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Jay Edidin

@edidin.bsky.social

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writer, anticarceral policy cryptid, knitter, comics-industry semi-expat, parent to small human, pirate king of the moon. queer, trans, brain wired weird. kind to reptiles. he/him. https://linktr.ee/edidin LOOKING FOR WORK.

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · Aug 28

when i say that i'm an abolitionist, i am talking primarily about state violence including policing and incarceration; but i'm also very down for getting rid of grammar police and horny jail

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 2h

Hey, Sydette needs help. She is one of the people who makes the world brighter and better simply by existing. If you have the capacity, please consider dropping her what you can.

🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah I really need help with this . I’m gonna go hyperventilate into a bag but this has gone bad quickly

🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · Apr 10

Welp it’s gotten real real if you can please help. If you can’t it’s really hard out here so share

gofund.me/a5ee0064

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 1d

Was just at a neighborhood school at dismissal. Hundreds of people with whistles surrounding the school and stationed down every block making sure ICE doesn’t snatch anyone. The same is happening at all the schools around here. I love my neighborhood and I love Chicago.

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 1d

6 hours left, please share ‼️ In January, support evaporated for these six families and pretty much all survival funds, even though the needs were still survival, and the asks our fundamental responsibility.

Don’t let that happen again. Food, shelter, more. 320/640

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

chuffed.org

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 1d

oh gd same

Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 1d

ideally he would be yelling it at Richard post-the latter's resurrection

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 1d

This is important and also a particularly hard line to walk when there are intrusive thoughts in the mix.

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 1d

We used an unknown donor, so I suppose it is technically possible!

Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 1d

I guess technically too deep a pair of cuts.

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 1d

As someone who does city-level policy work in NYC, I am right there with you.

Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 1d

Would a reletter of a Kingpin panel to have him saying "I love my dead gay son" be too deep a cut?

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 1d

@teaberryblue.net

Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 1d

Well, that, and per her memoir, which he encouraged everyone to read, they allegedly first had sex *in the mayor's office.*

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 1d

yessssssss

Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 1d

same and same!

Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 1d

Conversations with the toddler:

"What did you have for lunch today?"
...
"I don't have a mouth."

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 1d

what "oversexualizing" means in this context is particularly wild

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 1d

the windmills better be transgender too

Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, he failed the city; it's entirely possible that he succeeded by secret metrics he made up.

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 1d

Eric failed.

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 1d

"What is it going to take before you drop your hate and say, 'Listen, the guy did the job!' I'm not running anymore, so you no longer have to do this whole charade. I turned the city around, folks—come on! ... Stop coming up with all of these creative ways of saying 'Eric failed.' Eric didn't fail."

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 1d

Signal boost!

Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 1d

Are any of my followers lawyers (or know of lawyers!) who can discuss IP law around fan fiction and publishing? I have some questions about this practice for a piece I’d like to pitch

Stefan Mohamed @stefmowords.bsky.social · 1d

honestly why do we even bother

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know if the person who invented popping boba was some degree of AuDHD, but they were definitely an Ally.

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 2d

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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Chet Faliszek @chetsucks.com · 1d

Dear every fucking reporter

Trump is not cracking down on the left

Trump is making up lies to attack America

We don't need to hear from 10 citizens who have never been to Portland, give their opinion on the state of Portland - we need objective truth about what is happening you spineless fucks

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 3d

People ask what they can do in this moment: here's a crucially important election. There are 52,000 elections taking place next month, many of which will be determined by turnout.

Alex Burness @burness.bsky.social · 4d

Dispatch from Pennsylvania on a highly unusual state Supreme Court election—one of the few most consequential matters on the ballot anywhere in the country next month. New from me in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/pennsylvania...

Inside the Clunky Elections to Control Pennsylvania's Supreme Court - Bolts

The GOP is making an expensive push to end Democrats’ majority on a court at the center of election lawsuits, sparking a fledging campaign season with little precedent or template.

boltsmag.org

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 2d

Reminder that families in Gaza will need help even during a ceasefire ❤️

Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 3d

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Doaa. Doaa is the mother of 3 children Omar, 10, Yasmine, 8 and Youseff, 4 but she primarily started this fundraiser to help her sister Amal who lost a husband and son and is trying to support her children Hiam, 13, Omar, 12 and Jawad, 7.

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