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Joan 🐈‍⬛ (but spoopy)

@profwitch.bsky.social

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anti-fascist & goth-adjacent interdisciplinary artist, actual professor, & game developer. opinions my own! support artists & yr local media! 💕 ✨she/her, bi, witch/wiccan, disabled ✨contact: [email protected] ✨more info: https://linktr.ee/profgoggles

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Joan 🐈‍⬛ (but spoopy) @profwitch.bsky.social · Jan 2

given everything happening - and if i can self promote just a little - now seems like a good time to bring this video back around.

The Media Literacy Guidebook #2: 5 Ways to Question What You Consume

YouTube video by LadyGoggles

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Joan 🐈‍⬛ (but spoopy) @profwitch.bsky.social · 2h

a close up of a cat 's face with a black block on its eyes

Alt: this cat is screaming - it even has little drawn on angry eyebrows - because this pun is TOO MUCH

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Joan 🐈‍⬛ (but spoopy) @profwitch.bsky.social · 3h

just having some fun with the demo for waterpark simulator

the front of a rather dilapidated-looking water park. a large rusty rubber duck and some palm trees are outside of the entrance. the name of the water park is "tetanus city".

Joan 🐈‍⬛ (but spoopy) @profwitch.bsky.social · 9h

like the latter! reaaaaaally cautious about the former

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 11h

Spent all day reading briefs in Louisiana v. Callais and watching white people argue that the 14th amendment is a race-neutral colorblind amendment and citing Plessy for that proposition has me so angry. Just.. come the fuck on.

The Reconstruction Amendments were not intended to be race-neutral.

Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20h

Just so everyone is clear, the main issue in the Supreme Court voting rights case tomorrow is whether it's racist against white people to enforce the Voting Rights Act.

I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.

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Joan 🐈‍⬛ (but spoopy) @profwitch.bsky.social · 11h

godspeed my friend. this concept already raises my squick level too high

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Joan 🐈‍⬛ (but spoopy) @profwitch.bsky.social · 11h

to repeat a reply on the original post: so glad we’re fucking up the environment for this

The Verge @theverge.com · 18h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

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Joan 🐈‍⬛ (but spoopy) @profwitch.bsky.social · 11h

my initial reaction is “i hope that is in fact the case”, but…

Joan 🐈‍⬛ (but spoopy) @profwitch.bsky.social · 11h

yeeaahhhhh i dislike this quite a bit

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Joan 🐈‍⬛ (but spoopy) @profwitch.bsky.social · 1d

good morning, have a great thread to start your day

Oliver B @bozsle33.bsky.social · 1d

#witchcraft #politics
[long post]

"I don't do politics..." - ahh

This.... this is the thing we need talk about again and again.

You Do Politics.
Always.
In every single minute of your life.
With all your choices.
You Do politics.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Yes, you should be surprised and horrified by secret federal police running around our city kidnapping immigrants, crashing cars, launching chemical weapons and shooting and killing people. This is a thing you should be *perpetually* shocked by. We lose when we become numb to it.

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Torch Antifa Network @torchantifa.bsky.social · 1d

rt if you are the founder of antifa

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Bird + Camera @doctorbluebird.bsky.social · 1d

I've watched this gem six times and now I'mma share it with you! Enjoy!

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

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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Joan 🐈‍⬛ (but spoopy) @profwitch.bsky.social · 1d

missed these! glad to see the new apartment and hope it’s going well, but i’m sorry about your loss

Joan 🐈‍⬛ (but spoopy) @profwitch.bsky.social · 1d

he must really like how boots taste

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Casey Lucas @bimbo.phd · Jan 16

Similar to my post about "liberation means even for that annoying guy you hate" - weird art includes art you personally don't get, don't like, wouldn't spend money on, find unsettling. Games you wouldn't play. Books you wouldn't read. Decommercialise your preconceptions of what art deserves to exist

shaydh 🩸FLEDGLING MANOR OUT NOW🩸 @shaydh.bsky.social · Jan 16

Everyone saying "make weird art!" you better fucking mean it. There better not be an unspoken "but not too weird" tacked on at the end.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 1d

The trailblazing transgender rights activist Miss Major has passed away at the age of 78.

Miss Major was a lifelong organizer and participant in the ballroom scene. She took part in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and was injured by the police — but she kept fighting.

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Joan 🐈‍⬛ (but spoopy) @profwitch.bsky.social · 1d

this thread makes my cry. i think it really captured the essence of what being an artist is. i think i haven’t felt that way in a long time. i need to change that.

chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · 4d

in a session with my therapist, she was commenting how she can't draw a stick figure -- then recalled a time when she could envision exactly what she wanted and it came out easily on the canvas. and she had no idea how she did it.

I was like, yeah, the flow state. you know, like athletes and gamers

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

👇👇

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Master Elrond [he/him] @inuyasha1953.bsky.social · 1d

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If you were loud for Jimmy Kimmel, crank it up for Leticia James. Authoritarian bullies count on silence to get away with it; make some noise and have her back!

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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 1d

Right presidency with none beef

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 3d

US beef prices have now reached a record high.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 1d

I’m gonna go to a No Kings rally on Saturday and I hope all of you will too! There are more of us than there are fascists and it’s time to remind them.

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

The fact that top Republicans are already fearmongering about, lying about, the No Kings rallies this Saturday, across the US, tells you how worried they are about public pressure and protest against their reactionary, autocratic, anti-American agenda.

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Jason @jxsxpx.bsky.social · 1d

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 2d

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

you cannot "abuse" your rights.

civil rights either are protected and real or they are not.

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 1d

Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson's full statement, in which she says she will sign an EO permitting protest "only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street," is up on the village's website.

"There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest," Thompson says.

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Broadview Shrinks Protest Safety Zones

The following statement can be attributed to Village of Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson:

“The protests at the ICE facility on Saturday night degenerated into chaos. There were 15 arrests, and 10 of those were around the age of my own daughter. As a mother and a mayor, I am mad. Broadview didn’t choose to have the ICE facility in our community. But it’s here. And so are Broadview residents. There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest. Too many are raising their fists rather than their voices, creating chaos at the expense of the people who call Broadview home. Broadview residents lack the protestors’ privilege to return to calm, quiet neighborhoods for undisturbed rest.

Therefore, I have issued a new executive order, in consultation with the Illinois State Police and Cook County Sheriff, that permits protests only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street.

There will no longer be a designated protest safety zone at 2000 South 25th Avenue between Lexington and Fillmore.

Additionally, it has been only God’s grace alone that a protester has not been struck and killed by a motorist on 25th Avenue given how frequently protesters dash onto this busy, four-lane street. This new
measure will provide for both the serenity of residents and safety of protestors.

As I have repeatedly said, I respect, support, and defend the protesters’ free and – peaceful – speech against the outrageous injustices and deplorable unprovoked chemical arms attacks by ICE agents against American citizens, journalists, and ministers that put Broadview police and firefighters in harms’ way.

Nevertheless, my first priority is to defend public safety and the residents who live here and people who work here. They deserve stability, safety, and respect, a quality of life that is currently being denied to them. They deserve the love and kindness that they expect by being Broadview residents.”

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 2d

We need UN observers dog

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

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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