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Mog The Confessor @mogtheconfessor.bsky.social · 18h

What a perfect metaphor for disability

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Mog The Confessor @mogtheconfessor.bsky.social · 18h

Please help Reem and Sakher 🙏🏼

It's Reem 🇵🇸🍉 @reeeeeeem.bsky.social · 20h

I’m Reem, from Gaza. The war may be over, but we still live in the middle of its ashes. I was a college student. I was studying, dreaming and planning a life of hope but I lost everything in my home. My family’s livelihood has been erased💔😭
The rest of the text in the comments!!!

gofund.me/de96cb50

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Gnarlygeek (aka Tom) @gnarlygeek.bsky.social · 1d

What a fucking waste of my tax dollars! It's the gift that keeps on giving. They can keep going down the rabbit hole searching for "the antifa network". It doesn't exist, so they can keep claiming they're "getting closer to the top leaders" - which also, don't exist.

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 1d

Frog and Toad looked into a mirror.

“We look brave,” said Frog.

“Yes, but are we?” asked Toad.

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beka valentine @bekavalentine.bsky.social · 1d

make no mistake. this is the natural consequence of mainstream politicians accepting the war on terror. this is solidly the result of both parties' willingness to treat terrorism as a gotcha against civil liberties

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Colpizen @colpizen.bsky.social · 1d

Sakher mastodon account, if you can donate via his GFM thanks for him 🙌

mastodon.social/@Sakhergaza13

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 2d

I know there's a lot to keep up with but someone has ALREADY been killed by ICE in Chicago, its not a theoretical question, and folks are dying in ICE detention and being disappeared constantly, when you say "someone's gonna get killed" youre actually washing the blood from their hands 😘✌️

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Mog The Confessor @mogtheconfessor.bsky.social · 1d

I'm pretty upset about this. I've been in contact with Sakher for months while he was doing his best to support his partner, children and elders. He's going through enough without this on top.

It's Reem 🇵🇸🍉 @reeeeeeem.bsky.social · 2d

Sakher’s account was shut down — the only place where he spoke to the world about his pain and his suffering.

That account was his only voice, his way to survive and keep going.

Today, Sakher lost his last connection to the world.💔

Complement with comments, don't skip‼️
 gofund.me/f116bf44

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 1d

Just as much as Link was a part of this community- so has Sakher been. Bluesky mods are awful.

It's Reem 🇵🇸🍉 @reeeeeeem.bsky.social · 2d

Sakher’s account was shut down — the only place where he spoke to the world about his pain and his suffering.

That account was his only voice, his way to survive and keep going.

Today, Sakher lost his last connection to the world.💔

Complement with comments, don't skip‼️
 gofund.me/f116bf44

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Mog The Confessor @mogtheconfessor.bsky.social · 1d

Over 80% of the world's population have never flown on an airplane.

And when they get to and it's a once in a lifetime experience for them, they get this attitude from the cunts who get to do it all the time.

Gross.

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 1d

See this?

This story is the sound of a bullet you didn’t even know was coming at you whistling past your right ear.

Suzanne Smalley @suzannesmalley.bsky.social · 1d

Germany will not support Chat Control - a law which proposes to scan all messages people send even on end-to-end encrypted platforms - Justice Minister said today. German stance likely dooms the measure. Signal had threatened to leave the EU if Chat Control became law
therecord.media/chat-control...

Germany will not support 'Chat Control' message scanning in the EU

“Random chat monitoring must be taboo in a constitutional state,” Federal Justice Minister Stefanie Hubig said as German officials signaled they will not vote for a controversial EU proposal known as ...

therecord.media

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Mog The Confessor @mogtheconfessor.bsky.social · 1d

Ello sunshine!! Very much likewise 😃

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Mog The Confessor @mogtheconfessor.bsky.social · 1d

Hope persists against the prevailing conditions 🙏🏼 It does mean I'm gonna be really sad if it turns out they have no problem facing off against what could be their neighbours or family protesting for the return of the kidnapped

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Mog The Confessor @mogtheconfessor.bsky.social · 1d

I might be too hopelessly naive here from over the pond, but maybe these are the guys that you change the minds of to make sure that one awful dude gets the Ceauçescu ending?

Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 2d

Texas National Guard troops arriving in Chicago (via ABC News)

Remember: These are not MAGA stormtroopers. These are everyday teachers and accountants who signed up to serve their country with their spare time. They're being used as political pawns by venal, un-American, draft-dodging president

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Designer Hasan @designer4hasand.bsky.social · 2d

I carry the full responsibility for my family's needs.
No plans, no guarantees — only faith that there are kind hearts who won’t let us fall. 🕊️

Help us give our children a life without worry. 🧡

🙏Donate if you can / Share if you can't.

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Mog The Confessor @mogtheconfessor.bsky.social · 1d

You just sometimes wanna get the world leaders in a room and get them to write out, in crayon if necessary

"If you tax the people who have much more than enough money, the government has money to pay for healthcare and education for everyone."

As many times as it takes for it to sink in.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 3d

4 panel comic

Panel 1:
A Purple person is standing holding a clipboard. A Blue Person sits at a laptop.
Blue Person: Woohoo. I’m the CEO of a social media platform.

Panel 2:
Purple person: We should hire a PR person to interact with the public
Blue Person begins to type on laptop and says: Nope. Gonna do all that myself

Panel 3:
Purple person looks concerned and says: Really…but…

Panel 4:
Purple person: You’re such a whiny little fucking baby

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Mog The Confessor @mogtheconfessor.bsky.social · 2d

I like Ruth Jones and Rob Bryson, but watching them in that was like finding an occasional sparkle of quartz in an otherwise very dull and basic slab of grey stone.

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 2d

Taqwa was the only member of her family in the building who survived the bombing.

Taqwa khaled @taqwasuh.bsky.social · 2d

Two years of genocide💔💔

I lost my six children the youngest, Ibrahim, was only four months old😭

I lost my mother, my father, and my six siblings
And we are still suffering

Don’t leave us
speak about us
We are not just numbers💔

gofund.me/b4901a75

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 3d

Tbf some of us have been on this story for years

www.opendemocracy.net/en/asylum-ho...

www.opendemocracy.net/en/home-offi...

Great to see conditions & profits getting more coverage and more awareness across the board 💪

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Mog The Confessor @mogtheconfessor.bsky.social · 2d

Nobody should be going through this.

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🦇🧛‍♂️Bram Stoker’s GuitarMoogula🧛‍♂️🦇 @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 3d

For the actual fucking love of god.

The person responsible for the gaslighting of thousands of people with ME/CFS with CBT and torturing them with graded exercise therapy, both of which were then tried again on Long Covid patients.

An absolute menace to the sick or vulnerable.

Adam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 3d

Simon Wessely — the controversial psychiatrist once dubbed “Britain’s most hated doctor” has been appointed vice chair of Labour’s review into overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence.

www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/controv...

Controversial professor to investigate overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence for Labour

Get the benefits you're entitled to: help with personal independence payment (PIP), universal credit (UC), employment and support allowance (ESA),disability living allowance (DLA). Claims, assessments...

www.benefitsandwork.co.uk

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Mog The Confessor @mogtheconfessor.bsky.social · 3d

I liked the part where she took in her scruffy nephew.

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#StrikeForMutualAid 🍉 Cockroach Queer Trans Kafka 🦇⚧️ @alexpetrovnia.bsky.social · 3d

Sakher and Reem had just gotten married when their lives were destroyed.

They love each other so much.

Please don't let their love story end here.

Sakher and Reem 🍉🇵🇸 @sakher-gaza.bsky.social · 3d

We are Reem and Sakher. Tomorrow marks exactly two years since this war began. Two years of loss, fear and endless pain. We have lost everything our homes, our memories, our safety, our dreams.
For five days now, no donations have reached us
More in the comments, read my words…💔

gofund.me/459d365f

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John O’Farrell @johnofarrell.bsky.social · 3d

"For the Conservatives loved their country so much, they could almost spell it..."

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