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ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 22h

an Indigenous Peoples Day reminder that borders are bullshit and every Indigenous person from across the Americas deserves to be in the US more than every person of European origin

fuck borders, fuck ICE, land back.

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Annie Bellet @anniebellet.bsky.social · 10h

Yes, it's a name that often is a first name but mine has funny capitalization due to the error. When we immigrated I sort of fixed it and so far adding the space back hasn't caused too much trouble.

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Annie Bellet @anniebellet.bsky.social · 11h

I don't technically have a middle name cause a space got left out by whoever typed up my org birth cert

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 13h

Lots of us have great-grandparents names who were absolutely changed when they came here, and when people say otherwise, they're assuming your great-grandparents name was in the Roman alphabet.

Robyn Pennacchia @robynelyse.bsky.social · 13h

Now, more than ever, it's important to understand why so many the myths we tell ourselves about immigration are actually very harmful.

First of all, your great-great-grandparents names *were not changed* at Ellis Island. No one there had the authority to do that.

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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 12h

Rest in Power Miss Major. We all owe you so much. Thank you for everything.

Trans leader Miss Major Griffin-Gracy dies

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black transgender woman and longtime activist who once lived in the Bay Area, died October 13.

www.ebar.com

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TashenuBOOOOOOste @tashenubaste.bsky.social · 12h

"No one there had the authority to do that."

What if I told you that "the authority to do that" was not A Thing You Needed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

You could just do things, and there was no oversight, no one to say no, and certainly no argument from people coming in.

Robyn Pennacchia @robynelyse.bsky.social · 13h

Now, more than ever, it's important to understand why so many the myths we tell ourselves about immigration are actually very harmful.

First of all, your great-great-grandparents names *were not changed* at Ellis Island. No one there had the authority to do that.

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Annie Bellet @anniebellet.bsky.social · 11h

I was reading a book this year that was written in the early 90s and the thing that made me go huh was a man holding a newborn while smoking. I was like, oh yeah, I guess that was that time.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 12h

The gutting of the VRA in recent years is one of the topics mostly likely to get me in a fight with folks on social media, mostly because so few even know what Shelby v Holder was, or to what extent voting has not been free OR fair in much of the South, in the most racist ways imaginable.

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 18h

Wednesday is gonna be a rough day:

The Supreme Court will be hearing oral argument in a pair of cases that threaten what little remains of the federal government’s ability to protect voters from racial gerrymandering under the Voting Rights Act

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/louis...

Louisiana v Callais: The Republicans Justices Are Getting Ready to Finish Off the Voting Rights Act

In Louisiana v Callais, John Roberts will have the chance to finish his decades-long war on. voting rights.

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Faith K. Falkner @faithfalkner.com · 14h

Anger is a healthy response to cruelty, actually.

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ThirtyHelens🔞 @thirtyhelens.bsky.social · 1d

"Anything can be addictive" is the second most shallow and dangerous take on addiction, just behind telling addicts to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. It's a take that betrays zero interest in exploring the causes and treatments for addiction

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Annie Bellet @anniebellet.bsky.social · 17h

I still remember most of those numbers even tho most are nothing now or would just call the dead 😔

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 17h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Annie Bellet @anniebellet.bsky.social · 17h

Ok? Then maybe this wasn't about you, in particular 🙂

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Annie Bellet @anniebellet.bsky.social · 17h

According to some in my mentions apparently. But I was a woman with an opinion so...

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Annie Bellet @anniebellet.bsky.social · 17h

Writing female chars is harder than writing male chars not because women are complex or mysterious but because readers will forgive or accept just about any trait in a dude coded char and be utterly bleh or even hostile about same in a fem coded one.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 23h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 22h

"Works by more than 60 artists comprise the monumental survey, exploring myriad practices focused on and intersecting contemporary art, music, filmmaking, choreography, architecture, writing, photography, design, and more."

www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/09/an-i...

'An Indigenous Present' Is a Paradigm-Shifting Illumination of Native North American Art Today

The nearly 450-page volume renders solid a new paradigm of representation and visibility of Native North American art.

www.thisiscolossal.com

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 22h

Israel says it has released more than 1,900 Palestinian prisoners as part of the Gaza ceasefire deal. Follow the latest updates.

Live updates: Israel says Hamas hands over first 7 hostages to Red Cross as part of Gaza ceasefire

The key exchange follows a breakthrough ceasefire after two years of war. U.S. President Donald Trump was also arriving in the region along with other leaders to discuss the U.S.-proposed deal and postwar plans.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 1d

Trump, speaking in the Israeli parliament, boasts about the weapons the U.S. has provided and says "you obviously used them very well."
An estimated 20,000 children have died in the war in Gaza.

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 23h

Happy Indigenous People's Day

BOOOOlioraptor, PhD (spooky version) @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 1d

Janet saying: Fun fact: Columbus is in the Bad Place
because of all the raping, slave trade, and genocide.

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Annie Bellet @anniebellet.bsky.social · 1d

A food I will always eat: ice cream
A film I'll always want to see: Ever After
A song I will always stop to listen to: Achilles Come Down by Gang of Youths

Lynne Ann Morse @morselya.bsky.social · 1d

Introduce yourself with:

A food you will always eat;
A film you'll always want to see; and a song you will always stop to listen to.

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Astrid (yeehaw) 🤠🌈 ✨ @ansitru.bsky.social · 4d

I'm just saying, we could settle this with swords, instead of 30+ emails. 🤺

#artWIP

A WIP embroidery piece, with a sword and mace chzrm, spikes and letter beads.

The beads read "this email could have been a duel | fight me"

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not saying that being a total goofball at an antifascist protest will make ladies' panties fly off, I'm just saying, CONSIDER THE EVIDENCE

Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 2d

I was not anticipating he'd be so...fuckable?

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2d

Portland's famous Unipiper was spotted at the Portland ICE protest where he played his bagpipes in front of Santa, Mr. Potato Head, Garfield and more -- all while surrounded by bubbles.

More on how the tone of Portland's protests has shifted: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 1d

My latest: "Numerous studies show that majors in the humanities—typically, in departments of English, history, philosophy, religious studies, classics and languages—lead students to employment and life satisfaction outcomes as positive as those for majors traditionally championed as 'practical.'”

Counterpoint | Minnesota humanities graduates thrive in meaningful careers

"The stereotype of the underemployed history major is simply not true," professor Andrea Kaston Tange writes.

www.startribune.com

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Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social · 1d

Thinking about that sequence in Andor where everyone in town begins ringing bells and banging on things to create an incredibly hostile inescapable environment for the invading forces, a technique inspired by the real life history of people in Ireland doing something similar with trash cans.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1d

Sources say the 28-year-old was killed by members of Israel-linked 'militia' fighting Hamas in the Sabra neighbourhood.

Palestinian journalist Saleh Aljafarawi shot dead in Gaza City clashes

Sources say the 28-year-old was killed by members of Israel-linked 'militia' fighting Hamas in the Sabra neighbourhood.

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Annie Bellet @anniebellet.bsky.social · 1d

(The wild part is you'll never guess WHY. I needed to figure out if a folding umbrella I want will fit diagonally in a purse. Apologies to my 9th grade math teacher whose name I don't remember for saying I'd never need this shit)

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