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bidanfan @antihierarchist.bsky.social · 6h

snagged a camera for mini/gunpla photos, telephoto lens in the bundle. i *guess* i can take pictures of things other than robits. i guess.

(anna's hummingbird gettin' his fill of birdjuice, color balance not great? still learning, sigh.)

photo of an Anna's hummingbird drinking from a hummingbird feeder. the beak end is obscured by the feeder, leaving a head with its inkdrop eye staring out. kinda underexposed so the brilliant scarlet cap and moustache of the male Anna's is more... black with red highlights here.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 15h

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

FORM A CROWD
STAY LOUD
PROTECT EACH OTHER
CODE I:
ICE NEARBY
BLOW QUICKLY IN A BROKEN RHYTHM:
PRE-PRE-PRE!
→ ALERTS THE COMMUNITY THAT ICE AGENTS ARE IN THE AREA.
ROGERS PARK WHISTLE PROTOCOLS
WHY A WHISTLE? ON THE STREETS
• A SIMPLE TOOL FOR FAST ALERTS.
• LOUD.
RECOGNIZABLE.
IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE.
• OUR VOICES ARE
STRONGER TOGETHER.
WHISTLES GUIDE
PEOPLE TO:
• FOLLOW ICE CARAVANS
• CATCH UP WITH THE CROWD
• ALERT NEIGHBORS
TO JOIN IN
NOISE = VISIBILITY.
CODE 2:
CODE RED
BLOW THREE LONG BLASTS:
PREEEE-PREEEE-PREEEE!
→ ICE IS DETAINING SOMEONE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
DON'T STAY SILENT. STAY NONVIOLENT.
WHY IT WORKS
• INSTANT ALERT
SYSTEM
• FASTER THAN SOCIAL MEDIA
• TURNS SILENCE INTO COMMUNITY
ACTION
ORIGINAL FLYER CREATED BY:
WHAT YOU CAN DO
• WEAR YOUR WHISTLE AROUND YOUR NECK
TEACH FAMILY
EIGHBORS TH
CODES
• USE IT WHEN ICE IS
SPOTTED
• PROTECT EACH OTHER, ALWAYS
TOGETHER, WE KEEP OUR COMMUNITY SAFE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
THIS FLYER DISTRIBUTED BY:
PROTECT RP
• @PROTECTRP_

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bidanfan @antihierarchist.bsky.social · 6h

just one (so far) - doesn't do short blasts very well but it does manage a pretty loud screech-owl kinda wail.

photo of a 3d print, the "Mayan death whistle," in this case a lil human skull in matte white PLA. Larger than a golf ball, smaller than a tennis ball, with a hole at the crown you blow in producing either a) a wavering, hollow wailing sound or b) if you blow too hard, a choking spitty noise, considerably less scary.

photo of the back of the Mayan Death Whistle showing some slashes above the occipital region. seems like they let the howling out.

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bidanfan @antihierarchist.bsky.social · 8h

threaten us with a good time. really! it's the most effective of threats!

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
"
Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 11h

There are ballistic goggles that are rated for being hit with projectiles, do NOT wear swim goggles. If it doesn’t pop out your eye, then you’ll lose it when it shatters the plastic.

There is PPE within a number of price ranges that ACTUALLY protect you. Please don’t be an idiot, get the right shit

Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 15h

Pro tip to reporters and protesters: always have swim goggles in your pockets or bags. They’re small, $10 and if tear gas is used, slip them on & no matter how much you cough, you’ll still be able to SEE without burning eyes.

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Olivia Hill @machineiv.bsky.social · 12h

Oh I see. I have to find a way to live alongside people trying to legislate me out of existence. Fucking insightful Kiera.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 12h

right … which is .. what so many of us are asking for as trans people ???

Kiera Knightley sounds like a BlueSky moderator

43m • O
Keira Knightley said that before joining the voice cast of Audible's "Harry Potter: The Full Cast Audio
Editions,
" she was "not aware" of the fan boycott
of all things "Harry Potter" over J.K. Rowling's statements about the transgender community:
"You know, I think we're all living in a period of time right now where we're all going to have to figure out how to live together, aren't we? And we've all got very different opinions. I hope that we can all find respect."

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Tacticool Girlfriend @tacticoolgf.bsky.social · 13h

Many years ago, the very first thing I put on my first AR-15 build was a set of steel Magpul MBUS Pros before installing a proper optic on that rifle. Even back then, I would have been better-served just saving that money for a quality optic.

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bidanfan @antihierarchist.bsky.social · 12h

all i can feel is my left index finger twitching in search of the vats button

Justin McElroy @thoughtographic.bsky.social · 5d

Mothman

bidanfan @antihierarchist.bsky.social · 12h

dogs in the vineyard, i picked it up on a whim and just. each page seemed to have a new perspective that kicked the tottering edifice erected by a lifetime of d&d a little farther over until "say yes or roll the dice" brought it crashing down.

Thought Punks 🎲 TTRPGs + Punk 👩‍🎤 @thoughtpunks.com · 13h

For tons of folks, there was that -one- game that blew the doors open and showed what #TTRPGs could be. The one that started the #IndieGame rabbit hole.

What was YOUR "gateway" indie #TTRPG? The first one that made you realize a whole other world was out there?

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Joey Scott @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social · 16h

I wrote about LAPD has been using the same technology since 2022 in 2023. I updated it to include their most recent “audit” of it which found there’s been no impact on the public’s privacy. Other California depts use Penlink, too:

www.joeyscott.xyz/the-lapd-is-...

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bidanfan @antihierarchist.bsky.social · 16h

"Emailed you a shapefile"

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 18h

this is by far the worst reading of Alan Moore’s Watchmen I’ve ever seen and if you spend an appreciable amount of time online you will know what a crowning achievement that is

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 20h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Natsuka @octopodeeznuts.bsky.social · 18h

police are gangs that we all collectively pretend answer to elected officials because the truth is scary

i'm not even properly an anarchist but i thought we all knew this

Charlotte Moore-Lambert @charlottereads.com · 1d

sorry, who’s the ultimate authority of state police again?

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Dennis Detwiller @drgonzo123.bsky.social · 17h

"It’s harder to take on institutions and people such as Weiss who invoke ideas like the “free press” while actually advancing a right-wing agenda. "

Dude, it really isn't.

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 17h

It’s easy to cast Trump as antidemocratic and hostile to the rule of law. It’s harder to take on institutions and people such as Weiss who invoke ideas like the “free press” while actually advancing a right-wing agenda.

That's why this kind of conservatism is so dangerous. trib.al/VosixvW

MAGA Lite: What “Bari Weiss Conservatism” Is, and Why It’s Dangerous

The new CBS executive isn’t exactly MAGA. But her polite Trumpism will still help destroy America as we know it.

trib.al

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 1d

Who are my fellow Oregonians up here in Bluesky

Come on out pdx , costal, Eugene and folks from the high desert

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 2d

it is frustrating how much space NYT gives to people with nothing worthwhile to say

just an uninteresting man with stale, despicable views talking to a lazy man with no intellectual curiosity

like wow, a white Christian nationalist? is he just like the other ones? is he wearing a suit? fascinating

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 2d

Ross Douthat treats this guy like they're having some deep conversation about the relationship of Christianity and the government, but the dude is a garden-variety dull, shallow, hateful, worthless bigot with nothing interesting to say, just endless riffs on "God hates everything/everyone I do."

Douthat: So that’s the first purpose of your political project, for America to stop making God angry.

Wilson: Yes. And most people think that when they are confronted with that project, they think that we want to get our tentacles into everything and start controlling everything. I actually think we need limited government. The government should be significantly smaller than it is, and we need to curtail a lot of the busybodyness that we have. That’s why I would call myself a theocratic libertarian. There is a true libertarian element in this, and yet, the transcendent grounding for what we’re talking about means that we acknowledge the authority of God.

We have racked up quite a body count of awful crimes, and I believe the only way out is for us to repent and turn to Christ. This would be things like no more Pride parades, no more drag queen story hours, no more abortion on demand, no more legalized same-sex unions — all of that, done. That’s the repentance part.

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bidanfan @antihierarchist.bsky.social · 2d

good thing i don't take fashion advice from some goat-roping wattle-necked cousin-fucker

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 2d

gonna keep reposting this until i don't have to

www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-t...

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D.C.: the Spooky Mom @hobbiets.bsky.social · 2d

Painting stream is live

To whom it may concern
#battletech

Twitch.tv/hobbiets

Help support me on ko-fi

ko-fi.com/%20hobbiets

A Battletech Longbow miniature painted white, purple and green

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bidanfan @antihierarchist.bsky.social · 2d

good grief, that weathering is just amazing.

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bidanfan @antihierarchist.bsky.social · 2d

i ran a pretty good mouse guard game with a shrike as a recurring enemy (normal size shrike, pc's are mice) - mouse guard has a pretty elaborate/unforgiving conflict system, no plot armor, the pcs did the smart thing and ran their little mousey feets off every time.

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bidanfan @antihierarchist.bsky.social · 2d

this, a thousand times.

Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 2d

The liberal determination that the use of force is forbidden to all only ensures that the people with the least respect for liberalism can or will employ force and no one else will allow it, engage in it, or even know how to do it. This misunderstanding of power is how we got to where we are today.

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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 2d

As Democrats contemplate a 2026 or 2028 run and wonder what message will most motivate voters, they need to understand that the minimum opening bid is vengeance.

Justice for All - Truthdig

To restore the rule of law, Democrats must enforce the constitution with brass knuckles like there’s nothing to lose. Because there isn’t.

www.truthdig.com

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bidanfan @antihierarchist.bsky.social · 2d

exasperated that no one stocks mg dijeh or hyaku shiki decals, i undertook to order right from delpi, and apart from some customs fuckery at fedex it went pretty smoothly! can't wait to slap waterslides on those two karaba poutyboys.

snapshot of some water slide decals and a 1/100 scale anti-spaceship rifle model, all arrayed for your viewing interest on a bright paisley tablecloth.

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Indie Game Reading Club @indiegamereadingclub.com · 2d

This is a gorgeous production and one of my games of the year for 2024.

If you haven't played yet or want to know more about how it all works, check out our deep dive: www.indiegamereadingclub.com/indie-game-r...

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