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tine-y dancer @a9ymous.bsky.social · 20h

yes, was going to say that when i read your other comment 😅

btw it's not done yet, Babylon Berlin season 5 (final season) is coming

grim as hell, yes, but extremely worthwhile and engaging nevertheless

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tine-y dancer @a9ymous.bsky.social · 1d

thanks for the mention, i wasn't aware of this show. iirc Babylon Berlin had a bit about a socialist press going through the same thing in the leadup to the war. unless i'm thinking of something else i watched.

this might be something my husband would enjoy watching w me.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 1d

It’s amazing that people still try and claim to my face after years of doing research on this that the Democratic Party is not being pushed right by right wing operatives like thenever trumpers , who continue to get caught lying like this about everything from anti fascism the counter misinformation

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tine-y dancer @a9ymous.bsky.social · 1d

same here, maybe the moon was whispering to all their little brains last night

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tine-y dancer @a9ymous.bsky.social · 1d

i was just reading this article about how they crammed a new program head into the jewish studies program via a suspect series of events (and trying to make it look like an organic, faculty-involved process when it clearly wasn't). probably just one ex. of creepfash.
www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

The week after over 50 protesters were arrested in a pro-Palestinian encampment in Dunn Meadow in late April 2024, Jikeli helped host a "Rally Against Hamas Propaganda" at Showalter Fountain. Jikeli said the protest was not against the encampment, but rather rhetoric he considered harmful.

The student, Sabina Ali, is a doctoral candidate in Religious Studies with a minor in Jewish Studies. Imhoff is Ali's advisor and was the scheduled guest of the event, discussing the book she co-wrote, "The Woman Question in Jewish Studies."
Attendees told the IDS multiple faculty and graduate students objected to Jikeli removing Ali and said the event would not go on if he removed her.
Furey said once Jikeli removed Ali, 20 of the 24 in-person attendees left and hosted the event on their own in a separate Zoom meeting.

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tine-y dancer @a9ymous.bsky.social · 1d

thinking of all those stories where early printers would come back to find their presses vandalized or their shops arsoned

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Gabrielle Hecht has no more spoons @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 2d

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

Sara Whitmer
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I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town.
Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming.
Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance.
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tine-y dancer @a9ymous.bsky.social · 1d

the main difference here is that the he is once again Breaking the Norms of the us doing basically the same thing only filtering it all through longstanding CIA regime change operations

tine-y dancer @a9ymous.bsky.social · 1d

i'm giving him the benefit of the doubt that he's not just angry because of who's doing it.

when i hear some people mention this stuff though it seems to be just another line in an obsessive dossier for them, or something they think they can use to bully the left into vbnmw (even blue fascists)

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Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 1d

Petro objected to the US bombing a Columbian fishing vessel that had the emergency beacon on because they were broken down, that we subsequently bombed. One Columbian fisherman survived the attack.

This is the official US response to Petro's comments.

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Popehat Or Danger of Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t let the frogwater that’s boiling us alive let you skip over this: we murdered another country’s citizens in cold blood, and when their leader objected, we called him a drug dealer and cut off aid to his country. That’s freakish.

Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 1d

Petro objected to the US bombing a Columbian fishing vessel that had the emergency beacon on because they were broken down, that we subsequently bombed. One Columbian fisherman survived the attack.

This is the official US response to Petro's comments.

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George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 1d

“Never before in its history has humanity built a civilisation that had at its disposal so many different technologies to monitor, measure and predict its own collapse - yet has been so unwilling to do anything about it”

From my book THE UNHAPPINESS MACHINE

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tine-y dancer @a9ymous.bsky.social · 1d

residents get no say about either the destruction of mature irreplaceable trees or the planting of the new bullshit trees (idc that they're native). fuck the last 3 mayors of this garbage city and their tree planners. go jump in your wood chippers

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tine-y dancer @a9ymous.bsky.social · 1d

cat woke me up an hour ago and just been lying awake thinking about how thoroughly and irreversibly RVA has fucked up the trees that once graced this city in areas both rich and poor and most likely done at the behest of dominion. for every foundational shade tree gone 2 or 3 understory replacements

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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 1d

CNN’s Scott Jennings Defends Trump Spox’s Rant About Dem Voters being criminals and pro-terrorist. Trump could literally kill us and Scott Jennings would both defend it and CNN would still have him to do that. This a reminder of how horrible CNN is www.mediaite.com/media/tv/cnn...

CNN’s Scott Jennings Draws Fire Defending Trump Spox’s Rant About Dem Voters: ‘Where Is The Lie?’

Jennings drew fire defending Leavitt saying Dem voters "are made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals," asking "Where is the lie?"

www.mediaite.com

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 1d

peoplesdispatch.org/2025/10/18/t...

Tens of thousands of Cubans march in support of Venezuela's sovereignty amid US aggression : Peoples Dispatch

The demonstration rejected US interference in Venezuela's internal affairs as US military operations in the Caribbean Sea increase.

peoplesdispatch.org

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Futurism @futurism.com · 2d

"The morale has been as low as anyone has seen in decades, maybe ever."

NASA Guts Workforce at Lab Responsible for Mars Rovers

NASA is gutting the Jet Propulsion Laboratory -- the storied research center that oversees all the agency's Mars rovers.

trib.al

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tine-y dancer @a9ymous.bsky.social · 2d

i don't think demanding criminal punishment *commensurate with the crimes* is 'petty' or vindictive. we keep letting the powerful trample the law (and the public) and & clap for them on the rare occasions when they choose not to.

tine-y dancer @a9ymous.bsky.social · 2d

if the GWB administration officials had been made to answer for their abuses, or ftm if Wall Street had been (for the mortgage crisis), we might not have some of the dumbest and most mercenary mthrfckers in the country absolutely trampling the clearly unenforced rules of ethics and basic decency.

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tine-y dancer @a9ymous.bsky.social · 2d

i meant restorative justice for the victims (i thought that was usually its focus). justice for the unrepentant should, imo, consist of doing whatever is necessary to contain them.

i just don't think we have to choose (the "instead" part).

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tine-y dancer @a9ymous.bsky.social · 2d

the "moon face" image of Trump from the linked article with a vintage 'rocket' going into his eye as an homage to the Lumiere brothers' 1902 film "A Trip to the Moon".

No AI was harvested for this image.

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 2d

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join.greenparty.org.uk

'Jason Momoa sneaking up to Henry Cavill' meme with

GREEN PARTY MEMBERSHIP NUMBERS 'sneaking up on' CONSERVATIVE PARTY MEMBERSHIP NUMBERS

Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

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tine-y dancer @a9ymous.bsky.social · 2d

***if*** we have to choose, so do i, but we were having trouble with the former well before Trump because we've been so slack about the latter. see also GWB's cabinet.

i take your meaning, and prefer restorative justice over punitive. but prevention and deterrence are important for democracy too.

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tine-y dancer @a9ymous.bsky.social · 2d

sorry sir, the crazy train is out of service. you'll have to transfer

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tine-y dancer @a9ymous.bsky.social · 2d

absolutely