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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 46m

It should however be pretty clear why Britain is like this and who is to blame.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 47m

And this will just have to continue until it drops out of the news, just as the wall-to-wall hate for e.g. anti-austerity protestors was blasted at the public for years, until the lads were able to drop it and move on to “it sure is a baffling mystery why the public realm is falling apart”.

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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 7m

If you wanted a graphical summary of Keir Starmer, aside from The Picture you'd show them this.

Camarón 🇵🇸 @mickeymarxclub.bsky.social · 9h

Even the Italian fascist is trying not to laugh

Donald Trump standing at a lectern with a presidential seal on it. He is looking down wearing a navy suit and red tie. He's flanked by other world leaders including Keir Starmer who has his back turned because he's just been humiliated. Giorgia Meloni is trying to hold in her laughter

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Zoe TunnHELL @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 45m

I am bored and decided to Google whatever the hell American Gravy is

Turns out it's a restaurant group that, as far as I can tell, has one (1) open restaurant. The other 4 brands have all their locations closed.

So this dude is literally just A Guy That Owns a Seafood Restaurant in California

Stephen Lurie @luriethereal.bsky.social · 4h

Time to tune in to some analysis from Antifa expert…Chef Andrew…Gruel?…founder of…American Gravy Concepts?

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Friz(ombie!) @frizfrizzle.bsky.social · 38m

Asking ChatGPT is like asking Pinky if he's pondering what you're pondering. The fact he is a lab rat who can form coherent sentences is impressive, but he's still going to be fucking wrong.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 32m

Do you notice how the state basically cannot function any longer without using constant screaming all-channels terror and moral panics to force through deeply unpopular and immoral policies

flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 50m

The government continuing to incite fear and hatred against members of the public here, hand in hand with our horrible, poisonous media outlets, both to evade responsibility for their own conduct and to fill space that might otherwise be stories about how unpopular they are and how much they suck.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 3h

Concerned about what the peace means for Palestinians? Concerned whether there will be peace at all? Concerned about accountability for the Israeli genocide? Shabana Mahmood has this to say to you.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 50m

The government continuing to incite fear and hatred against members of the public here, hand in hand with our horrible, poisonous media outlets, both to evade responsibility for their own conduct and to fill space that might otherwise be stories about how unpopular they are and how much they suck.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 3h

Concerned about what the peace means for Palestinians? Concerned whether there will be peace at all? Concerned about accountability for the Israeli genocide? Shabana Mahmood has this to say to you.

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AJ McCannibalism @robertgalbraith.bsky.social · 21m

Recorder Makepeace has chosen to out himself as a danger to all women with this behaviour. Familiarise yourselves with his appearance for your own protection.

Recorder Peter Makepeace - a white man with receding white hair, a big nose, fleshy crow's feet around his eyes, and a big stupid grin, wearing a tie done up like a schoolboy's and a pinstripe suit with stripes so wide they make him look like a spiv.

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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 3d

2/ Recorder Makepeace somehow thought it appropriate to say there were many other “convincing” images of Watkin and that the press deliberately chose photos where she wasn’t passing in order to mock the so-called victim.

A male judge commenting on a woman’s appearance in open court is insane.

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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 3d

1/🧵 Is there any information on whether Ciara Watkin plans to appeal the bristling miscarriage of justice that effectively criminalises the sex lives of all trans people in England?

Recorder Peter Makepeace KC‘s misogynistic remarks shocks me.

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The Dreaded Abighoul @popeguilty.bsky.social · 2d

As always on this topic I much recommend Talia Bhatt's "The Third Sex" for a thorough discussion of how cis anthropologists bullshit and lie

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 6h

Did you know Absolution has the highest ratio of fucks and alligators relative to other words of any novel ever written? Did you also know noted actor Bronson Pinchot had to say all those fbombs for the audiobook? And did you know there is more gator in Absolution than the Annihilation movie?

Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · Jul 12

And in Oct, the trade paperback of Absolution...

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 8h

"After we win in November, we do not demobilize. The rich and corporate interests who tried to buy this election with the millions they stole from our pockets will want to see us fail.

We won’t let them." - Chi Ossé

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AJ McCannibalism @robertgalbraith.bsky.social · 7h

He never named names. Gene Kelly was a real one.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 8h

gene kelly is antifa

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 8h

Miss Major has passed away. We've lost an icon for the ages. Rest in power.

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Miss Major with long wavy gray hair sits outdoors in a chair, wearing a brightly colored geometric-patterned dress. She looks thoughtful and serene, with her hands resting in her lap. Trees and plants surround her in the background, giving the scene a peaceful setting. The image appears as a social media post with text and engagement icons below.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 8h

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy passed away today according to the House of GG. She was a veteran of the Stonewall rebellion and a lifelong organizer for the safety and dignity of trans people, sex workers, and the incarcerated. She came from the same generation and milieu as Marsha and Sylvia. She was 78.

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 11h

Time magazine is owned by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, who just came out as a Trump supporter and said it would be great if he sent the National Guard to invade San Francisco

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 12h

Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie

Time magazine cover featuring a photo of Trump from a dramatically low angle

HIS
TRIUMPH
by ERIC CORTELLESSA
THE LEADER ISRAEL NEEDED
by EHUD BARAK
HOW GAZA HEALS

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Ed Jennings @edjennings.bsky.social · 13h

Another one falls in Kent.

Reform has suspended county councillor Robert Ford after a complaint was made about him by 'several female members of staff.'

The party said that Cllr Ford refused to engage with the complaints process, so he has had the whip removed pending a disciplinary process.

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series of gj tubes @katimcf.bsky.social · 8h

still at $0 for dog food, my food, or meds 😔 truly anything helps - if I can raise $10-$20 before the corner store closes at 11 i can get a small bag of dog food from there to last us a few days!

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series of gj tubes @katimcf.bsky.social · 9h

still at $0/$355 for my late fee, dog and human food, and meds - I’m starting to get REALLY tired and weak, I’m in a lot of pain, and I RLY need to feed this guy so anything helps! 🫡❤️‍🩹 #HelpSky #MutualAidRequest

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Silver the borzoi cuddled into my lap with his eyes closed while I scratch his forehead and ears

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 2d

This heartfelt and meaningful statement by Portland resident and author Cristina Breshears on another social media platform bears reposting here. I don't think the intent is to idealize Portland but to remind all of us what is important and why. (Posted here with permission.)

For nine nights now, the steady thrum of Black Hawk helicopters has circled over Portland. The sound is constant, invasive; a low mechanical beating above our homes. It’s expensive. It’s intimidating. And it’s unnecessary.

Our protests have been largely peaceful. There is no insurrection here. Yet this federalized military presence makes us feel like we are living in a war zone (the very kind of chaos this administration claims to be protecting us from).

The irony is painful: it is only this occupation that makes Portland feel unsafe.

Each hour of helicopter flight costs taxpayers between $2,000 and $4,000, depending on crew, fuel, and maintenance. Multiply that by multiple aircraft over multiple nights, and you’re looking at hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars burned into the sky.

Meanwhile, the Woodstock Food Pantry at All Saints Episcopal Church — which feeds working families, elders, and people with disabilities — has seen its federal funding slashed by 75%. How can we justify pouring public money into intimidation while cutting aid to those who simply need to eat?

This is waste, fraud, and abuse in plain sight:
* Waste of public resources on military theatrics.
* Fraud in the name of “public safety.”
* Abuse of the communities that federal agencies claim to protect.

Portland is a Sanctuary City. A sanctuary city is not a fortress. It’s a promise — a living vow that a community will protect the dignity and safety of everyone who calls it home. It means that local governments and ordinary people alike will refuse to criminalize survival. That schools, clinics, churches, and shelters will remain safe spaces no matter who you are or where you were born. But the term reaches far beyond policy. It’s an ethic of belonging; a refusal to criminalize need, difference, or desperation.

Sanctuary isn’t weakness. It’s courage. It takes moral strength to meet suffering with care instead of punishment, to believe that our neighbors’ safety is bound up in our own, to insist that safety is not achieved through force but through community, inclusion, and trust. It is living Matthew 25:40 out loud and in deed. It is an act of moral imagination and moral defiance. To hold sanctuary is to say: you belong here.

When we hold space for the most vulnerable — refugees, the unhoused, the undocumented, the disabled, the working poor, the displaced — we become something larger than a collection of individuals. We become a moral body. We do more than offer charity. We offer witness. We declare that the measure of a nation is found not in its towers or tanks, but in its tenderness.

Sanctuary cities are not lawless; they are soulful. They represent the conscience of the nation, a place where the laws of empathy still apply. To make sanctuary is to affirm that the United States is not merely a geographic territory, but a moral experiment: a republic that must constantly choose between fear and compassion, between domination and democracy.

A nation’s soul is measured not by the might of its military, but by the mercy of its people. When helicopters circle our skies in the name of order, while food pantries struggle to feed the hungry, we are forced to ask: What are we defending, and from whom? The soul of a nation survives only when we make sanctuary for one another. Not through walls or weapons, but through compassion and collective will. If we allow intimidation to replace compassion, we will have traded our conscience for control.

Please know that despite the hum of war machines overhead, the conscience of our city — whimsical, creative, stubbornly kind — can still be heard.

Portland is not the problem. Portland is the reminder. A reminder that a city can still choose to be sanctuary. That a people can still choose to be human.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 9h

In a world where most politicians won't mention trans people except to throw us under the bus, this ad from @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is honestly such a breath of fresh air.

youtu.be/bEvVSpN0BXg?...

Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 9h

+ The way "hostages" is applied to Israelis hostages but not to Palestinians when the same articles admit "vast majority of Palestinian prisoners were held without charge" which reads to me like they were hostages, too.

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 16h

Very jarring how the media treats some lives as inherently and others not.

I am happy for hostages and their families to be reunited, but it’s shocking how little media attention is given to “how do Gazans grapple with the utter destruction of their homes, vast loss of lives, and ongoing famine.”

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AJ McCannibalism @robertgalbraith.bsky.social · 9h

Godspeed Miss Major.

Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 9h

Breaking: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, the legendary transgender activist and veteran of the Stonewall uprising who dedicated her life to the liberation of trans people, especially Black trans women, has died at 78.

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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 9h

Breaking: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, the legendary transgender activist and veteran of the Stonewall uprising who dedicated her life to the liberation of trans people, especially Black trans women, has died at 78.

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Humanity Must Win @humanitymustwin.bsky.social · 11h

Investors in genocide should be under criminal investigation by the ICC.

Humanity Must Win @humanitymustwin.bsky.social · 6d

Ellison should be surveilled. He funds the IDF. #genocide fortune.com/2024/09/17/o...

Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ | Fortune

Oracle's Larry Ellison believes citizens and police alike will be under constant surveillance of each other.

fortune.com

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