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i make yarn, things with yarn, and opinionated declamations. read the alt text and wear a mask.

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arwyn @arwynsays.bsky.social · Aug 11

using a very broad definition of beautiful here. i don't mean pretty, or pleasing, or not-ugly. i mean beautiful in the way pain, hurt, survival, death, existentialism, doubt, the inherent absurd contradictions of humanity can be beautiful.

but also i mean pretty. that works too.

arwyn @arwynsays.bsky.social · Aug 11

we are increasingly surrounded by agendas needing to convince us that reality doesn't matter, that our senses & experience & memory & history don't matter. that how we measure & feel & what we love don't matter.

making refutes that. art proves that a lie. make something beautiful. something real.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 19h

I fucking hate Nazis, which includes hating their actions, philosophy, culture, regalia, and fucking stylistic choices.

I don't think it's unreasonable to expect anyone I vote for to feel the same.

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arwyn @arwynsays.bsky.social · 22h

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John Breen @acab.dad · 1d

That’s one of the big benefits of obscene wealth. You can make decisions that lose you money for years in order to consolidate power and shape the world in your favor

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

I used to teach a college level 'community organizing' class many years ago. After a class one day, a student came to me and said "it's so much work to organize. I thought change just happened." I think of that student often.

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arwyn @arwynsays.bsky.social · 1d

stop it, i ALREADY wished i could vote for this guy!

nyc, you better do this right.

(universal baby baskets and home visits are *incredibly* good bang for the buck investments in infant and maternal health, like holy shit this could be amaaaazing)

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

Each NYC Baby Basket will also include a resource guide of information on the City’s newborn home visiting program, breastfeeding, post-partum depression and more.

These are critical resources for combating postpartum maternal mortality and increasing trust in government as well.

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jadehawk "FREE ŁINK" @jadehawk.bsky.social · 1d

cult-researchers have been warning ppl about this for a long time. a CORE aspect of researching any extreme ideology is strict protocols for making sure it doesn't infect you. human brains are ridiculously susceptible to just accepting as true everything they hear often enough

Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 1d

No one should EVER monitor Nazi space without a strong support network that can check them regularly and watch for signs that the propaganda is taking hold, and address that reality promptly.

Without a rock solid accountability network, it is playing with fire.

Soyweiser @soyweiser.bsky.social · 1d

This is I think also one of the reasons you (you as in a regular person) shouldn't got into nazi places to try and 'debate' them (or worse, to hang out and check the vibe. I know somebody who radicalized a lot after doing that to neo-nazi metal concerts (not the only reason he radicalized)).

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wombat Clay @wombatclay.bsky.social · 1d

And if amusing ambiguity makes you smile... today is Mole day. But where some of my calendars point to 6:02 10/23 (or more or less the avogadro constant, aka, a mole) others point to fuzzy critters (a mole)

So maybe pull out Wind in the Willows and a chemistry kit and see what happens?

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arwyn @arwynsays.bsky.social · 1d

and as Molly said, also still have candy. bread AND roses.

Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re in the US it may be a good thing to do if you can afford it to have a small food pantry on your porch on Halloween for families of Trick or Treaters- SNAP benefits not existing in November will mainly impact children ❤️

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

I understand it emotionally, when I decide I like something or have decided to support something, it's hard to give that up/realize I was wrong. But it's an adolescent perspective to be unwilling let go the idea of something when confronted with the reality of it.

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arwyn @arwynsays.bsky.social · 1d

thank you for reporting for those of us who couldn't make it.

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Jonathan Maus @jonathanmaus.bsky.social · 1d

“Perhaps 94% of people show up by vehicle because the bus access, the bike access, and the pedestrian access on 82nd is garbage! It sucks!” - local resident named Jack, who was wearing a TriMet holiday sweater

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arwyn @arwynsays.bsky.social · 1d

good caveat. I'm just not out here raising javerts.

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arwyn @arwynsays.bsky.social · 1d

as i have told all my children, you have never seen food theft in your life and you're definitely not gonna start now. (nor diaper theft, nor menstrual products, nor any hygiene products...)

Matt @swirlyball.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder how much food theft spikes with desperate people just trying to feed their families. I'm sure there will be a media panic about it.

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steadyflight.bsky.social @steadyflight.bsky.social · 1d

Withholding Supplemental Nutrition Assistance funding is food theft

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

Again and again and again I go to these events and take these photos to tell you YOU ARE NOT ALONE.

Protestors head down Canal Street. They're holding a banner that reads DEMOCRACY DIES IN A POLICE STATE" (although you can't see the words "STATE" in this photo). Other signs read "THE PEOPLE DEMAND ICE OUT" and "ICE OUT OF NYC NOW"

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arwyn @arwynsays.bsky.social · 1d

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

There were a LOT of general strike signs and MULTIPLE speakers called for a general strike.

Want to know the value of the #NoKings protests? They helped make this kind of demand more credible. Building capacity for mass action, step by step.

Signs reading "DEFEND DEMOCRACY: IT'S TIME FOR A GENERAL STRIKE" in front of a big crowd of protestors at Foley Square.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

Hi just so I'm clear.

I wrote "donate to food banks" and do "food runs for mutual aid" because they are different things!

Food banks want your money! they can do more with your money than with stuff.

Mutual aid groups often want stuff! Mine has a food fridge!

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

Now is a really good time to donate to food banks, and do food runs for mutual aid groups. Also, do menstrual product runs.

Matt @swirlyball.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder how much food theft spikes with desperate people just trying to feed their families. I'm sure there will be a media panic about it.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 1d

Breaking: Sen. Jeff Merkley spoke on the Senate floor for 22 hours and 37 minutes to denounce Trump and his agenda.

It's the fourth longest floor speech in U.S. Senate history.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d

Sen. Jeff Merkley has been speaking on the Senate floor since 6:20pm last night — protesting Trump and warning that "tyranny has arrived."

"Trump is shredding our Constitution. Is it okay for masked federal agents to arrest people off the street because of their skin color … Not in a free America."

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arwyn @arwynsays.bsky.social · 2d

on its face this is absurd — my kids are trans, my neighbor is bigoted and not safe for us to be around — yet it's ALSO correct, bc my neighbor also cares about fairness, & privacy, & the cost of groceries. finding commonality is in fact work, and not always safe. but it can be worthwhile work.

Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · 10d

Billionaires hate this one weird trick!!

Talking to your neighbors and realizing you actually have a lot in common and it’s not left vs right, it’s all of us against the billionaires.

arwyn @arwynsays.bsky.social · 2d

this, exactly. but we are so segregated by class that we don't even SEE the nonworking class, so we direct our hate at the higher income working class we DO see, because they have cars & houses & vacations we don't have. but the difference between us is nothing compared to us v the capital class.

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arwyn @arwynsays.bsky.social · 2d

feed even one person.

"Is one less than fifty-one?" said P'Tang-P'Tang.

"It's the same," said Om firmly.

"But you have thousands," said the Newt God. "You fight for thousands."

"I think," [said Om], "I think, if you want thousands, you have to fight for one."

(—Terry Pratchett, of course.)

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arwyn @arwynsays.bsky.social · 3d

you want a general strike? make feeding each other part of your routine. make interdependence your normal. that's the only way we'll get to a general strike.

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Sean Mullen, Ph.D. @drseanmullen.bsky.social · 2d

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I’ll never forgive schools and healthcare systems that had years to fix the air and didn’t.

They had the money. The science. The time.
They chose denial instead of duty.

#AirborneAIDS #LongCovid

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arwyn @arwynsays.bsky.social · 2d

hey thanks for posting so regularly! I blanked on the name of your book (someone on fb was asking about tips for ARFID kids), so i ran here to search for you, and lo, yours was the top post in my feed 🤣

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Senator Jeff Merkley @merkley.senate.gov · 2d

This is really what it comes down to.

I'm holding the Senate floor to say HELL NO to Trump destroying our We the People government.

🔗 www.youtube.com/live/bE37g0m...

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