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TitaniaDioxide

@titaniapersists.bsky.social

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Disabled engineer, motivated constituent “We’re all doing the best we can with the information we have” - Mama Doctor Jones Currently mostly politics. Occasionally nail art, video games, succulents, fiber arts, mental health, or other topics.

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TitaniaDioxide @titaniapersists.bsky.social · 13d

#FuckYouMakeMe

You want me to shut up?
Fuck you. Make me.

You think I should be less tolerant, less kind, less just, less steadfast?
Fuck you. Make me.

You expect me to carve away the best parts of me, the parts you hate, the parts you *fear*?

Fuck you.

Make me.

Ed Bott @edbott.com · 20d

"And when they come to you with stupid, ridiculous demands—picking fights you know you can win in court—instead of rolling over, why not stand up? And use four words they don’t tend to teach you in business school, the only phrase that can genuinely make a weak bully go away: Fuck you. Make me.”

John Oliver Offers Four Defiant Words of Advice to Disney Over the Kimmel Situation

It works. Try it out, Bob Iger.

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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 13h

This is just unreal. The level of panic in speech pathology groups is off the charts

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 21h

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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TitaniaDioxide @titaniapersists.bsky.social · 9h

Mason jar lights: $45/6 www.wayfair.com/lighting/pdp...

Rose bush: $35-150 www.fast-growing-trees.com/collections/...

Aeonium: $45 or more planetdesert.com/collections/...

Cleanup: $25-50/hour

Go get paid bruh

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 14h

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 15h

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 11h

I missed AB678 among the dozens of bills Newsom signed yesterday. That brings Newsom up to 2 bills signed, 8 still waiting on action, and 0 vetoed, among the 10 bills in our article.

This one was supported by Republicans so not too surprising, but a win for LGBTQ+ homeless people regardless.

A. Goad (she/her or ze/zir) @agoadesq.bsky.social · 11h

He signed AB 678 re studying LGBTQ homelessness leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHi...

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 20h

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · Aug 27

Pineapples grow like they’re trying to prank you into thinking this is how pineapples grow

A pineapple farm that looks like Ripley should burn it in Alien

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 12h

For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.

If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 16h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 10h

if you’re not Catholic, let me real quick tell you about the breathtaking audacity of bringing the monstrance with him

a monstrance is a big bedazzled gold ornament with a round glass window in the middle where you put a consecrated wafer, usually the bigger ceremonial one and not the bite-size

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 10h

this is more than just marching in full regalia to Broadview and praying outside of it

this is very deftly trapping ICE into the position of having to literally - LITERALLY, to them - turn Christ away from the door

any Catholic ICE officer was probably shook, I’m really not exaggerating

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 1d

Just a reminder, the layoffs in govt were just done out of spite, not necessity

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Adam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 1d

The Democrats should not agree to any deal that doesn’t include full restoration of the CDC and the immediate resignation of RFK Jr.

Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Isis E. "Dread Dragon" Prosser @isisstormdragon.bsky.social · 1d

ICE must be destroyed.

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

Let's make a promise here, friends... we ARE going to abolish ICE. Not REFORM it. ABOLISH it. And we're going to put that massive budget back into funding all the things that actually HELP people.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 1d

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TitaniaDioxide @titaniapersists.bsky.social · 1d

Fun(?) fact: there’s one strong predictor that separated the bystanders from the people who concealed Jews during the Holocaust.

It’s not religion, race, or wealth. It wasn’t knowing the person they hid.

The ~97% predictor for hiding someone is BEING ASKED to hide someone.

Fuck ICE. Go humans.

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...

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 1d

In a year's time we've gone from a dysfunctional but free society to "hide your neighbors from the Secret Police."

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 t...

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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 1d

Elevating today’s ICE arrest of a journalist and American citizen in Chicago

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 1d

It is difficult for me to express how disastrous this is.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 2d

The Administration

- raised taxes on clean energy with one big beautiful bill

- is stopping or making clean energy projects harder to be built

- is raising prices on materials with tariffs

- all while AI is spiking electricity demand

They are stopping supply while demand goes up

It’s a crisis

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 2d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 14d

Call Gavin Newsom's office like you called ABC/Disney/Sinclair/Nexstar

South Bay Queer Solidarity @sbqsolidarity.bsky.social · 15d

A huge win for trans people in California: the state legislature passed five bills protecting our rights!

Now it's time to call on Governor Gavin Newsom to sign them. Contact him before October 12th: transfamilysos.org/action-neede...

#TransRights #TransYouth #TransCalifornia

Action Needed: Urge Governor Newsom to Sign Five Critical Trans Rights Bills

TransFamily Support Services is proud to co-sponsor five critical trans rights bills that have officially passed the California Legislature. This is a major victory—one made possible through a powerfu...

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TitaniaDioxide @titaniapersists.bsky.social · 2d

Switch for white text on a black background, and get embossing and spot-UV on the text for extra funnies

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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 2d

I’m debating paper weight

A business card:

This card certifies that you have met
Luke Steuber
And that the experience was both engaging and enriching
Do not contad me for any reason • luke@lukesteuber.com

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 3d

Today's Low Quality Ad is for this "I Hate This Timeline" pin. Think of all the great timelines we could be experiencing. One where dogs can talk. A timeline where Game of Thrones didn't botch the ending. One where Keanu Reeves became president and convinced Putin to be cool.
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A round pin with a distraught looking frog. It has a black border that says "I Hate This Timeline".

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 3d

I’m so damn spooked by this headline

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National Guard poised to enter Chicago as Trump calls for jailing Democratic leaders

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TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 4d

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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Ben @ben9311.bsky.social · 3d

And moreover if we had UBI and Medicare For All, hospitals would be better off, patients would be better off, and the entire cost of health care would decrease significantly.

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