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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 9m

And now Act Up Paris organizes STD testing in badly ventilated rooms without masks when their president isn’t busy engaging in misogynistic harassment on here, how the turns have tabled!
(It’s pathetic, it’s embarrassing, yes we - not me specifically - have tried and the result is Extra Depression)

Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 23m

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 21m

Ça me déprime vraiment qu’Act Up Paris soit contre nous et que le couvent du Nord (qui est ouvertement bien à gauche et centré sur la mémoire) fasse nimp parce que y’aurait tellement à dire

Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 1h

Y’know, with all that chatter of LLM-assisted dates, I suspect those of us who are unapologetic look-we-agreed-an-ADHD-diagnosis-was-not-useful ambulatory non-sequiturs will end up defeating the algorithms yet again. Be too weird and random for weighted averages to imitate you and you’ll do fine

Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 3h

It’s not like fascists EVER misunderstand the political messaging inside media, either. Famously we have no example of that happening in history. Besides, there is a direct equivalence between Good Taste and Good Politics, this is known.
(Disclaimer: posts may include sarcasm)

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 4h

Finalizing an IKEA order after a month of procrastinating and yelling at the splash prevention thingie being called KLOCKREN. Which means… exact, precise, but contains the word for “clean” so it’s just. The worst pun.

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 6h

But er yeah 2020 was… a year. I’m still processing the immense trauma it caused me, being fluent enough in Swedish to understand the *exact* flavor of cruelty that was deployed while nowhere near well-integrated enough to understand why the fuck everyone went along with it with so little protest

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 6h

The only reason I eventually became fluent was that weaving school was all Swedish all the time non-negotiable. It did THINGS to my vocabulary let me tell you, I still don’t know body parts but I can talk you through setting up a warp or dying 2kg of wool no problem

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 6h

Anywoo, “definitely not a normal tourist” souvenirs from Stockholm this time:
- that plastic thing to collect peels in the sink;
- two bags of Söderblandning ‘cause I can actually tolerate tea in small amounts now and it comes in green?!
- wool insoles I couldn’t be arsed to order online

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 7h

We have some people who aren’t queer and aren’t anarchists on this beat but it’s, er, not the majority. By a long stretch. Even the few cishets in the mix are the type who wouldn’t get offended if assumed to be queer.
Which is a good sign about which side of history we’re on!

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 7h

I have no idea who’s behind the freshly started anti-covid group in Sweden - I’m hoping to find out eventually, for obvious reasons - but their latest post ends with “But what makes us queer anarchists, if not the courage to challenge norms and interrogate things?” and I am NOT SURPRISED

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 8h

And also you are still allowed to be pissed as hell about the lack of effort others made to create accessible spaces! Odds are good you’ll find lifelong friends in doing so, even!

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 18h

Ten frikkin’ hours of travel all in all (between getting to and fro the airport and having some wiggle room for delays) but I am HOME. Was good to be away, is very good to be back

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 18h

And THAT is why you do not use the fabric scissors on paper

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innes @innes.bsky.social · 18h

you can sort all crafts into ones where you do the craft and ones where your hobby is now knife sharpening

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 19h

Oui, le contexte est vraiment clef ! Le contexte nordique / baltique est très très très tendu par contre on va pas se mentir

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 22h

This piece is, absolutely no joke, one of the smarter takes on the actual contentious politics/social movement dynamics of what’s going on right now that I’ve seen, I am nerding the fuck out over it, and I can’t wait to see social movement scholars unpack it more rigorously

A triangle with “aura farming”, “shitposting”, and “acting normal” at the three points and an arrow moving from “acting normal” to “shitposting”, from “shitposting” to “aura farming”, and from “aura farming” to “acting normal”.

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 20h

Le lien: news.err.ee/1609826698/p...
(J’aime pas les comptes qui repostent des news sans mettre de liens grrrrrr)

PPA temporarily closes Saatse Boot passage after uptick in Russian activity

The Police and Border Guard Board (PPA) closed an Estonian road that cuts through Russian territory on Friday evening after seeing more Russian activity in the region than usual.

news.err.ee

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 1d

Right? I’m not sure they’d have hit the same elementally pure bummer mood with a longer format, but I wish they’d gotten to try

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 1d

Every so often there’s art that grabs you by the guts and yanks them out of shape, burrows into your brain right through the eyes such that it never leaves. This is one of those for me.
We were proooooobably too young for it when dad brought that back from Annecy

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 1d

This entire thread has excellent recommendations but THIS in particular, if you even vaguely enjoy doom and gloom and steampunk-ish vibes I highly recommend. Whichever year it came out in is when I saw it and it has haunted me ever since.
… oh wait it’s about a plague, I should rewatch it heh?

ian-urru.bsky.social @ian-urru.bsky.social · 1d

Here you go...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRO2...

The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello (ENG sub ITA)

YouTube video by Saverio Bove

www.youtube.com

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 1d

If you enjoyed the movie I strongly advise checking out the books, if only for the pretty pictures. There’s some seriously deep and horrifying timeline wonkiness stuff in there too

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 1d

Oh YES YES YES that one has been haunting me ever since we watched it as part of the annual “my dad went to Annecy and has some recommendations” binge. It’s gorgeous and it burrows into your brain

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 1d

Kaena: The Prophecy is not good, it might even be bad, but it looks like nothing else

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 1d

We’re not arguing against cognitive decline, we’re arguing against *the relevance of it in this particular conversation*

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Le Gorafi @legorafi.bsky.social · 2d

Pour faciliter l’entrée et la sortie des Premiers ministres, Emmanuel Macron installe une immense chatière à Matignon https://www.legorafi.fr/2025/10/10/pour-faciliter-lentree-et-la-sortie-des-premiers-ministres-emmanuel-macron-installe-une-immense-chatiere-a-matignon/

Pour faciliter l’entrée et la sortie des Premiers ministres, Emmanuel Macron installe une immense chatière à Matignon

Toute l'information selon des sources contradictoires.

www.legorafi.fr

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