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Lauryn Bhavnani @wishkhh.bsky.social · 4h

wild when we have online recipe sites that will give you something just as dry and unseasoned with one search 😭😭😭

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 7h

Them: I used ChapGPT to find a dinner recipe.

Me: Oh, wow, so you like poisoning black neighborhoods so you can cook… *lowers reading glasses*…a roast chicken that’s still too dry. Wow.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 4h

Many folks can’t comprehend the loneliness and frustration of dealing with chronic illness.

They believe that when you get sick, you go to the doctor and they “fix it.”

The reality is far different.

You’re often gaslit, ignored or mistreated.

You learn quickly that no one is coming to save you

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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 1d

I worry that with Trump news 24/7, we're missing out on important trends, etc., that don't get enough traction in the daily news cycle. This feels like one of those stories.

Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 1d

"Roughly half of geostationary satellite signals, many carrying sensitive consumer, corporate, and government communications, have been left entirely vulnerable to eavesdropping"

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

www.wired.com

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Lauryn Bhavnani @wishkhh.bsky.social · 4h

I hate and love the UPLOAD ending tbh 😭😭

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 4d

Chicago journalist Debbie Brockman, who was thrown to the ground & handcuffed by ICE, has been released without charges

DHS said she assaulted an officer, but eye witnesses claim she didn’t

The lack of charges makes it clear that ICE is lying to try and cover up the fact that they attack the press

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Rook Killjoy (dirtyhands the ninth) @foxrook.bsky.social · 3d

Disabled queer trans artist here trying to pay for diabetic friendly groceries, hygiene, and household items.

$50 for diabetic friendly perishables would be a HUGE help! Still sitting at $0 for this goal. TYSM!
💕💸🏳️‍⚧️

#MutualAid #DisabilityCrowdfund

paypal.me/rookkilljoy
C/V: foxrook

Rook Killjoy (dirtyhands the ninth) @foxrook.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you for this. 🩷

Disabled queer trans artist here trying to pay for diabetic friendly groceries, hygiene, and household items.

Have been out of work all year thanks to mysterious lung problems. Every cent helps! TYSM!
💕💸🏳️‍⚧️

#MutualAid #DisabilityCrowdfund

paypal.me/rookkilljoy
C/V: foxrook

Support rook killjoy

ko-fi.com

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4WheelMe @4wheelworkout.bsky.social · 4d

Still ain’t getting my $.

Good for them tho

♎ jentrification @jentrification.com · 4d

"hey big head..." - target

Target Begins Selling THC-Infused Cannabis Drinks As Congress Debates Possible Hemp Law Reversal - Marijuana Moment

The retail giant Target is soft launching sales of THC-infused beverages at select stores in Minnesota, an executive of one cannabis drink company participating in the rollout and other industry leade...

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Lauryn Bhavnani @wishkhh.bsky.social · 5d

omg this site is amazing now i don't have to mentally go down the list of "did i have water/eat/ nap?"

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 5d

youfeellikeshit.com my therapist told me about this. it's a little walk through on how to feel better when you feel like shit. im working through it now. it is, delightfully, in twine

Need a nap?

youfeellikeshit.com

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 5d

That's two Chicago journalists feds have arrested (that I know of) in the last few weeks.

We're less than 24 hours out from federal judge Sara Ellis entering a restraining order that was supposed to protect journalists, among others, from abuse by federal agents.

Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 5d

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

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Lauryn Bhavnani @wishkhh.bsky.social · 5d

so sorry for your loss sending you well wishes🫶🏾

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 7d

Consider this my #BannedBooksWeek reminder that members of the #GraphicMedicine community have to care about this issue.

Why?

Because graphic medicine is heavily targeted, especially comics about sex and gender, both directly and through invisible soft censorship.

Support your libraries!

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ChronicLoaf @chronicloaf.bsky.social · 8d

#WolfWalkers is playing in the #ChronicLoaf #Criptober stream

mzelo.com/app/rooms/ch...

#CriptoberRevival #neisvoid #spoonies #mmj #The13thHour #FullMoon #HappyHalloween #spoonkyseason #animation

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 9d

Everyone deserves healthcare.

Everyone deserves housing.

Everyone deserves education.

Everyone deserves food & clean water.

This should not be controversial. They’re basic human rights.

We could provide them to everyone if we abolished the billionaire class and taxed corporations properly.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 8d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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💖💄 Aoife ♿💖 @aoiferocksitout.bsky.social · 11d

Bibi sells all kinds of fun, cute and useful items!
I can't wait for the strawberry cane!
Have gotten a bunch of stuff from their store and it's all cute and of good quality.
Bibi is also a wonderful person who is always giving back to their communities in a number of ways.
Check out the shop!💖🍓

🌸Bibi🌸♿ (formerly bibicosplays) @bibiblossoms.bsky.social · 11d

It costs 0$ to Repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale.

I sell pins, compression gloves, artist gloves, binders, hip braces, wrist braces, compression socks, walking sticks, elbow braces, bags, back braces & more!

Store details below!

5 Oval shaped pins with gold outlines with an oval cutout in the middle with a yellow slideable star:

Spoons: Lavender background
Hunger Scale: Red background
Migraine Scale: Blue background
Speaking vs Non Speaking: Green background

The first one has SHE, THEY, HE on top. At the bottom there's HER, THEM, HIM. White background.

Strawberry, Galaxy and Bats Wrist Braces

Strawberry, Galaxy and Bats Thumb Splints

Elbow braces in the strawberry, Galaxy and Bats patterns

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Sam Still Masks 🪉 @theailingwitch.bsky.social · 8d

🚨🚨🚨
Please help Mae!

The next $500 of donations will be matched— if you have a few bucks they can make such a huge difference!!!

Mae_DayJ @maedayj.bsky.social · 8d

Someone has very kindly offered to match the next $500 in dough-nations!

Any amount you can give will have double the impact! Please please help if you can 🙏

V: @ Maelee-Johnson
PayPal.me/maeleeJ
ko-fi.com/maedaej
$maelee21

Please help me stay housed!

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Lauryn Bhavnani @wishkhh.bsky.social · 9d

:0!! that's pretty cool!! now u have to put it somewhere you'll see it everyday

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˶ˆ꒳ˆ˵ @sxkyu.bsky.social · 9d

still big thanks to anonymous who got the compression gloves from bibi off of my throne wish list !

they've been super helpful in my day to day and it'd be that much rougher with it them so if you have the means please support bibi !

🌸Bibi🌸♿ (formerly bibicosplays) @bibiblossoms.bsky.social · 11d

It costs 0$ to Repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale.

I sell pins, compression gloves, artist gloves, binders, hip braces, wrist braces, compression socks, walking sticks, elbow braces, bags, back braces & more!

Store details below!

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💖💄 Aoife ♿💖 @aoiferocksitout.bsky.social · 17d

Please share everywhere!
Please help our friend @sndesireecha.bsky.social and her ESA survive!
Housing should be recognized as a human right but it is not!
Please help keep our community member alive!
If you can't help, please share!
💖🌸❤️🌺🍓

SN Désirée Cha @sndesireecha.bsky.social · 18d

We’ll be homeless on the streets tomorrow.

Please help a dog and her human by boosting our fundraiser and helping us prepare for being and when we become unsheltered homeless. Thank you.

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gofund.me/79b8c1580

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Lauryn Bhavnani @wishkhh.bsky.social · 10d

THATS SO CUTE!!

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 12d

Everyone who attends on October 9 will be eligible to win this embroidery in our raffle. Join us to explore how YOU can take real, specific, and immediate actions in your own community to strengthen and expand public libraries. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

An embroidery hoop displays the words "Libraries Are For The People" in cursive, surrounded by embroidered green and blue leaves, and topped with a blue satin ribbon. It rests on a marble surface.

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Kristina Cooke @kristinacooke.bsky.social · 11d

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Ted Hesson @tedhesson.bsky.social · 11d

US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies, w/ @reneehickman.bsky.social @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies

U.S. Border Patrol agents deployed to Chicago led a late-night raid on an apartment building this week, rappelling from helicopters onto rooftops and breaking down doors in an operation authorities said targeted gang members but which swept up U.S. citizens and families.

www.reuters.com

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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 11d

All eyes on Broadview, Illinois tonight.

Broadview is a suburb about 12 miles west of Chicago.

Our friends are reporting on the scene ⬇️

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 11d

Heard an officer say "let's do it" and then, in the dark, they tackle Rabbi Ben to the ground. He's being loaded into a CCSO wagon now. Broadview police also here screaming at people.

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