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Andrew

@tjsleakyroof.bsky.social

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Cville local. Overeducated carpenter. Fascists eat shit, liberation for the rest. The future's looking rough, but hope is our duty.

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Andrew @tjsleakyroof.bsky.social · Nov 10

not sure a bio thing’s always necessary or even wise but I’m bored so here’s a summary of already shared info. I’m a staff carpenter at large institution; have a BA in philosophy and MS in a healthcare adjacent field but that didn’t work out so I rebuild Jeffersonian roofs and renovate offices now.

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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 31m

For those of you following the crisis in Madagascar, some crucial context:
"Half of Malagasy people do not have access to running water: this is one of the demands of the youth who have been in revolt since the end of September."

Mediapart @mediapart.fr · 37m

Trouver de l’eau : dans le sud de Madagascar, une économie de la survie

Par Marion Péhée (Photos et textes)

Trouver de l’eau : dans le sud de Madagascar, une économie de la survie

La moitié des Malgaches n’ont pas accès à l’eau courante : c’est une des revendications de la jeunesse en révolte depuis la fin septembre. Dans le Grand Sud, des sécheresses répétées affectent les récoltes et la population. La quête de l’eau structure le quotidien, et sa revente est pour beaucoup un véritable filet de survie.

l.mediapart.fr

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Andrew @tjsleakyroof.bsky.social · 11h

old enough to have a direct, visceral memory of the AOL dialup sound, young enough to see it all that promise go to shit.

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Andrew @tjsleakyroof.bsky.social · 11h

there are many more directly harmful ways people have chosen to ruin the world over the course of my life, but this may be the one I find most spiritually oppressive

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 11h

Over half of all articles on the Internet are now written by AI

(via Axios)

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Andrew @tjsleakyroof.bsky.social · 13h

thank you Shannon!

Andrew @tjsleakyroof.bsky.social · 13h

I absolutely love that liveblogging local civic meetings is now a rotating community project ❤️

Shannon Gillikin @sgillikin.bsky.social · 15h

School board candidate forum… let’s goooo

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Andrew @tjsleakyroof.bsky.social · 16h

I’m glad this was published but christ it is difficult not to feel pissy that almost nobody listened to the folks who were warning of this a decade ago

Politico @politico.com · 19h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 22h

No Kings is good and my local university's SJP will be at ours

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Andrew @tjsleakyroof.bsky.social · 20h

it’s so important to maintain realistic expectations of your compatriots

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 20h

Asked who is responding to Bari Weiss' DOGE-type email to detail out their workday, a CBS News staffer acknowledged there is conflict between the union and managers on whether to respond while adding: "Some of the dumber correspondents were eager to send an email."

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Andrew @tjsleakyroof.bsky.social · 20h

friendly reminder that you can just block people for being annoying, it’s perfectly legal. someone doesn’t get an obvious joke, or drops 500 hashtags? poof, they’re gone forever—in fact they probably didn’t even exist

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 21h

SPREAD THE WORD!!

Purple sign w/megaphone announcing a rally against the compact on Friday, October 17 at NOON.

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Andrew @tjsleakyroof.bsky.social · 23h

sometimes you just need to slip that bad boy in a sheet metal brake and crank the lever

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight

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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 1d

Make no mistake, the overinflated fear of crime that many white people have is rooted in racism. That's what makes it such a useful tool for conservatives. They can always whip up white anxieties about Black criminality, even when crime rates are falling, as they have been in general.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

NEW: Despite falling crime rates, leaders at a nonprofit argued Dallas was descending into anarchy to sell voters on increasing police.

Some residents now fear the push could be used as a playbook for other cities.

A Year Before Trump’s Crime Rhetoric, Dallas Voted to Increase Police. The City Is Wrestling With the Consequences.

Leaders at Dallas HERO argued the city was descending into anarchy despite falling violent crime rates. Residents, including some law enforcement officials and at least one prominent Trump supporter, fear the push could be used as a playbook.

www.propublica.org

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Andrew @tjsleakyroof.bsky.social · 1d

pretty sure three masked men grabbing you from behind on the street late at night, zip tying your arms, and snatching you away to interrogate and deny your citizenship counts as tyranny.

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Andrew @tjsleakyroof.bsky.social · 1d

the state flag of Virginia, showing Virtue triumphant over Tyranny, with the motto “Sic Semper Tyrannis”

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Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social · 2d

This is my family’s cemetery. Generations of us are here. DHS thugs attacked the workers who laid my father to rest and tend to his gravesite. i dont know whether to cry or yell. I hope these DHS thugs find no peace in this life and the next.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 2d

ICE attacks cemetery workers trying to help a man in the Des Plaines river www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMUmUjPs/

Caught on camera… ICE agents clash with suburban cemetery workers trying to help man in Des Plaines River… #wgn9 #ice #operationmidwayblitz #immigration

TikTok video by WGN9Chicago

www.tiktok.com

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Andrew @tjsleakyroof.bsky.social · 1d

oh this is funny, I hit submit on this post like 15 minutes ago, and just went “eh, whatever” when it didn’t show up

Andrew @tjsleakyroof.bsky.social · 1d

my personal take is it’s not really possible for chicken fingers to be more than “pretty good!”, but they’re superb within that field

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Andrew @tjsleakyroof.bsky.social · 1d

if he didn’t have the goatee I’d be on board, but I just can’t

Andrew @tjsleakyroof.bsky.social · 1d

like I keep saying, if they wanted me to give a shit they probably shouldn’t have declared war on us beforehand

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d

PSA: It’s okay to be wait-and-see on Gaza and the Israel-Hamas deal. You don’t have to definitively declare what’s going to happen and comment on that, nor take any national leader’s word on what they expect.

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 1d

a fake quote being attributed to zohran mamdani is igniting the pro-palestine left.

he never said arresting netanyahu would make him a trumpian fascist. that phrase was posted by an account known for using extreme rhetoric to accuse mamdani of effectively saying that as a result of him softening.

image circulating claiming to attribute a fake quote to mamdani. text reads:
dec. 2024: “as mayor of nyc i would arrest benjamin netanyahu”
sept. 2025: “arresting netanyahu would make me a trumpian fascist.” - this second quote has in big letters over it the words “fake quote.”

post from the originator of the phrase. text reads:

@zei squirrel
here you have it side by side. Zohran in December 2024, when he was running in the primary, pledging that he will definitely arrest Netanyahu. Then fast forward to Zohran in September 2025, after he won the primary, and suddenly arresting Netanyahu makes you a Trumpian fascist:

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Andrew @tjsleakyroof.bsky.social · 1d

pretty sure I just saw a lifted Prius. or I took a blow to the head today, unclear

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 1d

the two types of racist are food racist and sex racist. all racists fall into these two categories. hitler? sex racist. mussolini? food racist.

stephen miller? sex racist. jd vance? food racist.

despite being racist about food sometimes, donald trump is a sex racist

LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 1d

Food racism drives you crazy faster than most forms of racism

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Andrew @tjsleakyroof.bsky.social · 1d

hands down least favorite part of a commercial renovation is when we’ve just torn up all the old carpet tile and your boots stick to the floor as you try to walk

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