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g @ontopoetic.earth · 10h

too few people have been loved and/or beat up by an auntie

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g @ontopoetic.earth · 10h

mid evil times

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 1d

we're never getting a fun website to talk about poetry with each other again and it bums me right out

less than all the actual horrors but still, that was nice when we had that

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g @ontopoetic.earth · 17h

the way research is *right there* and people just...refuse to engage with it...i'm tired

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g @ontopoetic.earth · 17h

i'm grateful for the time we had in the shape of space and time it was (which makes me miss k'eguro even more) as it feels like all our playful little conspiratorial networks are snapping several threads at a time

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Capital B @capitalb.bsky.social · 17h

Black children and those with disabilities may suffer the worst consequences, since they disproportionately face harsh discipline at school.

Parents Fear Losing Disability Protections as Trump Slashes Civil Rights Office

Black children and those with disabilities may suffer the worst consequences, since they disproportionately face harsh discipline at school.

capitalbnews.org

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RI DaSēr K @sotreu.blacksky.app · 1d

"There is no such thing as free speech as long as white supremacy still exist. Because white supremacy will never allow speech against itself to freely circulate."

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g @ontopoetic.earth · 1d

Film still of the 1994 Belgian documentary Les noms n'habitent nulle part (Names Live Nowhere). The image is of two African men getting on a train. The man in front wears a tan-colored trench coat. The man behind him wears a blue jacket with white striped cuffs and collar and a red shirt. The caption reads "one doesn't go astray unless one wants to."

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g @ontopoetic.earth · 2d

No doubt. My brothers abandoned me at an open-air mall once as night fell. Walking half a mile home with deep woods and long stretches without streetlights. Loneliest I've ever been in my life—and this was when I was 8 (in 85).

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g @ontopoetic.earth · 2d

Me too! Latchkey till the streetlights came on.

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g @ontopoetic.earth · 2d

It's the latchkey kid of entrees.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 2d

And you can support their music on YouTube which helps them make it through financial challenges. They needed this platform for mutual aid. #freeAC
www.youtube.com/@AmateurCras...

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g @ontopoetic.earth · 2d

Carnival comes to town, carnival stays a while, carnival collapses under the weight of its own hypocrisy, carnival goes offline. Sunrise, sunset.

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 2d

again, bsky made their new ToS knowing exactly who they'd be able to ban with it and who would always remain immune while being a heinous presence

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g @ontopoetic.earth · 2d

Moderation, like algorithms, mirror the stances (and, in some cases, stains) of the people behind them.

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g @ontopoetic.earth · 2d

Thank you for this reminder.

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g @ontopoetic.earth · 2d

By design. The fact that they turned "a negative consequence follows" into harmful language (instead of a factual statement) tells me they've been waiting on a reason to do this.

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g @ontopoetic.earth · 2d

........

Imagine poisoning the air and the water for this

Piss poor AI rendering of Martin Luther King Jr. on a gold coin with the word "LIERTY" above his head

Another piss poor AI rendering that supposed to be MLK but looks like Ghostface Killa in a suit with his hat to the side and the words "1 POR ALL RO" beneath his feet

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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 3d

“Your whole life you've made up so many little word games, when the last day of your life arrives, which phrases are you going to use to oppose birth and death?”– Dahui Zonggao

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g @ontopoetic.earth · 3d

A world of many worlds (but not this one).

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g @ontopoetic.earth · 3d

Hard not to feel these ecologies of despair change me. Harder still not to feel the pull of roots laid down by those who came before me grounding me in resistance to them.

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 3d

another piece in the grim constellation of past and current military, mercenary, and prison sites in the mojave

Jeremy Lindenfeld @jeremotographs.bsky.social · 4d

Aerial view of California City Correctional Facility, a private prison owned by CoreCivic that has been converted into the single largest ICE detention center in California.

Many detainees have decried the conditions within the facility.

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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 4d

Athletic Club Bilbao hosted Palestinian refugees at San Mames Stadium in a moving tribute followed by a standing ovation.

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g @ontopoetic.earth · 4d

Burnt out, and yet, combustible

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g @ontopoetic.earth · 4d

But I'd rather too many of the former than the latter. Squirrels are anti-gentrification. Rats are gentrifiers.

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