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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 8h

Miss Major is an incalculable loss for the trans community and a reminder that our movement is always led by Black trans women. Always.

May we all prove to be worthy students of her example.

Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 12h

Rest in power, Miss Major.

www.advocate.com/news/miss-ma...

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, activist since Stonewall, has died

The LGBTQ+ community — and particularly the transgender community — has lost an iconic activist.

www.advocate.com

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 19h

Honestly, it needs to go further than this.

We need to confront the fact that democracy and wealth hoarding cannot coexist. Allowing people to amass the resources of a small state/country allows them to act as such, which is inimical to a shared society of “one person, one vote.”

John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 19h

“No Kings” is great , but we really don't get a functioning democracy back until we internalize, bone deep, the instinctive response to this and every other statement like it: “I don’t care what that rich guy thinks.”

Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 19h

Elon Musk calls for US troops to be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs: ‘It’s the only solution’

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Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social · 1d

If you've never been to Gaza, you won't appreciate what the yellow line means. Basically Israel now holds most of Gaza's small but important agricultural land. Continued Israeli occupation, which I judge the likely outcome, makes Gaza even more unliveable and more dependent on outside goods.

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 1d

Gaza Strip: Israeli army has withdrawn to the 'yellow line'

AFP Infographic with map of the Gaza Strip showing the 'yellow line' where the Israeli army has withdrawn its forces as of October 10, according to US envoy Steve Witkoff

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😈Kat😈 @bittersnurr.bsky.social · 1d

That being said as much as I was hoping that was like webtoon fast pass, but from what I can tell it's more expensive to unlock chapters and there will be no more free chapters after the two 😔

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 1d

Garlic Bread and Roses 🏴 @aceanarchist.bsky.social · 1d

Here is an excellent guide by @crimethinc.com about wearing goggles and masks to demonstrations. crimethinc.com/2020/09/02/a...

A Demonstrator’s Guide to Gas Masks and Goggles

Everything you need to know to choose the right gas mask or goggles to protect your eyes and lungs from chemical agents and projectiles.

crimethinc.com

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😈Kat😈 @bittersnurr.bsky.social · 1d

Two people got stabbed in my town today and my mom, who is the type of person who takes bear spray for the mall parking garage, said that it was disturbing how she was completely unfased even though that Never Happens Here because it seems trivial threat in comparison to ICE

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Rinzy 🔞 ➡️ ??? @rinzy.art · 1d

longbubu

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😈Kat😈 @bittersnurr.bsky.social · 1d

I said this on tumblr but the actual biggest tragedy of the labubu fad is the amount of waste the blind bags create and the fact that people are still selling the discards at almost full prices so they aren't really affordable to be modified into customs either.

We are deprived of longbubus.

Kim Hu @kim-hu.com · 2d

I'm a bit torn here bc the Labubu guy actually IS an indie toy designer, I saw his stuff at like WonderFes a decade ago. So he's not like say, Funko shit- So Labubus is one of the better fads because one of us made it big

But also he's probably plenty rich by now (I hope so he deserves to be)

KP @hagofbolding.bsky.social · Sep 8

What if instead of buying a labubu you bought something from a small artist instead

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 1d

Boss, we’ve got a problem. Users don’t want this stuff! They keep wanting to turn it off, even when we keep turning it back on!

Boss: I have an idea

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 3d

New from me on @autonomynews.co: The popular abortion pill resource Plan C relaunched this week with a new design that better displays the many, many options for medication abortion in all 50 states

Autonomy News @autonomynews.co · 3d

The online abortion pill guide @plancpills.bsky.social has been redesigned to make it even easier to learn where to get pills, including at no cost. The redesign comes as state officials have threatened investigations and potential lawsuits against the organization.

An Autonomy News exclusive:

Exclusive: Plan C Doubles Down on Abortion Pill Info Amid Political Attacks

The online abortion pill guide has been redesigned to make it even easier to learn where to get pills, including at no cost.

www.autonomynews.co

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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 3d

If this reminds you of an extremely famous book you might have read in high school… yes.

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 3d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 2d

This is incredibly powerful and resonant language, to the point of creating genuine emotional religious response in me (a Jewish person).

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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ΛTLΛS @atlasbun.bsky.social · 3d

Call your senator if you see them on this list and tell them no to KOSA.

Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 3d

#SaveSpeech
Democrats that need to be reprimanded for cosponsoring KOSA:

J. Hickenlooper- CO
A. Klobuchar- MN
B. Lujan- NM
B. Schatz- HI
M. Hirono- HI
G. Peters- MI
J. Fetterman- PA
R. Blumenthal- CT
C. Schumer- NY
M. Hassan- NH
M. Kelly- AZ
P. Welch- VT

[more names + links continued below]

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😈Kat😈 @bittersnurr.bsky.social · 2d

4Kids: "Tristan" is clearly a more commonly heard name than "Honda". Kids will be confused

Children:

Second panel of the Tumblr warrior cats meme about housecats knowing real words for human things consisting of a simple mspaint cat saying "You mean the fucking car"

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 2d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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😈Kat😈 @bittersnurr.bsky.social · 2d

Technically they did change it iirc but it was Pegasus J. Crawford or something instead of Maximilian Pegasus. But that is somehow like 10x funnier. They changed the NORMAL half of the name??? WHY IS THIS LOCALIZATION

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😈Kat😈 @bittersnurr.bsky.social · 2d

Fun thing to do, go back to the dual against Pegasus and switch to the og Japanese

...because the DUB does this to HIM half his catch phrases are a 1:1 exact adaptation. He sounds Like That because it's an american accent in japanese!! Broke my brain when i first saw it.

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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 3d

so Google just added a bunch (more) AI bullshit to Chrome

Go through these steps to disable it:

opus.ing/posts/how-to...

#chrome #aibullshit

How to Remove AI From Your Google Chrome Experience - Opus

Follow these steps to resist the AI-pocalypse in your everyday web browsing.

opus.ing

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BJ 🏳️‍⚧️ @bellamyj.blacksky.app · 3d

It is not too late for you to start wearing a mask in public.

It is not too late for you to start advocating clean air.

It is not too late for you to learn how to build your own air filters or to tap in with folks already doing so.

They want you sick. They want your neighbors sick. Tell them no.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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😈Kat😈 @bittersnurr.bsky.social · 3d

katisconfused.tumblr.com?source=share

Follow me on tumblr for a better experience tbh

I post things that are fun there

Welcome to my stupid blog

Kat | they/she | 30+ I have the humor of a 10 year old. All the things here will probably reflect...

katisconfused.tumblr.com

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😈Kat😈 @bittersnurr.bsky.social · 3d

Tumblr is a complete skeleton crew site too. Like bluesky is small, but small in a New way and small in a Dying way are very different in how invested they are in user experience and functionality

Cloudy 🔜 MFF @cloudchomps.bsky.social · 3d

it's crazy how bluesky and twitter have both had these problems and yet neither site has put out a heads up like this. i had no idea this was even occurring on Tumblr

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😈Kat😈 @bittersnurr.bsky.social · 3d

Idk i think Bill is a burden.

Like as in I found divorced white boomer women actully were the most passionate Hillary haters I knew in 2016, because they lost respect for her over failing to dump the cheating bastard. You can't be have a girlboss image and use your failhusband as a crutch.

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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 4d

I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News.

Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios.

www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

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nic.tattoos @nicterhorst.com · 3d

This means if you're in the UK and haven't signed this yet, please do. At 100k signatures they have to discuss it again.

Literally the least you can do!!

GamesMarket @gamesmarkt.bsky.social · 4d

UK Gouvernment: Payment Processors Can Ban NSFW Content
According to the UK treasury, payment processors are in the right and the gouvernment has no plans to step in. This puts it in direct contrast to what artists and the UK games industry have asked for.
www.gamesmarket.global/en/business/...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d

Perhaps the likes of Chappelle, Ansari and CK felt there was less at stake because, by their own estimation, they have already suffered cancellation. Except that their exile from public life appears to include fresh Netflix specials and Grammy awards. Louis CK should count himself lucky; if he’d been caught with his dick in his hand in Najd, rather than Colorado, he may well have retained neither of those appendages (punitive limb amputation is an actual thing).

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