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Weeksy

@weeksy.bsky.social

queer anarchist cook
aspiring board game designer
passionate about tallships, insects, food history, and cinema

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Matt

@orangecatmatt.bsky.social

I've seen a lot of leftists get very mad about this post, ranging from "oh you're just noticing NOW?" to the far worse take, which is "America has always been like this."

And I'm going to get into why this is both unhelpful and like, objectively false as a response to have to this sort of thing.

Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 22d

“We can’t be a country with a paramilitary secret police because then we would be a nation with a paramilitary secret police” is something my brain genuinely says to me. I need my brain to change as fast as my world and that’s not easy.

January 12, 2026 at 8:08 PM

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amanda moore 🐢

@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social

A man was just chased and arrested outside of the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago. When legal observers from the National Lawyers Guild asked why, an agent threatened to arrest them too.

September 27, 2025 at 10:51 PM

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Phil Lewis

@phillewis.bsky.social

Colombian President Gustavo Petro's full post ordering an increase of import tariffs on U.S. goods, says he doesn't really like traveling to the U.S. because it's “a bit boring” and invokes the ancestors

Trump, I don't really like travelling to the US, it's a bit boring, but I confess that there are some commendable things. I like going to the black neighbourhoods of Washington, where I saw an entire fight in the US capital between blacks and Latinos with barricades, which seemed like nonsense to me, because they should join together.

I confess that I like Walt Whitman and Paul Simon and Noam Chomsky and Miller

I confess that Sacco and Vanzetti, who have my blood, are memorable in the history of the USA and I follow them. They were murdered by labor leaders with the electric chair, the fascists who are within the USA as well as within my country

I don't like your oil, Trump, you're going to wipe out the human species because of greed. Maybe one day, over a glass of whiskey, which I accept, despite my gastritis, we can talk frankly about this, but it's difficult because you consider me an inferior race and I'm not, nor is any Colombian.

So if you know someone who is stubborn, that's me, period. You can try to carry out a coup with your economic strength and your arrogance, like they did with Allende. But I will die in my law, I resisted torture and I resist you. I don't want slavers next to Colombia, we already had many and we freed ourselves. What I want next to Colombia are lovers of freedom. If you can't accompany me, I'll go elsewhere. Colombia is the heart of the world and you didn't understand that, this is the land of the yellow butterflies, of the beauty of Remedios, but also of the colonels Aureliano Buendía, of which I am one, perhaps the last.

You will kill me, but I will survive in my people, which is before yours, in the Americas. We are peoples of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea and of freedom.

You don't like our freedom, okay. I don't shake hands with white slavers. I shake hands with the white libertarian heirs of Lincoln and the black and white farm boys of the USA, at whose graves I cried and prayed on a battlefield, which I reached after walking the mountains of Italian Tuscany and after being saved from Covid.

They are the United States and before them I kneel, before no one else.

Overthrow me, President, and the Americas and humanity will respond.

Colombia now stops looking north, looks at the world, our blood comes from the blood of the Caliphate of Cordoba, the civilization of that time, of the Roman Latins of the Mediterranean, the civilization of that time, who founded the republic, democracy in Athens; our blood has the black resistance fighters turned into slaves by you. In Colombia is the first free territory of America, before Washington, of all America, there I take refuge in its African songs.

My land is made up of goldsmiths who worked in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs and of the first artists in the world in Chiribiquete.

You will never rule us. The warrior who rode our lands, shouting freedom, who is called Bolívar, opposes us.

Our people are somewhat fearful, somewhat timid, they are naive and kind, loving, but they will know how to win the Panama Canal, which you took from us with violence. Two hundred heroes from all of Latin America lie in Bocas del Toro, today's Panama, formerly Colombia, which you murdered.

I raise a flag and as Gaitán said, even if it remains alone, it will continue to be raised with the Latin American dignity that is the dignity of America, which your great-grandfather did not know, and mine did, Mr. President, an immigrant in the USA,

Your blockade does not scare me, because Colombia, besides being the country of beauty, is the heart of the world. I know that you love beauty as I do, do not disrespect it and you will give it your sweetness.

FROM TODAY ON, COLOMBIA IS OPEN TO THE ENTIRE WORLD, WITH OPEN ARMS, WE ARE BUILDERS OF FREEDOM, LIFE AND HUMANITY.

I am informed that you impose a 50% tariff on the fruits of our human labor to enter the United States, and I do the same.

Let our people plant corn that was discovered in Colombia and feed the world

January 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM

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Nile (like the river)

@nilejoan.com

Tomorrow is TDOR (Trans Day of Remembrance)

It's a day we set aside each year to honor the trans people who died in the past year (a large majority being from violent deaths)

Please understand it is not a holiday and please DO NOT wish anyone you know a "happy tdor"

More info below

November 19, 2024 at 5:27 PM

Weeksy

@weeksy.bsky.social

Finally going to be calling Portland home again! It's been an awful year (although this part of Washington is very pretty), but I am very excited to get back to trains and community and late-night burritos

February 16, 2024 at 8:20 PM

Weeksy

@weeksy.bsky.social

bros

Two cats, one black&white, one grey-brown, sleep in an embrace, cuddled in fleece blankets.

October 26, 2023 at 6:20 AM

Weeksy

@weeksy.bsky.social

Bog time, baby

A sunset reflection on a smooth pond. Conifers and marsh grass in the background.

A mossy snag over a stagnant pool. Dead trees and lillypads.

Small maroon mushrooms with long grey mold growing from them. A sword fern frond and some rotting wood.

October 20, 2023 at 9:11 PM

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Z Samudzi

@zsamudzi.bsky.social

This is an excellent anti-authoritarian analysis of the regional and international players and politics animating Azerbaijan’s horrific blockade of Artsakh and its annexation of Armenian land as a continuation of the Ottoman genocide — have a read.

crimethinc.com/2023/09/23/a...

Anarchist Voices from Armenia and Azerbaijan

This week, a new round of violence broke out over the contested zone of Nagorno-Karabakh, also known as Artsakh, an Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan. Anarchists from Armenia, Russia, and Azerbaijan s...

crimethinc.com

September 24, 2023 at 1:09 PM

Weeksy

@weeksy.bsky.social

rewatched La Haine, a film I love deeply. It's one I wish more people saw. There's a riot over cops brutalizing a kid, and in the aftermath three teens find a gun a cop lost in the scuffle.

It's beautiful, poetic, well worth a watch.
Creamy — Today at 2:45 PM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Hs6...

September 8, 2023 at 3:46 AM