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KLM

@klm.bsky.social

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🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ ♿ 😺 🦀 🚌 🚲🖖 they/them | by day: research on household finances | always: Silver Spring, housing, transit, bikes, queer sci-fi, accessibility pfp: me in 🕶️ smiling on a beach banner: me + best cat ever (rip Caprica)

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KLM @klm.bsky.social · May 17

"are you a boy or a girl?"

I am the living, burning soul of a murdered planet stuffed into a meatsack and I'm mad about it

jessica BONEStown @midnightmasseffect.bsky.social · May 17

"are you a boy or a girl?"

i am smelling like a rose that somebody gave me on my birthday deathbed.

𝖓𝖔𝖗𝖆 𝖓𝖊𝖚𝖗𝖔𝖘𝖎𝖘𝖒𝖆𝖓𝖈𝖊𝖗 🏳️‍⚧️ @neurosismancer.gay · May 17

"are you a boy or a girl?"

i am the scent of burning leaves on an autumn night. i am the wind shaking bare trees. i am the shadows cast by moonlight. i am the raven's cry. i am the rose and i am its thorns. i shake the very earth with my footfalls.

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🦈 Liz, shark queen 👑 @thesharkqueen.com · 2d

Help elevate great humans with talent and heart by backing Curiouser & Curiouser Vol 2, Tales from Beyond. There are some great, (award-winning) writers in an anthology to take your mind off our almost-dystopian here and now...

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Greg Andraste Sideyr @andraste.fuckbgp.com · 19h

i’m at the open mic night

i’m at the israel-palestine lecture

i’m at the combination open mic night-israel-palestine lecture

TUE
7
Karaoke & Open Mic
Tuesday, October 7 @ 8:00 pm Open Mic
Open Mic
Normal Bar 1365 Prince Ave., Athens, GA,
United States
8-11 p.m. FREE!
booking@rudymontayremusic.com
OPEN MIC All musicians welcome. Every
Tuesday.

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• LECTURES & LIT
Tuesday, October 7 @ 7:30 pm
Normal Talk
Normal Bar 1365 Prince Ave., Athens, GA,
United States
Dr. Eli Sperling, a teaching fellow in UGA's School of International and Public Affairs, discusses topics on ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. 7:30-9 p.m. FREE!
www.normaltalk.org

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 19h

SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING: Firing RFK Jr. Now Greatly Reduces Serious Risks to Your Health.

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Mae_DayJ @maedayj.bsky.social · 19h

Someone has very kindly offered to match the next $500 in dough-nations!

Any amount you can give will have double the impact! Please please help if you can 🙏

V: @ Maelee-Johnson
PayPal.me/maeleeJ
ko-fi.com/maedaej
$maelee21

Please help me stay housed!

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Nisi Shawl @nisishawl.bsky.social · 19h

Who is an alien? What kind of minds are we meeting? What makes us Other? What makes us the same? @danielhwilsonpdx.bsky.social and I discuss these matters and his new Cherokee rez-set first contact novel Hole in the Sky on 10/16: www.clarionwest.org/event/hole-i... Streaming or face to face and FREE

Hole in the Sky: A Deep Dives Conversation with Daniel H. Wilson and Nisi Shawl

Join us at this launch event for science-fiction author and roboticist Daniel H. Wilson’s new novel Hole in the Sky, pitched as an alien first contact story set on a Cherokee reservation.

www.clarionwest.org

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AHMAD-JOHAR 13🕊𓂆 @ahmadjohary16.bsky.social · 22h

#LETGAZABREATHE
LET GAZA BREATHE. LET HUMANITY FEEL AGAIN.

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KLM @klm.bsky.social · 19h

good luck! you got this! and even if you don't fully got it, there's potatoes

KLM @klm.bsky.social · 19h

"They found the federal government to be an extremely accommodating employer. That added an extra layer of grief to their terminations—would their next job actually support them?"

Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 1d

For National Disability Employment Awareness Month at @motherjones.com, I spoke to four disabled federal workers who were laid off about how their old jobs were very accessible—and what the federal government loses out on by having fewer disabled employees. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The human costs of Trump's war on government

For many disabled workers, federal jobs were decent, human, and accommodating: everything the president hates.

www.motherjones.com

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KLM @klm.bsky.social · 19h

oh no! glad hubs was on hand to help you out

KLM @klm.bsky.social · 19h

Montgomery Cares should be able to either help or provide connection. they serve people who are uninsured and have low income www.primarycarecoalition.org/montgomery-c...

Montgomery Cares

Montgomery Cares provides primary and preventive care to adults who live in Montgomery County, Maryland and have incomes below 250% of the Federal Poverty Level. Montgomery Cares is a public-private.....

www.primarycarecoalition.org

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 20h

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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KLM @klm.bsky.social · 20h

Gemma will just meow at my corpse to get her more handmade pumpkin chicken until she too expires

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 1d

you think Frankenstein's monster is going to do something unspeakable to this woman, but it turns out he is misunderstood - he just wants to try on her clothes 😭

Frankenstein carrying an unconscious woman who looks a hell of a lot like Crepax's Valentina up the stairs - the bubbles read "Lectores: A que estais temiendo por la vida (y por la virginidad) de Zita?" and "Pero estad tranquilos... los gustos de Frankenstein son diferentes (je je je)..."

Frankenstein's creature checking himself out in a full-length mirror wearing a garter belt, fishnet stockings, and stilettos, word bubble reads "¡Bel...lo!"

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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 20h

my cat on catnip while I'm chilling stoned

AEW wrestler Orange Cassidy sitting on a chair with his feet up playing with a rubix cube while other AEW wrestler Thekla does her trademark spider pose where she arches backwards and walks on her hands and feet while looking at Orange

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KLM @klm.bsky.social · 20h

(i did not shred his flyer)

KLM @klm.bsky.social · 21h

wonderful news! i hope we are able to help you raise it quickly

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Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 1d

Yay i’am so much grateful Only 1 k to hit the final goal 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤️

Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · Sep 6

We are in urgent need of protection and a safe place to live. We’re raising support to help us escape danger and rebuild our lives in safety. Every contribution, no matter how small, brings us one step closer to security and hope. 💛
kindly give :
#BringRuaaHome #SafetyForRuaa #HumanitarianAid

Project Bring Ruaa and Her Family to Safety

I'm helping my friend, Ruaa Naji, raise funds to help her family survive.

chuffed.org

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Tammy Rainey @tammybeth.bsky.social · 23h

Dude was literally JUST ON a livestream insisting that he took a back seat to no one on defending the community and he was just trying to sympathize with folks on the "sports issue"

These bills had nothing to do with the "sports issue"

He's a lost cause, not a misguided soul

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KLM @klm.bsky.social · 21h

at least you fully acknowledge it

KLM @klm.bsky.social · 21h

me at Dupont Circle Metro:

what did that lanky teenage white boy slap on the train window? how suspicious. he better be prepared for me to shred it in front of him as we ride under the city together

it was a flyer that said "fuck that fascist Donald Trump"

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💞Sabrina💞 @sabrinarina.bsky.social · 23h

Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10 commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.

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Guy Berger @econberger.bsky.social · 21h

Bajillionaires of the world, we don't need more employment growth nowcasts during the government shutdown.

But we do need a very-large-sample monthly survey of US households to determine employment / unemployment status.

macromostly.substack.com/p/we-dont-ne...

We Don't Need More Employment Growth Nowcasts!

Slack Nowcasts Are the Missing Piece

macromostly.substack.com

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KLM @klm.bsky.social · 21h

that stretch of road is full of heartbreaks and still there is a dedicated group of neighbors who fight every proposed piece of pedestrian and cyclist infrastructure

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KLM @klm.bsky.social · 22h

yeah that tracks. i started watching in high school bc my mom liked it. she said she wished politics were more like the show but was under no illusions about reality

KLM @klm.bsky.social · 1d

i am at the office this afternoon and thank god it's mostly for meetings bc my wrists and hands started aching within 3 minutes of using the cube keyboard