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Bene Flopsserit 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏴🔻 @flops.bsky.social · Dec 14

The constitutional framers were capable of creating America because they read directly from the Writ of Yakub that promised the most servile populace on planet Earth in 250 years. It has now been 248 years...

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Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 4h

Fun fact about the Salvation Army: they use a form of substance use treatment called work therapy. Oh, and by treatment, I mean they have people who have been convicted of drug charges work for their stores & warehouses in exchange for room, board, around a $1 a week, and minimal actual therapy.

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Bene Flopsserit 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏴🔻 @flops.bsky.social · 1h

"The liberal can allow that global warming is 'real' but not so real as to oblige blowing up oil pipelines... At the end of the day, the liberal cannot allow for anything to be so real." — @rechelon.bsky.social

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Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 12h

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

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Curb Your Malthusiasm 2.0 @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 1d

Love that they gave the Nobel Peace Prize to the sentient version of this tweet

Jane
@Whooping_Jane
blonde-haired blue-eyed person named something like Sabine
Mengele-Eichmann: my country, Venezuela, yearns for freedom
1:40 PM • 2/3/19 • Twitter Web Client

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 17h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Ed "Big Bones" Costanza @gojira65.bsky.social · 1d

The full quote is even better than the misattributed one. Also, I love the commentary at the bottom, int the "Tags" section.

On the commonly misattributed Emma Goldman quote “If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution”

organt:

“If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution” a quote frequently attributed to anarcho-feminist icon Emma Goldman, never actually appears in any of her work. It was invented by anarchist printer Jack Frager in 1973 for a series of t-shirts, a paraphrase of a longer paragraph from Goldman’s autobiography Living My Life:

At the dances I was one of the most untiring and gayest. One evening a cousin of Sasha, a young boy, took me aside. With a grave face, as if he were about to announce the death of a dear comrade, he whispered to me that it did not behoove an agitator to dance. Certainly not with such reckless abandon, anyway. It was undignified for one who was on the way to become a force in the anarchist movement. My frivolity would only hurt the Cause. I grew furious at the impudent interference of the boy. I told him to mind his own business. I was tired of having the Cause constantly thrown into my face. I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from convention and prejudice, should demand the denial of life and joy. I insisted that our Cause could not expect me to become a nun and that the movement would not be turned into a cloister. If it meant that, I did not want it.

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Tags: FEMINISM kind of emma goldman oh that quote isn't as misattributed as i thought the ESSENCE of it is true emma goldman you are the best i don't agree with your methods but your sentiments and motives were kickass

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

I will never get over this.

It is MINDBLOWING that Biden/Kamala could have had a ceasefire deal in Sept 2024. Would have won them the election without a doubt. And yet could not do it because Israel’s right to exterminate millions of people could not be violated. This is where racism will lead you folks

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

oh no

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Bene Flopsserit 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏴🔻 @flops.bsky.social · 1d

"No gods no masters" is such an underrated slogan holy shit.

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Bene Flopsserit 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏴🔻 @flops.bsky.social · 1d

Francesca Albanese should have won the Nobel Peace Prize

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Curb Your Malthusiasm 2.0 @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 1d

“It’s a fuck you to Trump!” and it’s just a lady who holds all the same exact regime-change line as Trump. Good job everyone you sure showed him

^ Political views
Machado is anti-chavismo and has disagreed with other sections of the Venezuelan opposition. 101](102](103) In 2011, she campaigned as a promotor of "popular capitalism". [103) Machado supports the privatization of state-run entities in Venezuela, including oil company PDVSA. (69][102]
Machado has supported the international sanctions during the Venezuelan crisis, 69 and has advocated for foreign intervention to remove Maduro on humanitarian grounds. 104]
[105) In 2023, she ran as a candidate in the opposition presidential primaries. (106][107) The Maduro administration subsequently barred her from running. 108) She subsequently became the main driving force for the main opposition candidate, Edmundo González, who was allowed to compete by the Maduro regime. 109]

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jenny_tightpants🪑 @jtp.bsky.social · 2d

computers were a mistake

scaryssa walmart dog @meo.bsky.social · 2d

how do u even compete with this level of propaganda. and why tf do these vril guys love tatu so much

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Spencer Beswick @spencerbeswick.bsky.social · 2d

I also want to say: I get frustrated when people say that folks who leave the country should "stay and fight." People have always fled authoritarian regimes--from Tsarist Russia to Francoist Spain and beyond--and continued to fight from outside. This is part of the struggle.

Spencer Beswick @spencerbeswick.bsky.social · 2d

The fact that scholars of fascism and anti-fascism have been leaving the country -- now including Mark Bray fleeing death threats -- should be a huge wake up call to the American public. They more than anyone know the warning signs and the direction we seem to be headed.

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strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 3d

Oh so they just aren't trying to hide the connection between capitalism and state power anymore, huh

Greylace @greylace.bsky.social · 4d

The recent ICE raid which emptied an entire apartment building was apparently at the request of Wells Fargo, which is trying to foreclose on the building.

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 4d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

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Bene Flopsserit 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏴🔻 @flops.bsky.social · 3d

For 2 years the IDF used fake 3D setpieces to propagandize about "terror bases" purpose-built under hospitals, schools, & refugee camps.

Their massacre of countless innocent Palestinians was framed, in this view, as necessary.

The mainstream press spread this genocidal lie completely uncritically.

Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 3d

One of the earlier and most-viewed examples was an animation of Al Shifa Hospital, published in October 2023.

The “underground command room” was recycled from a 2022 IDF animation of an UNRWA school in Tel Al-Hawa; the street above was built from prefab @kb-3d.bsky.social storefronts

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 3d

The IDF took 3D animations from the Scottish Maritime Museum, a cyberpunk project and other places to make shit up about Gaza, Lebanon and Iran and these were reproduced in international outlets for the past 2 years.

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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banned from the circus for fucking the bread 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @akumeoy.bsky.social · 3d

hey guys check out the scp universe it's so cool. there's the scp version of twitter and the scp version of the UN and the scp version of fascism and the scp version of modern art and the scp version of restaurants and the scp version of misogyny and the scp version of chatgpt and the scp version of

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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 3d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Sonia Spookyman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 3d

It has to be said, I’m struggling. I am still in over draft after paying my bills. If you’ve ever enjoyed what I do here, be it writing, curating the Palestinian Speculative Fiction reading list, or just my vibe, please consider using my tip jar: ko-fi.com/soniasulaiman

Buy SoniaSulaiman a Coffee

Sonia is writing speculative fiction inspired by Palestinian folklore. Leave her a tip to support her work!

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Austin Butlerian Jihad 🇵🇸 @huckstergon.bsky.social · 3d

First they came for the…oh, who was it again?

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 4d

US commentator Van Jones has apologised for making a joke about Palestinian babies killed by Israeli attacks, but he is not alone when it comes to dehumanising comments about Gaza aje.io/33pm5k

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 4d

The Israeli military is currently attacking the Thousand Madleens flotilla as they attempt to deliver much-needed aid to people in Gaza who are suffering famine as a consequence of the Israeli blockade.

Read this statement from one of the participants in the flotilla:

crimethinc.com/SailingforGaza

A livecam still showing a mercenary in the pay of the Israeli occupation forces climbing the mast of the Sunbird, a boat in the Thousand Madleens flotilla, aiming to destroy the camera.

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yoshimi red @yoshimired.bsky.social · 4d

peasant: but reverend! Why do you throw out our icons of venerable saints and our holy relics? Has there been some new revelation from the church?

reverend: kings pope now

peasant: what

reverend, hucking a sack of relics into a well: kings pope now

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Bene Flopsserit 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏴🔻 @flops.bsky.social · 5d

It's decentralization through centralization, of course it will work!

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