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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 22h

Please contact your senators about KOSA. This bill has amassed a lot of cosponsors.

We can beat this, but we need people to call, email and send letters en mass. Please try to contact your reps as often as you are able to and encourage people you know to join you!

Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 3d

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#SaveSpeech

If you're like me and you are struggling to contact your senators re: KOSA via their phone lines this week, I recommend attempting to send physical letters or emails in the meantime.

Here is a script you can use to contact your reps!

www.commoncause.org/find-your-re...

Hi, my name is [NAME] and I’m a constituent from [LOCATION]
I'm messaging to demand [SENATOR] oppose S. 1748, the Kids Online Safety Act, also known as KOSA. This broad legislation does not protect anyone and instead will be used to block any speech that the Trump administration’s partisan FTC disagrees with. It pushes the “duty of care” onto websites and social media platforms to remove content that is “harmful to children”. It would lead to overcompliance, mass censorship, and remove access to crucial information re: everything from mental health, LGBT topics, substance abuse, eating disorders and more.
Additionally, while large, corporate platforms like X can shoulder the weight of “duty of care”, smaller websites cannot, leading to greater and greater concentrations of power online into giant corporate platforms rather than small and medium sized businesses.
KOSA will not make kids safer. It will make the internet more dangerous for anyone who relies on it to learn, connect, or speak freely. Lawmakers should reject it, and fast.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
IF SENATOR COSPONSORED KOSA: Additionally, I want to remark on [SENATOR]’s cosponsorship of this bill. I think it is shameful that [SENATOR] has backed a bill as transparently bad as KOSA. This will not keep kids safe, it is an excuse to censor the free and open internet. I will not be voting for nor donating to [SENATOR] in any future campaigns if they do not drop their co-sponsorship of this bill, and I will encourage everyone in my life to do the same.
Do the right thing.

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Joe Crow @joecrow.bsky.social · 3h

Some folks just show up in meditation and say “it’s dangerous to go alone; take this” and hand you a little blue scorpion-centaur girl.
Say hi, everybody.

Linework drawing of a female scorpion-centaur, with four arms, one holding a bell, one a whip, one a Medusa head shield, and one ending in a scorpion claw.

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 17d

The entire confederate south should’ve been dissolved into federal territory with states later redrawn and entered into the union after a second constitutional congress to remove all the slavery concessions within it

godslayer @bitdizzy.bsky.social · 17d

you know what is totally cool to say? It is totally cool to say that every last confederate officer should have been hanged and every last plantation owner dispossessed and hanged after the civil war. It is totally cool to say it. it has no correlation with how you feel about politics in the present

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Joe Crow @joecrow.bsky.social · 16h

Seriously considering doing the same, but … Aarrgh, having to punt Scrivener and the Affinity suite! And Bear! Sadness!

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Joe Crow @joecrow.bsky.social · 16h

One of the things you gotta remember, as a practitioner, is that the other side of the fence is just as much a jungle as this side is, and there’s just as many tigers in that jungle as there are in this one.
And there’s just as much quicksand and poison ivy, too.

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Joe Crow @joecrow.bsky.social · 16h

Grant’s always been mind bogglingly careless about magical hygiene and security, as evidenced by their writing themselves into a comic narrative and then giving their in-narrative avatar a horrifying torture session and THEN being surprised when their actual face starts to melt off.

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 17h

“To face down Donald Trump’s power grab and his terror campaign targeting “antifa,” we need everyone, of all walks of life, to proclaim that opposition to fascism is both laudable and urgent.”

CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 3d

Anarchists are known for our courage. We have gotten used to acting boldly in an array of contexts.

What is needed now is the courage to establish public positions around which a fighting movement can cohere.

This both scarier and simpler than many of the things we have done in the past.

No Kings, No Masters

A call for anti-authoritarian blocs at the October 18 "No Kings" demonstrations.

crimethinc.com

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Jonathan Dresner @jondresner.bsky.social · 20h

There are no good-faith anti-trans arguments and no acceptable compromises on trans lives

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

Like many trans healthcare bans, the Fenway Health policy covers everyone up to age 19, including legal adults who are 18 years old.

Mainstream reporting consistently ignores this creeping ban on adult care, which extends the legal minority of trans adults to maximize the harms of delayed care.

snippet from the Boston Globe home page:
Under federal pressure, Fenway Health ends gender-affirming medical care for trans children
The community clinic, long a key institution for the LGBTQ+ community, treated 5,000 patients transgender patients in 2023, although its unclear how many were minors.

With "and young adults" added after children in red

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♿🏳️‍⚧️ Need Dental Funds ASAP! @wylder.bsky.social · 4d

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Need about $800 more + rideshare funds, then onto raising grocery funds & bills. 😭

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 3d

it is no wonder that 50501, a movement of radlibs who are very upset but don’t want to get in trouble, would be boosting superficial activism.

superficial activism has its place, but if that place is front and center, it kills whatever movement it is skimming off the top of.

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 3d

but because so few spend any time actually analyzing how protests function, they see viral moments and seek to replicate them, believing this to be what solidarity is.

would they replicate the shadowy figures throwing gas cans back? no. they don’t want to get their hands dirty.

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 3d

this is where movements become moments & die: people see the display of a radical tactic and, not comprehending the tactical purpose, adopt only the display as an echo of the fight.

it becomes an empty, consumerist meme: buy an inflatable and dance around and that’s how you fight ICE!

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 3d

the spectacle as a deescalating tactic, absent anything to deescalate, can easily devolve into stuntery and cosplay: nothing materially impacted, but people pat themselves on the back for the sweat from dancing around for a couple hours, as if they had done something other than tire themselves out.

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 3d

the above clip looks like it’s in a parking lot on a street corner, a visibility demo. if so, they might as well have a guy flipping a sign for discounts on papa john’s with them, as this type of demo is just that: a form of advertising.

in this setting, absurdity may draw eyes but nothing else.

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 3d

clownery/absurdity in the face of extremism and violence function to take the wind out of the sails of whatever volatile opposition is being stood up against.

that tactic, though, only works if there’s a direct confrontation.

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 3d

as charming and whimsical as some will view this, it bears noting that absurdity—not militancy or might—are what people have chosen to repeat from the portland standoffs against ICE.

why is that?

what purpose does this serve?

a mini 🧵:

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 4d

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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Joe Crow @joecrow.bsky.social · 1d

Oh look, a blindingly corrupt sociopathic corporate tool carrying water for the monsters that are eating the world. Who could possibly have predicted THAT.

This, of course, is what the DNC wants everybody to wave the flag for, come ‘28. The goddam Smiler, from Transmetropolitan.

Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 1d

CA governor Gavin Newsom vetoed both of the major AI bills on his desk that Silicon Valley meaningfully opposed—one making it illegal for bosses to use AI to fire workers with no oversight, one requiring chatbot sellers to ensure their products do not harm children before marketing to them.

Silicon Valley's capture of our political institutions is all but complete

The tech lobby kills off two key California AI bills, and why it matters. Plus: How Sam Altman played Hollywood with Sora 2, organized mass social media deletions, and more.

www.bloodinthemachine.com

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 2d

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

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 3d

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#SaveSpeech

If you're like me and you are struggling to contact your senators re: KOSA via their phone lines this week, I recommend attempting to send physical letters or emails in the meantime.

Here is a script you can use to contact your reps!

www.commoncause.org/find-your-re...

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javier grillo-marxuach @okbjgm.bsky.social · 4d

the degree to which i feel like i am living in the pre-title montage of a post-apocalyptic movie cannot be overstated.

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 4d

This is an alarming compression of the planetary destruction timeline: with the massive growth of the AI bubble, data centers are expected to consume up to 12% of total US electricity by 2028, up from 4.4% in 2023.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/t...

Sora 2 and ChatGPT are consuming so much power that OpenAI just did another 10 gigawatt deal | CNN Business

OpenAI is partnering with Broadcom to design and develop 10 gigawatts of custom AI chips and systems, a massive amount of power that will use as much electricity as a large city. The move further high...

www.cnn.com

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 7d

The Sudan Solidarity Collective supports organizations led by Sudanese civilians: including emergency response rooms, mutual aid, labor and farmers’ unions. Please give what you can and/or share.

Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 7d

The Sudan Solidarity Collective is doing a big fundraising push to support our partners in El Fashir to support food distribution, evacuation and medications.

Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 .

sudansolidarity.com

Home - Sudan Solidarity Collective

Solidarity with Sudan! Support the Emergency Response Rooms doing life saving work in Sudan by donating to the Sudan Solidarity Fund. Workshops4Sudan is a new fundraising initiative of the Sudan Solid...

sudansolidarity.com

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nic.tattoos @nicterhorst.com · 5d

I'd somehow missed this petition!! Maybe you did too

Dianna Gunn Does (Fictional) Murders 🇨🇦 @diannalgunn.bsky.social · 5d

CANADIANS!! The official petition started by a member of Parliament to fight back against payment processors' censorship of legal content is only open for a few more days. Make sure you've signed it: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Petition e-6695 - Petitions

www.ourcommons.ca

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Joe Crow @joecrow.bsky.social · 6d

Currently reading @kadmusauthor.bsky.social’s new one, Learning From Legendary Practitioners. Once I’m done with that one, planning to jump into @tkingfisher.com’s new Sworn Soldier book, What Stalks The Deep.

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Joe Crow @joecrow.bsky.social · 6d

That’s the fucking key, right there. The reason long-term functional societies diffuse power through multiple layers and groups of people isn’t JUST to keep it from being misused. It’s also to keep it from devouring the people using it.

Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 6d

the key is the money goes somewhere I never again look at the balance, I don’t touch it, I don’t even choose grant recipients (just general areas to fund) I pay subject matter experts to do that for me to protect my own cognitive health. utilizing enormous power is lethal brain poison

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 6d

These are both parties of wealthy interests first and foremost. That's what everyone sees.

I honestly no longer believe this is salvageable but if they want to defeat fascism, they need to actually pretend they care about democracy. Which they do not the second it intersects with big interests.

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