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Sam that was @sambrambling.bsky.social · Jun 28

I am an Anabaptist.

I call in all peacemakers and peace builders.

We cannot hide our light behind a bushel any longer. It is time. The peace testimony must be delivered in public witness.

Study your martyrs and guard your hearts against a spirit of fear. That is not from our God.

love&peace, heidi 🦋 @heidichronicles.net · Jun 28

I'm a Quaker.

I call on all my Friends to vocally oppose narratives of segregation; narratives that erase transgender such as our preacher, the Public Universal Friend (1752); and all narratives that run contrary to our testimonies of Simplicity, Peace, Integrity, Community, and Stewardship.

Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · Jun 27

How about we get some lawsuits going because segregation violates our religious beliefs...

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 16h

Yes, I can see the irony in having to organize an open letter in response to a movement looking to end academic freedom, which coalesced around an open letter that gave them cover to get here. I know.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 17h

bit.ly/nodealtexas

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Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 14h

america in practice has always fallen far short of its ideals but now they don’t even believe in the ideals anymore

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Sam that was @sambrambling.bsky.social · 14h

This is... Pretty grim reading.

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14h

A new Nature study on the four horsemen of the climate-tipping-points apocalypse: "the Greenland Ice Sheet, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, the South American monsoon system and the Amazon rainforest."

Destabilization of Earth system tipping elements - Nature Geoscience

A review of observation-based evidence suggests that four interconnected Earth system tipping elements have moved towards their critical thresholds, highlighting the need for better monitoring and increased mitigation efforts.

www.nature.com

Sam that was @sambrambling.bsky.social · 14h

When folks start leaving the armed forces and coming home, it is strategically and humanely critical that we surround them with loving community.

I'm really hoping the peace churches will start taking a lead on this again.

Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 14h

Mike Johnson said earlier today the House won't hold a standalone vote to protect military pay amid the shutdown, calling it a "show vote."

“It is insane not to pay our troops,” says Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.). “Some are in high-risk missions. You want them thinking about whether they can get paid?”

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Sam that was @sambrambling.bsky.social · 14h

*eye twitch*

Suzanne Arnold editor @suzannearnold.com · 15h

Editors will know why this has got me excited. Can you see it?

Sam that was @sambrambling.bsky.social · 14h

You know which animals I do love more after work with them? Geese. They're cool as fuck.

Sam that was @sambrambling.bsky.social · 14h

Also, some strangers found my mutual aid post in one of Link's Friday threads and helped me flee Texas ahead of a critical legislative date.

Sam that was @sambrambling.bsky.social · 15h

I broke into my first career and escaped a difficult marriage with the help of folks I met through social media platforms.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️ @magicariot.com · 16h

I have it on good authority that it's Lesbian Day, and my books are chock full of lesbians - trans and cis! And they're super cool and/or useless!

check 'em out at https://magicariot.com

Magica Riot - The Official Site

A novel about Portland's hard-rocking queer magical girls, Magica Riot.

magicariot.com

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 16h

also big high five to folks like @sharpiepls.com @aliafonzy.blacksky.app and @rude1.blacksky.team who are making this process easier to understand and manage!

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 16h

Finally and VERY importantly, I donated to Blacksky. They're doing incredibly important work and I wanna support it. bsky.app/profile/greg...

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 4d

Okay, and now I've just contributed to Blacksky. Consider supporting them too! opencollective.com/blacksky

Blacksky - Open Collective

Decentralized social media built for community power, culture, and collective freedom.

opencollective.com

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 15h

I've had people ask me why I don't support the genocide of Palestinians since "Hamas kills queer people" and I always ask if they think Israeli bombs and starvation are avoiding queer Palestinians or what.

I am a lot of fun at parties.

Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 1d

Just thinking for no reason about the time years ago I was asked by a Rabbi not to return to a synagogue because they were having an Israeli speaker and having a trans person there made the Israelis "uncomfortable."

Since Israel is so welcoming to queer people and all

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Sean Padilla says #ProtectJhordin @seanpadilla.blacksky.app · 15h

I’m 100% serious when I say this:

Make an inspirational funk playlist and listen to it on a regular basis

#ProtectJhordin ❤️ @xchemoni.blacksky.app · 15h

What is some practical advice for improving self-esteem as an adult, esp ages 30+?

(I don't think we talk about this enough because we're too busy criticizing those who haven't figured it out, so I'd like to get the convo going.)

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 15h

"For 4 straight Mondays, tech billionaire Peter Thiel is convening a private series in Silicon Valley on his obsession with the Antichrist. This peculiar and troubling theological fixation reveals how his political theology and apocalyptic imagination are shaping the worldview of the most powerful"

Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 15h

I’d attend this but am facilitating my own groups workshops at these times.

I think the strange theologies and archetypes that these tech oligarchs are operating on are important to examine and rebut.

Maybe I can register for recordings…

Rev. Dr. Matthew Fox @revdrmatthewfox.bsky.social · 1d

Join Matthew Fox & @gilduran.com w/ host @revpilot.bsky.social for a 2-part lecture/conversation series: Counterpoint: A Response to #PeterThiel ’s #Antichrist hosted by Convergence. Wed.+Thurs., 10/8-9, 4:00-5:30 pm PT
bit.ly/46ydZV6
#siliconvalleyreligion #Theocracy #religiousnotspiritual

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 15h

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on #Gaza’s list of war dead
#Israel #IDF #Palestine #genocide
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 15h

Women in Mexico step up to protect the island farms traditionally inherited by men news.mongabay.com/2025/10/wome...

Women in Mexico step up to protect the island farms traditionally inherited by men

This story is a collaboration between The Associated Press and Mongabay. MEXICO CITY, Mexico — Jasmín Ordóñez looks out at the water as the wooden boat she is in crosses a narrow channel that connects...

news.mongabay.com

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Sam that was @sambrambling.bsky.social · 15h

I broke into my first career and escaped a difficult marriage with the help of folks I met through social media platforms.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

Sam that was @sambrambling.bsky.social · 19h

Working on a small farm really helped me situate myself in the food chain.

A chicken will eat another chicken in a hot flash. They aren't secretly judging us for eating them.

And the things I've seen ducks do 😳

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Pumpkinloaf @toneloaf.bsky.social · 1d

*develops animal translator*

Me: so yea...that's how the sausage is made.

Pig: interesting...and can you do that with any species?

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Sam that was @sambrambling.bsky.social · 19h

Boys will see this picture and say "hell yeah"

Sam that was @sambrambling.bsky.social · 19h

I've met too many feral hogs, man. Still love suids, but I have no illusions about their willingness to eat me. They're one of the only animals that's every really tried to take me out.

Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 1d

My dad was the exact same way. “I felt bad because they were smart. Then I kept pigs. Now we must eat them before they destroy us.”

Another buddy of mine, who loves every single animal in creation, particularly the weird stinky smelly ugly ones, tried so hard to love them and they broke her.

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Justin acting on behalf of Antifa @smazzie.bsky.social · 20h

we've sent out two hot young experienced ranchhands with minimal supervision to handle the issue

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 3d

I don’t really understand the people who think we shouldn’t situate the current moment in context of the last 25 years in American politics, including the actions of the three Democrats who were president during that time

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 3d

a Wikipedia editor with the username Vigilantcosmicpenguin explained, "I contacted Brian David Gilbert with a request for freely licensed photographs. He delivered."

gilbert poses after his pizzas fall on the floor

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 3d

Obama won in part because people were sick and tired of Bush’s approach to governance, including the attacks on civil liberties and starting illegal

And Obama promised change and then didn’t even stop the abuses of executive power

If you want to ask how we got here, we can’t memory hole that

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