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Yarn Mayor 🧶 @whatraemakes.bsky.social · 2h

I was watching The Post earlier today - the film about how the Washington Post became a big time news outlet by publishing the Pentagon Papers that proved multiple administrations had lied to the American people about Vietnam, despite Nixon's threats of litigation.
We could use more of that rn

Yarn Mayor 🧶 @whatraemakes.bsky.social · 4h

It might also be that this dude doesn't actually do the clothes shopping and his mom/wife is the one getting his shirts? I feel like $30 for a button up on Amazon is still a stretch but idk

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 16h

The WHO has verified the elimination of both measles & rubella in all Pacific Island countries, alongside rubella elimination in Japan. The achievement follows 2 decades of coordinated immunisation campaigns, regional surveillance, and high routine vaccine coverage. buff.ly/EpFb7HK
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Rubella elimination verified in Japan, and measles and rubella elimination verified in Pacific island countries and areas

The World Health Organization (WHO) today announced that the 21 Pacific island countries and areas that are part of the WHO Western Pacific Region have collectively been verified as having eliminated…

buff.ly

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Yarn Mayor 🧶 @whatraemakes.bsky.social · 8h

I got mine a few weeks back. I work with young kids so I wanna make sure I don't give them the ick or vice versa! Respiratory stuff spreads through schools so easily

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Lola Sebastian @lola.nebula.tv · 15h

Your favorite YouTubers and i will be live streaming a Jackbox party TODAY from Noon to Midnight PST on twitch !!!

www.twitch.tv/lolasebastian

tilt.fyi/47cU7asAYd

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 12h

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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Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 20h

Raghad is exhausted she works, she cries in silence, trying to save her mother just as she saves others, but her hands alone aren’t enough.
She isn’t asking for much only for help to continue her mother’s treatment and keep her family alive.

If you can, please reach out. 😔

Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 21h

Raghad is friends with @itsmeio.bsky.social, has social media that predates the war and sent me a photo of her Palestinian ID.

Raghad is hoping to complete her studies (she has been volunteering this whole time at Nasser Hospital) and also take care of her large family including her mother.

Donate to Please Help Raghad and her family survive the starvation, organized by Yomi Abdulazeez

Hi my name is Yomi and I'm fundraising for my friend and h… Yomi Abdulazeez needs your support for Please Help Raghad and her family survive the starvation

www.gofundme.com

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 1d

That’s right, a new falcon, meaning a new 1-week drive for the six families of the giving circle ❤️‍🔥 As the situation remains life-and-death, WE REMAIN HERE. They need:

- Transportation back north
- Tents
- Food
- Winter & baby clothes

20 hours left 🚨 4/1000: chuffed.org/project/hope...

A graphic featuring a black ink illustration of a falcon with his wings partly open. Title: “Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza giving circle” decorated with a red watercolor poppy. Text: Six families are completely starting over—amidst their grief and pain, they have lost their homes, livelihoods, and communities, and must still seek food and shelter. Help them start over and continue to survive this life-and-death situation. https://tinyurl.com/HopeGivingCircle.”

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 21h

“More than half of the work done by women in the period between the 16th and 18th centuries took place outside of the home, and around half of all housework and three-quarters of care work was conducted professionally for other households” [England]

phys.org/news/2025-10...

A woman's place was not in the home: Challenging the assumptions about women's work in early modern history

New research has revealed that women played a fundamental role in the development of England's national economy before 1700.

phys.org

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Yarn Mayor 🧶 @whatraemakes.bsky.social · 1d

Making it so that hiding your trans status to "trick" someone into having sex with you is illegal is just giving fuel to the people who were going to commit violence against trans femmes anyway, and it further dehumanizes an already vulnerable group by blaming them for the transphobia killing them.

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Yarn Mayor 🧶 @whatraemakes.bsky.social · 1d

And the idea of trans women tricking straight men into having sex with them is all based on bullshit anyway - often men *knew* going in that their partners were trans, but then when someone *else* found out about it they claimed they were tricked to save their fragile masculinity and identity.

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Yarn Mayor 🧶 @whatraemakes.bsky.social · 1d

What's really annoying about all this is that I don't know a single trans person in my life who hasn't discussed the fact that they're trans with potential partners before sex even comes close to happening. Why? Because they don't wanna be hate crimed by the "surprised" person.

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 2d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 2d

MULTIPLYING PROTEST FROGS

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queer.de @queerde.bsky.social · 3d

Unter dem Titel "Queer Ecology" zeigt das Duisburger Lehmbruck-Museum die neuesten Werke der 1976 in Buenos Aires geborenen Künstlerin Mika Rottenberg

Die binären Auffassungen von Mensch und Natur auflösen

Unter dem Titel 'Queer Ecology' zeigt das Duisburger Lehmbruck-Museum die neuesten Werke der 1976 in Buenos Aires geborenen Künstlerin Mika Rottenberg. (09.10.2025, Bild des Tages)

www.queer.de

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 2d

This is a #FundFriday post with no fun graphic, list your mutual aid needs below & I'll boost, I'm no Link but I can repost you.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 4d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Yarn Mayor 🧶 @whatraemakes.bsky.social · 4d

They definitely did not lol

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Yarn Mayor 🧶 @whatraemakes.bsky.social · 4d

This physically pains me
VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN IS THE VILLAIN OF THE BOOK
The whole plot is about how he ruined his own life by treating the "monster" like shit!! It's a tragedy, and the monster is super sympathetic! This is more true to the book than most Hollywood adaptations WHAT ARE YOU ON ABOUT

Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · Sep 8

Has ANYONE read the fucking book?

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 6d

For #BannedBooksWeek, we’re highlighting the unjust censorship of political books which impacts countless incarcerated readers each year.

For every book purchased from this reading list, we will be sending a book to someone who is incarcerated.

Books Are For Everyone: A Banned Books Week Reading List

Banned Books Week—October 5th to 11th—is an annual celebration of the freedom to read, and the aspiration that books should be accessible to all. In recognition of Banned Books Week 2025, Haymarket is...

www.haymarketbooks.org

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May “Bunny” Peterson 🦄 (Mostly Updates ) @goddessblade.bsky.social · 6d

Yesterday was Abo Jameel's birthday; please help him and his family see another year and have hope for the future. Please share if you see this post and donate if you're able!

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ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 6d

i made a graphic so it can be even more visible

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Yarn Mayor 🧶 @whatraemakes.bsky.social · 6d

Tbh for me it seems more like a man belittling his partner for desiring physical intimacy from him, as if she's inconveniencing him by wanting that. "It's her fault the relationship didn't work because she's too clingy" etc.

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Yarn Mayor 🧶 @whatraemakes.bsky.social · 6d

I almost never got to pick games for it, either, because my brother was the only one who got taken to GameStop, no matter how much I begged. So I just completely missed out on FF, Kingdom Hearts, older Animal Crossing, etc

Yarn Mayor 🧶 @whatraemakes.bsky.social · 6d

I haven't played most PS1/PS2/Xbox era games, nor almost anything that was on GB/GBA. Despite loving video games as a kid, my mom refused to let us have them in the house until my stepdad's mom went behind her back to give us a GameCube for Christmas when I was 12.

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 7d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

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