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The Resister Linda Cardwell 🦋💙 @cardwell4u.bsky.social · 1d

Jackie Robinson with his wife, Rachel Robinson, and their son in 1949.

African American History shared the photo.

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9to5Linux.com @9to5linux.bsky.social · 23h

digiKam 8.8 Adds Support to Automatically Use Monitor Color Profiles on Wayland 9to5linux.com/digikam-8-8-...

#Linux #OpenSource

digiKam 8.8 Adds Support to Automatically Use Monitor Color Profiles on Wayland - 9to5Linux

digiKam 8.8 open-source digital photo management software is now available for download with various new features and improvements.

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 1d

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Ntozake Shange was born on this day in 1948 in Trenton, N.J. Shange was a novelist, playwright and poet whose groundbreaking work addressed issues of race and feminism. She’s best known for her “choreopoem,” for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf. /1

Ntozake Shange in 1976. Photo credit: AP / Reichenthal.

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Sir Charles Anthony @sircharlesanthony.bsky.social · 1d

Happy birthday to Letitia Ann "Tish" James. An absolute gift this world and a light in a sea of darkness. We don’t deserve you.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

Standing room only on the Green Line in Washington, DC as protestors head to the “No Kings” protest.

Person behind me: “The trains weren’t even this packed for the Beyoncé concert”

The entire train is full as more people pack on. Follow this thread for updates!

People pack onto a green line train in DC

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sunflow77.bsky.social @sunflow77.bsky.social · 2d

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Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 3d

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️

🧵 We see people doing it everyday. Many people do it, but are unaware of its origin.

You've done it!

One of the things that came out of the Vietnam War was "The Dap". (cont)
#ProudBlue
#ResistanceRoots
#USDemocracy
#Voices4Victory
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Giving Dap

The dap dates back to black soldiers in Vietnam, who used a combination of hand and body gestures to greet each other and communicate solidarity.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 3d

1) Very good and alarming story.

2) Need to keep using the term "Kavanaugh stop." That's what these are, and it is lastingly on him.

Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING from PP

We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*

The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:

Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer

More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 3d

Frida by UK artist Jane Perkins who creates collage/mosaic artworks from found and upcycled materials #WomensArt

Collage featuring the head and shoulders of a woman facing forwards resembling the artist Frida Kahlo, with flowers in her hair and around her neck

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9to5Linux.com @9to5linux.bsky.social · 3d

GNOME 49.1 Desktop Released with Various Improvements and Bug Fixes 9to5linux.com/gnome-49-1-d...

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GNOME 49.1 Desktop Released with Various Improvements and Bug Fixes - 9to5Linux

GNOME 49.1 is now available as the first point release to the latest GNOME 49 desktop environment series with various bug fixes.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 3d

Bayard Rustin was one of the most influential organizers of the civil rights movement, leading key protests like the 1963 March on Washington for racial justice.

Bayard dedicated his life to fighting for equal rights for the Black community, LGBTQ people, and economic justice.

Black and white photo of Bayard Rustin in a suit sitting at a desk with papers on it. Text on the graphic reads "When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him." The quote is attributed to Bayard Rustin, civil rights activist, organizer for the 1963 March on Washington

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 4d

She gets all the flowers. I mean ALL of them. If we see her, we immediately have to give her flowers.

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sunflow77.bsky.social @sunflow77.bsky.social · 4d

Yup. That is where I have seen the ads. Mute, block screen, go get some food.😊

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sunflow77.bsky.social @sunflow77.bsky.social · 4d

I hit the mute button and throw a towel over the tv screen, bathroom break, go to fridge for a snack, etc. etc. 😊

sunflow77.bsky.social @sunflow77.bsky.social · 5d

R.I.P. D'Angelo
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D'Angelo - Lady

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sunflow77.bsky.social @sunflow77.bsky.social · 5d

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D’ANGELO & QUESTLOVE - TELL ME IF YOU STILL CARE by SOS BAND - Okayplayer live

YouTube video by Anastasia Fedorova

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 6d

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9to5Linux.com @9to5linux.bsky.social · 6d

How to Upgrade LMDE 6 to LMDE 7 9to5linux.com/how-to-upgra...

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How to Upgrade LMDE 6 to LMDE 7 - 9to5Linux

A quick and painless tutorial on how to upgrade your Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) 6 installations to Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) 7.

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9to5Linux.com @9to5linux.bsky.social · 6d

Firefox 144 Is Now Available for Download, This Is What’s New 9to5linux.com/firefox-144-...

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Firefox 144 Is Now Available for Download, This Is What’s New - 9to5Linux

Firefox 144 open-source web browser is now available for download with various new features and improvements. Here's what's new!

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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 8d

"In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country."
Dick Gregory, born on this day in 1932

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9to5Linux.com @9to5linux.bsky.social · 7d

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: October 12th, 2025 9to5linux.com/9to5linux-we...

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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: October 12th, 2025 - 9to5Linux

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for October 12th, 2025, brings news about Ubuntu 25.10, LMDE 7, Linux 6.16 EOL, GIMP 3.0.6, Linux 6.18 RC, and more.

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 7d

#ResistanceRoots

“Sometimes it seems like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I’ll fall five-feet four-inches forward in the fight for freedom.”
— Fannie Lou Hamer

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 8d

#ResistanceRoots

Today in history, 1906: San Francisco sparks a diplomatic crisis between the United States and Japan by ordering segregated schools for Japanese students. Tensions were eased by the “Gentleman’s Agreement,” an informal treaty between the U.S. and Japan signed by Teddy Roosevelt. /1

Japanese family in San Francisco, ca. 1906.

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9to5Linux.com @9to5linux.bsky.social · 8d

LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) 7 Is Now Available for Download 9to5linux.com/lmde-linux-m...

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LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) 7 Is Now Available for Download - 9to5Linux

Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) 7 distribution is now available for download based on the Debian GNU/Linux 13 "Trixie" operating system.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 9d

US activist Angela Davis and novelist Toni Morrison walking together in 1974, by photographer Jill Krementz #womensart #BlackHistoryMonth US

Monochrome photograph of two Black women walking down a street towards the viewer, the subject to the right looks at the other as if in conversation, while the other looks down as if listening

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