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floot the gender woo gerbil 🇵🇸 @flootzavut.bsky.social · Apr 19

PALESTINIANS & those fundraising for 🇵🇸: reply with your fundraisers to this post; it is pinned so replies will not be lost.

Unfortunately bsky is not showing all posts, but I'll share the ones it shows me. I'm sorry, I will continue to ask bsky to fix it.

Everyone else: pls share & donate!

floot the gender woo gerbil 🇵🇸 @flootzavut.bsky.social · Mar 25

PALESTINIANS & those fundraising for 🇵🇸: please reply with your fundraisers etc to this post; it is pinned so your replies will not be lost, I will donate where I can & share all those I see. (I may miss it elsewhere.)

EVERYONE ELSE: please check this post for Palestinian fundraisers & appeals.

Ty!

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floot the gender woo gerbil 🇵🇸 @flootzavut.bsky.social · 1d

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Jasper @jaspersfelines.bsky.social · 1d

Jazmin and Maggie’s magnificent #WhiskersWednesday 🐱🤍

Two calicos on a cat tree. Top perch is a calico cat with one paw extended. In the basket a calico kitten with wide eyes and long white whiskers

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Hellvetika @hellvetikaseraph.bsky.social · 2d

This but the view from inside is a colonoscopy.

✨Jane ✨ @caff.bsky.social · 2d

Yes

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 2d

Blair took us to war on a lie, a war that killed a million Iraqis & destabilised the entire region. And the reason he's now being touted for a role governing Gaza (and allowed to swan around the world making millions from dictators) is because there's been no accountability #GMB

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Mr Autumn Man @pnwnwa.myatproto.social · 3d

Lest we forget

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ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 2d

i heard someone on npr worrying about what poor condition israeli hostages were in physically without saying a single thing about how they were being held captive for years in a country being bombed and systematically starved by the israeli regime

the fucking gymnastics, i stg

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Isa / EvilCleverDog @evilcleverdog.bsky.social · Aug 23

Using ChatGPT

Edith @edithcharles.bsky.social · Aug 23

What's something that isn't considered embarrassing but you think it should be?

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floot the gender woo gerbil 🇵🇸 @flootzavut.bsky.social · 3d

They didn't, they were just a bit less blatant about it

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Mx. Moz @mleelunsford.com · 13d

You can't go "why can't we just have a social media place where people are nice to each other" and then act like a raging asshole.

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Twilight Vulpine @twilightvulpine.bsky.social · 13d

MLK Jr. had some words about how moderates, who prefer the absence of tension than the presence of justice, are a greater obstacle than the outright bigots.

The admins here don't want everyone to be treated right, they want trans people to suffer quietly.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 4d

I have SO MANY THOUGHTS both as a poor kid who was raised in music and as a library worker facing a society that increasingly has no use for art.

Thing one: poor people can absolutely understand complex topics. The author is right there.

AND.

Our society is now such that people want to—

Fiona Maddocks @fionahmaddocks.bsky.social · 4d

observer.co.uk/news/columni...

Well worth reading this

It’s not opera that’s elitist but the idea that art is to...

The myth that culture has not been for the masses is debunked in a new book

observer.co.uk

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Janette Kirchner @janette.bsky.social · 10d

Yes. It was. Along with putting Japanese Americans in internment camps, Black people did not have the right to vote as Jim Crow was still in effect. Nor did Native Nations people have the right to vote until the 1980s. There's also this:

The Harms of Indian Boarding Schools
Between 1869 and the 1960s, hundreds of thousands of Native American children were removed from their homes and families and placed in boarding schools operated by the federal government and the churches.

Though we don’t know how many children were taken in total, by 1900 there were 20,000 children in Indian boarding schools, and by 1925 that number had more than tripled. The U.S. Native children that were voluntarily or forcibly removed from their homes, families, and communities during this time were taken to schools far away where they were punished for speaking their Native language, banned from acting in any way that might be seen to represent traditional or cultural practices, stripped of traditional clothing, hair and personal belongings and behaviors reflective of their native culture.

They suffered physical, sexual, cultural and spiritual abuse and neglect, and experienced treatment that in many cases constituted torture for speaking their Native languages. Many children never returned home and their fates have yet to be accounted for by the U.S. government.

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Sean Buckley 🍹 @seaniccus.com · 10d

There's literally a museum you can visit at heart mountain that extensively covers how fascist it is to put a bunch of native born US citizens behind barbed wire for the sin of commiting exactly zero crimes whatsoever and you can visit it whenever you want

Shawn McCullough @shawnmcc.bsky.social · 11d

So I guess the US was also a fascist country when FDR was putting Japanese Americans in internment camps, right?

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Fit Check For My Barb O. Saur Era 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @brentosaur.bsky.social · 10d

People have got to examine US history closer and notice there’s only been a relatively small span of time where we could reasonably not be considered fascist.

There are people alive today who can remember when they were given the right to vote.

Shawn McCullough @shawnmcc.bsky.social · 11d

So I guess the US was also a fascist country when FDR was putting Japanese Americans in internment camps, right?

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floot the gender woo gerbil 🇵🇸 @flootzavut.bsky.social · 6d

Yeah because America was doing fascism then, too.

The Nazis looked to the USA for inspiration, Shawn. The Nazis admired the USA for its genocide of the Native Americans.

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Claire @claire.chapien.net · 10d

reminder that Hitler admired the United States for our genocide of Native Americans!

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Shield God @tatenokami.bsky.social · 10d

"So youre saying the last time we did concentration camps we were bad guys?" Do you hear yourself?

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floot the gender woo gerbil 🇵🇸 @flootzavut.bsky.social · 6d

It is genuinely wild to me.

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Blackjack Gabbiani @blackjackgabbiani.bsky.social · 10d

I mean, yeah. Locking people up for how they were born was wrong then and it's wrong now. What about that do you think WASN'T a fascist tool? Go ahead, explain your stance.

Shawn McCullough @shawnmcc.bsky.social · 11d

So I guess the US was also a fascist country when FDR was putting Japanese Americans in internment camps, right?

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JC in Rothesay 🇨🇦 @jc-in-rothesay.bsky.social · 10d

Yes. The Germans got most of their worst ideas from America and Canada

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Veronica Ridgeway @kelofulthar.bsky.social · 10d

Imagine living in 2025 and still clutching your pearls when someone says the US wasn’t the saintly hero of WWII

Shawn McCullough @shawnmcc.bsky.social · 11d

We were living under a fascist dictatorship in the 1940’s? That’s people’s position now?

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Public Record Sourcerer @publicrecdsource.bsky.social · 11d

You're in for a hell of a read once you crack a book.

Before the presidents' faces were carved into Paha Sapa, it was also called the Six Grandfathers, Paha Sapa, of the Lakota. The US Government seized the land in 1877 after gold had been discovered there. President Grant secretly ordered the US Army not to protect Lakota from bounty hunters who collected up to $300 for each Native American they killed. The carving of four presidents into the hills took place in the 1920's funded in part by the Ku Klux Klan.

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floot the gender woo gerbil 🇵🇸 @flootzavut.bsky.social · 6d

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Zannah @alopexstudios.bsky.social · 11d

Coddling a delusion that AI will be sentient soon, so we should be nice to it (and by extension the people who like it) while ignoring the real world bigotry and genocide happening to REAL humans is pretty callous and ludicrous.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 11d

The people who are most driving this narrative this are not doing this because they want to end systems of oppression. It is because they want humans in service to them as if they were robots.

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · Jan 31

I wonder how Indiana got its name and also how come the people it's named a slur for don't even have a res here and anyhow did you know Indiana had the world's first mandatory sterilization of undesirables law?

www.wfyi.org/programs/ind...

Indiana Eugenics

A five-part news series on history of Eugenics in Indiana.

www.wfyi.org

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