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✨ we are messy, but we are equals ✨ trying to live wholeheartedly. writer. eco-nerd. beginner chaplain. anarchist. Sorrel, they/them sorrelvirginiahester.substack.com
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local friendly they/them @thegenerouspine.bsky.social · Sep 11
VIRTUAL CHECKPOINT 🤠 PLEASE HALT. ✋
thegenerouspine.bsky.social local friendly they/them @thegenerouspine.bsky.social · Sep 11
If you are reading this, here's a virtual checkpoint. After you do a few rounds of breathing with this image, close your laptop and pick up a book or open a playlist and take a break from the internet.
I will suggest this one for now bc I'm a nerd: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-EA...
a black and white drawing of an octagon with the words breathe out below it
ALT: a black and white drawing of an octagon with the words breathe out below it
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Omar Fateh @omarfatehmn.com · 4h
Our campaign has been about flipping the priorities and we're almost to the finish line! Tomorrow is Election Day, so be sure to vote and rank Omar #1 to ensure our mayor is accountable to us.
Photo of Omar Fateh with a background of photos of supporters.
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Cartoonist Cooperative @cartoonist.coop · 6h
The Cartoonist Co-op is no longer affiliated with Affinity due to their recent integration of AI tools.

You can read the Co-op's official statement on AI here: cartoonist.coop/journal/ai/

Art by Cy McQuinn (@cymechdraws.bsky.social)
Cyborg mascots attack BIG BOSS ROBO!! NO ART WITHOUT WORKERS!! (Note: Jessi added this alternative description for the March newsletter for a bit more clarity: A red, black, and white illustration of the Cartoonist Cooperative's mascots, Inkling (an inkwell) and Nibford (a dip pen), smashing a cyborg boss character. Text above and below reads, "No art without workers!")
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Aunt Fancy @auntiefancy.bsky.social · 3h
Holy shit this is so good
phineas.bsky.social Phineas @phineas.bsky.social · 6h
New awareness campaign
A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: Using Generative AI? You’re prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 2d
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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 13d
I wonder where the sapphires, diamonds and other gems that were stolen from the Louvre, were actually stolen from back when they were placed in those lovely jewelry pieces.

I mean…whose bounty was it, really?
dandantransient.bsky.social Willie Jack's Favorite Uncle @dandantransient.bsky.social · 13d
A bunch of people trying to make me feel bad someone robbed the Louvre, lol.

Like when the museums give back the world's shit I'll care about them getting robbed.

When the French payback Haiti for paying for freedom from slavery maybe I'll care they lost a necklace.
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Andy @andy.wrestlejoy.com · 14d
ICE is now the 13th largest military in the world on its own.

Never ever accept the lie we cannot pay for Universal Healthcare.
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thegenerouspine.bsky.social
local friendly they/them @thegenerouspine.bsky.social · 15d
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local friendly they/them @thegenerouspine.bsky.social · 18d
yes
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Raea 🦋✨🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @raea.meangirls.online · 18d
using chatgpt to dunk on chatgpt is like eating poop to give it a bad review. you ate poop
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local friendly they/them @thegenerouspine.bsky.social · 18d
Like, if you are gonna be repentent, just do it. Do it without applause because it is the right thing to do. No need to spin it as an "interesting story". There is no need to center ICE, even if it is repentent agents. They are not the heroes. Everyone who resisted and survives ICE are the heroes.
thegenerouspine.bsky.social
local friendly they/them @thegenerouspine.bsky.social · 18d
Also, the BIPOC in ICE are not gonna get a pass either. I can already see white supremacist journalists and media folks tokenizing BIPOC ICE agents to justify the centering of ICE agent stories.

(The ancestors are scowling at you from the heavens now and they will continue to for a long time lmao.)
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local friendly they/them @thegenerouspine.bsky.social · 18d
OH GOD. PLEASE NO. DON'T DO IT.

Our society and media and our legal systems loves the center the wrong-doer rather than the survivor or the harmed.
blackazizanansi.blacksky.app Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 18d
Promise me that yall aren't going to platform the eventual "repentent ICE agent" stories that will come out...
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 18d
lol not even if you waterboarded me.

When that pendulum swings, it's gonna be unbearable.

"I didn't realize how wrong it was until I saw/did if for myself" is among the most unbearable varieties of "Just Say You Don't Believe Marginalized People, But With Extra Steps."
blackazizanansi.blacksky.app Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 18d
Promise me that yall aren't going to platform the eventual "repentent ICE agent" stories that will come out...
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local friendly they/them @thegenerouspine.bsky.social · 18d
Person Who Doesn't Half Ass Things but burnt out because they don't half ass things (so now they half ass things because they are burnt out) tries dating people who doesn't expect Person Who Doesn't Half Ass Things to be perfect.
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Sean Padilla says #ProtectJhordin and #FreeLink @seanpadilla.blacksky.app · 19d
It’s telling that the cover of the album isn’t a picture of D’Angelo himself. It’s a scanned frame of 16mm footage filmed at the Afropunk Festival in 2014 that pictures the crowd raising their hands in protest at the killing of Michael Brown.
thetrudz.photo tru @thetrudz.photo · 20d
What D’Angelo said Black Messiah means. It came out at the end of 2014 and it was so needed.
Article (Nolan Feeney; TIME) excerpt reads: “Black Messiah is a hell of a name for an album. It can be misunderstood. Many will think it's about religion. Some will jump to the conclusion that I'm calling myself a Black Messiah. For me, the title is about all of us. It's about the world. It's about an idea we can all aspire to. We should all aspire to be a Black Messiah. It's about people rising up in Ferguson and in Egypt and in Occupy Wall Street and in every place where a community has had enough and decides to make change happen, D'Angelo writes in a statement about the album It's not about praising one charismatic leader but celebrating thousands of them. Not every song on this album is politically charged (though many are), but calling this album Black Messiah creates a landscape there these songs can live to the fullest. Black Messiah is not one man. It's a feeling that, collectively, we are all that leader.” “D’Angelo’s First Album in 14 Years Is Finally Here, and It’s Surprisingly Timely” via TIME.
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local friendly they/them @thegenerouspine.bsky.social · 19d
Can't wait to watch tomorrow after work.
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local friendly they/them @thegenerouspine.bsky.social · 19d
So much love for D'Angelo. D'Angelo forever.
Y'all, I'm so sad.
thegenerouspine.bsky.social
local friendly they/them @thegenerouspine.bsky.social · 20d
Just came home and got the news about Miss Major. So many tears of gratitude. </3
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 20d
The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight
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local friendly they/them @thegenerouspine.bsky.social · 21d
PMDD corner of Reddit is out here saving lives, helping people like me feel less alone. I love you, PMDD corner of Reddit.
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 23d
I've realized that a whole lot of smart and well-informed people are overestimating the value and potential of "AI" tools because they underestimate how smart and well-informed they themselves are and how much expertise they bring to the interaction.

It's the curse of knowledge all the way down.
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local friendly they/them @thegenerouspine.bsky.social · 23d
look at that floor roll. immaculate.
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local friendly they/them @thegenerouspine.bsky.social · 23d
This skelly is improv dance goals lmao
jamnpp.bsky.social Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 23d
Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.
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local friendly they/them @thegenerouspine.bsky.social · 23d
Also, for all the stereotypes of Marxists of all kinds being well read... some of you skipped the parts that included clowning in NDA (nonviolent direct action).
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local friendly they/them @thegenerouspine.bsky.social · 23d
I have studied conflict and movements for social change for a while with the intention of trying to be a movement chaplain (I'm in higher ed right now). This is to say: you cannot pay me to argue with some edgelord who has not participated in social movements about the frog costumes. Absolutely not.
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