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just jukka

@justjukka.bsky.social

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Elder millennial. Army brat. Wisconsinite. Nerdfighter. Nerfherder. Writer. Singer. Animation/VGM enthusiast. Foster of animals. #BLM #TransLivesMatter #DFTBA #GoPackGo

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just jukka @justjukka.bsky.social · Aug 17

“Shallow understanding from people of goodwill is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.”

~ MLK Jr.

letterfromjail.com

Letter from Birmingham Jail, by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s letter to 8 white church leaders, written from a jail cell in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963.

letterfromjail.com

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just jukka @justjukka.bsky.social · 2h

I’m an army brat, so there are many.

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 2d

For Black History Month, a reminder that forgotten history also includes the inability of even science fiction to imagine the possibility of African futurity, where she emerges not as a low-budget version of Europe, but a true picture of herself. folukeafrica.com/african-futu...

African Futurity as Forgotten History

On the unimagined possibilities of Blackness

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Gizem Karaali 🧿 @gizem-karaali.bsky.social · 3h

An ode to the written word.

David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a great Shot debut from David Rayfield. "Writing has nothing to fear from AI – just from those who support it"

Writing has nothing to fear from AI - just from those who support it - The Shot

“We’re seeing a year-on-year decline on text,” said Facebook VP for Europe, Middle East and Africa, Nicola Mendelsohn, in a...

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just jukka @justjukka.bsky.social · 2h

That's the good stuff!

just jukka @justjukka.bsky.social · 2h

You tried 🫂

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angy frog @angyfrog.bsky.social · 27d

carpooling 🚙
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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 10h

Here is a nice a mushroom

A vase shaped golden chanterelle grows from the mossy forest soil like an ocean wave breaking against a rock. Rain wet ferns grow all around under the green forest background. All photos by me

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TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 3d

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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just jukka @justjukka.bsky.social · 2h

Nerd culture 🥰

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 3d

doomscroll break

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

FROGS TOGETHER STRONG is fucking incredible

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Natanael, Tech janitor @natanael.bsky.social · 11h

Xkcd strikes again

xkcd.com/810/

Constructive

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 1d

This morning there is one Nobel Peace Prize winner, 8.1 billion or so people who did not win the Nobel Peace Prize, and one Nobel Peace Prize loser.

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just jukka @justjukka.bsky.social · 3h

a man in a knight 's costume is running in a field with another man

Alt: a man in a knight 's costume is prancing in a field with another man carrying a large rucksack

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Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social · 8h

The reclaiming/reframing of frogs as Antifascist after enduring years of the execrable Pepe is glorious and I am here for every scrap of new heroic frog art

Christopher Doll @blackbirdcd.bsky.social · 10h

This is Space Frog

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just jukka @justjukka.bsky.social · 3h

Stop me if you’ve heard me say this before, but my undergrad was in German and Humanistic Studies…

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 15h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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just jukka @justjukka.bsky.social · 4h

He doesn’t even raise his voice. Admirable.

Tony Negron @tnite02.bsky.social · 8h

He mad and rightfully so

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just jukka @justjukka.bsky.social · 4h

Solid.

Ruth Adar 🎗️ @rruth.bsky.social · 5h

A useful set of ideas to ponder about survival in challenging times. Rather dramatically written but I think the gist is worthwhile.
www.jackhopkinsnow.com/p/the-surviv...

THE SURVIVOR BLUEPRINT: 20 Laws for Staying Unbreakable in an Unraveling America

If you can keep your head while everything around you is cracking, you don’t just survive...you win.

www.jackhopkinsnow.com

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just jukka @justjukka.bsky.social · 4h

Is this the “support” they voted on for our troops?

Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 14h

Consequence of the shutdown, many civil servants and military members are lining up at food banks because they have not been payed yet.

just jukka @justjukka.bsky.social · 4h

What the fuck is wrong with you?

just jukka @justjukka.bsky.social · 4h

And yet we love them.

AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 1d

sherman, for the love of god!

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 15h

I like how it looks like a bunch of happy cartoon animals have chased the goons up a tree

Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 19h

This is awesome.

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just jukka @justjukka.bsky.social · 4h

After midnight here, and I’m recovering from my vaccine gauntlet. Achiness is keeping me from getting comfy, but it’s leagues better than the alternative. I can still enjoy my critters being cute. 🥰

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TiXDiXL @tixdixl.bsky.social · 12h

Beanbag has more meds and more appointments coming up. Please help save this lovely lad's life. Any shares and/or donations help.

Theropod Art (COMMS OPEN) @theropodart.bsky.social · 5d

gofund.me/48d85745f

The gofundme is live!

Please donate or share where you can!

Thank you so much!!!

Donate to Help Beanbag the Lizard Get Life-Saving Surgery, organized by Jeffrey Comstock

Hello there, my close friends know me as Theropod-Art online, but my … Jeffrey Comstock needs your support for Help Beanbag the Lizard Get Life-Saving Surgery

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 9h

Trump got a Covid vaccine today.

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felis lux 🥀 @luxgalador.bsky.social · 10h

get off TikTok a year ago but also right now

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 11h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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