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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

I'm so proud of everyone from my old neighborhood of Rogers Park in Chicago. I see what you have been and are doing. I am so proud of how organized the community is and how much more so everyone is becoming. It is inspiring. Just one example... And this is something EVERYONE can do. Everyone.

Informational flyer about Rogers Park Whistle Protocols, explaining how to use whistles to alert neighbors of emergencies, with color-coded alerts, steps for use, and encouragement to form a crowd and stay loud for safety.

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 12h

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 3d

In my experience the turning point for a critical mass of liberal activists and apparatchiki was the Sheikh Jarrah protests and the Unity Intifada of 2021. In the eventually made periodizations of this era, I think we will recognize the starting point to have been around then, and not Sept-Oct 2023.

A Hundred George Michaels You Can Teach To Drive @milpool.bsky.social · 3d

This happened to me in 2014. And there’s no bad time to realize it, the important thing is that everyone does

Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 3d

At some point in the last 2.5 years I went to bed thinking of Israel as a flawed but recoverable democracy that could work out its issues eventually post-Netanyahu and woke up holding it in the same disdain as Milošević’s Yugoslavia and the Confederate States

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 3d

from: blogs.timesofisrael.com/we-can-begin...

The Blogs: We can begin to breathe again: Initial thoughts on this morning’s developments

A quick take on the end of the war from my backchannel perspective: It could have been done long ago; Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize

blogs.timesofisrael.com

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 3d

what do you even say. what do you even say.

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Witnit @witnit.bsky.social · 3d

Begrepen. Ik zal dan zeker minstens de vragen bekijken. Bedankt voor je antwoord. :)

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Witnit @witnit.bsky.social · 4d

Denk je dat het de moeite waard is om het openingscollege te bekijken voor inzicht in De Wevers politiek?

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 4d

let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God

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Witnit @witnit.bsky.social · 5d

Hopefully, you are right! Cheers to that!

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 6d

sharks also are the invariable outriders of all slave ships crossing the Atlantic, systematically trotting alongside, to be handy in case a parcel is to be carried anywhere, or a dead slave to be decently buried

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Witnit @witnit.bsky.social · 6d

De massale steun in vele Europese landen voor de Palestijnse zaak is hoopgevend. Er komt steeds meer druk op hun regeringen om harder op te treden voor het welzijn van de Palestijnen in plaats van louter toe te kijken in medeplichtigheid aan kolonialisme.

www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/ki...

250.000 Nederlanders trekken Rode Lijn tegen Gaza-oorlog | VRT NWS: nieuws

Altijd op de hoogte van het laatste nieuws uit binnen- en buitenland dankzij de betrouwbare en diepgaande berichtgeving van VRT NWS.

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William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 7d

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 8d

That she's cool as fuck?

Leviathan @l3vlat4an
X.com
Greta Thunberg donned a keffiyeh with an
"AUTISM" T-shirt that included an image of a skeleton dual wielding automatic rifles before she left on her flotilla.
What do you think she was trying to convey with this t-shirt?
AUTISM

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 7d

They brought the post back lol. Finish the job. Ban Singal. Rescue your platform.

Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 7d

Bluesky deleted my post complaining about the CEO lol. I did not delete it myself! Full on Lowtaxing from Jay here.

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Herzatz Fish @herzatz.fish · 7d

Seems they "unbanned" it.
Before and after.

response to the missing post, it's hidden.

response to the missing post, it's displayed.

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Witnit @witnit.bsky.social · 8d

What also gets me is this is the exact kind of risky and brave non-violence that gets touted as the only form of resistance that should be employed. But if that happens, then suddenly it is "performative". Okay then, sure.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 8d

In fact I've even seen some ostensibly left liberal people call her, and this, performative. OK, sure. I look forward to all those critical doing something more substantive than this since they clearly care so deeply about Palestine.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 8d

Viva la Palestina

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 8d

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 8d

Deeply fucked how many people seem to think that blaming Diaspora Jews is somehow more radical than accepting the bitter truth that the American Empire and the politicians who maintain it are so fucking evil that they're backing a genocide because it benefits Empire

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 9d

Honestly if you're blaming Diaspora Jews for Israel you're not blaming western politicians. That's the goal, in fact.

And Israel serves *their* interests, particularly those of the American empire, not ours. Believe me.

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 9d

People who criticize LLM companies for not adhering to copyrights are completely correct about the hypocrisy and inconsistent application of the law. But they tend to get the correct resolution backward, imo. The answer is to make information free for everyone, not to make LLMs respect the gates.

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 9d

What makes LLMs work as a business is precisely that all this text is decommodified, free. As they themselves say, they'd have to shut down if they had to pay for their trainging data. Yet all that data is the product of human labor. This cutting edge of capitalism rests on a substrate of communism.

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 9d

In all the endless discussions of LLMs, there’s a point that is, on one level, obvious, but that I feel does not get sufficiently foregrounded: LLMs are transforming material that people have put up on the internet.

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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 8d

wow Italy
www.reuters.com/world/europe...

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History is What's Happening @historyiswhat.bsky.social · 9d

This seems to have been somewhat lost in the news but there is a second flotilla of 11 boats underway to Gaza launched a few days ago. They're around Crete now.

FFC-TMTG & Conscience Tracker - Freedom Flotilla

Freedom Flotilla – Thousand Madleens to Gaza & Conscience Tracker FFC Al-Awda Tracker FFC Ghassan Kanafani Tracker Freedom Flotilla Mission – Conscience Live Stream Freedom Flotilla – Thousand Madleen...

freedomflotilla.org

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שלמה לוי @shelbyarr.bsky.social · 9d

Like, regardless of anything else, Mamdani knows how to target his advocacy. The day after he recognized and posted a message for Yom Kippur, he posted this.

Note that it’s not aiming at Jews, it’s specifically advocating against Israel and its actions, FOR PALESTINIANS.

bsky.app/profile/zohr...

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 9d

This week, the Global Sumud Flotilla tried to deliver life-saving aid to Gaza.

Instead, 461 people—including New Yorkers—have been detained by the Israeli military.

They must be freed at once. And the deliberate starvation of Palestinians must end now.

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