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Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 15h

A circulating video of slain Palestinian journalist Saleh Al-Jaafrawi, who was killed by Israeli-backed gangs this evening.

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Nyś🎃 @nixieblue.bsky.social · Sep 10

Roses are red 🌹
Violets are blue 💐
Wounds won't stop me
From embracing you! ♥️

#art #OC

Scene with white haired girl hugging rose bush. The roses are indeed red, there are no violets tho.

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Anarchist Memes @anarchistmemes.org · 23h

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 2d

Really not good at all that the Christian Right feels emboldened enough to parade in Soho in paramilitary uniforms. www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/10/k...

Evangelical 'King's Army' group disrupts traffic in historic LGBTQ+ London district

A right-wing, evangelical group calling itself the King's Army blocked traffic on Old Compton Street in Soho while chanting anti-LGBTQ+ slogans.

www.thepinknews.com

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SulMatul @sulmatul.bsky.social · 2d

Ooh I’ve heard of this one before, how was it?

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Justin McElroy @thoughtographic.bsky.social · 2d

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

Membership at record levels.

Polling at record levels.

Winning elections at record levels.

What a time to be in @greenparty.org.uk

metro.co.uk/2025/10/10/z...

Zack Polanski: I went on Question Time - I was blown away by the response

The response has been quite overwhelming.

metro.co.uk

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 4d

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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mat olson @mathewolson.com · 4d

damning thread on how the IDF's propaganda arm is scraping 3D assets intended for things like games, films, or architectural purposes and kitbashing together supposed hamas bunkers and iranian nuclear sites. a genocide campaign propped up in part by someone's nephew who got too into blender.

Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 4d

"Brexit has left the UK out in the cold." Thanks Nigel Farage. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

‘Existential threat’: what do EU’s 50% steel tariffs mean for UK industry?

Why UK steel sector is alarmed by prospect of punitive tariffs from its biggest customer

www.theguardian.com

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 5d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 6d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 5d

It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 5d

One thing about American's widespread distrust and disapproval of the Supreme Court is that mainstream news coverage mostly doesn't dwell on stuff like standing, so people don't even begin to grasp how rigged the Court truly is www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Supreme Court Live Updates: Justices Seem Set to Rule Against Colorado’s Ban on Conversion Therapy

www.nytimes.com

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Blaise Ulysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 5d

Bluesky's lack of a coms team does indeed give us some of these funny moments such as:

"You're aware that you are ostensibly speaking for the company with the current role you have and the subject matter you're wading into, right?

what?"

Maja Öberg @majaoeberg.bsky.social · 6d

I do find it hilarious how they immediately backtracked after this and deleted the comment

a member of bluesky saying "Yeh" in response to the above post, with a journalist responding asking to get their exact quote over the thread in which the bluesky member responds with "what" and the journalist then rephrasing the question only for the bluesky member to delete the entire thread

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 6d

Greta Thunberg, deported to Greece, says the targeting of the Sumud Flotilla is "not the story" @teenvogue.com — instead, she says:

"Israel once again violated international humanitarian law by preventing aid from getting into Gaza while people are being starved.”

Greta Thunberg On Her Detention: I'm "Not The Story" — It's Israel Violating International Humanitarian Law

“I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story.”

www.teenvogue.com

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 6d

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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john patneaude 🟡 @jpatneaude.bsky.social · 8d

just gonna put this here

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Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social · 7d

But when I go into the booth next month to flip the switch again, the switch that to my eyes has produced no light in many years, do not condescend to lecture the faithless on how it is the only way out of a darkness that is deeper than this country has seen in recent memory.

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 7d

Bluesky deleted my post complaining about the CEO lol. I did not delete it myself! Full on Lowtaxing from Jay here.

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Ruby Anne Seals, Who Knows the Lines🌸🎀✨ @codexentry.bsky.social · Jul 1

Pathologic, For Those Who Will Never Play It. Act 1 of the Haruspex's Route.

The intro plus the first 4 Days are now available over on Patreon with a runtime of over 2 hours and 20 minutes.

Day 5 dropping within the week.

Hope you enjoy <33

Pathologic, For Those Who Will Never Play It. Act 1. (Haruspex's Route) [PREVIEW] | Ruby Seals

Get more from Ruby Seals on Patreon

www.patreon.com

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Finally Out of the Basket @neversus64.bsky.social · 9d

I mean, you could just ban Jesse Singal and conservative bigots from your site. Like normal non capitulating to right wing bigot businesses would.

also, The Federalist posted an article about Bluesky and you banned everyone in that article, so you’re lying.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 8d

These people were enslaved as laborers for a call center soliciting church donations in case you’re wondering the exact level of where we went wrong as a human species

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 8d

amp.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

Raid of church leader’s Florida mansion reveals 57 forced laborers, feds say

The victims, called “armor bearers” by the church, are threatened with damnation if they fail to meet their quotas, federal officials say.

amp.miamiherald.com

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 8d

Stop lying. Your state cops attacked protesters alongside ICE yesterday. I was there. I and others were violently attacked by ICE agents. Your state cops acted in concert with them during the attack.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 8d

State, county, and local law enforcement have been working together and coordinating to ensure public safety around the Broadview ICE facility, and to protect people’s ability to peacefully exercise their constitutional rights.

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Sucks2bu Podcast @sucks2bupod.bsky.social · 8d

Have you been listening to Sucks 2 B U? Have you loved it?

It really helps us if you leave us a 5 star review on Spotify and say lovely things in the comments of our episodes! It also helps if you tell your friends!

We love our growing community of suckers.🧛

open.spotify.com/show/0Or6mn8...

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 9d

What I hear from multiple sources in the Scottish Government is that it feels defeated by the limitless spending power of the transphobes who, of course, are explicitly or implicitly underwritten by JK Rowling's vast fortune.

rabbit2025.bsky.social @rabbit2025.bsky.social · 9d

What do you think why the Scottish Government has been targeted, such as Darlington nurses, NHS Fife?
Has Scotland really devolved? Was the Scottish Government allowed to implement its self identity legistlation or blocked by the former government? Devolution in the UK is a joke.

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JBR @jetblackraider.itch.io · 9d

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