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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 9h

Please

Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 15h

Need to raise $1,500 by Monday or Tuesday.
Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated. #ICE #LosAngeles

Venmo: @JohnathanPerk
CashApp: $JohnathanPerk

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Christopher 'Smokeyandyouknowthis' Chik, MFA @g1mpy.bsky.social · 14h

The UDT were first in during WW2 in D-Day and subsequent Southern France and Italy landings.

My grandpa volunteered for that.

After leaving the Phillies' minor league system to join up.

Before anyone was even drafted.

He was the Romani Captain America.

Triple-triple O.G. in this Antifa sh*t.

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Christopher 'Smokeyandyouknowthis' Chik, MFA @g1mpy.bsky.social · 14h

La da-da da da-da da da-da da!

Christopher 'Smokeyandyouknowthis' Chik, MFA @g1mpy.bsky.social · 14h

"The sh*t I don't got, be the sh*t I gotta take."

🎶🎶

Christopher 'Smokeyandyouknowthis' Chik, MFA @g1mpy.bsky.social · 14h

"The sh*t I don't got, be the sh*t I gotta take."

🎶🎶

Christopher 'Smokeyandyouknowthis' Chik, MFA @g1mpy.bsky.social · 15h

Beside me, are two fists:

One, is for dapping;

The other for slapping.

--- Ancient Proverb.

Andraste Sideyr @andraste.fuckbgp.com · 2d

no, i’m not tired of ‘being nice.’

yes, i still want to ‘go apeshit.’

these things can coexist.

now stop asking me.

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Christopher 'Smokeyandyouknowthis' Chik, MFA @g1mpy.bsky.social · 15h

¡Viva Pacifica!

Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 16h

Street food is one of best things about #LosAngeles. Just snagged an asada burrito with everything, homemade chips and salsa, and an old school orange Fanta, from my favorite neighborhood food truck 🌶️🌯

Photo of Martinez Catering food truck, with construction worker and neighbor in line for their food

Photo of a burrito wrapped in yellow paper, in a Styrofoam container with homemade chips, salsa and two green peppers; tall orange Fanta bottle next to the container

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Christopher 'Smokeyandyouknowthis' Chik, MFA @g1mpy.bsky.social · 15h

Even where you know I am, we got a ton of this still and I love that about my community.

¡Viva Pacifica!

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Christopher 'Smokeyandyouknowthis' Chik, MFA @g1mpy.bsky.social · 15h

I'm on my sh*t today, and can't nobody tell me nothin.

Christopher 'Smokeyandyouknowthis' Chik, MFA @g1mpy.bsky.social · 15h

Millennials and Xennials learned all about trickle down from American Pie.

"Oh, it's so warm."

Christopher 'Smokeyandyouknowthis' Chik, MFA @g1mpy.bsky.social · 15h

THAT part.

Christopher 'Smokeyandyouknowthis' Chik, MFA @g1mpy.bsky.social · 15h

Someone, once: "You can't pour from an empty cup."

Me: "Hold your cup, 'cuz I got the container." 🎶

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Christopher 'Smokeyandyouknowthis' Chik, MFA @g1mpy.bsky.social · 15h

Yasiin Bey: Ms. Fat Booty, in its entirety.

Luda: YOUS A HOOOOOOO!

Yasiin Bey: *facepalm*, probably

Christopher 'Smokeyandyouknowthis' Chik, MFA @g1mpy.bsky.social · 15h

Help the WeHo Superhero save ppl from ICE.

Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 15h

Need to raise $1,500 by Monday or Tuesday.
Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated. #ICE #LosAngeles

Venmo: @JohnathanPerk
CashApp: $JohnathanPerk

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Christopher 'Smokeyandyouknowthis' Chik, MFA @g1mpy.bsky.social · 16h

Mmmmm real sugar Fanta. Yusss.

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Kumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social · 17h

You give me kittens, I'll give you answers

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Jenn Q. @jennqueen.bsky.social · 18h

When some white people talk about “losing their rights,” it’s because you’re now feeling the government and society no longer centering you or giving you unquestioned privilege.

Imagine being Black. We’ve mostly seen rights on paper, but not in practice.

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Christopher 'Smokeyandyouknowthis' Chik, MFA @g1mpy.bsky.social · 17h

My favorite dog cousins of ever.

<3

I love them.

Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 2d

Scenes from the Los Angeles “war zone.” 😂

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Christopher 'Smokeyandyouknowthis' Chik, MFA @g1mpy.bsky.social · 17h

Ooooh I get it, these them mine sniffing dogs.

*rolls eyes in Roma*

Christopher 'Smokeyandyouknowthis' Chik, MFA @g1mpy.bsky.social · 17h

It was legal in Germany pre WW2 to hunt and kill my Romani people like foxes.

Christopher 'Smokeyandyouknowthis' Chik, MFA @g1mpy.bsky.social · 17h

It started with my people's freedom from slavery.

Everywhere East had already tried to kill us.

We went West.

Hungary pre-WW1 mistook us for Greeks. We let them.

Then WW1. So West again.

Germany said "not citizens. No jobs. No tax status? Delete!"

Then they added the Jim Crow they missed.

Formerly #GiveHerTheGavel @carmosteph.bsky.social · 19h

Before there was Hitler's play book, there was slavery & othering.

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Christopher 'Smokeyandyouknowthis' Chik, MFA @g1mpy.bsky.social · 17h

It started with my people's freedom from slavery.

Everywhere East had already tried to kill us.

We went West.

Hungary pre-WW1 mistook us for Greeks. We let them.

Then WW1. So West again.

Germany said "not citizens. No jobs. No tax status? Delete!"

Then they added the Jim Crow they missed.

Formerly #GiveHerTheGavel @carmosteph.bsky.social · 19h

Before there was Hitler's play book, there was slavery & othering.

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Christopher 'Smokeyandyouknowthis' Chik, MFA @g1mpy.bsky.social · 17h

I'm sayin!!

My Rrom ass over here watching like my ancestors all died for nothing.

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Christopher 'Smokeyandyouknowthis' Chik, MFA @g1mpy.bsky.social · 18h

Yup. Us Roma were already persecuted and murdered.

Then Hitler saw a way to do it even "better" and the rest Porrajmos.

Why we sister diasporas out here in this MFer.

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Christopher 'Smokeyandyouknowthis' Chik, MFA @g1mpy.bsky.social · 1d

Eyy, Dirty, baby, I got your money. Don't ya worry.

Said, hey.

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Christopher 'Smokeyandyouknowthis' Chik, MFA @g1mpy.bsky.social · 1d

Romani characters (Doom, Wanda, Pietro, Grayson) should be played by Romani actors.

Liam McGuire @liammcguire.bsky.social · 8d

Anyone have a particularly hot comic take?

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 1d

Bro, Tylenol should sue THEE FUCK out of these people for defamation.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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