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Danielle Gembala @ddmgembala.bsky.social · 1m

Some days gallows humor is all I have.

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Decolonise EVERYTHING 💜 #StrikeForMutualAid @hoydenspark.bsky.social · 6h

SO MANY WAYS TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE 🥳🥳🥳

Please act in solidarity, and pass this on, at least! Britt has NOTHING for shelter today! 0/650

+Share if you can't spare
+Reply & repost to uplift this #MutualAid request
💕💸Send what you can to #KeepFolksAlive

#MABoost #HelpFolksLive2025 #BIPOCMA

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Ways to help an unhoused, multiply marginalized, & multiply disabled Black femme survive+thrive in a 🔵 state & get back on their feet w/ their cat:

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Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 27m

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

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Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 21h

My friend Sascha is a professional musician and he's lost a viola bow on the way to Heathrow. Please signal boost to help him get it back.

Lost viola bow on the way from Honor Oak Station to Heathrow Terminal 2. The bow slid from its bow case somewhere along the way, possibly on the train. TFL contacted already.
It weighs 68.2 grams and has got a stamped DODD next to the frog. If any info on this, please pm me.

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Danielle Gembala @ddmgembala.bsky.social · 6m

I heard they arrested his girlfriend, though.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 6m

I hope Orwell rises from the grave soon.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 10m

The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has launched investigations against school districts for teaching lessons on systemic racism and hosting empowerment gatherings for students of color.

Five Ways the Department of Education Is Upending Public Schools

The Trump administration has made a rapid succession of hires and decisions at the Department of Education that could spur profound changes in how schools operate and children learn. Here’s what to kn...

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Danielle Gembala @ddmgembala.bsky.social · 6m

Private land easement survey.

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 10h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 10h

"The chancellor approved it"

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Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · 15m

It's why I keep saying the zombie apocalypse is real.

Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 5d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Heather Wallace @burntcopper.bsky.social · 2h

Have we considered that the horrible goose is also a spirit of vengeance?

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R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD) @rsagarcia.bsky.social · 15m

Unpopular opinion: Billionaires are pyramid schemes foisted on the public by disconnected from reality, growth obsessed stock markets, VCs & 1%ers.

Nobody's business is worth more than the land value of the planet. But they can scam real fortunes out of govs etc if they claim that. That's the goal.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 3d

The Halloween Humboldt Squid has arrived! The only way to get these stickers is to join my Patreon. Help support open science and get some jaunty ocean stickers.

These stickers will go out Monday, October 20th, so sign up before then!

patreon.com/Andrew_Thaler

Three stickers featuring a Humboldt Squid with an orange hat.

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Rob from Chicago (Sleeper Service) @robfromchicago.com · 2d

Portland right now.

Kermit the Frog sitting in his swamp and paying his banjo, singing:

Fuck you I won't do what you tell me Fuck you I won't do what you tell me Fuck you I won't do what you tell me

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 1h

The aid trucks Israel wasn't blocking

Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 9h

Hundreds of aid trucks carrying food, medicine, and fuel await entry into Gaza at the Rafah crossing with Egypt under the ceasefire.

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Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah "the cops" as a group, are like "the Republicans": your dad might believe maybe some of them were sort-of okay back in the 20th century, but every single move they've made since then has been toward authoritarian brutality, they have gotten Worse in every way, every chance they got.

Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 16h

It is imperative that you do not depend on the police to help you or take our side during clashes with the fascist Federals.

Police see a protest and know that they hate every person in that protest. It doesn't matter what it's for or who you are - they know their job is to smash you.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 17h

Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.

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Danielle Gembala @ddmgembala.bsky.social · 21m

Instead of Philosopher Kings we get rule by Dunning Kruger Kings.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 4h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11h

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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Not Your Negress @notyournegro.blacksky.app · 1d

I can’t wait to see streets full of frogs and stuff. I really do think this is a fantastic plan.

Imagine watching them harm a bunch of peaceful frogs on global television. The absurdity of it all would be undeniable.

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Polly Atkin @pollyrowena.bsky.social · 4d

This #overdiagnosis discourse is dangerous and will be deadly to many - not just those with ME who have been at the mercy of quacks like Wesseley and O'Sullivan for years -
but everyone who the govt wishes to remove support from and has to find a way to claim are not actually disabled to do so.

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 4d

Just as we are beginning to understand the biochemical basis of this horrendous condition, the government appoints the man perhaps most responsible for the mischaracterisation of ME/CFS – Simon Wesseley - to its *overdiagnosis* commission. www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/controv...

Controversial professor to investigate overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence for Labour

Get the benefits you're entitled to: help with personal independence payment (PIP), universal credit (UC), employment and support allowance (ESA),disability living allowance (DLA). Claims, assessments...

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camcantanything @camcantanything.bsky.social · 4d

I need those pins😍😍

🌸Bibi🌸♿ (formerly bibicosplays) @bibiblossoms.bsky.social · 7d

It costs 0$ to Repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale.

I sell pins, compression gloves, artist gloves, binders, hip braces, wrist braces, compression socks, walking sticks, elbow braces, bags, back braces & more!

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Spoons: Lavender background
Hunger Scale: Red background
Migraine Scale: Blue background
Speaking vs Non Speaking: Green background

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Elbow braces in the strawberry, Galaxy and Bats patterns

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mohammed🇵🇸 @mohammed1-05.bsky.social · 7h

Mohammed is desperately trying to gather enough funds to get his family out of Palestina. Can we help them all out at all?

You know the drill. Donate only if you can. Spread the word if you cannot.
#GazaAid
gofund.me/fec526f5

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AjiWings @ajijaakwe.bsky.social · 1h

Dog peeps! Not local, but another urgent need.

It's for my friend Jen's brother and his family. This is their family dog, and he's ina bad way. He needs specialized surgery to save his life, and they're already out 4 figures just trying to get the DX.

Donate here: spot.fund/cr84cxmsc.

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Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 1h

Luffy. Crown of Thorns

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Danielle Gembala @ddmgembala.bsky.social · 29m

Rule by Dunning Kruger Kings.

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Free Łink - Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 3h

I know I harp on this a lot, but Judith Butler as points out in "Who's Afraid of Gender?", sex has a biological *component* but what that biology *means* is determined by culture. Humans can and do change sex.

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Free Łink - Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 3h

of course, science says no such thing: every biologist I know who isn't a bigot knows sex is phenomenally complicated in the non-human world. Human sex is complicated too, but with the added fun of culture, which defines what our sex *means*.

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