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Sunflowers and Potatoes 🌻🏳️‍⚧️🥔 @sunflowertaters.bsky.social · 2d

So has every organizer in history tbf

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Sunflowers and Potatoes 🌻🏳️‍⚧️🥔 @sunflowertaters.bsky.social · 4d

If you can guess what character I played, you get a cat pic

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Sunflowers and Potatoes 🌻🏳️‍⚧️🥔 @sunflowertaters.bsky.social · 4d

A friend bought me Skullgirls and basically taught me the basics

So ig I play fighting games now

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M-1R @hovermyr.bsky.social · 4d

the problem with mechsploitation is that if you turn a girl into a dog that's also an ace pilot you've just succeeded in creating Snoopy

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Sunflowers and Potatoes 🌻🏳️‍⚧️🥔 @sunflowertaters.bsky.social · 5d

The horror of realizing my coworkers and boss love me when I'm dissociated to the point where it's easier to think of myself as a flesh robot that puts bolts in than as a person

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Themperor Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedytcooper.bsky.social · 12d

What do you mean putting a lot of attention on a very small marginalized group that minds our own business was a distraction??

Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 13d

Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement

An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos and HEATED finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding.

heated.world

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Sunflowers and Potatoes 🌻🏳️‍⚧️🥔 @sunflowertaters.bsky.social · 12d

Probably not a great sign for my mental health that I'm starting to relate to Philip K Dick's tenuous connection to reality and the struggle to realize what is real and what isn't

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Sunflowers and Potatoes 🌻🏳️‍⚧️🥔 @sunflowertaters.bsky.social · 15d

Great disappointment 2.0 lol

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Sunflowers and Potatoes 🌻🏳️‍⚧️🥔 @sunflowertaters.bsky.social · 18d

"trans lesbians have straight privilege" as I have to carefully pick between "girlfriends", "partners", and "roommates" with everyone I meet

Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 18d

just saw a "trans lesbians have straight privilege" take and, look, its saturday. don't you have cartoons to watch and get needlessly angry over?

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Sunflowers and Potatoes 🌻🏳️‍⚧️🥔 @sunflowertaters.bsky.social · 19d

I give it that when the first food riots happen, if trump doesn't leave office first, the admin will be on the defensive and the ship really really starts sinking

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Beagle 🏴 🏳️‍⚧️ @afriendlybeagle.bsky.social · 26d

Does the academic study of puppygirls count as animal testing?

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Research article titled "What Puppygirls Know? The (in)Human Pedagogy of a Trans Feminine Style" by Jay Szpilka.

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Sunflowers and Potatoes 🌻🏳️‍⚧️🥔 @sunflowertaters.bsky.social · 25d

Important science is being done

Beagle 🏴 🏳️‍⚧️ @afriendlybeagle.bsky.social · 26d

Does the academic study of puppygirls count as animal testing?

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Sean Fay-Wolfe | Diamond Axe Studios @seanfaywolfe.bsky.social · 28d

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.

The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

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Sunflowers and Potatoes 🌻🏳️‍⚧️🥔 @sunflowertaters.bsky.social · Sep 4

Does anyone have any links to info about the current protests in Indonesia? I know anarchists are playing a major role and I want to know more about whats happening on the ground

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Mira (SPOOKYNOUNS IN BIO) @thefreeradical.org · Sep 4

to quote the goat show andor, "id rather die fighting than die giving them what they want"

our enemies want us to do nothing beyond sit on our asses and complain on the internet. lets do the opposite of that and make an actual difference together.

David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · May 29

If you have a public platform right now, especially if it's your primary job/role, and you're spreading "we're doomed because of latest terrible thing" without any info to how to fight back (and context on how people have fought such odds before) that's dereliction of duty in wartime. Stop.

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · Sep 4

Banning trans people from owning guns is a really REALLY significant escalation and I think the scariest part about it that's not being discussed at all is that the plan is to declare that trans people are mentally ill

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

edition.cnn.com/2025/09/04/p...

Trump DOJ is looking at ways to ban transgender Americans from owning guns, sources say | CNN Politics

Senior Justice Department officials are weighing proposals to limit transgender people’s right to possess firearms, according to two officials familiar with the internal discussions.

edition.cnn.com

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · Sep 1

Keep the pressure on them! A thread of Border Patrol recruitment events in September:

careers.cbp.gov/s/connect-to...

-9/3 Laredo, TX (Job Fair)
-9/5-7 Big Bear, CA (Tough Mudder)
-9/5-7 Scottsdale, AZ (Rodeo)
-9/6-7 Glen Jean, WV (Spartan Trifecta)
-9/6 Philadelphia, PA (Spartan Stadion)

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · Aug 7

Happening now: protesters in Chicago are interrupting a hiring fair at the Congress Hotel, where U.S. Customs and Border protection is recruiting today.

Banner reads, "stop kidnapping our neighbors!"

It's quite the scene in here, and the DHS table has been blocked for several minutes already.

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Sunflowers and Potatoes 🌻🏳️‍⚧️🥔 @sunflowertaters.bsky.social · Aug 30

Vance is much more competent but he is also not trump. Trump has the benefit of his cult of personality and remodeling the republican party to support him in specific. His lack of a hand selected heir means that if vance takes over, he'll be stimied by attempted rivials his entire presidency

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Sunflowers and Potatoes 🌻🏳️‍⚧️🥔 @sunflowertaters.bsky.social · Aug 30

Apparently my estrogen levels were above 1k pg/ml and I've never have heard a doctor with such awe in his voice as he tells me to lower my dose

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · Aug 28

A Demonstrator’s Guide to Operational Security

crimethinc.com/opsec

How do police and federal agents identify and target those who participate in demonstrations? What countermeasures can we take to hinder repression?

Nowadays, everyone needs to know the skills that radicals have used for decades.

A Demonstrator’s Guide to Operational Security

How do police identify and target those who participate in demonstrations? What countermeasures can we take to hinder repression?

crimethinc.com

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Sunflowers and Potatoes 🌻🏳️‍⚧️🥔 @sunflowertaters.bsky.social · Aug 27

My gfs called me "spiritually from Portland" and I've never been more offended

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meliss-AAAH! @mel.bzky.team · Aug 4

eggs will be like "i got like, one good year left in me" and then its the single worst year anyones ever seen

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jenny_tightpants🪑 @jtp.bsky.social · Aug 23

my main problem with the attitude of "butlerian jihad" or "killing the computer" is that it assigns blame to inanimate objects instead of the real people who very much can be held accountable who designed the computer to be this way

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Sunflowers and Potatoes 🌻🏳️‍⚧️🥔 @sunflowertaters.bsky.social · Aug 20

Rereading Gideon the Ninth and damn, these bitches hate each other

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Sunflowers and Potatoes 🌻🏳️‍⚧️🥔 @sunflowertaters.bsky.social · Aug 19

How about we do a Orson Wells War of the Worlds style hoax targeted at billionaires so they flee to the bunkers and leave the rest of us alone to fix the world

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