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Annaleigh Watts 🇲🇽 @annaleighmaria.bsky.social · 5h

Here's an Indigenous People's Day mutual aid opportunity for those seeking some! 🪶 💕💸

Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 6h

Western Alaska was hit hard by the recent storms. Houses floated away in Kipnuk, houses flipped over, people lost everything from the flooding that came with the storms. Please donate if you can. This group has a long history of supporting AK communities.

alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...

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Toni @adventuresoftoni.bsky.social · 4h

Excellent thread on why the frog brigade matters.

Preacher from the Black Lagoon @revpoppop.bsky.social · 11h

“Why are they upset about the frog?”

Because the frog has power. As silly as it sounds. The frog is not just a good idea. It’s our greatest weapon.

And I’m going to explain why…

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 4h

This sentient disposable napkin should stop talking so cavalierly about other people’s jobs while he grifts billions for his pet LLM

Futurism @futurism.com · 7h

So that's where we're at.

Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren't Even "Real Work" to Start With

Worried that AI will destroy work? Well, Sam Altman asks if you've considered what a farmer from half a century ago thinks of your job, first.

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BOOOOlioraptor, PhD (spooky version) @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 6h

Janet saying: Fun fact: Columbus is in the Bad Place
because of all the raping, slave trade, and genocide.

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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 16h

“The very machinery designed to guard the homeland ended up treating Black dissent as a domestic threat…America has recast its gaze and fear to a new subject: the immigrant…

Black People Knew This Would Happen

Generational experience has taught us what happens when the state builds a weapon for someone else: Sooner or later, it finds a way back to us.

theintercept.com

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Mattslew Batberg-Mothfit (any/all) @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social · 16h

Explain to me why “conversion therapy” is banned in 28 countries and ABA is not, when they have the same creator (O. Ivar Lovaas) and utilize similar if not identical principles, techniques, and goals (forced assimilation).

Mattslew Batberg-Mothfit (any/all) @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social · 17h

Autism $peaks is the largest and most popular Autism organization (among allistics), who continues to be 100% in support of ABA. They have lobbyists who push ABA as the “gold standard Autism treatment.” It utilizes same practices as “conversion therapy,” which is currently banned in 28 countries.

Mattslew Batberg-Mothfit (any/all) @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social · 17h

ABA (Applied Behavioral Analysis) is the “gold standard” of “treatment” for Autism, and was created by the person as “Conversion therapy” (see Lovaas) with similar techniques and goals. It’s torture that continues to have widespread support and acceptance.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 14h

I squeezed that sperm till a strange sort of insanity came over me

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Toni @adventuresoftoni.bsky.social · 14h

And now I need #cloudwardho as all cats 🐾

Daisuke Buclawsby
Mewrya Junková
Meowxwell Gotch
Montgomery LaMontgommery - this is just a really good cat name on it's own
Olethclaw MacLawed
Vanellopurrrr Bapman
Pawfessor Comfrey MacLawed

Lord Kensington Catsgrove Meowdecestershire

Tammi, yeah, that one. 2.1 @tammi.bsky.social · 21h

I found a 19th century Cat Villain!

A huge chonk of a fluffy cat sitting on a table near an open fire. The cat is cream and grey and appears to be shaped like a barrel in a fur coat. They are scowling fiercely with their moustache and bewhiskered ears apparently flowing back into the cold wind. There's a definite vibe that this villainous cat twirls their moustache as they evict orphans into the aforementioned blizzard and think Scrooge was an easy-going lightweight. They are magnificent.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 1d

But when you realize that most violence is not by strangers (hence police violence being large %), you see why it's vital for cops to obscure it: no one believes more $$ for punishment bureaucracy is a solution to the reasons people **in some kind of relationship with each other** hurt each other.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 1d

THREAD. Did you know that at about 1/3 of all stranger homicides in the U.S. are perpetrated by police? But there's something hidden here that is important to understand in this authoritarian moment.

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 17d

Big takeaway here is a mass erosion of barriers between governmental and corporate data collection/surveillance--and the idea that the one-off surveillance of walking past a single CCTV camera is over, the consolidation of ALL data means true mass surveillance from 100 redundant pieces of data.

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 17h

Your reminder—or maybe no one ever told you—that complications from a measles infection include immune amnesia (where you lose immunity to everything), vision and hearing loss, brain damage, and a fatal brain disease called Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis that can show up years later.

Miranda 🖤🤍💜 @doomscroling.bsky.social · 2d

Hundreds of children in multiple states are in quarantine and on remote learning due to measles outbreaks.

The decline in MMR vaccinations has resulted in the US experiencing an increase of measles cases with 1563 total cases & 3 deaths since January.

#Pinks

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City Atlas @cityatlas.bsky.social · 19h

"Paradoxically, even as nature delivers new blows, a troubling share of America’s retirement wealth remains locked in the same climate-exposed assets that are driving the instability."

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 20h

As climate change increasingly becomes a threat not just to homes, but to the very foundations of retirement, even the most careful savers are finding personal effort can’t outpace the risks woven deeply into the financial system.

@adamlmahoney.bsky.social reports

inthesetimes.com/article/clim...

Climate Change Puts A Generation’s Retirement On The Line

Early retirement withdrawals for hardship have tripled since 2020, as disasters strike and insurance fails–leaving workers on their own in old age.

inthesetimes.com

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 1d

The WHO has verified the elimination of both measles & rubella in all Pacific Island countries, alongside rubella elimination in Japan. The achievement follows 2 decades of coordinated immunisation campaigns, regional surveillance, and high routine vaccine coverage. buff.ly/EpFb7HK
#ShareGoodNewsToo

Rubella elimination verified in Japan, and measles and rubella elimination verified in Pacific island countries and areas

The World Health Organization (WHO) today announced that the 21 Pacific island countries and areas that are part of the WHO Western Pacific Region have collectively been verified as having eliminated…

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j-salvo.bsky.social @j-salvo.bsky.social · 17h

Word to the wise: do not fly internationally into Logan. All of the major public detainments of Legal Residents and Citizens at airports have been out of Logan.

Kat Stuart @luckykatstuart.bsky.social · 17h

Anyone in Boston an immigration lawyer or know one who can help this woman? Her husband is detained at Logan over a dismissed misdemeanor from 2017. He’s a legal resident of the US. She just asked for help an hour ago.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 19h

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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Jeanne (she/they) @fangirljeanne.bsky.social · 18h

I’d really love to support your cause, but using AI-Gen art for the poster makes me question your practices and whether you’re actually community oriented or just one well intentioned white person on the internet.

It’s giving safety pin and blue bracelet.

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Toni @adventuresoftoni.bsky.social · 17h

Please add alt text.

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 17h

Since there's not alt text: UPS is just starting to "dispose" of some shipments from overseas.

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 17h

tell me more about republicans being the pro-business party.

www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...

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Sandhya Dirks @audiosand.bsky.social · 19h

This is not isolated. I'm going to start a thread of other desecrations of Black and non white history and civil rights here:

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 1d

Extinguishing MLK's Eternal Flame is both outrageous and a hell of a metaphor for right now www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.’s Atlanta burial site destroyed

Police say the man also urinated in the reflective pool.

www.wsbtv.com

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Katakateri @katakateri.bsky.social · 3d

For people with neuromuscular & other issues like me, type alt4me anywhere in the body of your post & volunteers will try to add the alt text for you.
When I'm having trouble typing, people give me shit & ignore my posts.
I want to be part of the conversation. No one looks at my bio before judging.

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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · Aug 6

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 1d

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 1d

The RIFs that began Friday will reportedly cut 65% of CISA’s 2,540 employees, one of the dumbest and most dangerous moves imaginable. CISA defends the nation’s cyber and critical infrastructure. Destroying it now only makes sense if you’re afraid of election integrity.

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Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 6d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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