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C.A. Petrified 🎃

@capetrov.bsky.social

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she/her. aka FullMetaDuchess. Naturalized ✡️, absent most Saturdays. Learning every day if I'm lucky. On the downside of middle age and drifting ever leftward. Header from 'Dreams' by Melton Fisher. Please don't follow me unless you like reading my skeets.

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C.A. Petrified 🎃 @capetrov.bsky.social · Feb 21

If accounts like this can do alt text you can copy and paste the text from your article excerpt or social media post.

Whether or not you're willing to consciously admit it, not doing it is says you think disabled people don't need to know the things you think are so important that you have to post.

videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · Feb 21

street fighter II, print ad, snes (1992) archive.org/details/mean...

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C.A. Petrified 🎃 @capetrov.bsky.social · 3h

Ooh, gonna show her the Roger Corman movie after you're done?

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 3h

For the record the Young Republicans I was dealing with in 1991 absolutely did say they loved Hitler aloud back then and totally got away with it. Their rape threats against me for being queer were also framed as a good moral action. So yeah, they’ve always been like this.

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Keyah (banned era) @sapphic-film-nerd.bsky.social · 7h

I wonder how many people don't know that Alaska had a Typhoon because it affected Indigenous people at a disproportionate rate.

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · 10d

Geordi La Forge Nope/Yes meme, but the yes has laser eyes in the visor:

NOPE:
"Do Not Comply In Advance"
- bossy
- already a cliche
- implies permission to comply later

YES:
"Fuck You, Make Me"
- leads by example
- directs yelling at opposition instead of allies
- easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 20h

I just checked and this is real. It's on Border Patrol's official Instagram (I don't see it on Facebook) and is being celebrated by Nazis on Twitter, as you can see in the screenshot.

The clip is just 13 seconds long too, so it's a very intentional thing. We've got a Nazi government.

Twitter account: Uncensored @HmanQuotes1945: Official border patrol Facebook page is posting with the banned lyrics of Michael Jackson's song.
"Jew me sue me... Kick me k*ke me."
Epic

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jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 8h

“More than at any other time — I'm finally realizing that the world is simply divided into people that care about others, and those who don't — but don't want to be shamed for it.”

THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS!!!!

Tulika Bose @TulikaBose_
More than at any other time — I'm finally realizing that the world is simply divided into people that care about others, and those who don't — but don't want to be shamed for it
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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 5h

Palestine’s most popular leader, Marwan Barghouti, was beaten unconscious and has his ribs broken by Israeli prison guards and his family fears for his life, his son has said, citing evidence given by former Palestinian detainees released this week as part of the ceasefire deal.

Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti assaulted by Israeli prison guards, son says

Family fears for 66-year-old’s life after assault while he was being transferred between prisons

www.theguardian.com

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NO GODS, NO MASTERS, BISEXUAL DISASTERS 🇵🇸 🇺🇦🔞 @travisteatime.bsky.social · 5h

Always important to point out that 99% of our idea of what Nazism was like is THE NAZIS' OWN PROPAGANDA.

Nazis were orderly, efficient, dignified & the pinnacle of human physique, because... that's what the Nazis said they were like, and would a Nazi ever lie to us?

Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 8h

History kinda glosses over that Hitler was a pedophile obsessed with his own niece Geli Raubal who he pretty much kept as a prisoner in his home until she took her own life, or for that matter how young Eva Braun was when they first met.

Nazis were always just like that it seems.

Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 22h

It’s funny how the old media depiction of Nazis was always that they’re evil but dignified gentleman and now they’re openly just like “Hello. I’m the Anime Pedophile”

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C.A. Petrified 🎃 @capetrov.bsky.social · 5h

But I thought it was OK to bomb Gaza civilians because they were all supporting Hamas?

www.thetimes.com/world/middle...

Hamas ‘carries out public executions’ of rivals

Hamas public executions: latest news after Gaza ceasefire

www.thetimes.com

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Céline pina colada @basalthrull.bsky.social · 6h

Lord Farquad devant son miroir. Un texte dit « the dumbest person you know is being told "You're absolutely right!" by ChatGPT »

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 6h

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

www.thewrap.com

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SÓÓPACAAT @ruffandtuff.bsky.social · 8h

MTV was 100% selective culture. They did so much damage by convincing youth that selective acceptance of each other was normal while still redlining blk culture & pushing blk stereotypes.

Disgraceful.

Prince, MJ, Living Colour, Janet & HipHop broke the gates only because of audience demand.

Brilliance Proper @brillianceproper.blackskycomra.de · 11h

Gonna do an essay about how MTV made white Gen X-ers think racism evaporated in the 90s.

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 5h

This is not a dunk on Hamed, but if you are a European seeking to resettle as a refugee in the United States you by definition do not “oppose migration.”

Hamed Aleaziz @haleaziz.bsky.social · 7h

NEW: The Trump administration is considering a radical overhaul of the U.S. refugee system that would slash the program to its bare bones while giving preference to English speakers, white South Africans and Europeans who oppose migration, according to documents.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People

www.nytimes.com

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Tzfardea b'Yachad Chazek 🐸 @jsx.bsky.social · 7h

But consider also Shemot 8:2 -

"And Aaron held up his arm over the waters of Egypt and THE FROG came up and covered the land of Egypt"

Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 10h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 9h

SCIENCE POLICY NEWS:

During Yom Kippur, all the members of the High Energy Physics Advisory Committee (HEPAP), myself included, received a letter thanking us for our service and telling us essentially that the almost 40 yo standing federal advisory committee was no more. ⚛️🧪🔭

Why that matters 🧵

DOE Consolidates Office of Science Advisory Committees

Six long-standing committees advising the Department of Energy’s Office of Science have been rolled into one.

www.aip.org

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 7h

The strength of libertarianism is you never run out of other people’s money

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 8h

BREAKING: The Trump administration is doubling its Argentina bailout to $40 billion.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 7h

WOW! Our survey of scientists who stopped using Twitter and started using Bluesky is now the #1 most-shared on social media article in the history of the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology! Thanks for reading it, everyone! @sicbjournals.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1093/icb/... 🧪

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky

Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

doi.org

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 10h

“The most common is “Chinese woman follows her African partner home and has a bad time.” These videos universally depict Africa (never a specific country) as desperately poor, socially backward, and rife with physical and sexual violence.”

foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/15/c...

Racist AI Fantasies Are Spreading on China’s Internet

Anti-Black videos speak to popular prejudices.

foreignpolicy.com

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Mary Sue @marysuesays.bsky.social · 6h

Shakespeare is standing and applauding.

www.tiktok.com/@bocxtop/vid...

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Micah @rincewind.run · 7h

okay yeah seems bad people should probably leave

Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 9h

Long story short, an actual Nazi doxxing ring. Enough people reported them that they went away for like 12 hours and then Elon personally brought them back. The site is dead. If you’re still on there, go lock your account right now

chris @knightscrest.bsky.social · 9h

what even happened on the other site this time

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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 7h

PSA: Don’t move the “in case of emergency pull rope” pulls so they aren’t dangling free, and near the floor.

One of their primary functions is to call help if someone has fallen to the floor. Putting them where someone needs to get up to pull them defeats the purpose.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 7h

One reason I am blood spitting mad about Portland is that two men were MURDERED

intervening when a man who tried to stab Demetria Hester the DAY before …..

tried to stab to Black Hijabi

And Andy NGO who was targeting Black women online

Was talking about Portland freaks

Leilani (she/her) @glittergremlei.bsky.social · 10h

Nevermind as OP states the actual Black Muslims who - in this case most especially girls & women who wore the hijab - got the dual weight of anti-Blackness AND Islamaphobia AND increased xenophobia even if they were born in America

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orynthia blue. @javeauriel.blacksky.app · 11h

Black people can be Black and only Black.

The way that our full identities are dismissed is exhausting. You see it when people try to separate Black ppl from the LGBTQIA+ community. Or when it’s time to discuss ICE. Everyone understands intersectionality until it comes to us.

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 11h

So a couple people have now hinted at the idea that Black people didn’t have it so bad post-9/11 because Muslims had it bad. This ignores that there were and are a lot of Black Muslims. This also ignores that more than one group of people can be targeted for state violence. It’s never just one group

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 6h

He was at a wedding where they ritualistically stabbed pictures of a 4 year old palestinian boy that was murdered. he represented the murderer for free. Will not stop being pissed that he was removed from sanctions

LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 6h

I feel like Ben Gvir personally being in the room when Greta Thunberg was being tortured should be bigger news

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 7h

I think a lot of white people are discovering in real time how many other white people only have a problem with direct slurs and politeness

Not actual discrimination

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