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e @efromdc.blacksky.app · Nov 16

INTRO POST: I am a Black and genderqueer educator. Trained in mental health and education, working towards becoming a therapist. A student of the Black radical tradition from across the diaspora. Also into writing, DND, sundry nerd shit. I run a fediverse server called BlackQueerLife that I love.

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Oracle of the Obvious @oracleobvious.bsky.social · 2h

Do you think we could convince them to put Ares back in theaters in a few weeks so it can bomb a second time? 🤭

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Disability Rights Watch (US) @disrightswatch.bsky.social · 16h

Breaking: per internal sources, the entire Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS), including OSEP and RSA beneath them, was RIFed last night at the Department of Ed. Developing story. DoEd union says may take 1-2 days for all affected employees to receive official notice.

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Clay Jackson @clayjak.substack.com · 4h

that lawyer was me.

open.substack.com/pub/radleyba...

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Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 2h

With alt text, so everyone can get it

Two posts from account called covie that reads in succession: "Notice how Trump took the COVID booster, not ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine. Trump is vaccinated. All six of RFK Jr's children are vaccinated. These are the people telling you to not get vaccinated and to not vaccinate your child"

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 13h

In Broadview, IL this morning outside the Chicago area ICE detention center—

Just rolled up, immediately saw ISP/CCSO arresting a protester w/ a guitar (he appears to be in good spirits over it).

ICE vehicles have been coming and going, including a large bus driven by a masked agent seen earlier.

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Remora House DC 🎃 @remorahousedc.bsky.social · 1d

If you are employed & doing pretty fine right now, set aside some money from each paycheck to dedicate to mutual aid asks. Even just $20.

Shit is really bad, the social safety net is being shredded, & truly TRULY all we have is each other right now.

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Kevin Foster @kevinhfoster.bsky.social · 2h

Feds arrest one person at the Portland ICE facility at around 7:30. The reason is again unclear, but it was likely for stepping over the blue line. They were dragged into the facility by five agents while one filmed.

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🍂 beagle 🥧 @beagle.bsky.social · May 29

how you sound when you say female instead of woman

star trek the next generation season 1 episode 5, where they meet the ferengi for the first time. 3 ferengi are huddled in shock, staring at tasha yar, in disbelief that humans work with their females and give them clothing

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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 22h

obsessed with the antifascist frogs in Portland, I hope they continue to multiply 🙏

Person in frog costume with poster saying 'frogs together strong'

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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 1d

so Google just added a bunch (more) AI bullshit to Chrome

Go through these steps to disable it:

opus.ing/posts/how-to...

#chrome #aibullshit

How to Remove AI From Your Google Chrome Experience - Opus

Follow these steps to resist the AI-pocalypse in your everyday web browsing.

opus.ing

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LoLo Vonz @lolovonz.bsky.social · 14h

Upon seeing Azealia Banks perform in Israel I think now’s a great time to give Angel Haze her flowers for lyrically whacking her

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 14h

Keep in mind the people who are opposed to defunding the police want more of this

They would rather their tax money go to cops instead of efforts to fund public health initiatives and non police adjacent first responders

This is a result of anti defund efforts

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 15h

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

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🎃🚨SEE PINNED🚨#ProtectJhordin🚨🎃 @blackapostate.blacksky.app · 14h

cause they change the meanings of words based on their white ass feelings at the moment. taumboutsum damn resist and antifascist and they literally only mean trump & his team

#ProtectJhordin and #FreeLink @permanentalien.blacksky.app · 14h

too many anti-fascist in bio and not enough sharing and supporting SWs, disabled artists and mutual aid requests

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Ma$on @masonfromtwitter.bsky.social · 1d

Fun fact:

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 14h

They’re actively working to resegregate housing, and our “allies” refuse to name racism while they’re doing so...

◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 15h

HUD laid off so many fair housing investigators on Friday that it shuttered the regional offices that oversee discrimination cases in 9 states: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

HUD Issues Layoff Notices, Targeting Fair Housing Staff With Deep Cuts

Fair housing staffers who investigate claims of housing discrimination at field offices nationwide were among the hundreds of HUD staffers who received layoff notices.

www.bloomberg.com

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Elliot 🥕 @nameoftheyear.bsky.social · 1d

LOSING MY MIND AT THE PHONE NUMBER ON THIS BUS IN FRONT OF ME

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Sinéad Rhiannon (fae/it/he/they) @sineadthefae.bsky.social · Nov 4

saw the “may i please draw your OC?” post going around, and i’ve had a handful of requests lately, so here’s my version:

"May I please draw you [the rest of “your OC” crossed out]?"

YES. okay, some caveats.
• if you are just using a picture of mine publicly posted as a reference, no need to ask.
• this is especially true if you want practice learning to draw fat bodies.
• you may draw me if your style is less realistic, and you may absolutely draw furry sinead or cartoon sinead, but please ask if concerned.
• if you want to change my body shape or features substantially ASK FIRST. some options are fun for me, some are very not.
• if you want to draw a specific kink ASK FIRST.
• ASK FIRST before putting me with other people/characters in an image. especially sexually or in kink contexts.
• please ask if at all unsure but my answer is likely yes.

• please share with me? please? i'll probably share it if you use alt text. or send me the file if you don't want it on main. please show me your art.
• please draw me if you are learning, especially if you're used to drawing from thin figure models. it's important to learn to draw fat on a body.

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Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 16h

Former US President Barack Obama has come under fire for his statement on the Gaza ceasefire deal, in which he “dehumanized” Palestinians after two years of Israeli genocide by equating victims with their victimizers and erasing Palestinian suffering.

qudsnen.co/racist-barac...

‘Racist’: Barack Obama Faces Backlash Over Gaza Ceasefire Post Dehumanizing Palestinians - Quds News Network

qudsnen.co

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#ProtectJhordin and #FreeLink @permanentalien.blacksky.app · 10d

so i’m gonna stop here.

thank you for your support! whether you’ve helped me sharing, boosting, donating or encouraging me to ask for help, i’m alive because of mutual aid.

anything donated here this week is going towards health insurance payments and integration course and 9/

gofund.me/982b699b

Donate to help alyssum rebuild, stay housed and get HRT, organized by Alyssum Borges

Hi hello, maybe you saw my campaign to help me move out of a mold infeste… Alyssum Borges needs your support for help alyssum rebuild, stay housed and get HRT

gofund.me

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 15h

It's amazing how much of not falling for America's settler colonial narrative means actually learning the documented, recorded facts of the noble figures of their pantheon. They're monsters with appetites for cruelty.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 1d

Middle East Eye:

The US has spent nearly $34bn supporting Israel since 7 October 2023, according to a report published by Brown University on Tuesday.

US taxpayers spent over $33bn on Israel's wars over two years

The hefty price tag amounts to US taxpayers giving each citizen of Israel about $3,400 since 7 October 2023

www.middleeasteye.net

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 1d

“Israelis still have free healthcare and free college and subsidized childcare. They haven’t reduced any of their social welfare programs. Meanwhile Americans are literally paying for groceries with their credit cards"

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 1d

I knew this looked familiar.

NYT 1931: HITLER CONDEMNS RIOTS.; He Says They Were Provoked by Paid Agents in Germany.

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