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very tired 30something disabled white autistic trans nonbinary queer ace parent w/ ADHD, and chronic pain. love the stranger as yourself daloy politsey & bafrayt palestina (ot di transliteratsye harget fashistn) 🧑‍💻 https://autpunk.space

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spiritomb ⚧✡🏴‍☠️Ⓐ @spiritomb.bsky.social · Feb 7

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 2h

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

FORM A CROWD
STAY LOUD
PROTECT EACH OTHER
CODE I:
ICE NEARBY
BLOW QUICKLY IN A BROKEN RHYTHM:
PRE-PRE-PRE!
→ ALERTS THE COMMUNITY THAT ICE AGENTS ARE IN THE AREA.
ROGERS PARK WHISTLE PROTOCOLS
WHY A WHISTLE? ON THE STREETS
• A SIMPLE TOOL FOR FAST ALERTS.
• LOUD.
RECOGNIZABLE.
IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE.
• OUR VOICES ARE
STRONGER TOGETHER.
WHISTLES GUIDE
PEOPLE TO:
• FOLLOW ICE CARAVANS
• CATCH UP WITH THE CROWD
• ALERT NEIGHBORS
TO JOIN IN
NOISE = VISIBILITY.
CODE 2:
CODE RED
BLOW THREE LONG BLASTS:
PREEEE-PREEEE-PREEEE!
→ ICE IS DETAINING SOMEONE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
DON'T STAY SILENT. STAY NONVIOLENT.
WHY IT WORKS
• INSTANT ALERT
SYSTEM
• FASTER THAN SOCIAL MEDIA
• TURNS SILENCE INTO COMMUNITY
ACTION
ORIGINAL FLYER CREATED BY:
WHAT YOU CAN DO
• WEAR YOUR WHISTLE AROUND YOUR NECK
TEACH FAMILY
EIGHBORS TH
CODES
• USE IT WHEN ICE IS
SPOTTED
• PROTECT EACH OTHER, ALWAYS
TOGETHER, WE KEEP OUR COMMUNITY SAFE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
THIS FLYER DISTRIBUTED BY:
PROTECT RP
• @PROTECTRP_

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 4h

"Slashdot: What's the reason OneDrive tells users this setting can only be turned off 3 times a year?

[Microsoft's publicist chose not to answer this question.]"

Microsoft's OneDrive Begins Testing Face-Recognizing AI for Photos (for Some Preview Users) - Slashdot

I uploaded a photo on my phone to Microsoft's "OneDrive" file-hosting app — and there was a surprise waiting under Privacy and Permissions. "OneDrive uses AI to recognize faces in your photos.....

slashdot.org

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 15h

Thankfully, some of yesterday's CDC firings have been rescinded.

But this should be a major scandal, not business as usual in this shitshow of an administration. It's either spectacular incompetence or an effort to make even politically untouchable positions feel precarious to those in them.

Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 16h

100s of #CDC employees were notified Friday they were being fired — RIF'd. The firings cross multiple parts of the agency, endangering its core mission of keeping Americans safe.
Saturday, some were informed they were RIF'd in error.
Hard to imagine how this happens www.statnews.com/2025/10/11/c...

CDC battered by government shutdown firings, while some are rescinded

The White House’s mass firing of CDC staff on Friday has decimated offices related to injury prevention, respiratory disease surveillance, and chronic disease, according to four people familiar with t...

www.statnews.com

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Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 15h

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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 17h

In Hebrew you don’t wear socks, you sock socks and I think that’s beautiful.

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spiritomb ⚧✡🏴‍☠️Ⓐ @spiritomb.bsky.social · 17h

car bad. oof

spiritomb ⚧✡🏴‍☠️Ⓐ @spiritomb.bsky.social · 1d

i once replaced the startup sound effect on the windows xp family computer with an evil laugh and it scared the shit out of my sister

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Esther @mahoniaaquifolium.bsky.social · 1d

I mean what do you say about this except that this administration and their foot-soldiers are just Nazis. They're Nazis.

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 2d

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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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 1d

Write it in the sky with hundred foot letters of burning flame

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Nov 13

if i've learned one thing from doing union stuff while also doing other forms of organizing, it's that you're better off with people you disagree with who are nevertheless trying to do the same thing as you than with people you agree with who aren't trying to do anything

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spiritomb ⚧✡🏴‍☠️Ⓐ @spiritomb.bsky.social · 2d

nvm i apparently can't read

spiritomb ⚧✡🏴‍☠️Ⓐ @spiritomb.bsky.social · 2d

who are the "top" antifa figures according to them lmao

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spiritomb ⚧✡🏴‍☠️Ⓐ @spiritomb.bsky.social · 2d

this photo of charlie chaplin gives me a lot of gender euphoria because it very clearly shows that this man was a short king (5'4, or 164 cm) with wide hips and a pixar mom ass

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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 2d

Karen Hoyland, 58, who insists you were just fine until you got this autism nonsense in your head, has stated that this is typical of you and your non-stop drama.

Consistent! Person who says you’re not autistic gives you most shit for acting autistic

The person in your life who’s convinced you’re not really autistic at all is also the hardest on you about every single autistic trait you exhibit, it has been confirmed. Karen Hoyland, 58, who…

thedailytism.com

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spiritomb ⚧✡🏴‍☠️Ⓐ @spiritomb.bsky.social · 2d

i have an old printed map from a few years ago that i need to pin to my bedroom wall. the NYC subway system is hands-down my favorite of all the subway systems I've experienced ❤️

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 2d

in case you wanted to read something not from this administration about what antifa is and isn't

buttondown.com/theswordandt...

We Keep Us Safe: On Antifa

This past Saturday, Donald Trump announced that his administration would be deploying federal troops to Portland, OR, authorizing the military to use “full...

buttondown.com

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 2d

Pope Leo's first encyclical emphasizes defense of immigrants.

"The Church, like a mother, accompanies those who are walking...She knows that in every rejected migrant, it is Christ himself who knocks at the door of the community."
www.axios.com/2025/10/09/p...

Pope Leo's first encyclical: Faith means defending migrants

Leo XIV puts Vatican at odds with the White House.

www.axios.com

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spiritomb ⚧✡🏴‍☠️Ⓐ @spiritomb.bsky.social · 2d

yes, this! any correlation could be easily shown as "it's access to medical care" by looking at autism rates in the circumcised & uncircumcised kids' siblings who were assigned female at birth!

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 3d

Did someone just heal me or did I just drink a glass of water after consuming nothing but caffeine? A memoir

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spiritomb ⚧✡🏴‍☠️Ⓐ @spiritomb.bsky.social · 2d

i am 100% anticipating that antisemites will start blaming Jews for autism now, if they don't already (they probably do)

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 3d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 3d

Seeing many posts about how ICE isn't trained. That's not really the problem. The problem is what they were sent to do, not whether they're qualified to do it.

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Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 3d

It'd be exciting to develop tiny ESP32 powered AirTag-like-devices that operate on encrypted LoRa channels.

If stuck on in the wheel well of an ICE vehicle, you'd have a tracking system that would evolve into a technological arms race between the open source community and agoraphobic rent-a-cops.

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 3d

As an instructor, I'd rather see your fever dream, No Doze-fueled 4AM essays written at an IHOP rather than anything generated by an LLM.

Hope this helps

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 3d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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spiritomb ⚧✡🏴‍☠️Ⓐ @spiritomb.bsky.social · 3d

it was for a piece I submitted to [redacted university]'s student newspaper and i am very thankful ❤️

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 3d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

spiritomb ⚧✡🏴‍☠️Ⓐ @spiritomb.bsky.social · 3d

thinking about getting mascara to apply to my mustache because it's not yet powerful enough to prevent strangers from misgendering me. possibly glitter mascara

spiritomb ⚧✡🏴‍☠️Ⓐ @spiritomb.bsky.social · 3d

i think iirc the conclusion of her paper is that according to the doctrine of double effect, some abortions are permissible?

(my philosophy degree was not primarily focused on moral philosophy. my Things were history of philosophy, analytic philosophy and the Critique of Pure Reason)