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Toxidrone

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I will be a bummer talking and being angry about genocide until the livestreamed genocide ends. I'd love to be talking about other things but it's hard to think about them much. Free Palestine! He/him

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Toxidrone @toxidrone.bsky.social · Aug 16

Please help Sakher get some food
gofund.me/f116bf44
I'm directly linking his fundraiser because Palestinian accounts are once again being mass deleted by bluesky.

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 22m

As ever, you can find all of our accountability information here - including a brand new simplified version if you get dizzy looking at spreadsheets

plus loads of graphics, flyers, and more for sharing online & offline - free and impactful!

linktr.ee/hopegivingcircle

Hope Giving Circle | Linktree

This giving circle sustains 6 families in Gaza and a mutual aid team serving a displacement camp of 15 more with food, water, shelter, medicine, and more.

linktr.ee

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 30m

Please share. The work doesn’t stop—not least of all because these six families need food & supplies as soon as possible. For survival. They don’t know what the days will bring, but they should be able to rely on us to stand by them, right?

HOPE and join in ❤️‍🔥 20 hours left on today’s goal. 23/640

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

chuffed.org

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 4h

Three former Secretaries of State who all share the same opinion make for a pretty boring roundtable. Seems they didn't call John Kerry because he is the only one who has called Israel's regime of control over Palestinians an apartheid system.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 5h

New: Bari Weiss booked Hillary Clinton, Mike Pompeo, and Antony Blinken for a roundtable on Gaza, her first major move at CBS.

Notably on a CBS call today in which the panel was floated, one producer also repeatedly emphasized the need to hear from Palestinians in Gaza (Weiss did not respond).

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♿ hiding from plagues - Always masked - N95 or bust @smollestbunny2.bsky.social · 16h

Yo. If you see this, PLEASE boost it. As far as it'll go. I need this info

♿ hiding from plagues - Always masked - N95 or bust @smollestbunny2.bsky.social · 16h

Does anyone have a copy of that study that said that if we reduce all workloads to only 30%, we would be fine actually and have more than enough

Please share if you don't know

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 13d

“I need you to live”

93/7000 (with 3000 being matched) chuffed.org/project/hope...

#poetry #poem

I need you to live
for M

I need you to live for you.
I need you to live for rest,
for tiny-palm minutes,

for a giggle,
an annoyance,
a tiresome day out

doing nothing
living everything

for you.

I need you to live
not to carry the world
on your back

in pocket
in word
in shroud—

I need you to live
to shake the olive
tree’s skirt

of tomorrow,
whatever you need it to be.

I need you to live
not for need
not for whim

for your blessed anything,
for your unwritten,
for your unsung

song unknown.
Destiny curled in your palm
cooing for caress

in the morning.

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 19d

“قمر”

4067/5000 chuffed.org/project/hope...

Prompt: The night sky - قمر

we reach across an intractable table and hold hands. this is how the moon was made. earth-carved-of-itself flung into sky. space between bodies irradiated. until rage. until even vengeance blushes. the dove red of the sun with one eye open. wing of liberation tucked between stretched bone.

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 19d

LET’S DO IT AGAIN. For every new contribution—even a dollar—I’ll post a FRESH, brand-new, unedited (gulp) poem, right here until we make it.

We usually get around a chapbook, so consider what you’d pay for that!

3795/4000 to help two families flee their beloved city: chuffed.org/project/hope...

Digital ink sketch of a kestrel about to take flight

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Toxidrone @toxidrone.bsky.social · 42m

Paternoster lifts, the spookiest of them all

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Olive 🍉 @limbischessystem.bsky.social · 1h

In addition for reasons

bsky.app/profile/limb...

Olive 🍉 @limbischessystem.bsky.social · 1h

⚠️♿️⚠️

„Even with the ceasefire,
we have no work, no income, no food.
Please, don't turn your backs on us,
we still need you desperately.“

_ Rami

tinyurl.com/HelpRamiFamily

Please share - and give if you can

A photo of the little Kinda, Rami und Lubna‘s daughter.

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mosababutoha @mosababutoha.bsky.social · 5d

Showing slaughtered babies from Gaza is part of a disinformation campaign,
but slaughtering these children every single day is not part of any campaign!

Shame on you all!!

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Toxidrone @toxidrone.bsky.social · 1h

Nobody is scoring the argument but I'll bet you can find any number of forums that will do exactly that.

Toxidrone @toxidrone.bsky.social · 1h

There's this common online debate strategy of implying a position without actually taking it because you have a shallow understanding of the topic and if you tried to state facts they could be directly refuted.

It's very obnoxious

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[LVL 35]Alsvid Wotansdottir🔵 @alsvid.bsky.social · 1h

This family needs your support.

🌈 Light for Life 🍉 @lightforlife.bsky.social · 1h

"This is Yusuf. A child who survived the bombs but now fights a tougher battle – to live, to heal, to dream again. 💙
Your kindness can give him hope. Every share, every donation counts.💔🍉

👉 gofund.me/146b40ad

#HopeForYusuf #HumanityFirst #y #u #s #f
@mommunism.bsky.social
@lexialex.bsky.social

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Toxidrone @toxidrone.bsky.social · 1h

I have not mentioned your intelligence or mine. I said you are saying nothing of substance. Because you aren't. All you do is hint at knowing things without saying them. Well I'm not going to make your argument for you. Say what you mean directly or say nothing.

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 2h

Mutual aid is still a support front, survival funds are still survival funds, & every ounce of our imagination matters (if we use it right). It isn’t time to disappear into complacency due to the news.

Start here: six families, food & shelter, every day. 22 hours left 🚨 23/640

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

chuffed.org

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 2h

I know it's sort of a cold take but your perspective on US foreign policy dramatically improves once you consistently read or watch non US media

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dictatorship of the proletariat now @imperialismsucks.bsky.social · 2h

75 years of GENOCIDE.

Palestine News @palestinenews.smitsky.nl · 8h

Ceasefire Agreement Brings Fragile Hope to Gaza After Two Years of Genocide
#palestine #safa

Ceasefire Agreement Brings Fragile Hope to Gaza After Two Years of Genocide

After more than two years of relentless destruction, the Palestinian resistance has announced that an agreement has been reached to end the genocidal war in Gaza, based on a proposal relayed by U.S. P

en.safa.news

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[LVL 35]Alsvid Wotansdottir🔵 @alsvid.bsky.social · 2h

Gretch of Falker Martin put a comically large pie on a windowsill, causing me to levitate into the air, my body buoyed by the steaming trails of scent the pie was emanating.

[LVL 35]Alsvid Wotansdottir🔵 @alsvid.bsky.social · 2h

Gretch of Falker Martin painted a picture of a tunnel on a 2all and made me run into it at full speed causing my body to be crumpled into a circle

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who cares @maaaatttt.bsky.social · 2h

once she said she was so hungry she could eat a horse but in fact nobody can actually eat a whole horse, humans cannot unhinge their jaw and their stomach is too small

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[LVL 35]Alsvid Wotansdottir🔵 @alsvid.bsky.social · 2h

Gretch of Falker Martin painted a picture of a tunnel on a 2all and made me run into it at full speed causing my body to be crumpled into a circle

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Toxidrone @toxidrone.bsky.social · 2h

Please keep supporting Palestinians like Rami, Lubna, and their three young children. Food, medicine, and shelter are all still very expensive.

Please keep putting pressure on your elected officials to get much more aid into Gaza

tinyurl.com/HelpRamiFamily

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Jak @jaksays.bsky.social · 22h

Probably nothing to do with Steven Pinker's close association for Jeffrey Epstein and his character reference for Jeffrey Epstein that was presented in court in defense of Jeffrey Epstein

I mean Steven Pinker probably has other experience of expert testimony other than for paedophiles

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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 1d

My dear Pinker, whysoever should Canadian federal grant bodies give any credence to the little ChatGPT anecdotes that your handful of Harvard students allegedly tell you?

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 2h

Canada isn't immune to US culture war skirmishes. Our Parliament is once again rehashing the validity of systemic discrimination.

A rule, neutral on its face, can still have a disparate impact on a specific population.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 2h

What do you mean "possible rise," dude is at the top of the pack. He is the literal pope

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 10h

As Pope Leo begins to reveal some of his views on divisive issues, some conservative critics of his predecessor are rejecting the possible rise of another “liberal pope.”

As Pope Leo riles conservatives, some say ‘just focus on the church’

Conservatives who hoped that Leo, the first U.S.-born pope, would be more of a traditionalist instead hear echoes of his predecessor, Francis, in his public statements.

www.washingtonpost.com

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