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Janet Lunde

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Local politics nerd. Anti-fascist. Black lives matter. Trans rights are human rights. She/her. Account prone to cat & flower pix! Pittsburgh

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Janet Lunde @janetlunde.bsky.social · 1d

PITTSBURGH SAYS NO KINGS!

Saturday, October 18th, 12:30PM
City-County Building, 414 Grant St

More info: www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

PITTSBURGH SAYS NO KINGS! Indivisible Pittsburgh. October 18th, 12:30PM. City-County Building, 414 Grant St
Partners include Coalition of Labor Union Workers (CLUW), Casa San Jose, Pittsburghers for Progress, Indivisible Regent Square, SEIU, Indivisible Black Neighborhoods United, Stand Up for Science, League of Women Voters, B-PEP, Steel City Stonewall Democrats, 1Hood Power, ACLU Pennsylvania.

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Janet Lunde @janetlunde.bsky.social · 53m

OMIGOD, YES!

When I took a bite of an Impossible burger, I nearly spit it out. <shudder> I'll never knowingly order one. It's bad, because a "veggie burger" is often the only option on the menu.

I've been a vegetarian for 30 years. My taste buds have _changed_.

Janet Lunde @janetlunde.bsky.social · 56m

I joined the Pittsburgh Overpass Project (POP) on the Greenfield Bridge yesterday. If was fun meeting the other folks!

Here in PA it is critical to turn your ballot over and vote YES to retain the judges that are protecting our rights! Every judge on the ballot is a Democrat -- Yes for all of them.

The smaller sign faced the traffic crossing the bridge: PROTECT FREE SPEECH RESIST CENSORSHIP

It's a very tall bridge, so we had the sign with _big_ letters facing the rush hour traffic below: VOTE YES TO RETAIN OUR JUDGES

Woman in a wheelchair wearing a grey hoodie holding an American flag.

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Alex Rose @roseforacc.bsky.social · 1d

Endorsement alert! Thank you,
@stonewallpgh.bsky.social for your support and trust!

I am deeply honored to receive this endorsement. For years now I have seen the tireless work that the organization does to promote equality for the LGBTQ+ Community. I am proud to stand alongside them.

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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 1h

According to a new study
by Yale researchers
Covid-19 continues
to be driving a large number
of work absences,
which is an important reminder
that it is not the case
that people are “quiet quitting,”
rather it’s the case
that this virus just won’t quit.

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Catullus's 300,000th kiss @arielwrites.bsky.social · 11d

I’ve only just started reading #FMLComix, but I already have a feeling it will be one of my all-time favourites.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1h

these people know how extreme they are

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Tanisha @tanishaevonne.bsky.social · 4h

In honor and remembrance of George Floyd and all victims of police brutality, Pittsburgh City Council has declared today, October 14th, to be George Floyd Day in the City of Pittsburgh.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 16h

I frequently say you don't need to protest. You don't! There are a thousand other ways to push back on fascism if protesting doesn't feel comfortable or safe for you!

But if you CAN go, this 10/18 #NoKings thing is really a key protest to participate in. Be part of it, friends.

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

NO KINGS, y'all! October 18! Find a rally near you and GO!

nokings.org

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Janet Lunde @janetlunde.bsky.social · 5h

As if these groups weren’t trading and traveling. What an idiot.

Gee, do you suppose waves of pandemics from multiple diseases may have been more of a factor that “lack of curiosity”?

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Pennsylvania Democratic Party @padems.org · 5h

The back of your ballot matters just as much as the front! #ProtectPACourts by flipping your ballot over to vote YES to RETAIN Justices Donohue, Dougherty, Wecht, and Judges Dubow and Wojcik! #VotePA #PACourtsMatter

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Vote Dan Miller for Judge @votedanmiller.bsky.social · 9h

Had a lot of fun chalking it up on National Coming Out Day with @stonewallpgh.bsky.social @matthewrudzki.bsky.social @jaimehickton.bsky.social Amanda Green-Hawkins & Rep. Dan Frankel!

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Janet Lunde @janetlunde.bsky.social · 20h

I had glanced at a McCarthy book, and was put off by how he didn't use quotation marks for dialogue. It seemed precious and annoying. A friend told me to dive in anyway.

I did, and was bowled over. He didn't need no stinking quotation marks! I also only read one of his books -- too depressing.

Janet Lunde @janetlunde.bsky.social · 20h

Welcome to Pittsburgh.

A banner in the sky, towed by a plane, above the Pittsburgh Pirate's stadium. It reads: YOU SUCK AT THIS, BOB! SELL THE @#$! TEAM!!”

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Liz Bourke @hawkwinglb.bsky.social · 1d

They're excellent books.

Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Dive back into #theelflands this #spookyseason!

@pennyvixen.bsky.social /Katherine Addison completed her CEMETERIES OF AMALO trilogy following Thara Celehar earlier this year with THE TOMB OF DRAGONS. Now is the perfect time to return to this well loved universe and meet friends old and new!

Against black patterned fabric, four flatlaid UK paperbacks of THE GOBLIN EMPEROR, THE WITNESS FOR THE DEAD, THE GRIEF OF STONES, and THE TOMB OF DRAGONS with a silver crown in the middle.

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Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 1d

Disclosure of donors and the cities they live in should be required on your website, whether you're a PAC or a candidate.

We Have Always Existed: Transgender History @transgenderhistory.bsky.social · 1d

City council gives you the power to pass one single law to make things better.

What is your city, and what law do you pass?

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Janet Lunde @janetlunde.bsky.social · 1d

The damn Columbus statue is still there, and the tarp has come loose.

The city decided to remove it several years ago, but the "Italian Sons and Daughters of America" have that tied up in court.

At least I did hear that Little Italy Days was weak sauce this year.

Appeals court keeps alive challenge to Pittsburgh's efforts to remove Columbus statue

A Pennsylvania appeals court has kept alive an Italian heritage group’s challenge to efforts by the city of Pittsburgh to remove a statue of Christopher Columbus from a city park.

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Dr. Fade @fade.bsky.social · 1d

I will always treasure the time that I got to tell the Ancient Near East specialist in the classics & near east department that Ea-Nasir was not only known to randos outside of her field, but had a fanbase and memes.

(She was baffled but pleased, and corrected my pronunciation of his name.)

Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 1d

K1: so we need to learn this lesson about writing
Me: ok ok
We talk about the Sumerians, cuneiform etc
K1/ they really wrote on clay?
Me: yep. Entire complaint letter sometimes
K1: ?
Me: let me introduce you to our local main character, Ea-Nasir...

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Rep. Summer Lee @repsummerlee.bsky.social · 1d

Today, on #IndigenousPeoplesDay, we honor the vibrant Indigenous communities and people across our country.

Indigenous people in the US and around the world deserve sovereignty, freedom, recognition, and respect for their cultures and histories.

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Willamette Week @wweek.com · 1d

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Andrew Schwartz

www.wweek.com

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Willamette Week @wweek.com · 1d

Given the gray conditions, most cyclists chose a costume over their birthday suits, not that this was a unanimous decision by any means.

“ICE Can Kiss My…”: Images From an Emergency Naked Bike Ride

Andrew Jankowski

www.wweek.com

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 1d

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

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matthew @pahuski.com · 1d

Happy Columbo’s Day

Screenshot from Columbo. He his talking to his dog, which is sitting is the drivers seat of a car. “Okay, I’m gonna put you in charge. You take care of the car. You’re a responsible dog. When I get back, if the car’s okay, I’ll give you another cookie.”

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Janet Lunde @janetlunde.bsky.social · 1d

Have you been turned away? The state did do something about this, and insurers are covering it.

www.pa.gov/content/dam/...

www.pa.gov

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