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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1h

mastodon is truly the friend's shitty apartment of social media

BRUZZESE✸ @bruzzeseonline.bsky.social · 1d

No social media space since the invention of the smart phone is a haven. They're labs for commerce. Go hang out in your friend's shitty apartment.

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 11h

Literally they've shot two people in Chicago alone, we're all unbelievably fortunate the woman they shot last fucking weekend survived

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 11h

I know there's a lot to keep up with but someone has ALREADY been killed by ICE in Chicago, its not a theoretical question, and folks are dying in ICE detention and being disappeared constantly, when you say "someone's gonna get killed" youre actually washing the blood from their hands 😘✌️

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 11h

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 15h

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

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Jonathan Dresner @jondresner.bsky.social · 1d

Legal decisions based on spurious evidence should be vacated.

We do not disbar enough lawyers or impeach enough justices.

ᚇᚐᚏᚉᚅᚓᚄᚄ ᚋᚐᚅᚔᚃᚓᚄᚈᚓᚇ @ciara2001.bsky.social · 2d

You'd have thought lying about your evidence should be a major red flag

(from here archive.ph/2025.10.06-1...)

US supreme court
Christian group ‘deceived’ supreme court about LGBTQ+ research, cited scholars say
Exclusive: Experts say Alliance Defending Freedom, arguing to revive conversion therapy, ‘profoundly misrepresented’ their work in case threatening trans and queer youth

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Jonathan Dresner @jondresner.bsky.social · 19h

This is entirely in character for Trump, who preserved his fortune as a real estate guy by stiffing contractors and clients unless they could afford lawyers as big as his.

Kansas Reflector @kansasreflector.com · 20h

Trump floats plan to deny back pay to furloughed federal workers after shutdown | via @jennifershutt.bsky.social #ksleg

Trump floats plan to deny back pay to furloughed federal workers after shutdown • Kansas Reflector

The Trump administration may try to interpret a law enacted during his first term in office differently than it did following the last government shutdown, potentially denying back pay to hundreds of ...

kansasreflector.com

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S E Case @secase.bsky.social · 17h

frank hates that you're making him do this

www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...

Frank: (wearing a sleeveless crop top that says "support Rigsby on kickstarter") Look at this slutty shirt they're making me wear
Anna: Yikes

Frank: So demeaning
Anna: (bending over) Wait a minute

Anna: What are all these fabric scraps
Frank: (holding scissors) just shameless

Support Rigsby WI on Kickstarter
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ironspike/rigsby-wi-volume-2-burn-it-down-by-se-case?ref=d40qwl

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Jonathan Dresner @jondresner.bsky.social · 18h

I don't think the creator of the system is innocent of the workings of the system.

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Jonathan Dresner @jondresner.bsky.social · 18h

"If you... I will..." seems deliberate, not automatic.
But apparently this is a good day for conflating the choices of people in power with natural phenomena outside the realm of choice, so...

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 21h

no wonder they hate gender studies

The Independent @the-independent.com · 21h

Trump official to Fox News: America has entered ‘era of real masculinity’ thanks to president’s ‘muscular leadership’

Trump official said America has entered ‘era of real masculinity’

www.independent.co.uk

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Amber Ying 應緣 @amberying.com · 21h

Valuing "getting along" more than, say, human rights just legitimizes the side that does not believe in those rights. The learned helplessness of Klein and his ilk comes from a moral center that lacks understanding and clarity about basic human rights.

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Jonathan Dresner @jondresner.bsky.social · 19h

This is entirely in character for Trump, who preserved his fortune as a real estate guy by stiffing contractors and clients unless they could afford lawyers as big as his.

Kansas Reflector @kansasreflector.com · 20h

Trump floats plan to deny back pay to furloughed federal workers after shutdown | via @jennifershutt.bsky.social #ksleg

Trump floats plan to deny back pay to furloughed federal workers after shutdown • Kansas Reflector

The Trump administration may try to interpret a law enacted during his first term in office differently than it did following the last government shutdown, potentially denying back pay to hundreds of ...

kansasreflector.com

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 20h

you guys happen to notice how everything is finance and landlords now and many things are both

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 22h

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Jonathan Dresner @jondresner.bsky.social · 19h

I reviewed "The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire" by Henrietta Harrison, and it's like a case study in all the ways translation can go wrong when politics are involved.

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The Blue Opaque @bluedelliquanti.bsky.social · 1d

Queers at the Table, an anthology I contributed a comic (and the cover) to, is out today! arsenalpulp.com/Books/Q/Quee...

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Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social · 23h

Behind every (alleged) great crime lies a Delaware business entity registration form, a continuing series…

Flock Group Inc., dba Flock Safety, the cameras-everywhere-in-the-cloud surveillance tech company, is a Delaware corporation.

Reportedly, it sells data to ICE – & Texas privacy invaders.

Business entity registration form: File Number:
6325533
Incorporation Date /
Formation Date:
2/23/2017
(mm/dd/yyyy)
Entity Name:
Entity Kind:
FLOCK GROUP INC
Entity Type:

Corporation
General
Residency:
Domestic
State:
DELAWARE
REGISTERED AGENT INFORMATION
Name:
Address:
City:
State:
Phone:
CORPORATION SERVICE COMPANY
251 LITTLE FALLS DRIVE
WILMINGTON
County:
DE
Postal Code:
302-636-5401

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Asakiyume/Morinotsuma @asakiyume.bsky.social · 23h

Art by my friend. If you’re in the Lawrence,KS, area, the exhibition starts this Friday and runs thru the end of the year.

Maroon postcard with images of block prints. On the left, a bw print of an elderly bearded man with the words “say no to cuts detained masked men layoffs trampled attack disregard instability starvation tariffs threat no.”
The middle image is in orange, black, white, and pale blue, of an elderly man, with the words “care courage community curiosity compassion cooperation creativity confidence comfort calm” at his back.”
The image on the left is multicolored, with yellow, green, and red primary, of an elderly woman, with vertical script/decoration behind her.

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 23h

Feel free to attribute the following to a former OMB General Counsel: The supposed "new legal analysis" is, to use a technical legal term, horseshit. What the law actually says is that when Congress enacts a law ending a lapse, furloughed employees get paid at the earliest date possible. Period.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

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berserk du soleil @aetataureate.bsky.social · 22h

i love technology like this, and i'm excited to report on research from universities. the fusion startup scene, though, is full of giant blowhards who are willing to promise anything in order to get investors. these include "AI" boosters like sam altman, who are clueless, malicious, greedy dumbasses

a gmail subject line says "AI+Fusion Summit" gross

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David L 🏳️‍⚧️ @finitisminmath.bsky.social · 22h

neo-Confederate capture.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Mike Johnson ignores a question about when he'll swear in Rep.-elect Grijalva and walks away

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Jonathan Dresner @jondresner.bsky.social · 21h

It all sounds good, but I admit that using fish sauce almost feels like cheating sometimes.

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Jude "BE NOT AFRAID #4 Out Now" Doyle @judedoyle.bsky.social · 22h

Here I am, talking about how the second wave became TERFy, why it didn't need to, and how feminism can be better for everybody.

Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 1d

"As much as our enemies are louder and crueler, and in many cases more powerful than ever, we have more allies than ever too."

Assigned Media interviews transmasc feminist @judedoyle.bsky.social

Jude Doyle On Manhood After Patriarchy — Assigned

Assigned Media interviews transmasc feminist author Jude Doyle.

www.assignedmedia.org

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Jonathan Dresner @jondresner.bsky.social · 21h

On the other hand, the prophetic literature is very clear that the reward for ritual and ceremonial obedience is extrinsic.

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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 22h

The Talmud has a straightforward answer as to why we should do good deeds. To get into heaven? No. Rather, the reward for the mitzvah is the mitzvah.

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 23h

I've been a journalist for over 20 years, investigating cops and courts that entire time.

This, on every level. Cops lie a lot. Cops are frequently incompetent. Never, ever, ever take what they say at face value.

Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 1d

To put it another way, I have represented thousands of people. I cannot think of a single instance in which the initial police report was entirely correct. Not one.

Journalists, please stop copying them down as if they were. Or at least give context re credibility!

Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 1d

Whether you're a casual news reader or a breaking news reporter at the NYTimes, I implore you--please, please, please--do not believe or report DHS/ICE/CBP's side of events uncritically. End the state's monopoly on legitimate storytelling. They are not the objective arbiter of what really happened.

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George @hannahtempler.com · 1d

no its so true though lol

Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 1d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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