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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 3h

Library cards are cheaper than an Amazon unlimited subscription

And they have better ebooks available anyways

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The Antifa Lorax @anarchymarshmallow.bsky.social · 3h

This is the best advice I can give anyone rn. Find something you can do where you are now, something you care about. You don't need to save the world or fight every battle, just find what you can do sustainably and do it. It helps with the dread and terror, and it helps someone else.

The Cola Corporation @cola.baby · 5h

I started volunteering at (and sharing profit with) a resource facility that serves the local LGBTQ+ community. Trying to focus on helping those who are being hurt by the people I hate, rather than simply hating those people, which I have found only consumes and debilitates me.

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 4h

important update: Adidas’ new Pet Collection

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 5h

"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage."

I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.

White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion

Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.

rewirenewsgroup.com

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 22h

reply with cat pics if you stand in solidarity with @kickstarterunited.org

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 1d

Bluesky keeps deleting Abo Jameel's fundraiser so you should definitely donate or share today

Abo jameel @sadmohammed12.bsky.social · 1d

Only $300 between hunger, shelter, and my kids lives. Don't let us collapse while we call on you. Don't let our voices die. We are now in your hearts. Don't let us down and leave us lost between hunger and oppression. You are love for us.
Im vetted by
@mommunism.bsky.social
shorturl.at/hcCSb

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BrittFromSpace🌈.abolishICE @aliumbritt.bsky.social · 2h

yes, can we please not give more money to this asshole billionaire? there are actually a lot of stores that exist that aren't amazon, it's pretty easy to find them

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 6h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

BrittFromSpace🌈.abolishICE @aliumbritt.bsky.social · 2h

wait, today is lesbian day? do I need be really extra gay or something, shout my lesvibes to the world?

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Vex Corvine @vexcorvine.itch.io · 3h

And if you want to show a dyke some love and help hir eat, buying my writing or donating to my top surgery would be grand ways to do so! 🧡💛🤍🩷💖

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 2h

www.mprnews.org/story/2024/0...

Don't have to wait very long, the US has *never* stopped relying on slave labor in agriculture

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 9h

"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.

The Emergency Is the Atmosphere

“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."

organizingmythoughts.org

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 2h

Heya PC gamers:

Just a reminder that if you're updating MSI Afterburner today you should ONLY download it from MSI's official website.

That's MSI dot com. Be 100% certain of the address, because there have been fakes released with malware and ransomware.

www.msi.com

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 3h

If you are willing to throw away entire groups of people to protect your insular strategy that will only protect you instead of protecting everyone then I don’t want your leaders and I sure as hell don’t want to be associated with you.

the tallest stone @talleststone.bsky.social · 5h

I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.

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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 23h

In honor of Edgar Allan Poe's 176th deathday, here are a few of my recent pieces inspired by Poe's works 🫀

Illustration by Abigail Larson depicting a scene from Edgar Allan Poe's poem "Annabel Lee". Two lovers embrace at the edge of the sea, water splashes around them and the surrounding rocks. A full moon shines over them, and storm clouds loom.
Published in "Sticker Jigsaw: The Edgar Allan Poe Collection" 2024 Macmillan

illustration by Abigail Larson of a raven perched on a skull with a teal curtain backdrop

illustration by Abigail Larson depicting a scene from Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" showing a man restrained as a pendulum blade swings close to him. Rats have swarmed around him, chewing the ropes that hold him down. This illustration is featured in "Sticker Jigsaw: The Edgar Allan Poe Collection" for Macmillan Books.

Illustration by Abigail Larson for Macmillan's "Edgar Allan Poe Sticker Jigsaw" book. The illustration is a scene from Edgar Allan Poe's poem, "The Raven". The narrator is at the center of the image looking up at at raven perched above an open doorway. Behind the narrator is a tall window with red curtains, and the ghost of Lenore lurks nearby. A black cat is watching the scene from the lower right corner.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 1d

A someone who has written extensively about the eugenic roots that permeates those who claim to be building so-called artificial general intelligence, I'm here to tell you to please NOT compare criticism against corporations claiming to build a machine god, with eugenics. The audacity.

if you're writing a sentence that sounds like eugenics but you go "oh that's fine to say because it's not a real person" (whatever that means) you may want to consider what made you okay with saying that.

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BrittFromSpace🌈.abolishICE @aliumbritt.bsky.social · 1d

wait, isn't getting stoned first just normal coding?? or have I been doing it wrong??

/s, just in case it wasn't obvious already

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BrittFromSpace🌈.abolishICE @aliumbritt.bsky.social · 1d

sometimes you find your calling by seeing a need and filling it, kudos to everyone involved with this blog

Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 1d

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 2d

Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 2d

Greta Thunberg, deported to Greece, says the targeting of the Sumud Flotilla is "not the story" @teenvogue.com — instead, she says:

"Israel once again violated international humanitarian law by preventing aid from getting into Gaza while people are being starved.”

Greta Thunberg On Her Detention: I'm "Not The Story" — It's Israel Violating International Humanitarian Law

“I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story.”

www.teenvogue.com

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 1d

And I just… we could do this. We could afford to do this, as a country. There is no good fucking reason why we cannot do this. We simply choose not to because we believe that Jesus loves billionaires more than loser slothful creative people

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 1d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

A wombat sitting in a booth with a pyramid of large dice next to it. Sign reads “all sales final no refunds”

Caption reads “never buy dice from a wombat”

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated.

or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

“People over Papers, a crowdsourcing project that maps sightings of US immigration agents, was taken offline yesterday by Padlet, the collaborative bulletin board platform on which it was built. It’s just the latest ICE-tracking initiative to be pulled by tech platforms in the past few days.”

Another effort to track ICE raids was just taken offline

People over Papers was removed by Padlet, the platform it was built on, yesterday.

www.technologyreview.com

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BrittFromSpace🌈.abolishICE @aliumbritt.bsky.social · 1d

my favorite part about this screenshot is the 1 like

I can't stop wondering ... was it the commenter themselves?? did they like their own skeet?

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder if any journalists have bothered talking to landlords of people who've been abducted by ICE.

Like there are reddit posts of landlords openly planning on using ICE to evict their tenants for them, etc.

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