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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 6h

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Baby Hassan🕊️ @ranaa32.bsky.social · 10h

Please dont stop supporting me The war is over,but my pain isnt Im still trying to revive mychild body again.Iwant him tobe treated abroad.Iwant him to grow.Iwant to see him walk.Iwant his weak body to grow and play like anychild Please dont forget me.Donate generously and share🥺🙏
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Derek May @derekmay.bsky.social · 8h

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 6h

After the Lebanon-Israel ceasefire agreement was signed, Israel launched an intense bombing campaign on southern Lebanese towns such as Aitaroun and Bint Jbeil. Israel has since violated the ceasefire more than 4,500 times. Journalist Jeremy Loffredo (@loffredojeremy on X) was on...

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Haneen🍉 @habjjfjiu588.bsky.social · 6h

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Haneen🍉 @habjjfjiu588.bsky.social · 14h

My friends, why did you stop supporting me? My life is very difficult in the tents. After losing everything, I became unable to do anything. I lost my passion for life. I need your support to survive, me and my children. You are my source of income. Anything that saves us
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🪓💀 Dr. Alexei Q Tschuner 💀🪓 @surliertexan.bsky.social · 1d

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that this is a particularly gross manifestation of the noble savage imaginary that fantasizes historical people as upright, talking animals when in reality they tended to take pretty damn good care of things, hygienically and otherwise.

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

I'm going to start calling essays like this "odes to whiteness" because the underlying premise is that they are like this because they don't anticipate any social cost to smelling bad.

This one is v. frustrating because it tries to lump in perfumes with the broader (problematic) beauty industry

I’m turning 50 next year. I rarely wear deodorant anymore. Many women I know have stopped, too. We don’t talk about it, but I catch it in the air — a faint musk of onion, goat, curry, mustard, salt, sage, fennel, ozone, and the muddy wet marrow of the earth itself. I’m kind of obsessed with this collective stink: the animal symphony of skin, of women being women, punk and unfiltered, taking up space with their scent. Raw, unapologetic BO. The more I live among it, the more I see it not as a hygiene failure but as a radical act of self-acceptance. It’s not polite, but it’s honest — and that feels hot. Hotter, even, than anything a Guess ad ever promised.

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alyson “october” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 13h

one look in the replies of any trans woman who still posts on twitter is reason enough for me to never want to go back

and then there are all the other reasons

Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 15h

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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Clem.PM @clempm.bsky.social · 7h

Western elites have been benefiting form a series of systemic international wealth transfer operations since the Atlantic Slave Trade onwards

💢Marx was right.🕊 @paulwalker44.bsky.social · 8h

There’s this #myth that #capitalists do where they pretend that they “work for” and “earn their money” with the “sweat of their brow” because of “education”, “merit” and “hard work”, and that couldn’t be more incorrect.

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On a #SocialistSunday. #ClassWar.

WE HAD THE LARGEST WEALTH TRANSFER IN HUMAN HISTORY WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING
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Wes @wesmank.bsky.social · 6h

It doesn't take much for the racism to come out of Democrats and they still expect the victims of their racism to vote for them. The problem isn't just Trump.ans the Republicans, the Democrats are just as much part of.the problem.

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Bluesky mods aid genocide by banning Palestinians @pastures.myatproto.social · 6h

At this point I hope every single state in the United States has several airbases full of Gulf Arab militaries, and I hope they have the exact same effect on this country that they've had on West Asia. Enjoy the imperial boomerang! Literally no one on earth deserves it more

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Bluesky mods aid genocide by banning Palestinians @pastures.myatproto.social · 6h

Thirdly, the largest American airbase in West Asia is located in their country. They've been attacked twice in the past year, once because of that airbase, and another time because America's pet genocidal colony wanted to assassinate people in the middle of their capital's downtown. US owes them.

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Bluesky mods aid genocide by banning Palestinians @pastures.myatproto.social · 6h

First off, not a single one of the hijackers was from Qatar, so this makes you sound like one of those MAGA racists who thinks all Arabs are the exact same and are terrorists.

Secondly, they would have a lot of catching up to do to come close to what the American military has accomplished.

$6 Unworthy victims: Western wars have killed four million Muslims since 1990 Nafeez Ahmed Published date: 18 April 2016 08:50 BST Last update: 9 years 5 months ago Landmark research proves that the US-led 'war on terror' has killed as many as 2 million people, but this is a fraction of Western responsibility for deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan over the last two decades$

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D.Moore @d-moore.bsky.social · 6h

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D.Moore @d-moore.bsky.social · 7h

Farage is a tar-stained cloud that's been hanging over the UK since 2012. Everything has gotten worse since he & his billionaire funded disaster capitalists got their way.
We're better than this.
Nigel, just do what you said you would.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 6h

They can't debate with Zack Polanski because all they have are lies.

And when lies are confronted with the truth, it is obvious to everyone that they are full of shit.

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 6h

All Freedom Flotilla Coalition and Thousand Madleens volunteers freed after Israeli abduction

Dozens of testimonies from participants of the Freedom Flotilla and Madleens missions described degrading and often violent abuse by Israel
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All Freedom Flotilla Coalition and Thousand Madleens volunteers freed after Israeli abduction

Dozens of testimonies from participants of the Freedom Flotilla and Madleens missions described degrading and often violent abuse by Israel

www.thecanary.co

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h

‼️ CHATTANOOGA - Public school kids outperform voucher kids AGAIN

As @GovBillLee steers more and more taxpayer funds away from public schools to private (mostly Christian) schools for wealthy families who are already there.

More: www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/oc...

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Mattie Gregory Lewis @devilsdoorbell.bsky.social · 1d

It’s actually not cool or punk to subject other people to your musty armpits and swamp ass.

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Mattie Gregory Lewis @devilsdoorbell.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t expect human beings to smell like a rose garden every waking moment but like… if you fully reek like BO, you either have terrible hygiene or a condition.

Unscented soaps, deodorants, and detergents exist if you don’t want to deal with fragrances, but for the love of god clean yourself

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

I'm going to start calling essays like this "odes to whiteness" because the underlying premise is that they are like this because they don't anticipate any social cost to smelling bad.

This one is v. frustrating because it tries to lump in perfumes with the broader (problematic) beauty industry

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Secular Talk @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social · 6h

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therealoutpost.bsky.social @therealoutpost.bsky.social · 6h

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 11h

The right-wing consolidation of corporate media continues.

Who Is Bari Weiss? Pro-Israel Pundit to Head CBS News as Billionaire Ellisons Expand Media Empire

We speak to journalist David Klion about the Trump-affiliated right wing’s increasing grip on mainstream news media, as “anti-woke” pundit Bari Weiss takes the helm as the new editor-in-chief of CBS N...

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Anas Abdulhak - أنس عبدالحق @anasabdulhak.bsky.social · 6h

Etheres: Deluxe Edition is so close to 100 backers and almost 60% funded! 💜 We're making really good progress and would love your help to make this book a reality

www.kickstarter.com/projects/den...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 11h

Despite my own personal lack of faith, I am not sympathetic to people harassing other folks for believing in the supernatural/godly. I’m especially not sympathetic to ignorant atheists who are so Christiancentric that they assume all religions work the way evangelical Christianity does.

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Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 6h

The Palestinian journalist Saleh Al-Jaafarawi was killed by outlawed gangs in Gaza City.

A young man stands amid the rubble of destroyed buildings, giving a peace sign with his right hand. He wears a black T-shirt, grey trousers, and a crossbody bag. His expression is calm, with faint dust on his clothes. The ruins and twisted concrete behind him reflect the devastation of Gaza City.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 7h

And yes, Harris was absolutely wrong to endorse his course of action - but at the end of the day it was HIS course of action.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 7h

I just don't want that man's reputation laundered, even by effect of benign neglect. He is responsible for *so much* of what is happening in the current situation. It was HIS administration. The buck stopped with him. He made these choices.

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