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micchiato 🍉 @micchiato.bsky.social · 1d

White people: please stop using the word “woke” as a pejorative. It has both a specific cultural and historical context predating the 21st century.

@LeslieStreeter
"Woke" was a term developed within the African-American community as a reminder to be aware and prepared. It was stolen to be directed at White people suspected of "virtue signaling" as a way to disarm its power and pervert it. Using it as a pejorative tells on yourself.
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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Trivialencounters @arnettjonathan.bsky.social · 1d

Hello everyone! As you may know, our friend at @infinitokens.com was recently injured during Magic Con Atlanta. This injury has created some difficulties that may result in a loss of revenue. To support our friend, I have partnered with some others to bring you #NotAFundraiser p1/?

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Hobbes (like the Heathen) Q (like the letter) @hobbesq.bolasgang.com · 20h

I think we all know I think @infinitokens.com is an awesome human, we need to support her during this

Trivialencounters @arnettjonathan.bsky.social · 1d

Hello everyone! As you may know, our friend at @infinitokens.com was recently injured during Magic Con Atlanta. This injury has created some difficulties that may result in a loss of revenue. To support our friend, I have partnered with some others to bring you #NotAFundraiser p1/?

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Kat the Antifascist 🚫🧊 @tarmokat.bsky.social · 5d

Farewell til next time 💙

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Kat the Antifascist 🚫🧊 @tarmokat.bsky.social · 7d

Happy place 🌊

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tappytoeclaws.bsky.social @tappytoeclaws.bsky.social · 7d

No ethical consumption under capitalism and all BUT I promise you'd be happier and make an actual material difference for someone if every time you wanted to buy another labubu/fast fashion item/pack of magic cards you just comm'd art from an small/indie/hobbyist artist.

Promise.

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Kat the Antifascist 🚫🧊 @tarmokat.bsky.social · 8d

Fuckin class act til the very end. I love her so much I can’t even explain.

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 9d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Democat. @democat66.bsky.social · 9d

Very wise lady. We should listen.

She is very pro earth. She’s very pro democracy. She wants to put Trump, Putin, Xi, and Netanyahu on a one way flight into space. 🐒

Oh Jane, I miss you.

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 9d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 9d

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Kat the Antifascist 🚫🧊 @tarmokat.bsky.social · 10d

a close up of a man 's face with imgflip.com at the bottom of the screen

ALT: a close up of a man 's face with imgflip.com at the bottom of the screen

media.tenor.com

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Will BOO-rows 🖖🍞🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 10d

I went here and everyone knew Garak

Roadside sign that says "Climax Julian next right."

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Kat the Antifascist 🚫🧊 @tarmokat.bsky.social · 10d

Omg nooo 😢

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BEAVE @beaveinflow.bsky.social · Aug 17

Here’s a photo of my cat trying to catch a bubble. You’re welcome.

Orange Tabby cat, Greg, standing tall on his hind toe beans with front paws stretched straight in the air trying to catch a catnip bubble floating above his head.

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Kat the Antifascist 🚫🧊 @tarmokat.bsky.social · 14d

🥰🥰🥰

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Simon @smallpoxeater.bsky.social · 14d

MY GIRLLLLL

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Ryan Pancoast - Illustrator/Artist @rpancoast.bsky.social · 14d

Emptiness, 14"x18" oil on linen panel
#MtGLorwyn #MtGart

I love painting faces and was really looking forward to all the cool creatures of Lorwyn since the first one was before my time. But I guess someone has to paint a horrific creature with the absence of a face. 🤷‍♂️

Painting of an elemental incarnation called Emptiness, a giant faceless skeletal creature, trailing smoke and walking through a swamp

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Kat the Antifascist 🚫🧊 @tarmokat.bsky.social · 14d

Yay!! Rest up and feel better ❤️‍🩹

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Joseph H. Johnson, Jr. @blackneto.bsky.social · 15d

I had so much fun this weekend!!!! 🙌🏾

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Thwarp of the Fomori @trash-artificer.bsky.social · 15d

This is the single best picture of me
#MCAtlanta

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Kat the Antifascist 🚫🧊 @tarmokat.bsky.social · 15d

LOOKIT my friend being amazing 🥹🥹🥹 @jackalcostuming.bsky.social

MTG Festivals @mtgfestivals.com · 15d

** End of Transmission **

That's a wrap on #MCAtlanta! The main hall is now closed. Thank you all for making this show such an amazing end for 2025 's MagicCon season!

Ajani Goldmane cosplayer (@jackalcostuming.bsky.social) upper body portrait wearing a set of sunglasses and a baby bjorn with a Fblthp plushie inside them.

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Kat the Antifascist 🚫🧊 @tarmokat.bsky.social · 15d

Hey that is @jackalcostuming.bsky.social :3

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MTG Festivals @mtgfestivals.com · 15d

** End of Transmission **

That's a wrap on #MCAtlanta! The main hall is now closed. Thank you all for making this show such an amazing end for 2025 's MagicCon season!

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Bugs, Beleaguered Babysitter of the Booger Brothers @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 15d

i'm going to be very real:

how are you supposed to try to be normal right now. we have fascists trying to Become Columbine every week, ICE is just straight up the gestapo now, the economy is crashing and the only thing keeping it afloat is AI.

i am so tired.

i am so fucking tired.

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