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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6h

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books

A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

www.pilsencommunitybooks.com

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 1d

“We assume that car use is an incompressible liquid that must be routed somewhere. But it’s more more like a gas that fills whatever space it is given.”

—Ian Lockwood, Harvard Loeb Fellow, transport planner.

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 6h

"The colonized is indebted to the colonizer for being colonized."

David Graeber speaks about the brutality of Debt in history.

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Feral Millennial Communists of Late Stage Capitalism @feralcommie.bsky.social · 6h

The coloniser puts the colonised in debt to establish a lord/tenant rentier relationship where people pay to be conquered.

David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 6h

"The colonized is indebted to the colonizer for being colonized."

David Graeber speaks about the brutality of Debt in history.

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Rayne Grimm ➡️Furpocalypse @raynegrimm.bsky.social · 21h

The only explicit purpose of all Gen ai is to steal labor/deny wages

Thats it in its entirety. They don't want to pay for someone to write, draw, voice act etc

(worse still in the cases of falsification of a person they also want a puppet that can't say no)

your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 1d

LLM AI exists to crush labour. That's not even my surmise, the people paying billions of dollars to fund this stuff are extremely open and explicit that this is their goal.

There are no ethical use cases for LLMs at this point in time. Maybe when the bubble has popped thoroughly. Not before.

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Curb Your Malthusiasm 2.0 @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 1d

Love that they gave the Nobel Peace Prize to the sentient version of this tweet

Jane
@Whooping_Jane
blonde-haired blue-eyed person named something like Sabine
Mengele-Eichmann: my country, Venezuela, yearns for freedom
1:40 PM • 2/3/19 • Twitter Web Client

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RedArmyFraction @nopassaran.bsky.social · 8h

This is literally the strategy Lincoln used after Dredd Scott

Repeat after me Democrats:

This is a corrupt, illegitimate institution and we are not bound by it

A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 9h

The Supreme Court of the United States is not a legitimate body.

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 9h

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Noel Casler Comedy @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social · 1d

Pro Tip: If Vladimir Putin says you deserve the Nobel Peace Prize you DO NOT deserve the Nobel Peace Prize.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 9h

It's dangerous to say, but since it is true, it's more dangerous to not say: The Supreme Court of the United States is not a legitimate body. It's been deliberately and systematically captured by ideologues on behalf of an anti-Constitutional project, and its extremist members have been bribed.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18h

Is it cancel culture when they threaten to kill you?

www.nj.com/news/2025/10...

Sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates speaker appearance in N.J. canceled over security reasons

Organizers canceled a sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates event in Montclair citing undisclosed security concerns.

www.nj.com

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Adam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 21h

Every A.I. CEO is like “We invented a robot that can fuck your wife so you have more free time to mow the lawn!”

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 8h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Asschapel Roan @stochasticburrito.bsky.social · 8h

The phrase 'Potemkin economy' occurred to me yesterday in reference to the stock market.

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Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 18h

Reskeet with a frog to scare ICE

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

All the next day Toad sang songs to his seeds.

Toad, literally singing in the rain, serenades his seeds.

From "The Garden"
In *Frog and Toad Together*

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19h

Pepe is Portland Frog’s Wario

Spooky Witch Kat (hag/witch/banshee) 🖤💜👻🎃💀🐈‍⬛💜🖤 @switchkat13.bsky.social · 19h

Pepe walked on the wrong side of history, so his fellow frog persons are making up for that in spades.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 22h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Gallifreyan Jedi @jediofgallifrey.bsky.social · 3d

The texas national guard arrived in chicago today, marking the farthest north a confederate army has ever gotten.

dark days.

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Asschapel Roan @stochasticburrito.bsky.social · 21h

Yo I will totally hit you up next time I love this shit

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Dragon Moll Z 🎃 @dopestatistics.bsky.social · 21h

*banging on the table* LINE GO DOWN LINE GO DOWN!!!

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Curb Your Malthusiasm 2.0 @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 23h

My senator (Durbin) literally said he would not do anything about the ICE Agents in Chicago attacking his constituents! I’ve been talking to parents all morning setting up protective lines at school today and my own fucking senator can’t be bothered!

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

"well what are the Democrats supposed to do" I don't know! They're supposed to know! I'm not the one who sought and obtained a political position that would require me to know what to do when the ruling party attempts to install the President as a dictator!

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 1d

Was just at a neighborhood school at dismissal. Hundreds of people with whistles surrounding the school and stationed down every block making sure ICE doesn’t snatch anyone. The same is happening at all the schools around here. I love my neighborhood and I love Chicago.

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Asschapel Roan @stochasticburrito.bsky.social · 1d

Oh my that's a divide by zero ratio that is *dangerous* 🤭

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Asschapel Roan @stochasticburrito.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

"don't worry, we'll vote them out in November"

the voting in November:

Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 2d

I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News.

Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios.

www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1d

Let's go @govpritzker.illinois.gov Where you at buddy? It's time to put your money where your mouth is

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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