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sys.del @delexandra.com · 10d

unrelated new release October 25

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Natis✨️🇵🇷.no hay nada que me joda. @n4tis.bsky.social · 13h

Ppl don't know shit about Puerto Rico and wanna write stupid tskes online
Shut up, free Borikén mfs

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sys.del @delexandra.com · 1d

a man is dancing in front of flex tape

Alt: in slow motion, a person heroically slaps a square patch onto a big hole in a very large transparent tank of water

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sys.del @delexandra.com · 1d

heart sprung a leak but we’ll make it

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🖤🥀Jennywise🥀🖤 @curmudjenn.bsky.social · 3d

I guess what I'm saying is stream Rauw's new album if you want 45 mins of joy 💜🇵🇷

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sys.del @delexandra.com · 3d

literally me

jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 3d

support your local nervous system!!

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Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 3d

racial distribution across the us, map from
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/americas-racial-diversity-in-six-maps/

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Albert R. @dsifriend.albertrg.me · 5d

Empiezo este thread, explicando mi preocupación un poco, con un poco de trasfondo mío.

Yo soy nuyorican y eso ha coloreado mi experiencia toda la vida. En casa siempre hemos sido independentistas y me alegra que haya comenzado a crecer naturalmente el movimiento de nuevo…

#BlueSkyPR

Albert R. @dsifriend.albertrg.me · 6d

Tenemos que tener discusiones serias sobre lo que pasó con las protestas ayer #BlueSkyPR #FreePuertoRico

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sys.del @delexandra.com · 3d

If you're talking about US politics and Bad Bunny without once mentioning the fact that Puerto Rico is not *really actually* a part of the United States NOR SHOULD IT BE, you've entirely lost the plot and probably never had any grasp on things to begin with.

#BadBunny #BlueskyPR

sys.del @delexandra.com · 10d

I’ve seen so many people dunking on MAGA folks for suggesting Bad Bunny ought to be deported, or on ICE for saying they will be present at the Super Bowl. They say “Puerto Rico is part of the United States, dumbasses!“

This isn’t helpful. 🧵

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sys.del @delexandra.com · 15d

my new album ❤️‍🩹

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An album by System Delexandra

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sys.del @delexandra.com · 13d

companion ep drops October 10

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sys.del @delexandra.com · 15d

my new album ❤️‍🩹

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sys.del @delexandra.com · 10d

unrelated new release October 25

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🇵🇷Chuck Martin @singlemalttheory42.bsky.social · 6d

"Puerto Rico should be a State" is but the latest form of virtue signaling concocted by White Liberals. It does not take into account ANYTHING remotely related to Puerto Rican history, politics, or identity.

#MAGA #Liberals #PuertoRico #BadBunny

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carlos (vibe describer) @vaquero2xl.bsky.social · 6d

Incredibly proud and excited to be working with this team!

The Latino Newsletter @thelatinonewsletter.org · 6d

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The Latino Newsletter Receives Six-Figure Grant to Expand San Juan Bureau and Launch AMERICAN COLONY Podcast

The Latino Newsletter Secures Major Grant to Expand Puerto Rico Work

BOSTON / SAN JUAN — Today, The Latino Newsletter announced a $300,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to expand the organization’s San Juan bureau and produce American Colony, a bilingual podcast se...

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sys.del @delexandra.com · 6d

Happy birthday!

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sys.del @delexandra.com · 6d

Oohhh!! wishlist

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sys.del @delexandra.com · 9d

🧵 Join me for a look at the first few tracks of my new album this evening ☕️ 🛋️

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Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 6d

there's always someone who needs to read this so i am doing my traditional linking of @nataliereed84.bsky.social's "the null hypothecis" when gatekeeping is on the tl:
freethoughtblogs.com/nataliereed/...

After all, surely if we’re going to risk so much, put so much at stake, in such a monumental “decision”, we should approach it carefully, and make sure to be certain, right? Shouldn’t we be looking for proof that we’re trans before gambling our whole lives on that being the case?

Well, maybe… if proof of being trans was even really something possible, beyond the simple proof of subjectively experiencing your identity and gender as such. But more importantly: we never ask ourselves for “proof” that we’re cis.

Cis is treated as the null hypothesis. It doesn’t require any evidence. It’s just the assumed given. All suspects are presumed cisgender until proven guilty of transsexuality in a court of painful self-exploration. But this isn’t a viable, logical, “skeptical” way to approach the situation. In fact it’s not a case of a hypothesis being weighed against a null hypothesis (like “there’s a flying teapot orbiting the Earth” vs. “there is no flying teapot orbiting the Earth”), it is simply two competing hypotheses. Two hypotheses that should be held to equal standards and their likelihood weighed against one another.

And of course the entire gatekeeping procedure is an extreme externalization of this entrenched cisnormativity, the assumption that cis is so incredibly “normal” that it’s the null hypothesis, that the burden of proof falls entirely on the hypothesis that the patient is trans, that she must meet a number of strict criteria before her claims to her gender identity will be accepted as true. At no point in the conventional gatekeeping model is the doctor ever expected to provide any evidence proving the contrary position, that the patient is really cis. And if a doctor or therapist suggests some possible theory for why a cis patient would become “duped” into believing himself transgender, again the burden of proof falls to the patient to falsify their assertion rather than for them to falsify her’s.

This whole idea that your subjective identity can’t be legitimate unless you’re somehow able to back it up with objective evidence is a pretty awful situation to be put in, especially when you’re inflicting it on yourself, given how any “proof” of being trans is entirely dependent on subjective experience. What proves that you’re trans is only to understand yourself as trans. When dealing with gatekeepers and family and the numerous external forces that would deny us our identities, it’s not such a crippling situation, because at least we know, and we are the proof, and beyond that it’s simply a matter of figuring out what they think would count as “proof” and what exactly they need to see or hear to believe you (if anything). But when imposing this situation on yourself, when the only possible actual certainty is in accepting and understanding yourself as trans, but you refuse to accept and understand yourself as such until you have that certainty… you’ve created an impossible situation for yourself.

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 6d

For three centuries Salonica, now Thessaloniki, had been known as the “Mother of Israel,” (“La Madre de Israel”). By the early 20th century, there were 35 Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) newspapers published in the city.

My review of “Salonica: City of Ghosts," by Mark Mazower:

medium.com/@josieglz/sa...

Salonica, “The Mother of Israel.”

On a whim, after I had finished reading “Salonica: City of Ghosts — Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430–1950,” by Mark Mazower, I googled…

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Oubao Moin 𓆏𓆌𓆉𓆈𓆚 🇵🇷🇱🇧|🍉🌻🌿 #VivaPuertoRicoLibre @astrophobia.bsky.social · 6d

Reconstruction is NOT and can NOT be the genocide and continued colonization of Puerto Rico. You can’t wash off the crimes of colonialism, invasion, displacement, settlement, exploitation, sterilization, persecution, and mass surveillance that your empire committed upon us. Give us our freedom.

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 6d

All these people, including a young woman in a tennis skirt, were able to fend off these nasty call of duty ass pig fascists and save a guy's life. We can overwhelm them and we can drive them away.

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 6d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Miriam @miriamboosh.bsky.social · 6d

Let me get this straight: Link, a Black user, got banned for calling out the Bluesky CEO for following a racist. That’s not a good look, especially given Bluesky’s historical treatment of Black users here on bluesky.

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 6d

Link. Of all people.

Aveta👾🇭🇹 @aliafonzy.blacksky.app · 6d

So Link got banned too. Great. Just great.

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Johnny Normality (Spooky Mode) @probgobl.in · 6d

What's happening here is a great example of why, at its core, ATProto is kind of a mess for end users.

At no point was the post deleted from the Haus of Decline's PDS (Personal Data Server, the thing that stores all of an account's information and posts).

What they actually did is, IMO, worse.
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 7d

Bluesky deleted my post complaining about the CEO lol. I did not delete it myself! Full on Lowtaxing from Jay here.

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