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shelly jay shore (she/they) @shellyjayshore.bsky.social · 8h

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 12h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 9h

Ok everyone, I’m assigning you your resistance homework for the week.

Everyone ready?

Do something silly that makes you smile. I just waved at a dog that had its head out the car window because it made me happy. Don’t let the assholes take your joy.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 12h

this feels like the corollary to we need Mamdani in NYC and an oyster fisherman in Maine and a midwestern dad in Minnesota.

we're supposed to be the party that embraces the fact that we're a diverse and chaotic nation, stop test-polling yourself to generic national oatmeal!!!

Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 12h

It's interesting seeing the different ways resistance has formed in different cities. Los Angeles Organized, Chicago Radicalized, and Portland Got Weird as Fuck. All 3 have had success unifying their respective cities.

I guess my point is there are multiple paths to ungovernability.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 14h

It didn’t happen to me, but I got to watch The Last Good Thing to Happen on Twitter unfold for @amalelmohtar.com & @maxgladstone.bsky.social back in 2023
amalelmohtar.com/letter-of-ne...

The Twelve Days of Bigolas Dickolas Wolfwood

Dear Friends, Previously, on Amal Content: A lot has happened since then. I truly struggle with how to talk about the past 12 days, during which a viral tweet from an anime fan account with an exce...

amalelmohtar.com

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal cuts

Thirty paintings by Bob Ross are set to be auctioned to support public television stations

abcnews.go.com

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shelly jay shore (she/they) @shellyjayshore.bsky.social · 1d

ty for asking!!! bad 👍

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 1d

When you pay for your stuff at Spirit Halloween (I bought a pile today) you can donate to Spirit of Children, a charity that brings Halloween to sick kids. So, when you're buying your sexy Exorcist costume or animatronic spider, consider kicking in a few extras bucks.

Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 1d

Because my new book is out today I thought I’d do something completely ridiculous but also necessary.

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 1d

someone call the etsy witches this is a fucking emergency

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

Dolly Parton's sister is asking fans to "pray with me" amid the country music icon's health issues

Dolly Parton’s Sister Says ‘I Was Up All Night Praying’ Amid Country Icon’s Health Issues and Asks Fans to ‘Pray With Me’

Dolly Parton's sister Frieda is asking fans of the Queen of Country to "pray with me" amid Dolly's continued health struggles.

variety.com

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

Cis people aren't angry enough about the conversion therapy case for my taste.

They'll legalize it, and then States will pass laws requiring it, and that will be how they try to exterminate us.

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 2d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 1d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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FreeLinkophant sHELLey B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 1d

All this for a lying serial sexual harassing transphobic bigot.

Heckuva job @bsky.app @safety.bsky.app @moderation.bsky.app

some of its users have become increasingly upset at its moderation decisions, including allowing U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance and anti-trans writer Jesse Singal to remain as users of the platform. Singal became a particular target, prompting a petition with more than 28,000 signatures urging Bluesky to “enforce its Community Guidelines” against him that has not been successful, although he has been temporarily banned.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 1d

Mourning those murdered by Hamas isn't incompatible with mourning those murdered by the Israeli state.

Demanding that the hostages return isn't incompatible with naming & demanding an end to genocide.

Naming the power imbalance & impact thereof doesn't desecrate those murdered two years ago today.

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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 1d

The sort of organizing we're doing here is honestly crucial right now. If your organization wants to learn more about organizing fans, ping me!

Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 1d

"We saw an opportunity in the final season of 'Andor' and now many more people across races, backgrounds and genders have joined our ranks for truth and reparations — and have already dealt major blows to the MAGA regime’s agenda."

More about Project Fulcrum⬇️
wagingnonviolence.org/2025/10/why-...

Why fandom organizing is a powerful strategy for movement building

As the Disney/ABC boycott took off, youth activist group Get Free mobilized its “Andor” fan community to amp up the pressure.

wagingnonviolence.org

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ACLU @aclu.org · 1d

We were at the American Library Association Conference this summer talking with librarians about the importance of everyone having access to books that represent all kinds of different backgrounds and experiences.

Thank you to every librarian working to defend our right to read.

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 2d

A naked descent into authoritarianism is weirdly boring because what’s being debated is fundamentally uninteresting. Is the antifa legion burning down Portlan real or not? Well, let’s have someone look out the window over there. No? Okay. Facts are settled. It either matters or it doesn’t.

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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 2d

Are you saying they lied? That’s hard to believe, police never do that.

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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shelly jay shore (she/they) @shellyjayshore.bsky.social · 2d

like to charge reskeet to cast, etc

Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 2d

touching grass is no longer enough I need someone with half a brain and a functional conscience to find the death note

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 2d

Bring back 22 episode season orders where there’s at least one clip episode for no reason

Chris Cantwell @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social · 2d

Look, I appreciate this. TV needs more of this. Let’s have fun again. Seriously things are so bad in the industry and everywhere. Let’s all turn on stuff at night together and go “that was insane” and then surprise there are 20 more episodes and the characters don’t remember being in orbit.

9-1-1 poster with Angela Bassett in FUCKING SPACE!

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shelly jay shore (she/they) @shellyjayshore.bsky.social · 2d

delighted to share a preview of my extremely horny short story THE SWEETNESS, written for The Devil issue of @therebis.com and my personal “fuck you” to jk rowling by writing a story where the premise is basically “the mirror of erised but extremely trans” therebis.substack.com/p/the-sweetn...

THE SWEETNESS

An excerpt from The Devil, now available for purchase

therebis.substack.com

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

once again encouraging you all to support independent, worker owned, billionaire free News media when and how you are able

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2d

Installing someone like Bari Weiss as the head of a major news organization isn’t even about profit or longevity. In effect it’s about continuing to shrink the traditional news industry smaller and smaller and weaker and weaker and less and less journalism based until it ceases to exist

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 2d

Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 2d

if you mute "bari weiss" make sure you also mute "bari fucking weiss" and "bari are you fucking for real right now weiss" and "bari no fucking way weiss."

just to make sure you catch 'em all.

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Dianne Dupuis @iamfreetobeme.bsky.social · 3d

Be aware if you are participating in protests.

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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