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Rowan 🏴 @rowanseamonster.bsky.social · 4d

Capitalism, the abrahamic religions, animal cruelty, human over-population and the lack of sensual massage are the main problems of the world. Period.

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Amy 🇨🇦 @amypisces.bsky.social · 8h

Note to self: if the publisher is "Spines", do not read.

Marco Rinaldi @marcorinaldi.bsky.social · Nov 25

Why? Who is this meant to be good for? Nobody wants your shit AI books, never mind 8,000 in a year. Just a terrible idea and a horrible road the publishing industry is heading down.

Bookseller article with the headline "New publisher Spines aims to 'disrupt' industry by using AI to publish 8,000 books in 2025 alone" 🤮🤮🤮

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1h

A new week - and a new huge milestone!

@greenparty.org.uk now have 100,000 members!!!

We are absolutely on track to next overtake the Tories - let's make hope normal again!

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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Feral Millennial Communists of Late Stage Capitalism @feralcommie.bsky.social · 21h

Release the 10,000 Palestinian hostages

Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 1d

IF THIS IS NOT HOSTAGE TAKING, WHAT IS? Israel refuses to release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya who insisted on staying with his patients in his bombed hospital even after his own son was murdered. Since then he has been held in one of Israel's torture facilities.

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Rowan 🏴 @rowanseamonster.bsky.social · 3h

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Beyond Raging Waves

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Jimmy Two Heads 👻🎃💀 @jimmytwohands.bsky.social · 7h

If i had a time machine i would not kill baby Hitler, I would torpedo the mayflower

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 1d

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 6d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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josexy.bsky.social @josexy.bsky.social · 4h

Humans are the only possessive species in the planet, we want to fence everything and claim it as ours. Shame on us, land should not be fence and allow any being to roam free!

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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 23h

Meanwhile, a Russian small drone targeted a craft beer shop in the Ukrainian city of Nikopol on Oct 11, killing the 23 y.o. vendor lady inside.
Nikopol has endured Russian terror strikes for 3 years now, as it sits just across a big Dnipro River from the RU-occupied territory.

Don't look away.

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Rowan 🏴 @rowanseamonster.bsky.social · 4h

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DJ Krush - Skin Against Skin (Feat. Deborah Anderson)

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Rowan 🏴 @rowanseamonster.bsky.social · 5h

"You always have to defend the imagination against idiots."
Ursula Le Guin

Rowan 🏴 @rowanseamonster.bsky.social · 6h

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Learn Staff Spinning: And the Real Reason We Must Train It

YouTube video by Let's ask Seki Sensei | Online Katana Lessons

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Rowan 🏴 @rowanseamonster.bsky.social · 6h

Someone should've kicked that fascist in the face.

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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 8h

watch this entire video
don’t look way

Ricardo Parreira @ricardoparreira.com · 10h

Aux États-Unis, ici, partout, la police est raciste, la police est violente.

Et cette institution est payée par nous.

De plus, deux personnes qui ont porté assistance à Erika McGriff lorsqu’elle se faisait tabasser ont été interpellées pour avoir enfreint la loi Halo.

Le fascisme quoi.

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Rowan 🏴 @rowanseamonster.bsky.social · 6h

Stalin was cute AF when he was young...

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Rebecca Thompson 🦋 @rebalynn.bsky.social · 2d

(1965) "Killer garage from this Jersey band, released on M5 in 1965. Top surf guitar riff on this one!!! This is the flip to "Marbletown". (from the interesting YouTube "liner notes" inside 👇 👇)
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Chips & Co. - Let the wind blow (60's GARAGE PUNK)

YouTube video by Glendoras // DJ Mean Mojo Mathias

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Egel @egel.bsky.social · 1d

Als RET niet wil dat hun bussen beschadigdworden door boze opgepakte demonstranten, moet ze haar bussen niet beschikbaar stellen voor het afvoeren van zulke demonstranten. RET hoort niet als verlengstuk van de politie te werken. Arrestantenvervoer is geen OV.

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Gevolgen van spoorblokkade: gewonde activisten en agenten, stadsbussen vernield, ProRail doet aangifte

Nu het spoor weer is vrijgegeven, worden de gevolgen van de demonstraties in de Rotterdamse haven duidelijk. Van de ruim 300 actievoerders van Geef Tegengas die zaterdagmiddag van het spoor werden geh...

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Rowan 🏴 @rowanseamonster.bsky.social · 7h

Sith Lords are my specialty. Where's my kneepads...

Rowan 🏴 @rowanseamonster.bsky.social · 7h

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Godzilla-1.0 Roar

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Ian Thomas Malone @ianthomasmalone.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t wait to tell my grandkids about the Giant Frogs that saved Portland.

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 11h

MARXISM TAUGHT ME WHAT SOCIETY WAS. I WAS LIKE A BLINDFOLDED MAN IN A FOREST, WHO DOESN'T EVEN KNOW WHERE NORTH OR SOUTH IS.
IF YOU DON'T
EVENTUALLY COME TO TRULY UNDERSTAND THE HISTORY OF THE CLASS STRUGGLE, OR AT LEAST HAVE A CLEAR IDEA THAT SOCIETY IS DIVIDED BETWEEN THE RICH AND THE POOR AND
RE
THAT SOME PEOPLE SUBJUGATE AND
EXPLOIT OTHER PEOPLE,
YOU'RE LOST IN A FOREST, NOT
KNOWING ANYTHING.
-FIDEL CASTRO

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 9h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

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Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Rowan 🏴 @rowanseamonster.bsky.social · 9h

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Why the Right and Record Labels Want to Replace Artists with AI

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 10h

The human mind is not equipped to deal with the constant onslaught of realizing that there are far more ignorant, genuinely sponge-dumb people in the world than you ever thought possible.

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Rowan 🏴 @rowanseamonster.bsky.social · 9h

I just block them all. Sally, the Atlantic and Weiss. Far simpler.

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Joey Scott @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social · 9h

Swim goggles can't survive a munition hitting you in the face and can cause your eye to pop out. Invest in your safety. Get goggles rated for ballistics and a good seal.

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