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🏳️‍🌈 Kimberly L Piper Writes Queer Shit 🏳️‍🌈 @klpwrites.bsky.social · 10h

Alright, its Friday. It’s that time again to pump the brakes on social media and focus on my weekend.

Y’all be good and take care ❤️

a woman is standing in a field of grass with mountains in the background .

Alt: a woman is standing in a field of grass with mountains in the background .

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🏳️‍🌈 Kimberly L Piper Writes Queer Shit 🏳️‍🌈 @klpwrites.bsky.social · 10h

Robert Townsend! Y’all! Give this man his flowers! The Five Heartbeats! Hollywood Shuffle! B.A.P.S!

Meteor Man!

Underrated talent ♥️♥️♥️♥️

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 11h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 14h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Spooky Bunsz 👻 @copaceticbunsz.com · 11h

Getting told I can get this house !

If you can help me w the deposit:
$AriesAlchemist

nai THEE corpse bride 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · 20h

20. What was the highlight of your week?

This is the end of today's episode of QuestionSky. As always, I love you all and I'll see you in the next thread, cousins 🥰

If you want to support QuestionSky, you can donate even if it is a dollar a day. It helps 🥹

- nai 🦋

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Fae’rynn (Phantom Futch) @faerynnistired.itch.io · 11h

god can i attest to the power of FFS and how it can improve a trans woman’s life. Please, if you can, help one of my best friends Aria. she needs this as much as i did and y’all came through for me 🙏

gofund.me/2fafddbcf

Donate to Support A Trans Woman's Gender Affirming Surgery, organized by Aria Balraj

Hi! My name is Aria, and I'm trying to raise funds so I can finally fix u… Aria Balraj needs your support for Support A Trans Woman's Gender Affirming Surgery

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Lunar Twilight VA @lunartwilightva.bsky.social · 11h

thank you

i got fucked over by a series of clerical errors at social services, and so im dead broke this month. i need to be able to feed myself and get taxis across town, as i live fairly far from any and all businesses. i have no specific goal, every little bit helps
ko-fi.com/lunartwiligh...

Buy Lunar Twilight VA a Coffee

Become a supporter of Lunar Twilight VA today!

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Arachnid activist_angel @activistangel.bsky.social · 12h

My laptop is 8 years old. USB ports no longer work. Can only use track pad. Not mouse. Any $$ donated will go toward new laptop. Also, extended warranty.

This is the only way my husband & I can stay connected. Long Distance Marriage.

Target Goal Item: a.co/d/7oCwlWW

ko-fi.com/angelgraham/...

Buy angelGraham a Coffee

Become a supporter of angelGraham today!

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Juniper @coffinfairy.bsky.social · 1d

CAN I GET HELP. FOUR KIDS AND NO HEAT . ABOUT TO BE NO ELECTRICITY!!! IV BEEN BEGGING AND BEGGING PLEASE . IM LITERALLY DISABLED AND IM TRYING TO NOT FREAK OUT BUT THIS IS SCARY WITH KIDS!!!!

Juniper @coffinfairy.bsky.social · 6d

‼️Single Disabled mom‼️needing help with electric due the 8th and propane that heats my home and water filled ASAP.

Electric: $520

Propane:$650

Any help is appreciated 💜

PayPal: www.paypal.me/Coffinelf

Cashapp: cash.app/$coffinkewpie

Ko-fi: coffinfairy

Screenshot of text that says: I'm a single disabled mom of four. I have uterine fibroids that causes excessive bleeding and fatigue, POTs and PTSD from Covid turning into long covid and causing my health problems. I was working two jobs prior to not working until it caught up to me and I ended up in the ER with a heart rate that wouldn't slow down until I had to take medication. I have been trying to get on disability since. A year later I started to caretake for my disabled child by myself as well. I had help previously but it wasn't working out and l've had to do a lot of it on my own, now I'm stuck in a situation where working isn't possible for my health and while I'm already caretaking for my disabled child that needs constant care. I did not ever envision this happening to me and have always worked hard to take care of my family but now I'm in what feels like an impossible situation trying my best to take care of my kids and myself so I can stay around for them as long as possible. Im not enjoying coming online asking for help but I have no where else to turn. I'm doing

Screenshot of text that says: have no where else to turn. I'm doing everything I can to get help but it's not enough to survive off of. I'm sadly the only responsible parent and have limited family that all live too far to help. I live in California which is a bit expensive but with the state of America right now I'm trying to stay where my trans child and disabled child are the safest. Any help is appreciated and keeps my kids and I surviving while waiting on disability or other options I'm pursuing to happen. I don't know what the future holds but as a mother I'm doing everything I can to keep my family together, healthy and happy. Even if it means coming online and begging for that help. Thank you if you read.
Please boost if you're able. The chances someone who can help sees my post greatly increases with more eyes. Lots of love

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SnarkyHumanist @snarkyhumanist.bsky.social · 12h

Not for me, but Juniper really needs help.

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Juniper @coffinfairy.bsky.social · 1d

CAN I GET HELP. FOUR KIDS AND NO HEAT . ABOUT TO BE NO ELECTRICITY!!! IV BEEN BEGGING AND BEGGING PLEASE . IM LITERALLY DISABLED AND IM TRYING TO NOT FREAK OUT BUT THIS IS SCARY WITH KIDS!!!!

Juniper @coffinfairy.bsky.social · 6d

‼️Single Disabled mom‼️needing help with electric due the 8th and propane that heats my home and water filled ASAP.

Electric: $520

Propane:$650

Any help is appreciated 💜

PayPal: www.paypal.me/Coffinelf

Cashapp: cash.app/$coffinkewpie

Ko-fi: coffinfairy

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 13h

It is. 🎶 😆

Mariachi version en espagñol.

Franchesca Ramsey @chescaleigh.bsky.social · May 5

Happy #cincodemayo from your favorite leopard lady and the incredible musicians of Mariachi Arcoiris, the world's FIRST & only LGBTQ mariachi in the world!! 🐆 💀 💃🏾 🏳️‍🌈
youtu.be/XaiUHBefIco

"The Leopards Ate My Face" en Español feat. Mariachi Arcoiris | "¡Nunca Peñse!"

YouTube video by Franchesca Ramsey

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 14h

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 11h

This eugenicist fucker

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · Apr 3

Flashback to 2020, peak of COVID pandemic when Dr. Oz said "...the opening of schools may only cost us 2-3% in terms of total mortality... it might be a tradeoff some folks would consider."

www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...

Senate confirms Mehmet Oz to lead Medicaid and Medicare

Oz will assume the role as administrator of the CMS with little to no experience in government health policy.

www.msnbc.com

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KSWriteshere 🍉♊ @kswriteshere.bsky.social · 12h

Consider helping out this family with a very modest ask,for survival.

Donate to Gazan family displaced (food & medical), organized by Amy Kelly

Hi my name is Amy and I am a professional from the UK. I have been reaching out to … Amy Kelly needs your support for Gazan family displaced (food & medical)

www.gofundme.com

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MamaBlancheVT (Urgent Check Pinned Post)🦊🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mamablanchevt.bsky.social · 13h

while I apricate you all cheering me up I'm not going to be ok for a while after losing the last way to be social with my community outside to text its getting harder I hate being disabled and immune compromised it robs me of so much

MamaBlancheVT (Urgent Check Pinned Post)🦊🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mamablanchevt.bsky.social · 3d

Urgently needed to replace my dying pc as I am immune compromised and req a pc to for everything

Funded CPU, first Ram kit, Motherboard
Rest not funded below

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The Nana Yaga @nanicoolj.blacksky.app · 12h

"I thought ICE was only going after Mexicans"

When have you ever known any type of militia that is targeting a non-white group to not also attack Black people!?

They treat us like they get extra credit for beating our ass all the time. HOW ARE YOU SHOCKED!?

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The Nana Yaga @nanicoolj.blacksky.app · 12h

Y'know.....
I criticized Falcon and The Winter Soldier so much because Sam as a character didn't understand racism....

I willing to admit that I'm wrong and that sometimes there are folks out there who are that WILLFULLY obtuse.

cam rodriguez 🔎 🇲🇽 @camrodriguez.bsky.social · 1d

Both sentiments from Jackson and Johnson aren't

too different from those expressed by a Black bystander in the viral video of the feds placing a Black man in a chokehold in Chicago's East Garfield Park neighborhood: "Y'all supposed to be out here choking Mexicans," he said.

Jackson described the happiness he felt when he

first heard U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was coming to Chicago. He said he felt that the migrants were "slowly taking over" South Shore and said the building eventually had majority immigrant occupants.

After the South Shore raid, Jackson said his feelings have changed because ICE "had mercy for nobody."

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Michael LaBorn @michaellaborn.bsky.social · 9d

We have an app! Go get it!!! 😍😍😍

Bindery Books | WE HAVE AN APP!!!

Dismantling systems of oppression one book at a time.

leftunreadbooks.binderybooks.com

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🏳️‍🌈 Kimberly L Piper Writes Queer Shit 🏳️‍🌈 @klpwrites.bsky.social · 12h

Well, damn 😩

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Charlie Knight [they/them] | Editor / Author 📚 @cknightwrites.bsky.social · 1d

I cannot keep going without my patrons, so every single one means the world to me. It's more than a little terrifying to rely on monthly subs for such critical care, but here I am—and at least I get to the use the Patreon for my favorite thing: supporting indie authors.

patreon.com/cknightwrites

Get more from Charlie Knight on Patreon

Fiction Editor & Author

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Charlie Knight [they/them] | Editor / Author 📚 @cknightwrites.bsky.social · 1d

Looking for a community of authors, writers, and editors? Wanna learn more about writing, editing, and honing your craft? How about helping me access life-saving medications?

You can gain all this and more by joining my patreon! Whatever your budget, whatever your goals, I've got a tier for you!

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🏳️‍🌈 Kimberly L Piper Writes Queer Shit 🏳️‍🌈 @klpwrites.bsky.social · 12h

Oh, never-mind. The account got deleted lol. I saw that and was like, hell naw. Let me close my eyes and sleep. Shenanigans like this on a Friday? Nope lol!

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🏳️‍🌈 Kimberly L Piper Writes Queer Shit 🏳️‍🌈 @klpwrites.bsky.social · 12h

Thanks for the reminder! I did too! I ignored it and took a nap. Gotta block the person and post the message.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16h

"The limits to FPS's authority off federal property are the edges of the constitution on one side and necessity on the other.”

DHS top lawyer says 'no legal barrier' to actions officers can take to defend federal property

In a memo obtained exclusively by The Handbasket, Federal Protective Service (FPS) officers were given free rein.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17h

Pretty insane stuff from DHS Acting General Counsel Joseph Mazzara:

www.thehandbasket.co/p/dhs-fps-me...

Accordingly, if an individual across the street from a federal building throws a rock or bottle at FPS officers on federal property, as many of these rioters are wont to do, FPS can leave federal property and either arrest the malefactors or take other appropriate action in line with FPS's continuum of force policies. FPS could even enter a private residence containing an identified sniper blocks away from a federal facility in order to eliminate that exigent threat. There is simply no legal barrier to FPS taking action off federal property where a reasonable nexus to protecting that property exists.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17h

Trump has sent the National Guard to Chicago and Portland under the guise of protecting DHS agents from threats that don't exist. With this new guidance, it appears FPS agents (who are able to call on ICE, CBP, etc for backup at any time) have been empowered to do their own "protecting."

DHS top lawyer says 'no legal barrier' to actions officers can take to defend federal property

In a memo obtained exclusively by The Handbasket, Federal Protective Service (FPS) officers were given free rein.

www.thehandbasket.co

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