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@insaanity.bsky.social

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We all live under the same sky. Antifascist, anticapitalist, feminist, anti-racist, anti-imperialist, humanist. Somehow still convinced we can make the world a better place because we absolutely must. End capitalism before it ends us.

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epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 4h

Entry #377 of the Black Book of Capitalism

epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 4h

Now ordering a shrimb cobtail

epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 13h

"from commoners" would have been correct, though

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epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 14h

a man with glasses and a mustache is smiling and saying oh i can just taste those meaty leading man parts in my mouth

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epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 1d

Not the most important thing, but these clowns couldn't even figure out how to setup an official address like whitehouse-dot-gov.

epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 1d

a man in a plaid shirt with a backpack says offense taken

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epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 2d

Now here's a fake Nobel prize as thanks for making the 0.01% richer by $3 trillion

epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 2d

THIS TIME IT'S DIFFERENT, CHET

epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 2d

The cats are not what they seem

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tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: White House announces it's going to pause, and potentially cancel, $11 billion in infrastructure funding (via the Army Corps of Engineers), specifically citing cities, like New York, represented or led by Democrats. More to come.

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 3d

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 3d

John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.

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epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 3d

As a programmer since the 80s, I concur

epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 3d

Saying "mahalo" while gobbling up more and more of Hawai`i

epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 3d

didn't say it was a good transformation

epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 3d

It has to be a bit
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epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 3d

COME ON

These have to be bots, right? I'm starting to think Bluesky is some kind of performance art project, with these bots as some kind of commentary on our times.

epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 3d

COME ON

These have to be bots, right? I'm starting to think Bluesky is some kind of performance art project, with these bots as some kind of commentary on our times.

epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah but no catchy initials to make embarrassing memes around

epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 4d

a man wearing sunglasses and a hat is holding a clock with the hands on the number 12 and 1

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 4d

I feel like Ben Gvir personally being in the room when Greta Thunberg was being tortured should be bigger news

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 4d

Palestine’s most popular leader, Marwan Barghouti, was beaten unconscious and has his ribs broken by Israeli prison guards and his family fears for his life, his son has said, citing evidence given by former Palestinian detainees released this week as part of the ceasefire deal.

Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti assaulted by Israeli prison guards, son says

Family fears for 66-year-old’s life after assault while he was being transferred between prisons

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Greg 📎🍉 @gregory-c-leavitt.bsky.social · 5d

Capitalism is dependent upon the threat of losing your home, livelihood, health and freedom to force you to work for someone else’s benefit. It’s a system based in terror.

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Skippy Granola @skippygranola.bsky.social · 6d

Every Bari Weiss interview is: "As a Queer Jewish woman I felt like it was time to courageously speak up and say 'I think it's time we re-examine the virtue of the civil rights movement.'

And then everyone started booing, and I wept at how the level of discourse had degraded in this country."

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 6d

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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epistemic crisis actor @insaanity.bsky.social · 6d

Dumptrucks full of cash, fleets of them