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Thomas Francis @francisconway.bsky.social · 1d

They just cant imagine a world they cant control the entire environment of so their inevitable demise looks biblical. But there are many antichrists it is very simple actually. Antichrist sets itself up in the temple of the mind above god worship, thats it.

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Thomas Francis @francisconway.bsky.social · 1d

When psychopathic abusers are scared of losing control they plan to destroy if they cant get what they want. Now imagine those are the people running corrupt administrations marrying business practicioners like thiell. Also, fundamentalism is just wrong.

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練り餌 @nellie007.bsky.social · 1d

久し振りの長袖を心一杯堪能するコザ様
はしゃぎすぎてコケるコザ様🤣

#birds #コザクラインコ
#lovebird #嚙まれフェチ

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Thomas Francis @francisconway.bsky.social · 1d

That url gives a 404, the main link works though

deportationdata.org

Deportation Data Project

deportationdata.org

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Paul Griffiths @disgwylfa.bsky.social · 1d

a page of Krasznahorkai

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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 1d

Great letter in today's Irish Times, thousands of Palestinians are incarcerated in apartheid Israel's torture dungeons, they must be released. And our government must call for their release. #FreeThemAll #FreePalestine

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Sphagnum Moss @sphagnums.bsky.social · 1d

Sphagnum cuspidatum var viride (the completely green variant), tenellum and papillosum #moss #bryophyte

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Thomas Francis @francisconway.bsky.social · 2d

Didnt ask

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Steve Brown - astronomy and astrophotography @sjbastro.bsky.social · 2d

A near-complete skeleton found on Dorset's Jurassic coast has been identified as a new species of ichthyosaur, a type of prehistoric marine reptile that once ruled the oceans. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Fossil found on UK coast is unique 'sword dragon' species

Scientists say the newly discovered species of marine reptile probably met a grisly end.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 3d

Discovery: publishing a book abt how abject societal neglect can persist in your life for yrs, bc ppl don’t take yr emergencies seriously, will not stop all access neglect.

Pre-booked assistance won’t show, ppl will still think ‘It’s not that bad.’

But nobody can take yr truth away from you. 🤍

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Thomas Francis @francisconway.bsky.social · 3d

I dont know

Thomas Francis @francisconway.bsky.social · 5d

Sorry, i got blocked by the person i responded to first so your comment is hidden from me. If there is one thing we can agree on let it be genocide never again.

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Thomas Francis @francisconway.bsky.social · 5d

That is a projection. Anti-zionism is not antisemitism. By conflating them you are using jewish identity as a human shield for genocidal and racist apartheid ideologies. I never hated jewish people, i just hate lying murderers who twist religion for politics. You really ought to read the article.

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Thomas Francis @francisconway.bsky.social · 5d

It actually addresses the singularizing of arguments revolving around legitimacy, you may have something important to learn from it.

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Thomas Francis @francisconway.bsky.social · 5d

I dont think so but you are welcome to openly state your disagreements and i will try to get back to you

Thomas Francis @francisconway.bsky.social · 6d

You cant go to your family, because they have never heard anything like it. You cant go to a doctor, because even if they believe you they can only change your brain. You cant go to the government, because theyre the ones who sold you to the dogs. You have to go to the international community to cry

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Thomas Francis @francisconway.bsky.social · 6d

They have been trained and incentivized to behave that way. They are surrounded, affirmed, by self-repeating behaviors that put them at odds with another deep down. This is covered up with more violence and hatred for the other, that they stalk and hunt. A lot of their motives involve transference.

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Thomas Francis @francisconway.bsky.social · 6d

bsky.app/profile/alfa...

Here is a good interview on raison d'etat in germany. They argue that the state's violent motives become "sacralized" insofar as their method of violent oppression cannot be questioned without their entire legitimacy failing under scrutiny. Yet they legitimize themselves.

Alberto Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social · 6d

"... the history of the term Staatsräson is explicitly a history of violence. It’s about all of these forms of behavior that are not moral but are politically necessary: lying, deceit, violence, expropriation…”

communispress.com/unreason-of-...

Unreason of State

The history of the idea of reason of State is a history of violence.

communispress.com

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Thomas Francis @francisconway.bsky.social · 6d

bsky.app/profile/alfa...

Here is a good interview on raison d'etat in germany. They argue that the state's violent motives become "sacralized" insofar as their method of violent oppression cannot be questioned without their entire legitimacy failing under scrutiny. Yet they legitimize themselves.

Alberto Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social · 6d

"... the history of the term Staatsräson is explicitly a history of violence. It’s about all of these forms of behavior that are not moral but are politically necessary: lying, deceit, violence, expropriation…”

communispress.com/unreason-of-...

Unreason of State

The history of the idea of reason of State is a history of violence.

communispress.com

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Thomas Francis @francisconway.bsky.social · 6d

They have been trained and incentivized to behave that way. They are surrounded, affirmed, by self-repeating behaviors that put them at odds with another deep down. This is covered up with more violence and hatred for the other, that they stalk and hunt. A lot of their motives involve transference.

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Thomas Francis @francisconway.bsky.social · 6d

Regardless of the politics surrounding covid, the most important takeaways to remember are how surveillance and "nudging" became a widespread market after 2020 and choices for prevention and cure were railroaded to monopolies capitalizing on state power and propaganda. Fascism years in the making.

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Thomas Francis @francisconway.bsky.social · 6d

These centers consolidated the outright abuse of power we are seeing now clearly and this documentary features a man who worked at a fusion center but left after unilateral decisionmaking took over by DHS.

bsky.app/profile/fran...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlLH...

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Thomas Francis @francisconway.bsky.social · 6d

Just look at fusion centers. Institutions created post 9/11 to stop terrorism yet we have the most mass shootings of any other country by far. Covid was a massive overreach of government policy through privatization with public private partnerships, dictating public policies by private interests.

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Thomas Francis @francisconway.bsky.social · 6d

Yup, the things our government in the US can't get away with they outsource to countries like canada or uk to spy on their own citizens. That seems largely meaningless anyhow when you consider the increasing privatization of their surveillance regime to bypass regulations for profit.

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Thomas Francis @francisconway.bsky.social · 6d

(the person who i replied to in this thread blocked me so i think they hid my comment. resharing here as it is too important to miss this understanding of police state politics.)

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