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fail better soon @failbettersoon.bsky.social · Jun 13
[artwork by @gardenofslugs on ig]
a simple black-and-white line drawing of a rabbit hopping and a bird in flight, on a black background with stars, with large text reading “no human is illegal.” the image has a very peaceful, gentle tone. artwork by @gardenofslugs on ig
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pickledsmoke.bsky.social
I have anxious disaster brain from navigating a lifetime of disasters, and I genuinely hate how it keeps being proven useful and correct.
November 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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durhamhealthnc.bsky.social
Long COVID includes a wide range of symptoms and can affect anyone, no matter your age or other health conditions. Learn more, and prevent #LongCOVID by preventing COVID-19!
November 7, 2025 at 6:37 PM
failbettersoon.bsky.social
‘member this one? from december 2016.
at the time, i called it “hopefully not, but quite possibly the most prescient image of the 21st century.
norwegian political cartoon from december 2016, depicting donald trump portrayed as a crawling baby, wearing a diaper overflowing with diarrhea, his legs and hands and face and the floor also streaked with diarrhea, tugging at a table-cloth made from a US flag, also smearing it with diarrhea, and causing a globe on the table-top to teeter precariously over the edge.
October 19, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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karl-jacoby.bsky.social
Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.
October 18, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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effies.bsky.social
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October 14, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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haymarketbooks.org
John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry began on October 16, 1859.
John Brown
October 16, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
I will cut adrift—I will sit on pavements and drink coffee—I will dream; I will take my mind out of its iron cage and let it swim—this fine October.

- Virginia Woolf
#Womensart
Monochrome photograph featuring a white woman sitting sideways on a patterned armchair dressed in a dark jacket and skirt and with her hand raised to her face
October 15, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
Don Lemon interviews a Chicago native who is not pleased with the federal takeover.
October 13, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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pedsortho.bsky.social
Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death. The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed. After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died. While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants. Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....
October 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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talibkweli.bsky.social
COLUMBUS DAY SO LET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT: DUDE GOT LOST, FOUND A PLACE WHERE PEOPLE LIVED, CLAIMED IT FOR EUROPE, THEN TORTURED AND MASSACRED THOUSANDS OF NATIVE PEOPLE, AND PAVED THE WAY FOR THE SLAVE TRADE. HOW ARE WE SUPPOSED TO CELEBRATE THIS SH#T AGAIN? www.supremedesignonline.com
October 13, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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October 12, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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“some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians"
October 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
#WarRavagedPortland
October 8, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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elmcitytree.blacksky.app
My goodness, Baldwin could had written this last week.
Only a handful of the millions of people in this vast place are aware that the fate intended for you, Sister Angela, and for George Jackson, and for the numberless prisoners in our concentration camps-for that is what they are—is a fate which is about to engulf them, too. White lives, for the forces which rule in this country, are no more sacred than black ones, as many and many a student is discovering, as the white American corpses in Vietnam prove. If the American people are unable to contend with their elected leaders for the redemption of their own honor and the lives of their own children, we, the blacks, the most rejected of the Western children, can expect very little help at their hands: which, after all, is nothing new. What the Americans do not realize is that a war between brothers, in the same cities, on the same soil, is not a racial war but a civil war. But the American delusion is not only that their brothers all are white but that the whites are all their brothers.
October 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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elmcitytree.blacksky.app
James Baldwin to Angela Davis in 1970, discussing white Americans:
Or, to put it another way, as long as white Americans take refuge in their whiteness— for so long as they are unable to walk out of this most monstrous of traps-they will allow millions of people to be slaughtered in their name, and will be manipulated into and surrender themselves to what they will think of-and justify—as a racial war. They will never, so long as their whiteness puts so sinister a distance between themselves and their own experience and the experience of others, feel themselves sufficiently human, sufficiently worthwhile, to become responsible for themselves, their leaders, their country, their children, or their fate. They will perish (as we once put it in our black church) in their sins—that is, in their delusions. And this is happening, needless to say, already, all around us.
October 5, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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makkon.bsky.social
a flow-chart with 2 islands. "Do I need AI?" that flows into a final island saying "No"
October 2, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
"They Took Everyone"
ICE Raids 75th Street Apartment, Detains Migrants and U.S. Citizens Alike
October 2, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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FAQ on Refusing Illegal Orders - Military Law Task Force
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September 28, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
jolly_good_ginger Retired Army Vet Dropping Facts
September 27, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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dexanderson.com
Cuomo could never.
September 26, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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chronicillness.bsky.social
i think it is brave and also very sexy of me to continue living
September 26, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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brownecfm.bsky.social
Let me be clear. As someone who has been professionally involved with the biodefense / biosecurity sector for nearly 20 years, and has worked on biological risk analysis for Covid-19 since early 2020, reducing one's risk of being infected is not health anxiety. It's just smart.
September 26, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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physiciandemocracy.medsky.social
#medsky
Why your patient is COVID cautious
September 25, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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ebthen.bsky.social
It's because demanding civility of people is a great way to assert power over them and justify ignoring anything they have to say.
September 13, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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scottsantens.com
Ireland just released a report showing the huge success of the unconditional basic income it provided to artists. Each $1 spent led to society gaining $1.39. Artists' earned incomes went up more than their side job incomes fell. And they were happier and used less welfare

www.gov.ie/en/departmen...
For every €1 of public money invested in the pilot, society received €1.39 in return The net cost of the BIA pilot went from €105m to under €72m due to tax generated and savings on social welfare payments It also finds that recipients’ arts-related income increased by over €500 per month on average, while their income from non-arts work decreased by around €280. Dependence on social protection declined, with recipients receiving €100 less per month on average, and 38 percentage points less likely to receive Jobseeker’s payments.
September 23, 2025 at 1:54 PM