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Al Raven

@alraven.bsky.social

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🦝 Writer/researcher, dataviz and information designer Anarchist, hater of capital, the state-racial-cispatriarchal matrix of domination, and all borders 🏴 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴‍☠️ 🍉 Otto Rühle: "Revolution is not a party affair" Man Utd fan (against all reason!)

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Al Raven @alraven.bsky.social · Mar 19

We live in a world where all that is good and beautiful is getting destroyed, suppressed, distorted, and tortured, but we don't even have time to mourn any of it because the relentless rythm of capital chokes us every day. We can't even heal, we can't fucking breathe in front of all this horror...

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 1d

If you don’t see the link between ICE and the IDF, you haven’t been paying attention. We are being asked to accept a world where whole communities are made disposable and marked for disappearance. If we accept that for anyone, no one is safe anywhere.

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Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 3h

Why would Bluesky silence a survivor of genocide a girl whose only crime was trying to save her paralyzed father, a man broken by war and a stroke?
She asked for help, not pity. She wanted a chance to study, to live and they erased her voice.
Why this cruelty? 😪😪😪😪💔

Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 6h

Her dad is sick and needs your help

suffered an ischemic stroke that caused severe dizziness and difficulty moving. After several days in the hospital, needs continuous treatment and daily medications such as Betaloc, Aspirin, and Atorvastatin, along with regular check-ups and follow-ups.

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Al Raven @alraven.bsky.social · 2h

100% I'm constantly overwhelmed...

Al Raven @alraven.bsky.social · 2h

🎯 Comme tu l'as dit si c etait un homme degôche avec ce genre de ton, il serait admiré mais on attend des femmes y compris à gauche qu'elles soient "tranquilles"... Et comme d'autres l'ont dit, perso j'apprécie BCP ta franchise et ton éloquence, le "confort" surtout des hommes est un gros problème!!

Al Raven @alraven.bsky.social · 2h

Facts 😌🥰
Fuck these people seriously, transhet girls are awesome ❤️❤️❤️
Any woman who takes the big risk of stepping out of cisheterosexuality is fucking badass and very brave (whether lesbian, transhet, asexual, etc)

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Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 2h

I feel the need to be ultra clear about this - If you think it's okay to come at trans women with vile, misogynistic abuse for being attracted to men, you're a shitty person and I want nothing to do with you.

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Al Raven @alraven.bsky.social · 2h

There's no rhetorical difference between what this person said about May and what any average sexist cis man will say about women who refuse to submit to him and his harassment
Seriously how can you not immediately see how bad it is to call a woman a "whore" in any fucking context????

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Al Raven @alraven.bsky.social · 2h

Fuck this, you're right to speak about it! 🫂🫂

Al Raven @alraven.bsky.social · 2h

This shit is so outrageous, just blatant (trans)misogyny and ironically - given that these people are proud to be "queer" and "nonconforming" - policing a trans woman's gender/sexuality while dehumanizing her pretty much like a misogynist cis man would do to a random woman...

May “Bunny” Peterson 🦄 (Mostly Updates ) @goddessblade.bsky.social · 3h

I am so sick of getting comments like about my sexuality.

It’s transphobic, homophobic, and misogynistic and I’ve tolerated a LOT of this kind of attitude from other queer and trans people. Utterly ridiculous.

Someone quote posting me talking about being transhet saying “Incomprehensible: to depart the Gender of Atrocity only to bend over for it afterwards.”

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Al Raven @alraven.bsky.social · 10h

I'm trying Linux Mint at the moment, it's probably the best for new (Linux) users! So far I like it, and it's pretty easy to set up...

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❤️🫂

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Ricardo Parreira @ricardoparreira.com · 22h

Aux États-Unis, ici, partout, la police est raciste, la police est violente.

Et cette institution est payée par nous.

De plus, deux personnes qui ont porté assistance à Erika McGriff lorsqu’elle se faisait tabasser ont été interpellées pour avoir enfreint la loi Halo.

Le fascisme quoi.

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Fae’rynn (Phantom Futch) @faerynnistired.itch.io · 1d

*gets on my soap box* this idea that cis and trans women (in general) and especially cis and trans lesbians don’t have massive amounts of overlapping experiences and anxieties is a function of our oppression as women—as queer women—and is vital to resist

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Al Raven @alraven.bsky.social · 2d

The dog will not beat you up, treat you like a 24/7 sexual object, be emotionally cruel or psychologically manipulative, control what you can do and your social life (it obviously will impact both but it's not coming from an oppressive desire to control you!), violate your bodily autonomy, and so on

Al Raven @alraven.bsky.social · 2d

her or makes her sad or angry ar some point (which can ofc happen) he/she'd feel terrible and never do it again. Can we say the same about cishet men? Clearly not (In fact I've also heard gay men talk about similar fucked up things done to them by some gay men)

Al Raven @alraven.bsky.social · 2d

loving human would (like we mainly see in lesbian relationships imho), but the point is similar to and in fact even more telling imo than the "alone w bear in woods" thing. Because a properly raised dog will never want to hurt the woman who loves and takes care of him/her, in fact if he/she hurts

Al Raven @alraven.bsky.social · 2d

I think far more cishet men need to come to terms w the fact that from an objective standpoint, 99% of the time straight women are "better off" adopting a nice dog as a life companion than living with one of us...
Sure, the dog will never provide as much as an actual caring and

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 2d

Sahar received no donations at all yesterday. Can you please please help her today? There is no other way to live and while the drones may be silent for once aid still hasn't entered Gaza tinyurl.com/HelpSaharsFa...

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History is What's Happening @historyiswhat.bsky.social · 2d

SOS: CANADA, PLEASE TAKE SUSTAINED COLLECTIVE ACTION

CANADA HAS ABANDONED THE REMAINING 3 FLOTILLA
VOLUNTEERS WHILE THEY ARE BEING PUNISHED BY ISRAEL

READ THE EMAIL FROM THE CANADIAN GOV ->

PLEASE HELP US PRESSURE THE GOVERNMENT TO PROVIDE LEGITIMATE CONSULAR SUPPORT, A SAFE RETURN TO CANADA, AND AN END TO CANADIAN SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL'S GENOCIDE.

• PROTEST
• CALL THEIR MPS
• EMAIL THE GOVERNMENT

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Al Raven @alraven.bsky.social · 2d

This means that there is greater genetic diversity BETWEEN people in Africa + afrodescendant populations (we're technically all "afrodescendant", but you get my point lmao!), than between, say, a Swedish woman, a Chinese guy, and a Guaraní enby

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Al Raven @alraven.bsky.social · 2d

Africa is LITERALLY the origin of humanity, yet it is constantly ignored/dismissed/exploited, and the lives of people there are deemed worthless.

Outside of people whose ancestors were taken from Africa during slave trades, everyone outside of Africa comes from the same 10K ppl 60'000 years ago!!!

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 2d

Far from a new point, but the practical impact of a lot of gun control laws and registries in the u.s. is in fact surveillance in service of tyranny and oppression...but against marginalized groups, not right-wingers.

Reconstructed exPat @panarmstrong.bsky.social · 2d

Second (and the most likely): Illinois State Police have a database of every Illinoisian who legally owns & possesses firearms through the FOID system. That database includes addresses.
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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 2d

Israel bombed south Lebanon overnight

This is what Israel means by ceasefire

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Al Raven @alraven.bsky.social · 2d

I agree but let me give you yet another reason to hate him and want him to be [redacted]: he raped his disabled sister for years (and you really don't want to know the response he gave to the BBC)

Five / #2137 @five.yiff.ie · 2d

i don’t think any single person has done so much to make the world a worse place than sam altman. the lowest pits of hell would be too good for him

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

That TikTok account has a few fake videos of reporters getting detained. They make these videos because it’s a big story in the news. Real reporters are getting arrested. And so people are making AI videos to get engagement on TikTok.

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Al Raven @alraven.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah I just wanted to add more meat/context to your point 👍
It's really disgusting, and you're right the most offensive is probably Kissinger because he has to be in the top 5 of worst people in the 20th century...