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The Hollywood Reporter @thr.com · 3h

Diane Keaton, who won an Academy Award for best actress for her portrayal of the titular quirky character in Annie Hall and portrayed Kay Adams in the three Godfather films, has died. She was 79. Read about her life and legacy: bit.ly/47kDP0j

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2h

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back

Tom Morello tweets: "Fascinating that all those “don’t tread on me” posers and their AR-15’s are nowhere to be seen and government tyranny is instead being opposed by a guy in an inflatable frog suit."

Someone named Manny replies: "@grok
why do some people say Tom Morello and band mates are RAGE FOR THE MACHINE and not against ?"

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the magiciann @anndotann.bsky.social · 35m

Wow, men really be in our business and not sending no snacks, no doordash, nothing.

Arrogant Esquire @arrogantade.blacksky.app · 1h

Women really be forgetting they haven’t eaten all day until they get a massive headache.

the magiciann @anndotann.bsky.social · 45m

We gotta find you a hot blerd!

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the magiciann @anndotann.bsky.social · 2h

Igbo men with daddy issues, unfortunately.

Rhy Rhy the Undefeated @rhylikethebread.blacksky.app · 19h

What’s your type?

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the magiciann @anndotann.bsky.social · 2h

Girl

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the magiciann @anndotann.bsky.social · 5h

changing my passwords to "speak life and drink water babe" just so i remember wtf i'm supposed to do with my life

the magiciann @anndotann.bsky.social · 5h

Any form of bigotry implies material death via social exclusions and that is how this current world obtains order. You want that world to end, then you must speak life into everyone being cut out of it. You must speak life. You must.

the magiciann @anndotann.bsky.social · 5h

This is fundamentally why xenophobia, ableism, trans- and homophobia and the misogyny they're rooted in can't be a part of any political struggle in this ongoing moment.

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the magiciann @anndotann.bsky.social · 5h

If there's any part of the collective that's being denied this dignity, then that's where we concentrate our resources, because the struggle for life and the for the dignity of life is anathema to a world the desires, requires, and codifies death.

You want that world to end? Then you speak life.

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the magiciann @anndotann.bsky.social · 5h

To be a part of these new world systems, we must be relentless in the pursuit of our collective right to the dignity of life. You don't have to like everyone, but everyone has a right to the dignity of life.

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the magiciann @anndotann.bsky.social · 5h

The first step into these new world systems is to abandon the colonial codes that require we regard other people as disposable when they can't labor enough for us, or look the right way while they are laboring for us.

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the magiciann @anndotann.bsky.social · 5h

We have to rebuild the systems and infrastructure from all sides, root, leaves, nodes, branches, fruit and all. Otherwise we'll keep traveling from one site to another looking for home on digital plantations designed to extract our genius in a different way every 5-10 years.

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the magiciann @anndotann.bsky.social · 5h

The thing about this tech hellscape we're in is that white men funded it for themselves and if we want to build something different, we have to fund it ourselves, too.

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the magiciann @anndotann.bsky.social · 6h

why am i so bad at marketing my work

the magiciann @anndotann.bsky.social · 6h

this is what i’m tryna understand!

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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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the magiciann @anndotann.bsky.social · 19h

are these people just regurgitating the goddamn left behind series? it’s giving glass onion.

Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 20h

People paid $200 a ticket to listen to Peter Thiel do bog issue antisemitism for four lectures about his belief in the antichrist.

Lots of fools wishing to be relieved of their money, I guess.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Screenshot text from The Guardian:
He believes the Armageddon will be ushered in by an antichrist-type figure who cultivates a fear of existential threats such as climate change, AI and nuclear war to amass inordinate power. The idea is this figure will convince people to do everything they can to avoid something like a third world war, including accepting a one-world order charged with protecting everyone from the apocalypse that implements a complete restriction of technological progress. In his mind, this is already happening. Thiel said that international financial bodies, which make it more difficult for people to shelter their wealth in tax havens, are one sign the antichrist may be amassing power and hastening Armageddon, saying: “It’s become quite difficult to hide one’s money.”

It’s because the antichrist talks about Armageddon nonstop. We’re all scared to death that we’re sleepwalking into Armageddon. And then because we know world war three will be an unjust war, that pushes us. We’re going hard towards peace at any price.

What I worry about in that sort of situation is you don’t think too hard about the details of the peace and it becomes much more likely that you get an unjust peace. This is, by the way, the slogan of the antichrist: 1 Thessalonians 5:3. It’s peace and safety, sort of the unjust peace.

Let me conclude on this choice of antichrist or Armageddon. And again, in some ways the stagnation and the existential risks are complementary, not contradictory. The existential risk pushes us towards stagnation and distracts us from it.

How does Thiel think Armageddon will happen?
Thiel rarely gives a definitive answer about who exactly the antichrist might be or how Armageddon might come about – a central point across his lectures is that nothing is written in stone or inevitable – but he does give the contours of what a global conflict that could lead to Armageddon might look like.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 1d

This shouldn’t be stunningly uncommon but please think deep about the last time you saw ANYBODY left of center defend a Black woman publicly

Without a purity test or qualification

Or erasing the reality of what she’s been through before

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

Powerful words of truth and solidarity from Council Speaker Adrienne Adams today. We have your back, Tish James.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 1d

Like I get that people have lived lives where this moment is New and Different to the

I RESENT them

I get it’s a me responsibility

AND

IF YOU CAN’T ADMIT THIS IS AMERICA

how can you answer what you want America to be

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the magiciann @anndotann.bsky.social · 1d

Black Africans are ancient and holy. Why else would we be made sacrifice to form this world? When we remember what we are, then this world will end.

Toni Morrison knew, and remembered.

the magiciann @anndotann.bsky.social · 1d

Some of the best theorizing comes from the working class and the poor. The academic industrial complex steals then hoards the knowledge they extract from the working class, effectively gate keeping knowledge that dismantles oppression.

the magiciann @anndotann.bsky.social · 1d

Reading theory is important and necessary, but incomplete without sustained and organized praxis. Both inform each other, and the exploitation of labor removes us from accessing resources (time, mainly) required to develop both.

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sasha ↙︎↙︎↙︎ 🌹🏴 @2damntrans.bsky.social · 1d

Use a low-theory but memorable and true statement: "the enemy travels in private jets, not small boats."

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sasha ↙︎↙︎↙︎ 🌹🏴 @2damntrans.bsky.social · 1d

Mass media has made it harder for people to gauge the problem because it spoon-feeds people 24/7 with various narratives that are not "capitalism is the problem" and the left's task is piercing that. You don't need very much Theory for it though.

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