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Davo Wan Kenobi @daveedcc.bsky.social · 17d

it’s disheartening
disheartening to encounter so many people who don’t value my (our) humanity. 4/4

Davo Wan Kenobi @daveedcc.bsky.social · 17d

Compelled to perform altruistic acts for people who don’t care for us, who will simply consume HP, and/or find humanity in our oppressors at the first time they do something slightly less shitty, is frustrating. While I don’t advocate for the selfish libertarian ways of these dystopian stories… 3/4

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Davo Wan Kenobi @daveedcc.bsky.social · 17d

people in the end of times. However, looking around now, and we see how governments and so called allies fail us, when everything is still functioning pre-dystopian times, it becomes difficult to reconcile this idea that maybe we should be self-reliant. The circumstances in which we feel… 2/4

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Davo Wan Kenobi @daveedcc.bsky.social · 17d

The worst part about the Last of Us games is that the more you think about it, the sadder and more shameful it becomes that all these dystopian stories highlight libertarian and antigovernment narratives. These narratives suggest that we must rely solely on ourselves and our closest circle of…1/4

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WokeAlarm🇵🇷 🔨 @basedalarm.bsky.social · 19d

This guy esta brutal. El merece todos followers combinando de todos los podcasters derechitas ratas propagandistas del sexismo y slop de masculinidad tóxica

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Davo Wan Kenobi @daveedcc.bsky.social · 17d

You think this is a gotcha and a joke. But people like you will be the literal death of us queer brown people just to find humanity in our oppressors for a story. My life and my sense of feeling safe in the world as a queer person is not a joke or a gotcha post

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Davo Wan Kenobi @daveedcc.bsky.social · 17d

Anyway, here’s some Solange…

Weary by Solange on Apple Music

Song · 2016 · Duration 3:14

music.apple.com

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Davo Wan Kenobi @daveedcc.bsky.social · 17d

lol ok
You know what, it’s my fault. It’s on me for expecting more of you folk…

Davo Wan Kenobi @daveedcc.bsky.social · 17d

Mate.Sure it’s not pinkwashing. It’s Good ol image rehab.
You chose to say this was a good story. You chose to say that this horrible person not worthy of attention given the harm he has done was worthy of attention in the context of a good story. Who’s next on your list of good stories JK Rowling?

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Davo Wan Kenobi @daveedcc.bsky.social · 17d

White people are wild. They be like “I hate fascism. I’m an ally. Fuck Trump” and then go…
“Here’s a good story of homophobe and Trump apologists and friend Snoop Dogg being nice to kids in Australia. Duality of man you know…” #RRR #Australia #SnoopDogg

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Davo Wan Kenobi @daveedcc.bsky.social · 17d

That’s… not… a good story though. He is doing harm and you’re pink washing his homophobia and fascist apologia by saying “these things happen all the time”

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Davo Wan Kenobi @daveedcc.bsky.social · 17d

Gracias por la recomendación. Se lo voy a mandar a mi familia!

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Davo Wan Kenobi @daveedcc.bsky.social · 17d

I just saw someone who has in their bio “antifascist” repost a story about Snoop Dog doing “good” with a school in Werribee and I don’t understand the cognitive dissonance…

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Davo Wan Kenobi @daveedcc.bsky.social · 17d

Snoop Dogg is a homophobe and a fascist apologist… I… don’t understand why would we want a good story of such a bad person?

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Davo Wan Kenobi @daveedcc.bsky.social · 17d

I wasn’t ready to like #BodegaBaddie this much
#AmITheDrama

Screenshot of the music app playing the song Bodega baddie by Cardi B

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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 19d

The global shift toward renewable energy is challenging old geopolitical power structures. So where does Australia stand? 👉 theconversation.com/goodbye...

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Biodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · 21d

🦘 The mammals of Australia..
London, Printed by Taylor and Francis, pub. by the author, 1863..

[Source]

Historical illustration from 1863 depicting two wallabies in a natural Australian landscape. The larger wallaby stands on all fours with a strong, rounded body and a long tail, while the smaller one sits upright with its front paws close to its chest. Both have pointed ears, dark markings on their faces, and short fur in gray and brown tones. Surrounding them are native plants and a fallen log, with a softly colored background of distant hills and sky, emphasizing their natural habitat. The artwork highlights the anatomy and posture of the wallabies in a detailed and scientific manner.

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BHL Australia @bhl-au.bsky.social · 22d

This #MarsupialMonday we’re pleased to present the Tasmanian #pademelon!

Who could resist a mini macropod? The Tasmanian pademelon is abundant across Tas, but no longer found on the mainland.

From Gould’s “A monograph of the Macropodidae” via Museums Vic

www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42174455

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Davo Wan Kenobi @daveedcc.bsky.social · 22d

Bad Bunny and his concert #BadBunnyUnaMas was a Puerto Rican showcase, not a Latino one… the whole thing was rooted in PR #PuertoRico #BlueskyPuertoRico #BlueskyPR

A lot of people mean well when talking about Latino identity, but some of the "Latino" discourse around Bad Bunny's #BadBunnyUnaMas concert rubs me the wrong way. Some folks unintentionally erase the message: this was PUERTO RICAN, not
"Latino" or anything else.
Celebrate it, enjoy it...but call it what it is
It was held on the 7th anniversary of Hurricane María's landfall. It was a showcase of working-class Puerto Rican culture, including the houses like the ones we grew up in. It was about reguetón, Bomba y Plena, the celebration of the African roots of this genre, and most importantly, the songs.
The songs are about Puerto Rico-whether they're about sex, love, friendships, going to the beach, joy, sadness, nostalgia, missing friends, the diaspora, our accents, our language, our quirks. All of those are rooted in Puerto Rico, nowhere else.

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Davo Wan Kenobi @daveedcc.bsky.social · 23d

Yo @moderation.bsky.app why are you putting an adult content label on a concert/dance video

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Davo Wan Kenobi @daveedcc.bsky.social · 23d

#Safaera #BadBunnyunamas

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Davo Wan Kenobi @daveedcc.bsky.social · 23d

#badbunnyunamas I LOVED THIS CONCERT. I loved it being a love letter to PR and the diaspora.

Tantos sentimientos: alegría, gozaera, nostalgia, tristeza… wow

A screenshot of a live stream of Bad Bunny’s concert, with a Spanish caption stating “soon.”

Picture of sapo concho looking outside a cold and snowy window

Black man playing the drum. His nails are painted

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Davo Wan Kenobi @daveedcc.bsky.social · 23d

This part of the concert was so bittersweet. Making us remember the 4,645 people that died from govt negligence because of Hurricane Maria 8 years ago TODAY.
All while dancing, & being joyous… nothing explains life in the Caribbean better…finding joy in community during hard times #badbunnyunamas

Picture of Howell and Randy singing. One of them has a baseball jersey with the number 4645 on it.

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papa cheese @anarcoantillane.bsky.social · 23d

A MI ME IMPORTA UN BICHO LO QUE A TI TE VALE VERGA

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Becuhache @becuhache.bsky.social · 28d

Let me be absolutely clear, what Israel has done, and continues to do, to Palestinians is nothing short of genocide, full stop. If you support Israel, you support this genocide.

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