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RKOpatryx supports Link @rkopatryx.bsky.social · 16h

Aws stb? Lmao.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 1d

Very bizarre accusations this is AI on other apps, so here is the full 9 minutes I have of agents coming out and tear gassing protesters who weren’t doing much at all yesterday at the Portland ICE facility.

Strobe warning!!

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1d

i am going to send $10 to ahmad ( @aaaaasaa95.bsky.social ) gofund.me/69f962fc and $10 to alaa chuffed.org/project/your... ( @mamatwins.bsky.social ) this morning and i would love matches and shares

Donate to support Ahmed and his family's resilience in Gaza., organized by Ahmad Madhoun

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gofund.me

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

Because they're facist 😭 i think people keep thinking I'm exaggerating when I say that but I'm not. And it's not new. A newspaper that would knowingly employ a nazi sympathizer as Berlin bureau chief because he got them access to Hitler is not a paper that will help uphold democracy.

Lord Guardian of Gastown @darkdementus.bsky.social · 1d

I looked at 38 papers. The NYT was one of only a few not to have it as the top story and photo

The handful of exceptions were pretty much all places with a big D1 football game

I genuinely don't understand why the NYT is so reticent to give coverage to one of the largest protests in history

NYT on the protests: sixth headline and third photo down. This is Saturday at 8pm

WSJ: protests are the top story and photo

Wapo: protests are the top story and photo

Chicago Tribune: protests are the top story and photo

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elena razlogova @erazlogo.bsky.social · 1d

Possibly the first WFMU T-shirt ever, circa 1973-74. Image uses a photograph of an original freeform crew from 1969.

RKOpatryx supports Link @rkopatryx.bsky.social · 2d

Roxanne Mullican (at the time), she would have made the shirt sometime in the 70's and probably paid a visit then. She remembers it as being in a brick building on a college campus and I think she was friends with "Tex" (Ed K.) who I believe is one of the people on the shirt:

A light skinned woman with long dark hair wearing a white T-shirt with black imagery printed on it. It says "WFMU" in large black letters above an image of several people who staffed the station at the time.

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RKOpatryx supports Link @rkopatryx.bsky.social · 1d

Omg yes!!!!!! She estimated the photo was from 67 or so, which makes her pretty darn close! Thank you so much!! Mom will be so excited to hear back. Bonus: I'll ask her to snap a photo if she finds her t-shirt. Yup, she says she still has one!!

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elena razlogova @erazlogo.bsky.social · 1d

Cool! Photo on T-shirt is from 1969 and the friend, engineer Ed "Tex" Krusheski, was around in the late 1960s-early 1970s. FMU was at a clapboard Old Yellow house until 1972 then moved to the brick Froeburg Hall, so the T-shirt was probably from 1973-74. Possibly the first FMU T-shirt ever!

Ad forWFMU, Free Form Radio from 1969, with a picture of the case.

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Cheshire Cat ᓚᘏᗢ, @autismsupsoc.bsky.social · 2d

A great letter by a non-speaking Autistic person.

El Sargento García @elsargentogarcia.bsky.social · 2d

🥲 Alt text

To the Editor:
I am one of these so-called profoundly autistic people this article describes. I cannot utter meaningful speech, and as a result, I was branded for years as someone with an intellectual disability and an I.Q. of 40. All this time, however, I understood everything that was going on around me. I just could not show it to others because of my deranged relationship with my own body.
I am concerned about the creation of a separate category, called profound autism, for those of us with the most severe disabilities.
There are real differences between the sort of autism that I have and so-called Asperger's syndrome. But it does not help us at all to impose a hierarchy of lower and higher functioning. We need to figure out how to tap into the skills and insights of those of us who cannot talk, who make up anywhere from 25 percent to 40 percent of the autistic community, depending on the estimate.
For me, the way out of this dilemma was learning to communicate by typing. I suddenly went from being seen as intellectually impaired to taking college classes. I was never low-functioning, and neither are my autistic brothers and sisters without the ability to speak. I was just misjudged and ignored, and I fear that my fate will be the fate of many others termed low functioning in this new schema.
Jason Jacoby Lee
New York

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Cheshire Cat ᓚᘏᗢ, @autismsupsoc.bsky.social · 2d

what's the best one-liner in movie history? 🎥

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RKOpatryx supports Link @rkopatryx.bsky.social · 2d

Ditto, friend. Sigh.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2d

Also please don’t feel guilty.

You can’t resist if you don’t survive.

Protests aren’t always accessible or safe.

We all have different disabilities, boundaries and limits.

Do what you can when you can!

That’s more than enough.

Survival is resistance.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 2d

Disabled folks feeling guilty for not protesting today: *it is not your fault* that organizers don’t make an effort to make protests accessible and don’t encourage masking

And despite what folks on Bluesky would have you believe, there are MANY ways to resist and protests don’t have to be your way

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RKOpatryx supports Link @rkopatryx.bsky.social · 2d

10/10 Reminded me of a dumbo octopus somehow 😁

Kick or Treat @kickeybean.bsky.social · 2d

"Ghost"
Digital Painting

Illustration of a girl underneath a ghostly sheet, surrounded by lights

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paws101 [Paul 🇦🇺 🦘For Ukraine 🇺🇦] @paws101.bsky.social · 2d

Does this Vic Cop sound and look well a well developed & high EQ person to everyone? For his role I have issues!

"Leftist Groups"

Who are the violent leftie groups they knew were coming?
Is it no possible this is a False Flag?

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 2d

The recent kiss cam where some rando appears to kiss a woman when the man she's there with shakes his head is a great litmus test of some red flags. If one of the first thoughts you have doesn't involve wondering "she didn't consent to that, did she?" I think we gotta talk about rape culture.

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RKOpatryx supports Link @rkopatryx.bsky.social · 2d

Also Chumbawamba: "...and we'll never rest again until every Nazi dies"

Gorey Cask of Amontilladoing @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 2d

that actually rules a tubthumping revival is perfect for our current moment

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 2d

The crowd did not disperse, an instead started playing Tubthumping by Chumbawamba — I get knocked down, but I get up again.

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Anya Kamenetz @anya1anya.bsky.social · 4d

I think we should all support TSA, air traffic control, +commercial airline pilots to go on strike. Those 3 unions could bring this country to its knees in 48 hours. And it would hurt rich people far more than working people--most Americans fly less than once a year.

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RKOpatryx supports Link @rkopatryx.bsky.social · 2d

I am subject to a curse and I must spread it

Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 2d

Today I learned that the phrase avunculate marriage exists and that two states may legally allow it. I know that and now you have to know that too. You're welcome.

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RKOpatryx supports Link @rkopatryx.bsky.social · 2d

Oh....... Oh, ick. Oh. Ick.
[sigh] Thank You. 💔

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RKOpatryx supports Link @rkopatryx.bsky.social · 2d

Ohhh thank you for this post. Everything about this song takes me directly back to the mid 00's. Actually I'm overdue for my fall post-hardcore blitz, I think Jet Black New Year is next

TIL Gerard Way is on that track, who's from around here

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 2d

i’m having a full-weekend one-woman party with all the new music i picked up yesterday but i also sometimes need to pretend i’m in my early twenties again to muster enough zazz to do the breakfast for dinner dishes because i really fucked up those pans.

thank you, claudio.

Coheed and Cambria - Devil in Jersey City (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by coheedandcambriaVEVO

youtu.be

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2d

Former Chris Christie aide Kevin Tomafsky has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping a 6 year old.

The New Jersey Globe called it “engaging in sex with a minor”

6 year olds can’t “engage in sex”

Using the word “engage” implies some degree of consent

There was no consent. This was rape

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RKOpatryx supports Link @rkopatryx.bsky.social · 2d

oh my god, that is just a lot to be horrified by

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RKOpatryx supports Link @rkopatryx.bsky.social · 2d

This may be approximately how it would be done if one is concussed, yes 😅 and v stubborn
But I wouldn't know
[thinks] oops yeah I might

RKOpatryx supports Link @rkopatryx.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks for the alt text!

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RKOpatryx supports Link @rkopatryx.bsky.social · 2d

Nice!

Achim Zeileis @zeileis.org · 4d

💡 Came across this nice tool today:

🎨 qualpal for algorithmically choosing maximally distinct colors under certain restrictions #dataviz

JOSS paper, online tool, R package #rstats

joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21...

Qualpal: Qualitative Color Palettes for Everyone

Larsson, J., (2025). Qualpal: Qualitative Color Palettes for Everyone. Journal of Open Source Software, 10(114), 8936, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.08936

joss.theoj.org