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mathew yates @mathewyates.bsky.social · May 24

i have a new poem out this week in issue 19 of @beestung.bsky.social grateful to the amazing & caring @sarahclark.bsky.social ! 💛💛🐝

beestungmag.com/issue19/one-...

One Poem by Mathew Yates

dear mud

dear glob of dirt,
make me inert & free,
make me as pretty as the mud
merging with the sea,

dear The Listening Part of the Sky,
make me as hollow as you
& never ask me why,

dear The Dying Time,
won’t you make me rhyme
like the sea & sky at dusk,
& sincerely, must we rush
when nothing can be done at all?

dear lump of mud,
mold me into one
who can rust or bust in half,
but don’t ask me what it means
to become instead of be,
don’t ask me what it means
to want to be incomplete.

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mathew yates @mathewyates.bsky.social · 7d

trying to get back in the habit of painting, so i made this kinda classic yates-style guy over the last day or two 🧑‍🎨🎨🧡

acrylic painting in vivid colors, a portrait from the upper-chest up against a brown and beige checkerboard pattern. the left shoulder is blue, the right is red, in the middle up the neck is purple, the chin is orange and pink in curves along the chin, into light green lips, dark green mid-face, gold-yellow nose and forehead with a curve of orange at the very top, the left ear is light blue, the right ear purple, the right eye is light blue, the left eye is pink on top and purple below, with red in a triangle between the eye and nose. the right eye is bigger and curves down a little, both eyes pupil-less with orange, brown, white finger-blended irises

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mathew yates @mathewyates.bsky.social · 5d

better pic, hard to get a good one with the lighting in my room. not edited, just camera/lighting

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Derek Operle @doperle.bsky.social · 3h

The first time I saw this image, I knew I had to write about this piece of Kentucky history. Sonya Lea’s new book is a bracing, deep look into a troubling case and an invitation to think deeply about the justice system in our country.

Kentucky Public Radio @kentuckypublicradio.org · 8h

A new book from a Kentucky native details the last public hanging in the United States, which took place in Owensboro in 1936, examining it through the lens of lynching culture in America. From @doperle.bsky.social at @wkmsfm.bsky.social

20,000 people watched a Black man hang in Owensboro 90 years ago. A new book looks at why

A new book from a Kentucky native details the last public hanging in the United States, which took place in Owensboro 1936, and examines it through the lens of lynch culture in America.

www.wkms.org

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

A reminder that Ben Gvir was set to be sanctioned by the United States government in February 2024 but was personally taken off the list by President Biden.

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 5h

Itamar Ben Gvir is a real monster www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

www.aftonbladet.se

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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 7h

Justice Kavanaugh in the Callais oral argument keeps alluding to some longstanding requirement of strict scrutiny that use of race have a time limit. This is invented.

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mathew yates @mathewyates.bsky.social · 5h

hegseth sounds like morgoth's horse or something

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 6h

Once again, if the administration had a good story to tell on the law and facts, they would be telling it.

But they don’t, because these strikes are illegal.

And seems victims have all been civilians, because there is no armed conflict and no enemy combatants.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Members of Congress growing concerned over lack of information from administration about Venezuela strikes, sources say

Republicans and Democrats say the administration is failing to share basic information with Congress about the intelligence, rationale and goals of its war on drug trafficking.

www.nbcnews.com

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mathew yates @mathewyates.bsky.social · 7h

and behind your back at least some were vehement racists and homophobes. it's not the end of the world if you didn't see it.

mathew yates @mathewyates.bsky.social · 7h

yeah, they were definitely like this when i was a teen, 2003-2009.

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 1d

Politicians who meet fascists half way, are just fascists.

Newsom is all about publicity & nothing about integrity.

It’s been depressing watching American ppl hero-worship a power crazed sell-out. It’s not just Kimberly Guilfoyle & cosmetic surgery he has in common with the Trumps. READ this:

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

1. Yesterday, the press gave Gavin Newsom favorable coverage for signing pro-LGBTQ+ bills.

Little noticed, however, was that he vetoed one of the most important ones: a bill allowing trans people 12 month HRT stockpiles, protecting them from federal threats.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

Gavin Newsom Vetoes Important HRT Stockpiling Bill For Trans Californians, Signs Other Pro-LGBTQ+ Bills

The bill would have allowed transgender people to maintain a safe supply of medication in the era of government crackdowns on care.

www.erininthemorning.com

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Israel Warns Gaza Still Harboring Hundreds Of Doctors https://theonion.com/israel-warns-gaza-still-harboring-hundreds-of-doctors-1850964439/

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 1d

The potential for shit like this is one reason why groups like LUCE in Massachusetts urge people to report sightings to them so they and their partners can directly warn people. A decentralized network is a lot harder to shut down. No big tech company will be in ally in the fight against ICE.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

At the request of the U.S. Department of Justice, a Facebook group used by nearly 80,000 people to report sightings of federal immigration agents in the Chicago area has been taken down by the social media giant Meta, Facebook’s parent company.

Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request

The group, "ICE Sighting-Chicagoland," has been increasingly used in the last five weeks of President Donald Trump’s intense deportation campaign to warn neighbors that federal agents are nearby.

trib.al

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Joy @joyfromghazza.blacksky.app · 1d

We’re doing it🥳🥳🥳
Nothing left to achieve the goal ❤️

Please donate and repost
#gaza #palestine #genocide

Joy @joyfromghazza.blacksky.app · 3d

Hello friends, I am Joy, a writer stuck in #Gaza. I live in a small rented apartment after my house was destroyed during the #genocide
I have set a goal of $500 the week.
I GOT 2 donations only today!

Please help me to achieve it to pay the rent.

www.chuffed.org/project/evac...

#palestine

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 1d

Transness is not bourgeois. This is a wedge idea dreamed up by some gleefully amoral think tank lobotomite to split trans people and make us fight each other. That we relay on modern medicine doesn't make us any more bourgeois than someone who needs antidepressants or cleft palate repair.

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 1d

Heartbroken that, per his social media accounts, Drew Struzan has left us. His poster and album art was quite simply shorthand for imagination for countless young people.

E.T. Adventure poster, 1990. I still have one of these hanging in my childhood bedroom.

Star Wars Special edition triptych, 1997. I remember seeing all of these in the paper as each film was re-released and just felt a burst of energy those mornings.

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Guerin @blkchimera.blacksky.app · 1d

The amount of sudden amnesia that's about to happen about genocide.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

"a test"? you mean...a violation?

AP: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire

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Saki 🦄🪶✦Fae NTVtuber✦【NTVN】【V-Chunky】 @nightmaresakito.bsky.social · 5d

A beautiful native woman flipping the bird in response to Monday, Oct. 13th, Columbus Day. “Fuck Christopher Columbus.” Happy Indigenous People’s Day!

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Ayman Makarem @aymanmak.bsky.social · 2d

so it seems Saleh was killed (possibly executed) by an Israeli-armed/backed militia. We've known that Israel has been doing this. The goal: fomenting a civil war between Palestinian factions. Inevitably Israel will "intervene" to quell the clashes. Another tool in its genocidal arsenal.

elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 3d

Absolutely horrible news - Saleh was killed today

www.middleeasteye.net/news/saleh-a...

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rabid🦊wolf🌈 @tallwolf.bsky.social · 11d

our new to us jeep broke down and with it, our only income. 💔 Gwen works as a delivery driver since i lost my job, but without a car, we’re stuck

we’re raising $4,000 to lease an electric vehicle so she can get back to work this month. Every donation helps — even $10 — and shares mean the world 💜

Donate to Help Gwen Get Back on the Road (and Back to Work), organized by Amber Dawn

Our only car broke down, and with it, our only income. My fiancée Gwen i… Amber Dawn needs your support for Help Gwen Get Back on the Road (and Back to Work)

gofund.me

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 5d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 4d

For some context the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly report in addition to being just a good read, to quote wikipedia, "is the main vehicle for publishing public health information and recommendations that have been received by the CDC from state health departments. "

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Morgan Watkins @morganwatkins.lpm.org · 14d

Press freedom alert in Kentucky: Two journalists face trial in Kenton County, after they were arrested in July for being at a local protest they were reporting on. The protest was by people speaking out against ICE's detention of a chaplain in Cincinnati.

On trial for journalism in Kentucky.

Two months after their arrests while covering a protest, a pair of local reporters face criminal charges.

www.cjr.org

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 5d

Since Link is banned, his mutual aid Fridays have gone with him. This was one of the most altruistic things I’ve seen anyone on this site do.

In light of this, I’m gonna try to fill the gap.

Drop your mutual aid requests under this thread and I will repost them for as long as I can.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 5d

One curious thing on this site about speaking out against the encroachment of LLMs is that inevitably you get accused of being anti-tech. I don’t hate technology. I’ve used machine learning in my own code before. But I also recognize that oligarchs are so hellbent on pushing this tech for a reason.

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