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skáld

@danglinghemmie.bsky.social

liberals need to think long and hard about what these guys consider communism before they start thinking they're safe

Capybaron Goldstein @goldstein.bsky.social · 1d

Palantir co-founder says it exists to kill communists.

January 6, 2026 at 8:55 PM

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv)

@theserfstv.bsky.social

A journalist was arrested while covering the violence against the Wet'suwet'en people by the RCMP.

Now she's fighting back and suing the RCMP to protect press freedom

thenarwhal.ca/rcmp-trial-u...

The Narwhal's trial is a week away | The Narwhal

We’re suing the RCMP for arresting a journalist on assignment for The Narwhal. It’s an effort to protect press freedom — and the rights of all Canadians

thenarwhal.ca

January 7, 2026 at 5:47 AM

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Zakhele Art • COMMISSIONS OPEN

@zakheleart.bsky.social

I'm taking commissions for January and February. I have comms open for half-body and full-body illustrations.

- TTRPG, OCs, fan art etc

Shoot me a DM if you're interested.

📩 : [email protected]
🌱 : zakhele.carrd.co
🦜 : artistree.io/request/zakh...

December 31, 2025 at 5:41 PM

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EMERGENCY CAT SURGERY, SHARE MY PINNED 🏳️‍⚧️

@pavlovforgoths.com

If you need a reason not to enlist, there's many.

The recruiter is not your friend. The military employs child psychologists to learn how to make you think the recruiter is your friend.
The recruiter is allowed to lie to you and makes more money if they do.
The recruiter is paid a commission to groom children into cannon fodder.
The recruiter will tell you you're special and will go into special smart soldier programs instead of combat. They're lying.
The recruiter may tell you they can tell if someone can get PTSD or not and only recruit people like you, who won't. They're lying.
The recruiter may tell you you'll be too busy attending free college (!!) to go overseas. They're lying.
The recruiter may ask what countries you want to travel to and promise you bougie placements on military bases in those countries. They're lying.

Even "It's just four years!" is a lie - the government is allowed to hold you past your enlistment period with a stop-loss order.
The recruiter actually has zero power to decide anything that happens to you after you enlist and they more importantly don't care what happens to you.
If you enlist, you will be brainwashed to make you willing to do things to other humans that you would never be willing to do today.
You will be ordered to do things that will kill children. And you'll do them.
The military is not the only way or even the best way for you to go to college or start a career.

Military brainwashing will actually make you into a terrible university student because it degrades your ability to think critically and question your sources.
Having PTSD and/or a TBI will make it harder to be a student and keep a job.
Veterans' benefits suck these days.
Being a veteran drastically increases your risk of homelessness, suicide, alcohol and drug dependence, prison time, and becoming an abuser to your loved ones.
The military will expose you to chemicals that will drastically increase your chances of developing cancer.
The military will withhold information about your rights to conscientiously object after enlisting.
A lot can change in four years.

January 4, 2026 at 8:02 PM

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ACLU

@aclu.org

Congress is debating the Kids Online Safety Act — an overbroad bill that risks censoring everything from jokes and hyperbole to useful information about sex ed and suicide prevention.

This isn't about safety, it's about control.

Online Safety Bills Are Fueling a New Wave of Internet Censorship

State and federal bills seek to limit minors’ access to social media, but civil liberties advocates warn that the resulting online censorship threatens constitutional rights without delivering real safety.

www.aclu.org

January 5, 2026 at 10:24 PM

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Spike R. Monster

@spikermonster.bsky.social

i dont know whats gonna happen but here. 🇻🇪🇻🇪🇻🇪🇻🇪

alright. lots of things happening right now.
for those who don’t know me, hi, i’m spikermonster, and i’m a venezuelan artist. i’ve been sharing my art on the internet since i was a kid. i was born here in caracas and i’ve never moved out. the only time i’ve ever left the country was in 2001, when i was 9 and my dad took me to disney world.
i’m saying all this because it’s important that people know that i’m someone who actually lives here and has always lived here, so i don’t get anyone in my mentions trying to dismiss anything i say because they think i live in another country or whatever. you might think i don’t owe anyone this much of an explanation, but i feel like i do, because i’ve seen the way americans snarkily dismiss anything venezuelans say about the issue if it’s something they can’t wrap their heads around. they don’t even try to look at it from our perspective. suddenly every venezuelan who speaks up online is secretly a CIA shill. with all due respect you guys are fucking insane. all you’re doing is silencing venezuelan voices and you don’t even realize it. do i blame you for thinking that way? no, i don’t! because the CIA is terrifying and the US sucks, trump sucks, we all know this. but you care WAY more about hating your own country (as valid as your reasons may be) than you do about actually listening to people from other countries. so thanks for making me do all this extra work just to speak about my country.

last night the US military launched airstrikes in venezuela and there were also troops on the ground. i heard the planes and explosions. i’m not able to see the city from my apartment but i could hear everything, the sounds were unmistakable and unlike anything i’d heard before. i was scared shitless. however this is something we’ve been all mentally preparing ourselves for, since as some of you might know, the US had been besieging venezuela for several months via the caribbean sea. still, you might think you’re ready for a moment like this but trust me, you’re truly not, and you realize that real quick once it actually happens.
please know that my family and i are safe. the places that were targeted were specifically military bases and points of interest like that, it wasn’t a random bombing against civilians with lots of casualties or anything. at the time of me writing this post, there’s only one confirmed civilian casualty, and according to some sources it might be around 40, the large majority of which were military. i have not been able to confirm this though. i’m not saying this to downplay the importance of the situation, i just want to get some facts straight because there’s a lot of fearmongering and sensationalism revolving around the issue.

that being said, it was still the single most terrifying thing i’ve lived through. this should’ve never happened. we should’ve never reached a point where a foreign military intervention was needed. yes, needed. because we never would’ve been able to get rid of maduro ourselves, trust me, we’ve been trying for several years. maduro needed to be taken care of. if you don’t know why, i encourage you to do your own research on the venezuelan crisis and how we ended up in a dictatorship (maybe pick up a few pointers so you can recognize that trump himself is becoming a dictator pretty quick, but i think you might’ve noticed already.) now, i’m hearing that this move from the US was apparently not exactly legal but i’m gonna be honest with you: we don’t care. “but they’re just after your oil” we don’t care. we’re just glad maduro is finally out. whatever happens with him now is up to the US. or the UN if it ever decides to stop being useless and step in. i really have no energy in me to think of what this means for the US, all i can think about right now is what’s going to happen with my own country.

btw if you’re an american and posted this meme reacting to current events: [image of squidward wearing a huge button that says "i really wish i weren't living through a major historical event right now!"]

i’m gonna need you to get a grip and sit down because this isn’t about you. this and overdramatic angry apologies on behalf of your government are displays that don't show any solidarity towards venezuelans, because you’re literally just making it all about you. you you you, it's always all about the USA. reel it in and listen to venezuelans for once, my god. get some perspective. why is it always americans trying to make every world issue an american issue. no, the venezuelan military isn’t gonna retaliate against your country because they’re pathetically underequipped. you guys are gonna be fine (in a way, i guess, the US has a lot of other issues to worry about)

January 4, 2026 at 2:54 AM

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Prof Gavin Yamey

@gavinyamey.bsky.social

With alt text

Virologist James Alwine tells it like it is: “Kennedy’s decision will harm and kill children, like all of his anti-vaccination decisions will”

Virologist James Alwine, a member of Defend Public Health’s Coordinating Committee, said in a statement: “Kennedy’s decision will harm and kill children, like all of his anti-vaccination decisions will.

“Viruses and bacteria that were under control are being set free on our most vulnerable. It may take one or two years for the tragic consequences to become clear, but this is like asking farmers in North Dakota to grow pineapples. It won’t work and can’t end well,” he said.

January 6, 2026 at 12:08 AM

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BIRBLYFE

@aaland.co

a lil puffin study

January 6, 2026 at 1:35 AM

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Chronic Illness Humor

@chronicillness.bsky.social

@dearfibromyalgia

"Fake it till you make it" doesn't work with chronic illness.

Instead, the options are:

"Fake it until you are so ill you can't get out of bed." "Fake it till you have a flare." "Fake it till you have flare, and continue to fake it until you are hospitalized."

OR:

"Accept that you have one or more chronic illnesses, adapt accordingly, and look after yourself."

— Tiffany Glasson

January 5, 2026 at 5:05 PM

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Bex Glendining 🍃

@lgions.bsky.social

free all occupied, exploited and colonised lands

a digital image featuring the roughly drawn flags of palestine, sudan, congo, yemen, haiti and tigray.
below is the following text - palestine, sudan, congo, yemen, haiti, tigray
free all occupied, exploited and colonised lands.

January 4, 2026 at 5:25 PM

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Leon Thomas

@renegadecut.bsky.social

never wanted to be a middle aged man who thinks life was better in my youth. that's almost always wrong. nostalgia.

but we're living in a rightwing reactionary movement designed to turn the clock back much further than our childhoods. plus the evaporation of reality, sponsored by tech advancements.

January 5, 2026 at 7:03 PM

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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸

@jamalzuhir.bsky.social

While the world celebrates the first week of 2026, this is our "New Year" in Gaza: Tents flooded by winter rain and People are shivering from the cold .

We hope someone will see us, or at least allow the caravans in.

🇵🇸 #Gaza #GazaWinter #Palestine #Breaking

January 4, 2026 at 3:06 AM

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bird/h

@birdperhour.net

#birdbot

January 5, 2026 at 4:00 AM

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Justin McElroy

@thoughtographic.bsky.social

The US have been the ones starving the Venezuelan people.

January 5, 2026 at 4:59 AM

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inkrodible🔞

@inkrodible.bsky.social

Esmeralda winter flow

September 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM

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BIRBLYFE

@aaland.co

There's one more opening for my new offering, tarot drawings for the new moon!

January 5, 2026 at 9:53 AM

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Eva Vilhelmiina

@evelmiina.bsky.social

Northern elves
Digital illustration 2026

January 4, 2026 at 7:47 PM

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Zach Hazard Vaupen

@emo-sludge.com

I wholeheartedly agree we need to be doing more (and I’ve been trying to get people to do more for the better part of 25 years now) but it’s really a third thing—we don’t live in a democracy while simultaneously most of the country supports what’s happening.

regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 4d

words from lexi alexander, who had been suspended from this platform for being palestinian

You either live in a democracy, in which case you, as citizens, are responsible for the actions of your democratically elected leaders...or you have no choice in who gets elected, in which case you don't live in a democracy and you should definitely do something about that.

The world is sick of hearing 350 million Americans say they're helpless and nothing is their fault

January 4, 2026 at 3:52 PM

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Katie Mack

@astrokatie.com

For all that the media has spent years freaking out about what social media does to our brains, I don’t understand why there appears to be little effort to grapple with the fact that these chatbots are, for some not insignificant portion of the population, literally psychosis machines

Futurism @futurism.com · 3d

He put his complete trust in a chat bot that turned him into a savage murderer.

Disturbing Messages Show ChatGPT Encouraging a Murder, Lawsuit Alleges

A lawsuit against OpenAI reveals the chilling ChatGPT messages that drove a middle aged man to kill his 83-year-old mother.

trib.al

January 4, 2026 at 1:32 PM

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John Madden

@mathletesfoot.bsky.social

Republicans
Kill the Poor Dead Kennedys
Democrats
Kill The Poor [Clean] Album - Dead Kennedys

January 4, 2026 at 4:54 PM

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children of the corncob

@bisk.sureis.sexy

it's funny when watching US movies or tv shows i used to be like "man, they sure do use food poisoning as a plot device *a lot* in america..."

then i learned their food poisoning statistics and it blew my mind. that's just how they live!

people DIE of food poisoning regularly in the US.

it's MAD.

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 3d

Your fact of the day:

The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that one in six American citizens suffers a food-borne illness annually. In the UK, the figure is one in 132.

bylinetimes.com/2020/02/28/f...