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mashka @susminervamdocet.bsky.social · 1h

if you're genuinely interested in learning to tell real Palestinians (most accounts here) from scams (few and far between), @mommunism.bsky.social's pinned post has tips. she's verified hundreds of people, and helped them get resources they would've otherwise died waiting for

mashka @susminervamdocet.bsky.social · 1h

of course they're going to prioritise pleas for help over posts about pretty sunsets or discussions of their favourite books. they would love nothing more than to post regular everyday things, i'm sure. they just don't have the luxury of it.
if you were in their place, you'd do the same

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mashka @susminervamdocet.bsky.social · 1h

plenty of real Palestinians on here have no presence beyond asking strangers for help, due to being humans with very limited time, energy and internet access. they're ill, injured, starving, homeless and have to buy essentials for large families at inflated black market prices, with no other income

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Greg 📎🍉 @gregory-c-leavitt.bsky.social · 11h

Capitalism is dependent upon the threat of losing your home, livelihood, health and freedom to force you to work for someone else’s benefit. It’s a system based in terror.

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TC Parker Is Horrific Enough Already (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · 20d

Oh, so much this

I LIKE being autistic, in the same way I LIKE being queer. I like myself, and the way my brain works

The myriad structural and infrastructural pressures brought to bear on me by cultures hostile to both queer people and neurodivergence aren't my fault, and shouldn't be my problem

Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 21d

The thing about being neurodivergent is that I Like It. What I don’t like is that the world imposes numerous taxes on me for being like this.

I don’t view it as a Me problem.

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 1d

The collapse of “Israel” and its occupation of Palestine are clear preconditions for any true “peace in the Middle East.”

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mashka @susminervamdocet.bsky.social · 16h

i was gonna go with "could be a real person just trying to protect their privacy or attract more attention with eye-catching photos", but they blocked me immediately. so yeah, safe to say it's a scam. better to remove it from FairShare

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mashka @susminervamdocet.bsky.social · 16h

both of those photos are stolen from news sites:

www.newsit.gr/kosmos/gaza-...

www.usatoday.com/picture-gall...

cc: @smenor.com

Γάζα: Πατέρας που έχασε τον γιο του από υποσιτισμό παλεύει να σώσει τα υπόλοιπα παιδιά του - «Δεν ζούμε, αργοπεθαίνουμε»

193 Παλαιστίνιοι, μεταξύ τους 96 παιδιά, έχουν χάσει τη ζωή τους από υποσιτισμό ή λιμό από την έναρξη του πολέμου

www.newsit.gr

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mashka @susminervamdocet.bsky.social · 23h

In order for me to write poetry that isn't political
I must listen to the birds
and in order to hear the birds
the warplanes must be silent

Marwan Makhoul

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👻 ZH0000GE LIANG 臥龍 / 伏龍 👻 @shuchancellor.online · 1d

socialism is virtuous, and it's popular, the capitalists have devoted decades of propaganda and trillions of dollars in all kinds of sabotage to ensure that no one brings about peace and prosperity

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Dr ICE Scream Maker: Slasher of Fash 🔪 @pwr2dppl.bsky.social · 2d

*banging on pots and pans*

CAPITALISM IS BAD FOR YOUR HEALTH

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 1d

"Ethical alternatives: brands to buy from if you boycott Israeli apartheid."

— article from @ethical-consumer.bsky.social

Please, join us in boycotting israel. Do it for Palestine. Do it for humanity. And also do it because capitalism and imperialism suck! And also, support Ethical Consumer.

Ethical alternatives: brands to buy from if you boycott Israeli apartheid | Ethical Consumer

Boycotting brands that are complicit in Palestinian human rights violations is a powerful form of consumer activism, but how ethical is the product you buy instead?

www.ethicalconsumer.org

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mashka @susminervamdocet.bsky.social · 1d

no, there's no reason for a lesbian to be surprised by a sexual partner's penis or testicles. a lesbian is a woman attracted to other women. and women are women regardless of what genitals they do or do not have. the only people who see a woman and presume her to have a vagina are transphobes

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Charlotte Strawbridge @cstrawbridgeart.bsky.social · 4d

In crimson, orange and bronze, autumn had arrived.
Fox had spent a rather enjoyable morning searching for the perfect collection of leaves.
She'd finally found it.
With a joyful soul and playful heart, she jumped.
In one fine leap, she pounced to catch her shadow.

#Autumn

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 3d

Gaza lives.

Maha Hussaini @MahaGaza
We have returned, like we'll always do.
[photo of a cat sitting in a bombed out window frame silhouetted against a backdrop of rubble]
Gaza City

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Elizabeth Majerus @emajerus.bsky.social · 3d

The right loves to derisively turn decency into something negative & worthy of name calling. “Tree hugger,” “bleeding heart,” and most recently “woke.” As though it’s better to be asleep, to be heartless, to ignore the fact that trees are not only beautiful but essential to human life.

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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.bsky.social · 3d

Happy #Caturday!

🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵

Digital drawing of a white cat sitting in a garden. There are layers of flowers echoing the blue, pink, and white colors of the trans flag. Blue hydrangea at top, pink roses, white snowdrops, pink daisies, and finally, small blue flowers among the grass at bottom.

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Willerby @welcometowillerby.bsky.social · 4d

Willerby:
a small English village where the strange and uncanny is only as remarkable as the weather.

Fifty free stories on the village website with original music, art and photos.

More readers every month. Join them.

www.welcometowillerby.co.uk

No AI ever.

Three stories to get started.

👇

Screenshot of the linked village homepage.

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Dr. Sheila 🦇-is🎃n 🧛🏻‍♀️ @drsaddison.bsky.social · 4d

Tactical frivolity is a great counter to hysterical descriptions of cities "burned to the ground." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tactica...

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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 4d

A Palestinian man records a group of puppies in the besieged north of Gaza after he returns back to his home. He says, “life is returning to north Gaza”

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Coleen Murphy @ctmurphy1.bsky.social · 4d

Begging scientists (and media posts about science) to stop using ChatGPT-generated images

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mashka @susminervamdocet.bsky.social · 3d

actually, yes. genAI hurts everyone, because we all need a habitable planet, and genAI is sucking up all the resources and speeding up global warming

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STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 6d

A pox on all politicians who upheld this genocide. May your withered souls never know peace. May the images of the horrors visited upon the Palestinians people haunt you day and night, infest your dreams. May you never know peace and joy ever again

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Olive 🍉 @limbischessystem.bsky.social · 10d

🆘⚠️🆘 URGENT

Iyad is only 15yo.
He and his family have a really
slow fundraiser, they are in dire need for support.
Please help Iyad, his family and their beloved cats whom he
cares for.

✅ Iyad is verified

DONATE if you can + SHARE the campaign
chuffed.org/project/1437...

Iyad‘s beloved cats in a tent.
The white cat is named Sugar, the orange one is Lulu.

The photo is taken while displacement and famine in genocide.

Iyad (15yo) in a tent.

The photo is taken while displacement and famine in genocide.

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Basil May @basilmai.bsky.social · 4d

Part of the reason why I am so anti LLMs is bc I'm so pro tech. I want sustainable tech that improves people's lives, makes the world more accessible, and automates labor so that humans can enjoy our short lives more...not this capitalistic purposeless slop generator that is destroying the planet

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