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Eleonor Piteira @eleonorpiteira.bsky.social · 3d

Aferah, for a personal project, 2017

obvious plant @outfield.bsky.social · 5d

fire every last DC-brained consultant who's peddling the losing strategy of throwing marginalized communities under the bus. fucking stand for something, run on that, and lead people.

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obvious plant @outfield.bsky.social · 5d

pursue aggressive redistricting in blue states. use state AGs to bring suit against complicit companies/officials. enforce subpoena power. build criminal referrals. run RELENTLESS coverage of flagrant abuses. train and field candidates who will litigate and legislate. plan for stacking the court.

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obvious plant @outfield.bsky.social · 5d

there are so many tools they could be using, but they don't want to stick their necks out. they don't want the fight, they want things to go back how they were. but they don't get to choose. we're in this fight whether we want it or not, and we need more aggressive fighters.

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obvious plant @outfield.bsky.social · 5d

she’s venting and it’s valid. it’s not crazy to expect our politicians to be capable at politicking. if they’re not they need to step aside. things are fucking *dire* and party leadership is overly focused on politeness and acquiescence, not the urgency and escalation the situation requires.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 7d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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obvious plant @outfield.bsky.social · 7d

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close up shot of the underside of a white mushroom, featuring a delicate pattern of thin gill lines and a stalky stem growing towards the upper right corner

close up shot of the underside of half of a white mushroom, featuring a delicate pattern of thin gill lines radiating from the center and a stalky stem at the bottom

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obvious plant @outfield.bsky.social · 7d

after 3 days of rain, i found these mushrooms in the back yard tonight. the big one has a 4" cap and it practically grew overnight.

nikon Z6 + MC105 f2.8
shot at 1/40, f13, ISO 600
50 image focus stack via helicon

#macro #photography #naturelovers #photographersofbluesky #mushrooms

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obvious plant @outfield.bsky.social · 7d

8 million *fewer* dems turned out in 2024 because they ran a republican-light platform. harris/walz had juice for like 1 week, then the consultants told her to court the cheneys and genocide. people like fighters, people like politicians with a fucking spine.

the votes were there, the party wasn't.

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 7d

Susan Lipper’s photographic series Grapevine was shot over four years from 1988 to 1992.
The series takes its name from Grapevine Branch in West Virginia, a small community where Susan found herself for a while after graduating the Yale photography programme.