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Ari Ganahl- Commissions Open! @arithetonberry.bsky.social · 6h

Hello friends, I am recovering from getting COVID again and had to miss a week of work. It would be really helpful if I could get 2-3 commissions before the end of October to help me catch up on bills.

My recent art is mostly wildlife, but I would also love to draw your pet!

ko-fi.com/ariganahl

Example illustration of a coconut octopus

Example illustration of a Giant Australian Cuttlefish

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 11h

And now the power company wants to destroy without mitigation then somehow reestablish another acre of protected wetlands because there's just no other possible way to get Google the power lines they need to operate cuz Google lied in its initially approved permit applications that it didn't need em

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Reyhan Harmanci @harmancipants.bsky.social · 11h

We wanted to know what it was like to own a Cybertruck. So @zoeschiffer.bsky.social went to the desert got this absolutely amazing quotes (and Michelle Groskopf took the pictures!) www.wired.com/story/owning...

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Dancing Avocado 2.0 @dancingavocadov2.bsky.social · 9h

He's so cute 😭

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah...

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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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 22h

Finally going after the criminals

👹👻 boo-rit 👻👹 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 1d

*ahem* [deep inhale]

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta & @malcolmkenyatta
X.com
ICE is literally tear gassing local police.
8:45 PM • 10/14/25 • 1.1M Views

pic of a cop hunched over outside of a building using (probably leaded) hosewater to flush his eyes after getting tear gassed

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 21h

LA folks, get on this.

Mikki Halpin @mikkipedia.bsky.social · 1d

Upcoming Courtwatch LA training for immigration courts--an important role in community defense. Court watchers, like cop watchers, show that the community is actively participating in its own safety, and in holding the justice system accountable.

bit.ly/imm-training-116

A flyer with text on it:
CourtWatch LOS ANGELES
Thu. Nov. 6th | 6:00 p.m.
GET TRAINED
TO COURTWATCH
IN IMMIGRATION COURTS
REGISTER
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courtwatchla.org

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Dancing Avocado 2.0 @dancingavocadov2.bsky.social · 1d

Right?! 😅

Dancing Avocado 2.0 @dancingavocadov2.bsky.social · 1d

It's here!! Excited to read the latest from @mskellymhayes.bsky.social 💜

A hand holding up the book Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists In Crisis by Kelly Hayes

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 1d

Amen

Exodus 8:2-6

“But if you refuse to let them go, I will place your whole country with frogs… the frogs shall come up on you and your people and on all your officials”

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Dancing Avocado 2.0 @dancingavocadov2.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 4d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

Dancing Avocado 2.0 @dancingavocadov2.bsky.social · 1d

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Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 2d

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

At a press conference today, the mayor of Everett said there was a knife found in the child’s possession but *no* gun. I followed up with ICE and asked if they stand by the screenshot shared yesterday. Spokesperson said DHS was working on a response. Five hours later, still nothing.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 3d

This is the response I received from ICE when I inquired about the 13-year-old they abducted from Everett, Mass. on Friday:

Good afternoon, Marisa.
Please see the below from DHS on the 13-year-old alien.
Please feel free to direct any questions to them.
Respectfully,
James

Tricia McLaughlin
@TriciaOhio • 6h
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Here are the facts: he posed a public safety threat with an extensive rap sheet including violent assault with a dangerous weapon, battery, breaking and entering, destruction of property.
He was in possession of a firearm and 5-7 inch knife when arrested.

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Dancing Avocado 2.0 @dancingavocadov2.bsky.social · 1d

Barbie themed party. Barbie Halloween costume. Going out for drinks???

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 1d

Sign up to get a recording of their workshop for us on how to send esims here! airtable.com/app2F3TGsD60...

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 2d

Watching people being brutalized by the state, secure in the knowledge that I'm safe because I don't do anything wrong. And the best part? The state can't suddenly and arbitrarily redefine what "wrong" means

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3d

Israeli settlers continue to wage war on Palestinians in the West Bank and elsewhere. They are breaking into people's homes, stealing their stuff, trashing their homes and sometimes kidnapping and killing people. This is happening NOW. People should know this.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

me after attending a protest

Jeff Goldblum running out of a store with a bunch of shopping bags in his hand. He's dressed fashionably in a tan jacket, black shirt, gray trousers, and black loafers.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 4d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 3d

the boys who landed at Normandy or fought in Stalingrad couldn't have imagined the horrors of 21st century war

A picture and headline from an article: Unicorn bride marries Kenny from south park at Portland ICE protest

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 5d

(forgetting the word for antibiotics) do i need cancel culture

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Dancing Avocado 2.0 @dancingavocadov2.bsky.social · 4d

I'm excited for my copy to show up in the mail! 💌🥰

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 5d

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books

A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

www.pilsencommunitybooks.com

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 5d

It’s all happening on x dot com where I do my banking

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Dancing Avocado 2.0 @dancingavocadov2.bsky.social · 4d

Taught a beginner embroidery class today, it sent well overall! 🥰 Also, I crocheted baby booties. Pretty chill day comparatively!

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