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Alt Selesnya Conclave Sevices @justthewinddrake.bsky.social · 2h

I love art

ⰑⰓⰄⰑⰀⰎⰅⰀ でも怖い @ordoalea.hr · 8h

Mecha Character sheet mokup, this is actually palyable btw, just... Doesn't look good XD

ⰑⰓⰄⰑⰀⰎⰅⰀ でも怖い @ordoalea.hr · 8h

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Alt Selesnya Conclave Sevices @justthewinddrake.bsky.social · 2h

My biggest regret in forgetting my LinkedIn credentials is not being able to easily delete the account.

Otherwise all upside, really.

FreeLinkophant sHELLey B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 2h

Deleted my LinkedIn and Academia dot edu accounts yesterday. Not going to feed myself to their AI theft machines either.

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FreeLinkophant sHELLey B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 2h

Deleted my LinkedIn and Academia dot edu accounts yesterday. Not going to feed myself to their AI theft machines either.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 2h

“They stole my EpiPen from me...I said, 'I could die,' they said, 'We don't care'.”

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Alt Selesnya Conclave Sevices @justthewinddrake.bsky.social · 2h

I imagine, like toupes, you only "See" badly done jobs. Well done hair will still look good because they're still well done.

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Alt Selesnya Conclave Sevices @justthewinddrake.bsky.social · 2h

I don't think this model is true. But it's interesting to consider how oppressed groups can still perpetuate the oppression of a smaller subset or any group they don't consider as their main concern.

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Alt Selesnya Conclave Sevices @justthewinddrake.bsky.social · 2h

Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin is messing me up. The whole story feels like 1984 boots on faces until the end of time but that's just multiplication. There's division too.

It's fractal how within each face there is a boot on a smaller face, encompassing each boot is another face.

[LVL 35]Alsvid Wotansdottir🔵 @alsvid.bsky.social · 4h

"I wonder what controversy Blacksky will have," people are saying, and my forecast is that the queerphobia and/or misogynoir is gonna stick in someone's throats, perhaps many someones, eventually coming to a head.

bargain bin Catgirl @edivimo.bsky.social · 4h

Good to know. It is depressing, but it is expected that every new place will have ingrained transphobia.

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Index on Censorship @indexoncensorship.org · 3h

American writer, playwright and Booker Prize longlister, Ledia Xhoga, reminds us of the profound injustice of book banning around the world. Join us in standing up against book bans this #BannedBooksWeekUK: www.indexoncensorship.org/bannedbooksw...

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Alt Selesnya Conclave Sevices @justthewinddrake.bsky.social · 3h

I think they learned they have more fun playing the bad guys as kids and that fucked a lot of people's brains up.

They develop an addiction to spite.

Alt Selesnya Conclave Sevices @justthewinddrake.bsky.social · 3h

Do it again.

You won't.

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 2d

"If the immigration enforcement apparatus of the United States were its own national military, it would be the 13th most heavily funded in the world."

"This is what happens when a sitting president wages war on an American city."
#Illinois #USA #Policing #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

The 13th Largest Army in World Is Unleashing Violence in Chicago

As federal agents kill and use extreme force in Chicago, their budget surges.

inthesetimes.com

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 2d

"I'm here to support humanity. I'm here to support the undocumented. I think ICE is a terrorist group. I think the police ... supporting ICE are terrorists."

Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 2d

"If the immigration enforcement apparatus of the United States were its own national military, it would be the 13th most heavily funded in the world."

"This is what happens when a sitting president wages war on an American city."
#Illinois #USA #Policing #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

The 13th Largest Army in World Is Unleashing Violence in Chicago

As federal agents kill and use extreme force in Chicago, their budget surges.

inthesetimes.com

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Alt Selesnya Conclave Sevices @justthewinddrake.bsky.social · 3h

Correlary: Every space that explicitly fights transphobia is a blessing and a joy.

bargain bin Catgirl @edivimo.bsky.social · 4h

Good to know. It is depressing, but it is expected that every new place will have ingrained transphobia.

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The Louvre of Bluesky @thelouvreof.bsky.social · 4d

I think it’s very telling that most of these people have drawn their bigotry line in the sand about AI but have never posted about ICE or Gaza.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 3h

ken paxton now requires all decorations to be the most racist or else he will send an undercover officer to your house.

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Alt Selesnya Conclave Sevices @justthewinddrake.bsky.social · 3h

Like yeah, fucking put some old Victorian clothes on them. Or some pirate clothes. Anything to show it's not fucking racist shit. Hang like a 2 headed person or a vampire or something. There are OPTIONS.

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[LVL 35]Alsvid Wotansdottir🔵 @alsvid.bsky.social · 4h

Time to wipe some new followers off my list because I'm about to say some classic shit that will get people mad.

You are correct, and you should say this.

KOLORFULLUST✨MONTHLY GOAL: $5/$600 FREEALLPEOPLE🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩🇵🇭 @kolorfullust.bsky.social · 21d

I feel like normals Blacksky is still super transphobic towards trans women in my experience. I’ve gotten sir’d into hell there but haven’t posted into the nsfw version much. Maybe I should start.

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Alt Selesnya Conclave Sevices @justthewinddrake.bsky.social · 4h

They are afraid to eat that humble pie. There are documented trends for minority groups to be against any deviance with that resistance associated with survival practices.

I think it's "don't wear hoodies" extrapolated to gender and sexuality.

I still think it's an unjust way of thinking.

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Alt Selesnya Conclave Sevices @justthewinddrake.bsky.social · 4h

My wife told me Ispend a lot of energy looking at people and things and trying to see them true.

That's what folks want labelers to do. Show them who people are without having to look for themselves.

Groups are great for finding solidarity but we still gotta look and see people to know them.

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 19h

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 4h

this is wonky stuff and is also really important

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 4h

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

prospect.org

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 4h

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Derek Gottlieb @derekgottlieb.bsky.social · 4h

Another one that I wish I had indexed and now have to pay money to read. But damn, I can’t wait.

Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 4h

In "Bêtes Noires," Lauren Derby explores storytelling traditions among the people of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, focusing on shape-shifting spirit demons called baka/bacá. Read the introduction now for free: buff.ly/FMxVGtA

Cover of Bêtes Noires: Sorcery as History in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands by Lauren Derby. A photograph of a crouching individual holding rope and wearing a covering with horns that hides their face in an empty room. Below the photograph the cover is black with a grey texture. The title appears on top of the photo and texture in a bold white sans-serif type. The subtitle is directly below aligned right in red. The author's name is above to the left of the title in a serif white type.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 5h

Josie and Pussycats meme of Black girl covering the mouth of white girl with her hand

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THE CITY @thecity.nyc · 5h

Public housing residents want to bring back a once beloved, New Deal-era strip of playgrounds under the Queensboro Bridge.

Local Councilmember Julie Won said she won’t approve the rezoning plan without it.

How Queensbridge’s “Baby Park” Became an Orphan and a Battleground for LIC Rezoning

Public housing residents want to bring back a once beloved, New Deal-era strip of playgrounds under the Queensboro Bridge. Local Councilmember Julie Won said she won’t approve the rezoning plan…

buff.ly

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