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collectivided @collectivided.bsky.social · 28d

It's spooky season. All year, actually! But officially, now. Almost.

So listen to my Halloween LP from last year, if you haven't (and you haven't). I promise you've never heard anything quite like it :).

Lyrics are all in there. Vocals lessons were learned.

Feedback/criticism welcome, btw. Hit me

Spooker of the House, by 'ster

13 track album

ster-web.bandcamp.com

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collectivided @collectivided.bsky.social · 10h

i bristle at the notion but acknowledge that at least subconsciously I am always calculating the scale and magnitude of cataclysm required to actually fracture the rightwing media machine, the fanaticism of which grows by the day, with their increasing and ongoing radicalization.

⚠️ calamity ahead ⚠️

collectivided @collectivided.bsky.social · 13h

omg polyticksssss all the adults are doing nothing but "many leeches" 🥱skibeedidooo shaggyzzz😘

📢🎯✨ pokemon card face reveal REVEAL @ 8 subcount ⚡️🇺🇸

collectivided @collectivided.bsky.social · 17h

this NEW way for abbott to kiss dirt on his knees in front of trump will finally translate to people loving greg like he deserves *dreamy sighhhhhhh*

collectivided @collectivided.bsky.social · 21h

it's a nonstick cooking spray you only apply once, and The PFAS Leeching Into Your Brain Is For Life(TM)!!

collectivided @collectivided.bsky.social · 22h

mmm, every time that I make this comment or something akin I am reminded that I always wish to have said that I'm still a huge advocate of full electoral participation. That helps make any power seizures based on lies easier to defeat. Plus it's prolly last call for votin', boys! do it, do eeetttttt

collectivided @collectivided.bsky.social · 1d

sir i won't front; that moon doodoo is of extreme scientific interest

collectivided @collectivided.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: I'm going to be DIGGING IN and getting a heaping spoonful of ANSWERS, soon, gang!

collectivided @collectivided.bsky.social · 1d

Scientific inquiry cannot flourish under the policing of free thought, especially by openly anti-science fools

AAUP @aaup.org · 1d

NO LOYALTY OATHS IN HIGHER ED!

Trump's attacks on our universities are an attempt to consolidate power. This loyalty oath directly undermines our right to academic freedom & goes against every democratic principle our country should uphold.

Please click below, sign, & share.

#DefendHigherEd

University Administrations: Reject Trump's "Loyalty Oath" Compacts

The Trump administration is trying to blackmail schools to let him and his unqualified bureaucrats run our schools. They want to dictate what schools teach, who they admit and hire, what researchers s...

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collectivided @collectivided.bsky.social · 1d

am I supposed to believe that Mike Johnson et al will swear in a majority dem House in Jan 2027? They won't even swear in a dem right now, because it would trigger the release of the epstein files. I mean c'mon there is no trust, here, obviously. How can there be an expectation of democracy?

G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 2d

at this point you have to acknowledge that there is no way that these guys don't try to mess with the 2026 midterms. there is absolutely no respect for the legitimacy of the opposition

Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 2d

Stephen Miller: "Eventually elections don’t carry the day because violence beats votes… When we see a muscular response from the federal government, it’s because we’re not going to let violence beat votes."

Is he implying federal intervention determines political legitimacy, not ballots or courts?

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collectivided @collectivided.bsky.social · 1d

we have been in a constitutional crisis for a while. These actions by DHS and the trump regime are not just unconstitutional, they are ANTI-constitutional. It's not an accident that official federal procedure is now designed to circumvent our due process rights.

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 2d

ICE abducts people and then immediately moves them around to prevent access to lawyers and habeas corpus petitions. @emmarjanssen.bsky.social has the story on this consistent game being played to frustrate due process.
prospect.org/justice/2025...

How ICE Hides Detainees From Their Lawyers

‘It seems like cruelty is the point,’ one attorney said.

prospect.org

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collectivided @collectivided.bsky.social · 2d

I'm happy that I see very little talk of electoral strategy on here these days. Earlier this year I wanted to grab everyone by the shoulders and shake them while yelling "you are wasting your time"

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 2d

"Surely the President that refused to give up power in 2020, turbocharged ICE with sacks of cash, and recently conducted an Air Assault operation on a Chicago apartment complex will allow Dems to take control of Congress come January"

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 5d

The American cities Trump has vowed to invade one by one produce 90% of this country's GDP. We must withhold these funds, and our infrastructure, from the United States Government, until these invasions stop

If you only read one thing I've ever written, please make it this

The Point Of No Return

We Are At War, Whether We Want To Be Or Not

www.bannedinyourstate.com

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collectivided @collectivided.bsky.social · 5d

actually I think the first one I remember was in Colorado Springs. Feds raided an.. underground dance party... *re-re-checks notes, nodding, shrugging* and got around 100 "illegal" immigrants to kidnap, "Venezuelans", specifically, b/c on the DL we wanna warfight Venezuela soon. Well, soon is now 😧

collectivided @collectivided.bsky.social · 5d

checked in on kyle kulinski with audio through my headphones the other day and caught my wife looking at the screen so I go "yeah, Eminem... crazy what happened" and for one beautiful split second, lmao

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collectivided @collectivided.bsky.social · 5d

we're going to need you to start verifying from now on with your personal device that it is indeed you trying to logoff. we need a third authentication factor

collectivided @collectivided.bsky.social · 5d

..hey pedro,
if you like and subscribe to my channel you can have *two* meth hits this week
best,
- Gpt copypasta

collectivided @collectivided.bsky.social · 5d

"Truthing Through the General Strike"

ok bsky you go

collectivided @collectivided.bsky.social · 5d

sorry sometimes i'll workshop a possibly-upcoming era's executive orders

collectivided @collectivided.bsky.social · 5d

🎶Ask you doctor about whether or not
…they can write you a script for 1 of the 25 standard billionaire pill-cocktail combo kits issued for good strikers!
Because, look; Excuse me; But you people, the country, it's; work. You GOTTA get back to work!! We'll keep doing the planes and fires folks ✋🤚👐

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collectivided @collectivided.bsky.social · 5d

so when I am super stressed, like with, maybe a wife, (!right, are there any fellas huhh??!) I go into work. I punch in, and but I punch out, I think, because of humble, and people would probably worry if they knew, about the hours. Boy, that work, the value. The bonus is being better, or best even!

collectivided @collectivided.bsky.social · 5d

to be clear, this is an issue very largely confined to the managerial and ownership class, who assure us, yet again, that they are trekking the maximumized optum decisional junctures that've ever been possible, folks, on account of warfighting or yuge freedom and perhaps big big martyring people say

collectivided @collectivided.bsky.social · 5d

truly! I can't get over it. American MSM didn't just roll over, or play dead, but they are on the floor, with their asses in the air, going "hey no but Donald, if you wanna do it forreal, the cyanide capsules are in my jeans' back left pocket 😃"

Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 6d

the utter failure of mainstream media to even pretend to defend *their own prerogatives* from an authoritarian regime is one of the bleakest aspects of our current nightmare.

collectivided @collectivided.bsky.social · 5d

i also doubt these mass displays of pig idiocy are effective on arrest numbers either, but it'll take possibly several more months for anyone to do the math.

Idea coming down the MAGA pipes, I guarantee it: "Just follow through and deport everyone ICE arrests, to boost the numbers".

collectivided @collectivided.bsky.social · 5d

but my god, the sheer "fuck you" of doing massive and coordinated fed raids on entire blocs of people to demonstrate, chiefly, that you don't give a shit who's a what. All that matters is ICEbois getting to cosplay thanos for 25 minutes

collectivided @collectivided.bsky.social · 5d

the mass federal raids that are beginning to pick up must be countered. Tracked, w/ response. Feds have been driven to this due to failure in small-scale operations, which have proven ineffective in meeting the "detainment quota goals" (*blegh* ick) that the freakshow Stephen Miller sets for ICE

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 6d

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white.

Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.

That’s not making America great again.

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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