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wearing N95s when you're in public saves lives 🇵🇸 @masksaregood.myatproto.social · 11m

Ah gotcha. Shit.

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morninggloryvt.bsky.social @morninggloryvt.bsky.social · 45m

"It is not reasonable to place any expectations on the broad back of the majority of society, but it is reasonable to pile everything the majority won’t do on the thin slice of disabled people who are carrying their own weight and attempting to carry everyone else’s as they drown."

Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 1h

People continue to call COVID advocates’ pleas for masking “unreasonable”.

Yet people who’ve already been disabled by COVID have no choice but to live with the “unreasonable” burdens of constant COVID safety.

My latest:
substack.com/home/post/p-...

Beyond all reason

Long COVID patients are constantly harangued about our requests for COVID safety. Yet what we're asking for is far less than what we're called on to do to survive.

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wearing N95s when you're in public saves lives 🇵🇸 @masksaregood.myatproto.social · 15m

Christ, I thought Canada wasn't having the issues the US has been having with getting them. Why can't you all get them up there?

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wearing N95s when you're in public saves lives 🇵🇸 @masksaregood.myatproto.social · 17m

I'm probably slower than you on the setup and teardown, but I would like to brag that I've got all my PlusLife paraphernalia neatly organized in the compartments of a fishing tackle box.

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 2h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Genie Lauren @moreandagain.social · 1d

So, you could never make me hate orcas to begin with

Now, you can't make me (unreasonably) scared of them.

They don't want to eat us
They want to FEED us!!!! 😂

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wearing N95s when you're in public saves lives 🇵🇸 @masksaregood.myatproto.social · 2d

Love this energy, but don't forget to alt text to your images!

You can check the "Require alt text before posting" checkbox under the Accessibility settings to make sure the app reminds you.

In a Steam discussion forum for Little Rocket Lab, user "Morior Invictus" comments: "Game reeks of DEI
Every critical character you meet in the tutorial is female. I about had enough when a girl in a hijab appeared at the uni.
Wouldn't be surprised if antifa turns up at some point."

Rave (a developer on the game) responds: "Hey Morior Invictus! Please go away, we don't want you playing our game. Thanks <3
#5"

another commenter, Akira, responds "Yeah, noticed that too.
Would have been better without a DEl consultant." and then in response to Rave's "go away" comment, says "Insulting the players is always a winning strategy". Rave responds to that comment, saying "If that's genuinely how you feel about the above interaction, then I would rather you refunded the game. We do not want people playing our game who think like this *at all*."

A "Not Recommended" Steam review of Little Rocket Lab by user Jacky which reads "bought after watching a streamer. Should have watched it closer. 100% DEl infected This game stinks like Sweet Baby Inc touched it. Too late for a refund. Lesson learned."

Rave responds: "Hey Jacky!
You sound like an absolutely horrible person, so we're glad you didn't enjoy the game. We wish you could refund it too.
Please never play our games again! Cheers"

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wearing N95s when you're in public saves lives 🇵🇸 @masksaregood.myatproto.social · 2d

Love this energy, but don't forget to alt text to your images!

You can check the "Require alt text before posting" checkbox under the Accessibility settings to make sure the app reminds you.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 3d

this is very good

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 2d

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 2d

Oh my godddddd I cannot fucking STAND this shit!!! THERE IS NO ONE WAY TO PROTEST. EVERYONE EVERYWHERE SHOULD PROTEST IN EVERY WAY. STOP WORKING AGAINST YOURSELVES

SORRY TO YELL IN YOUR MENTIONS

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 3d

But problem is that when Black women say this or express any urgency about it

The instinct is to find and interlocuteur or filter to “emphasize it” or broaden it

They are directly attacking Black women. Admitted they would do this for a decade and it’s still being treated as vague

Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 3d

Attacks on the federal workforce are also attacks on Black workers, who are overrepresented in the public sector.

Black unemployment is 7.5%. I'm reminded of Coates' observation that Black Americans regularly experience conditions that would be considered a crisis if whites faced them.

Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.

www.nytimes.com

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wearing N95s when you're in public saves lives 🇵🇸 @masksaregood.myatproto.social · 3d

Officially migrated to myatproto.social and started a monthly donation to blacksky.community. Really appreciate the work that has gone into this.

https://myatproto.social

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.bsky.social · 3d

Real useful, and something I plan on doing shortly

boosprout 🔞👻⚙️💥 @bisprout.writes.fyi · 25d

So, you want to leave Bluesky, but you don't want to lose your community and start all over again.

Great news! You can leave without losing anything. Here's how.

Please share if you find this helpful so people don't lose their shit and go back to twt for no reason 🙏💖

So, You Want to Leave Bluesky...

The most important thing you need to know is:

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Some Random Susan @anysusan.bsky.social · 3d

lots of people still don’t believe Team Trump want to crash the economy, likely because it’s hard for normal people to think like sociopaths

Sarah Kendzior is smart to invoke memories of 1980s corporate raiders. That should give many Boomers and some Gen X food for thought. We remember that crap.

Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 3d

On strikes, boycotts, and rethinking leverage when the government WANTS the economy to collapse:
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon...

Quotes from here: https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon-artists-your-questions

https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon-artists-your-questions

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 3d

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 3d

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 4d

Reporters: stop using the deferential term "detaining" when talking about ICE goons' abduction of innocent people from US streets. You proper term would indeed by "abduction", but if you want to pretend neutrality you could use "capture", which at least says nothing about the captors' motives.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 4d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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

JB wants you to believe he’ll stop trmp when he won’t even stop the Illinois state police from attacking residents

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

Eugenics is about collectively demarcating who among us is “inferior” enough, in the “right” ways, to be actively or passively cut out of society. It relies on us not caring about disability justice & also encourages people to disable each other to the point they can be easily,wordlessly left behind

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 5d

Long Covid is more prevalent in children in the US now than asthma. We are fucking destroying the next generations w/our behavior. (And adults.)

If you do care about resisting eugenics maybe start by not being the vector that disables a kid in RFK’s US. That is not too much to ask. It really isn’t.

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wearing N95s when you're in public saves lives 🇵🇸 @masksaregood.myatproto.social · 4d

Her time at the Chronicle is also a bad sign. The Chronicle is notorious for attacking progressive politicians in the bay area. They helped spread the avalanche of lies behind the rich-right-winger-funded recall campaigns that targeted Sheng Thao and Pamela Price.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 5d

They know they are ridiculous people and the thing they hate most is being laughed at. They want everyone terrified and intimidated by how MANLY and LETHAL they are, not laughing because they got got by a grating frog.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 5d

This video is everywhere because it's a hilarious visual refutation of Portland being on fire. You can't get a mass movement going without convincing the masses

so yes, this does do something actually

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This literally does nothing. You are not beating fascism by dressing up in inflatable suits and dancing

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Portland is leading the way. This is how you (non violently) beat Fascism. Humor and ridicule are key.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 5d

Long Covid is more prevalent in children in the US now than asthma. We are fucking destroying the next generations w/our behavior. (And adults.)

If you do care about resisting eugenics maybe start by not being the vector that disables a kid in RFK’s US. That is not too much to ask. It really isn’t.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 5d

Trying really hard to meet people where they’re at, truly I am, but I have to say that when smart people continually ignore a problem or seem to not get the point, it’s not about lack of understanding after a certain point. It’s about a lack of ethics.

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