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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 1d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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jenny_tightpants🪑 @jtp.bsky.social · 7h

>its 2017
>there are meme frogs at a protest
>its 2025
>there are meme frogs at a protest

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 7h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Hard Drive @hard-drive.net · 1d

Still think Antifa isn't violent? Here's bodycam footage of Antifa founder B.J. Blazkowicz shooting a heroic member of ICE who was just trying to protect this great nation. Thank God we have Blazkowicz's girlfriend in custody.

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Ghost @unholyghost.bsky.social · 11h

Please share this around as much as possible, I very desperately need a few thousand so I can get out of my abusive homeless situation that I'm unable to get a job in and get an apartment.

Any amount helps, 5$, twenty dollars, 15, all it takes is just one act of kindness.

I'm tired of waking-

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 1d

This is the lesson of 2025

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1d

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1d

Didn't Trump already have his annual check up in April?

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

if every democrat doesn’t use the “we took freedom of speech away” on every messaging apparatus they have every single day for the next 4 years assume they want to lose

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 1d

Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got

- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 2d

Wow 👇

Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 2d

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 4d

Once again, where is the CNO? SECNAV? After what just happened in Quantico, when will the military top brass speak up?
I asked this after the disgrace at Ft. Bragg, too.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 6d

I am begging anyone (but particularly blue wave type liberals) to read literally any history before saying something like "the reason that [bad thing] happened to [marginalized group] is that they didn't fight back."

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Foone @foone.bsky.social · 5d

I accidentally glitched out an animation I was working on and created a perfect example of what the passage of time feels like to someone with ADHD

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matt’s slutty lil halloween name @windows98support.bsky.social · 6d

Turns out, 6 months was optimistic

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Marghost 👻 @mitildide.bsky.social · 5d

The computer is not talking to you
Immigration good
Climate change real
Transgender is not hurting you or others
Women freedom good
You deserve better things
The boss is not your friend
Medicine good

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🍊Cytric Acid 🍋 Prog Wyvern @cytricacid.art · 6d

internet trauma and collateral damage
tw: grooming, rape, non-con, incest mentions
theere's a lot more i wanted to say but i hand wrote this and my wrist hurts when i do that. i ask you don't take this in bad faith
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panel one: baby cy is on the internet. "Growing up on the internet in the 2000s, you're bound to get a few sexual hangups."
panel 2: a large sonic-esque styled werewolf anthro shows a 13 year old cy a graphic drawing of their character being skullfucked by him. He is 35+ years old at the time. He says "look its ur oc getting skullfucked lol"
"I'm not the first or last person to be groomed on the net."
panel 3: baby cy says FUCK OFF with a middle finger at the sonic-esque anthro. In the background is a woman sliced up like food served to a bunch of japanese buisnessmen.
"I thought I got off lucky, unscathed, because I got uncomfortable and told him to fuck off + I blocked him."
Panel 4: a collage of 2000s era memery. The awesome face saying LOL RAPE, orochimaru leering ominously saying "Sasuke dick", an open dragon maw, sonic looking innocent but his stinky sweaty feet are the focus of the image, pedobear, a blob fatfur image of sonic. Interspersed with words like "sex, rape, diapers, fetish, feet, vore, *rapes u*"
"But the rest of the internet wasn't that much better."

Panel 1: Teen cy is looking ashamed. above Cy on the left a dragon sats "Draw me vore babyfur, RP with me!" on the right, another dragon says "You're disgusting. Ew sex. Gross."
"My friends all had their own sexual issues, which didn't help me when I began having my own sexual desires."
Panel 2: A cat leers at a jolteon saying "Rape lol", the jolteon looks uncomfortable.
"I used internet tropes to express myself, particularly rape tropes, because it was a joke to me. I didn't understand."
Panel 3: Baby cy evolves into teenager cy. Offhand it says "Nothing happened. I just became more mature."
"As I grew older, I learned what rape REALLY was. How it hurt."
Panel 4: Two cats pointing excitedly, the first one says "I like to rape!" It points to the second cat who is saying "I do femdom!"
"I revised my sexuality and my OC stories to not make light of rape."
Panel 5: Cy looks very uncomfortable with eerie lines all around them.
"I've always been a feminist. I understood rape as profound misogynistic violence. It disturbed me how little peoplecared about it, how it was joke about, made light of. I thought those that did contributed to rape culture. To shame victims. It made me SICK."

Panel 1: Cy angerly points to a cat furry holding up a crudly drawn image that depicts rape. Cy says "YOU'RE EVIL!".
"I HATED anyone who made art glorifying rape, pedophilia, incest. They shouldn't have a voice, to me."
Panel 2: Cy arguing with another artist. "Fuck you!" "I'm coping!"
"I didn't understand how glorifying rape was "coping". I had trauma too and my coping skill was righteous anger. I was the moral right.
Panel 3: Cy is covering their ears saying no! Stop! while muppets yell about rape, non-con, and incest.
"Pro/antiship discourse was HOT and I couldn't go without hearing it wherever I went."
Panel 4: Cy looks exasperated and sweating. "I'm right, right?" "Why do I keep arguing?" "I'm the one with the right morals." "I'm right, why am I so upset?" (Obviously spiralling)
"I'd get into so many arguments. It was a rush. I was obviously the one with the right opinions. But it never did make me feel any better.
Panel 5: Cy is being haunted by their trauma of grooming and unsolicited fetish art thrown at them as a kid. The dragon from before says "RP diaper vore with me!" And the anthro sonic character holds up an image with violent gore on it.
"In all honestly I was continually re-triggering myself. I was taking my anger and lack of control onto other people. Yeah, some of them were irresponsible assholes, but they weren't trying to groom me. Mostly. Irresponsibility is why I saw so much uncensored fetish art as a kid on DA. And some people truly did not care about triggering others with their art. But not everyone is like that. Their art might upset me, but if they give me tools to avoid it, then is it hurting me? NO."

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scary tall bart @tallbart.com · 5d

I want these Godless freaks held publicly accountable for every single crime

Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 5d

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

www.theguardian.com

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Behold, Maxine @beholdmaxine.bsky.social · 5d

My friend @devilcorp.bsky.social set up a fundraiser, so he can get him and his brother out of an abusive household situation. Devil's the main artist behind Ribbit, as well as contributing on TS!Underswap. Any donations or word-spreading would be appreciated.

www.gofundme.com/f/support-si...

Donate to Support Siblings in Crisis: Help Us Stay Afloat, organized by Alexander Punales

Hello, my little brother (18) and I (24) need your help. Ove… Alexander Punales needs your support for Support Siblings in Crisis: Help Us Stay Afloat

www.gofundme.com

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 5d

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have made a HUGE breakthrough towards a UNIVERSAL antiviral. By targeting sugar molecules found on the surface of many viruses that SHARE structural similarities, they identified FOUR compounds that successfully BLOCKED infections from SEVEN different viruses.

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SilverTotodile @silvertotodile.bsky.social · 5d

Please be full covers of A Dark Zone and Neverending Night, PLEASE be full covers of A Dark Zone and Neverending Night.

I say absolutely knowing it’s not that-

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.bsky.social · 6d

twitter is currently a frankenstein combination of 4chan and tumblr. we all know this. but bluesky is a different beast that i don't think people born after ~2004 fully grasp. bluesky is a frankenstein combination of tumblr and somethingawful

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𝔰𝔞𝔩𝔢𝔪 ☾🔞🏳️‍⚧️ @w0lfertinger666.bsky.social · 6d

CAN WE HAVE A WEBSITE THAT ISN'T TRANSPHOBIC FOR ONE SECOND

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Dumbass @tdmbs.bsky.social · May 31

Blue-Quilled Astronaut

#sonicthehedgehog #fanart #sonicfanart #outerspace

Sonic The Hedgehog striking a pose mid-air on the moon. Earth can be seen on the distance alongside a single shining star.

This drawing was inspired by Earthrise, a photograph of the earth taken from the moon.

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 5d

The CEO of Bluesky is craven and evil. The only people that build these platforms are infected with the self-reproducing moral rot of capitalism. They have no sense of duty or stewardship. They see their monetary reward as a cleansing justification for their actions.

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