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Jen Dick @jendick.bsky.social · 53m

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ORCTOBERFEST @voltzyr.bsky.social · 3h

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Jen Dick @jendick.bsky.social · 56m

Sydette's done so much free education here and on Twitter...and even if she hadn't she deserves support, so please donate if you can, share if you can't

🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 1h

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

Jen Dick @jendick.bsky.social · 2h

This is eugenics

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 5h

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 6h

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Jen Dick @jendick.bsky.social · 3h

And like, what are these edgelords even doing? In my experience, nothing but running their mouth

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 5h

Listen—it's all connected. If you oppose $50B of our taxes to ICE to abuse people in the USA—but support $38B of our taxes to fund Israel's military occupation of Palestine as they abuse Palestinians far worse than how ICE abuses Americans—then you don't actually oppose ICE abusing people in the USA

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brainfrog👩‍🦼🫁 @brainfrog.bsky.social · 2d

Pre-op done. Bc of my chronic respiratory failure, I'll likely remain intubated in the ICU for a bit after surgery. Also pretty high risk for rebound pulmonary emboli & hemorrhage. But! I need the surgery🤷‍♀️

At $4149/$6K with $1851 remaining. Surgery is Oct. 23rd. Any continued help is appreciated!

brainfrog👩‍🦼🫁 @brainfrog.bsky.social · Aug 28

Apologies, somehow the original was deleted. I'm undergoing my 3rd urgent, non-elective revision spinal fusion this Oct to replace & extend my hardware. I'd appreciate any help in achieving this goal to ensure I have the resources necessary to recover safely & fully.
www.gofundme.com/f/leeanns-3r...

Donate to Lee-Ann's 3rd Spine Surgery Survival Fund, organized by Lee-Ann SB

Hey folks, my name is Lee-Ann. I'm a thirtysomething living in Ontario, Canada… Lee-Ann SB needs your support for Lee-Ann's 3rd Spine Surgery Survival Fund

www.gofundme.com

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Jen Dick @jendick.bsky.social · 3h

That U2 wrote an entire song about MLK and turn around to support genocide, dodge taxes, etc is like peak Whiteness

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Jen Dick @jendick.bsky.social · 3h

because I'm petty like that, I love that he's an immigrant Muslim dude, although that also makes me terrified for him, his family & Muslims in the US generally.

It takes bravery & character to care about other people. It's a tedious & difficult thing, but what the hell else is society even FOR?

Jen Dick @jendick.bsky.social · 3h

This is who the Dem establishment fear. And they should, because this is actually what the base wants: a pol with actual humanistic values and isn't ashamed of them.

That billionaires are fighting so hard against him shows that they really are against any sort of quality of life for everyone else.

Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 6h

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC

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Jen Dick @jendick.bsky.social · 17h

This is beyond bad, but something easy you, right now, to protect your community? Mask. Everywhere. Normalize it. It will save lives. Maybe yours!

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 19h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 1d

is it not weird that every day there’s a new video of anonymous masked men having the time of their lives beating/shooting/disappearing people and the dem response from the top down is “republicans want to double your health insurance premiums”

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

Long Covid is more prevalent in children in the US now than asthma. We are fucking destroying the next generations w/our behavior. (And adults.)

If you do care about resisting eugenics maybe start by not being the vector that disables a kid in RFK’s US. That is not too much to ask. It really isn’t.

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 1d

Meanwhile in #Portland

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 1d

Who Link was here & how he formed site culture, insisting on alt text & accessibility & disability justice, insisting on standing with trans people, mutual aid, irreverent shitposting, shows exactly that this culture of early bluesky that forged the platform is the opposite of what the team wants.

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 1d

"[W]hen 'bullets crashed through the window and hit Miguel,' he turned to the 18 year-old boy sitting next to him in the van and said, 'I don't think I'm going to make it, get underneath me. Let me shield you.'"
#Texas #USA #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

In Dallas, Organizers Mourn the Immigrant Victims of Recent ICE Shooting

At a vigil outside city hall last week, advocates gathered to “center the victims” and to condemn the “dehumanization” of migrants by the federal government.

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Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · 1d

This is what people are ACTUALLY affirming when they say "it's here to stay."

The lack of consent machine will become mandatory in order to further surveil us and prop up their profits, whether or not anyone wants the slop it produces, or to have their community devastated by its resource demands.

Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 1d

“Thiel says an Antichrist will emerge who will create a one-world government on the promise of something like stopping nuclear, AI or climate-induced disaster.
That figure, would curtail individual freedoms and halt humanity's shot at a future innovation that would avoid Armageddon, Thiel believes”

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 1d

News: I have obtained full transcripts of Peter Thiel's Secret Antichrist Lectures (as have multiple other journalists).

They were supposed to be embargoed until 9 a.m. tomorrow, but Reuters has a story up. (They may have gotten them from a different source)

www.reuters.com/world/us/pet...

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 1d

See also: "Why isn't anyone DOING ANYTHING"

Translation: "I'm not doing anything"

People are doing things. They are doing a LOT. It's up to you to plug in and participate.

The Enigma of Amandagara Fault @amandalafrenais.com · 5d

"why is nobody talking abou--" EVERYONE is talkin about it BRO. You just never stick around to listen to ANYONE ELSE, you're just here to TALK

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perfect knight @shiningknightx.bsky.social · 2d

"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore

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Jen Dick @jendick.bsky.social · 1d

I started keeping a "bless your heart" list to try to exorcise some of the wild petty shit people try to hand me & it's helping reframe the whole interaction. Some people are not well (neither am I sometimes) so now I can just see these pathetic attempts at dominance for what they are & move on

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Erin Overbey @erinoverbey.bsky.social · 1d

the group & people most deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize this year are the Palestinian journalists in Gaza, who kept courageously telling the world the truth no matter the cost #nobelpeaceprize @nobelprize.bsky.social

Illustration of some of the Palestinian journalists in Gaza

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Jen Dick @jendick.bsky.social · 2d

We literally process stimuli differently, think differently, frequently relate to people differently, and boy howdy, do people hate folks who are different and have different needs.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 3d

lately i've been thinking of this as platform logic.

replacing unpredictable human connections with fully controlled, fully visible (to the platform) transactions **is the point of this approach**

Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 14d

You don't have a delivery guy from the pizza place, you have an app

You don't talk to customer service you open a ticket on zendesk

platform logic works by replacing direct human relationships with mediated transactions

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 3d

This South Side Weekly report on the Chicago building raid is well worth reading. Most striking to me are the indications of collusion between federal authorities and the building owner and management to effect a mass eviction at the blighted property. southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 10d

Welcome to Opt Out October, our collection of tips to slowly break free from online surveillance and throw sand in the gears of overreaching large tech companies. Today’s tip is about establishing good online security fundamentals. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Opt Out October: Daily Tips to Protect Your Privacy and Security

Trying to take control of your online privacy can feel like a full-time job. But if you break it up into small tasks and take on one project at a time it makes the process of protecting your privacy

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