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Memento (Spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 1d

native plants are important too

a flower field with text that says "Yeah I'm into BDSM, Bio-Diversity Supporting Meadows"

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pumpkin spice amb 🎃 @amb.fyi · 1d

The Portland protest frog has done more to protect American democracy and fight fascism than all but the tiniest handful of elected officials

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 8h

I'm doing another print run of these "Biology is Bigger than Binaries" shirts!

Back, quite literally, by popular demand. Bullying works, sure, but so does a bunch of nice cutie patooties politely asking!

Order 'em now, I'll mail 'em in early November.

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a woman with short bown hair, glasses, and tassel earrings, wears a purple KN95 and looks cool as hell in her biology is bigger than binaries shirt, in orange

a woman with green glasses takes a selfie lookin' cool as hell in her pink biology is bigger than binaries shirt. She's also got ice cream, that lucky dog.

a woman with long brown hair and glasses hangs out in the back yard with her pink biology is bigger than binaries shirt

A man with a hat and sunglasses stands in hero-pose with his biology is bigger than binaires shirt (orange)

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 21h

Energy requirements for AI mean that the only way for the bubble not to burst would require companies to multiply their carbon footprint to an unimaginable degree. Right now, while AI is barely functional and mostly a novelty for the lazy, it requires so much energy that data centers rival cities.

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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 4h

It's almost impressive how capitalism keeps finding new, creative ways to exploit people and the environment to keep the wheels of profit turning.

Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 4h

It should strike people that the stock market isn’t crashing despite the shutdown. Like sub-prime mortgages, it has yet again totally detached itself from economic reality while they speculate on how many workers they can fire to replace with AI. It is helping a failing economic strategy save face.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 4h

Before public health, my initial training was as a trauma therapist. When I first heard about people doing this it made me genuinely scared. A machine can’t co-regulate with you, it can’t track your affect; it has no way of knowing when you’ve gone past your limit or how to avoid imposing meaning.

Mockingbird, MPH, CHES @amockingbird.bsky.social · 4h

I had dinner last night with a friend who was talking about using ChatGPT to write and process her trauma, and how it was making connections she hadn’t realized. She’s very smart, and has psychosis and DID. And I have no fucking clue how to warn her away from it, it’s everywhere, so it must be safe?

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 4h

So when I hear of students being encouraged to use GPT in college I don’t hear innovation. I hear cognitive atrophy, the inability to think critically for oneself, and total dependence on vulnerable centralized repositories of data for knowledge without ever understanding how knowledge is generated.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 4h

It should strike people that the stock market isn’t crashing despite the shutdown. Like sub-prime mortgages, it has yet again totally detached itself from economic reality while they speculate on how many workers they can fire to replace with AI. It is helping a failing economic strategy save face.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 4h

It’s a material reality that right now the AI tech bubble is holding up the empire. It increasingly powers all commerce, and is central to the most invasive surveillance apparatus the world has ever seen. Predictive analytics trained on our data have allowed billionaires to track us like wildlife.

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 5h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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soul nate @mnateshyamalan.bsky.social · 9h

so crazy to just be living every day through the slow motion car crash of escalating fascism and it’s still like. aw man i have to go to the dentist

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6h

I donated some copies of Let This Radicalize You for distribution at an ICE watch training for folks who want to join school patrols in a nearby neighborhood. Not everyone got a copy, because 120 people showed up for that training tonight. I am endlessly proud of Chicago.

A display of copies of Let This Radicalize You on a table in front of a sign that reads: "Let This Radicalize You offers stories, strategy and heart for the kind of collective care and resistance we're building together today. It helps us move from reacting to organizing. Showing how ordinary people protect each other, build power, and keep hope alive. Take a copy. Read it. Stay connected."

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Dylan Flesch @dylanflesch.bsky.social · 7h

Happy #BannedBooksWeek. If you love libraries and hate censorship, I'd encourage you to do more than just read a banned book this week. Here are a few ideas:
1. Get involved in your local public library board
2. Join or start a friends group
3. Organize a people's assembly for your public library

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 3d

One of David Graeber's most interesting pieces was from 2013 called - 'A practical utopians guide to the coming collapse.'

Here is an extract.

"What would happen if we stopped acting as if the primordial
form of work is laboring at a production line, or wheat field,
or iron foundry, or even in an office cubicle, and instead
started from a mother, a teacher, or a caregiver?
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We might be forced to conclude that the real business of
human life is not contributing toward something called the
economy but the fact that we are all, and have always been,
projects of mutual creation."
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- David Graeber

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Remora House DC 🎃 @remorahousedc.bsky.social · 2d

Hello this is your regular reminder that Remora House is just two raccoons in a trench coat & our trusty dog Mala!

You can also be some raccoons & just go out into the world & do things for you neighbors & to care for your community!

🦝🦝

One raccoon on another raccoons shoulders wearing a long trench coat standing in front of a pond in front of a modern looking hotel surrounded by palm trees.

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Remora House DC 🎃 @remorahousedc.bsky.social · 1d

Remora House largely exists & is able to help people in DC live more comfortably, get housed, & stay housed because of the community & support we have built on social media.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Remora House DC 🎃 @remorahousedc.bsky.social · 16h

Last week, Daniel was involuntarily committed during an encampment eviction. He was almost instantly released, but most of his belongings were destroyed. This is a common tactic used in this city to clear encampments.

www.gofundme.com/f/daniel-kin...

Help him get some stuff back. Donate if able!

Donate to Daniel Kingery, a beloved unhoused DC vet arrested by MPD, organized by Graeme Eddolls

Imagine being taken from the only place of safety you have, d… Graeme Eddolls needs your support for Daniel Kingery, a beloved unhoused DC vet arrested by MPD

www.gofundme.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 19h

Exhibit #1 million that you can just DO THINGS. These folks came up with an idea and have now implemented it. We can all do something where we are. I just donated to their efforts.

Capt. Jack Sharrow @sharrows.bsky.social · Sep 6

We’ve officially launched! Lots of ways to support this new initiative that supports street vendors from 🧊 we keep us safe!

Interest form and flyer below! #BikeChi

forms.gle/dY931Sxzs6V9...

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 17h

I didn't have enough time to tally everything to include in my October newsletter. So sharing here for those of you who are part of the Giving Circle.

In Sept, some of you donated $4729.77 [after fees] to the Giving Circle. I donated $4500 to 12 projects. Documentation is here.

September 2025 Mutual Aid Donations - PC Giving Circle Funds

September Mutual Aid Donations - PC Giving Circle Funds TOTAL AMOUNT RECEIVED IN $4729.77 after fees - Total Donated: $4500 in September to 12 groups/orgs. $229.77 balance will be applied to future ...

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 8h

Here are 10 practical tips, based on Retana’s advice, for talking to kids about ICE raids and helping them cope with fear and uncertainty. Each point is presented in english y español.

The full guide: lataco.com/kids-ice-tal...

By Erick Galindo

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 8h

I'm just so proud of all of us who came together to start For The People Leftist Library. We punch so much above our weight. We have no money and yet we have done sooooo much by being creative and by relying on each other. I am grateful and also determined to keep pushing for the next 2 years.

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Didi is a trans immigrant 🏳️‍⚧️ @didichanoch.bsky.social · 8h

It doesn't take Trump to make Biden's handling of Israel's genocide in Gaza look bad.

It looked super bad in real time to anyone who was paying attention.

Enabling a genocide is one of those things that inherently look bad, because they are, in fact, very bad.

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 10h

Lmao

I'm grabbing stuff from the garden, and he snatched a tomato off the table. Probably thought it was an apple.

Took a bite, hates it.

Now he keeps looking at me like this is my fault. 😂😂

Nobody told you to take the tomato, Kenya!

A large brown and black dog looking at me with annoyance as he lays on the ground next to a tomato

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 14h

All of this to say, please let the paperwork and infrastructure nerds do their thing right now, and please understand that overhauling a system doesn't happen in a week

If we're gonna do it, let's do it right, please.

We need more than punching nazis to get out of this

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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 10h

oh no

Stereogum @stereogum.bsky.social · 10h

The Smashing Pumpkins’ “goth” Erewhon smoothie costs $19.79

www.stereogum.com/2325803/the-...

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