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malcoholic @lepetitereboot.bsky.social · 26m

God's favorites can.
i, on the other hand, get a horrendous rash. 🫠

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Anne 🩵🩷🤍 [נעמי יעל] @tranniehathaway.bsky.social · 2h

Russia has suffered a shortage of unskilled labourers due to its war in Ukraine. So to find new, cheaper recruits, it set up the Alabuga Start Programme, which targets 18- to 22-year-old women mainly from Africa but also from South America and South Asia. It targets countries where unemployment is high – like in South Africa, where it is at 57 percent among young women.

Representatives of the programme visited Beyers Naude Secondary School in Soweto, Johannesburg, in April, offering students free flights to Russia, Alabuga T-shirts and the promise of future job opportunities if they were to join. Alabuga’s website says recruits are trained and then work in hospitality or construction, with no mention of arms manufacturing.

“When they get to Alabuga, it's a rude awakening for the majority of them. And we've estimated that at least 90 percent of these women are assigned to work in the Shahed-136 drone factory,” Fargasso said. “They're being lied to and they're being duped into something that doesn't actually match up with reality.”

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 5h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · Sep 6

Synchromy in Blue, by Stanton Macdonald-Wright, 1916, 📸 by @643studios

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malcoholic @lepetitereboot.bsky.social · 2h

yo.

Anne 🩵🩷🤍 [נעמי יעל] @tranniehathaway.bsky.social · 2h

Russia has been accused of making false promises to recruit young women from across Africa to work in drone-assembling factories. The women were coerced into assembling Shahed-136 kamikaze drones in a dangerous area that has been repeatedly bombed by Ukraine
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‘Pawns in Putin’s war game’: African women lured into drone factories

Russia has been accused of making false promises to recruit young women from across Africa to work in drone-assembling factories. The women were coerced into assembling Shahed-136 kamikaze drones in…

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malcoholic @lepetitereboot.bsky.social · 2h

just one lmaooo. but I'm not a sugar person. usually can't stand it. i donut even remember the last time I had one 🥲

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malcoholic @lepetitereboot.bsky.social · 2h

how you ain't got my shit when i let you hold it??

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malcoholic @lepetitereboot.bsky.social · 2h

i will be made whole! kicking in doors next.

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malcoholic @lepetitereboot.bsky.social · 2h

also wondered why I ate a whole donut yesterday. was acting NEW!

a woman in a white shirt is sitting with her hand on her chin and looking at the camera .

ALT: a woman in a white shirt is sitting with her hand on her chin and looking at the camera .

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malcoholic @lepetitereboot.bsky.social · 2h

OMG. if they let someone else borrow it, i'm gonna snap.

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malcoholic @lepetitereboot.bsky.social · 2h

oh i'd fight. don't lend my shit out to somebody else!

malcoholic @lepetitereboot.bsky.social · 2h

the A'ja-Bam video last night.

i woke up to a startling reality.

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malcoholic @lepetitereboot.bsky.social · 2h

i know somebody got it! i keep checking kitchen cupboards when i visit friends and family, like i'm looking through the medicine cabinet for party favors 🥴