🐘🦜🐝🦋
#DavidAttenborough💔 #GreenPlanet 🌍

Palm Oil Detectives | #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social · 6d

#News: Villagers in #Cameroon are fighting back as #palmoil giant #Socapalm invades and takes their ancestral land 🌴🚫. Police used tear gas on protesters, and the government is silent. @palmoildetect.bsky.social #BoycottPalmOil #HumanRights #WorkersRights news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

Palm oil giant Socapalm still planting on disputed land in Cameroon as villagers seek redress

A land dispute between residents of a Cameroonian village and a major palm oil company remains unresolved despite protests and requests for meetings with authorities, NGOs and community members say. Residents of Apouh village in the country’s Littoral region have long accused Socapalm, a subsidiary of Luxembourg-based multinational Socfin, of encroaching on their ancestral land […]

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 6d

Most Americans don’t want to kill other people.

But social conditioning is powerful. Propaganda is powerful.

Don’t make the mistake of thinking it couldn’t happen here.

This is why we have to defend trans people and immigrants. This is why we don’t cede ground.

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Josep Goded (New Main Account) @josepgoded2.bsky.social · 6d

Israel has unleashed around 200,000 tons of explosives on Gaza — the destructive force of nearly 13 Hiroshima-sized bombs.

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