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The future is up for grabs. The world we live in is awful but the one we're building is worth it. Bringing my whole self to the apocalypse. Director of Development @distributeaid.org he/they, often a newcomer views my own trust + supplychains + tech 🚛💻🏴🖤

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borderless @borderless.bsky.social · Dec 14

Fuck it. Trans folks need MATERIAL SUPPORT.

@distributeaid.org is launching an HRT Harm Reduction Toolkit that provides 1 year of medical supplies needed to take injection-based HRT. We were planning to go live in January, but I'm not waiting.

Fund the kits here: distributeaid.org/hrt-harm-red...

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 3h

someone needs to do a thorough writeup of every clear tell of atproto as a blockchain project that pivoted, because their 2025 reflex is to deny it as hard as possible even though they're all coiners and so much of it reeks of blockchain

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borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 3h

I can't believe Aaron wrote a whole blog post admitting this lmao.

borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 3h

Is it context collapse or are you too old and out of touch to keep up with the feral queers who use your website?

Get good.

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borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 3h

I find focusing on the journey helps. You can't control how things end up but you can control how you show up. Showing up makes the difference- do it enough and you just might tip the scales of history juuuust a little bit.

borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 3h

They do this every 6 months or so. It baffles the mind.

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 4h

I am finding two ways of thinking about this in South Africa

1. USAID cuts immediately closed SA trans clinics, and trans ppl, cut off from gender affirming care, have since died by suicide

2. USAID cuts have cut HIV/AIDS medication access, which takes months or years to manifest in deaths

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 6h

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted “no one has died” as a result of U.S. foreign aid cuts. In Myanmar, the grieving father of a 2-year-old boy who died after their food rations were cut calls such claims a lie.

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 10h

U at least get a bonus for that, right? Right?

borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 10h

Oooof 🙃

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 15h

Suspension of accts from Bluesky has called into question the mission and very existence of Blacksky. "If bsky can still suspend you, what's the point?"

For one usually Bluesky doesn't just suspend you. They delete all of your data AND suspend you. Moving to Blacksky prevents that. 4/11

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 15h

Using AJ Link as an example, his current situation is that Bluesky, the Barnes & Nobles of atproto have banned him from their stores and essentially blackballed him from the publishing industry.

Fortunately for AJ Link, we've kept all his manuscripts safe and sound right where he left them. 3/11

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 15h

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

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Marcel Proust of Eating Brains @thotchev.bsky.social · 17h

How could antifa do this

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borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 18h

eternal September 2025 edition 😭

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Francine McKenna @fmckenna.bsky.social · 23h

Yep, that’s what I thought when I saw the news. South Shore Residents Return To Ransacked Apartments After ICE Raid: 'It Looks Like Hell' blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/02/s... I read this and think, “Could building owner have driven this to clear out building?”

South Shore Residents Return To Ransacked Apartments After ICE Raid: 'It Looks Like Hell'

A "now renting" sign outside touts granite countertops. Inside, residents are trying to make sense of the raid that made their already neglected building even worse.

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flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 22h

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19h

Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.

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Climathosphere 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧 @climathosphere.bsky.social · 21h

I find it morally reprehensible that Bluesky banned Link, who was a Bluesky elder that was on this site well before than over 99% of the current userbase, all because Bluesky decided that Zionists and fascists are more important than Black, Transgender, and Palestinian people! #FreeLink

borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 1d

Hear ye hear ye a message of hope and inspiration from our courageous leader in exile, Link. May all his loyal followers take heart!

I appreciate all the people showing love and support to me. I’m so grateful honestly. It means a lot. The ban isn’t that big of a deal for me. I think it was wrong and the explanation was bullshit. But that’s ok and I accept. Social media comes and goes. I’m grateful for all the connections I was able to make and all the people I get to be connected with off Bluesky. More importantly, the world needs more people to give a fuck. More people to give a fuck about Palestinians, more people to give a fuck about disabled folks, more people to give a fuck about our queer and trans siblings, more people to give a fuck about Black liberation. The world, and Bluesky, is full of bootlickers who will do anything to avoid doing anything to upset the status quo. These people are cowards groveling to those in power in hopes of protection. I just hope people continue to show love and care and kindness. Mutual aid is so important. Give when you can, boost when you can. We only survive this together.

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ptklein @ptklein.com · 1d

Some context on what this might mean: last weekend Zach Bryan played the largest ticketed concert in US history, selling 112,408 seats at Michigan Stadium.

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 1d

Country singer Zach Bryan condemns ICE raids in new song teaser, “Bad News”:

“ICE is gonna come bust down your door / Try to build a house, no bills no more, well I got a telephone / Kids are all scared and all alone […] The fading of the red, white and blue.”

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borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 22h

Buckle up for the big one, boys.

Joe, but like... spooky @makeitunclear.bsky.social · 22h

tropical storm jerry just formed in the atlantic. that means the next named storm will be karen. fuck. shit.

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Tomi Oladipo @tomioladipo.bsky.social · 1d

“If these narratives were spreading organically through politicians and citizens who genuinely share their beliefs, that would be about democratic debate. Instead, what we’re witnessing is the hijacking of Moldova’s information ecosystem through artificial armies…”

Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 1d

💥🔎🇷🇺 Our analysis reveals the scale of Russia’s massive propaganda offensive in Moldova: in 3 weeks, 9,900 TikTok videos were published and generated over 93 million views, created with artificial intelligence. Yet despite Moscow’s efforts, the pro-European PAS secured 50.2% in the Sept 28 election.

24/7 Russian Propaganda Blitz Hit Moldova Before the Elections - VSquare.org

Moldovans had faced months, if not years, of an information onslaught at levels beyond what just about any society has faced. In the end, the pro-European ruling Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) w...

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 1d

As Jews we beg you: do not let the Manchester attack be weaponised

I was humbled to be invited to sign this letter as a strong ally of the Scottish Universities Jewish Staff Network and thank all colleagues here for their tireless commitment to peace
www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2552...

Prominent Scottish Jews issue plea over reaction to Manchester attack

As Jews we absolutely reject the weaponisation of the Manchester attack to suppress protests against the genocide in Gaza

www.heraldscotland.com

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

I’m. So. Tired.

I don’t just want you to pay attention to Chicago because I want you to understand our plight. I want you to see how hard people are fighting and know wtf you’re made of. We’re not just fighting for this place. This is for all of us.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 1d

It’s actually good and right to find joy even as things fall apart. Now more than ever it is good to find joy and happiness where you can. It’s ok and good not to consume the horrors all of the time.

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borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 1d

Link out here ratio-ing Jay from beyond the grave 😭

borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 1d

Hear ye hear ye a message of hope and inspiration from our courageous leader in exile, Link. May all his loyal followers take heart!

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borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 1d

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