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Alastor Stuart @alasdairstuart.bsky.social · 3h

Absolutely how you do it. No one wants to be a nazi bar.

Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 5h

We banned a guy on the Steam forums for repeatedly saying there were “too many women” in our game

So he flipped his positive review to negative

Still totally worth it

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Kickstarter United @kickstarterunited.org · 7d

‼️🚨KICKSTARTER WORKERS ARE ON STRIKE🚨‼️

As of 8am this morning, the workers of Kickstarter United/OPEIU Local 153 are on strike.

WE ARE NOT ASKING FOR A BOYCOTT! Creators and allies, please continue using and supporting the platform.

Kickstarter United is on strike!
We are not asking for a boycott! Creators & Allies: Please continue to support & use the platform
swipe for ways to show your solidarity

Why We're Striking
A codified 4-day work week.
We simply want to protect the way we've been working for over 3.5 years. The 4dww has proven benefits, such as increased productivity and improved employee satisfaction. It's part of what makes Kickstarter a special, innovative place to work.
Fair pay for our lowest-paid workers.
We're fighting for livable minimum salaries for roles that are undervalued by the market but crucial to keeping Kickstarter running. We believe none of our workers should struggle to make ends meet.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 47m

NEW: Venezuelan immigrants signed up for a Trump-promoted app called CBP Home, which promised a safe and easy way to leave the country, and prepared to leave on their given departure dates.

Those dates have come and gone.

They’re still stuck here.

“I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore”: They Tried to Self-Deport, Then Got Stranded in Trump’s America

Venezuelan immigrants signed up for a Trump-promoted app called CBP Home, which promised a safe and easy way to leave the country, and prepared to leave on their given departure dates. Those dates have come and gone. They’re still stuck here.

www.propublica.org

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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 21m

jesus christ it’s still going??

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Big Demon Energy @mayawest.online · 7h

imagine *paying* to be Morbius

HE paid THEM to be in morbius

I can't stop laughing

Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 7h

Multiple people in this thread have informed me that Jared Leto buys his way into projects and in that spirit I would like to offer $200 to be dumbledore

Like let’s screw this shit up lol

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 4h

Here's the thing. Over the last few days people have wanted to discourse, or play lawyer, or be petty and weird with minutia

Whatever.

It's real simple to me.

Link being permanently banned is wrong. That decision should be reversed.

Period.

Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 5h

Link's ban is wrong and should be reversed.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 2h

Naoise's brother is asking Irish people to please contact the government #Speirgorm

My sister @NaoiseDolan, alongside other members of the Thousand Madleens flotilla, has been abducted by Israeli forces while on a humanitarian mission to break the illegal siege and deliver aid to Gaza.
Please join me in urging the Irish government to demand their safe return.

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Mirty @mightymirty.bsky.social · Apr 9

stress relief gouache sketch from a few months back😌

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1h

They didn’t just NOT give Trump the Nobel Peace Prize, they wrote a citation that reads like an anti-Trump rallying cry.

(He’s gonna extra-tariff Norway now, isn’t he?)

Reuters @reuters.com · 2h

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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Justin Zimmerman @jztidecat.bsky.social · 41m

Keep letting him incriminate himself. He wouldn’t be the first Trump lackey to end up in prison because he talks too much.

thematthill.bsky.social @thematthill.bsky.social · 2d

Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 38m

Appalling: JB Pritzker tells me he hasn't been able to get a single conversation with Kristi Noem or any other top Trump officials to even discuss their Chicago operations. Pritzker just wants a heads up for logistical purposes. Nada.

Pritzker opens up on the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2016...

Trump ICE Raids Take Unnerving Turn as Dem Gov Drops Bombshell Warning

With Trump’s occupation of Chicago worsening, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker shares new details about what’s happening—and tells us the time is now for Americans to rise up against authoritarianism bef...

newrepublic.com

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 36m

All these anxious billionaires....

“It’s become quite difficult to hide one’s money,” Thiel said, according to the recordings. “An incredible machinery of tax treaties, financial surveillance, and sanctions architecture has been constructed.” Wealth gives the “illusion of power and autonomy,” Thiel added, according to the recordings, “but you have this sense it could be taken away at any moment.”

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 44m

Thiel "argued that those who propose limits on technology development not only hinder business but threaten to usher in the destruction of the United States and an era of global totalitarian rule, according to the recordings."

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Denali @denali.bsky.social · 2d

The one time I met Paul Vallas was at a conference and after a very brief conversation he showed me a plan for a "reform school" project he was pitching.

The man was carrying plans for a jail for children on his person and just...showing it to people.

That guy came really close to being mayor.

Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 2d

Actually, it really matters whether your electeds are progressive. We are often frustrated on the left at what electeds can deliver, but we have to remember moments like this. Paul Vallas would NOT have created ICE free zones.

The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 3d

HAPPENING NOW — This morning, Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order establishing “ICE-free zones.”

“That means that city property and unwilling private businesses will no longer serve as grounds for these raids,” Johnson said to applause.

thetriibe.com/2025/10/mayo...

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 2d

Actually, it really matters whether your electeds are progressive. We are often frustrated on the left at what electeds can deliver, but we have to remember moments like this. Paul Vallas would NOT have created ICE free zones.

The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 3d

HAPPENING NOW — This morning, Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order establishing “ICE-free zones.”

“That means that city property and unwilling private businesses will no longer serve as grounds for these raids,” Johnson said to applause.

thetriibe.com/2025/10/mayo...

Mayor Brandon Johnson signs executive order establishing ‘ICE-free zones’ • The TRiiBE

Johnson is calling for a full investigation into “all of the brutality” that federal agents have conducted this past week.

thetriibe.com

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Serenity "Peas on Carbonara 👻" Dee 🍜 @sapphixy.bsky.social · 36m

you know, that explains a lot, but also what the fuck

Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 7h

Multiple people in this thread have informed me that Jared Leto buys his way into projects and in that spirit I would like to offer $200 to be dumbledore

Like let’s screw this shit up lol

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💀 SkeleMarvelous 💀 @codemarvelous.bsky.social · 2d

So Jared Leto actually buys himself onto projects as a producer. I did a deep dive on this once.

Since he has his own money from fashion and being in a band. He literally says "I will give you a few million dollars to let me on the project and give me a cut of the profits".

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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 2d

Why are we still paying Jared Leto to do things, I thought we learned our lesson about that

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 10h

I am currently out of copies to give away, but if you are new to organizing and activism, and you could use some insight and guidance, you can find Let This Radicalize You at a discount here:

Let This Radicalize You

Doing Justice: The Revolution of Rescue and Reciprocal Care is a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building power in an era of destabilization and catastrophe.

www.haymarketbooks.org

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 10h

I also want to say that I am so honored that this book, which I co-wrote with @prisonculture.bsky.social, was shared in this space. We wrote this book for moments like this one, and for people like the folks who are showing up to learn and act together in Chicago right now.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 10h

I donated some copies of Let This Radicalize You for distribution at an ICE watch training for folks who want to join school patrols in a nearby neighborhood. Not everyone got a copy, because 120 people showed up for that training tonight. I am endlessly proud of Chicago.

A display of copies of Let This Radicalize You on a table in front of a sign that reads: "Let This Radicalize You offers stories, strategy and heart for the kind of collective care and resistance we're building together today. It helps us move from reacting to organizing. Showing how ordinary people protect each other, build power, and keep hope alive. Take a copy. Read it. Stay connected."

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 37m

He wants X thing so he gets X thing is not a given. And to me that's the thing to uproot from people's consciousness. Because we're less than a year in and many people seem already defeated.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 46m

It says nothing good about anything that many people thought there was an actual chance that man would receive a "Peace Prize."

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 7h

Before public health, my initial training was as a trauma therapist. When I first heard about people doing this it made me genuinely scared. A machine can’t co-regulate with you, it can’t track your affect; it has no way of knowing when you’ve gone past your limit or how to avoid imposing meaning.

Mockingbird, MPH, CHES @amockingbird.bsky.social · 8h

I had dinner last night with a friend who was talking about using ChatGPT to write and process her trauma, and how it was making connections she hadn’t realized. She’s very smart, and has psychosis and DID. And I have no fucking clue how to warn her away from it, it’s everywhere, so it must be safe?

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 11h

Our plane to Spain is in the air!

🙌🙌

Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

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