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Your Obedient Serpent

@athelind.bsky.social

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Athelind Llewellyn Long, Dragon At Large, Hoard Potato. Born on the Cusp of the Boom and Gen X, I am nevertheless The World's Oldest Millennial. Pronouns He/Him or They/Them; I am large, I contain multitudes. Queer, Here, Get Used To It

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Your Obedient Serpent @athelind.bsky.social · Feb 7

Universal Basic Income is not a "solution" to the "problem" of automation.

It is the FULFILLMENT of the PROMISE of automation.

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SAM @samierens.bsky.social · 1d

I see Chicken 🐔 quick send in Frog Team six!! 🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸

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ticosfrancisco.bsky.social @ticosfrancisco.bsky.social · 1d

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

Portland 🔥

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Dean Ambrosini @dean-ambrosini.bsky.social · 1d

The Geneva convention is clear on allowing visits from clergy and religious practices. Since trump made this into a war, shouldn’t the detainees be subject to these rules? I mean, he did say we were ‘under attack’ to justify his lawlessness

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lagordita.bsky.social @lagordita.bsky.social · 1d

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SaltyShawn @saltyshawn.bsky.social · 1d

For all non Catholics, the Monstrance is a large ornate vessel shaped like a large circle in a sunburst design with a base for ceremoniously carry the host. Typically it is gold and the host resides in a glass circle in the center.

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Dedicated Democrats @dedicateddemocrats.bsky.social · 1d

At the Broadview ICE facility in Illinois, a state trooper notifies the delegation trying to have communion with detainees that Noem has declined their request.

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Wendigo Wires 👻 @joparkerbear.bsky.social · 1d

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I had the privilege this morning of leading a Eucharistic Procession from St. Eulalia Church in Maywood, IL to the ICE Detention Center in Broadview. We went to pray and have a few of us clergy and religious women bring Holy Communion and the love of the Christian community to the men and women detained there under inhumane conditions.
Over 1,000 Catholics and other Christians marched in peaceful prayer and song, facilitated by the Maywood and Broadview Police Departments and the Illinois State Police. I cannot speak more highly of these public safety officers in providing us safe passage.
Upon arrival, it was a different story. There were no ICE or Federal representatives there. When requesting to talk with a representative from Homeland Security and ICE, the State Police reached out on our behalf to make the request over the phone, After a brief wait, the answer came back very clearly:
NO, YOU CANNOT BRING A HINT OF COMPASSION AND PRAYER INTO THIS PLACE!
NO, YOU CANNOT OFFER ANY SOLACE TO THE MEN AND WOMEN FEARFUL AND SUFFERING INSIDE!
NO, YOU CANNOT BRING JESUS, THE SON OF GOD. THE LOVE OF GOD. INTO THIS PLACE!

No one had the courage to speak directly to us.
No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.
What we have been able to do for detainees for the past several years, which is written into Illinois law, was refused by this current Federal Government.
"Father, forgive the ones who do not know what they are doing."
"Have mercy on the souls of those who know exactly what they're doing. Touch their hearts and transform them from stony hearts into fleshy, life-giving hearts."
"Only through, with and in God will hearts be changed!"
The battle for hearts and minds, compassion and mercy, continues...
Please pray especially for the children, for the mothers and fathers who are being treated inhumanely.
Please step up and speak out.
Silence is supporting this abuse of these members of God's family.
Peace! Fr. Larry Dowling

Photograph of crowd from peaceful protes in Chicago

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Mistress Matisse @mistressmatisse.bsky.social · 1d

This is what organized religion is for

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 1d

Reminded of how churches became the backbone of the Civil Rights movement.

Some of them, at least.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Daily Kos @dailykos.com · 1d

Weird how the right isn’t condemning this possible political violence …

www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Home of judge who ruled against Trump is burned down in possible arson

Police in South Carolina are investigating whether a blaze that burned a judge's home to the ground was set intentionally. Prior to the fire that engulfed her home, South Carolina Circuit Court Judge…

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 1d

Taps the “this administration is full of eugenicists so yes, they do want people to die” sign so hard it snaps and shards go scattering everywhere.

And yes, we saw it coming.

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Your Obedient Serpent @athelind.bsky.social · 1d

"Reality has a well-known liberal bias."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwLj...

Reality has a well-known liberal bias - Stephen Colbert at the White House Correspondents' Dinner

YouTube video by Robert Bernstein

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breadedhamster.bsky.social @breadedhamster.bsky.social · 11d

"You radical leftists might have been correct ten years ago, but now you sound ridiculous."

Ten years later

"You radical leftists might have been correct ten years ago, but now you sound ridiculous."

Ten years later

"You radical-"

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 11d

It really is continually frustrating to see people acting shocked over shit so many people were warning about for literally the better part of a decade.

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11d

We're getting a wave of articles that are like, "gee willikers it sure seems like the people who complained about 'cancel culture' for years really like canceling people."

Yes! This was extremely obvious at the time and a lot of us pointed it out!

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 11d

Some say canceling is an act of redress. Others blame it on a mob.

“People have used the word ‘cancel’ so loosely,” Ernest Owens author of “The Case for Cancel Culture,” said, “that everyone’s calling everything a cancellation.”

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 9d

The mystery of medical diagnosis!

Anyone: Why are there suddenly so many AHDH diagnoses?
Dr. Jen: Same reason there are suddenly more stars after we built telescopes.

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Bits @bitshammer.bsky.social · 3d

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 2d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 2d

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...

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Kieran (But Spookier) @toadally.bsky.social · 2d

A little something different! A sketch sheet!

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Location Classified @locationclassified.bsky.social · 2d

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ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 2d

guys can we do frogs everywhere? please i need a frog uprising

you know…before we croak

we need a jump in activism

a ribbit revolution

vive les grenouilles libres!

Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 2d

“Multiplying protest frogs” 🤣

Troops to Portland still on hold, multiplying protest frogs, fact-check on Trump claims: Get caught up

It’s not clear when the 9th Circuit panel will issue its ruling, but it will likely come before an Oct. 17 hearing

www.oregonlive.com

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WhiteRoseAFA @whiteroseafa.bsky.social · 2d

This shit right here. Antifascism is at its core, community defense. It's about protecting the vulnerable, the marginalized, the minority, but most importantly, the community as a whole.

In the absence of fascist adversaries that are as concerned with free speech, the rule of law, or polite disagreement as their opponents are, a politics of mutual aid and community self-defense remains our most powerful choice.

Anti-fascism and anti-fascists have demonstrated how we might walk this path toward a politics of empowerment, in which we take direct responsibility for our own communities.

If we are going to foster a thriving, powerful movement equal to this dangerous moment, we must not surrender “antifa” to Trump’s whims and the worst fantasies of our opponents. The health and safety of our friends, family, and society may depend on it.

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The bird says, "Abolish ICE" @imadifferentbird.myatproto.social · 2d

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: I wish the Democrats that Republicans imagine to scare themselves and their supporters were real.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 2d

To avoid swearing in a duly elected Democratic House member who will force a vote to release the Epstein files, the House is in recess indefinitely

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