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Squirma (Halloween version)

@eckslibris.bsky.social

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PFP: a white person w/a mask, leading a horse with a young rider. I'm @EcksLibris on Tumblr & Mastodon if Bsky goes south Black Lives Matter. Support Trans Folks. I’m in Texas but not of it. Fat is an adjective, not an insult. Covid is not over. They/Them

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Squirma (Halloween version) @eckslibris.bsky.social · Oct 17

I made a mosaic of my neurodivergent brain. It’s full of beautiful flowers 🌺 😊

A brightly colored mosaic of flowers (including sunflowers and roses) in the shape of a brain, against a dark brownish background. The brain stem is represented by green leaves.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 2h

Just got back from the Antifa leadership council meeting and it was really great, some big stuff coming up soon. We're making Golden Corral woke in time for Thanksgiving

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 7h

Really good thread, because I am frankly tired of "why haven't you left yet" etc.

David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 8h

Vast, vast majority of trans people aren't going to leave the country. Many can't leave the areas they're currently in.

If trans survival/liberation are something one cares about, at all, that's the reality.

So...🧵

(And no, this is not — in the main — about indviduals leaving the country).

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The Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 8h

Good news for sewists: the paper pattern company feared lost to bankruptcy has been saved as an independent company.

craftindustryalliance.org/sewing-patte...

Sewing Patterns Rise from DGA Bankruptcy Ashes - Craft Industry Alliance

The “Big 4” sewing patterns are saved. Simplicity, McCall’s, Vogue & Butterick get new life under Rubelmann Capital.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · 5h

so the devs are going all in defending Jesse Singal and making this platform a safe space for TERFs

I know posters generally dislike Mastodon & understand why, but the influx of bksy shitposters this week has really improved the vibe + the Phanpy app also does wonders making it poster friendly

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 3h

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 4h

Don't tell Palestinians not to have hope or that the ceasefire deal is doomed.

They know what Trump is. They know what the Occupation is. They live under Occupation every day. We're not doing them any favors telling them what they already know.

Let them have hope. We all need it. So do they.

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 4h

Click through so you can also read what she's responding to.

A huge part of the creative process, for every single creative I've ever known, including myself

is you need down time to think, usually while doing another thing that doesn't require thought.

This time, this space, this brain wandering

Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 4h

When I struggled with something writing-wise I take a walk. And 100% of the time I end up figuring out the solution. I would never, ever, ever, ask a machine to do that for me. Wtf.

ouinne @ouinne.bsky.social · 4h

The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4h

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 4h

I hope this is real just so the carnage stops, but please I beg you don't stop paying attention to Palestine when the news cycle moves on.

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Trump says may go to Egypt where Gaza ceasefire talks are under way

Negotiators are finalising the details of Trump's 20-point plan that both Israel and Hamas have largely agreed to.

aje.io

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Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 7h

Bondi claiming they arrested [checks notes] "the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa" has me in stitches

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Bondi: "Bondi: "Just like we did with cartels, we are going to take the same approach, President Trump, with antifa -- destroy the entire organization from top to bottom. We are going to take them apart."

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 9h

this is how I, a resident of LA, found out that the Palisades fire was arson, that they caught the guy, and that he used gen AI to work his way up to doing the crime

niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 10h

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 10h

They wanna look like Big Strong Boys so bad... deny them.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 1d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Darius Quebec 🏳️‍⚧️ @ksej.bsky.social · 5h

And that's why "born this way" is not a particularly great justification. We should have rights because bodily autonomy and free expression, whether we were born this way or just took it up one day for funsies

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samuel @quilombo.bsky.social · 5h

This from @realgdt.bsky.social talking about 'Frankenstein' is so good.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 5h

it always blows my mind when these people act like “the left just calls everyone nazis” these days and it’s like no. we’re calling nazis nazis! there just happens to be a lot of them in and around the government these days!

Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 6h

More history from this Nazi adulated by the Trump team. These are explicit, proud Nazis who scream and cry and call every referee they can find when you quote their Nazism back to them.

Multiple tweets from Nazi Jack Posobiec in 2016 making "jokes" involving the Nazi code "1488."

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 5h

Ok that's pretty funny

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 5h

Question: Have you given any more thought to suspending habeas corpus?

Trump: Suspending who?

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John Breen’s Body @acab.dad · 5h

Nbd, just Jack Potatosack being a literal Nazi in a meeting with the president

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 13h

You cannot reasonably play a video of a guy dancing to YMCA in a blow up T-Rex costume and expect a judge to say “yes clearly this is an imminent danger to ICE’s valuable work and the community”

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Spencer M Ross @srossmktg.com · 15h

Community vulnerability is why I sponsor @blackskyweb.xyz. A good thread explaining what they're doing.

Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 1d

TL; DR
In the next 5 business days you should be able to go to Link's page on blacksky.community and see his posts and he'll be able to post but people using the bsky mobile apps won't see it.
After that we'll get Blacksky-only posts up.
After that we can talk about purging bsky mod tools
fin/11

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 6h

Dolly Parton has been a good person all her life. She does so many kind things for people. Compare that to someone like JK Rowling who wakes up every day and decides to be an absolute asshole.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 6h

this is an explicitely nazi administration and anyone who still supports them should be viewed as such

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 7h

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 6h

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 8h

since my new 31 day pill box has successfully become the most stable thing in my life, i just came up with the idea of adding little reminder notes in the appropriate day (they are numbered!)

it's like a planner you need to use to stay alive!

tiny note that says "pay CC" above my pill box

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Thomas [redacted] DO @tom.medsky.social · 6h

Couple of problems with this tweet...

1. A GP or general practitioner does not really exist in the United States. There is no GP residency for example.

2. Most family doctors believe in vaccines as much as pediatricians do.

3. Vaccine extortion mill? Big money? I drive a 2008 Toyota RAV4.

A tweet from @kenny_j_miller

His pfp is a white man with a goatee. The tweet is in dark mode.

Pediatricians are vaccine extortion mills. That’s how they make big money. Better to take your kid to a good GP.

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Squirma (Halloween version) @eckslibris.bsky.social · 7h

Thank you!

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 7h

every so often Justice Alito says something during Supreme Court oral argument that makes me perk up and go uhh lol this man's brain is pickled in conservative crank juice fr fr

today was one such day

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/bost-...

Sam Alito Is Just Asking Questions About Mail-In Voting

In Illinois, Democrats passed a law making it easier for people to cast absentee ballots. Alito was ready to give the Republican challenging the law some free advice.

ballsandstrikes.org

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