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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 13h

people are going to post AI slop...sometimes they just do not realize it at the time and have the good graces to delete it

but if they are told and keep posting it your safest action is just to block them because they will continue to spread it

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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 15h

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH

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aslynn's tremendous 'tism horror show 👻 🎃 @audhd-psychnp.com · 21h

well, there you have it

A graph that asks "DOES FAST FASHION CAUSE AUTISM?*" with an orange and a blue graph rising over time. The blue graph is generally a few deviations above the orange line. The blue line represents SHEIN SALES and the orange one is AUTISM RATES except *No, this is a fake graph. from @audhd-psychnp.com

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 20h

NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.

It’s oligarchs all the way down.

My first for @zeteo.com:

zeteo.com/p/this-famil...

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 15h

You won’t know the next pandemic is happening until your neighbors or family start getting sick.
the governments goal now is to make the world more Darwinian and dangerous so those seen as weak(read poor and minorities) will die and those they see as strong (read wealthy and white) survive

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 15h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 15h

He got the shots that his own HHS is telling you are not necessary

Meg Tirrell @megtirrell.bsky.social · 15h

President Trump got an updated Covid vaccine & flu shot at Walter Reed today www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Trump received Covid vaccine and flu shot during second physical of the year | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump received a Covid vaccine and flu shot during his visit to Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday, his physician said in a memo released by the White House.

www.cnn.com

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monique @thejournalista.com · 14h

I'm not into Labubu because I lived through Beanie Babies, and I'm not doing that shit again.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 15h

I'm going to start calling essays like this "odes to whiteness" because the underlying premise is that they are like this because they don't anticipate any social cost to smelling bad.

This one is v. frustrating because it tries to lump in perfumes with the broader (problematic) beauty industry

I’m turning 50 next year. I rarely wear deodorant anymore. Many women I know have stopped, too. We don’t talk about it, but I catch it in the air — a faint musk of onion, goat, curry, mustard, salt, sage, fennel, ozone, and the muddy wet marrow of the earth itself. I’m kind of obsessed with this collective stink: the animal symphony of skin, of women being women, punk and unfiltered, taking up space with their scent. Raw, unapologetic BO. The more I live among it, the more I see it not as a hygiene failure but as a radical act of self-acceptance. It’s not polite, but it’s honest — and that feels hot. Hotter, even, than anything a Guess ad ever promised.

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Meg @prayingmantis.bsky.social · 14h

A HAIR STYLIST not BRUSHING HER TEETH?!?! omg

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Meg @prayingmantis.bsky.social · 14h

MAGA is a death cult.

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Meg @prayingmantis.bsky.social · Aug 26

THESE COLORS DON'T RUN

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 17h

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 19h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 22h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Meg @prayingmantis.bsky.social · 16h

Lìnk.

Mattslew Batberg-Mothfit (any/all) @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social · 16h

Link.

Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 16h

Link.

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Meg @prayingmantis.bsky.social · 1d

Dear everyone who doesn't wear a mask in public:

If you didn't know that there's going to be widespread disability inside of a decade thanks to people getting COVID repeatedly, well you do now.

Sorry

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Meg @prayingmantis.bsky.social · 1d

I mean before you came into my life, not before you came into existence

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Meg @prayingmantis.bsky.social · 1d

Come on I knew how to make tea before you

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Meg @prayingmantis.bsky.social · 1d

Mark Bray has reported he is on the way to Spain:
bsky.app/profile/mark...

Meg @prayingmantis.bsky.social · 2d

An outspoken antifascist US-born citizen was stopped from leaving the US. This should terrify you.

(BTW, this is not to imply this is ok for non-citizens or naturalized citizens.)

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport

Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled

www.theguardian.com

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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 1d

Say it louder Nashville

An 8x12 sign on a telephone pole reading: “Whatever you allow your government to do to others they will eventually do to you.”

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Meg @prayingmantis.bsky.social · 1d

"It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us. But we keep moving."

The Emergency Is the Atmosphere

“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."

organizingmythoughts.org

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 1d

Not only this is amazing because part of fascism is the destruction of joy but it also makes it look ridiculous that the military is being deployed to put a stop to this

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 2d

War is hell, Portland style

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Meg @prayingmantis.bsky.social · 1d

This is my dance about how much transphobes suck

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Simon @bauxoffice.bsky.social · 1d

Free knuckle tattoo idea: AVON LADY

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Former Brundlefly @thatguywasfly.bsky.social · 1d

I want to add specifically for the cis men reading this: more of us need to be showing up for this. Letter-writing to incarcerated people. Book-packing for incarcerated young people. Meal prep for unhoused people. Assembling post-abortion care packages. Jail support even when it's not post-protest.

Meg @prayingmantis.bsky.social · 1d

Activism is rarely dearresting someone, getting pepper sprayed by police, etc. It's a lot of planning, emails, dull meetings.

Build community. Help each other. Do the work.

Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 1d

My spicy take for this moment-

Too many of you do not understand the concept of infrastructure. How systems are built, how systems are maintained.

You want big bold action but haven't committed to the planning and the boring mundane tasks needed to make said action possible.

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Meg @prayingmantis.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck ICE, say it back

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