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Genie Lauren @moreandagain.social · 14h

So, you could never make me hate orcas to begin with

Now, you can't make me (unreasonably) scared of them.

They don't want to eat us
They want to FEED us!!!! 😂

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wearing N95s when you're in public saves lives 🇵🇸 @masksaregood.myatproto.social · 1d

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In a Steam discussion forum for Little Rocket Lab, user "Morior Invictus" comments: "Game reeks of DEI
Every critical character you meet in the tutorial is female. I about had enough when a girl in a hijab appeared at the uni.
Wouldn't be surprised if antifa turns up at some point."

Rave (a developer on the game) responds: "Hey Morior Invictus! Please go away, we don't want you playing our game. Thanks <3
#5"

another commenter, Akira, responds "Yeah, noticed that too.
Would have been better without a DEl consultant." and then in response to Rave's "go away" comment, says "Insulting the players is always a winning strategy". Rave responds to that comment, saying "If that's genuinely how you feel about the above interaction, then I would rather you refunded the game. We do not want people playing our game who think like this *at all*."

A "Not Recommended" Steam review of Little Rocket Lab by user Jacky which reads "bought after watching a streamer. Should have watched it closer. 100% DEl infected This game stinks like Sweet Baby Inc touched it. Too late for a refund. Lesson learned."

Rave responds: "Hey Jacky!
You sound like an absolutely horrible person, so we're glad you didn't enjoy the game. We wish you could refund it too.
Please never play our games again! Cheers"

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wearing N95s when you're in public saves lives 🇵🇸 @masksaregood.myatproto.social · 1d

Love this energy, but don't forget to alt text to your images!

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 2d

this is very good

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 2d

Oh my godddddd I cannot fucking STAND this shit!!! THERE IS NO ONE WAY TO PROTEST. EVERYONE EVERYWHERE SHOULD PROTEST IN EVERY WAY. STOP WORKING AGAINST YOURSELVES

SORRY TO YELL IN YOUR MENTIONS

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 2d

But problem is that when Black women say this or express any urgency about it

The instinct is to find and interlocuteur or filter to “emphasize it” or broaden it

They are directly attacking Black women. Admitted they would do this for a decade and it’s still being treated as vague

Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 2d

Attacks on the federal workforce are also attacks on Black workers, who are overrepresented in the public sector.

Black unemployment is 7.5%. I'm reminded of Coates' observation that Black Americans regularly experience conditions that would be considered a crisis if whites faced them.

Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.

www.nytimes.com

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wearing N95s when you're in public saves lives 🇵🇸 @masksaregood.myatproto.social · 2d

Officially migrated to myatproto.social and started a monthly donation to blacksky.community. Really appreciate the work that has gone into this.

https://myatproto.social

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.bsky.social · 3d

Real useful, and something I plan on doing shortly

boosprout 🔞👻⚙️💥 @bisprout.writes.fyi · 25d

So, you want to leave Bluesky, but you don't want to lose your community and start all over again.

Great news! You can leave without losing anything. Here's how.

Please share if you find this helpful so people don't lose their shit and go back to twt for no reason 🙏💖

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Some Random Susan @anysusan.bsky.social · 3d

lots of people still don’t believe Team Trump want to crash the economy, likely because it’s hard for normal people to think like sociopaths

Sarah Kendzior is smart to invoke memories of 1980s corporate raiders. That should give many Boomers and some Gen X food for thought. We remember that crap.

Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 3d

On strikes, boycotts, and rethinking leverage when the government WANTS the economy to collapse:
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon...

Quotes from here: https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon-artists-your-questions

https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon-artists-your-questions

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 3d

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 3d

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 3d

Reporters: stop using the deferential term "detaining" when talking about ICE goons' abduction of innocent people from US streets. You proper term would indeed by "abduction", but if you want to pretend neutrality you could use "capture", which at least says nothing about the captors' motives.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 3d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 4d

JB wants you to believe he’ll stop trmp when he won’t even stop the Illinois state police from attacking residents

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 4d

Eugenics is about collectively demarcating who among us is “inferior” enough, in the “right” ways, to be actively or passively cut out of society. It relies on us not caring about disability justice & also encourages people to disable each other to the point they can be easily,wordlessly left behind

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 4d

Long Covid is more prevalent in children in the US now than asthma. We are fucking destroying the next generations w/our behavior. (And adults.)

If you do care about resisting eugenics maybe start by not being the vector that disables a kid in RFK’s US. That is not too much to ask. It really isn’t.

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wearing N95s when you're in public saves lives 🇵🇸 @masksaregood.myatproto.social · 4d

Her time at the Chronicle is also a bad sign. The Chronicle is notorious for attacking progressive politicians in the bay area. They helped spread the avalanche of lies behind the rich-right-winger-funded recall campaigns that targeted Sheng Thao and Pamela Price.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 4d

They know they are ridiculous people and the thing they hate most is being laughed at. They want everyone terrified and intimidated by how MANLY and LETHAL they are, not laughing because they got got by a grating frog.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 4d

This video is everywhere because it's a hilarious visual refutation of Portland being on fire. You can't get a mass movement going without convincing the masses

so yes, this does do something actually

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This literally does nothing. You are not beating fascism by dressing up in inflatable suits and dancing

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Portland is leading the way. This is how you (non violently) beat Fascism. Humor and ridicule are key.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 4d

Long Covid is more prevalent in children in the US now than asthma. We are fucking destroying the next generations w/our behavior. (And adults.)

If you do care about resisting eugenics maybe start by not being the vector that disables a kid in RFK’s US. That is not too much to ask. It really isn’t.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 4d

Trying really hard to meet people where they’re at, truly I am, but I have to say that when smart people continually ignore a problem or seem to not get the point, it’s not about lack of understanding after a certain point. It’s about a lack of ethics.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 4d

Traveling halfway across the world & packing into a room for a conference panel on the theme of resisting eugenics.

But not wearing a respirator during a surge in the ongoing pandemic.

What a fun way to show how the research & scholars you’re there to ostensibly listen to mean jack shit to you.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 5d

RIGHT and like if we’re “fighting fascism”

By sacrificing the people the Nazis came for

Uh let me tell you something you ain’t doing what you think you is

Zazecki @zazecki.bsky.social · 5d

Dems, unironically: "Those guys everyone calls nazis and we freely call threats to our democracy might have a point about trans people"

🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 5d

We are 8 months into the term and almost 18 onto the ba and Dems are more willing to give millions and time to assholes whose main message is

“Screw trans people and erase Black folks”

Than

HOLY HELL WE WILL BE REBUILDING THIS ALL AND TAKW CARE OF YOU

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 5d

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 5d

No Kings, No Masters

A Call for Anti-Authoritarian Blocs at the October 18 “No Kings” Demonstrations

crimethinc.com/NoKings2025

This is a call for you—yes, you specifically—to organize an anti-authoritarian bloc in your community for the “No Kings” demonstrations on October 18.

No Kings, No Masters

A call for anti-authoritarian blocs at the October 18 "No Kings" demonstrations.

crimethinc.com

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 11d

The American cities Trump has vowed to invade one by one produce 90% of this country's GDP. We must withhold these funds, and our infrastructure, from the United States Government, until these invasions stop

If you only read one thing I've ever written, please make it this

The Point Of No Return

We Are At War, Whether We Want To Be Or Not

www.bannedinyourstate.com

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