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Streetwise, the Cville DEAD Cat (Dead for Halloween)

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Bougie, valid. ALA's "Most Inspirational Pinata" 2018. "If you ever go into the UVA library remember to be quiet or this guy will kick yer ass." - antifawatch dot net. He/him. Views expressed here are not necessarily those of UVA.

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Streetwise, the Cville DEAD Cat (Dead for Halloween) @averysafecat.bsky.social · Nov 10

OK, a quick pinned I guess.
- I'm a middle-aged cishet white male. I entirely understand if that is distasteful to you, I'm not entirely proud of my bros myself.
- I work for a University library. I support the library. I loathe the University.

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Streetwise, the Cville DEAD Cat (Dead for Halloween) @averysafecat.bsky.social · 4h

The heroine we need, not the one we deserve.

Streetwise, the Cville DEAD Cat (Dead for Halloween) @averysafecat.bsky.social · 9h

UVA is on there bc they’ve shown a willingness to, even an eagerness, to capitulate.

Streetwise, the Cville DEAD Cat (Dead for Halloween) @averysafecat.bsky.social · 10h

Oh barf

Streetwise, the Cville DEAD Cat (Dead for Halloween) @averysafecat.bsky.social · 11h

Oh, well, she loves him and America very much. Also kids. So it’s probably fine.

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Streetwise, the Cville DEAD Cat (Dead for Halloween) @averysafecat.bsky.social · 11h

… what happened.

Streetwise, the Cville DEAD Cat (Dead for Halloween) @averysafecat.bsky.social · 11h

Consider though that some of those in power here are in on the grift though. Or at the very least, think they are.

Streetwise, the Cville DEAD Cat (Dead for Halloween) @averysafecat.bsky.social · 13h

It’s this easy, UVA. www.wbur.org/news/2025/10...

MIT won't agree to Trump's sweeping higher education demands, school's president says

The “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” asked nine universities to meet a variety of demands, from banning the consideration of race and gender in admissions decisions, to requiring ...

www.wbur.org

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Streetwise, the Cville DEAD Cat (Dead for Halloween) @averysafecat.bsky.social · 13h

Not with THAT attitude you won't beat fascism, "Dallas Steele". Diversity of tactics, buddy.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 17h

This video is everywhere because it's a hilarious visual refutation of Portland being on fire. You can't get a mass movement going without convincing the masses

so yes, this does do something actually

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This literally does nothing. You are not beating fascism by dressing up in inflatable suits and dancing

Quote tweeting Claude Taylor @TrueFactsStated

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Portland is leading the way. This is how you (non violently) beat Fascism. Humor and ridicule are key.

Stillframe from a video of Portland protesters dancing in inflatable suits

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

Our plane to Spain is in the air!

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Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 14h

So revealing that they can never conceive of people taking political action without getting paid for it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Streetwise, the Cville DEAD Cat (Dead for Halloween) @averysafecat.bsky.social · 14h

Certainly not saying that they bat 1.000.

Streetwise, the Cville DEAD Cat (Dead for Halloween) @averysafecat.bsky.social · 16h

World Awaits Blowback from Peaceful Human Diaper

Streetwise, the Cville DEAD Cat (Dead for Halloween) @averysafecat.bsky.social · 16h

Hail yea

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Free Łink - Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 19h

"Linda McMahon is in charge of the Department of Education" what flavor of fool do you think I am to believe that

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Streetwise, the Cville DEAD Cat (Dead for Halloween) @averysafecat.bsky.social · 19h

I will never understand your pain, as I have won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 19h

Your jokes about Trump are extremely insensitive to those of us who are also bereft that we didn’t get the Nobel peace prize

Streetwise, the Cville DEAD Cat (Dead for Halloween) @averysafecat.bsky.social · 19h

Trump will sincerely never understand why he didn't get it, why he will never get it, because the Peace Prize is about a lifetime's work, be it one person's lifetime or an idea's lifetime, and Trump's object permanence only extends as far as things he wants to fuck, kill, or eat.

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Streetwise, the Cville DEAD Cat (Dead for Halloween) @averysafecat.bsky.social · 19h

She is referring to this album, which I apparently need to listen to today. lesdisquesducrepuscule.bandcamp.com/album/live-i...

Live in Lisbon 1989: One Hundred Years of Music, by Steven Brown and Blaine L. Reininger

14 track album

lesdisquesducrepuscule.bandcamp.com

Streetwise, the Cville DEAD Cat (Dead for Halloween) @averysafecat.bsky.social · 19h

Ms. Lunch speaks for me once again.

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Streetwise, the Cville DEAD Cat (Dead for Halloween) @averysafecat.bsky.social · 19h

Any heaven where I can't turn on the tv and watch Bibi and Don burning in hell to a soundtrack of "Powerhouse" by Raymond Scott and His Orchestra is hell to me.

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Streetwise, the Cville DEAD Cat (Dead for Halloween) @averysafecat.bsky.social · 19h

Netanyahu: "Oh really? Quelle dommage, friend. Whoops, we just accidentally sent tanks to crush a Palestinian child's skull fifteen clicks from Rafah. Well, back on that horse for next year, hmm?"

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 20h

Forbes article about Washington Post losing subscribers

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Streetwise, the Cville DEAD Cat (Dead for Halloween) @averysafecat.bsky.social · 20h

Oh whoops, we just went to war with Venezuela.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/n...

Trump fails in bid for Nobel Peace Prize as surprise winner announced

The news will come as a bitter blow to the US President after he secured a ‘historic’ peace deal between Hamas and Israel

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Streetwise, the Cville DEAD Cat (Dead for Halloween) @averysafecat.bsky.social · 20h

We are about to see a world-historic tantrum from the Persident. Knowing that he will never ever ever win the Nobel Peace Prize, knowing he can't strongarm or bullshit the committee, certainly burns like a hot coal in his colon. May he die howling for it, and soon.

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Streetwise, the Cville DEAD Cat (Dead for Halloween) @averysafecat.bsky.social · 20h

An excellent thread on how ‘following’ (in the social media sense) leads to normalization. In AA there’s a saying (there’s always a saying, in AA, isn’t there): “If you keep going to the barber, eventually you’re gonna get a haircut.”

Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 20h

The problem is, we don't see what exposure to ideas does to us. The human brain is a machine for rationalising the irrational. It will tell you you're the same person you were a year ago no matter what you've been through. We all think - every single one of us - that we can't be manipulated.

Rose 🌹 @rose.bsky.team · 2d

The "follow" button confounds "I'm looking at your content" and "I endorse this content." We need two different ways to signal the difference between the two.

Streetwise, the Cville DEAD Cat (Dead for Halloween) @averysafecat.bsky.social · 20h

With this, and the Portuguese ‘saudade’ and Amharic ‘tezeta’, in mind… wondering if there are other words for this sort of deep inchoate pull. ‘Blues’, and all of its universes of signifying, comes to mind.

Charlie Brigden @filmsonwax.bsky.social · 21h

Thinking about this today, have always been obsessed with it.

A black and white picture of a picturesque isolated home. Hiraeth n. (Welsh) A spiritual longing for a home which maybe never was. Nostalgia for ancient places to which we cannot return. It is the echo of the lost places of our soul’s past and our grief for them. It’s in the wind, and the rocks, and the waves. It is nowhere and it is everywhere.