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emily kardamis 🌻 @corruptedgem.bsky.social · 23h

hey! it is my birthday today and it would be really cool if yall could donate to the friendship center: they’re a food bank primarily serving the north side of Chicago, including lincoln square, ravenswood and albany park. and they have a pet food pantry! friendshipcenterchicago.org

Friendship Center Chicago

The Friendship Center fosters hope and dignity in Chicago’s northwest side communities through access to food and vital resources.

friendshipcenterchicago.org

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emily kardamis 🌻 @corruptedgem.bsky.social · 18h

I never knew the 8th was also national pierogi day…….it’s fate

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emily kardamis 🌻 @corruptedgem.bsky.social · 19h

ahh thank you 💛

emily kardamis 🌻 @corruptedgem.bsky.social · 23h

obvs please only consider donating if you have the means, otherwise it’d be super cool if you could share the org with other folks, they do really good work and directly serve the community!

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emily kardamis 🌻 @corruptedgem.bsky.social · 23h

hey! it is my birthday today and it would be really cool if yall could donate to the friendship center: they’re a food bank primarily serving the north side of Chicago, including lincoln square, ravenswood and albany park. and they have a pet food pantry! friendshipcenterchicago.org

Friendship Center Chicago

The Friendship Center fosters hope and dignity in Chicago’s northwest side communities through access to food and vital resources.

friendshipcenterchicago.org

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emily kardamis 🌻 @corruptedgem.bsky.social · 1d

oh to be a highland coo taking a nap on a big rock

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emily kardamis 🌻 @corruptedgem.bsky.social · 1d

yesss I also got that Mr Saturn cover!! it’s so cute!!!

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emily kardamis 🌻 @corruptedgem.bsky.social · 1d

mountain goats thank you for a shipwreck song that also accurately speaks to the exhaustion deep in my chest and in my bones

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 2d

GOOD MORNING TWO NEW MOUNTAIN GOATS SONGS ONE WHERE ME AND PETER BALKAN AND ADAM START CALCULATING HOW TO SURVIVE AFTER A SHIPWRECK & ONE WHERE ADAM EXITS STAGE LEFT NEVER TO BE SEEN AGAIN

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The Mountain Goats - Cold at Night / Rocks in My Pockets

Choose your preferred music service

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emily kardamis 🌻 @corruptedgem.bsky.social · 1d

yeah! yeah!!! yeah

the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 1d

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the Mountain Goats - “Cold at Night” (Official Visualizer)

YouTube video by the Mountain Goats

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

Kind of feels like feds occupying our city for a month, killing one person and shooting another while attacking neighborhoods with chemical weapons and kidnapping hundreds of people already counts as a civil war whether the Guard arrives or not, but what do we know?

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Bisexual Kaiju @bisexualkaiju.myatproto.social · 3d

So you want to support living marginalized banned authors but your local banned books week displays and events are full of famous dead people?

Not to worry: your helpful non-binary bookseller is here to help!

A thread!

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Geoffrey Cubbage @geoffreycubbage.bsky.social · 3d

A thing I think it’s important for USians not in currently-occupied cities to grasp is that the normal and everyday goes on alongside the violent and unprecedented.

In Chicago right now you can be forced off teargas-soaked streets in the morning and have a peaceful evening picnic on the lake.

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 4d

Chicago is the greatest city in the world and what’s happening there is making my body physically hot and sore with rage. Every rich dentist in the Ohio exurbs with a barely touched jet ski voted for this because they led poor lives that are now nearly over. Chicago will outlast your boring anger.

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emily kardamis 🌻 @corruptedgem.bsky.social · 5d

Chicago I love you, we won’t bend to fascism, this city and all of us are better than that

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Former Brundlefly @thatguywasfly.bsky.social · 5d

Absolutely buckwild that Pritzker or any other Dem elected responsible for or supporting what’s happening this morning thinks this won’t go viral.

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emily kardamis 🌻 @corruptedgem.bsky.social · 5d

do you understand the issue isn’t “you won’t ban this one person,” it’s “you won’t ban a person who has actively violated ToS and instead you rewrote ToS to accommodate them & then ban people disproportionally in marginalized communities who have not violated ToS”, right. you get that’s the problem.

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emily kardamis 🌻 @corruptedgem.bsky.social · 5d

you really could log off and stop alienating your userbase more and more, it’s SO easy

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emily kardamis 🌻 @corruptedgem.bsky.social · 6d

promise I’ll be back to updating the SV site regularly soon, it’s on the list for this month

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emily kardamis 🌻 @corruptedgem.bsky.social · 6d

sighs loudly. patreon.com/corruptedgem and steamedveggiescomic.com btw

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 6d

It’s so annoying that we all have to just continually point out how rules around/between decorum and violation are applied asymmetrically to vulnerable groups versus the people who are always hassling them, and it’s extra insulting that the people in charge are trying to lol it away.

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emily kardamis 🌻 @corruptedgem.bsky.social · 6d

Bluesky Leadership Hire a PR Person challenge [level: impossible]

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emily kardamis 🌻 @corruptedgem.bsky.social · 6d

every one of these goddamn sites gleefully turns into a nazi bar, so fuck the rest of us I guess

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emily kardamis 🌻 @corruptedgem.bsky.social · 6d

“ummmm when trans people get harassed and threatened on our platform it’s ok but when you ask for a noted transphobe and hateful man to be banned based on the ToS we WROTE you’re being unreasonable and mean :^(“

Paul Frazee @pfrazee.com · 7d

Have you considered that getting 40 million people to agree on what’s acceptable is intractable

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John G @shinercomics.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks to so many awesome folks backing and sharing, Memento Mori got funded in 3.5 hours! There's still 14 more days to the campaign! So... Stretch Goals! We already hit the postcard set for all physical reward backers so at $3600 it'll be a sketchbook zine!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/shi...

A promo card for Memento Mori Now on Kickstarter wth a bearded man with Death behind him in the High Desert.

A set of 4 postcards with a Northern Flicker, a starry night sky, a man and Death in the high desert and the Memento Mori cover.

A Memento Mori sketchbook zine with a rough drawing of a guy in a hospital bed on the cover.

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