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Chris two moss

@christoptomus.bsky.social

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Beardo and Queerdo 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 🇲🇽 Philly, people, pets, and plants. Trans rights are human rights. He/Him.I share my own and other artists'art.

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Chris two moss @christoptomus.bsky.social · Mar 15

I love to repost your art. I will most likely only post art that has alt text.
You can make your settings remind you to use alt text by hitting the home button > accessibility > require alt text on images. If I really like something , I will add alt text to your image in a quote. I block AI images.

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cambrian epic wet animal @dinoserious.bsky.social · 5h

#invertober 11, dark fishing spider 🎣

#invertober2025

symmetrical blocky art of a dark fishing spider with stylized patterning, colored like black on red greek pottery. there is a black border on the image with a greek-esque choppy line pattern

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 11h

Making people afraid to be affiliated with antifascism—making people afraid to be associated with groups and people that actively oppose fascism—is some bleak shit.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 8h

I am happy that more people see that the police state is a BIPARTISAN project.

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!CHRiS! Jones ✪ @mistajonz.bsky.social · 10h

✨Go Go Power⚡Rangers✨

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 10h

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 11h

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Jen Larkin @petticoatdespot.bsky.social · 9h

Sex ed for young children focuses on teaching kids what touching is inappropriate and what to do about it, which *fights* child sex abuse. LGBTQ+ inclusion fights bullying.

These bigots call it "grooming" to teach kids to not bully and to report sexual abuse.

That's what's really sick.

Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 9h

One of the nastiest things from these nasty pieces of work has been the lie that kidlit creatives, teachers & librarians are somehow grooming kids.

Statistically, a parent, guardian, or other relative is more likely to be the perpetrator: www.nationalchildrensalliance.org/media-room/n...

National Statistics on Child Abuse - National Children's Alliance

A look at the scope of the problem of child abuse, including how it impacts kids, where and how it happens, and how CACs help.

www.nationalchildrensalliance.org

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Chris two moss @christoptomus.bsky.social · 11h

I rarely read King because I am a huge, scaredy cat when it comes to horror books, and he makes me look over my shoulder. But I love the Dark Tower books, which I view as some great writing about addiction. I haven't seen the movie on purpose.

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 11h

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 · 12h

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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Astrid @black-stardust.bsky.social · 13h

Until then, they will just hide in their doomsday bunkers while less fortunate people die.

Astrid @black-stardust.bsky.social · 1d

According to Jaron Lanier (one of the big minds behind virtual reality), many of Silicon Valley's wealthy already fled to New Zealand and went into hiding back when COVID broke out.

So this seems to be their plan for the next big outbreak of whatever, as well.

(source: www.gq.com/story/jaron-...)

A screenshot from the linked interview:

The pandemic had only complicated his relationship with his peers, he said. Many people in Silicon Valley were fleeing, to panic bunkers and second homes and survival compounds in New Zealand. Some of them were even inviting Lanier along. “A few people have called me from time to time and said, ‘Hey, you have to get in on our New Zealand thing,’ ” Lanier confided. “I'm like, ‘No.…’ I just feel like, if we can fuck it up here, why can't we fuck up New Zealand? What's better about New Zealand than here? It's even riskier for earthquakes, so the only thing about it that's inviting is we haven't fucked it up yet. This idea that you can fuck up the world, but then there'll be some part of it that you haven't fucked up, is wrong. If you fuck up the world, you fuck up the whole world, you know?”

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Matthew Highton @matthighton.bsky.social · 11h

Oldie but a goodie, Spice Girls Dune.

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Chris two moss @christoptomus.bsky.social · 12h

Ishmael's ass is canonically soft.

Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 12h

He put his hand upon the sleeper’s rear, as though feeling if it was soft enough; and then, without more ado, sat quietly down there.

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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 15h

Seriously, Judges *do no do things like this*

They don't give their opinion to the media

They don't criticize how SCOTUS works

This is them breaking the emergency glass, folks
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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Madeline Ashby @madelineashby.bsky.social · 12h

Ari Aster was right, etc.

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 13h

And this:
92% of the growth in the entire country this year has been data centers. And some of that is "circular deals" that dont involve actual money

fortune.com/2025/10/07/d...

Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says | Fortune

Is a U.S. without data centers a country without GDP growth?

fortune.com

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 15h

every big AI pitch is like “what if we took away your means of survival and devalued all your skills to make stonks go up temporarily? You’d like that wouldn’t you?”

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 16h

Important piece by Prof. Kate Andrias. This is why treating SCOTUS as the only word on the Constitution gives away our power as citizens.

As I frequently say “we are founders and framers” of the next iteration of democracy in this country.
GIFT LINK
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Opinion | The Constitution Doesn’t Belong to Trump or the Supreme Court

www.nytimes.com

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 18h

You can’t hate fascists and use AI slop generators. They’re the same thing: total destruction of truth at scale.

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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 14h

Remember that all of this is in defense of a detention center where people are being held in horrible conditions after being kidnapped off the street for no reason.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 14h

Again today, local police outside Broadview just aggressively arrested more protesters. Tough to tell exactly how many, but looks like 3-4 people were just detained.

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 1d

They aren’t afraid of “ANTIFA.”

They’re afraid of accountability, of people who document what they do, and of a public that can still recognize fascism when it sees it.

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 4d

The Squirrel of the Day for October 7, 2025 with a sweet double-acorn score #sqrlpix

reddish gray squirrel with two acorns in mouth

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debbspook @debbshock.blue · 14h

despite all my rage
just a smol bacteriophage

a bacteriophage that I put an emoji on .

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Adam 🪿 @vexnir.bsky.social · 15h

That’s such a fluffy, sleepy pumpkin 🧡

#art #cozyart #caturday

Watercolor illustration of a bunch of colorful pumpkins, with a beige striped cat sleeping on top of them curled up into a ball, slightly resembling the round pumpkins itself.

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Chris two moss @christoptomus.bsky.social · 14h

When this came out, my then Russian boyfriend used to quote it in a thick Russian accent. It's forever burned into my brain.

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Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 15h

"Thanks to those conversations, the investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that because of it, his grim prediction may not have been cynical enough."