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GayFesh🖖 @gayfesh.com · 2h

Bezos didn't buy WaPo to make money just like Musk didn't buy Twitter to make money. It's about controlling the narrative.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 18h

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Polari Press @polari.press · 10d

After launching them at Queeriosities last weekend, the A3 Risograph posters are now up on our website with all profits going to the Sameer Project in Gaza: polari.press/throw-sand-i...

A poster that says “Throw Sand in the Gears of Genocide” against a monochrome image of a bunch of poppies in red.

A poster that says “Throw Sand in the Gears of Genocide” against a monochrome image of a bunch of poppies in green.

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chris-ture from the black lagoon @thecorlew.bsky.social · 34m

solidarity to Kaiser Permanente workers!

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 49m

BREAKING: 45,000 health care workers just launched the biggest strike of the year.

Workers at Kaiser Permanente on the West Coast and in Hawaii have walked out to secure a contract.

These essential workers are fighting for patient care, good wages, and decent staffing.

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 1h

A full body drawing of Charlie Kirk (with a tiny face) on his knees. Large text says "Praise be! Before death he has found Allah <3"

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J 🩵🐚🏳️‍⚧️ @theoraclej.com · 16h

Kivan is literally 20 bux away from his goal. I am sure we can scrounge up something to finish this off right quick!

Kivan @kivanbay.bsky.social · 1d

Hello, I am at $60/$200 that I need for upcoming rent and some urgent bills, if you can share that's a big help, thank you!

Kivan @kivanbay.bsky.social · Jul 2

Hi, I have spent literally the very last of my money on rent. If you can help me survive to the end of the month with a share or donation, I would be very grateful. Thank you so much.

paypal.me/kivabay
cashapp $kivabay
ko-fi.com/kivabay

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some donkus @anarchojakeism.bsky.social · 15h

It's a shame James Joyce didn't live into the era of fanfiction because he would have written some fucked up shit and loved every moment of it

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Kamau Franklin @kamaufranklin.bsky.social · 19h

Happy Indigenous Day. Fuck Columbus. Resistance is never futile.

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some donkus @anarchojakeism.bsky.social · 15h

I know what a rolodex is

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 22h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

“I swear to God, they didn’t feed us. They beat us while we were naked day and night.

Until our last day, they cut us and hit us and abused us. We endured every kind of torture, emotional and physical.

We couldn’t even sleep. They told me they killed my children.”

- released Palestinian prisoner

Palestinian prisoner Shadi Abu Seed has given a harrowing account of life inside an Israeli prison after his release as part of the ceasefire deal.

“I went hungry for the past two years. I swear to God, they didn’t feed us. They kept us naked. They beat us while we were naked day and night. We were tortured,” Abu Seed said.

“Until our last day in Israeli prison, they cut us and hit us and abused us. We endured every kind of torture, emotional and physical.

“We couldn’t even sleep. They threatened us with our children. They told me they killed my children. They told us that Gaza was destroyed. I arrived here and found that everything was gone. It looked like the end of the world. Everything is different.”

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 16h

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy passed away today according to the House of GG. She was a veteran of the Stonewall rebellion and a lifelong organizer for the safety and dignity of trans people, sex workers, and the incarcerated. She came from the same generation and milieu as Marsha and Sylvia. She was 78.

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 1d

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

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some donkus @anarchojakeism.bsky.social · 16h

Just because the left and the nazis both agree that David Pakman sucks doesn't mean we like the nazis. The more you know, fuckface.

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Calvinboo Congress @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 17h

This is his only post mentioning Gaza or Palestine.

He has no posts pertaining to genocide.

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 19h

Time magazine is owned by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, who just came out as a Trump supporter and said it would be great if he sent the National Guard to invade San Francisco

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 20h

Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie

Time magazine cover featuring a photo of Trump from a dramatically low angle

HIS
TRIUMPH
by ERIC CORTELLESSA
THE LEADER ISRAEL NEEDED
by EHUD BARAK
HOW GAZA HEALS

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some donkus @anarchojakeism.bsky.social · 18h

If only people who have a Wikipedia page calling them political pundits knew about things like the ignorance of youth

some donkus @anarchojakeism.bsky.social · 18h

Do these kids actually know anything about him or did they just see him criticize Israel and assume things?

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 22h

The collapse of “Israel” and its occupation of Palestine are clear preconditions for any true “peace in the Middle East.”

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1692 salem witch trials of mana 🎃 @plushie.gay · 1d

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d.ly @dly.bsky.social · 1d

Israeli hostage, Palestinian prisoner. fascinating word choice.

A young 90s gal in front of a computer sarcastically saying “interesting”

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance

Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.

www.10news.com

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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🧟‍♀️ Fraided Rosie 🐈‍⬛ @fadedrosie.myatproto.social · 1d

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MONDAY OCTOBER 13, 2025
THE NAT ONAT
THE NEWSPAPER THAT SUPPORTS AN INDEPENDENT SCOTLAND
HOW GENOCIDE HAPPENED
"No Arab will remain in Gaza"
"No-one must inhabit this land if it is not the Jewish people"
"Israel should make Gaza look like Auschwitz museum"
"I am for war crimes, I don't care if l'm criticised"
"Aid trucks continue to enter Gaza... enough!"
"We are too humanitarian. We have to burn Gaza noW"
"It's not Hamas that should be eliminated. Raze Gaza"
"Without hunger and thirst among the Gazan population, we will not succeed in recruiting collaborators"
"It is an entire nation out there that is responsible. It's not true, this rhetoric about civilians not being involved"
FOUR-PAGE SPECIAL REPORT
As Israel continues to deny genocide in Gaza after the ceasefire, we publish the damning words - from the country's own prime minister, press and more - that show how atrocity came to pass

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Frostbitten Flamingo @flemtheparrot.bsky.social · 1d

Morning.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 1d

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YOU CAN TRANSFER YOUR PLAYLISTS WITH THE LINK BELOW

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tidal.com/transfer-music

Ben Hart, Gender Archivist @pavlovforgoths.com · 1d

Found out that Spotify is running ICE recruitment ads, if you need another reason to quit using it.

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