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Emrysmyrddin they/them

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militant lefty enbie cockroach with a big gay agenda. #actuallyautistic. they/them. genHex. super saiyan snowflake ❄️ definitely by now too elder Millenial for this shit

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Emrysmyrddin they/them @emrysmyrddin.bsky.social · Jul 12

remember, kids; CEOs are just resource-hoarders, but disaster bisexual bloodied chaos clowns fight for we the people

#AEWAllInTexas

a woman in a wig is standing in front of an aew tnt sign

ALT: a woman in a wig is standing in front of an aew tnt sign

media.tenor.com

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Céline Extenso @celinextenso.bsky.social · 1h

Marie"Claire : Le cancer du sein, le courage des hommes. 💀

Ok bah parlons-en du courage des hommes :
Après l'annonce d'un cancer, 20,8 % de femmes sont quittée par leur mec.
Seuls 2,9% des hommes sont quittés après un diagnostic.
Le courage des hommes. 🚮

Post Insta Marie-Claire, photo en noir et blanc un homme torse nu porte dans ses bras une femme en culotte noire. Il a le regard droit et valeureux, elle a la tête enfouie dans le cou de l'homme.
Texte : "Ce portrait saisit un instant suspendu, où l’amour et le soutien prennent toute leur force. Elle révèle ce lien profond que la maladie ne peut effacer, ces gestes silencieux, ces regards porteurs d’émotion, cette force invisible qui éclaire les jours sombres."⁣
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Joséphine Neuville a photographié Aurélie, touchée par un cancer du sein. À ses côtés, Jérôme, son compagnon. "Il est cette présence constante, discrète mais essentielle, qui soutient et accompagne sans relâche", écrit la photographe qui fait partie des 40 finalistes de la 14ème édition du concours Pink Ribbon Award, concours photo engagé à l'initiative d'Estée Lauder et de l'association Ruban Rose qui réunit des professionnel·le·s du monde de la photographie ainsi que des acteur·rice·s engagé·e·s dans la lutte contre les cancers du sein. ⁣⁣
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Cette image raconte "une histoire d’amour, de lutte, de tendresse et d’espoir", nous dit Joséphine Neuville qui veut, au travers cet instantané noir et blanc, "reconnaître la dignité et la beauté de celles et ceux qui avancent ensemble, malgré l’épreuve."⁣
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Photo @josephine_neuville_photographe ⁣
Avec @esteelauder @rubanroseofficiel⁣
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#cancerdusein #octobrerose #pinkribbon #breastcancer #cancer⁣

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Marc Daniels @marcd72.bsky.social · 1h

It’s worse than simply being against. They don’t understand what the degree is. They think of it as learning the language, as migrants might.

These are not intelligent people.

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 1h

The party once led by a novelist (Disraeli), a published philosopher (Balfour) and a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (Churchill), as well as someone who annually devoured Austen and Trollope (Macmillan), is now against English degrees.

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antifa’s sleepiest soldier @emilydwarfield.bsky.social · 7h

The only reason this isn’t considered trafficking via fraud is because crime is something poor people do

Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 9h

Fun fact about the Salvation Army: they use a form of substance use treatment called work therapy. Oh, and by treatment, I mean they have people who have been convicted of drug charges work for their stores & warehouses in exchange for room, board, around a $1 a week, and minimal actual therapy.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 13h

It’s pronounced cyclist.

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Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 15h

kidnapping

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 15h

For those that don't know "nearly killed me" is "being hit with a thrown milkshake."

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Folks playing some thematic standoff music now.

Really just cannot express how non-threatening this small group of neighbors appears at the moment, and how absurd this massive police presence appears in comparison.

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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 1d

The war on women continues to be waged for the good of all women by guy who sexually harasses women in collaboration w guy who threatens his partner with a gun. Many are saying their denials are credible, though @wonkette.bsky.social appears determined to demonstrate rude skepticism of our heroes.

Turns Out Texas Cops Were Not Surveilling Suspected Abortion-Haver For Her Own Safety After All

Court documents show they had originally hoped to charge her with abortion.

www.wonkette.com

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 1d

State troopers just dragged three people out of the crowd.

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Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat @shaidorsai.bsky.social · 1d

I genuinely love how any doofus with an LED projector and an image/video editing app can do culture jamming.

Graffiti and urban art is cool, too, but having a portable and editable display is aces.

Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 1d

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 2d

Accepting this as an argument means accepting that, as an educator, your primary commitment is not to educating your students, or to propagating knowledge of your subject, but to finding and securing new markets for products in whose success your employers (or their bosses) have some kind of stake.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 2d

The basic structure of so much commentary, some in the guise of academic study, reduces to:

(1) generative AI products are detrimental to the goals of education

(2) therefore, the goals of education must change.

Without the tacit axiom that AI has authority behind it, that just doesn’t follow.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 2d

This also indicates the essential dishonesty of saying “it’s just a tool.” A hammer is a tool. Nobody writes about the “inevitability” of hammers. Nobody has ever studied the harmful effects of hammers on learning and concluded that teachers must all hit their students with hammers “responsibly.”

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine studying a technology whose presence in the classroom is so detrimental to the development of writing and research skills (including even the will to know the sources behind claims!) that mitigating its effects becomes a central goal of course design, and concluding with tips on adopting it.

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Emrysmyrddin they/them @emrysmyrddin.bsky.social · 1d

The chilling effect of the Trump administration. He doesn’t even need to be in the fucking room.

The 51st @51st.news · 1d

"Something interesting happened in the D.C. Council on Tuesday. But there’s only so much I can tell you about it — because much of it happened behind closed doors."

Don't miss @maustermuhle.bsky.social's Wilson Building Bulletin from this week:

Wilson Building Bulletin: Curfews and closed doors

The D.C. Council rejected a bill extending the youth curfew. Until it didn't.

51st.news

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1d

this is correct. and while you would get a nontrivial one off sum from a billionaire tax (not enough for a welfare state, but a lot), the ongoing point of that tax would be prevent billionaires from existing

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 2d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Lynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 1d

Do not let them take your freedoms without a fight.

Show up, be loud, protect each other. If we don't show up now, we'll never have another chance.

This is our country, we we're not going to let them take it.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

The Speaker of the House is telling the Fox News audience that a peaceful demonstration by Americans on the National Mall will actually be a gathering of organizations the administration has designated as violent terrorists.

Seems bad?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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Emrysmyrddin they/them @emrysmyrddin.bsky.social · 1d

Drivetime’s gone straight to your head, dude. Picking up Theresa’s dry-cleaning was one thing, but carrying the handbag of a dimwitted ‘gaffeproof’ fascist wannabe like Badenoch? Bit pathetic.

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Mark 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦 @quigonsmith.bsky.social · 4d

“When Labour last left office, this was an attractive country to live and work in. After 14 years of us being in power, it’s now a shithole.

Vote for us so we can fix it.”

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 4d

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

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Sam and King Lucy the 1st @kinglucythe1st.bsky.social · 3d

Come on Lewis. You are better than this. It was an exercise in pretending she (and the Tories) hadn't caused the problems she was pledging to fix.

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🥟🤍 @radicaldumpling.bsky.social · 2d

19/ In occupied territories, Soviet monuments destroyed during Ukraine’s post-USSR era of independence have been rebuilt, while Ukrainian memorials are erased. School curricula reintroduce Soviet-era “patriotic education.” Streets revert to their Soviet names. This is not simple innocent nostalgia.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Trump will just have to keep murdering fishermen until you stupid jerks give him the peace prize

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SEEN Police Official Open Public Network @seenpoliceuk.bsky.social · 2d

@neilmackay.bsky.social
These figures are a f*cking fraud.

For years now the police have run a secret policy to refuse to deal with any report of online crimes motivated by hatred of trans people.

Trans people have been fully aware of this, and have lost all trust in the police and

SEEN Police Official Open Public Network @seenpoliceuk.bsky.social · 2d

SEEN Police UK state the drop in number of hate crimes against trans people is fraud, as GMP are taken to Judicial Review after a secret policy of refusing to deal with ANY reports of hate crimes against trans people is obtained.

How far does this go? This ‘data’ is shit

www.gov.uk/government/s...

Hate crime, England and Wales, year ending March 2025

www.gov.uk

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