Ckan
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Covid isn't over. Left with little choice. (warning: lots of reposts)
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ckanned.bsky.social
Propaganda pinned thread because I am disorganised
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akireta.bsky.social
integrated with violence, kitsch and barefaced worship of shallow excess is just anathema to me.

It's not enough to just tax the rich, they avoid these things with impunity and get off on doing so.

We have to make flagrant excess and exploitation too dangerous to contemplate, if it's not too late.
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akireta.bsky.social
I'd go further - we're completely interdependent social animals.

Everything we do presupposes the work and specific knowledge of countless others,

To make a simple cup of coffee requires the input of thousands of others.

No one is "worth" tens or hundreds or thousands of other people.

It's crap.
broadwaybabyto.bsky.social
Yes your taxes should support disabled people.

They should support homeless people.

They should support those living in poverty, children and the elderly.

This is literally the purpose of taxes, and I would far rather support those who need it than continue to enrich the elite.
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curiousordinary.bsky.social
In #JapaneseFolklore Namazu is a giant catfish who lives under the islands of Japan and causes violent earthquakes. Once people prayed to the gods to stop the earthquakes and they searched everywhere for the cause, finally realising it was Namazu. Eventually the gods found...
#LegendaryWednesday
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A giant catfish with many people around and on it.
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chaser.com.au
"First it was too complicated, then it was too straining, but now I will finally speak up about it." chaser.com.au/general-news...
Guy who ignored Gaza ‘for mental health reasons’ celebrates ceasefire with Instagram story
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junlper.beer
if you already didn’t have enough reasons to cancel spotify:
santiagomayer.com
Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE.

It’s time to cancel your account.
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radicalgraffiti.bsky.social
"Fuck the Feds"
Seen in Memphis, Tennessee
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askhistorians.bsky.social
Its time for an #AMA #Skystorians! We are joined by the fabulous @renatakeller.bsky.social to answer questions about her book "The Fate of the Americas: The Cuban Missile Crisis & the Hemispheric Cold War", the Cold War, modern Latin America & editing a book series!
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gothgf.rip
even if you are not a communist, you owe it to yourself as a trans person to engage with how we have been treated in different societies at different times. this libslop "things are only good under Western imperialism" is a fascist lie
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ingridm.bsky.social
trying to imagine white media disinvesting from Israeli lies and even now can not find any evidence whatsoever - throughout two straight years of livestreamed genocide and massive peoples movements for Palestinian liberation - that ruling class white solidarity is waning.
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archhelmer.bsky.social
Which is, notably, still $9.25 less than the state minimum wage
boltsmag.org
Yesterday, California adopted a law to raise the pay received by incarcerated firefighters when they’re fighting a fire from $1 to $7.25 per hour—meeting the federal minimum wage. Four other new laws also give new rights to incarcerated firefighters.
California's incarcerated firefighters to see a ‘historic’ pay increase in laws Newsom signed
Hundreds of California state prisoners worked to put out this year's deadly Los Angeles wildfires, inspiring new laws that will improve their pay and open other opportunities.
calmatters.org
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saulstaniforth.bsky.social
Israel is using the failure to return the bodies of hostages as a pretext to violate the ceasefire themselves, but as Nour Odeh points out, the ceasefire agreement did not contain a timeline for the handing over of the bodies & Israel already knew it might take weeks or months.
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
Name a protest movement, anywhere or at any time, that has achieved its goals without being annoying and obstructive.
People like this enjoy the freedoms our political ancestors gained for them, while attacking the means by which they were achieved.
jackdawg52.bsky.social
Nope, you make protest obstructive and annoying you lose the good will of the general population.
When they ring their local member to complain - they dont tell the local member to deal with the issues raised by the protesters, they tell them to deal with the protesters.
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saulstaniforth.bsky.social
Hani Mahmoud reports on the struggle people in Gaza have just to get water.
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eigenvectrix.myatproto.social
My DES consultant: OK well we're going to set up a new phone appointment for you

Me: OK but isn't there a mutual obligation requirements suspension

DES consultant, mysteriously: Ah. Well. I think it would be good anyway so we're doing it
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rifka.bsky.social
Rizzed Horticulturists of Non-Yonkers
ckanned.bsky.social
“Considerations in wound care of patients living with dementia”

“Resistiveness to care during assistance with activities of daily living in non-institutionalized persons with dementia: Associations with informal caregivers' stress and well-being.”

“wound care for PLWD in the home care setting”
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littlelemontart.being.baby
curling up like a little croissant and going to sleep
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taliajane.bsky.social
as charming and whimsical as some will view this, it bears noting that absurdity—not militancy or might—are what people have chosen to repeat from the portland standoffs against ICE.

why is that?

what purpose does this serve?

a mini 🧵:
50501movement.bsky.social
The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.
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taliajane.bsky.social
people of all different capacities want to join a movement against a violent, extremist state force. how to figure out what is effective, regardless of your capacity, is to measure how much effort it takes from you and how much effort it takes from your opposition.
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taliajane.bsky.social
this is where movements become moments & die: people see the display of a radical tactic and, not comprehending the tactical purpose, adopt only the display as an echo of the fight.

it becomes an empty, consumerist meme: buy an inflatable and dance around and that’s how you fight ICE!
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mollymoss.bsky.social
this one gets me the worst
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theserfstv.bsky.social
One of the most messed up parts of the "nazis are sexy and funny now" GQ article about Nick Fuentes is that it doesn't cite a single source or data point. It's all just vibes. I have no idea how something like this made it past an editorial team unless it was clearly a story they wanted to tell
traced this rumor across TikTok and Tumblr. I watched fancam edits, mapped accounts, and interviewed a dozen people in their twenties and early thirties, both people who’d made posts about Fuentes and those whose fandom was more private.

TikTok is where most outsiders misread the signal. Fuentes is extremely shareable — he basically speaks in soundbites. Every other line is a joke, and many of those jokes land. When they don’t, that in itself can be funny. His thick Chicago accent, his cartoonish tone of voice—the man was made for broadcasting, for better or worse.

It’s true that he has inspired a viral “sound” several times, but on TikTok that doesn’t equate to fandom. A sound is just a short audio clip that users layer under their own videos. It might come from a movie, a podcast, or a livestream; it doesn’t matter who said it. What matters is how easily it can be reused to set a mood or deliver a punchline. Popularity here measures remixability, not admiration. Serial killers, pedophiles caught red-handed, and random bystanders could theoretically all go viral this way. Fuentes happens to clip well.

There is a dedicated and TikTok-native Fuentes fandom, but searching through the misspellings and alternate tags that users reference him with (to avoid the filter TikTok uses to suppress content about him), only a few prolific editors dominate the results. The rest is noise—ephemeral accounts spun up around attention spikes.

The interviews I conducted reflect what the feeds suggested. Several sources said their very online friends, regardless of politics, share Fuentes clips because he’s funny. The same people said no one they know actually watches his multi-hour streams. One woman described him as “weirdly unhateable,” and suggested he’s a bit of a meme—another way of saying the trend is more of a joke than a nascent political shift.

There is, however, a small female fandom orbiting Fuentes, many of whom identify as being on the left. On Tumblr, a community cal…
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nerdjpg.com
Unfortunately I don’t find your anti communism funny when anti capitalism has been designated as a terrorist activity. Sorry!
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skiesofpluto.bsky.social
we actually live with so many normalized risky things that if we thought about them rationally we wouldn't be able to keep functioning

like cars and driving

and i guess most people have just added 'covid everywhere forever' to that internal list