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Alex K. 🔆

@kafsofit.bsky.social

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🟡⚪️🟣⚫️ Posts en/in Spanglish: Justicia transformativa, acompañamiento psicosocial, protección holística y resiliencia digital. Transformative justice, psychosocial accompaniment, holistic safety, and digital resilience. @ comun.al / @ mnemozine.xyz

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Alex K. 🔆 @kafsofit.bsky.social · Jul 7

Gran parte de lo que tengo qué decir sobre lo que ha pasado/está pasando en 🇲🇽 con las reformas recientes, la CURP biométrica, bases de datos centralizadas y darle poder total al Estado por “seguridad” las escribí en “Violencia Digital en México: El Estado vs. La sociedad civil”. Recomiendo, la neta.

Tecnosolucionismo: obstrucción en el acceso a la justicia : Alex Argüelles : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Tecnosolucionismo: obstrucción en el acceso a la justicia fue escrito por Alex Argüelles. Es el capítulo 7 del libro Violencia Digital en México: El...

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Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 2h

I'm not a fictional character and these aren't Easter Eggs. The way that non-binary folk choose to present is not, ipso facto, indicative of a journey towards some other trans identity. It can ebb and flow as much as feels right to them, or based on whatever compromises they have to make.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4h

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 10h

"Protesters are expected to absorb violence but never inflict it—to function as shock absorbers to be acted upon, whose sympathetic value is nullified by any deviation from that standard ... under capitalism, 'peace' is the maintenance of violence on the state’s terms."

Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · Sep 8

"If your tactics disrupt the order of things under capitalism, you may well be accused of violence, because 'violence' is an elastic term often deployed to vilify people who threaten the status quo. Conditions that the state characterizes as 'peaceful' are, in reality, quite violent."

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 12h

Alright I need a short story break before I dive back into another gargantuan anthology, so let's read one of the oldest transfemme books I'm aware of!

Autobiography of an Androgyne is one of the earliest "trans memoirs," published a solid 15 years before the commonly cited 'first' trans memoir.

Autobiography of an Androgyne by Jennie June

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 17h

Trump crudely mocks transgender people in front of Canadian Prime Minister, one of whose children is nonbinary. Keep it classy, America. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Donald Trump mocks transgender people in Oval Office meeting with Canadian PM, whose child is nonbinary

Mark Carney sat silently as the U.S. president went on an anti-trans diatribe.

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Etienne - Tek @tek.randhome.io · 21h

NSO to be acquired by U.S. investors, ending Israeli control of Pegasus maker | Ctech https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/s1jgvmitgx

NSO to be acquired by U.S. investors, ending Israeli control of Pegasus maker | CTech

Hollywood producer Robert Simonds leads the deal, subject to Israeli and U.S. regulatory review.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 13h

According to a London-based Israeli researcher named Ayala Panievsky, "Only 3% of war-related items in Israeli media throughout the war addressed the civilian situation in Gaza."

Covering the Gaza war, 'Israeli media is like a doctor hiding the patient's condition'

London-based Israeli Researcher Ayala Panievsky Has Been Studying War Coverage in Israel. Her Findings Explain Why the Country Now Seems Out of Touch With the Rest of the World

www.haaretz.com

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Bob Dobalina @bobdabalina.bsky.social · 14h

Trump turned the DOJ into the Dept of Revenge while Peter Thiel is building phase 2, a Christo-Fascist-Oligarchy.

Gee wiz, I just thought they would stop illegals from eating my pet.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 17h

A billion dollars is the socio-political equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work as ruthlessly and diligently to prevent the acquisition of the former as we do the latter.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 23h

“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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Ana Brandusescu @anabrandusescu.bsky.social · 1d

"So I will find a way to keep burning without burning out. I will find moments to breathe, to soften, to hold what’s unbearable without letting it hollow me out. The goal is to feel without coming apart. And to keep going—until we don’t have to live like this anymore."

The Emergency Is the Atmosphere

“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."

organizingmythoughts.org

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 17h

The state leader to tech bro pipeline. Eric Adams is well on his way too.

Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 18h

from law making to law capitulating

Sunak goes from occupying the highest office in the UK government to advising the wealthiest and most powerful industry

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Rishi Sunak takes advisory roles with Microsoft and AI firm Anthropic

The former prime minister has been told not to lobby the UK government by the appointments watchdog.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 17h

I spoke to Slate about why 404 Media is suing ICE for its $2 million spyware contract. The company ICE contracted with can remotely break into phones without the target even clicking a link slate.com/podcasts/wha...

The People Suing ICE

What kind of spyware is ICE working with—and what government agencies are collaborating?

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

LMAOOOOO

A bunch of comedians tried to make up for their participation in the Riyadh comedy festival by donating their pay to Human Rights Watch and Human rights Watch was like “nah bitch we don’t want your dirty blood money” 😂😂 I’m dying

Human Rights Watch Doesn’t Want Any Riyadh Comedy Festival Money

Taking money from those who took money from Saudi Arabia would impact perception of the org’s independence.

www.vulture.com

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Shell @risu.bsky.social · 1d

Recent success in schools :when asked if I use Gen ai I just reply “no I am not a slopper”

When I explain that term it makes people REALLY uncomfortable that there could be a derogatory term for something presented as cool. No one wants to be a slopper

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Progressive Voice @pvamplify.bsky.social · 3d

8 years after genocide, Rohingya continue to face persecution by both #Myanmar junta & #ArakanArmy.🚨

High-level Conference on #Rohingya & other minorities must lead to real action—to protect lives, ensure aid access & deliver justice & accountability.

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Accountability Must Be Impartial - Progressive Voice

Eight years after the genocide, the international community has failed to take meaningful and effective action to protect the Rohingya. Today, as communities of all ethnicities across Myanmar endure t...

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 1d

hmm this Art. it speaks to me

screenshot from tumblr. username @matthewsiji.com says "It's 2050 and a teen girl is torrenting a .tar.gz file of all the consciousness of all the tech bros who uploaded themselves into the cloud in a bid for immortality and modding them into The Sims 4"

username crazy-pages reblogs with the added note: "I can't decide if it's better if they're not really uploaded into the cloud, they just all tricked themselves into thinking a GPT model trained on their brain is them, so she's playing with their fake echoes in a macabre imitation of the immortality they deluded themselves into believing they had. Or if they're real and she's just about to torment them forever"

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 3d

"General Dynamics was contracted to author social media posts in the Philippines decrying the quality of Chinese face masks, test kits, and the Sinovac inoculation. The propaganda campaign was later expanded to audiences across Central Asia and the Middle East." www.cgdev.org/blog/its-tim...

It’s Time to Ban Intelligence Operations from Interfering in Public Health

Reuters reports today that the US Defense Department spread anti-vaccine messaging across Southeast Asia during COVID as part of an effort to discredit Chinese-manufactured vaccines. At a minimum, the...

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 1d

Venezuela has the world’s largest proven oil reserves, in case anyone was wondering.

Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 3d

"None — repeat none — of America’s fentanyl has been found to originate from Venezuela. Yet Trump and Pete Hegseth, his compulsively strutting “secretary of war”, insist that the country is fuelling America’s opioid epidemic." Me on Trump's wag the dog script. www.ft.com/content/5b3e...

Venezuela is Trump’s useful enemy

Despite the president’s claims, the South American country is nowhere close to being the US’s biggest drug supplier

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d

I have to fan-girl for a minute here. My friend @rosvall-lab.bsky.social built an app to gather data on bird behavior during the 2024 solar eclipse. 10,000+ citizen scientists contributed (including my kids), and the resulting paper was published in Science today!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Total solar eclipse triggers dawn behavior in birds: Insights from acoustic recordings and community science

On 8 April 2024, a total solar eclipse disrupted light-dark cycles for North American birds during the lead-up to spring reproduction. Compiling more than 10,000 community observations and artificial ...

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Amanda Levendowski Tepski @tepski.tech · 1d

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First Responders Are Being Overwhelmed by Data Center Fires

First responders in a small Ohio town have answered 84 emergencies between two Amazon data centers, all on the taxpayer's dime.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

I donated some copies of Let This Radicalize You for distribution at an ICE watch training for folks who want to join school patrols in a nearby neighborhood. Not everyone got a copy, because 120 people showed up for that training tonight. I am endlessly proud of Chicago.

A display of copies of Let This Radicalize You on a table in front of a sign that reads: "Let This Radicalize You offers stories, strategy and heart for the kind of collective care and resistance we're building together today. It helps us move from reacting to organizing. Showing how ordinary people protect each other, build power, and keep hope alive. Take a copy. Read it. Stay connected."

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Alex K. 🔆 @kafsofit.bsky.social · 1d

🤣🤣🤣 Pues -según yo- sí se va debilitando en plan de que chaaance en algún momento deja de salir, pero en el inter rasurarte/cortarlo o arrancarlo de raíz es lo mismo… Pero igual la neta ando medio hablando sin saber 🙈

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Alex K. 🔆 @kafsofit.bsky.social · 1d

No soy 100tífike, pero creo que el láser es para eso 🤣

Alex K. 🔆 @kafsofit.bsky.social · 1d

Igual esto es súper al margen, pero entiendo que eso de no cortar/rasurar para que “el crecimiento” no salga más grueso es medio un mito. Sacarlo de raíz o cortarlo da un poco lo mismo porque mientras el folículo esté ahí va a seguir creciendo/saliendo (o algo así 🤭)

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