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Astra 🐲
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uchi frog villager | they/any/siad/iad💛🤍💜🖤 | yt but trying to work on it ✊🏿
Abolish Frontex | FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA! 🇵🇸🇱🇧🇾🇪
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it's me, unnamed critter from bosch's triptych of the temptation of anthony!
November 1, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Fish and chips is an extremely funny example given it was brought to Britain by Iberian Jews
British racists are mere weeks away from a scurvy outbreak because citrus fruits are "fancy foreign muck"
October 18, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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The bill we have co-created does not decriminalise violence against sex workers, including rape, exploitation, or trafficking. The current client criminalisation and brothel-keeping laws have failed and have actively made the lives of current sex workers worse.

universitytimes.ie/2025/10/sex-...
Sex Work Decriminalisation Bill Launched by TD Ruth Coppinger
On Monday, October 20th, TD Ruth Coppinger launched a decriminalisation of sex work bill. The bill removes criminal sanctions for sex workers working together or hiring people to assist their work…
universitytimes.ie
October 24, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Love this country sometimes, honestly!

I'll be writing to the Electoral Commission suggesting that every polling station has tea and cakes in future
The home of the O'Donovan family is being used as a polling station in Coolmoyne, Co Tipperary. Around 250 people are eligible to vote at the house and after they cast their ballot, they will be treated to a cup of tea, a slice of apple or rhubarb tart, or a scone | More: rte.ie/b/1540324
October 24, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Brianna didn't die because of her self-harm or social media use. She was murdered in a transphobic hate crime.

Here is the interview I gave to Owen Jones at the time, as the only trans journalist reporting on the trial of her murderers.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xke1...
October 24, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Okay but we have to consider the outliers~!
January 23, 2025 at 2:37 PM
it's so funny when people do the fantasy thing of gratuitous and meaningless diacritics to seem cultured and historied... but IRL (häagen-dazs, røde)
October 19, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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See this?

This story is the sound of a bullet you didn’t even know was coming at you whistling past your right ear.
Germany will not support Chat Control - a law which proposes to scan all messages people send even on end-to-end encrypted platforms - Justice Minister said today. German stance likely dooms the measure. Signal had threatened to leave the EU if Chat Control became law
therecord.media/chat-control...
Germany will not support 'Chat Control' message scanning in the EU
“Random chat monitoring must be taboo in a constitutional state,” Federal Justice Minister Stefanie Hubig said as German officials signaled they will not vote for a controversial EU proposal known as ...
therecord.media
October 8, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Hundreds fill the road outside the Dáil for the #GlobalSumudFlotilla protest. #FreePalestine
October 2, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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When you baselessly call LGBTQ people terrorists who murdered Charlie kirk, this is the result.

people.com/charlie-kirk...
Man Claiming to Be Charlie Kirk's 'Martyr' Allegedly Threatened to Shoot Up Gay Bar in Slain Activist's Name
Treven Michael Gokey was arrested in Arizona on a terroristic threat charge
people.com
September 20, 2025 at 1:59 PM
i'm never going to get over the fact green goblin is standard-legal in mtg
September 20, 2025 at 2:36 PM
mainstream media: please stop making the far right feel powerful
September 13, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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When 100 thousand trans people rallied in London it was only worthy for the "local news" section.
Don’t recall BBC News leading with any of the myriad marches for Palestine, #PeoplesVote or #Rejoin. How very odd. How very strange. How very expected.
September 13, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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$214 / 300

It's officially the weekend, but there's been no movement on this since Tuesday 😿Let's go all the way! We can do it! Love y'all! ❤️❤️❤️ #MutualAid #TransMutualAid #BIPOCMutualAid 🏳️‍⚧️💸 🖤🧡
A mutual aid org made me this flyer! ❤️😭❤️ Please share wherever you can! Love you all! | gofund.me/4b0c69a9 | #MutualAid #TransMutualAid #BIPOCMutualAid
September 12, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Fascist commentators and neo-nazis picked up on the posts and began to spread them on X.

What happened next is very funny:

Bluesky immediately caved to the fascist pushback and used the article from the Federalist as a list to decide who to ban.

Me, bree, Gretchen Felker-Martin and others.
September 11, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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The #GlobalSumudFlotilla boat carrying Tadhg Hickey and his shipmates was struck last night by another incendiary device.
September 10, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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Obviously it was intemperate comments from bluesky users that made them react like this
September 11, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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We literally have no idea why Kirk was shot and we won't until the person who shot him gets caught but he's immediately assumed to be a victim of political violence because his life is worth more to the ruling class

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
September 11, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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I keep thinking about how a couple of years ago someone walked into an apartment maybe 20 minutes away from mine and murdered a trans woman named Unique Banks and shot her mom, her boyfriend, and two other trans fems and it barely got a news story and meanwhile

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
September 11, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Have you seen the new Red Umbrella Éireann website? Here you can find out info about the Red Umbrella Film Festival (October 16th - 19th) and the campaign for decriminalisation of sex work in Ireland and beyond.

www.redumbrellaeireann.com
RED UMBRELLA ÉIREANN
Red Umbrella Éireann is a collective of current and former sex workers campaigning for decriminalisation.
www.redumbrellaeireann.com
September 11, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Basketball Ireland due to play Israel soon, I hope they find similar backbone
RTÉ's has just come out and said that Ireland will not take part in the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest, if the participation of Israel goes ahead. I’m so proud to be Irish 🇮🇪 🇵🇸
Ireland may not contest Eurovision if Israel takes part
RTÉ has announced this lunchtime that it will not take part in the 2026 Eurovision Song contest "if the participation of Israel goes ahead."
www.rte.ie
September 11, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Huge! Well done to all who have campaigned for RTÉ not to take part in Eurovision since it was held in apartheid Israel in 2019, and subsequently due to its genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. It is shameful it has taken this long, but very welcome! #BDS
www.rte.ie/entertainmen...
Ireland may not contest Eurovision if Israel takes part
RTÉ has announced this lunchtime that it will not take part in the 2026 Eurovision Song contest "if the participation of Israel goes ahead."
www.rte.ie
September 11, 2025 at 11:55 AM
slowly, it's filtering through. NewPipe can't play age restricted videos from YouTube anymore (pretty sure it could before), and Magic the Gathering Arena wants me to sneakily do some birthdate-inputting to something called k-ID...
September 7, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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ban airbnb everywhere
May 25, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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þey/þem
December 11, 2024 at 8:31 PM