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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 6h

Like goddamn I remember the early days on here when it made social media fun again and now it's The Worst Tumblr Social Justice Times v2.0

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 6h

And this is part of a serious problem, where you can be like "hey this isn't what this word is for" and here we are on BlueSky where someone comes along and is like "why do you hate people who need help and love genocide"

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 6h

Also love that @chantalalive.blacksky.app decided to get a dig in like because I have a quibble with terminology I have a problem with helping people out. I'm a sheep farmer in the leanest part of the year, when I have extra it goes to people who have less.

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 6h

+ holdover of the individualist mindset that there is shame in asking for or accepting a one-way hand up from other people. There is not. We are all intertwined and we all deserve food and housing and medical care.

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 6h

The problem is not in giving to people who need it when I have enough to give. It's in taking a specific term with a specific meaning of connection and community building. There is nothing wrong with the word "charity" and no shame in accepting it if you need it. Using "mutual aid" instead is a +

Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 6h

The mutuality is understanding yourselves as part of the same whole with a collective good. This is in line with how mutual aid has been articulated by radical traditions. Don't give to someone you don't know if you don't want. Don't give to Palestinians. If you don't feel they're part of you.

Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 6h

Honestly this is my problem with referring to it as "mutual aid" which used to have a specific meaning of organizing together to meet community needs on both sides, not "one individual gives someone they don't know money".

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 6h

Check to see if you have a halal market in your area, they usually sell US lamb and it's often actually pretty local. Not having one nearby has cut me off from my most reliable source of extra cash.

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 6h

The original meaning was like... "we need help setting up a tenants' union, y'all need help getting your community garden going, we get together and help each other with those needs" now it's "charity outside the structure of organized 501(c)3s"

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 6h

Honestly this is my problem with referring to it as "mutual aid" which used to have a specific meaning of organizing together to meet community needs on both sides, not "one individual gives someone they don't know money".

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Hey, nobody *made* them vote for the host of Wrestlemania 4 @legalminimum.bsky.social · 6h

When I was there, there was a joke among students at McGill University in Montreal about anglos who go to McGill because they think they speak French.

Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 7h

one big hint that the Anglo Canadian French education system doesn't give a shit about actual functional understanding is that it teaches Metropolitan French rather than Québecois French

you know, the primary version of French that's *actually spoken* in Canada

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 6h

"Rafa" is a Merced county farm worker. He does 2 shifts in 2 different jobs as rent is so expensive. He harvests tomatoes in the am. Then he sorts sweet potatoes under a hot sun - working 13 hours total. He worries about driving home because of lack of sleep. #WeFeedYou

A sweet potato field and the place workers sort the potatoes

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'Gory the A'ight @gregoryaight.bsky.social · 6h

Of course the virulently homophobic, racist, and white supremacist so-called salvation army is feeding these putrid kidnapping, lynching, and enslavement units.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 22h

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 6h

Support clean energy by eating American lamb:
www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Farmers urge Americans to embrace previously overlooked type of meat: 'There's really a huge, huge potential'

"Great way to support those family farmers."

www.yahoo.com

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 1d

Think about how for decades, one of the ingredients of a crackpot was: retired engineer.

Retired engineers, for *generations* have been a fertile ground for crackpot theories in everything.

They get that golden watch and bam, incoherent manifesto about quantum archeology inbound.

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 16h

Ack! Have you considered perhaps... Taking it easy for a couple days?

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 16h

If anyone lets a priest rather than a rabbi near me when I'm dying they better find me a Jesuit. Fetch me a rabbi, fetch me a Jesuit, or send in my dogs and leave me to go grumpily on my way.

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 16h

(in Wales the custom was that bread was brought out and passed to the sin eater over the body of the person whose sins were being eaten)

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 16h

...Joshua, that was a haunting echo of a sin eating ceremony - you became your mother's sin eater.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin-eater

Sin-eater - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 16h

When the Franciscan priest came to give my mom last rites, for example, he carried the Eucharist in a little circular metal box called a pix hung around his neck.

Christ was just as present in the Host inside that pix as in the most elaborate monstrance.

But again, the monstrance dramatizes it.

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 16h

One small not-quite quibble here.

According to Catholic teachings, Christ is just as present in the Eucharist whether it’s being carried to detainees in a monstrance or a simple vessel.

But the monstrance is a particularly solemn and traditional way of dramatizing that presence.

Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 19h

For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.

If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 23h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Oregon Plates @plat.es · 17h

The Custom Oregon Plate DOGOOD was previously assigned, but is now available for reservation. https://dmv2u.oregon.gov/eServices/?link=custom #Oregon #LicensePlate #VanityPlate #OregonPlates #CustomPlate #DOGOOD

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 16h

Meanwhile some rando will show up and say "pancakes are a distraction from the Epstein Files"

Deontological Warfare But She's A Skeleton Or Something @clockworklady.bsky.social · 1d

Bluesky is a place where you can post "I like pancakes" and someone will respond "WHY AREN'T DEMOCRATS DOING ANYTHING AND WHY AREN'T YOU PERSONALLY FREEING GAZA, AMERICA IS DOOMED AND THE TIDE OF BLOOD RISES" and then maybe, if you are lucky, in four hours, they will add "also why you hate waffles"

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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 17h

The RIAA and MPAA should have been made to pay for their anticonsumer ways

Strange Days at Blake Hol(e)sey High 👻 🍑 @reactionordinary.bsky.social · 4d

The RIAA was suing teenagers. We had to sit through ⬇️ this shit anytime we wanted to watch a DVD. A whole generation shamed for using Limewire and torrents. Only for these silicone valley assholes to now find copyright infringement a necessary evil they shouldn’t have to answer for

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 16h

See and this is why I'm not a joiner.

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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 16h

The Trump Administration won a court case requiring the Second Amendment Foundation to turn over their membership list. The Trump Administration has taken the first steps toward a national registry of gun owners.

Conservatives once again own-goaling themselves. saf.org/saf-files-mo...

SAF FILES MOTION TO AMEND JUDGMENT IN REESE V. ATF - Second Amendment Foundation

BELLEVUE, Wash. — Oct. 10, 2025 — After a district court in Louisiana ruled earlier this week that the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) must turn over its member list as part of the court’s judgment ...

saf.org

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 1d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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