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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 19h

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”

Federal agents invaded even the offices of The Crisis and the National Association for the advancement of colored people and asked searching questions: " just what, after all, were our objects and activities?” I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, “We are seeking to have the constitution of the United states thoroughly and completely enforced.” It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that.

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Ben Klug @silkandstone.itch.io · 16h

I finally kicked out Our Only Stupid Hope, a comedy ttrpg I've had around for a while! Since it's not as developed as I'd planned, I'm releasing it for free. Play as the side characters trying to keep a Hero focused on saving the world, or at least saving you!

silkandstone.itch.io/our-only-stu...

Our Only Stupid Hope by silkandstone

A PBTA Comedy TTRPG about being the side characters when the world needs to be saved

silkandstone.itch.io

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 21h

1. As some Democrats have run from transgender rights, Zohran Mamdani is showing what so many others have lacked: courage to lead with his values over pandering to focus groups.

The ad is one of the best things I've seen from a politician on transgender people.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

As Some Dems Run From Trans People, Zohran Mamdani's Latest Ad Shows Real Support

The 2 minute ad features Sylvia Rivera's story, Mamdani's commitment to transgender people, and even music from the legendary late trans artist SOPHIE.

www.erininthemorning.com

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logo, acting spoopy @logophobe.bsky.social · 1d

Step 1: disband ICE
Step 2: give ICE's entire bloated budget to the IRS
Step 3: record white collar crime task force kicking in penthouse doors and macing unresisting billionaires
Step 4: one hundred years of Dem reign

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 1d

I'm saying this as your bestie: It's NOT a toxic trait to have high standards. Now release your suitors into the labyrinth and let the tournament begin.

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togekk0 (COMMS OPEN)💜 @togekk0.bsky.social · 19h

It's them

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 1d

What jargon does media get wrong in a way that's jarring for you?

"Stat" doesn't just means fast, it means "there is a life-threatening circumstance and I need this to solve it." Nothing in a morgue is 'stat,' just 'asap.'

On a ship, "aye" means "yes." "Aye-aye" means "heard, and I will comply."

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Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.bsky.social · 21h

I am sure this story about how when you have over-promised to investors and taken on a ruinous debt load, you resort to very, very bad behavior in a vain attempt to avoid bankruptcy has no lessons for us in 2025, at all, for anyone, ever

George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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rat dad @splinterhamato.bsky.social · 16h

this is what my master’s thesis was about

josh @sephirothhrt.bsky.social · 5d

The power of Genderfuckian Sephiroth

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erin @its-erin.com · Jul 31

dude i heard the new fighting game is intended to be accessible to newcomers and yet appealing to veterans also

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gains @gains-skeets.bsky.social · 1d

Another Final Fantasy game set in Ivalice would fix me

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laenan.bsky.social @laenan.bsky.social · 1d

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victor @windienine.bsky.social · 1d

i am at frankly embarrassing levels of being unable to think about things other than blanksword

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victor @windienine.bsky.social · 1d

tomorrow at 7pm EST, karma and i are going to join forces and stream the demo for BLANKSWORD on their twitch account for a few hours !! we have some angels we'd like to introduce you to.

we'll be running VA and commentary as a tag team, this time. >:3

www.twitch.tv/kaaramelcham...

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Spy @spyhedg.bsky.social · Aug 2

[ #$ ] Misato for @metalwavez.bsky.social🌹(from 2023)

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Melissa Sue Stanley 🌿✨🍄 IX Showcase, October @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 8d

Years ago I went through a phase of putting chicken legs on ... stuff?
Everything I've ever made has always been a bit absurd and self-indulgent.

For example: here is a breakfast radish on legs, which I made of wool and wire.

Photo of an object in front of a plain white background. The object is a soft-sculpture made of wool. It's a breakfast radish in red and white with white roots growing out of the bottom and big leafy dark green leaves growing from the top. It's also in a bird pose and standing on two bright orange chicken legs. It's an odd animal.

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Rappenem @rappenem.bsky.social · 1d

Ball of fire

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Mythworks ➡️ PAXU @mythworks.bsky.social · 1d

A world of silence and stone awaits you.

The Quickstart for Eternal Ruins is live.
Download it for free now:
www.myth.works/pages/eterna...

Explore the endless halls and find what hope remains.

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gg @ggdg.bsky.social · 2d

in some ways soulsov is a story about an unstoppable don't-you-just-want-to-go-ape-shitt meeting an immovable asmr youtuber

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worms are immune to death @geostatonary.bsky.social · 2d

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 2d

if anyone is interested, my friend lucia has been giving classes in jewish liberation theology for well over a decade

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 3d

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 3d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.