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Sasooli @sasooli.bsky.social · 3h

The first world war, Korean war, and Vietnam war were not fought to defeat fascism.

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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · Jan 24

In the first 100 days I will dig down into the place of honor. On day one I will issue an Executive Order that the radical woke warning signs be removed and anyone perpetuating the "dangerous and repulsive" lie to be terminated. I will restore the country by touching the ancient treasures.

Graphic showing the proposed pictogram warning of the dangers of buried nuclear waste for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.

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Sasooli @sasooli.bsky.social · 3h

Being a murderer doesn't make someone undeserving of refugee status. And we have plenty of UK-born murderers, we manage alright without deporting them.

Sasooli @sasooli.bsky.social · 3h

I actually think they're perfectly serious about governing. It's just unfortunate that they're committed to governing in an authoritarian, right-wing way. We'd be better off if they were*less* serious.

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Sasooli @sasooli.bsky.social · 3h

Ditto.

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Sasooli @sasooli.bsky.social · 3h

How does @mangmangmang.bsky.social feel about you painting him?

Sasooli @sasooli.bsky.social · 15h

Did you know you can just buy gold foil and start putting it on stuff? It's not even that expensive!

Sasooli @sasooli.bsky.social · 15h

Like she's probably doing better things with her money than Bezos would be if it all belonged to him, but that's a pretty low bar that the vast majority of humanity manages to pass as well.

Sasooli @sasooli.bsky.social · 15h

She has 40 billion dollars and is still making more money by exploiting Amazon workers.

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Sasooli @sasooli.bsky.social · 18h

It also wouldn't be a laudable position if you happened to live in one of the many countries where a majority of the electorate are very homophobic.

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Sasooli @sasooli.bsky.social · 18h

Going "ooh well I wouldn't pretend to know what the answer is for gay people being ok or not" wouldn't be a laudable position, and nor is doing the same for trans people.

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Sasooli @sasooli.bsky.social · 18h

They're not settled in the sense that there are plenty of transphobes out there, just as "is it ok to be queer?" or "should women be allowed to vote?" aren't settled. But, also like those questions, it's settled in that there is a correct answer; the one I just told you.

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Sasooli @sasooli.bsky.social · 18h

Ok so what's your source for your definition?

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Sasooli @sasooli.bsky.social · 19h

Also "I don't pretend to know the answer for trans individuals" is an admission of ignorance, so it's a bit funny to then complain about me suggesting you're ignorant.

But, I'll help enlighten you: the answer for trans individuals is the same as for everyone else.

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Sasooli @sasooli.bsky.social · 19h

I only made that assumption because you referred to trans girls as boys. If you meant something different by that fair enough, but I don't know what it could be.

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Sasooli @sasooli.bsky.social · 19h

"While the Holocaust is abhorrent, it's not like the Reich doesn't need defence"

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Sasooli @sasooli.bsky.social · 19h

"girls competing in sports against boys"

Ah, so you think trans girls are actually boys. You could have just said "I'm against trans rights" from the start and saved everyone some time, instead of pretending it's all about political expediency.

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Sasooli @sasooli.bsky.social · 1d

That's not how prison works.

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the wicker mang @mangmangmang.bsky.social · 1d

I would ALSO never get over this

mags*

October 8, 2025 at 7:22 am

My mum has NEVER gotten over being made to go to a special Phishing Awareness Training thing after she clicked on the link in a phishing email from her IT department. Mostly because she’d followed proceedure and forwarded the email originally as a probable phishing scam…only to be told by the IT department that it wasn’t, it was an official email, and she should click through and respond.

So she did and, lo and behold, it was a fake phishing email and she got sent to a seminar. That was a few years ago and to this day she swears the IT guy just wanted to hit enough people to schedule a training day and get his lunch catered.

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Sasooli @sasooli.bsky.social · 1d

Again, even if the majority are against allowing trans kids to exist, *I'm not* so why would I want to fight against that narrative?

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Sasooli @sasooli.bsky.social · 1d

The bus stop is five minutes walk away? Well all I have to do is put my laptop away, find my keys, put on my shoes, decide what I'm taking with me, find it all, put it in my bag, leave the flat, and go downstairs. Each of those things takes zero time, 0 + 0 = 0, so I only need five minutes total.

Sasooli @sasooli.bsky.social · 1d

A large part of my ADHD symptoms basically manifest as rounding every time interval either up to infinity, or down to zero.

I've got a whole *day* off work? That's so much time! I can afford to spend half of it doing nothing and I'll easily be able to do all my admin backlog in the afternoon!

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 10d

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 10d

hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.

"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians not directly taking part in hostilities, even if they are believed to be smuggling drugs."

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Sasooli @sasooli.bsky.social · 1d

No, those guys were ok. The anti-fascists during the Weimar Republic committed the worst possible sin: being correct too early.

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Sasooli @sasooli.bsky.social · 1d

Nobody's dictating to them how they can identify. They're just pointing out that many of them are racist. Comparing "calling many members of a deeply racist society racists" to transphobia is pretty horrible, in my opinion.

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