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Citizen Harry 😷🥄⚙️💚🍉 @citizenharry.bsky.social · 13h

Is that how Bladerunners detect the difference between a human and a Replicant in this timeline?

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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 14h

social media…
•connected me w faraway friends as a lonely only child
•allowed me to learn abt the small college i’d ultimately attend
•is how i met all 3 of my current partners
•got me my current job
•played a major role in getting 300k+ masks on faces during the 2025 LA fires
…& prob more too tbh 🥺

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Jen the Feisty Librarian @feistywaters.com · 1d

Attended two excellent conference presentations today about health misinformation, while also noticing about 5 other masks and lots of past tensing the pandemic while coughing, because 2025.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 16h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 19h

If you're watching the situation in Chicago from afar & want to help, on the off chance you have spare $$, you can give to the Midwest Immigrant Bond Fund, which posts "bond for individuals held in the custody of ICE w ties to IL, IN, KY & WI who cannot afford to pay"
www.mibfc.org/helpusgrow

How to Help MIBFC — Midwest Immigration Bond Fund

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Citizen Harry 😷🥄⚙️💚🍉 @citizenharry.bsky.social · 14h

...past each other, is how you have a chance of growing the movement.
Judging them for failing purity tests without regard for different circumstances, life experiences, knowledge/ignorance, etc., cedes ground to the enemy.
Name calling & profanity never convinced anyone they were wrong.

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Citizen Harry 😷🥄⚙️💚🍉 @citizenharry.bsky.social · 14h

There's also a big difference between "they shouldn't" and "You don't have the right to judge them for not doing X unless you're willing to suffer the consequences, which may include..."
Compassion for those we want to be our allies, asking questions instead of talking...
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Citizen Harry 😷🥄⚙️💚🍉 @citizenharry.bsky.social · 1d

The Oath includes to follow the lawful orders of the President & officers appointed above you, so being Absent Without Leave is certainly not following it.
They can refuse a specific order that is Actually Illegal, though that's VERY risky, in the sense that they're 🍆ed...
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Citizen Harry 😷🥄⚙️💚🍉 @citizenharry.bsky.social · 1d

Are you volunteering to pay all the financial costs of one of them quitting, & serve their prison time at Leavenworth breaking rocks with a sledgehammer all day?
Don't forget the lost wages & career damage from a "Dishonorable Discharge" on their record!
They never expected this when they signed up.

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Citizen Harry 😷🥄⚙️💚🍉 @citizenharry.bsky.social · 14h

In all fairness, I didn't realize that these weren't part of the single thread you're replying to, which provide more context so that's my fault.
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Citizen Harry 😷🥄⚙️💚🍉 @citizenharry.bsky.social · 1d

Up until the moment a soldier receives a specific order that is Actually Illegal, they're obligated to follow them.
"The Army can't actually MAKE you do anything, but they sure can make you WISH you did."
It's easy to armchair quarterback when you're not the one suffering.
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Citizen Harry 😷🥄⚙️💚🍉 @citizenharry.bsky.social · 1d

Are you volunteering to pay all the financial costs of one of them quitting, & serve their prison time at Leavenworth breaking rocks with a sledgehammer all day?
Don't forget the lost wages & career damage from a "Dishonorable Discharge" on their record!
They never expected this when they signed up.

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Citizen Harry 😷🥄⚙️💚🍉 @citizenharry.bsky.social · 14h

...than be just one soldier tossed in prison & helping the fascists intimidate those left behind while gaining nothing, if they hold their ground at the moment of an Actually Illegal order, which is inevitable.

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Citizen Harry 😷🥄⚙️💚🍉 @citizenharry.bsky.social · 14h

I never said it was right, or good, or that other people shouldn't resist them in other ways; quite the opposite.
This is ONLY about the specific strategy of NG soldiers refusing orders to deploy, that they stand a much better chance of getting others in their unit to join & succeeding, rather...

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Citizen Harry 😷🥄⚙️💚🍉 @citizenharry.bsky.social · 14h

I explained the difference, you simply double down without articulating WHY you believe the distinction is in error.
A practical, specific suggestion of "Do X instead of Y, because Z", is not, "Don't do Y. At least, not now. Sometime later."

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Citizen Harry 😷🥄⚙️💚🍉 @citizenharry.bsky.social · 14h

No, calling you out for logical fallacies that are worth less than a pile of 🐴 💩.
At least 💩 can be used as fertilizer!

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Citizen Harry 😷🥄⚙️💚🍉 @citizenharry.bsky.social · 15h

Doubling down with ad hominem attacks tells the world that you've exhausted your logical arguments, & part of you KNOWS you've lost, but your ego can't handle the cognitive dissonance.
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Your logical fallacy is ad hominem

You attacked your opponent's character or personal traits in an attempt to undermine their argument.

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Citizen Harry 😷🥄⚙️💚🍉 @citizenharry.bsky.social · 15h

Whenever they claim to not be inciting violence, interviewers should prepare a mirror version of what they're defending, swap out names/photos/etc. to refer to the author, "Would you be cool with us sharing this to the other side? Just push 'send' right here if that's OK!"

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17h

We never incited violence, we just called this guy a member of antifa who funded terrorism and told our followers to pay him a visit ha ha and then a totally unrelated group of people threatened to murder him in front of his students ha ha

"The petition to disband our Turning Point chapter is blatantly defamatory," Ava Kwan, outreach coordinator for the Turning Point USA chapter at Rutgers, told Fox News Digital in a statement.
"The accusations of 'inciting violence' and 'making threats' are complete lies," Kwan said. "The same people claiming we're suppressing their free speech are actively trying to silence us for speaking the truth. It's not just ironic, it's hypocritical and absurd."

tpusa_rutgers Do you want to become a socialist? If so, make sure to pay this professor a visit!!!! All jokes aside help us report this professor who has ties to Antifa which now is designated as a domestic terrorist organization. DO YOUR PART AND HELP MAKE RUTGERS A PLACE FOR ALL STUDENTS TO LEARN WITHOUT BECOMING A RADICAL SOCIALIST

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Long Covid Support Aotearoa @lcsupportaotearoa.bsky.social · 17h

Heartfelt thanks to our young people with #longcovid who took part in this, sharing their stories #kiwi #nzpol

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Offered rest home care at 24: the lonely plight of young Kiwis with long Covid

A group of young Kiwis prove what international studies show: that long Covid has a particularly debilitating effect on young people. But how much medical support is there for them?

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Citizen Harry 😷🥄⚙️💚🍉 @citizenharry.bsky.social · 15h

...less effective, rather than willingly reform to a more equitable, sustainable economic model, they invest more in vain efforts to bolster the illusion, propaganda, & thugs to silence dissenters.

An N95 on your face tells everyone you don't believe their COVID lies, & protects your health!

Citizen Harry 😷🥄⚙️💚🍉 @citizenharry.bsky.social · 15h

...away if we rock the boat too much, so they're not even truly free.
Their marginal privilege sustains the illusion of class mobility, which is essential to disguising the cage we're stuck in.
As the contradictions of Capitalism increasingly press against each other & the illusion becomes...

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Citizen Harry 😷🥄⚙️💚🍉 @citizenharry.bsky.social · 15h

...you get paid, & the cost of stuff you can't live without keeps rising faster so you can't get ahead.
Sure they favor some of us, offer larger & better scraps to those who are subservient & inflate their fortunes more, or who are the best at pacifying the masses, but they can always take that...

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Citizen Harry 😷🥄⚙️💚🍉 @citizenharry.bsky.social · 15h

Modern end-stage Capitalism is just Feudalism with extra steps.

The barriers may be "softer", less obvious, more complex, & it might be easier to transfer to being dominated by a different set of nobles, but there's no becoming a Capitalist without marrying one.
They control how much...

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Citizen Harry 😷🥄⚙️💚🍉 @citizenharry.bsky.social · 15h

The government can also direct all the funding to the highest bidding Capitalists for them to get even richer, compared to if we gave the same amount of 💰 to autistic adults & parents of autistic minors (who will then spend that money into the economy instead of hoarding most of it).

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 16h

One big reason why all these assholes are pushing the autism button so hard is:

For-profit institutionalization gives them guaranteed and *monetized* access to children they can sexually abuse, and all these freaks are Epstein associates

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Citizen Harry 😷🥄⚙️💚🍉 @citizenharry.bsky.social · 15h

How would that do anything but cement the MAGA hold on the Court when 47 gets to pick who fills the seats?

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Ryan Tennant @ryantennant.ca · 16h

What stood out to me the most when considering the future of ethical design in technologies and systems was the emphasis on centring the lived experiences of those at the margins. 2/4

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Citizen Harry 😷🥄⚙️💚🍉 @citizenharry.bsky.social · 15h

For those of you just tuning in, here's an article with some more history & context:
medium.com/@bobcristell...

WP Engine vs. Automattic: A Clash Over WordPress Community and Commercialization

The world of WordPress, a platform that powers over 40% of the web, has always been driven by a delicate balance between open-source ideals…

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Citizen Harry 😷🥄⚙️💚🍉 @citizenharry.bsky.social · 16h

...from Birmingham Jail.

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