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Matt Siegel @mattsiegel.bsky.social · 23m

Error Flynn

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🏳️‍⚧️ "Critical Kate” Willært @katewillaert.bsky.social · 25m

Naming your kid Error just so you can be amused every time she introduces herself.

Kimimi🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️, but spooky 🦇 @kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com · 2h

Hello, Error! :D

A cropped photo from Zelda 2 (NES). Link is talking to a portly man in a purple costume inside a red brick house. He says “I am error.”

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Finch in Al-BOO!-querque 👻 @finchinabq.bsky.social · 1h

I use and endorse these masks! They are particularly good for haircut appointments and for MRIs. The adhesive is hypoallergenic. The Large size (the middle of the three sizes offered) fits most adults, including my smaller-than-average face and my mom‘s larger-than-average face.

Not Owen Meany @notowenmeany.bsky.social · 1h

ReadiMask, a strapless, metal-free N95 mask that uses medical adhesive is available for 75% off from the manufacturer's website. It can be loosened to eat/drink and reattached. Use code "nonsmokingzone" here: alliantbiotech.com/product/read...

ReadiMask® The Only Strapless N95 Respirator - Alliant Biotech

ReadiMask N95s protect against bacteria, viruses, debris, pollution, smoke, and diseases like colds, flus, Coronavirus.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 22h

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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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 22h

Shoutout to the one person I saw at the conference wearing a respirator. Thank you for not giving up🖤

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 22h

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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Professor KPA 🗃️😷 @kpanyc.bsky.social · 33m

Pedophilia is so incredibly rampant in the GOP that there's something more going on than their leaders "getting a pass." Objectification, dominance, cruelty, and pure evil are the nature of their worldview.

Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 39m

MAGA's obsession with Epstein and with pedophilia has never been about protecting children. It has been about smearing and attacking their political enemies as individuals and groups. When it comes to abusing children, MAGA leaders get a pass.

Supporters of Pastor who sexually abused 12-year-old, say God has forgiven him

Child abuser is ‘forgiven and acquitted in the court of heaven where our Lord Jesus sits as the judge’, supporters say

www.the-independent.com

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Matt Siegel @mattsiegel.bsky.social · 33m

i feel like people are getting worn down

Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 13h

I mean maybe everyone just repeatedly taking short term memory loss, brain fog and other blows to their brains, nervous and circulatory systems over the last five years helped create the conditions for the fascist total unreality

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 12h

Stock market had a huge sell-off after close today when Trump said he was doing an extra 100% tariffs on China and shutting down crucial software exports just in case you like me like to watch the line go down week upcoming likely to be interesting

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 36m

every now and then I end up in a non-freak majority crowd and its like "oh shit right most people don't actually have fun most of the time"

Evangeline “I’m Scared” Gallagher @egallagher.bsky.social · 46m

just in general bending my life towards spending as much of my time as possible around freaks and queers and weirdos has been the best thing ever

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 19h

JFC. Ron DeHaas, founder of the Christian antiporn app Covenant Eyes, has stepped down from NCOSE after his 38-year old son was charged with sexual abuse of a child.

Covenant Eyes is the app used by House Speaker Mike Johnson and his son to monitor each other's internet behavior.

Covenant Eyes Cofounder Helps Post Bond for Adult Stepson, Who Is Charged With Felony Child Sex Abuse

In August, Thomas Wideman, an adult stepson of Covenant Eyes cofounder Ron DeHaas, was arrested during a CSAM sting operation.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 8h

The mass firings at the CDC tonight drive home the fact that no one is coming to save us

But we can save each other

Wear a mask. Ideally a respirator like an N95

Even if you’re vaccinated. Even if you’re “not worried”

It protects you but it also protects everyone else

Bonus? Less colds & flus!

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 46m

The person in this costume has been doxed by Andy Ngo and should be protected at all costs.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20h

“I’m worried about my community… I’m out here in a frog costume to show how ridiculous the notion that we’re violent terrorists is, and showcase how that narrative is wrong…”

Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 1d

New burrowing owl behavior for me today-- taking a bath in the rain! So cool! 🪶

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🕷️Gory Thing🕷️ @korybing.bsky.social · 54m

If you accidentally post AI slop and are told “hey that’s AI” the correct answer is to go “aw shit I didn’t know” and delete it. Not “oh oops oh well, watcha gonna do” and keep it up because it’s giving you engagement. Stop it.

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MashedBex ✨ @bexmashaba.bsky.social · 4h

hey friends,

i hate to ask again, but could anyone spot me $30-50 for food please?

still waiting for my snap benefits to be restored and i have nothing left to eat 🙏🏽 hopeful to get a parcel from the foodbank next week -they've offered to deliver ❤️

paypal.me/thelongestroad
ko-fi.com/rebekamash

Pay RMM Creative using PayPal.Me

Go to paypal.me/thelongestroad and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

paypal.me

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 1h

Also, please take a know your rights course and learn how to shut the fuck up

Literally ANYTHING can be used against you.

You were too calm. You were too scared. You were too loud. Too quiet. Too confident. Too meek.

Literally, anything because LEOs lie and society just accepts it

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Frances Danger *Deadly SoverAuntie* @francesdanger.bsky.social · 1h

URGENT NATIVE MUTUAL AID💸💕

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$25/$100 only 30 minutes left to meet $75 need please! It will keep me housed and fed another day. Mvto.
#settlersaturday #helpsky

Frances Danger *Deadly SoverAuntie* @francesdanger.bsky.social · 11h

NATIVE #MUTUALAID💕💸

Sat Oct 11

Disabled housing insecure Mvskoke/Semvnole woman needs ongoing help daily ($100) for hotel/food please. Also working towards $1500 for rent/deposit on an apartment. Mvto!

Cashapp $fdanger
Venmo/PayPal @francesdanger

#settlersaturday #helpsky #nightsky

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Honey Ham - Commissions Open - Buy My Book @exaltedcomics.bsky.social · 1h

please help dottie as much as you can!

SPIROSAURUS 🦖 ((📱)) 🎼 @dottiedino.bsky.social · 1h

PLEASE HELP / BOOST?

DAY 6 w/o one of my meds.

Just $95 left to get prescription!

If 9 more people can just help with $10 each, and one $5, it’s done!

Can someone get me below $90 as next goal?

If you can help:

Www.PayPal.me/DeeDentalDamn

#TransCrowdFund
#MutualAid
#MutualAidRequest

Pay Den Elms using PayPal.Me

Go to paypal.me/DeeDentalDamn and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

Www.PayPal.me

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 1h

There are a number of accounts on Tiktok and IG that do extremely important work walking viewers through AI-generated slop videos like this and help them think critically about what they are seeing, how to spot it, etc. It’s a new era of critical media literacy instruction and I am happy to see it

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 12h

That TikTok account has a few fake videos of reporters getting detained. They make these videos because it’s a big story in the news. Real reporters are getting arrested. And so people are making AI videos to get engagement on TikTok.

dontbeonline • 1d ago
Journalist gets detained while doing her job #ForYou, #viral, #foryoupage, #tikto... more
• Contains: Bad Boys (The...

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Xodanix3 @xodanix3.bsky.social · 18h

Cost of a new replacement wheel chair at our local RX. Posting paylinks for anyone wanting to contribute to help Dez with safer wheelchair.

Paypal: paypal.me/xodanix3?cou...

Cash app & Venmo: doublerainbowomg

A blue wheelchair with price label $288.81

The blue chair next to black foldable one like Dez has now that's falling apart. (Wasn't labeled with. Price but prob around 300)

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Juniper @coffinfairy.bsky.social · 5h

I can’t cook without electricity , our fridge will shut off and I can’t do laundry. It’s also still cold… I’m exhausted asking but please help

Juniper @coffinfairy.bsky.social · 9h

Electricity gets shut off today and we still have no heat. PLEASE I’m begging respost at the very least so more people can see

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 1h

I know that name

He said its okay to stop anyone if they aren't white

bsky.app/profile/phoe...

thematthill.bsky.social @thematthill.bsky.social · 3d

Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · Jun 29

Every day it becomes more and more clear that Sylvia Rivera was right, we never should have settled for Pride when we could have had Power.

Sylvia Rivera in the early 1970s, holding a sign that says "GAY POWER"

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 1h

a few independent/worker run news I rely on and/or support in one manner or another, off the top of my head:
@hellgatenyc.com
@objectivejournos.bsky.social
@assignedmedia.org
@theflytrapmedia.com
@defector.com
@marisakabas.bsky.social
@discourseblog.com
@erininthemorning.com
@51st.news

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 5d

once again encouraging you all to support independent, worker owned, billionaire free News media when and how you are able

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 5d

Installing someone like Bari Weiss as the head of a major news organization isn’t even about profit or longevity. In effect it’s about continuing to shrink the traditional news industry smaller and smaller and weaker and weaker and less and less journalism based until it ceases to exist

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