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Brad Narraway @bnarraway.bsky.social · 15h

Also channeling this energy, too!

Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 16h

Ok everyone, I’m assigning you your resistance homework for the week.

Everyone ready?

Do something silly that makes you smile. I just waved at a dog that had its head out the car window because it made me happy. Don’t let the assholes take your joy.

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Brad Narraway @bnarraway.bsky.social · 15h

Just gonna channel this energy for a little while!

rob @ok-but-still.bsky.social · 20h

i predict a series of wonderful events will close out 2025

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Brad Narraway @bnarraway.bsky.social · 15h

Alas, his most recent guitar video (today!) was too earnest to comfortably host a riff, although I agree with you in the abstract 🤔

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Brad Narraway @bnarraway.bsky.social · 16h

Toronto has an “Avenue Road” and while the pronunciation isn’t unusual in any way, you can identify that someone is from out of town because they get as righteously angry as you honestly should for a roadway being named “Street Street”.

ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 17h

"Houston Street"

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 19h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Brad Narraway @bnarraway.bsky.social · 17h

Wanted to shout out Molly because, throughout the dark history in this series of episodes, she also manages to make me laugh a handful of times per episode.

“I looked through their phone records - I didn’t expect to find anything, and I didn’t, I was just being nosey.”

Jewan MacGregor @butisitart.bsky.social · 18h

@socialistdogmom.bsky.social’s Weird Little Guys podcast is my favorite thing to listen to that isn’t Prince.

Anathema Device (Brisbane) @iamanathemadevice.bsky.social · 18h

@socialistdogmom.bsky.social's series on The Death of A Demagogue (no, not that one, though you'd be forgiven for thinking it) is absolutely one of the very best in Weird Little Guys. It's ep 3.5 which is the real gut punch though

Ep 1 podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/w...

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Brad Narraway @bnarraway.bsky.social · 1d

Jamie I am lodging a complaint, that took me between 3 and 5 seconds, how dare you abuse my time like this (good luck! 🫶)

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Brad Narraway @bnarraway.bsky.social · 3d

Again and again! It’s my favourite thing about his game. “Ah, stopped for no gain, too ba - no, wait, he ended with seven on the play. Okay!”

Brad Narraway @bnarraway.bsky.social · 4d

Deep in the heart of the beast (Toronto), taking part in radical action (attending a deeply corporatized overnight art festival)

Shout out to my Dr for writing “PRN” on a near-unending supply of Klonopin. I am nearly immune to my agoraphobia (provided I … gently abuse the phrase “use as needed”)

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 4d

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 4d

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed

student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism

teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

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Brad Narraway @bnarraway.bsky.social · 10d

He is my precious running boy and I will commit crimes to keep him safe

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 11d

Disabled people are particularly vulnerable to abuse under fascism.

ICE has been neglecting the medical needs of detainees.

One disabled immigrant, Rodney Taylor, needs our help.

He's a double amputee who's been in the country since he was two years old. He's being held in solitary:

Help Rodney Taylor, a Disabled Double Amputee Being Held by ICE

Rodney has been in the country more than 40 years. He's in solitary confinement in Georgia, being denied disability accommodations and having his medical needs ignored. He must be released.

www.disabledginger.com

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 14d

If you’re feeling down today, just remember there’s always hope somewhere.

There’s always a better day coming.

You are loved, you are valued and you are not alone.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 17d

Past 2 weeks:
—4500+ filmworkers launch boycott of genocide-complicit institutions
—International soccer boycott campaign begins
—One of largest caucuses in Congress endorse Block the Bombs
—UK, Portugal, Australia, Canada, France recognize Palestine
—500+ Jewish healthworkers demand end to genocide

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Brad Narraway @bnarraway.bsky.social · 17d

Through the combined miracle of masking and mRNA vaccines, I have actually not had COVID, personally! I have been fortunate but also I think it’s been critical that I, you know, made any effort whatsoever.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18d

Sen. Roger Marshall on what he wants to ask RFK Jr: "How do we build up our own immunity, so when we do get viruses like covid - and we've probably each had had covid 5 or 10 times, we're developing natural immunity - but what can we do to address the chronic disease epidemic?"

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 18d

Ben Franklin:

Mark Alan Mattes / Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social · 18d

I fucking love printing. That is all.

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Brad Narraway @bnarraway.bsky.social · 18d

As a resident-citizen of Canada, I don’t know if the recognition of Palestine will materially change anything in terms of our policies or our efforts. But it does feel like it at least can’t make things worse, so for now I’m cautiously optimistic about the decision. #FreePalestine

Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 18d

I'd ask why it took tens of thousands of dead children for the UK, Australia, and Canada to recognize Palestine, or lament that it doesn't mean much when Israel is about to annex the West Bank and is genociding Gaza, but then my government can't even be bothered to stop sending Netanyahu weapons.

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Kenny Goblins @kennylogins.bsky.social · 27d

Zack Budryk
@BudrykZack
The single most important thing a man can do to be an ally is give his woman friends permission to give dudes at the bar his number so when they call he can angrily say that's not funny because she died 15 years ago that very night
3:28 PM • 2020-11-18

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Brad Narraway @bnarraway.bsky.social · 18d

A poignant, timely, and critical read no matter who you are, but particularly if you are part of the trans community.

It is a tragic reality that much of the power of the state has been levied against you in these dark times. But the state, like everything else, is temporary. You will outlast it. 🫶

Trans News Network @transnews.network · 18d

In the face of mounting threats of genocide against the trans community, how can trans people still find hope?

In our latest, Mady Castigan (@madycast.com) reminds us that despite the doom and fear spreading across social media, we will survive this genocide as we have survived them before.

On Surviving Trans Genocide

As fascists openly call for trans people to be institutionalized, forcibly detransitioned, and labeled as terrorists, we must remember how trans existence is undefeatable, and how trans people will fi...

transnews.network

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 18d

ER wait times are out of control, and patients avoid going as a result.

I wish we could make it a more comfortable setting

If you’re dealing with complex chronic illness, you can’t sit in a waiting room for 12+ hours without having your baseline shattered.

People will die at home without care

Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 19d

Anecdotally what I'm seeing a lot is patients either avoiding the emerg completely or leaving after several hrs of waiting.

Then they wait days or weeks to see me in the office, which is often not appropriate or safe.

Sometimes, I have to send them straight back to the emerg. This is really bad.

Ontario ERs saw almost 300,000 walkouts in 2024, study shows

A new survey shows Ontario emergency room wait times were so bad that almost 300,000 patients gave up and left untreated in the last year.

toronto.citynews.ca

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Brad Narraway @bnarraway.bsky.social · 18d

I was speaking to a group recently, all of whom have mental health challenges.

I was sharing that I’ve been disabled for some time now, and that one of the most difficult parts was rediscovering my self-worth beyond being an economic unit.

But I am more than numbers in someone else’s bank account.

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 19d

It’s not lazy to rest.

It’s not wrong to prioritize your health and well being.

Capitalism and ableism have trained us to view slowing down as a failure.

We treat disabled people, children and the elderly as expendable.

We assign worth based on productivity.

It’s wrong. We all have value.

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Brad Narraway @bnarraway.bsky.social · 18d

You two are adorable! I hope you’re having a great Saturday together 🫶

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 19d

this exists it is called thinking

Matthew McConaughey says he wants a private LLM, fed only with his books, notes, journals, and aspirations, so he can ask it questions and get answers based solely on that information, without any outside influence.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 19d

and it's funny seeing so many all-white panels discussing this jimmy Kimmel/free speech thing!!! like people have not learned

Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 19d

I think the problem with rallying around the most privileged when they've been targeted is that it never trickles down.

they're touted as examples for "all of us" but it's not actually true.

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Brad Narraway @bnarraway.bsky.social · 19d

Please give, share, and help if you can, friends. Thank you 🫶

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