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Gender apathetic gen xer, but she/her for least controversy. Fuck fascism, climate change, capitalism, genocide, colonialism. acab. Conscientious objector to ai: llms and art. Long covider: me/cfs version. Nobody coming to save us, we gotta save each other

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turboeasteregg @turboeasteregg.bsky.social · Apr 15

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · Apr 15

This is a moral fight between Right and Wrong. It isn’t time to retreat from it, to parse out legal trespassing as reality is being tirelessly shifted.

Stop looking to the referees and institutions. They’ve failed you. Stop expecting someone to save us, they won’t. This is on us.

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turboeasteregg @turboeasteregg.bsky.social · 1d

not happy to hear about the October slide, but glad to know, to be able to factor it in as another potential variable

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re chronically ill, remember that the October slide can easily last until November.

If you’re flaring more and can’t figure out why… go a little slower.

Be gentle with yourself.

This time of year is always hard on us.

My October slide feels like an October quarter!

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 3d

If you’re celebrating Halloween please spare a thought for all the kids in Chicago too scared to go trick or treating because ICE agents might tear gas or kidnap them.

This is what operation “Midway Blitz” has done and it’s disgusting.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 3d

But Halloween? Sure, it's got that date night/dress up thing going on. Sexy Pizza Rat costumes and all that, and that's cool.

But at its core? What it's all about? You go outside and give treats to neighbors and strangers! It's OUTWARD, COMMUNITY-FOCUSED, REDISTRIBUTIVE.

Just the best.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 3d

hi we're all dressed like monsters and dead things while we embody the generosity, kindness, and joy that being human should be all about every day of our lives

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 3d

You cannot say Americans aren't ready for socialism when Halloween exists in its current glorious form.

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 3d

Halloween is the best holiday because it's all about people giving neighbors and strangers treats for free and telling kids how awesome they are.

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turboeasteregg @turboeasteregg.bsky.social · 3d

sigh, sure I'd prefer to understand how to hack my brain's eccentricities, but i don't wanna hafta hack myself, is the thing

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 4d

if I can't tell where it is, just follow the cat

dude trained himself to alert to the phone alarm

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turboeasteregg @turboeasteregg.bsky.social · 4d

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 4d

I don't think there's really an easy or straightforward way to convey to the public at large just how bad things have gotten. Normalcy bias is a hell of a drug and decades of apocalyptic political messaging have sapped the effectiveness of dire language in truly dire moments. It's so bad right now

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 4d

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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 5d

Fortunately, thanks
to a statement we know
that the lab monkeys
from the truck crash
“have not been exposed
to any infectious agent.”

Unfortunately, thanks
to your coworker
the one who insists
they just have a cold,
that statement
cannot be made about you.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 5d

They’re ordering the National Guard of all 50 states and US territories to prepare for riot control.

In three days over 42 million Americans lose their food assistance.

Starving people don’t starve quietly.

Take care of your neighbour. Take care of each other.

Revealed: Pentagon orders states’ national guards to form ‘quick reaction forces’ for ‘crowd control’

Pentagon memo details plan to train over 20,000 national guard members across the US to carry out Trump’s order on subduing civil unrest

www.theguardian.com

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 5d

... needless to say, the situation works in reverse. You are responsible, ie, can be punished, for everything you do from the time you're a child, but you're never quite ready for the leadership roles, never quite qualified for the privileges.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 6d

Being a tradwife and being MAGA are actually both very bad things separately, and especially together.

Neither identity is morally neutral, both are about embodyong very specific white supremacist and misogynist ideologies

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Jessica Wildfire @jessicawildfire.bsky.social · 6d

When I see "the resistance" get up and make these bold speeches, and then I see the signs saying "if Kamala had won, we'd be a brunch," I don't feel hopeful. I feel annoyed. Because brunch is where they were when millions of children were acquiring lifelong illness and bird flu was training up.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 6d

If you know someone relying on SNAP, reach out to them.

Don’t assume they can “just go to a food bank”

Don’t assume they have a contingency.

Many people, especially with disabilities, either can’t get to a food bank or have special diets they can’t accommodate.

They need help

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Jessica Wildfire @jessicawildfire.bsky.social · 6d

The Constitution means nothing if everyone only enforces the parts they like when it suits them. And that's happening. That's where we are. So, stop citing the Constitution as if it's a magic shield to stop Trump from seeking a third term. He's going to do it, and someone will have to stop him.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 7d

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.

Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.

The people who need help are not the problem.

It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · Oct 27

For folks asking why: Inversions!

Because of how the wind in the front range works, the weather changes that presage a sudden temperature drop and snowfall push a mass of wet, cold air towards us from Weld County, where the feed lots - and, importantly, hog lagoons - are.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 8d

"Over these last nine days, I ask for only one thing from each of you. MORE."

This is really really fucking good.

It is inspiring to be asked for MORE when you are part of a movement that matters.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 8d

42 million people are about to lose their food assistance.

Now would be a great time to cancel a billionaire owned service like Prime or Paramount and set up a recurring monthly donation to a food bank instead.

Stop supporting the rich oligarchy and help one another survive.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 8d

"Oh that won't work outside of New York." Same people said it wouldn't work *inside* of New York then desperately tried to make sure it would fail and they couldn't stop it; and what they've tried every election cycle doesn't work outside of New York, so maybe let's stop listening to those voices.

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turboeasteregg @turboeasteregg.bsky.social · 9d

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Absolutely Petrify Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 9d

Do what you can today. Repeat tomorrow. Take care of each other. ❤️

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Absolutely Petrify Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 9d

Do what you can today. Repeat tomorrow. Take care of each other. ❤️

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Absolutely Petrify Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 9d

5. Setting an example matters. Is it "performative" to tell people you donated/volunteered? Sure. But that performance inspires others. I did a match b/c of @adapalmer.bsky.social; others donated b/c of that. At least one person matched one of THOSE donations. Kindness, like courage, is contagious.

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