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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 1h

if nothing else i feel like the president of the most powerful nation on earth posting a video of him shitting on his own citizens should finally make the democrats and media wake up and stop bleating about norms

just go feral

they are

and we outnumber them

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 5h

That AI slop is like a story a 3-year-old makes up when they get mad at another toddler: "Then I put on my crown and get into my airplane. It says on the side that I'm the king. I fly up so high over the stupid people. I throw poop down all over the mean people. They cry and cry, but I just laugh."

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Aris Merquoni @aristgd.bsky.social · 42m

Reminded for no reason that one of my first online interactions was watching as alt.fan.furry dissolved in arguments about whether they should found alt.furry.lifestyle and I feel like that explains something about me

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 4h

Folks are asking what to do about the One Special Boy's AI vids and whether they should share them:

MOCK THEM WITHOUT SHARING.

This creates what an enthymeme, where readers have to SUPPLY PART OF THE REFERENT to understand what you are mocking. An enthymeme is the STRONGEST form of persuasion.

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 6h

alt-text: Fake Bluesky alert: “Your Bluesky account is temporarily suspended…” urges verification via a shortened link. Message claims to be from “Bluesky Security Department.”

don't fall for it.

SpiffySmallSound @doublecollusion.bsky.social · 14h

Guys new scamming method on bluesky. Please share this around. Dont fall for this stuff

Block, move on.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 15h

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

The Obama Hope poster, but it's a frog and it says "Hop"

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Aris Merquoni @aristgd.bsky.social · 59m

The platform support for a two state solution did not extend to actual support for Palestinians when the rubber met the road and this is not even a little hard to see

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 5h

If you want people to do hard things EN MASSE, you must support them when they show up in the MILLIONS to tell the ONE SPECIAL BOY to GTFO.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · Oct 2

Okay, it's time again to talk about what the experience of having a social media account with a bunch of followers (*) is like.

(* "a bunch" of followers is platform dependent. I'm getting irritating shit at 2k on Bluesky I didn't get until 10k on Twitter.)

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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · 1d

sapphling: sitting anti-kink posters down in front of a wrestling match and explaining kayfabe to them with the patience of a preschool teacher

sapphling: You see that one? He's called the "heel." He looks mean and says a lot of scary things, but it's not real and he's actually very nice. When he says "I'm going to break you in half" you don't have to be scared because it's pretend. These two talked about this beforehand, and now they're playing pretend together. Can you think of any other situations that might be like this?

sapphling: *screenshot of tag that says
#crying and throwing up when you tell me the undertaker didnt REALLY die and come back to life all those times*
no that part was real

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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · 15h

:)

idk if anyone needs to hear this today, but: if you are a trans dude, the fact that you are a man is a good thing and your existence as a trans man makes the world a better place. it is not a bad thing that you are a man and it's especially not bad that you are a trans man. the fact that you exist as a man is a great thing and you are amazing. sleep well tonight

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 3h

i don't know who needs to hear this but remember that labels are tools. their value is dependent strictly on their utility. they are descriptive, not prescriptive. labels are not immutable and if they lack function then you can disregard them.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 2h

Oregon conservatives promoted this event for weeks. They organized a caravan from locations across the state for it. The pictured Christian Nationalist preacher promoted it in his Salem church. According to other news outlets and my own observations, about 50 people showed up. Sad.

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See the photos: About 150 people gathered in front of the Oregon State Capitol for the Oregon For The People rally on Oct. 18 in Salem. bit.ly/471blmM
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 15h

You know, today's also Dhanteras, the first day of Diwali, which is a holiday celebrating the victory of good over evil sooooooo feels good!!

Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 18h

If you’re out at a #NoKings rally today, stay safe, stay smart, and wear a mask! I love you!

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 7h

A reminder: demonstrations are great, they’re a fun party, they are a literal demonstration of the collective power of the people.

They’re not the goal. They’re not the end. They’re not even much of a means

They’re the gateway drug that gives a taste of the joy of collective action & leads to more

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 6h

We’re going to have to have two levels of tribunals, one for the complicated prosecutions involving violent crimes, Constitutional and human rights violations, and another just to process the mass firings for the Hatch Act violations. But you need both! Nobody skips out because they’re “small fry”.

A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 7h

If they think this is bad wait until the tribunals for crimes against humanity.

CBS News @cbsnews.com · 9h

A former ICE director says agents have been put "in a terrible position" and are being tasked with operations "in a city where they don't belong."

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Palmetto State Abortion Fund @psabortionfund.bsky.social · 1d

Sharing an email from our intake director:

As intake director, I don't typically write these emails, but I am writing today with urgency and clarity: PSAF must raise $50,000 immediately to stay open through the rest of the month into November.

www.donorbox.org/support-the-fund

Donate to Palmetto State Abortion Fund | Palmetto State Abortion Fund (Powered by Donorbox)

*While we assist abortion seekers from other Southern states as well, the information below pertains to South Carolina.* Since launching in late 2021, PSAF has supported over 1,500 people in accessing...

www.donorbox.org

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 16h

"The Brownshirts wanted everyone to see them beat people in the streets. They did public terror. ICE does plausible terror so they can go out and get tacos on the weekend."

ICE Is Nothing Like the Brownshirts Because the Brownshirts Actually Identified Themselves

Let’s get this out of the way: Immigration and Customs Enforcement is nothing like the Sturmabteilung, aka Hitler’s Brownshirts. Your main clue is ...

buff.ly

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 8h

Sometime around late September people began talking about it. It has only grown since then.

This month Blackout the System began to take hold.

A national call to boycott Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

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Dana Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror 🎃 @danacorn.bsky.social · 9h

A bunch of my characters either protest signs.

Marigold: no kings, yes unicorns
Milo: fascists are pootyheads
Mililani: we the people are pissed
Ozy: just no
Llewellyn: I’ve known a few kings, and they all suck, but screw this idiot in particular
Phoebe: what all these creatures said, it all goes for me too

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5h

in 20 years, the most extreme, reactionary, "return to tradition" masculinity influencer is going to adopt this uniform and you'll have to calmly explain that this was once considered non-traditional

Swedish actor Alexander Skarsgård shows up for the London premiere of his new movie “Pillion." He's wearing a sleeveless white dress shirt with a black leather necktie and black leather pants with metal grommets down the crotch. He's also wearing black leather boots. A black motorcycle is behind him.

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Joanna Grossman @joannagrossman.bsky.social · 13h

Four bull elk took time away from mating to join the No Kings protest in Estes Park, Colorado. That’s how serious this is.

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hpanzironi @hpanzironi.bsky.social · 6h

Hero’s of the day - In a small town of Beckley, WV, Kendra Sullivan staged a one-woman No Kings protest. She was confronted, had the police called on her, but stood her ground. She was physically threatened. Police came more than once and protected her right to protest. This is how we do it.

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🕯️ Crowley Rae Jepsen 🕯️ @mags.colvett.online · 9h

Something maybe worth noting is that all the frog costumes and signs and good-natured memeing came about because a wide spectrum of Americans saw someone in direct, brave confrontation with ICE—getting pepperballed and standing their ground—and thought “that’s awesome. That person is a hero”

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 9h

“The Purdue student newspaper owns its own presses” is the sound of engines revving

Gabrielle Hecht has no more spoons @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 12h

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

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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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