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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 2h

Twilight, Pacific time. #CAwx 🌅

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Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 9h

Alice Notley 🖤

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 2h

how does it still exist, for what possible purpose does this crime against food continue

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 2h

I will never understand that people go to arby's on purpose

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 1d

Arby's is being sued for false advertising

Lawsuit alleges:

• Ads make the sandwiches appear to have 'at least 100% more meat' than they really do

• Made the meat look like rare roast beef when it is actually 'fully cooked'

Arby's lost its motion to dismiss the case

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 2h

Thou canst consume; but I can then be ashes.

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Adèle Barclay @adelebarclay.bsky.social · 3h

I am dipping my toes into the newsletter genre... join me for some stray threads

adelebarclay.substack.com/p/welcome-to...

Welcome to Lessons in Ferality

Stray threads from a feral femme

adelebarclay.substack.com

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 3h

I generally eat rather wholesomely but hearing about a detox fad is a great way to get me to indulge in some really delicious garbage

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 4h

Cover reveal!!!! The novella FES IS A MIRROR by Chantal James releasing from Willow Books on October 28 has stunning outerwear!

#booksky

The cover of Fes is a MIrror by Chantal James, multicolored geometric patterns in the zellige style

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 4h

gaga saying "I don't think she's kissed a girl" lives happily in my head as antidote

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 4h

I'm happy for them to inflict themselves on each other and no one else!

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Annick MacAskill @thisisannick.bsky.social · 2d

Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau are one of the most spiritually aligned couples I've ever heard of. Positively wretched.

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 4h

this was my immediate thought, pulling the emergency sex bot lever

good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 9h

oh wow okay this company is IN TROUBLE in trouble

The Verge @theverge.com · 9h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 4h

although I think most poetry nerds for sure have not forgotten H.D. that's less important than how good and timely this is

Forgotten Poets @forgottenpoets.bsky.social · 4h

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From 'Sea Garden' (1916)
—H.D. / Hilda Doolittle

#forgottenpoets #poetry #booksky

OREAD

WHIRL up, sea -
Whirl your pointed pines,
Splash your great pines
On our rocks,
Hurl your green over us,
Cover us with your pools of fir.

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tru @thetrudz.photo · 9h

What D’Angelo said Black Messiah means. It came out at the end of 2014 and it was so needed.

Article (Nolan Feeney; TIME) excerpt reads: “Black Messiah is a hell of a name for an album. It can be misunderstood. Many will think it's about religion. Some will jump to the conclusion that I'm calling myself a Black Messiah. For me, the title is about all of us. It's about the world. It's about an idea we can all aspire to. We should all aspire to be a Black Messiah.

It's about people rising up in Ferguson and in Egypt and in Occupy Wall Street and in every place where a community has had enough and decides to make change happen, D'Angelo writes in a statement about the album It's not about praising one charismatic leader but celebrating thousands of them. Not every song on this album is politically charged (though many are), but calling this album Black Messiah creates a landscape there these songs can live to the fullest. Black Messiah is not one man. It's a feeling that, collectively, we are all that leader.”

“D’Angelo’s First Album in 14 Years Is Finally Here, and It’s Surprisingly Timely” via TIME.

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Bluesky mods aid genocide by banning Palestinians @pastures.myatproto.social · 4h

Do you know what chemical contaminants can be found in the most heavily bombed place in human history? Me neither. I don't think anyone fully knows because nothing has ever been done like this before. It is unprecedented environmental catastrophe.

Timothy @landbeforetim.bsky.social · 4h

The homes Israeli hostages return to VS the homes Gazans return to

The is no going back to “normal” for them. They are now living in a rubble ridden hellscape while the western world moves on, pretending it didn’t fund and approve this.

On the left is a street in Tel Aviv, Israel. Pictured is beautiful green lush Mediterranean style cityscape.

On the right is an image of a young Palestinian girl walking the “streets” of Gaza City, now turned to rubble and ash. The buildings are demolished by bombs and war crimes while the streets are littered with debris, rubble, and broken concrete.

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 8h

if you actually want to understand what the struggle for trans care looks like in a non-bourgois state, here's a paper on how Cuba came to offer full trans healthcare guaranteed by the state, and how it's become a world model for gender affirming care

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Abstract
In 2008, Cuba's minister of public health signed Resolution 126, an act that assured complete coverage for Cubans seeking sexual reassignment surgeries (also known as gender confirmation surgeries), the first of any country in Latin America to do so. Ten years later, Cuba is celebrated as having one of the most open and inclusive LGBTQ public health and education programs in the Americas. As illustrated throughout this article, the Cuban state approaches sexuality and sexual identity not as rights-based issues but rather as health-based challenges. Through the case study of Cuba's understanding of transsexuals' right to health, we argue that Cuba has provided an example of how the right to health for all moves toward breaking down the barriers of stigma by improving health outcomes for those with transsexual health needs.

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 4h

congrats! 🌷🌷🌷

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 5h

bright things for this ill world

Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 8h

Happy pub day! The World After Rain. Canisia Lubrin.

FROM THE AUTHOR OF CODE NOIR
THE
WORLD
AFTER
RAIN
CANISIA LUBRIN

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 5h

it's actually pretty good

aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 5h

I am outside having coffee with a slice of wal-mart cake, which I did not know was a thing, a north american delicacy let's call it

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 6h

I don't believe she's nearly haunted enough by her failure to say even this mediated version a year ago

also just say the word, it's not controversial and you already lost

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 6h

On MSNBC, Kamala Harris was asked if she agreed that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians.

“I will tell you that when you look at the number of children that have been killed [...] the refusal to give aid, we should all step back and ask this question and be honest about it, yeah.”

Former Vice President Kamala Harris held back from labeling Israel's actions in Gaza a "genocide" on Sunday but said it was an appropriate question.
"A lot of folks in your party have called what's happening in Gaza a genocide. Do you agree with that?" correspondent Eugene Daniels asked Harris during an interview on MSNBC's "The Weekend."
"Listen, it is a term of law that a court will decide," Harris responded. "But I will tell you that when you look at the number of children that have been killed, the number of innocent civilians that have been
killed, the refusal to give aid and support, we should all step back and ask this question and be honest about it, yeah."

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Todd Walker @toddwalker.bsky.social · 6h

Joy is a threat.

“Most recently,” Johnson went on, “the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet was the naked bicyclers in Portland who were protesting ICE down there. I mean, it’s getting really ugly.”