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onion person @junlper.beer · 12h

we need to abolish this shit

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 14h

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Portiageist @sailorportia.bsky.social · 1d

Missing your bus because you couldn't cross the chode of a stroad in time is a perfect summary of what's wrong with how cities are structured

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Portiageist @sailorportia.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like iHeart Radio is going to have to hire their own in-house serial killers to make sure there are enough murders to make podcasts about indefinitely

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Elliot 🥕 @nameoftheyear.bsky.social · 1d

LOSING MY MIND AT THE PHONE NUMBER ON THIS BUS IN FRONT OF ME

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 4d

A 22-year-old Palestinian died in Israeli prison -- where he'd been held for a year and a half without charges.

His last two months, he was bed-ridden.

When he died, he weighed 88 lbs.

He was the 78th Palestinian to die in Israeli jail since Oct. 7, 2023.

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

The statement also said Khdeirat had dropped his weight to approximately 40 kilograms (88 pounds).

According to the committee, a lawyer who visited him in August testified that Khdeirat had been bedridden for ove two months.

The PA's statement tallies 78 administrative detainees and prisoners who died in Israeli prison since the start of the war on October 7, 2023.

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Portiageist @sailorportia.bsky.social · 1d

The Cabin in the Woods is about how centrist parties treat trans people send tweet

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Jane @fightingpride93.bsky.social · 2d

Tylenol causes autism? Ok, let me know when you're ready to hear the real deep cut conspiracies

Image of the Hobbit house from Lord of the Rings juxtaposed with the Tubbytronic Superdome from Teletubbies.

Image of the four hobbits from Lord of the Rings juxtaposed with the four teletubbies.

Image of the eye of Sauron from Lord of the Rings juxtaposed with the baby in the sun from the Teletubbies.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 1d

This shouldn’t be stunningly uncommon but please think deep about the last time you saw ANYBODY left of center defend a Black woman publicly

Without a purity test or qualification

Or erasing the reality of what she’s been through before

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

Powerful words of truth and solidarity from Council Speaker Adrienne Adams today. We have your back, Tish James.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 2d

We could be treating Canada Post as not just an essential delivery service, but an essential social infrastructure in our communities.

Instead the government prefers to treat it as a costly burden that must be subject to death by a thousand cuts.

For isolated seniors, Canada Post delivers more than mail | CBC News

As the Canada Post strike hits the one-week mark, there are growing concerns for one group of Canadians who typically rely on the delivery service more than most — seniors.

www.cbc.ca

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Portiageist @sailorportia.bsky.social · 1d

"It might not make sense to you or me, but it's a law that was decided by a bunch of people who identify as knights and barons/baronesses, so who am I to disagree?"

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Art Martinez-Tebbel @amtebbel.bsky.social · 2d

The Nobel people wanted to be clear they’re right wing but not in the gauche American way.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 2d

so they gave the Nobel peace prize to the lady the CIA is trying to overthrow the Venezuelan government with? lol

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Portiageist @sailorportia.bsky.social · 1d

Can't wait for the UK to invent the charge "impersonating a heterosexual/homosexual" to criminalize cis straight & gay people being happily in relationships with trans people. Bisexuality, of course, will be illegal outright under new sumptuary laws for being extravagant under austerity conditions

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Eric Doherty @ericdoherty.bsky.social · 2d

"Our political leaders have stopped talking about inconvenient realities... we seem to have adapted to the notion that summer has become the season for mass evacuations and fire... just the beginning phase of out-of-control climate breakdown" @charlieangus104.bsky.social #cdnpoli #climateemergency

Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 2d

The great derangement syndrome. As the world blows past the 1.5 degree red line Trump and Carney talk about reviving Keystone XL.
It won't lower tariffs on wood, furniture, steel, auto.
But it will be a massive carbon bomb to a struggling planet.
My latest.

substack.com/home/post/p-...

The Great Derangement: Carney, Trump and the Return of Keystone XL

Well, that was unexpected.

substack.com

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Andrew Berkshire @berkshire.bsky.social · 2d

So Carney gifted a cabinet seat to a disgraced journalist whose disgrace included Mark Carney himself. They don’t even try to hide the corruption.

grhoda @grhoda.bsky.social · 2d

yeah

Canadian journalist sacked in scandal involving art sale to Mark Carney

Bank of England governor was interviewed on CBC, the national broadcaster, by Evan Solomon, who brokered deals and took secret commissions, says report

www.theguardian.com

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Portiageist @sailorportia.bsky.social · 2d

*explodes into a zillion pieces*

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A Spooky Goose @anarchygoose.bsky.social · 2d

Just when you thought you couldn't hate Keir Starmer more, here he is undermining the basic principle that legal purchases should be possible.

GamesMarket @gamesmarkt.bsky.social · 2d

UK Gouvernment: Payment Processors Can Ban NSFW Content
According to the UK treasury, payment processors are in the right and the gouvernment has no plans to step in. This puts it in direct contrast to what artists and the UK games industry have asked for.
www.gamesmarket.global/en/business/...

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12th is Stupid, Unserious @twelfth.bsky.social · 2d

The purpose of a system is what it does. There is no mistake here. The brutality is intentional and the horror of the carcereal system lives in our hearts as a threat.

moby spookgirl 🎃🏳️‍⚧️ @eigenvectrix.myatproto.social · 2d

Make no mistake, when the state imprisons a trans woman in a men's prison, it intentionally procures her for the purpose of having her raped. The statistics are extremely clear-cut and consistent in every jurisdiction where they have been collected. There is no way around them

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Portiageist @sailorportia.bsky.social · 2d

Wow I can't believe someone who can't let go of the terf franchise would also be into The Beautiful Boy by Germaine Greer. That's, like, soooo unlikely

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Ashley Heather Quills @voice-quills.com · 2d

This kinda describes me to a T, there's so many times I've gotten into something, wanted to make it work SO bad, but that gnawing fear that if something goes wrong, it's not just the project that failed, I failed as a person

It's hard untangling that, but I'm trying ❤️

InkyInGreen 🍂 @blackwallmancer.bsky.social · 10d

Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).

Someone's screenshot of a two-post twitter thread, from user blue (@bluewmist):

the fastest way to kill motivation is to make your identity depend on the outcome. it's called ego involvement. when failing becomes failing as a person, your brain starts avoiding the whole thing. not because you don't care, but because you care too much.

you don't need lower standards. you need less self-worth tangled up in your goals. the work gets easier when it's not about proving who you are.

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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 2d

admit your shortcomings with conviction and own them as part of yourself and it will serve you better than body armor and also attract more bullets

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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 2d

pro tip: nearly every confidence scam people can carry out in broad daylight relies on a sense of moral injury about being incorrect, being seen to have made a mistake, etc. there's one that works on anyone, but the saying "you can't con an honest man" is true if you consider self-criticism honesty

godslayer @bitdizzy.bsky.social · 2d

There were like 5 years when it seemed having Good Takes was going to transform society. turns out the democrats love to govern through nihilism just as much as republicans. Like people cannot reexamine their understanding of the Obama years for its complicity eroding reality and suppressing dissent

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Ela Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 2d

@b0tster.yeag.gay said it best

Bunlith PSX, reclined like Sonic, saying "I want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less and I'm not kidding"

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Portiageist @sailorportia.bsky.social · 2d

I'm being mean by comparing them to QAnon. Because Q is the 17th number in the alphabet, QAnon people will bake anything related to the number 17 (e.g. 17 words in a sentence in a Trump speech) as a confirmation of their beliefs. QAnon holdouts are in a similarly dire state with the Epstein stuff

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Portiageist @sailorportia.bsky.social · 2d

It's pretty amazing that there are still Gaylors who can keep up the sneering condescension over people not believing that TSwift is a secret lesbian. Like, damn. How do you feel about the number 17, btw?

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