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Big Krampus Energy

@mayawest.online

if TaylorSwiftUpdates can choose jail over genocide, so can everyone else.

Taylor Swift Updates @LegitTayUp... 10h

*** | UPDATE|| As most of you know, I haven't been very active in the past couple of months because I was in prison :/ I'm back now though :) more Taylor Swift updates coming soon!

ali @ali_ansel. 4h

omg why

Taylor Swift Updates
@Legit TayUpdates

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| I refused to join the IDF Imao

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March 23, 2024 at 6:15 AM

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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall

@merchantshallyork.org

Hello people of Bluesky. We are the Merchant Adventurers’ Hall. A medieval guildhall in York which is a museum, venue for hire and the home to the York Merchant Adventurers Company.

We are also, without being too big headed…ace. 😃

December 11, 2023 at 9:15 AM

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drewtoothpaste

@drewtoothpaste.bsky.social

this aluminum pan i got for thanksgiving is more class conscious than anyone who told me to "vote blue no matter who"

November 23, 2023 at 3:29 PM

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Tal B. Lavin

@swordsjew.bsky.social

here is my hex on rapists and sexual abusers. feel free to use it for healing and vengeance. theswordandthesandwich.substack.com/p/halloween-...

My curse on these bastards:
May every organ they use to hurt another wither: may the cruel tongue lose its power of speech, the genitals their ability to pierce or to accept, the hands that claw and grasp go weak and falter, the legs that carry them to prey lock and refuse to move. May they feel every pain they have inflicted, in dreams and in waking. May they never find respite. May every harm they do redound on them a hundredfold and a thousandfold.

A ritual to let go:
Take a silver fish (it is best if it is a saltwater fish but any fish will do; canned sardines are fine, but the larger the fish the better) and cut it into pieces. It is essential to preserve the silver skin. Carry the scraps of skin to a garden or a plot of land in which plants may be grown. Bury the fish and, above it, plant the seeds of a climbing vine. I recommend clematis, ivy or trumpet vine: these seeds are easy to obtain and very cheap.

Say to the vine seed: As you grow, I rise. As you climb, I leave the pain behind. As the silver skin of the fish turns to earth, I turn my pain to earth. As you consume and devour what is left behind, water and flesh, consume and devour my pain, and take it from me. As you cling and climb, I will part from my pain. Hold it for me in your green hands, take it from me, and grow in strength as I grow in strength.

For vengeance:
Carry two handfuls of coarse salt in your pockets for a day and sleep with it under your pillow (I recommend using a cloth bag but a Ziploc is fine). The next day, take the salt and go to a plot of land that is fallow and unused; if no empty lots are nearby, find an area paved with black asphalt.

Scatter the salt in two lines, reserving a pinch to complete the ritual.

Walk between the two lines, saying:
As salt draws the water from the earth, I draw joy from your heart.
As salt dissolves in water I dissolve your joy.
As roots wither in the presence of salt may your joy wither.
As salt makes hunger and thirst, so I hunger and thirst for vengeance.
As you have hurt my body and my spirit I bind you with salt and I bind you with pain. In the name of Huixtocihuatl goddess of salt and sister of the rain gods I bind you and condemn you.

Draw your fingers across the lines of salt and break them. Turn away from them and throw the pinch of salt over your left shoulder. Do not look behind you as you walk away.

October 31, 2023 at 4:23 PM

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Ross Dahlke

@rossdahlke.bsky.social

Anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish hate online stems from the same fringe, white supremacist communities who target both groups interchangeably, finds Hobbs, @nazita.bsky.social, Li & Lucas, suggesting we need to consider hate against both groups in tandem

doi.org/10.1007/s111...

Anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish attitudes among respondents in the American Mosaic Project 2014 survey. Each jittered black point in the top panel of this figure represents the number of anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim attitudes reported by a White, Non-Hispanic respondent—the sum of yes responses to seven statements, including “They don’t share my morals or values” and “They want to take over our political institutions.” Purple ellipses represent a normal data ellipses for responses conditional on any problem (bottom left corner) and average conditional on a sum of problems across both groups greater than 10 (top right corner). Using the same data, the bottom two panels display the average number of problems attributed to a group conditional on the number of problems attributed to the other group

This figure displays change in mentions of Jews and Muslims or Arabs that contained predicted hate speech compared to January 2017 among Gab users who posted every month January 2017 through August 2018

The bottom panel above displays hate crimes and bias incidents recorded by ADL and CAIR by month. The top panels compares these two sources. Overall, hate crimes and bias incidents gradually decline after the 2016 election—until a very large spike in anti-Jewish incidents in late 2018. In addition to the overall patterns potentially related to the election and inauguration of Donald Trump, we also see a longer term shift in anti-Jewish hate crimes relative to anti-Muslim hate crimes in mid-2017. This second shift mirrors the activity on fringe social media sites around Unite the Right

Anti-Muslim or Arab and anti-Jewish aggravated assault, murders, manslaughter, arson, and kidnapping recorded in the FBI UCR data by month

October 30, 2023 at 6:51 PM

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Dr Eleanor Janega

@goingmedieval.bsky.social

I have a Hirbawi Saoirse kufiya, celebrating the relationship between Palestine and Ireland, and it's one of my favourite items of clothing. They're beautiful and useful and I cannot recommend them enough.

Charlotte @charlottor.bsky.social · Oct 15

Got an email from Hirbawi this morning - the last and only factory in Palestine. They make Kufiyas, they ship internationally and they are asking for pre-orders that they will fulfil when the blockade is lifted. A kufiya is €25, shipping to UK is €8. Get on it

www.kufiya.org

Hirbawi Kufiya - Home of the Palestinian Scarf

Buy the original and authentic Palestinian scarf from the last kufiya factory in Palestine. Hirbawi can deliver Kufiyas around the world.

www.kufiya.org

October 15, 2023 at 8:56 AM

Bonos wee crab eyes

@discomilf.bsky.social

October 7, 2023 at 8:50 PM

Bonos wee crab eyes

@discomilf.bsky.social

How many people at National saw Cat Boyd’s new piece before it got published

October 6, 2023 at 11:17 AM

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Venomous

@venomous.blackskycomra.de

btw, I need to say this right now for the benefit of anyone on Bluesky outside of Scotland:

if Wings Over Scotland or its owner, Stuart Campbell, ever make their way to Bluesky, it is your moral imperative to bully him off here like you'd bully a Jordan Peterson or any other Nazi off of here

October 5, 2023 at 1:32 PM

Bonos wee crab eyes

@discomilf.bsky.social

Bitch shut up whose arse are you trying to kiss

October 5, 2023 at 2:28 PM

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'i will strangle a horse' on itch.io

@brainmage.bsky.social

Is YOUR child texting about 15 minute cities? Get to know the signs:

smdh - Shops? Meagre distance homeward
lol - Local! Oh, local!
imho - Infrastructure means helpful options
lmao - Let's mosey about outside
tbqh - Totally biked quickly home
wtf??! - Walked too far??!

October 2, 2023 at 9:50 PM

Bonos wee crab eyes

@discomilf.bsky.social

I’m in my meal deal era

September 26, 2023 at 1:35 PM

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wariotifo

@wariotifo.bsky.social

so true. hopefully we can all learn from this as a society and learn not to ignore any red flags going forward. now, time to take a big swig of coffee and move my eyes several millimeters to the left