Free Range Father
@freerangefather.bsky.social
Father of a few free range kids, aspiring anarcha-feminist, amateur anti-capitalist, and registered nurse. I believe unfettered kindness, radical acceptance and unrelenting silliness are potent tools against tyranny.
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This morning, Palestinians killed by occupation forces while waiting for humanitarian aid near the “Zikim” junction in northern Gaza were laid to rest.
August 10, 2025 at 7:50 AM
This morning, Palestinians killed by occupation forces while waiting for humanitarian aid near the “Zikim” junction in northern Gaza were laid to rest.
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I mean it is the administration of the lowest of lows.
July 28, 2025 at 11:16 AM
I mean it is the administration of the lowest of lows.
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The UN's Integrated Food Security Phase Classification Initiative (IPC) has declared that Famine is now unfolding in Gaza. They describe this as "the worst case scenario."
The World Food Programme describes the famine as "unlike anything this century"
The World Food Programme describes the famine as "unlike anything this century"
Famine now unfolding in Gaza, says UN-backed monitor – Middle East crisis live
Airdrops are not enough to avert the humanitarian catastrophe, says the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification Initiative
www.theguardian.com
July 29, 2025 at 11:33 AM
The UN's Integrated Food Security Phase Classification Initiative (IPC) has declared that Famine is now unfolding in Gaza. They describe this as "the worst case scenario."
The World Food Programme describes the famine as "unlike anything this century"
The World Food Programme describes the famine as "unlike anything this century"
I am trying to find a box big enough, but I’m auctioning my collection of Pez dispensers to benefit the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund. Auction starts soon!
Preview below:
PLEASE: Share if you can.
If you have a collection, or a friend who collects, or a neighbor you want to prank…
Preview below:
PLEASE: Share if you can.
If you have a collection, or a friend who collects, or a neighbor you want to prank…
July 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I am trying to find a box big enough, but I’m auctioning my collection of Pez dispensers to benefit the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund. Auction starts soon!
Preview below:
PLEASE: Share if you can.
If you have a collection, or a friend who collects, or a neighbor you want to prank…
Preview below:
PLEASE: Share if you can.
If you have a collection, or a friend who collects, or a neighbor you want to prank…
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Hey @moderation.bsky.app, I second this question, as someone whose paternal great-grandparents died in Auschwitz.
If they could have communicated with the outside world, would you have cut them off like you're doing to Palestinians in Gaza??
If they could have communicated with the outside world, would you have cut them off like you're doing to Palestinians in Gaza??
So @moderation.bsky.app if this platform existed during the Shoah, would you have suspended my family members pleading for help from Auschwitz too? Just wondering.
July 22, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Hey @moderation.bsky.app, I second this question, as someone whose paternal great-grandparents died in Auschwitz.
If they could have communicated with the outside world, would you have cut them off like you're doing to Palestinians in Gaza??
If they could have communicated with the outside world, would you have cut them off like you're doing to Palestinians in Gaza??
In case you forgot:
Despite the massive cuts in every conceivable beneficial federal program, YOUR tax dollars still fund a brutal, unrelenting genocide of Palestine
We can’t afford health care or education, but we provide billions in military aid to murder a civilization and starve the survivors
Despite the massive cuts in every conceivable beneficial federal program, YOUR tax dollars still fund a brutal, unrelenting genocide of Palestine
We can’t afford health care or education, but we provide billions in military aid to murder a civilization and starve the survivors
A 40-day-old baby, Youssef Mohammad Al-Safadi, has passed away in northern Gaza due to severe hunger and the unavailability of infant formula and essential nourishment.
July 22, 2025 at 1:58 PM
In case you forgot:
Despite the massive cuts in every conceivable beneficial federal program, YOUR tax dollars still fund a brutal, unrelenting genocide of Palestine
We can’t afford health care or education, but we provide billions in military aid to murder a civilization and starve the survivors
Despite the massive cuts in every conceivable beneficial federal program, YOUR tax dollars still fund a brutal, unrelenting genocide of Palestine
We can’t afford health care or education, but we provide billions in military aid to murder a civilization and starve the survivors
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The depravity of Israel's genocide in Palestine is staggering: Israeli drones lure Palestinians into the open by playing sounds of women and children in distress, then shoot them...
www.middleeasteye.net/news/disturb...
www.middleeasteye.net/news/disturb...
Israeli drones lure Palestinians with crying children recordings then shoot them
Locals report Israeli quadcopters drawing people out of their houses by playing sounds of women and children in distress
www.middleeasteye.net
July 16, 2025 at 1:55 PM
The depravity of Israel's genocide in Palestine is staggering: Israeli drones lure Palestinians into the open by playing sounds of women and children in distress, then shoot them...
www.middleeasteye.net/news/disturb...
www.middleeasteye.net/news/disturb...
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Can be watched Live at 3 pm EST or recorded version can be watched at any time after.
Hopefully will address not only dangers faced by journalists in Gaza, but the responsibility to point out in every single newscast Israel blocks reporters & information and ask why.
webtv.un.org/en/asset/k11...
Hopefully will address not only dangers faced by journalists in Gaza, but the responsibility to point out in every single newscast Israel blocks reporters & information and ask why.
webtv.un.org/en/asset/k11...
"Journalism during genocide": a conversation with Ms. Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian Territories Occupied since 1967
Panel event hosted by the Mission of Colombia ahead of the opening of an exhibit on Journalism in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
webtv.un.org
June 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Can be watched Live at 3 pm EST or recorded version can be watched at any time after.
Hopefully will address not only dangers faced by journalists in Gaza, but the responsibility to point out in every single newscast Israel blocks reporters & information and ask why.
webtv.un.org/en/asset/k11...
Hopefully will address not only dangers faced by journalists in Gaza, but the responsibility to point out in every single newscast Israel blocks reporters & information and ask why.
webtv.un.org/en/asset/k11...
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Israel's attacks in the West Bank have intensified. Towns have been subject to Gaza-style sieges, displacement orders, raids and settler violence. To give an update on the situation in the West Bank we are pleased to host this meeting with Amjad Rfaie from the Askar refugee camp in Nablus.
June 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Israel's attacks in the West Bank have intensified. Towns have been subject to Gaza-style sieges, displacement orders, raids and settler violence. To give an update on the situation in the West Bank we are pleased to host this meeting with Amjad Rfaie from the Askar refugee camp in Nablus.
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64 days with no aid reaching Gaza. No food, water or medicine. Children are starving.
Netanyahu’s extremist government now says it will occupy Gaza & put mercenaries in charge of distributing aid, instead of the UN and other aid groups.
Despicable. No more US support for Netanyahu’s war machine.
Netanyahu’s extremist government now says it will occupy Gaza & put mercenaries in charge of distributing aid, instead of the UN and other aid groups.
Despicable. No more US support for Netanyahu’s war machine.
May 5, 2025 at 4:05 PM
64 days with no aid reaching Gaza. No food, water or medicine. Children are starving.
Netanyahu’s extremist government now says it will occupy Gaza & put mercenaries in charge of distributing aid, instead of the UN and other aid groups.
Despicable. No more US support for Netanyahu’s war machine.
Netanyahu’s extremist government now says it will occupy Gaza & put mercenaries in charge of distributing aid, instead of the UN and other aid groups.
Despicable. No more US support for Netanyahu’s war machine.
Dear kids,
I know there’s more pressing issues in this world, and you know I don’t embrace violence, but there is no sin in thinking that the raccoon in your bird feeder, taunting your dogs at 2AM, just needs to get punched in the head.
I know there’s more pressing issues in this world, and you know I don’t embrace violence, but there is no sin in thinking that the raccoon in your bird feeder, taunting your dogs at 2AM, just needs to get punched in the head.
April 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Dear kids,
I know there’s more pressing issues in this world, and you know I don’t embrace violence, but there is no sin in thinking that the raccoon in your bird feeder, taunting your dogs at 2AM, just needs to get punched in the head.
I know there’s more pressing issues in this world, and you know I don’t embrace violence, but there is no sin in thinking that the raccoon in your bird feeder, taunting your dogs at 2AM, just needs to get punched in the head.
Too weak to reach out, I lifted his hand and rested it on hers, so she would not have to feel alone when she died.
For them a long, grueling road, but the end came suddenly.
Decades together but still not enough time.
Grief is a necessary reminder that our hearts are still capable of love.
For them a long, grueling road, but the end came suddenly.
Decades together but still not enough time.
Grief is a necessary reminder that our hearts are still capable of love.
April 10, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Too weak to reach out, I lifted his hand and rested it on hers, so she would not have to feel alone when she died.
For them a long, grueling road, but the end came suddenly.
Decades together but still not enough time.
Grief is a necessary reminder that our hearts are still capable of love.
For them a long, grueling road, but the end came suddenly.
Decades together but still not enough time.
Grief is a necessary reminder that our hearts are still capable of love.
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pro tip: if your government claims to have no money for children's heathcare but will eagerly waste millions on a gaudy military parade to stroke the fragile ego of a broken-inside president, you just might live in a shithole country
April 9, 2025 at 4:24 PM
pro tip: if your government claims to have no money for children's heathcare but will eagerly waste millions on a gaudy military parade to stroke the fragile ego of a broken-inside president, you just might live in a shithole country
Learning how and where to compromise is difficult. Especially since it always seems nobody else is willing to budge.
it appears compromise is a lot like swallowing your own puke.
I guess you just have to decide if it’s worth the taste in your mouth.
it appears compromise is a lot like swallowing your own puke.
I guess you just have to decide if it’s worth the taste in your mouth.
April 8, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Learning how and where to compromise is difficult. Especially since it always seems nobody else is willing to budge.
it appears compromise is a lot like swallowing your own puke.
I guess you just have to decide if it’s worth the taste in your mouth.
it appears compromise is a lot like swallowing your own puke.
I guess you just have to decide if it’s worth the taste in your mouth.
Kids,
motivation (and homework)
I’ll say it again. Listen to others who are struggling.
Stop minimizing your problems when comparing to them.
But do not use self-care as an excuse to put off helping others.
Take your time, be kind to yourself, but consider what you have to offer to them.
motivation (and homework)
I’ll say it again. Listen to others who are struggling.
Stop minimizing your problems when comparing to them.
But do not use self-care as an excuse to put off helping others.
Take your time, be kind to yourself, but consider what you have to offer to them.
April 8, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Kids,
motivation (and homework)
I’ll say it again. Listen to others who are struggling.
Stop minimizing your problems when comparing to them.
But do not use self-care as an excuse to put off helping others.
Take your time, be kind to yourself, but consider what you have to offer to them.
motivation (and homework)
I’ll say it again. Listen to others who are struggling.
Stop minimizing your problems when comparing to them.
But do not use self-care as an excuse to put off helping others.
Take your time, be kind to yourself, but consider what you have to offer to them.
My fellow white folks
It should be PAINFULLY obvious.
People of color (and almost everybody outside the US) will be reluctant to trust you. Ever.
You look strikingly similar to the slavers, colonizers, war criminals, tyrants and idiots who have been terrorizing them for centuries (and still are)
It should be PAINFULLY obvious.
People of color (and almost everybody outside the US) will be reluctant to trust you. Ever.
You look strikingly similar to the slavers, colonizers, war criminals, tyrants and idiots who have been terrorizing them for centuries (and still are)
April 8, 2025 at 2:10 PM
My fellow white folks
It should be PAINFULLY obvious.
People of color (and almost everybody outside the US) will be reluctant to trust you. Ever.
You look strikingly similar to the slavers, colonizers, war criminals, tyrants and idiots who have been terrorizing them for centuries (and still are)
It should be PAINFULLY obvious.
People of color (and almost everybody outside the US) will be reluctant to trust you. Ever.
You look strikingly similar to the slavers, colonizers, war criminals, tyrants and idiots who have been terrorizing them for centuries (and still are)
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I increasingly wonder if this whole "self-care" concept is fundamentally harmful. Self care is what you do because there is no one else to care for you. The idea should not be to focus on self-care, but to focus on community care. Communal care. Care for others who also care for you in return.
April 8, 2025 at 9:34 AM
I increasingly wonder if this whole "self-care" concept is fundamentally harmful. Self care is what you do because there is no one else to care for you. The idea should not be to focus on self-care, but to focus on community care. Communal care. Care for others who also care for you in return.
The next best step: develop a local mutual aid network.
A group of people you can rely on in case of an interruption n services (day care, health care, child care, cooking, food) or in employment whether to job loss or a GENERAL STRIKE requiring us to lose wages.
Share your time and resources.
A group of people you can rely on in case of an interruption n services (day care, health care, child care, cooking, food) or in employment whether to job loss or a GENERAL STRIKE requiring us to lose wages.
Share your time and resources.
April 8, 2025 at 2:25 AM
The next best step: develop a local mutual aid network.
A group of people you can rely on in case of an interruption n services (day care, health care, child care, cooking, food) or in employment whether to job loss or a GENERAL STRIKE requiring us to lose wages.
Share your time and resources.
A group of people you can rely on in case of an interruption n services (day care, health care, child care, cooking, food) or in employment whether to job loss or a GENERAL STRIKE requiring us to lose wages.
Share your time and resources.
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Trying to think of something hopeful and positive to post. Best I can do is noting that if you’re aware of how fucked up things are at this moment, at least you know your moral compass is not broken.
April 8, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Trying to think of something hopeful and positive to post. Best I can do is noting that if you’re aware of how fucked up things are at this moment, at least you know your moral compass is not broken.
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John Oliver was awesome tonight. He did a deep dive into trans girls and women playing sports. And how conservatives are truly making something out of nothing with this issue just to hurt and already vulnerable community.
April 7, 2025 at 4:35 AM
John Oliver was awesome tonight. He did a deep dive into trans girls and women playing sports. And how conservatives are truly making something out of nothing with this issue just to hurt and already vulnerable community.