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Kirsten @kircarey.bsky.social · 1d

Every politician should be saying messages like this.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

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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Kirsten @kircarey.bsky.social · 3d

My first thought: “that can’t be Maria Bamford, can it?”

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The One Piece Podcast @onepiecepodcast.com · 3d

Protesters around the world are using the Straw Hat Pirate Jolly Roger as a symbol of freedom. We plan on doing a detailed report on this phenomenon in the coming weeks. In the meanwhile, here is an updating list of countries where the Jolly Roger has appeared:

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Isaiah D. Colbert @shineyezehuhh.bsky.social · 4d

Also, Makoto Yukimura said trans rights.

io9: Your portrayal of Indigenous and transgender characters—like the Lnu tribe and Cordelia—stands out in a media landscape where such representation is still rare outside of series like Golden Kamuy, Skip and Loafer, and Paradise Kiss, where they’re often mishandled. What impact do you hope these characters have on expanding the narrative terrain? How do you see your storytelling challenging the ethnocentric lens that dominates much of mainstream media when it comes to that representation?

Yukimura: I did have written characters in [Vinland Saga] from a marginalized ethnic group [and] who are LGBTQ featured here. I actually wanted to portray a character with a disability in the story, too. However, because of the setting, I really couldn’t find the right place to incorporate such a character into the story. One thing I really don’t understand, though, is why do people attack such folks? Is it because they’re different? Why do they just focus on bad things about these groups and generalize them? I truly don’t understand why people do such things. I plainly feel sad when it comes to the way people treat each other.

To me, it’s quite normal for people to have uniqueness. It’s almost needless to say that we all individually have a uniqueness that might be considered different than what is the majority. For example, I grew up in an era where higher education was considered to be the most important thing in society in Japan. You almost had no paths in life outside of that structure. I actually do live outside of that structure, and I’m living perfectly fine. I really want to say that uniqueness is okay. I don’t understand why people are making those judgments to say, “This is okay, but this is not okay.”

I haven’t really thought about what this type of storytelling or character would have an impact on society at all. I’m just writing, drawing, and portraying society as I see it and what I think is normal from my eyes in the manga. If people don’t agree with that version of what I think is a normal society, then oh well. (Laughs) That’s too bad. Those people don’t have to read my manga.

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Isaiah D. Colbert @shineyezehuhh.bsky.social · 5d

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劇場版『チェンソーマンレゼ篇』オープニングムービー　主題歌：米津玄師「IRIS OUT」“Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc” – Opening Movie

YouTube video by Kenshi Yonezu 米津玄師

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 6d

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 6d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Kirsten @kircarey.bsky.social · 11d

I love that this is how I found out about this news story

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Kirsten @kircarey.bsky.social · 12d

A very hard-fought gatcha win for this turd-nugget

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 13d

A victim of the shooting at the ICE facility is UNCONSCIOUS, in critical care, may not survive, his wife is about to give birth, and ICE IS KEEPING HIM SHACKLED TO HIS HOSPITAL BED:

I just unlocked a new level of rage.

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'I want his name to be known': Wife of immigrant injured at ICE facility shooting speaks out

Stephany Gauffeny says she wants the world to know that her husband, Miguel Angel Garcia-Hernandez, is more than "just an immigrant or a detainee, or a criminal."

www.npr.org

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chelsea bridge 🏳️‍⚧️ @secretaboutbox.bsky.social · 13d

cis people,

you have to show up. right now. we do not have the numbers, but you do.

we are talking about suicide. that's what this headline is.

taking away HRT will increase trans suicides. i and so many others are dead without it.

don't let us die without trying to keep us alive. call, please.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 14d

ICE arrested press tonight. They threw a tear gas canister into the press last week. This was not an accident.

Release Steve Held.

The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 14d

NEW — Video posted to social media shows Unraveled Press co-founder Steve Held being detained by federal agents outside the Broadview immigration facility earlier this evening.

A collection of Chicago newsrooms is calling for his immediate release.

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Chicago journalist detained while covering protest outside Broadview immigration facility • The TRiiBE

Video posted to social media shows Unraveled Press co-founder Steve Held being detained by federal agents earlier this evening.

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Kirsten @kircarey.bsky.social · 16d

Chiitan, never change 💜

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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 17d

Some transgender people see only darkness in front and behind them.

The current climate is especially accelerating this.

Transgender people just want to love the people they love and live their lives as themselves.
Let's all join hands and change the world🫶🌏🫶

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Kirsten @kircarey.bsky.social · 16d

THERE IS A FELLOW GAIJIN PLAYING HADES 2 ON HIS SWITCH 2 ON THE SUBWAY

I want to hug him

Kirsten @kircarey.bsky.social · 17d

It’s nearly 1 am in Japan, and Hades II comes out in 10 minutes.

I need the internet to acknowledge my strength in going to bed and not showing up to work having played Hades II all night.

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Kirsten @kircarey.bsky.social · 17d

It’s nearly 1 am in Japan, and Hades II comes out in 10 minutes.

I need the internet to acknowledge my strength in going to bed and not showing up to work having played Hades II all night.

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Kirsten @kircarey.bsky.social · 20d

Tbh really puts Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle in perspective.

CSM is 100 min and tells a complete narrative from beginning to end.

Infinity Castle is 150 min and sort of ties one or two things up kind of.

Kirsten @kircarey.bsky.social · 20d

The new Chainsaw Man movie is fantastic. Music, writing, animation, all of it. Long live Chainsaw Man.

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Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 23d

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 24d

My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?"

Turns out, mom was right.

Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime

Feb. 4, 1939

February 4, 1939, Page 1

BERLIN, Feb. 3.—Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels today ended the professional careers of five "Aryan" actors and cabaret announcers by expelling them from the Reich's Chamber of Culture on the grounds that “in their public appearances they displayed a lack of any positive attitude toward National Socialism and therewith caused grave annoyance in public and especially to party comrades.” The five include perhaps the best known German stage comedians who survived previous Chamber of Culture purges and still dared to indulge in political witticisms—namely, Werner Finck, Peter Sachse and “The Three Rulands,” represented by Helmuth Buth, Wilhelm Meissner and Manfred Dlugi. Their expulsion means that they are henceforth forbidden to appear before the public in Germany.

Besides motivating this action in an official communiqué, Dr. Goebbels also publishes a long article in the Voelkischer Beobachter in which he denounces them as “brazen, impertinent, arrogant and tactless" and generally imitators and successors to Jews. Simultaneously he denounces the "society rabble that followed them with thundering applause—parasitic scum, inhabiting our luxury streets, that seems to have only the task of proving with how little brains people can get along and even acquire money and prominence."

As regards the details of the "crimes" of which the five are accused, Dr. Goebbels mentions that they made political witticisms about the colonial problem, the Four-Year Plan and Chancellor Hitler's monumental building program and one of them even raised the question of whether there was any humor left in Germany today.

What amused the public most, however, and presumably roiled the National Socialist authorities most—although Dr. Goebbels does not mention it—is that they deftly, but unmistakably, caricatured some gestures, poses and physical characteristics of Nat…

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Kirsten @kircarey.bsky.social · 24d

I wrote the theme for this show and I’m so excited for it, it’s gonna be so good

girl perverts* @girlpervspod.bsky.social · 24d

Grab your Barbies and follow Delaney @infinitesnow.bsky.social and Vero @ginkgocrown.bsky.social on a journey through the wild, whimsical world of girl pervert media - a secret garden for the weird, melodramatic little girl inside all of us.

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Knoebel @knoebel.bsky.social · 25d

Jerry from Ben & Jerry's has resigned after 47 years after Unilever silenced their politcal activism.

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Kirsten @kircarey.bsky.social · 25d

Chiitan is braver, more compassionate, and more principled than most US politicians.

Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 25d

Chiitan loves all transgender people.
I've received a lot of criticism for expressing my support, but what's more important is that all transgender people live happy lives.
Blue Sky cannot display long posts, so please read this post if you'd like.
love you all 🤍
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www.instagram.com/reel/C9qppva...

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Kirsten @kircarey.bsky.social · 27d

It feels like Oda was thinking about Palestine when drawing this week’s One Piece.

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · Sep 12

Time to break out the chart

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Kirsten @kircarey.bsky.social · 28d

This, and also: notice the One Piece flag dead center in one of these photos.

Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 29d

Nepal's cops: *kills 20 of Nepal's children in 24 hours*

The people of Nepal: *do basically full revolution inside a week*

United States cops: *kills thousands of America's children every single year*

The people of America: Now is not the time to call for defunding the police or voting socialist

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