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lauren

@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com

the women in the workplace discourse is very funny because a man who can act normal in an office environment that's predominantly female is absolutely on easy street. it's maybe the best gig anyone in history has had. and yet for many guys it is utterly impossible

November 6, 2025 at 3:35 PM

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Jeff VanderMeer

@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social

This heartfelt and meaningful statement by Portland resident and author Cristina Breshears on another social media platform bears reposting here. I don't think the intent is to idealize Portland but to remind all of us what is important and why. (Posted here with permission.)

For nine nights now, the steady thrum of Black Hawk helicopters has circled over Portland. The sound is constant, invasive; a low mechanical beating above our homes. It’s expensive. It’s intimidating. And it’s unnecessary.

Our protests have been largely peaceful. There is no insurrection here. Yet this federalized military presence makes us feel like we are living in a war zone (the very kind of chaos this administration claims to be protecting us from).

The irony is painful: it is only this occupation that makes Portland feel unsafe.

Each hour of helicopter flight costs taxpayers between $2,000 and $4,000, depending on crew, fuel, and maintenance. Multiply that by multiple aircraft over multiple nights, and you’re looking at hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars burned into the sky.

Meanwhile, the Woodstock Food Pantry at All Saints Episcopal Church — which feeds working families, elders, and people with disabilities — has seen its federal funding slashed by 75%. How can we justify pouring public money into intimidation while cutting aid to those who simply need to eat?

This is waste, fraud, and abuse in plain sight:
* Waste of public resources on military theatrics.
* Fraud in the name of “public safety.”
* Abuse of the communities that federal agencies claim to protect.

Portland is a Sanctuary City. A sanctuary city is not a fortress. It’s a promise — a living vow that a community will protect the dignity and safety of everyone who calls it home. It means that local governments and ordinary people alike will refuse to criminalize survival. That schools, clinics, churches, and shelters will remain safe spaces no matter who you are or where you were born. But the term reaches far beyond policy. It’s an ethic of belonging; a refusal to criminalize need, difference, or desperation.

Sanctuary isn’t weakness. It’s courage. It takes moral strength to meet suffering with care instead of punishment, to believe that our neighbors’ safety is bound up in our own, to insist that safety is not achieved through force but through community, inclusion, and trust. It is living Matthew 25:40 out loud and in deed. It is an act of moral imagination and moral defiance. To hold sanctuary is to say: you belong here.

When we hold space for the most vulnerable — refugees, the unhoused, the undocumented, the disabled, the working poor, the displaced — we become something larger than a collection of individuals. We become a moral body. We do more than offer charity. We offer witness. We declare that the measure of a nation is found not in its towers or tanks, but in its tenderness.

Sanctuary cities are not lawless; they are soulful. They represent the conscience of the nation, a place where the laws of empathy still apply. To make sanctuary is to affirm that the United States is not merely a geographic territory, but a moral experiment: a republic that must constantly choose between fear and compassion, between domination and democracy.

A nation’s soul is measured not by the might of its military, but by the mercy of its people. When helicopters circle our skies in the name of order, while food pantries struggle to feed the hungry, we are forced to ask: What are we defending, and from whom? The soul of a nation survives only when we make sanctuary for one another. Not through walls or weapons, but through compassion and collective will. If we allow intimidation to replace compassion, we will have traded our conscience for control.

Please know that despite the hum of war machines overhead, the conscience of our city — whimsical, creative, stubbornly kind — can still be heard.

Portland is not the problem. Portland is the reminder. A reminder that a city can still choose to be sanctuary. That a people can still choose to be human.

October 12, 2025 at 1:02 AM

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shaun

@shaunvids.bsky.social

actually our AI programs are like people so its racist to say you don't like them. anyway would you like to buy one

October 5, 2025 at 12:53 PM

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星空★lone

@hoshizoralone.bsky.social

when you like a random youtuber enough that you go find them on other social media platforms to follow them but all they got is an instagram it kinda feels like a romeo and Juliet situation like i vibe w you heavy but we’re separated by terrible circumstances (instagram

September 25, 2025 at 1:33 PM

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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆

@chiitan.love

Chiitan loves all transgender people.
I've received a lot of criticism for expressing my support, but what's more important is that all transgender people live happy lives.
Blue Sky cannot display long posts, so please read this post if you'd like.
love you all 🤍
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www.instagram.com/reel/C9qppva...

September 17, 2025 at 9:54 AM

Ryuumi

@ryu-mi.bsky.social

One fear: nintendo gets out of putting gay marriage in tomodachi life 2 by just not having marriage in the game at all

September 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM

Ryuumi

@ryu-mi.bsky.social

Started browsing houses whenever I get bored and found some incredibly cool individual in Michigan City posted their k-on bedroom to the zillow app.

Picture of a bedroom with a loft bed and pink walls. A k-on poster is behind a desk and a gun has been sculpted out of pink monster cans

September 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM

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headfallsoff

@headfallsoff.com

one of the funnier chinese century things is that despite america being ruled by a literal twitter death cult china is still clearly superior at online harassment

September 5, 2025 at 11:33 AM

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William B. Fuckley

@opinionhaver.bsky.social

I love reading about stereotypes and memes for hobby or professional circles I’m not part of and never will be. reading like ER doctors make jokes at the expense of radiologists, shit like that. I don’t understand at lot but I’ll nod along like “fuckin’ Rados”

August 13, 2025 at 12:41 AM

Ryuumi

@ryu-mi.bsky.social

The actual point of video essays seems to be making silly little visual bits that you keep laughing at while editing

Keisuke and Nemu euphoria "I fucking hate you and hope you die meme"

Trolley problem with the euphoria girls. Nemu is on a track by herself. Keisuke has to pull the lever.

The scale of reveals from not-absolute cinema to absolute cinema. Euphoria is below average

The cartman "he would not fucking say that meme" except its Nemu and she would

August 9, 2025 at 7:11 PM

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steven monacelli

@stevanzetti.bsky.social

Taking aimless walks is an essential aspect of the process of intellectual labor and people who have never had Truths revealed to them during a walk cannot understand this

August 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM

Ryuumi

@ryu-mi.bsky.social

NEW (first) VIDEO:
euphoria is a visual novel infamous for its premise and (perceived) extreme sexual content. I found it to be generally mediocre but in ways that were interesting to discuss. #euphoria #eroge #vn
youtu.be/DEWb6MFpHco?...

euphoria is...ok

YouTube video by towakechi

youtu.be

July 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM

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onion person

@junlper.beer

never kill yourself you must outlive the terrorist state of israel

June 13, 2025 at 10:05 PM

Ryuumi

@ryu-mi.bsky.social

Struggling to determine if the hundred line's characters are obnoxious in a way that's compelling (drakengard) or in a way where they're just bad (raincode)

April 24, 2025 at 10:02 PM

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Lupita Nihongo

@otsumamiboy.bsky.social

This place should be being flooded with donations. A thing that we can do is make sure they have a war chest proportional to that of an Ivy League school.

Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · Apr 14

"Yesterday, we received notice from the federal government that our grant had been terminated and part of the reasoning was that we no longer align with the White House policies.”

African-American history museum in Boston worried about future as its federal grant is cut

African-American history museum in Boston worried about future as its federal grant is cut

A museum dedicated to the African-American history of Boston has had its federal grant cut, putting future programs in jeopardy.

www.cbsnews.com

April 15, 2025 at 2:46 AM

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Aftermath

@aftermath.site

Stop sharing the Ghibli AI slop, what is wrong with you:

aftermath.site/studio-ghibli-...

March 27, 2025 at 11:22 PM

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Lady Emily ☄️

@ladyemily.nebula.tv

NEW TOMODACHI LIFE LETS GOOOOOO

March 27, 2025 at 2:34 PM

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Center for Constitutional Rights

@ccrjustice.org

Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.

March 18, 2025 at 9:50 PM

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it's gita time

@xoxogossipgita.bsky.social

Literally when will someone do it

March 4, 2025 at 6:59 PM

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William B. Fuckley

@opinionhaver.bsky.social

I honestly don’t functionally disagree that a lot of DEI stuff has been annoying, pointless and some of it even actively counterproductive, I just think the backlash is several million times worse than whatever the issues were. It’s like murdering someone for chewing loudly.

Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · Feb 6

I thought of DEI policies as mildly annoying like IRB. They exist for a reason but it's kind of hard to bureaucratize a response to a real concern. The bigger issue was if all my colleagues look like me or all my students look like me, that's not good, fair, or likely to be a vibrant place.

February 6, 2025 at 3:02 PM