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Miss Teak @lilmischrysalis.bsky.social · 2h

Love y’all, eikuofolks.

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c'more @cmore.bsky.social · 1h

shout out to the pickle diva

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Laura 🤸☀️🍉 @buttergenie.bsky.social · 33m

So grateful for this community & for Tia. In light of this I just want to say id love to reconnect with eikuofolks. Even those to those who I was not close with before, please know I consider you all my extended family. I’m grateful to love and grieve with you all in equal measure, now & forever.

nahhhman @noman.bsky.social · 11h

Reminder for all that knew her that tonight is the second gathering

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nahhhman @noman.bsky.social · 11h

Reminder for all that knew her that tonight is the second gathering

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Laura 🤸☀️🍉 @buttergenie.bsky.social · 11h

I mean coming from a candidate who just months ago said he was the Only person who Could stand up to the president, this is just fucking bonkers

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 11h

Andrew Cuomo is incapable of speaking clearly and directly about Trump’s authoritarianism.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 20h

we need to abolish this shit

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 22h

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 18h

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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Maureen Jice @jane.meangirls.online · 15h

If democrats weren’t also so married to nakedly corrupt insider trading like the stuff done by Pelosi they could run on anti-corruption and win in landslides.

Daniel A Collier, PhD @dcollier74.bsky.social · 1d

Man what a lucky guess.........

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 1d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Blue sky nice guy @rajandelman.bsky.social · 1d

Blood seems more than a fair price for the things I have read

Kari | ❄️Cryo Support Character❄️ @kawree.bsky.social · 1d

Good news everyone! AO3 says non-monetary commissions are A-OK! Barter the shit out of your fics, gang, go ham, and you can claim and advertise this in your posted works!! Blood is a TOS-acceptable currency and this delights me.
#AO3 #fanfiction #charity #exhanges #donation

#alt4me

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Laura 🤸☀️🍉 @buttergenie.bsky.social · 1d

DIANE KEATON?!!!!????!??!?

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 2d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 2d

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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Ash G. (the G is for Ghost) @kilomonster.art · 2d

I will gladly draw all of the frogs as a symbol for the movement, explicitly to take them back from the fuckers who co opted Pepe for their nazi shit.

A cheery, cute frog looking up and flipping off the camera while saying “fuck off, fascists.”

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 3d

I’m not kidding when I say these weird ass costumes and antics are actually an extremely effective tactic from a media standpoint bc when enough people do them, the media can’t fully scrub them out

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 3d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 5d

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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d.ly @dly.bsky.social · 5d

I think it's very cool that we're able to make each other laugh

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Peter Butler @peter-butler.bsky.social · 5d

Bloomberg research found wholesale electricity up ~270% in areas near data centers

It doesn't seem like nearly enough people are taking it seriously

One A.I. image isn't too much energy, but 5 million videos? Per day/hour/minute whatever. It's not sustainable

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring

Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

www.bloomberg.com

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Abby Denton @abbydenton.com · 5d

I think if you work for ICE you are probably not going to see heaven, but there is still time for redemption if you start breaking computers and amassing evidence to prosecute your coworkers en masse. Betraying your coworkers is, in fact, the least evil thing you could do now.

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 5d

I wish the headline made clear that she's donating the money which is cool and good and if there's no room for forgiveness then there's no room for people to do better

paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 6d

Jessica Kirson says she regrets performing at the Riyadh Comedy Festival and has donated her fee to a human rights organization.
Good on her for this
www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/10/out-...

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Nikita Gill @nikitagill.bsky.social · 5d

I feel like the conflation of celebrity with artist has led to a lot of incredibly boring people with 0 courage becoming famous and endless hot takes being posted about these boring people.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 5d

I grew up going to Zabar's. So many of my childhood memories center around the best lox in NYC (which is saying something). With Saul Zabar's passing today, the Upper West Side has lost a legend who turned his parent's humble store into a culinary institution.

Saul Zabar, Smoked Fish Czar of Upper West Side, Dies at 97

www.nytimes.com

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 6d

😭

IG newberlinlibrary

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Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇯 @kevincarson1.bsky.social · 7d

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border ino.to/agDxSX2

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border

“We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."

ino.to

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