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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 5h

A big lesson of the civil rights movement was that everyone has their own activism and we support each other. If you're a radical activist, you can draw fire away from peaceful protestors. If you're a pacifist and you see radicals fucking shit up, no you didn't. You didn't see a damn thing.

Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 6h

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 12h

The teeny tiny No Kings things in very red areas are so huge

Say like five or six people show up. None of them knew each other before. Suddenly they’re all friends. And maybe from that you get a group that does longer-term organizing that can punch *way* above its weight considering where it is

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 7h

To quote @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social, I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 8h

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 7d

This Halloween I’m going as the scariest thing of all, emotional intimacy!!! ha ha just kidding I’m prion disease

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4h

all the anxiety human evolution developed to help me spot bears now kicks in when i have to answer emails

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 9h

I know folks have been litigating the value of these protests all week, and I would remind those who have been eyerolling that one VERY important part of mass dissent is making it impossible to round up all the dissenters.

They see the crowds and have to reevaluate gulag plans

Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 9h

You know the mass protests work because Team Trump has been freaking out about them

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 5h

people always wanna “normalize ______” and then get mad when normies start doing it

Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 6h

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 5d

Lee Pace in The Fall is the result of a decades-long experiment to see what happens if all the hotness for an entire generation is concentrated in the body of a single man

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David Jenkins @david-jenkins.bsky.social · 6h

Whoever made this sign please dm me I’d like to send you a little love letter 🏴‍☠️🇺🇸

Ana @quietpond.bsky.social · 10h

My favorite sign so far

#nokings #portland #nokingspdx

protest sign that says "our flag means death to fascisim" and has a image of the US flag

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geoffrey, 💀 mode @parsnip.bsky.social · 2d

i have basically no interest in people mocking the mom protests lol, every criticism is just “the energy would be better spent on this other thing, that i will not be doing anything about”

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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 3d

A lot of time and effort has gone into survey research around what is the best protest sign slogan, message, wording etc and to be frank the research is pretty clear the most effective things you can do at a protest are express joy and express camaraderie, don't overthink it

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Indigiqueer Hummingbird ~*For Good*~ @riotousmuse.bsky.social · 11h

I'm sharing these because it IS good to see people show up in numbers

...& now we need all those people showing up in numbers to think about their next moves
...& how ready they are to show up any other day in any other capacity
...& how they can magnify their clearly collective power.

talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 4d

a corner rally where you dance around for hours does not take much from your opposition, but it takes multiple hours from you, maybe exhausts you, too. does this need to be a half dozen people, or a dozen, or more?

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Sean Chiplock 🟡 🔜 BLFC (Reno, NV) & Chico Anime (NorCal) @sonicmega.bsky.social · 1d

Remember:

- they DO NOT CARE about your arguments/rebuttals

- they DO NOT CARE about your dunks

- the person running the accounts was specifically hired to drive engagement BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY; it’s the algorithm they’re catering to

This is a game, and to them you are data to be manipulated.

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 12h

Sorry to be corny but the aerial shots of these crowds are almost indescribably moving and hopeful

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Zozo @zoestertoaster.bsky.social · 10h

Wahhhh Frodo and Sam are off on their boat and that’s my Fellowship of the Ring reread finished. Boromir fucked up and I don’t wanna talk about it 🥲🥲🥲 onto The Two Towers next. I have a vague idea for the fic I want to write but no clue how I’m actually going to muster up the willpower to write it

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Your pirate feline @mrpancot.bsky.social · 1d

Hello again ,coming back from my breakdown
Here I decided to draw edizzy with some of my insecurities, also trying a new paint way
#ofmd #ourflagmeansdeath#edizzy #izzyhands #edteach

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Zozo @zoestertoaster.bsky.social · 11h

because Boromir threatens to *hurt* Frodo, when he’s the one who prides himself so much on his strength being to protect people and to help the Company. And Bilbo of course is so upset about the title of burglar that it weighs on him even 60 years later—even though that’s literally what he is lol.

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Zozo @zoestertoaster.bsky.social · 11h

I love that every time someone tries to steal the Ring they lie about it. Bilbo’s convoluted tale and Boromir’s “I got angry.” the way the Ring picks people’s worst faults, the things they WOULD lie about or refuse to accept in themselves, to be the mechanism by which it convinces them to steal it.

Where have you been, Boromir?' asked
Aragorn. 'Have you seen Frodo?"
Boromir hesitated for a second. 'Yes, and no,' he answered slowly. 'Yes: I found him some way up the hill, and I spoke to him. I urged him to come to Minas Tirith and not to go east. I grew angry and he left me. He vanished. I have never seen such a thing happen before, though I have heard of it in tales. He must have put the Ring on. I could not find him again. I thought he would return to you.'
"Is that all that you have to say?' said Aragorn, looking hard and not too kindly at Boromir.

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Zozo @zoestertoaster.bsky.social · 11h

it’s salty boromir hours 😭😭😭 poor guy but he really is being a bit of a jerk about it

Boromir held out long against this choice; but when it became plain that Frodo would follow Aragorn, wherever he went, he gave in. 'It is not the way of the Men of Minas Tirith to desert their friends at need, he said, 'and you will need my strength, if ever you are to reach the Tindrock. To the tall isle I will go, but no further. There I shall turn to my home, alone if my help has not earned the reward of any companionship.'

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Zozo @zoestertoaster.bsky.social · 11h

he straight up says “goodbye, fair Arwen!” here and *takes Frodo’s hand and leaves* and the story is like “and he never came back here again” and I’m NOT supposed to think Aragorn isn’t in literal romantic love with Frodo at this point???

At the hill's foot Frodo found Aragorn, standing still and silent as a tree; but in his hand was a small golden bloom of elanor, and a light was in his eyes. He was wrapped in some fair memory: and as Frodo looked at him he knew that he beheld things as they once had been in this same place. For the grim years were removed from the face of Aragorn, and he seemed clothed in white, a young lord tall and fair; and he spoke words in the Elvish tongue to one whom Frodo could not see. Arwen vanimelda, namárie! he said, and then he drew a breath, and returning out of his thought he looked at Frodo and smiled.
'Here is the heart of Elvendom on earth, he said, 'and here my heart dwells ever, unless there be a light beyond the dark roads that we still must tread, you and I. Come with me!' And taking Frodo's hand in his, he left the hill of Cerin Amroth and came there never again as living man.

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Zozo @zoestertoaster.bsky.social · 12h

this is kitty cat behavior (yowling or leaping off perch when startled)

hide from Orcs. He sprang lightly up from the ground and caught a branch that grew from the trunk high above his head. But even as he swung there for a moment, a voice spoke suddenly from the tree-shadows above him.
'Daro! it said in commanding tone, and Legolas dropped back to earth in surprise and fear. He shrank against the bole of the tree.

'Ai! ai!' wailed Legolas. 'A Balrog! A Balrog is come!' Gimli stared with wide eyes. 'Durin's Bane!' he cried, and letting his axe fall he covered his face.

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Zozo @zoestertoaster.bsky.social · 12h

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Cathy Pegau 📚🌈🥊 - Should be writing! @cathypegau.bsky.social · 14h

This!
Red states are not ALL red.
Those of us making them purple are dealing with the same garbage policies and shit attitudes.
And no, we don't always have the ability to "just move".

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.

Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 12h

illustration showing an 18th century guillotine with a banner reading "no kings no tyrants"

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Zozo @zoestertoaster.bsky.social · 12h

through the WHOLE story that he might not be making decisions with the full picture and he needed to listen to others. He speaks up because he questions things!!!!!!! THAT’S A GOOD TRAIT!!!!!!!!

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