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🔞They/Them/It/Its. Writer. Fan. Nerd. TTRPG freak & VtM ST. Canadian. Disabled. ND. Poor. | Mid/Late 30s | Borg; Tzimisce; Warlock; the concept of ennui in human form | genderqueer, aroace, queer & cool af | God Enthusiast, theology nerd

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Steppie The Eldritch Blob 🍁🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🗑️🔥 @bookwormywriter.bsky.social · 13d

New month, new post: Disabled queer living with their aging, disabled mother. We need $50/ambulance bill, and air filters I added to our wishlist.

#mutualaidrequest #helpfolkslive2025 #mutualaid #helpsky 💸💕

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Check out my list on Amazon

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404 Media @404media.co · 10h

The end of free Windows 10 support this Wednesday could be an environmental disaster, cutting off 400 million PCs from security updates and dooming millions of still usable computers.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-end-of-w...

The End of Windows 10 Support Is an E-Waste Disaster in the Making

In an example of egregious planned obsolescence, as many as 400 million computers will soon hit the waste stream.

www.404media.co

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Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 3h

There's literally no reason for Congress to exist if any random freak in the presidential orbit can nullify laws and seize federal funds. All of this is plainly illegal, but Mike Johnson leads the most corrupt Congress in US history (and by a wide margin.)

Reuters @reuters.com · 8h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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Jazz Tehara 👻 (Spooky mode) @drjazztehara.bsky.social · 5h

It’s been trained on all the porn before it, so it’s intrinsically linked to all that previous exploitation and rather than work through legalisation, workers rights and worker protections your answer is to run people out of a means of making money… in a capitalist society.

Jeff Thomas @buildbackwetter.bsky.social · 13h

A categorically new version of pornography centered on narrative while avoiding exploitation of sex workers and millions of liberal millennials inexplicably pretending like they're not going to use it

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Ody @odeecs.bsky.social · 4h

Coworker: "America? Broken? Oh, I don't know if I'd go that far."

Me, sitting back and opening a candy bar: "Okay. What's working?"

Coworker: (stares in silence, filled with increasing dread)

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TabbieWolf @tabbiewolf.bluestripedboxers.com · 2h

God, I hope this is true

Tumblr post by user novelconcepts:

“Hey, man, c'mere. Listen. Get in real close, this is important.

You're gonna make stuff again. You're gonna make stuff you're proud of. You're gonna make stuff you're excited to share. You're going to feel that overwhelming drive to create, not just the frantic I want to want to you're stuck in now. You're going to have awesome ideas, and you're going to make them into reality. You're going to create again. You're still an artist. You're still a writer. You're still home to the same passion you had before. You'll find it again. It's not gone. It's just resting. Let it rest. You're going to make stuff again. I promise.”

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.bsky.social · 1h

Someone asked what happened to the casual Nazi at the end of WWII. The people who supported the Party

The answer? Suicides and murders. If they weren’t beaten to death or shot in the streets, they killed themselves

There’s a book called Promise Me You’ll Shoot Yourself by Florian Huber about it.

The mass suicides by ordinary citizens in the last days of Nazi Germany
Historian Florian Huber's book examines how civilians took their own lives in greater numbers than military and government officials as the Third Reich collapsed
Soviet Army officers observe the bodies of women who committed
suicide in a Vienna park at the end of World War II.
CORDON PRESS / YEVGENY KHALDEINULL

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Teri G @terilg.bsky.social · 3h

When a picture says a thousand words…

#TrumpsShutdownDragsOn

When a picture says a thousand words…

Photo of Speaker of the House Mike Johnson biting his lip

#TrumpsShutdownDragsOn

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 4h

Mike Johnson could end the government shutdown and release the Epstein files today if he wanted to.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

very funny that JD Vance has so little to do with his time that he goes on podcasts to defend 30-year-old men for saying how much they love Hitler

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

JD Vance dismisses Young Republicans who in a group chat said "I love Hitler" and joked about slavery and rape as "a bunch of kids" who "told stupid jokes" and adds that "most of the stupid things I did when I was a teenager and young adult, they're not on the internet."

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 3h

"In unison."

Amen.

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Reporters leave Pentagon en masse after refusing to sign on to new rules

After turning in their press credentials, journalists covering the Defense Department walked out rather than comply with its restrictive new policies.

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Tara Moriarty @moriartylab.bsky.social · 1d

Canadian COVID Forecast Oct 11 - Oct 24, 2025

CANADA

HIGH [no change]

About 1 of every 95 people is infected.

Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada:

-Infections: 6.1 x higher
-Long COVID: 5.9 x higher
-Hospitalizations: 11.3 x higher
-Deaths: 9.2 x higher

This image describes the Canadian COVID Forecast for the fourteen-day period between Oct 11 - Oct 24, 2025, which is produced by COVID-19 Resources Canada. Canada’s COVID Forecast outlook is HIGH [no change] with a COVID INDEX SCORE of 8.9

About 1 of every 95 people is infected.

Estimated infections this week: 558,700-965,600
What these numbers mean: MODERATE 1-5, HIGH 5-10, VERY HIGH 10-15, SEVERE >15 COMPARED TO THE LOWEST POINT IN THE COVID PANDEMIC IN CANADA
How much higher are key indicators compared to the lowest point in the COVID pandemic in Canada?
Waste water, infections: HIGH; 6.1X higher
Long COVID: HIGH; 5.9X higher
Hospitalizations: VERY HIGH; 11.3X higher
Deaths: HIGH; 9.2X higher
HOW TO HELP:
EVERYONE:
UPDATE vaccines every 6 months
WEAR N95-type masks
Who is HIGH RISK?
People 60 and older, babies < 1 year, pregnant
ALL AGES: immunocompromised OR medically at-risk OR no vaccine or infection in the last 6 months

Recommendations are based on the COVID-19 Risk Index from the Peterborough ON Public Health Unit
COVID-19 Resources Canada is a grassroots organization of volunteer scientists supporting Canadian COVID responses. Sources, data and methods for the COVID Index are available at www.Covid19Resources.ca

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 5h

Good.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 5h

BREAKING: Journalists exited the Pentagon after refusing to agree to the Trump administration's new restrictions on access.

Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules

Journalists at the Pentagon turned in access badges and cleaned out their workspaces on Wednesday, the price for refusing to agree to new restrictions on their jobs being removal from being at the seat of U.S. military power.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 2h

"i wasn't allowed to talk about replacement theory or any mainline immigration stance"

Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 3h

Oh they mad

Aidan @aidanxitter
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A friend of mine got blackmailed into leaking these chats. A total fucking coward and a useless piece of shit
One of the people in here, he attended his wedding with me and still sold him over to the devil
All over some useless YR beef
And then the GOP condemned them
Fuck these people
The GOP treated to fire my friend and vice chairman from his AG job because of tiktoks I posted about immigration
I wasn't allowed to talk about "replacement theory" or any mainline immigration stans They asked me to resign over Trump's gr card diploma mill comments

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Steppie The Eldritch Blob 🍁🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🗑️🔥 @bookwormywriter.bsky.social · 2h

There are places those go when you're done, in and outside of the store???? this is like ppl leaving them in parking spaces. brain rot.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 3h

These. Were. Men. In. Their. 30s.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"

We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

www.motherjones.com

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 2h

"If Israel, with the whole world watching, can treat a well-known, white person with a Swedish passport this way, just imagine what they do to Palestinians behind closed doors."

Lisa Röstlund @lisarostlund.bsky.social · 14h

We’ve met with Greta Thunberg and others in the flotilla. They describe hours-long scenes of torture and sexual harassment in Israeli captivity. Experts conclude that they have been subjected to serious crimes – Sweden’s foreign minister believes they have themselves to blame.

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Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 11h

Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 2h

Thread, up and down

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Jul 25

Everyone would joke, "a hunter must have caught him," but it was half-serious.

Hunters had caught kids before. Around 1989 a hunter was convicted of murder for killing a teenager and burying him in the woods. Later, a group was found to have tortured a kid they found

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

"a test"? you mean...a violation?

AP: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire

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Condor (Fiadh right now. (Fee-uhh)) @condor.bsky.social · 22h

Tear gas or other 40mm less lethal munitions are meant to be fired at the ground, not at a person. The idea is for the canister or grenade to roll into the crowd. Notably, cops almost never do this! Instead they aim at peoples heads and chests. Causing severe and often permanent injury.

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Condor (Fiadh right now. (Fee-uhh)) @condor.bsky.social · 22h

In the third picture the weapon that the fascist is pointing at that mans head is a 40mm grenade launcher. If you fired that point blank it would cave someones skull in. Certain death. Its the same as if he had a rifle to his head.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem, and DHS need to answer for their unchecked attacks on Chicago residents.

ICE is an out-of-control danger to our peaceful communities.

The images from the Sun-Times today speak for themselves.

An ICE agent throws a tear gas canister at protesters at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

Federal immigration enforcement agents detain a protester during a skirmish at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent points a crowd control weapon at a protester Tuesday at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

A Chicago Police Department officer washes his face after being exposed to tear gas during a protest at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 21h

He’s not even referring to them as people anymore … just “narcoterrorists”.

He’s dehumanizing those aboard the Venezuelan boats to distract from the fact that the regime are murdering people in international waters.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 1d

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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フブキ👑 Letourneau🫃(librarian) @northerniion.bsky.social · 23h

in front of your wife ryan?

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Maybe they tried the head shaping some ppl did. At least Nef is adult size here

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Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 1d

The framing “it’s unreasonable to ask me to mask” reminds me of climate change discussions - “it’s unreasonable to ask for net zero” etc - bc ppl think of the politics as more “real” than the science. Sometimes things are hard or unfair but reality and science don’t care

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