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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 4d

Mamdani promises to deploy *hundreds* if lawyers to fight for trans rights, create a new office of LGBTQ affairs, and allocate millions of dollars to fund housing and healthcare for trans kids and adults

This is what fighting back looks like--elevating activists to materually support trans people.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 5d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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NeauxWai @neauxwai.bsky.social · 3d

For my birthday I'm asking you to please send $5 to my friend Indi if you can. They are working so hard to just get on their feet, and if I can help send anything their way, it will be a good day for me as well. ♥️
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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 5d

**always follow the money**
PE firm behind for-profit universities using its WH influence to handwrite terms that will eviscerate, hamstring and control its own competitors in higher ed…and NY Times giving space to the CEO to come out and admit this influence in a pro-Compact piece

As someone who played a part in the compact’s initial formulation, working alongside an administration working group, I would like to offer what insight I can into the motivation and need for the compact and to address its detractors.

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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 5d

Private equity gets its toothhold into firms through economic squeezing, devalues them, then breaks them into parts to sell off. This compact is the squeeze that will simultaneously advantage for-profit ed *and* make it easier to PE-ify non-profit ed. The ideological component is a means to an end.

Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 5d

an article with more context
www.republicreport.org/2025/billion...

Billionaire Behind Trump Pressure Campaign on Colleges Owns Predatory University of Phoenix - Republic Report

Private equity billionaire Marc Rowan was revealed last week to be the driving force behind a Trump administration campaign pressuring nine major U.S. universities, including Brown, MIT, and the Unive...

www.republicreport.org

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Benny 666-Cults @teeveeben.bsky.social · 6d

Antifa implies the existence of Antiso, Antila, Antiti, and Antido.

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Cozy Witch Roe ➡️ Getting His Life Together @monroeroe.bsky.social · 8d

The status of my claim has been in review for 2 days and I’m getting really anxious because we have no internet rn and it feels like I’m drowning 🙃.

Cozy Witch Roe ➡️ Getting His Life Together @monroeroe.bsky.social · 9d

#MutualAid #helpsky

Hey, folks! My PFMLA is still processing and with everything going on, I’m not sure how much longer it’s going to take and we’re in a rough spot atm. If you like the work I do or just want to help out a queer, disabled household, it’d be highly appreciated.

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NeauxWai @neauxwai.bsky.social · 6d

How did The Phone Made By The Search Engine People completely fuck up its own internal storage search capabilities? I need a text from like last month and I can't pull it up on searches. I can't find photo files BY NAME. Google is such ass, and I wish I didn't need a phone to operate in society.

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 10d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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NeauxWai @neauxwai.bsky.social · 9d

I already switched to qobuz. 👍🏻

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 10d

Spotify is partnering with ChatGPT

• Will personalize music and podcast recommendations

• Available on an opt-in basis

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 10d

We are over ONE-QUARTER FUNDED on @secase.bsky.social's "Rigsby WI Book 2: Burn it Down" on Kickstarter!

🏆Eisner-nominated!🏆
🏆Ignatz-nominated!🏆
❤️A Project We Love on KS!❤️

C'mon. This is some classy stuff.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...

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NeauxWai @neauxwai.bsky.social · 9d

I'm so sorry you had to go through all of this, especially with someone who was so close to you. I'm glad you're in a stable place now, and I hope you have all the space you need to process and heal. ♥️

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 11d

It’s been repulsive how The NY Times has been fearmongering around Mamdani, but to then take the extra step to smear Portland as a means of doing it while that city is facing a fascist invasion is another thing entirely.

I hope people are starting to see it’s the capitalists versus the rest of us.

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NeauxWai @neauxwai.bsky.social · Oct 17

They're the same guy.

Vincent Valentine on the cover of the video game FFVII: Dirge of Cerberus. He is a primarily red and black costumed character, wields a gun, and is standing in front of a wall of flames in this image.

Shadow the Hedgehog on the cover of the video game Shadow the Hedgehog.

He is a primarily red and black character, holding a gun, standing in front of flames.

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S E Case @secase.bsky.social · 14d

In the hopes of getting more eyeballs on Rigsby WI: Burn it Down leading up to the print edition's Kickstarter launch, I'll be posting Burn it Down pages in this thread over the next few days! If you havent read it, check it out ⬇️
KS: www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...
Webcomic: rigsbywi.com

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Rissa Montañez @rissavoices.bsky.social · 12d

If major news outlets won't spread the word about what's happening in Chicago then please share the news you see/read when you can and follow the updates from websites like Block Club Chicago.

blockclubchicago.org

Block Club Chicago

Block Club Chicago is a nonprofit news organization dedicated to delivering reliable, nonpartisan and essential coverage of Chicago’s diverse neighborhoods.

blockclubchicago.org

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Dr Tanner @drtanner.bsky.social · Aug 6

The first page of Timothy Snyder's pamphlet, "On Tyranny". It reads as follows:
1. Do not obey in advance. Most of the power in authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 12d

If you're in Illinois and facing criminal charges from protesting ICE, or if you were attacked by ICE or law enforcement supporting them, I might be able to represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected]. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.

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NeauxWai @neauxwai.bsky.social · 13d

It's my birthday month, please send me your clown & clown-inspired OCs or fan works!

TTRPG characters, art, writing, makeup, cosplay, whatever! Jesters, a Wit, scary clowns, circus clowns, commedia clowns, sad clowns, anything!

Please flag any NSFW content you post @ me so I can look while at work

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NeauxWai @neauxwai.bsky.social · 12d

Murder elf harlequins??? 👀

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NeauxWai @neauxwai.bsky.social · 13d

I'm so serious right now, I love a clown. I'm getting into commedia & mask work, and clowning is Just! So! Cool!! I'm fascinated. ♥️

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NeauxWai @neauxwai.bsky.social · 13d

It's my birthday month, please send me your clown & clown-inspired OCs or fan works!

TTRPG characters, art, writing, makeup, cosplay, whatever! Jesters, a Wit, scary clowns, circus clowns, commedia clowns, sad clowns, anything!

Please flag any NSFW content you post @ me so I can look while at work

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NeauxWai @neauxwai.bsky.social · 13d

It's FRIDAY and I have cold brew and a cape, and in this little moment in this room life is all right.

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 15d

now where i am from when someone in your office has an accuracy rate of 57.2 percent in editing spreadsheets we call them "fired"

Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 15d

Microsoft says its Agent Mode in Excel has an accuracy rate of 57.2 percent in SpreadsheetBench, a benchmark for evaluating an Al model's ability to edit real world spreadsheets. This result

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bay 🌙 @ dragonposting @baydews.com · 15d

woo birthday time!! if you could share my art around, it would make me very happy for the occasion 💕👉👈

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 15d

JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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