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Storm "Rain of Terror" Blakley, Alleged Human

@vedraven.bsky.social

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Writing, photos, music. Always stand up for human rights! Mostly Feral Trash Goblin, Steel-Toed Menace, genderqueer, they/them. www.stormblakley.com

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Storm "Rain of Terror" Blakley, Alleged Human @vedraven.bsky.social · 4d

Next up in the spooky season is The Pale Ones!

Don't look to hard at the shadows in the world around you; you wouldn't want them to see you, I promise.

stormblakley.com/blog/the-pal...

The Pale Ones (poem) — A Topic for Another Time

Once I wasn’t afraid of the dark, Once I was careless and free; ‘Til the moon removed the scales from my eyes, And the Pale Ones came hunting for me.   Now I skirt every shadow with dread an...

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Designer Hasan @designer4hasand.bsky.social · Mar 17

Vetted Compain🦋
Here, all the meanings of childhood are lost😥
My child Osama,3 years, participating with his soft hands in washing task😞
I want to provide a decent life & stability for my family💔
Please help and donate as much as you can🙏
Thank you to everyone who helps or shares🍉
gofund.me/d6592e10

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · Mar 18

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Hasan. Hasan is a ux/ui designer and his wife Duaa taught English. They have two sons, Amir, 6 and Osama, 3. I spoke with him this morning and like everyone in Gaza his family is terrified and heard bombs all night. Help if you can ❤️

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Designer Hasan @designer4hasand.bsky.social · 21h

Every father dreams of giving his children safety —
but for me, safety means a roof that won’t disappear tomorrow. 🏠💔

We’re short on this month’s rent — $500 needed before the 15th —and without it, my children will have nowhere to sleep in peace.

Your kindness can be our shelter this month. 🙏❤️

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 8h

The ceasefire has taken effect in Gaza but my friend and brother Mohamed's land is lost to the nearly one mile "security buffer zone" it provides which of course comes from Palestinians' land. So he remains at Al Mawasi camp. chuffed.org/project/help...

Help Mohamed Get His Family to Safety

Hello, this is Meave Gallagher, the sponsor of this fundraising campaign for our dear friend, Mohamed Ahmed, the displaced Palestinian farmer growing a small farm in Mawasi, Khan Yunis. His original g...

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 14h

As for Channel 14, she says, "They're Israel's Radio Rwanda [the broadcaster that incited genocide in Rwanda in 1994, I.D.C.]. I believe and hope they'll one day stand trial for their incitement to violence and genocide. But I have no expectations of them."

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 14h

According to a London-based Israeli researcher named Ayala Panievsky, "Only 3% of war-related items in Israeli media throughout the war addressed the civilian situation in Gaza."

Covering the Gaza war, 'Israeli media is like a doctor hiding the patient's condition'

London-based Israeli Researcher Ayala Panievsky Has Been Studying War Coverage in Israel. Her Findings Explain Why the Country Now Seems Out of Touch With the Rest of the World

www.haaretz.com

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Bluesky mods aid genocide by banning Palestinians @pastures.myatproto.social · 15h

One of the more irritating things about some veterans and law-enforcement is that they think they have the most dangerous job in the world. They don't. Farming is more dangerous. So is fishing. Unless you're regularly in combat, it's simply not more dangerous than natural resources careers

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Storm "Rain of Terror" Blakley, Alleged Human @vedraven.bsky.social · 14h

Oh, look, you did the meme! You know the one:

Person A: i like oranges.
Person B: so you hate apples?!?

You're being person b, here. Everyone dislikes that shit person b does, because it's bad faith nonsense. Person B clearly can't be taken seriously, they didn't read or they're playing pretend.

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 14h

Please share—4 hours left 🚨 Ghadeer can’t get online to ask for help for her family. Don’t forget them. Her little sisters’ hunger didn’t just evaporate. They’re still displaced, their home in rubble.

This remains our duty. Be bold. Give/find their link here. 320/640

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

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Justin O’Brien, ICE melter @justinobrien.bsky.social · 19h

Cooked as a country when art can’t be made because we have to take into account the fee-fees of Klan members.

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 20h

Assassin's Creed pulls planned game about the Civil War, apparently because having a black protagonist fighting the KKK would offend too many Americans

www.polygon.com/assassins-cr...

The canceled Assassin's Creed Civil War game was a powder keg waiting to explode

Ubisoft was reportedly working on a game set after the Civil War era, but canceled it due to politics and Assassins Creed Shadows backlash.

www.polygon.com

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Storm "Rain of Terror" Blakley, Alleged Human @vedraven.bsky.social · 15h

Appreciated, my friend. It's been a rough week for me.

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 1d

"We lost everyone. We lost everything."

"They were the worst two years in every person's life in the Gaza Strip. We lost so much."

"We are waiting for a new stage of this war. The stage where we're allowed to live with our sadness."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #USA #Genocide

‘Once the war ends, we’ll be able to weep’: joy and trepidation in Gaza as ceasefire goes into effect

Gaza erupted in celebration as a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas was reached on Thursday. But while there has been an outpouring of joy over the prospect of an end to the genocide, many…

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 16h

Since Link is banned, his mutual aid Fridays have gone with him. This was one of the most altruistic things I’ve seen anyone on this site do.

In light of this, I’m gonna try to fill the gap.

Drop your mutual aid requests under this thread and I will repost them for as long as I can.

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Layla @lili-kh.bsky.social · 7d

IF U LIKED THIS #ART, PLS REPOST!!

It’s meee ✨ a dental student in Gaza, tryna keep up my studies so I can be a dentist & start treating ppl one day. But life here’s mad expensive—food, basics, even sudden displacement under bombs 💔
so any little support helps a ton🫶🍉

chuffed.org/project/layl...

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Storm "Rain of Terror" Blakley, Alleged Human @vedraven.bsky.social · 16h

It has snowed, and I still don't have a roof.

My roof now is worse than it was a week ago, and it snowed last night.

I'm so fucking tired. I know hyperindependence is trauma reponse and deeply healthy, but this shit right here is why I can only rely on myself, why I have to do everything myself.

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Storm "Rain of Terror" Blakley, Alleged Human @vedraven.bsky.social · 4d

If you enjoy my writing and/or photography, please consider throwing us a buck or two!

We're poor and disabled, any help is immensely appreciated, especially going into the cold months.

ko-fi.com/vedraven

paypal.me/stormravens

patreon.com/join/Stormra...

Pay Storm Blakley using PayPal.Me

Go to paypal.me/stormravens and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

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Storm "Rain of Terror" Blakley, Alleged Human @vedraven.bsky.social · 4d

Next up in the spooky season is The Pale Ones!

Don't look to hard at the shadows in the world around you; you wouldn't want them to see you, I promise.

stormblakley.com/blog/the-pal...

The Pale Ones (poem) — A Topic for Another Time

Once I wasn’t afraid of the dark, Once I was careless and free; ‘Til the moon removed the scales from my eyes, And the Pale Ones came hunting for me.   Now I skirt every shadow with dread an...

stormblakley.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

Picking on Black women who had to claw their way through NYC machine politics to get to their positions is just not going to work out for old white senile fascists. That's all I will say on that.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 17h

"At one point, a masked officer strolled into the waiting room, walked up to a young Latin American woman wearing a paper mask and a Lilo & Stitch hoodie, ordered her to remove her face covering, stuck his phone in her face, and took her photo. He then left, with no explanation."

It’s the Place for Immigrants Who Do Things “the Right Way.” ICE Has Turned It Into Hell.

Immigrants come to court-mandated appointments in search of citizenship. They find masked, armed agents instead.

slate.com

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 17h

What middle and upper class cis het white people need to understand is that they only have as many rights as the most vulnerable do. You have only the rights trans people and immigrants do.

Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 1d

Do you really have any rights if they are openly saying they will just make up reasons to detain you?

thematthill.bsky.social @thematthill.bsky.social · 3d

Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.

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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 22h

It's the last Friday of this submission period for Translunar Travelers Lounge. If you have some fantasy, science fiction, or other speculative fiction 5000 words and under, why not submit?

(Open until 15th October, please check the guidelines)
translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 18h

“one day soon—if things go to plan—the world’s press will be free to roam the devastated rubble of what was once Gaza. They will see mass malnourishment, smell decomposing bodies trapped in the ruins, meet traumatised children, debrief exhausted medics—and much, much more.”

Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 20h

I saw nervous relief in Hostage Square, but Netanyahu knows he will face a reckoning www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/israel...

Israelis know that Netanyahu faces a reckoning

The Israeli prime minister and Trump will bask in the glory of the deal. But while there is relief about the ceasefire, there is less optimism about ‘...

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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Linda Tirado @killermartinis.bsky.social · 17h

Today solidarity might look a lot like understanding what precisely posse comitatus is and why people might be talking about title ten.

This is a very good time to make sure we all know what is legal, what is extralegal, and what things which are being shattered are laws v norms.

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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 17h

Your childhood will take an odd turn if you're born in the afterlife because your mom took poison, as we learn in Gordon Brown's story "Birthmarks".

Birthmarks - Small Wonders

Mama drank poison on a black, moonless night. She had forgot to turn the stove off before she died, and the kitchen curtains had caught on fire.

smallwondersmag.com

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 1d

Of fucking course they fucking dropped Marwan Barghouti from the prisoner release list.

Who is Marwan Barghouti? Marwan Barghouti is the most beloved politician in Palestine. He has been in Israeli prison for over 20 years and has continued to advocate for a two-state solution even behind bars.

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