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@kquist.bsky.social

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She/her. Friendly neighborhood anti-capitalist bartender & teacher. Former wannabe journalist. Book worm, angry idealist, shaker of cocktails/fists. I make drinks and I read things. Bay Area. Doing a year-long read of Don Quixote #dq25 🫏

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Quistote @kquist.bsky.social · Dec 13

Bienvenid@s! Below is the Don Quixote 2025 info/schedule/resources sheet.

It's verrry spread out to be compatible with other reads/projects/life events hopefully (I have many right now myself).

Reply here to be added to feed, mark posts with #dq25 or 🫏 for posts to appear.

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Don Quixote 2025 Schedule

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 1d

I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.

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Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 20h

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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Quistote @kquist.bsky.social · 19h

Ok I knew about Poldark but somehow missed Rivals (just googled) and goddamn I didn’t know I needed mustache porn like this 👀

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 1d

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Quistote @kquist.bsky.social · 20h

Why watch a baseball game when you can just read skeets about a baseball game and snort your coffee out at the local cafe?

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Spencer Beswick @spencerbeswick.bsky.social · 1d

Screenshot of a post by "From a Comrade" that reads: "The reason the right thinks that antifascists are funded by some powerful source, is that they themselves don’t know how to do grassroots organizing without a rich backer and can’t fathom people risking arrest or harm for something they believe in without being paid. The idea that many thousands of people would keep a movement alive with their own time and money because they believe in something like “not having fascism come back” is foreign to them."

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 2d

One curious thing on this site about speaking out against the encroachment of LLMs is that inevitably you get accused of being anti-tech. I don’t hate technology. I’ve used machine learning in my own code before. But I also recognize that oligarchs are so hellbent on pushing this tech for a reason.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 2d

So when I hear of students being encouraged to use GPT in college I don’t hear innovation. I hear cognitive atrophy, the inability to think critically for oneself, and total dependence on vulnerable centralized repositories of data for knowledge without ever understanding how knowledge is generated.

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Quistote @kquist.bsky.social · 1d

Well that’s a relief
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

The universe is finished; the copestone is on, and the chips were carted off a million years ago.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Zappit @zappit.bsky.social · 2d

Link requested this be boosted so we can help Dr. Divya raise money for Palestinian families in need.

It is also a good day to reinstate Link’s account.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 1d

It’s true: the cities are lawless and scary, if you live here sell your property as fast as possible, particularly if you have a 2 family row house from the 1920s with those nice bay windows.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

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

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

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...

chicago.suntimes.com

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bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 2d

wtaf are you talking about

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TheRightIsWrong (TRIW) @therightiswrong100.bsky.social · 2d

How many more reasons do we need to fall in love with Chicago? Besides being the most beautiful city in America, Chicago hates Trump and hates ICE

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onion person @junlper.beer · 2d

i’ll never get over this

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Quistote @kquist.bsky.social · 2d

Honestly I had the same thought myself!

And I’ll be done with Quijote!!

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Ⓐnarchohoodism @161bklyn.bsky.social · 2d

Make Amerikkka a kids place, by putting em to work!

theonion.com/industrial-r...

Industrial Revolution Provides Millions Of Out-Of-Work Children With Jobs

After centuries of chronic unemployment, millions of small children across the United Kingdom saw their lives drastically improve when the Industrial Revolution at long last provided them with steady ...

theonion.com

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Quistote @kquist.bsky.social · 2d

This shit is absolutely wild.

And yet I’m jealous cuz I miss Spain and wish I could go back. ❤️💛❤️

Todd Johnson @johnsontoddr.bsky.social · 2d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Flees to Spain After Death Threats

www.nytimes.com

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HL Eisthen, defective human product @hleisthen.bsky.social · 2d

This is a comment about ICE, isn’t it? 🐋

Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 2d

my God! poor Tashtego

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 2d

Friends and comrades made a crowdfunding page for my family.

It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support.

Thank you for your consideration.

"Help us leave safely" on FreeFunder

Click here to support "Help us leave safely" by Dara on FreeFunder!

www.freefunder.com

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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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Quistote @kquist.bsky.social · 2d

Assuming this is a feel-good celebration of our migratory unhoused neighbors and is in no way deeply rooted in class antagonisms and bigoted stereotypes. 😬

Quistote @kquist.bsky.social · 2d

Sucks to be mostly sober in the era of online education.
I need wine in my mug on this Zoom class.