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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 13h

Palestinian families like Hammam's have been violently displaced & starved for 2 years in Israel's genocidal famine & invasion. Please help by sharing & donating to cover the costs of food, healthcare, & shelter, they urgently need a tent:

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Hog And Dice 🇮🇪🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @hoganddice.bsky.social · 1d

Ok, but what if different styles of wizardry were described in similar terms to branches of leftist theory?
Imagine being a Gandalf-Merlinist

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➼ amihan (he/hymn) @therosecleric.bsky.social · 4d

(I posted this earlier with the wrong image 😭)

I am disabled, in pain and cannot stand up to cook, but I still need to eat this evening.

All of my money just went to paying rent. If anyone could spare $50 for food and medicine it would be appreciated.

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Support The Rose Cleric ❤️

Support me on Ko-Fi

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Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 1d

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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Azrai @theazrai.com · 1d

My goals are humble. I just need some kind, creative, LGBTQ+-allied people to help two trans artists do better than say that total loser who got almost a million dollars for yelling a slur at a kid in a public park. www.starwhispers.co/thelastthres...

The Last Threshold

We're building a castle in a housing crisis.

www.starwhispers.co

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🇲🇽 rustbelt rebel 🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 1d

Her garbage is being used to fuel right wing power grabs in individual nations across the world. Stop fucking funding right wing extremism.

Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 1d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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John A Dracula Cullen @nellucnhoj.bsky.social · 1d

Remember this every time you see the newest headline about some creative industry person going on about so-called AI being the future.

Jón Kristinsson @jonkk.bsky.social · Sep 2

Every time someone opens their mouth to hype AI, just google “name of person/company invests in AI” and you’ll *always* find something. Every time.

Jón Kristinsson @jonkk.bsky.social · Sep 2

👇 The reason:

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Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 1d

US federal employees are being deprived of income in order that a world-famous pedophile can continue to cover up the fact that he raped multiple children over decades. The press and the media are choosing the degree to which they obfuscate this.

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Johanna Taylor 👻 Lightbox Expo 630 @johannamation.bsky.social · 2d

I’m convinced the main reason Miyazaki films have a reputation for being “cozy” in the West is because he actually writes and animates long moments of quiet into his stories, whereas Western animated films are usually a nonstop parade of loud music, sounds, noises and neon colors.

Brigid Keely She/Her @brigid.bsky.social · 2d

Miyazaki: in this movie two young girls (one is a toddler) are uprooted from everything they know to start new lives near the rural hospital their mother is in; she is possibly dying of TB. Their dad works several hours away and they are largely unsupervised.

AI Bros: so homey! So comfy!

Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 2d

every ai bro who has reduced miyazaki to empty gentle aesthetic should no exaggeration get the judas cradle bc this man's markmaking & passion about telling WAR STORIES

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Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 2d

Folks who tell you that it’s okay to temporarily sacrifice a marginalized group in order to win

Do not care about the marginalized group

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Hog And Dice 🇮🇪🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @hoganddice.bsky.social · 3d

You can't get angry at people who only speak Japanese for not understanding when you jabber on at them in French.

You have not learned universal storytelling truths, otherwise a "media literacy crisis" would be literally impossible.

You have learned a niche Constructed Language, like Klingon

Hog And Dice 🇮🇪🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @hoganddice.bsky.social · 3d

I'm going to make people angry.
There's no media literacy crisis.
In the same way that Spanish people who don't speak English are not illiterate.
What's happened is that the entertainment industry uses a unique Narrative Language that they created and refuse to speak the Narrative Vernacular.

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Lou @loutellstales.bsky.social · 3d

Some other terms to use for artists:

-Graphic Design Work
-Illustration Design Work
-Concept Illustration Design Work
-Illustrated & Conceptual Design Work
-Creative Development re (character) Project

Leave banter to emails & DM’s.

Gilbert #NewDeal4Animation @discord12395.bsky.social · 7d

This is a warning to every artists and clients using PayPal: Leave the note blank or send invoices. Apparently even saying "commission" makes them trigger happy. #SaveSpeech #StopPaypros

And continue the pressure by calling PayPal. Helpful link here: anti-censorship-campaign.carrd.co#phonescript

@Inker_comics: I JUST GOT FUCKED UP REAL BAD [shared a screenshot of his suspension from PayPal]

@MrQuessos: [quote tweeting @Inker_comics] If you are going to pay an artist via PayPal, please DO NOT include ANYTHING related to commission or nsfw in the payment description. Whether out of ignorance or innocence, you could screw up someone's job.

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Hog And Dice 🇮🇪🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @hoganddice.bsky.social · 3d

I'm going to make people angry.
There's no media literacy crisis.
In the same way that Spanish people who don't speak English are not illiterate.
What's happened is that the entertainment industry uses a unique Narrative Language that they created and refuse to speak the Narrative Vernacular.

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 3d

Palestinian children like Nour, Moaz, and Yahya are being massacred, brutally maimed, & disabled daily by Israel in their genocidal famine & invasion. Please help by sharing & donating to cover the steep costs of healthcare, food, shelter for their families, they're in desperate need:

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 3d

Look, there is a genuinely interesting and different candidate in the New York mayoral election but that is an exception and it should be an exception. Paris has had interesting mayoral races too, but they passed us by.

We store too much data about American politics.

Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 3d

As a European I strong feel I shouldn't even know why Gavin Newsom is

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Little Deer Comics @littledeercomics.bsky.social · 4d

🎉

Budget 2026: State’s basic income scheme for artists made permanent

www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Budget 2026: State’s basic income scheme for artists made permanent

Negotiations down to the wire, with five big-spending departments yet to agree their budget allocations

www.irishtimes.com

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Hog And Dice 🇮🇪🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @hoganddice.bsky.social · 4d

Going to be productivity streaming from 1pm Irish time over on the purple app. Come join me and bring some of your own work

Me, standing in my room, looking askance at the camera

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Gallifreyan Jedi @jediofgallifrey.bsky.social · 4d

the nazis won't stop doing this until they're afraid to keep doing this

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✨ Angel ✨ @faetrouble.bsky.social · Aug 6

Nobara

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✨ Angel ✨ @faetrouble.bsky.social · Sep 3

Yea I throw good punches

twitch.tv/faetrouble

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Hog And Dice 🇮🇪🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @hoganddice.bsky.social · 5d

I'm not even joking, one of the most effective and low effort ways to help fix the world right now is ditching all the corporate made entertainment and giving your money to independent artists instead.

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The Foggy Jew @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social · 7d

"Getting on a boat to Gaza is performative nonsense, you should be pressuring politicians at home to change policy"

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"Holding a protest to pressure politicians at home does nothing to directly help! You should be on a boat to Gaza"

Beginning to think this commentary might not be in good faith

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FreeLinkophant sHELLey B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 7d

the days approacheth

FreeLinkophant sHELLey B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · Aug 8

And while you're heating up the roadkill pigeon that you're cooking over an open barrel fire under a collapsed bridge amidst the ruins of empire, cursing your pus-filled fingers, a realization will dawn in your disease-riddled brain:

"We should have listened to the transes"

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FreeLinkophant sHELLey B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 7d

I really don't understand how people can't grasp this simple concept that you can be against killing innocent people on principle, regardless of flag or tribe

JJ @naturemusicart.bsky.social · 7d

A person can strongly condemn BOTH the attack on the Jewish community in Manchester yesterday AND what is happening to the Palestinian people in Gaza. It is not either/or.

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