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Fighting Game Anniversaries @fganniversaries.bsky.social · 6h

24 years ago today, The Powerpuff Girls: Chemical X-Traction was originally released on the Nintendo 64 in NA. It was developed by VIS Entertainment/Asylum Entertainment and published by BAM! Entertainment.

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Dana Holtzbert @danaholtzbert.bsky.social · 16h

Dude, we got that shit in 4K.

Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 19h

This is why those banking on the Israeli "opposition" convince very few...

Yair Lapid, head of Israel's opposition:

"Those who demonstrated against Israel in London, Rome, Paris... were deceived by propaganda... The truth is, there was no genocide, no intentional starvation."

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 59m

You gotta fucking tax these people man. You can't let people get this rich.

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 1h

The world's richest man, and owner of one of the largest social media platforms, is funding white supremacists seeking to undermine democracy everywhere he can. www.huffpost.com/entry/tommy-...

Far-Right UK Activist ‘Tommy Robinson’ Says Elon Musk Is Funding His Latest Legal Fight

Musk recently appeared by videolink at a massive London rally hosted by the anti-Islam activist, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon.

www.huffpost.com

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She Guevara @sheg7.bsky.social · 33m

Keir Starmer speaking in the Houses of Parliament today cited "Britain's experience in Nortwrn Ireland" as their thing they are bringing to the table of the Palestine 'peace deal' - which let's be clear: is an acknowledgement that we have 'done an Israel' and got away with it before.

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Ela 🏴 @elacatstan.bsky.social · 25m

Systemic racism affects people’s lives all across the world and that doesn’t mean you’re imune to it due to your country’s colonial past. Y’all got assimilated by whiteness at some point so keep that in mind

Ela 🏴 @elacatstan.bsky.social · 29m

Irish exceptionalism is such a doozy and also dangerous, especially when it comes to minorities living here. That “you don’t get to be racist if you’re Irish” bs poem is one of my biggest pet peeves

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Ela 🏴 @elacatstan.bsky.social · 40m

The Amritsar Massacre begs to differ but ok lol

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bumbling about town 🐝🍉 @tinyearlobe.bsky.social · 1d

this is so critical - the problem with these laws that theoretically criminalise buyers of sex is that either sex workers get criminalised too, or sex workers are forced to work in more dangerous situations, increasingly their likelihood of harm and the potential severity of that harm.

Sex Workers Alliance Ireland @swaiireland.bsky.social · 1d

A brothel is a premises where 2 or more sex workers are present, so these statistics are not comforting to us. We know sex workers are being prosecuted for working together for safety.

www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/surg...

Surge in number of prosecutions for brothel-keeping | BreakingNews

Gardaí brought 34 prosecutions for the offence under Section 11 of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 1993 last year, while another 16 prosecutions were commenced since the start of 2025.

www.breakingnews.ie

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ceej @ceej.online · 10h

any culture, at any point in history, could have invented darude’s sandstorm. the fact that they didn’t is just further proof that old times were busted generally

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The Louvre of Bluesky @thelouvreof.bsky.social · 12h

Usdi Crittenden @lilusdi.bsky.social • 1h
Celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day by disrespecting Italians (eating a barbecue chicken pizza)

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truthseeker5734.bsky.social
@truthseeker5734.bsky.social
Would you say something like that to a black person on MLK day? I doubt it, coward.

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Varun 🍉🍁 @horribleaccount.bsky.social · 14h

They already called Neo-Nazis terrorizing refugees outside hotels as "local protestors"

elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 14h

The Guardian did a profile of Linehan last month in which they described a 57 year old man’s years-long obsession with harassing trans people as “gender activism”

What’s next? Is Tommy Robinson a race activist?

www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

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SistaPledge @sistapledge.bsky.social · 19h

100th birthday?

Nope, still dead, and here she is with a dildo on her head.

Thatcher statue with a dildo on her head. The bottom is graffiti'd in yellow saying Tories Out

Close up of thatcher statue with a dildo on her head

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Jack @jackinpogform.bsky.social · 19h

If you are still telling people yo vote Labour please remove the 'left-leaning' or 'Woke AF' lines from your bio x

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 18h

On the centenary of Thatcher's birth, don't forget that she called Osama bin Laden a freedom fighter, Nelson Mandela a terrorist, General Pinochet a friend. And Jimmy Savile 'Sir'.

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Giorgio Murderer 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @lonestartallboi.bsky.social · 3d

The "bluesky shuffle" is when a liberal says something incredibly defamatory and incendiary, responds to all criticism with "this just proves my point", and finishes by supporting a guy who called Palestinians monkies

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alboo @captainacab.airbud.website · 8h

hey don’t touch that that’s my emotional support parasocial relationship with a few thousand people

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Spookyanna 🎃 @uhnopenottoday.blacksky.app · 9h

We’re not even supposed to be living the lives we live. Everything we enjoy is based on someone else’s slavery or exploitation.

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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 1d

This really highlights how negotiations between Israel and Palestine are negotiations between an occupier and an occupied people.

Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 1d

Israel raided prisoner family homes across five districts in the West Bank. www.middleeasteye.net/news/west-ba...

Israel raids homes of West Bank prisoners set to be released in deal

Families of captive Palestinians threatened not to celebrate release of family members following ceasefire deal

www.middleeasteye.net

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 12h

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

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Toxidrone @toxidrone.bsky.social · 13h

These are real people with real families who are counting on support from a world that has let them down if not actively working to harm them.

They deserve to be treated so much better than this.

Olive 🍉 @limbischessystem.bsky.social · 14h

Aya posted this beautiful photo of her daughters before they deleted her account

The three daughters of Aya and Majd before genocide.

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Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social · 1d

If you've never been to Gaza, you won't appreciate what the yellow line means. Basically Israel now holds most of Gaza's small but important agricultural land. Continued Israeli occupation, which I judge the likely outcome, makes Gaza even more unliveable and more dependent on outside goods.

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 1d

Gaza Strip: Israeli army has withdrawn to the 'yellow line'

AFP Infographic with map of the Gaza Strip showing the 'yellow line' where the Israeli army has withdrawn its forces as of October 10, according to US envoy Steve Witkoff

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ultras-antifa @antifa-ultras.bsky.social · 2d

#Germany - At the pro-Palestine demonstration in Berlin, Die Linke Party MP Lea Reisner was punched by the police.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 5h

On the 6th of October Israel had about 5,000 Palestinian prisoners.
Today, *after the exchange* Israel holds at least 9,000 prisoners, most of them have not been charged.
Conditions in prisons became intolerable after Oct 7. Torture and starvation are standard.

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Robin (she/he-ella/él) @merryrobin.bsky.social · 17h

This is truly unacceptable.
Friends, keep amplifying. Sign if you haven't already. We must try everything we can to guarantee digital (and all human) rights for Palestinians.
www.change.org/p/stop-blues...

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 4h

This will come as a shock to absolutely nobody.

Gareth O’Connor @garethoconnor.bsky.social · 4h

Sky: Israeli troops open fire on 'suspects' in Gaza after 'violation of ceasefire agreement', IDF says

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