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Charlotte
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intersectional anarchatransfeminist, nihilist, physicist, demigoddess, cupcake • we don't believe in nations or property Ⓐ • she/her
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elizabethjacobs.bsky.social
Measles is a bellwether. Because it’s the most contagious vaccine-preventable disease, when vaccination rates drop, it’s the first to start spreading.

Now we’ve got mumps rolling up.

Expect more.

This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.
Maryland health officials warn providers about an upsurge in mumps cases
Maryland health officials are warning about an uptick in cases of mumps.
www.thebanner.com
February 14, 2026 at 11:34 PM
fireantprincess.bsky.social
@kraehenherz.bsky.social
c0nc0rdance.bsky.social c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 1h
Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon.

Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.
February 14, 2026 at 11:38 PM
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danifinnwrites.bsky.social
Read this and the responses and remember this the next time you see a trans crowdfund
badambulist.bsky.social alyson “end the BBC” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 4h
on employment as a trans woman
told the story before about how I only got any of the many low-level admin jobs I applied for once I stopped being honest about being trans I just didn’t say it and let them assume I was a cis girl, then just "forgot" to present my ID to HR until they forgot about it boom: respectable university job public-facing, too. not something they let trannies do if they can avoid it the thing that gets me is that I was going for charity and public sector shit, like these are supposed to be the good guys but I could see the transmisogyny manifest like a fucking aura when it came up the other method ofc was to sign up with a temp agency, because then you just get placed and you can temp to perm with people who have to let you work at least one day, even if they know you’re a tranny. and if you’re friendly and competent and normal, congrats, you can push through the latent TME tranny hate
February 14, 2026 at 9:24 PM
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badambulist.bsky.social
on employment as a trans woman
told the story before about how I only got any of the many low-level admin jobs I applied for once I stopped being honest about being trans I just didn’t say it and let them assume I was a cis girl, then just "forgot" to present my ID to HR until they forgot about it boom: respectable university job public-facing, too. not something they let trannies do if they can avoid it the thing that gets me is that I was going for charity and public sector shit, like these are supposed to be the good guys but I could see the transmisogyny manifest like a fucking aura when it came up the other method ofc was to sign up with a temp agency, because then you just get placed and you can temp to perm with people who have to let you work at least one day, even if they know you’re a tranny. and if you’re friendly and competent and normal, congrats, you can push through the latent TME tranny hate
February 14, 2026 at 7:27 PM
fireantprincess.bsky.social
the missing “ is somehow annoying me more than the additional “is”
themckenziest.gay Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 49m
Did AI write this headline
TechCrunch Is safety is 'dead' at XAI? Elon Musk is "actively" working to make xAl's Grok chatbot "more unhinged, according to a former employee. Anthony Ha 5:55 AM • Feb 14, 2026
February 14, 2026 at 11:32 PM
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maddielonglegs.bsky.social
had a very respectful chat about theology tonight
the holy trinity The Felt is not The Hand is not The Henson Spirit. But together...they are Muppet.
February 14, 2026 at 4:59 AM
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seizethememez.bsky.social
The image is a meme with three panels, using a scene from a movie to humorously convey a conversation about prosecuting people associated with the Epstein files. 1. Top Panel: Shows two characters, with the left one facing the camera and the right one seen from behind. The text reads: "prosecute everyone in the Epstein files." 2. Middle Panel: Features a close-up of the right character facing the camera. The text states: "if we prosecute everyone in the Epstein files, the whole system will collapse." 3. Bottom Panel: The left character is in focus, looking at the right character, with the text: "I already said prosecute everyone in the Epstein files, you don't need to sell it to me."
February 14, 2026 at 5:21 PM
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erinbiba.bsky.social
Everyone’s talking about Swarovski right now so let’s take a second and dive into the fact that they were NAZI Nazis. Like full-on Seig Heil, prosecuted after the war level Nazis and the modern company has done everything they can to hide all their archives and prevent anyone accessing them.
Members of the Swarovski family were early, active and enthusiastic champions of Nazism, and at least six of its members maintained membership in the illegal party prior to Austria's annexation to Nazi Germany on 12 March 1938.!23] Three weeks earlier, 500 marchers in the Tyrolean town of Wattens held a torchlight procession that ended with chants of "Sieg Heil" and "Heil Hitler". The majority of the participants, police determined, were Swarovski plant employees, among them Swarovski family heirs Alfred, Wilhelm and Friedrich. 124] In its report to the state police on 14 February 1947, the Innsbruck district administrator called company head Alfred Swarovski "an enthusiastic member of the NSDAP." [25] Alfred Swarovski praised Hitler at business gatherings and took actions as a regional business leader to ensure that "Tyrolean industry could be integrated as smoothly as possible into the enormous gears of the economy of Greater Germany and into the National Socialist economic order." He sent "grateful loyalty greetings" to Adolf Hitler on his 49th birthday and arranged a donation of 100,000 shillings for Hitler to establish a holiday home in Tyrol.!26] In 1994, historian Horst Schreiber wrote about Swarovski's past but was not granted access to company archives. (27] The contemporary Swarovski company commissioned historian Dieter Stiefel as "a step towards dealing with our history in a serious and very pro-active manner," board spokesman Markus Langes-Swarovski said in 2018; however, the study was not published because, Langes-Swarovski said, "Swarovski is a company that generally tries to keep the owners' personal stories largely out of the public eye because it does nothing for the business." (28]
February 14, 2026 at 4:24 AM
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riotlinguist.bsky.social
oh to be a fat bear floating lazily in clear water
c0nc0rdance.bsky.social c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 1h
Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon.

Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.
February 14, 2026 at 10:27 PM
fireantprincess.bsky.social
this bear is living their best life while you are forced to work an office job that you hate while fascists are making life worse and worse, it would be so much easier to be a bear that could just eat the fascists face off
c0nc0rdance.bsky.social c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 1h
Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon.

Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.
February 14, 2026 at 10:48 PM
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crowwkui.bsky.social
scribbled some butch yuri for valentine's ⑅ᵕ༚ᵕ˚☽
February 14, 2026 at 9:50 PM
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jackiantonovich.bsky.social
YIKES
aaronclauset.bsky.social Aaron Clauset @aaronclauset.bsky.social · 1d
My employer, Univ. Colorado will pay OpenAI $2M/year under the banner of “equity”. That’s 54 full scholarships / year. Plus, our IT will be able to read our chatGPT logs, and our chats can be requested under public records law. No thanks. Surveillance is not equity

www.axios.com/local/boulde...
CU signs $2M OpenAI deal for ChatGPT access
Students and faculty will gain access to ChatGPT Edu starting in March under a three-year deal.
www.axios.com
February 14, 2026 at 10:03 PM
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
this feels like a Roger Bannister four minute mile moment for "reactionary centrism". a level of reactionary centrism doctors (of political science) assured us was impossible but that training, dedication, ingenuity, and the Indomitable human spirit were determined to overcome
michaelhobbes.bsky.social Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 10h
Physically incapable of analyzing politics outside of this insipid frame.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Why MAGA Wants You to Think Slavery Wasn’t That Bad Both the left and the right try to co-opt it, but the real story of American slavery doesn’t serve any one faction. By Thomas Chatterton Williams Sanitizing slavery has become a core objective of the reactionary right under Donald Trump—a malignant response to the progressive left’s oversimplification of American history for their own present-day ends.
February 14, 2026 at 2:20 PM
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internethippo.bsky.social
They taught Al how to talk like a corporate middle manager and thought this meant the Al was conscious instead of realizing that corporate middle managers aren't
February 13, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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katbrush.art
man this site is something else. You can make a post where you’re not even editorializing, just saying literally exactly what the democrats did in 2024, like these are true events that occurred in time, and Newsom psychos will show up to call you a chaos agent and neo nazi
katbrush.art katbrush @katbrush.art · 1d
remember when the democrats called republicans weird for a week and it worked astonishingly well, like better than nearly any other messaging the dems had attempted before, but then they immediately abandoned it because Harris thought teaming up with Liz Cheney would win over conservatives
February 14, 2026 at 2:37 PM
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nemolimo.bsky.social
Only 145euros left till i can fully pay for my cats dental surgery on monday! If you could share this it would help so much! Thank you for every share and donation im so greatful 💜 www.paypal.com/pool/9m6O52V...
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February 14, 2026 at 1:04 PM
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radleybalko.bsky.social
It's going to be wild when Paxton gets the GOP nomination in Texas, loses in the general, and the Dems miraculously grab a 51-49 lead in the Senate in November . . .

. . . and then Fetterman switches parties in December.

www.wesa.fm/politics-gov...
Fetterman lone Democrat to support Homeland Security funding bill, as DHS shutdown looms
A shutdown for the Department of Homeland Security appeared certain Thursday as lawmakers in the House and Senate were set to leave Washington for a 10-day break.
www.wesa.fm
February 13, 2026 at 11:49 PM
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woketaku.bsky.social
Happy international lesbian dayyy. If ur a girl, kiss a girl today 😌 #internationallesbianday #doodle #procreate #furry #hyena
October 9, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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logicallyjc.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 1:34 AM
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poochiccini.bsky.social
shadowlach animation feat. magic strap is coming along 🖤❤️‍🔥 (rope restraints are placeholder lines for now, ahem) #shadowheart #karlach #bg3 #shadowlach

link~⤵️
www.patreon.com/posts/150292...
February 10, 2026 at 8:20 PM
fireantprincess.bsky.social
call me out why don’t you
tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social Typewriter Monke @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 11h
trans girls in stem going like "wait a minute, i'm not actually passionate about this, it was just an appealing way to channel my thinking into a structure that didn't involve introspecting or feeling emotions" after starting hrt
February 14, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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mgnes.bsky.social
"America was fine"
American Progress by John Gast (1872), an allegorial representation of "Manifest Destiny" Native Americans being buried in a mass grave at Wounded Knee, South Dakota (1890) An American soldier burns down a house during the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam (1968) Abdou Hussain Saad Faleh being tortured at Abu Gharib prison, Iraq (2004)
February 14, 2026 at 12:21 PM
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ciara2001.bsky.social
The G kind of glossing over the fact it was the so-called "women's rights" lawfare enjoyers who were friends with billionaires with deep pockets who forced the WI into banning trans women in the first place
www.wearequeeraf.com/organisation...
February 14, 2026 at 12:29 PM
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xunlingau.bsky.social
This is an incredible labour of love.
Do read the thread as well as it has some important points to know.
rechelon.bsky.social William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 22h
Much of my youth revolved around the website ZineLibrary. It went down around Occupy in a massive loss for a movement whose ideas and knowledge mostly doesn't circulate online but in person.

Anyway I've put it back online with a *thousand* anarchist zines:

zinelibrary.org
ZineLibrary
zinelibrary.org
February 14, 2026 at 10:54 AM
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lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com
in an era when carnivore diet influencers are in charge of the american nuclear arsenal we have to admit the "annoying vegan" stereotype barely ever actually existed and the "all meat diet guy" is real, increasingly omnipresent, and way more annoying and inconvenient to actually be around
February 8, 2026 at 5:59 PM