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Carta Monir @cartamonir.com · 18h

If you love trans people, if you love sex workers, if you think we deserve to have families... please donate. The amount of money my friend needs to raise for court costs is shocking. Please donate.

More Carta @morecarta.bsky.social · 18h

I am fundraising for an anonymous friend, who is a trans sex worker and POC. They are at risk of losing custody of their children. Please, please donate. This is a situation that is painful and scary beyond description.

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URGENT NEED! HELP KEEP FAMILY TOGETHER, DONATE NOW!

We are raising funds for a pillar of our community: a trans sex worker of color who is at risk of losing custody of their children. While their lawyers are confident they can win this discriminatory case, funds are needed by February 2026. We believe they should no longer have to face this on their own, which is why we are asking for your support.

Goal: $50,000

https://www.gofundme.com/help-keep-family-together-urgent

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We are raising funds for a beloved community member; a trans sex worker of color who is at risk of losing custody of their children. For their safety and privacy they must remain anonymous, but this is a pillar of our community, loved and verified by those of us running this fundraiser.

Our friend is facing a trial in February regarding the custody of their young children. The case against them is based on the fact that their primary form of income is sex work. Notably, the judge of the initial custody arrangement ruled that their job was not reason enough to restrict their parenting time years ago. Because of this precedent, their lawyer feels very confident they will win their upcoming case.

To defend their rights to parent their own children, our friend needs to raise $75,000 by February 2026. This staggering amount of money is required by the court to cover the costs associated with a two day trial (lawyers fees, expert witnesses, the court reporter, depositions, creation of trial binders, the list goes on). If they cannot secure these funds by the February deadline, they will be forced to settle, resulting in severely reduced interaction with their children. We obviously do not want this to happen.

Our friend has provided for themself and their children for years, fighting their custody battle in private while continuing to be an incredible parent, friend, and educator. They can no longer face this by themselves, which is why we are asking for your support.

In our current political climate, we know that our friend's situation is especially precarious. This is a crucial moment to show solidarity with a community member who needs it more than ever.

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antifa’s sleepiest soldier @emilydwarfield.bsky.social · 7h

My plan at this point is based on the theory that debt is fake, which naturally has resulted in (temporarily) having the highest credit score of my life

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antifa’s sleepiest soldier @emilydwarfield.bsky.social · 7h

I’m 30 or 40 years old and all I want is to get paid enough money to want to be alive so I can help other people want to be alive

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antifa’s sleepiest soldier @emilydwarfield.bsky.social · 7h

Like bro the only things keeping me alive are a) spite b) dying is surprisingly hard and c) would be too fucked up in kind of a funny way to kms as a therapist, like the knock-on effects of that just seem real, shall we say, yikes

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antifa’s sleepiest soldier @emilydwarfield.bsky.social · 7h

Insanely irresponsible to make me a primary support person for 28 people’s mental health and then pay me a take-home salary of like $800/wk, because what do you think is gonna happen to all these other depressed people when I go AWOL because I can’t pay the internet bill

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antifa’s sleepiest soldier @emilydwarfield.bsky.social · 7h

Dying a brassica, I see

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antifa’s sleepiest soldier @emilydwarfield.bsky.social · 7h

Omg someone did it

“You either die a brassica or you live long enough to see yourself become a crab”, with an image of a cabbage crab

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antifa’s sleepiest soldier @emilydwarfield.bsky.social · 7h

The crab of the vegetable world: everything wants to be it

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antifa’s sleepiest soldier @emilydwarfield.bsky.social · 18h

The rest of us can see plain as day that Bari Weiss is successful because she chose to propagate fascist talking points when fascism was ascendant. She and her colleagues will focus on her being savvy or brave or whatever but aligning with power at the right moment is pretty much all there is to it.

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antifa’s sleepiest soldier @emilydwarfield.bsky.social · 18h

It would also explain fascism and how to fight it, but it’s just not psychologically possible for these people to accept that, had life gone a little differently, they’d be in an ICE detention facility or on the streets themselves. Best to just let these folks play around in their fantasy world

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antifa’s sleepiest soldier @emilydwarfield.bsky.social · 18h

If society were composed of interlocking systems of cruel hierarchies that they just so happened to come out on top of, maybe in part because of hard work and character but also largely because of the way the die landed, that might mean their success is illegitimate, and then who are they?

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antifa’s sleepiest soldier @emilydwarfield.bsky.social · 18h

You get to know enough of these people and, no matter how smart they are, you see they really struggle with the idea that they’re doing well in large part because of luck. Their ego is built on the belief that things are going well for them because they’re good people and the world is just.

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antifa’s sleepiest soldier @emilydwarfield.bsky.social · 18h

The main reason why our major institutions are failing to stand up to fascism right now is that they are run by people who are by definition successful within the current system and therefore are psychologically incapable of understanding its massive weaknesses

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 19h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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antifa’s sleepiest soldier @emilydwarfield.bsky.social · 19h

Applying to jobs still feels like gambling. I have a finite amount of time that I could be using to make small but guaranteed amounts of money, and instead I'm taking a 1 in 1000 shot at a $100k salary with benefits or nothing.

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antifa’s sleepiest soldier @emilydwarfield.bsky.social · 19h

Found a job posting with a fax number, and I'm HYPED. We're taking job apps back to the 1990s--if your resume gets trashed, it's because a human hand has physically placed it in the bin.

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antifa’s sleepiest soldier @emilydwarfield.bsky.social · 21h

Human trafficking is not actually the better— or only!— alternative to jail. Hope this helps.

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antifa’s sleepiest soldier @emilydwarfield.bsky.social · 21h

I think youve misinterpreted that post

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antifa’s sleepiest soldier @emilydwarfield.bsky.social · 1d

If I offered “work therapy” where clients performed free domestic labor for me, I’d lose my license and go to jail, but when “Christian” nonprofits do it, it’s either God’s will or, worst case scenario, a labor violation resulting in some civil penalties like paying back wages

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antifa’s sleepiest soldier @emilydwarfield.bsky.social · 1d

The only reason this isn’t considered trafficking via fraud is because crime is something poor people do

Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 1d

Fun fact about the Salvation Army: they use a form of substance use treatment called work therapy. Oh, and by treatment, I mean they have people who have been convicted of drug charges work for their stores & warehouses in exchange for room, board, around a $1 a week, and minimal actual therapy.

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antifa’s sleepiest soldier @emilydwarfield.bsky.social · 1d

Me when I come across a MAGA cam girl

“I do not support all women” tweet but “women” is replaced with “sex workers”

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antifa’s sleepiest soldier @emilydwarfield.bsky.social · 1d

I had a framed Waiting for Godot poster for years until my cat broke it and need a rich idiot to pay through the nose for me to see this

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antifa’s sleepiest soldier @emilydwarfield.bsky.social · 1d

The ideal dominatrix clientele right here

Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 4d

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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antifa’s sleepiest soldier @emilydwarfield.bsky.social · 1d

“The Human Centipede predicted the rise of American fascism” is my Roman Empire www.forbes.com/sites/luketh...

10 Years Of 'The Human Centipede' And Its Prediction Of The Alt-Right

Misplaced identification for the wrong people metastasizes, reprocesses, and turns a sick joke into a toxic society.

www.forbes.com

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antifa’s sleepiest soldier @emilydwarfield.bsky.social · 1d

I will definitely check this out!

antifa’s sleepiest soldier @emilydwarfield.bsky.social · 1d

Probably the only compelling argument I’ve seen for AI is that it can be used as an adaptive tool for people with cognitive disabilities and language disorders, so I am super interested in this

$fractalecho.bsky.social$

Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 1d

This book is titled “Disabling Intelligences” for many reasons. First, because so-called “AI” is built from historical commitments to the excision of disability from the classification of humanity.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

Rua M Williams's Disabling Intelligences: Legacies of Eugenics and How We are Wrong about AI, publushed by palgrave macmillan, is held in front of rainbow glass. The cover is deep pink with orange vines.

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