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Zack Furness @punkademic.bsky.social · Nov 12

I started this DIY World Punk Atlas a while ago & have been happy to see it grow. Please feel free to contribute and share it with other folks who might be interested! Simple instructions for contributors are linked in my first reply below. www.google.com/mymaps/viewe...

World Punk Atlas: A Map of DIY Punk Spaces - Google My Maps

Hey punks! This is a collective DIY project aimed at documenting past and present venues that host(ed) punk and hardcore shows around the world. If you're interested, please contribute as much info as...

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 22d

Frog and Toad flying a kite together, standing on a rocky outcropping.

From "A List"
In *Frog and Toad Together*

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Zack Furness @punkademic.bsky.social · 22d

Those are people who are burning. Mothers, fathers, grandparents, children, and babies. People whose homes & lives were already destroyed, often multiple times, and who’ve endured worse suffering and indignities than most of us could ever imagine, let alone bear. This is Israel’s legacy.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 22d

Israel's defense minister says "Gaza is burning" after heavy strikes targeted Gaza City. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, speaking while leaving Israel for Qatar, suggests the offensive has begun and that Israelis have started operations there.

Israel’s defense minister says 'Gaza is burning' after heavy strikes overnight across Gaza City

Israel's defense minister says "Gaza is burning" after heavy strikes targeted Gaza City. The remarks come as Israel has been planning a new offensive. U.S.

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Zack Furness @punkademic.bsky.social · 22d

One thing that I can depend on

Zack Furness @punkademic.bsky.social · 22d

Rumsfeld was the harbinger

Zack Furness @punkademic.bsky.social · 22d

We are living in insane times, brought about by decades of obsequiousness to the worst people, with the worst intentions, who act in bad faith, and constantly lie through their teeth to bilk the public, enrich themselves, and shit on the rest of us while laughing along the way.

Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 23d

These are the Trump Administration’s demands on UCLA, in addition to a 1.2 billion dollar fine, as reported by the LA Times today. I must note again that the Trump Administration’s attempt to use title vi to enforce conservative agenda items is flagrantly illegal.

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• Make five years of payments — $200
million annually - and set up a $172 million fund for people with claims of civil rights violations.
• Ensure foreign students who are "anti-Western" will not be admitted.
• Pay for all costs of the settlement, including the fee for an outside monitor.
• Annually release demographic data for hires as well as students who have applied or have been admitted, broken down by "race, color, grade point average, and performance on standardized tests."
• Make a public statement declaring that transgender people's identities are no longer recognized.
• End gender-affirming care for minors at medical facilities.
• Give the government access to "all
UCLA staff, employees, facilities, documents, and data related to the agreement" not protected by attorney-client privilege.

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Zack Furness @punkademic.bsky.social · 22d

Look at my troll, dawg, I’m never getting across this bridge

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Zack Furness @punkademic.bsky.social · 22d

I hope

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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 22d

Hold on, these are the "we don't have to bake your gay wedding cake" people?

Mediaite @mediaite.com · 22d

Pam Bondi Threatens Charges Over Office Depot Employee Who Refused To Print Charlie Kirk Flyers: ‘We Can Prosecute You’

Attorney General Pam Bondi said the Department of Justice is considering bringing charges after a now-fired Office Depot employee refused to print flyers advertising a vigil for Charlie Kirk. The post Pam Bondi Threatens Charges Over Office Depot Employee Who Refused To Print Charlie Kirk Flyers: ‘We Can Prosecute You’ first appeared on Mediaite.

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Zack Furness @punkademic.bsky.social · 22d

We didn’t mean OUR wedding cake we meant yours, libz

Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 22d

Hold on, these are the "we don't have to bake your gay wedding cake" people?

Mediaite @mediaite.com · 22d

Pam Bondi Threatens Charges Over Office Depot Employee Who Refused To Print Charlie Kirk Flyers: ‘We Can Prosecute You’

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Zack Furness @punkademic.bsky.social · 22d

The very same

Zack Furness @punkademic.bsky.social · 22d

The highest tribute you could pay him

Zack Furness @punkademic.bsky.social · 22d

😤

Zack Furness @punkademic.bsky.social · 22d

(if you’re out there somewhere hit the dm)

Zack Furness @punkademic.bsky.social · 22d

Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74

lydelle buster @babyshoes4cash.com · 22d

Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74

👻 {rem @postes.zip · 22d

Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74

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Zack Furness @punkademic.bsky.social · 22d

Same!

Zack Furness @punkademic.bsky.social · 22d

ALL ONE!

*But with all due respect, the founder’s grandson who owns/runs Bronners is rad & has instituted extremely progressive environmental & labor policies that are downright radical in comparison to anything other companies are doing. He also sources their olive oil from Palestinian farmers.

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Zack Furness @punkademic.bsky.social · 22d

The punk girl with the charged fauxhawk and switchblades permanently altered something deep in my youthful consciousness 😍

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Zack Furness @punkademic.bsky.social · 22d

I’m making my vax appts for this Thursday before these freaks can replace them with doses of horse paste, blue dye, and travel sized bottles of Bronner’s peppermint.

Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 22d

He fired all 17 panel members in June and has now replaced them with anti-vaxxers.

The committee's new members are:
• Dr. Evelyn Griffin, a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist in Louisiana who was among the first gynecologic surgeons to perform robotic-assisted procedures in the United States. In a Louisiana House of Representatives hearing in 2021, Dr. Griffin questioned the safety and effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccines.
• Catherine M. Stein, an epidemiology professor at Case Western Reserve University who has studied tuberculosis and other infectious diseases. In 2022, she called for an end to vaccine mandates at universities and wrote that such rules were "unethical."
• Dr. Kirk Milhoan, a cardiologist who has studied heart inflammation, or
myocarditis — a rare side effect known to be associated with Covid-19 vaccines. In a 2024 hearing on vaccine safety led by Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican of Georgia, he said that getting a Covid vaccine increased the risk of developing the disease.

• Hillary Blackburn, a pharmacist and a director at AscensionRx, the pharmacy service for the nonprofit Catholic health system.
• Dr. Raymond Pollak, a surgeon and transplant specialist who has led several federally funded studies and clinical trials.
In June, Mr. Kennedy fired all 17 previous members of the panel, asserting without evidence that the committee members were
"plagued with persistent conflicts of interest," although they all had been vetted for such conflicts.
Two days later, he appointed eight doctors and researchers, half of whom had expressed skepticism of vaccines at some point. (One later stepped down because of financial conflicts of interest.) The new members bring the committee's total to 12.

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Zack Furness @punkademic.bsky.social · 22d

Like, what the fuck are we doing here? The Vice Pres did a multi-hour, unhinged, classically fascist rant as the fill-in host of a podcast previously spearheaded by the country’s most notorious contrarian, where he laid down plans to effectively round up all leftists. And this is the reporting?

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Zack Furness @punkademic.bsky.social · 22d

Not wrong

Sable, Public Universal Momfriend 🏳️‍⚧️ @ghostlysable.bsky.social · 22d

I really hate to do this to you, but good sex is just improv

Zack Furness @punkademic.bsky.social · 22d

The word “unsubstantiated” or “unfounded” or, more poignantly, “baseless” should’ve been included in the lede paragraph as well as the headline. Not doing so in a story like this is honestly the kind of thing that can get people killed. We are in uncharted waters and this is extremely dangerous.

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 22d

They’re beyond unhinged

Mediaite @mediaite.com · 22d

Pam Bondi Threatens Charges Over Office Depot Employee Who Refused To Print Charlie Kirk Flyers: ‘We Can Prosecute You’

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wargen @funeralpig.bsky.social · Nov 19

those beautiful naked women have made a compelling argument i am going to steer this ship into the rocks

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 23d

absolutely repugnant, gutfeld completely dismisses the assassination of melissa hortman, calls it a "bull shit" example of political violence

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 23d

ive never seen anything like rhetoric coming from the right in the last week, this is absolutely insane and it needs to stop and people in power need to start speaking the fuck up like right the fuck now

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