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Mik | Graphic Designer + Strategist @oksoboom.blacksky.app · 5h

The world will have you think you haven’t done enough when you never even asked to exist.

Be gentle with you ❤️

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Mik | Graphic Designer + Strategist @oksoboom.blacksky.app · 5h

Be kind to yourself always but especially these days. If you haven’t been able to focus or execute like you usually do, give yourself grace.

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Margaret Cahill @margaretcahillbsky.bsky.social · 5h

I can't quite believe it but Breda O'Brien has written a column I agree with.

"The priorities should surely be diverting people from crime in the first place, an increase in community-based sanctions and strengthening supports to lower the numbers who reoffend"

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Breda O'Brien: What is the justice system for if we don’t believe in rehabilitation?

Serving time in prison should not be the start of a longer sentence of stigma and shame

www.irishtimes.com

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 18h

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Microplastics Spookmelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 10h

today in "predicted by 30 Rock"

Edie Falco on 30 Rock:
I MISSED THE VOTE ON A BILL TO LEGALIZE RECREATIONAL WHALE TORTURE.

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Strange Days at Blake Hol(e)sey High 👻 🍑 @reactionordinary.bsky.social · 3d

The RIAA was suing teenagers. We had to sit through ⬇️ this shit anytime we wanted to watch a DVD. A whole generation shamed for using Limewire and torrents. Only for these silicone valley assholes to now find copyright infringement a necessary evil they shouldn’t have to answer for

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 9h

A policy expert described Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s push in favor of private schools as a “great American heist,” funneling money from public schools: “It’s a strategic theft of the future of our country, our kids and our democracy.”

By @megomatz.bsky.social & @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

www.propublica.org

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Birthright Citizen @hotfountainpen.bsky.social · 8h

this didn't start in 2023

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 8h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/w...

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Birthright Citizen @hotfountainpen.bsky.social · 8h

that's Economics 101

Spookyanna 🎃 @uhnopenottoday.blacksky.app · 8h

Am I evil for thinking the kind of person to pay for this deserves what they get? Lmfao

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Birthright Citizen @hotfountainpen.bsky.social · 10h

*laughs in Jamaican family* #iykyk

Earn @nregib.bsky.social · 10h

First Joy ain’t Joy now Jerry ain’t Jerry

a woman is holding a piece of paper and says it was all a lie

Alt: it was all a lie gif from love & hip hop

media.tenor.com

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 10h

I will say one thing and then I will let it go I promise but (as a Chicagoan, I admit!) it bothers me how much more coverage Portland is getting than Chicago, when the bulk of the violence and also the bulk of everyday resistance is in Chicago.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland thing gives me some hope because we, as a society, glorify violence because our government IS violence. But the cycle of retaliation can never stop without some really intense problem solving and big picture work.

To see de-escalation with frog suits, of all things.

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 10h

For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.

If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 15h

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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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 20h

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

www.pbs.org

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Birthright Citizen @hotfountainpen.bsky.social · 10h

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static klinger @jessespector.com · 5d

this is the face of a man who stopped masturbating thanks to kellogg’s corn flakes

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 5d

You just got beat by a time traveler from the 1910s

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Jason Coupet @professajay.bsky.social · 11h

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 12h

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 · 13h

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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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 19h

We have the timidity of countless corporate and university GCs to thank for the fact DEI is treated as though it were illegal.

Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 20h

lol gentle reminder that DEI is not illegal. Supporting marginalized groups is not illegal. Anyone reneging on support is making a CHOICE to do so.

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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 15h

Hattie T. Scott Peterson. In 1946 1st African-American woman to earn bachelor's degree in civil engineering. 1947 Survey & cartographic #engineer for US Geological Survey. 1954 1st woman engineer to join local US Army Corps of Engineers. #WomenInSTEM b. #OTD 11 Oct 1913 bit.ly/3hKbQLJ

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18h

This murder is why we still have to say BLACK LIVES MATTER

Kingsley Bimpong should be alive.

A.J. Lagoe @ajlagoe.bsky.social · 2d

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment. Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours www.kare11.com/mobile/artic...

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours

www.kare11.com

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Birthright Citizen @hotfountainpen.bsky.social · 15h

🤣🤣🤣

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Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 17h

You know what, let's do the Annual Mister Global National Costume thread tonight after all. Usual rules apply - this is all in fun, this isn't about the contestants looks or making fun of them, it's about the costumes and appreciating them (or, you know, making fun of them...)

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 16h

No mugshot. Lol

Thad Ochocinco, Active Listener @thadochocinco.bsky.social · 18h

From the people that repeatedly shoot at the Emmitt Till Memorial Marker comes Brent Jones, who was arrested for pissing in the reflecting pool and destroying the eternal flame at Martin Luther King's burial site www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.’s Atlanta burial site destroyed

Police say the man also urinated in the reflective pool.

www.wsbtv.com

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Birthright Citizen @hotfountainpen.bsky.social · 15h

I have. As a manager. Yes, I kicked them tf out.

✬Communiggty Centric✬ @urbanaudacity.blacksky.app · 15h

I’m glad that I’ve never run into somebody making content in the grocery store

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