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Fiercely defending the Resistance from my couch. Data geek with pulmonary disease. Chaotic tired. My kids don't think I'm funny but they're wrong.

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this corrosion says unban Łink @roguesecunit.bsky.social · Apr 3

Read books in between doomscrolling.

Make stuff & then give it away.

Watch shit that makes you laugh.

Protect your neighbors.

Do things that make evil people sad.

Stay alive.

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this corrosion says unban Łink @roguesecunit.bsky.social · 2h

Eyyy!! Boston born & raised, still here. DM for my Signal ID if you need anything (directions, suggestions of where to go, bail money). And my partner grew up mostly in Maine so we’ve got you covered there too! Seriously. Please don’t hesitate. May be able to get discount passes to NE Aquarium…🐠

this corrosion says unban Łink @roguesecunit.bsky.social · 3h

Those fuckers sprayed pepper spray directly into the suit’s intake. There’s a video from a while later where frog’s like, eh, I’ve had spicier. Legend.

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this corrosion says unban Łink @roguesecunit.bsky.social · 4h

It’s so good. 24/7 at ICE/fed ghouls for certain.

Doesn’t really work for National Guard or other military service members who a) can’t quit their jobs and b) have a fairly high likelihood of not wanting to be there in the first place.

But at la migra: yes. carry this chant city to city.

this corrosion says unban Łink @roguesecunit.bsky.social · 8h

(Reminder that this speaks to *people in power* in these states, not the people who happen to live in them.)

this corrosion says unban Łink @roguesecunit.bsky.social · 8h

For visual peeps:

Map of the United States. The follows n states are shaded red:
Alabama
Arkansas
Florida
Georgia
Idaho
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Louisiana
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Oklahoma
South Carolina
South Dakota
Texas
West Virginia

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this corrosion says unban Łink @roguesecunit.bsky.social · 8h

Oddly enough, it did not accept a photo of me with my kid's HALO helmet on. Ah, well.

this corrosion says unban Łink @roguesecunit.bsky.social · 9h

Hero!! (I tried to make an account there a few months ago and it told me to upload A SELFIE OF MY FACE.)

Thank you for your service!

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this corrosion says unban Łink @roguesecunit.bsky.social · 9h

I'm really sorry, I'm not seeing the other slides or info about how to help. Can someone show me where I should be looking? Many thanks...

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this corrosion says unban Łink @roguesecunit.bsky.social · 10h

Dude, who IS funding Antifa? Cause I’m officially giving up on finding an in-network therapist for my kid after being on waitlists for 2+ years & we’ve got a separate $4k out of network deductible so pony up, Antifa fat cats.

Ooh, do I get a Sanctuary City differential?

SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 11h

The NAR Christian Nationalists are all excited about ICE goons kidnapping people off the street then saying prayers and Trump's focus on Antifa.

Jenny Donnelly's repost of David Medina's video: Sec Noem prays ahead of her meeting at the Portland ICE facility. Love this!

this corrosion says unban Łink @roguesecunit.bsky.social · 11h

Spreadsheets go hard af for so many purposes, man. People are so goddamn creative.

Becky Hammer @beckyhammer.bsky.social · 7d

Ooookay here we go. Bad Bunny 101 condensed into six weeks of music, reading material, and perreo

Bad Bunny 101

docs.google.com

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this corrosion says unban Łink @roguesecunit.bsky.social · 11h

Whoa, you’re like a Misogyny Response Generator. I honestly can’t decide whether to block you now or wait for you to do it once more just to see which clichés you missed.

this corrosion says unban Łink @roguesecunit.bsky.social · 11h

So hey! Let’s break down this shitty victim blaming rq:

Tear gas is carried into houses, playgrounds, yards, etc. It doesn’t care who you are.

Detainees coming in/out can be pregnant.

I got pregnant right after a traumatic miscarriage but didn’t know it for 4 mos.

Put the fault on the aggressor.

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this corrosion says unban Łink @roguesecunit.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes asymmetric warfare looks like inflatable costumes and fuck it, man, I am SO here for that shit

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

lmao, kristi noem wanted a black bloc fight and got an inflatable rave instead. fuck you DHS, rip city forever.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 1d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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this corrosion says unban Łink @roguesecunit.bsky.social · 1d

You’re not going to let your children suffer, but you’re perfectly happy for mine to.

Or did you forget that there are trans kids too?

Must be nice, to only have “bigger issues” than your kid’s immediate health and safety being threatened by blatant lies. Must be real nice.

this corrosion says unban Łink @roguesecunit.bsky.social · 1d

This is from that interview, and part of it - even though Link was saying it in a different context - hits like a gut punch about bsky rn. It's really like they made a home, and then that home had ppl they didn't like. But "ppl you don't like" and "ppl who fuck up their home" are not the same thing.

Link: I don’t think it’s blurry. I think it’s self-reinforcing. I think part of the reason the language has been co-opted is because people have found a home within the neurodiversity movement, but the home has people they don’t like. Families are complicated, right? What they’ve done is, they’ve taken that language and they’ve shopped it out. The language has been co-opted, but those folks who are co-opting the language were given access to that language.

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this corrosion says unban Łink @roguesecunit.bsky.social · 1d

This and music. Always music. Local college brass band. A playlist your kid made on Spotify. Volunteers from your neighbor's church choir on a Sunday afternoon after services. The Machine must obviously be Raged Against but you can Mariachi against it too sometimes. Sometimes that's what you need.

Tychogirl @tychogirl.bsky.social · 1d

YES!! More T Rexes, more frogs, more Pikachus. Let’s fill the streets with inflated friends. Let’s fill the streets with defiant JOY!

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this corrosion says unban Łink @roguesecunit.bsky.social · 1d

Except Ted Cruz and Greg Abbot will be aces fucking fine while poor kids drown and undocumented families are too scared to pick up clean water in the aftermath. I don't want to be part of something that intentionally sacrifices people in retaliation for some asshole's decisions. That's not the way.

this corrosion says unban Łink @roguesecunit.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, that's what I said. 😄

this corrosion says unban Łink @roguesecunit.bsky.social · 1d

I wouldn't have noticed it if you hadn't pointed it out; it's fantastic.

To keep the appreciation thread going, I enjoyed the "well, maybe the violent leftist death squad is over here at our one o'clock instead?" zoom in on...some moms and journalists and possibly clergy? Zoom out.

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this corrosion says unban Łink @roguesecunit.bsky.social · 1d

I know I'm starting the countdown for all the people to jump out of all the places and tell me exactly how I'm wrong but in my experience the answer to your question usually comes down to "do you have actual skin in this exact game or will it change your world only in a moral sense".

this corrosion says unban Łink @roguesecunit.bsky.social · 1d

Related: I am seeing more headlines about US military troops being run above/beside images of ICE/fed agents dressed in paramilitary gear aiming weapons at civilians.

I fucking hate it. I HATE it. I need to write a thing about why this is so important.

I need to do a lot of things.

Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 1d

These two things are of a piece, even if the motivations and details differ.

Trump’s justification for his authoritarian crackdown is an America that doesn’t exist.

@lizzieohreally.bsky.social

Lizzie O’Leary quote post of a CNN post that pairs the headline “What is the insurrection act?” with an image of an on fire Winchell’s Donuts from the 92 LA riots.

O’Leary: Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsk... • 57m
This picture is from 1992 in LA and using it in this post and story shows terrible news judgment.
CNN:
@cnn.com • 7h
"President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word 'insurrection' more frequently to describe anti-ICE protests in places like Portland," writes
Zachary B. Wolf. cnn.it/4pWYmzr

this corrosion says unban Łink @roguesecunit.bsky.social · 1d

nah it's just a masshole thing

this corrosion says unban Łink @roguesecunit.bsky.social · 1d

and involves meetings. SO many meetings. or it used to, anyway. i'm Antique-fa, i guess.

this corrosion says unban Łink @roguesecunit.bsky.social · 1d

Fun fact: I have no idea who Bari Weiss is. Should I?

this corrosion says unban Łink @roguesecunit.bsky.social · 1d

Shit like this is exactly why I bother with this site. Otherwise I'd just, like, be in Signal groups & reading my print copy of In These Times & grumbling to myself. I need to mainline our creativity in all its forms - historic to absurd, protest pics to "wrong answers only" - to stay afloat.