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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 18h

One great aspect of iconic inflatable costumes (aside from how they instantly undermine propaganda about war zones) is that it's useless to arrest the person wearing one. Cuffing a frog would make law enforcement look pathetic. And carting one off just guarantees that more will show up the next day.

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🎃 Sid Oozeley 🎃 @oozeley.bsky.social · 13h

"we acknowledge that we are on stolen land. that said, let's keep stealing it"

Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 22h

the number of times I've seen Canadians give land acknowledgements at tech conferences and then immediately launch into discussions about "Canadian digital sovereignty" that completely excludes any concept of Indigenous rights or even us as Peoples at all. It's absurd, I can't wrap my head around it

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 15h

A 15 year old boy with autism went missing earlier this week

He was selling fruit with his family in Springbranch when he disappeared

They filed a missing person’s report & begged the public to help find him

Turns out he was in a Houston ICE detention facility

They kidnapped a disabled child!

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 8h

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 5d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 17h

‼️ My internet connection is very weak I’m still in the displacement camps. Can anyone tell if there are any eSIM that work in the Al-Mawasi area near the beach? It’s really urgent. ‼️ 😔

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 23h

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Zackary @haligowan.com · 15h

The guy who provides kill lists to atomwaffen?

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🎃 Phillip Anderson is UNDEAD 🧛🏻‍♀️ @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 15h

There has to be a reckoning for this, for all of it. No more “look forward, not back” nonsense. Not this time. Those who ordered this evil shit, and those who carried those orders out *must* be held to account.

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 16h

ICE drag girl out of car & body slam her to ground—then pin her face down & kneel on her neck.

"I'm 15!" she cries out. "I'm not resisting!"

Agents have now asked multiple area housing associations to unlock main doors—so they can go door to door.

Hoffman Estates, Illinois

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race scientist jack skellington @jazzpomegranate.com · 19h

christians bankroll this shit way harder than american jews yet face almost no actual scrutiny for it

Rebecca Bodenheimer @rmbodenheimer.bsky.social · 20h

“Christians United for Israel, the evangelical Zionist group founded by Texas pastor John Hagee, claims 10 million members, more than the entire population of 7.5 million Jews in the United States.”

I wish more people knew this.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

God's "blank check": Christian Zionists are pouring billions of dollars into Israeli extremism

Evangelicals have become Israel's most important American allies.

www.motherjones.com

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1d

Video shows rescuers pulling a Palestinian boy from the rubble of his home in Gaza City. Israeli forces attacked the house on Thursday after the approval of a ceasefire agreement with Hamas.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 1d

“The situation has gone beyond disaster and genocide inside the city, and the world remains silent.”

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Militia drone strike kills at least 30 in Sudan displacement camp, says El Fasher group

RSF paramilitary group hit Dar al-Arqam shelter on university grounds in western city, says resistance committee

www.theguardian.com

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Jennie Kermode @jenniekermode.bsky.social · 21h

Living in a tent will not be safe for tiny Talia, or for Julia, as the stormy season worsens and Gaza moves into winter. If you can, please help Samaa to get the $800 she needs to move back to Gaza City and rent a room there. gofund.me/db56c7ce3 @mommunism.bsky.social @lexialex.bsky.social #SkyAid 🍉

A Palestinian woman cradles a baby against her shoulder and holds hands with a small girl as they stand in a rubble-strewn street beside a bus packed full of belongings.

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Zackary @haligowan.com · 23h

i'm donating my time to coach a team and you want to bring your freaky fundamentalist garbage into the equation? take a one way trip into the sun you loser

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Zackary @haligowan.com · 23h

you'd have to bail me out because i'd be haymaking all of these bigots in the face

Xtra @xtramagazine.com · 1d

According to provincial documents, if someone wants to challenge an athlete’s gender, they can do so.

Alberta’s new policy is forcing girls—cis and trans—out of school sports | Xtra Magazine

Gender forms mandated by Bill 29 are forcing families into tough decisions around whether to put their daughters in sports

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Zackary @haligowan.com · 23h

are we allowed to wish [redacted] on them before they murder all of us

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Bullwark @bullwark.bsky.social · 4d

Looks like Bluesky has hired a comms person

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PressProgress @pressprogress.ca · 23h

This city councillor in Pickering, Ontario has now been suspended seven times. Here are the reasons why:

Lisa Robinson has a history of disruptive behaviour and associating with far-right media personalities

This City Councillor in Pickering, Ontario Has Now Been Suspended Seven Times. Here Are the Reasons Why.

Pickering city councillor Lisa Robinson has a history of disruptive behaviour and associating with far-right media personalities

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Zackary @haligowan.com · 1d

i.e. the generative fascism machine needs to be used in their propaganda

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”

OpenAI is trying to clamp down on ‘bias’ in ChatGPT

GPT-5 is better at resisting liberal ‘pressure,’ the company says.

www.theverge.com

Zackary @haligowan.com · 1d

so they can't be used to rebuild Gaza?

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1d

Huge explosions were seen as Israeli air attacks hit a town in south Lebanon, killing at least one person and injuring at least seven others.

The strikes targeted a site that sold excavators and other heavy machinery.

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Pride Was A Riot, Sacramento @pridewasariot.bsky.social · 1d

Now with #AltText

A black background has white text at the top that says “amphifa.” Two flags over each other, common antifa flags, have a black flag and a green one. An image of a green frog facing left with a blue ascot sits on the black flag. Circling the flags is the text, “amphibians against fascism.”

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Elegant Sledgehammer FREE LINK @tinyteerex.bsky.social · 1d

The purpose of a system is what it does.
Follow the money.

Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 2d

Today Mark Carney sang the virtues of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), a long running industry scam. CCS doesn't work and never has. Carney knows this. Why is he pushing the Fossil Fuel industry's bullshit?

Mark Carney taking questions from the press October 10, 2025.

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Zackary @haligowan.com · 1d

in canada we've already elected bad landlords many times over

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Ravin BOO!dram 👻 🎃 - FREE ŁINK @rvbdrm.com · 1d

20% of Israelis speak Arabic, so this is just fucking racist.

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‘We are deeply sorry’: Toronto principal apologizes after Arabic version of ‘O Canada’ played at school on Oct. 7

A principal at a Toronto high school has apologized after an Arabic version of ‘O Canada’ was played during morning announcements on the Oct. 7 anniversary of the deadly Hamas terrorist attacks on Isr...

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 1d

"I said I was Jewish. They ripped me by the ear and forced me to bend down and stare at the flag of the state of Israel."

Watch David Adler, Co-General Coordinator of the Progressive International, recall the abuse of the Global Sumud Flotilla crew in Israeli detention.

5 Days in Israel’s Desert Prison: Jewish Flotilla Activist David Adler on Harrowing Detention Ordeal

Israeli forces have abducted over 500 peace activists over the past week who were sailing to Gaza in an effort to deliver humanitarian aid to the besieged territory. Organizers of the Global Sumud…

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