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Gabala
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29. She/they. NYC. Cinema freak and dramatic leo queer.
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Hellgate is a great (worker owned!) local news source totally worth the subscription, but if you need convincing, the $20 dinner map is worth the price of admission alone!
A new $20 Dinner from @scoboco.bsky.social is coming your way later today. In the meantime, here’s the ad for the $20 Dinner series that aired on our election livestream last week! And check out our constantly-updated map here: hellgatenyc.com/20-dinner-map/
November 12, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Not sure if I shared this already, but here's me drawing Dick Tracy based on his first appearance.
November 12, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Another drawing of the gal who's either too hot or too cold, I can't tell. Think I've got drawing oversized jackets down now, and I'd been struggling yesterday with a low angle shot so I used refs to help me.

Kids, if anyone tells you using reference is cheating, you can spit in their eye for me.
November 11, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
November 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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UPDATE — Here are the at least 10 congressional Democrats, 5 Democratic-aligned organizations, and 6 Democratic Senate candidates calling for Chuck Schumer to resign as leader:
November 11, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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This blows my mind every time I run across it. We understood perfectly well how to teach people to read, it worked effectively for decades, and then we just decided ... not to do that any more. I think the best analogue is the history of treating scurvy.
November 11, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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November 9, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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It costs EV❤️NYC approximately $3 to make one of these gourmet-inspired meals which goes to combat poverty in our neighborhoods.

Volunteer, donate, spread the word.

Get involved as you see fit
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www.evloves.nyc

@prisonculture.bsky.social
@curvamundialpod.bsky.social
@dream-king.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Burnt match
November 11, 2025 at 8:59 PM
He always gets it
November 11, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I do love that when i watch a lot of movies, I'm with my friends. And if I am with my friends, we are probably watching a lot of movies
November 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Touching grass isn't enough, I need to be reminded of the timelessness of the human need to create beauty and connection.
November 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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This is in line with why I will be co-organizing a People's First Aid session here in NYC in 2026. open.substack.com/pub/grouphug...
CPR As a Civic Responsibility
A story about a city all learning at once
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Also true in PA.

If you want Fetterman out, the best bang for your voting buck is to stay Dem.

Pretty much any blue area with closed primaries, you want to keep that registration Dem if you want to maximize your voting power
Hey, a lot of people are talking about changing affiliation from Democratic to Independent.

Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado.

One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.
November 10, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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just a reminder that the 8 Dems who folded need to vote again later in the week (thanks to dumb senate procedure, unsurprisingly)

light their phones up tomorrow at 9AM
BREAKING

The 1st Circuit REJECTS Trump DOJ's request to pause a judge's order to pay up Nov's SNAP funds to the states.

The SCOTUS stay will expire within 48 hours absent further action from the justices, per its terms.

Doc ecf.ca1.uscourts.gov/n/beam/servl...
November 10, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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“We are at a moment right now where people are asking themselves why can’t the Democratic Party defend this assault on democracy . . . and I would submit to you that if you can’t draw the line at genocide, you probably can’t draw the line at democracy.”

-Ta-Nehisi Coates
November 10, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Delightful detail from the Roman “unswept floor” mosaic by Heraclitus, showing a mouse nibbling a walnut.

Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effect!

2nd century AD. Vatican Museums www.museivaticani.va/content/muse...

#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology
November 10, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Sow & her 6 piglets on trial in 14th Century France for the murder of a 5 year old boy. (Unsuspecting animals used to be prosecuted as if they had the same capacity as humans)
November 10, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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The official statement from @mauricewfp.bsky.social for us at @workingfamilies.org. Bottom line: THERE IS NO EXCUSE for tonight's vote! Join WFP at the link ⬇️ ⬇️
November 10, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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just made this bread and gosh
November 10, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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So, listen, call Schumer’s office no matter where you live, no matter if you’re registered to vote. Leave a voicemail that says if Senate Dems cave without an ACA premiums fix, you will never vote for or donate to another Senate Democrat as long as he is Leader
Call them:

Schumer (NY)
202 224-6542

Booker (NJ)
202 224-3224

King (ME)
202 224-5344

Hassan (NH)
202 224-3324

Durbin (IL)
202 224-2152

Ossoff (GA)
202 224-3521

Shaheen (NH)
202 224-2841

Gillibrand (NY)
202 224-4451

Masto (NV)
202 224-3542

Warner (VA)
202 224-2023

Fetterman (PA)
No Point
November 9, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Patterns.
November 7, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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This morning, in Broadview, 14 suburban women were arrested during an act of civil disobedience calling for an end to ICE/CBP’s kidnappings throughout the Chicago area.

“We want to encourage other people who feel strongly about ICE’s actions to step off the sidelines and take our cities back.”
Fourteen suburban moms arrested in sit-in protest outside Broadview ICE facility
The mothers sat in a circle on Beach Street on Friday to “demand an end” to the immigration raids that have swept through the Chicago area since the Trump administration launched “Operation Midway Bli...
chicago.suntimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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OVER A MILLION USERS

DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT

EVERY *WEEK*

what the fuck are we DOING here
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.

This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.

www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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November 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM