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Countx Chocula 🦇👻

@speedofhuman.bsky.social

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Weirdo nature nerd, 🪨hound, 👻 storyteller, #trans 🏳️‍⚧️⚧️, #genderqueer, #AuDHD #pwME #WUFO Liminal Earth Ambassador

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Countx Chocula 🦇👻 @speedofhuman.bsky.social · Mar 14

I finally wrote up a field report zine about some of my wild experiences in Boyer Chute, which I alluded to a few weeks back in #WUFO

📖 You can check out "Fairy-Led at Boyer Chute" here (no need for an account - click "continue as guest"): new.express.adobe.com/publishedV2/...

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Jillian Whitton 🏳️‍⚧️, rising @jillianw.bsky.social · 2h

"I would want my legacy to be: If it ain’t right, fucking fix it, whatever it takes. I’d want to be remembered for trying to do the right thing and care for all people."

A legend and an inspiration.

❤️🏳️‍⚧️

The DC Homos @dchomos.com · 1d

Stonewall Veteran Miss Major Griffin-Gracy Has Entered Hospice Care

www.them.us/story/miss-m...

Stonewall Veteran Miss Major Griffin-Gracy Has Entered Hospice Care

The transgender rights activist had previously been hospitalized for more than 10 days.

www.them.us

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No_ID_Lady @no-id-lady.bsky.social · 2h

Please consider signing the petition & joining us in #BoycottWindmillMushrooms ✊

I live in Moscow, #Idaho & we’ve been boycotting from the beginning by careful sourcing & avoiding ALL mushrooms from Sunnyside, WA. It’s been a bit inconvenient but possible even here!

United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 3h

Do you buy mushrooms? Windmill farm workers are calling on you to sign and share the #BoycottWindmillMushrooms petition: act.seiu.org/a/windmill_i...

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California Fast Food Workers Union @cafastfoodunion.org · 6h

BREAKING: Burger King workers are on strike in Oakland due to pregnancy discrimination.

The store cut our coworker’s hours because she is pregnant and asked for accommodations to ensure a safe pregnancy. 🧵

#UnionsForAll

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Countx Chocula 🦇👻 @speedofhuman.bsky.social · 6h

We have plenty of access to Voodoo Donuts, so mediocre donuts abound 😂😐

Countx Chocula 🦇👻 @speedofhuman.bsky.social · 6h

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Jon Walker @jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social · 11d

This is literally what the actual "siege" of the auxiliary ICE building looks like

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safety closet @safetycloset.bsky.social · 3d

oh. the “ironic” pretend bigotry is almost immediately translating to real life harassment? you don’t say! who could have foreseen this. if only there was precedent.

Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 3d

What’s lost in this conversation is that language must always escape containment, so your playful little “clanker” slur is now being directed at people with bionic limbs.

Harmless fun, right? www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8AjSabH/

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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 10h

Those influencing Trump education policy aren't shy about wanting to eradicate public schools.

Asked what % of kids she imagines should be in public schools, Tiffany Justice -- Moms for Liberty cofounder, now with Heritage Foundation -- told @propublica.org

“I hope zero. I hope to get to zero.”

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

www.propublica.org

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 2d

"What’s scary is that you don’t understand how your words affect other people. When you say true stuff, then other people might get the disturbing idea to research what you said, learn something, and then continue to learn things."

It’s Extremely Divisive of You to Tell the Truth

Our nation is incredibly divided right now, and the last thing we need is someone standing up and further dividing us with statements based in fact...

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J 🩵🐚🏳️‍⚧️ @theoraclej.com · 10h

get you some pretties, trans loves! Nora's got this great and wonderful event ze's running! ONE HOUR

Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1d

I am doing a round of We Want You To Have This TOMORROW MORNING at 9AM mountain time. If you are trans in the US and want a gift from my shop but cannot afford it, or if you have a trans loved one you would like a gift for, I will have 20 available. Details in thread. nora.jewelry/pages/we-wan...

We Want You To Have This: Jewelry Gifts For Trans People

Requests for gifts are now closed! They will open again at 9AM Mountain Time (Denver) Wednesday, October 8th. The following round will be on Saturday, October 25th at 9AM. Just looking for the forms?...

nora.jewelry

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 11h

JUST IN: The Republican Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska’s second biggest city, lost re-election last night to a Democrat.

Mayor David Pruhs is a conservative who fought protections for LGBTQ+ residents; he made comments this year drew condemnation this year from Alaska Natives. He lost to Mindy O'Neall.

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Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · 11h

Corporations aren’t going to regulate themselves.
Billionaires aren’t going to tax themselves.
The system isn’t going to change itself.

That’s why we fight to put working class leaders in office: so we can have a government that cares for ALL of us, not just the richest of us.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 10h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 10h

let gaza live

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aslynn's tremendous 'tism horror show 👻 🎃 @audhd-psychnp.com · 10h

Mel said:

the people who might get the most pity from the oligarchy
lives eugenics would have us extinguish
whose struggle is evident to all

they ALSO oppose a cure

Mel, a picture of what the orange oligarchy fears & loathes

sie said clearly: we oppose a cure

(it's not just loudmouths like me!)

aslynn's tremendous 'tism horror show 👻 🎃 @audhd-psychnp.com · Apr 16

The kids here might not know about Mel Baggs (sie/hir) who radically changed my understanding of cognitive function

In the early 2000’s, I thought Mel’s YouTube may be a hoax. I was an ignorant twit.

We know better now re: nonspeaking individuals but when Mel & I were young, sie was disbelieved.

In My Language

YouTube video by silentmiaow

www.youtube.com

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 10h

Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got

- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford

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Cville Gooner @cvillebluegrass1.bsky.social · 11h

ruh roh. #econsky
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Carlyle Unveils Proprietary Data Showing Weak US Employment

Carlyle Group, the investment manager whose portfolio companies employ more than 700,000 people globally, is stepping into the economic data void left by the US government shutdown with a grim read on...

www.bloomberg.com

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Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC (Friday only!) @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 17h

Kody is one of the best people in comics. Full stop.

You won't find anyone kinder, friendly or more supportive of the comics making community. He's been one of my most reliable friends in comics for years and someone who well and truly deserves all the support in the world. Lend a hand.

Kody Okamoto @kodyisover.com · 1d

So just once again reiterating, if you wanna be a patron of my art, every dollar of your support goes really, REALLY far in making a tangible difference in my life.

patreon.com/kodyisover
subscribestar.adult/kodyisover
ko-fi.com/kodyisover

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Yo Gabapentin @yogabapentin.bsky.social · 1d

Claude AI’s logo is unironically Kurt Vonnegut’s butthole drawing

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 17h

doomscroll break

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 10h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 10h

Dancing in the streets! Nothing but peaceful protesting!

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 10h

They’re just gonna do a little lite slavery.

In addition, the new rule allows farm employers to charge H-2A workers for their housing, which was not allowed before. "It's a way for employers to continue to house workers and also charge them, and bring down effective wages," said Marcos Lopez of the Labor and Community Center at the University of California, Davis.

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Countx Chocula 🦇👻 @speedofhuman.bsky.social · 11h

I’ve seen three or four folks post the same in my scroll this morning. You’re not alone 😂

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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 12h

"I don’t want to get used to any of this. I don’t want to lose the part of myself that still startles, still aches, still sounds the alarm. But I also want to keep my body. I want to keep my mind. I want to keep my people. I want to make it through."

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 14h

"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.

The Emergency Is the Atmosphere

“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."

organizingmythoughts.org

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☆ Blu ☆ @blubat.bsky.social · 1d

Wrote this on the board at work. Hopefully it's effective.

Little white board that says, "Ooh, you wanr physical media so bad -- ooh you don't want media literacy and reading comprehension to wither & die." Under it is a crudely drawn hypnotic circle. To the left is a drawn cat with glasses sitting on a stack of books and to the right is an alien saying "even aliens read".

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