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Donnodubus @donnodubus.bsky.social · 27d

"Conversion therapy" is false advertising. It is malpractice. It is abuse. It is discrimination. It is torture.

Everyone who enables it — from the parents, to the therapists, to the court justices — are groomers and abusers, period. This is a criminal court.

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 28d

It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 28d

One thing about American's widespread distrust and disapproval of the Supreme Court is that mainstream news coverage mostly doesn't dwell on stuff like standing, so people don't even begin to grasp how rigged the Court truly is www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

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🦋　Bluesky Support　🦋　(unofficial) @bsky.support · 28d

we reached over 2 billion posts today. that's probably enough

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Donnodubus @donnodubus.bsky.social · 28d

A People's Social Media is possible thanks to the Free Software movement, and programmers who have developed social media such as ActivityPub or ATproto under free licenses.

It's just a matter of actually organizing the resources needed to host and maintain it (which no one so far has wanted to do)

Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 28d

Worker owned social media when

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Donnodubus @donnodubus.bsky.social · 29d

Although the CEO of Bsky had me fooled that she personally wasn't reactionary, we always knew this platform was only being kept afloat by Silicon Valley venture capitalists.

It is no surprise, therefore, that the Bsky team is appealing to them over its userbase, who are just here as guinea pigs.

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Donnodubus @donnodubus.bsky.social · 29d

It's just a commonplace now that right-wingers do assassination attempts on Democrats. But most of them will probably capitulate and continue to punch left (since that's safe).

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Donnodubus @donnodubus.bsky.social · 29d

Caused by an explosion, and there were children trapped inside. This country has become engulfed in pure evil.

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Donnodubus @donnodubus.bsky.social · 29d

Well, Bluesky was nice while it lasted (not really)

the yakubian years @jazzpomegranate.com · 29d

so now link is suspended with no email

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Shintaro Melodrama @roiskinda.cool · Oct 4

The thing I respect about Greta Thunberg is that she understands most people in the Western world don’t give a shit about atrocities until someone white is affected.

So she’s doing what needs to be done to keep up the pressure.

If more white folks followed that example, we’d all be fine.

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Donnodubus @donnodubus.bsky.social · Oct 1

Some people have been provided for and protected by The System their whole lives, so even when it obviously has turned against them they still foolishly believe it will reward them when they obey it, like it did in the past.

Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · Oct 1

Not remotely an original observation but I’m continually struck by how a major reason why marginalized people are so much better equipped to meet this moment than most white mainstream liberals is that we aren’t deathly afraid of political disorder given that it’s a feature of our lives

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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · Sep 30

A perfect souvenir from a day at the chariot races! This pottery cup or jar has barbotine (liquid clay) decoration, piped on just like cake icing. It depicts four quadrigae (four-horse chariots) in an endless circular race. 🏺 #ancientbluesky 1/

Colchester, 2nd c. CE. 📸 me

Large cup or jar, dark brown (it would have been glossy black when new) depicting a chariot race in barbotine decoration, which unsurprisingly looks a lot like cake icing details, because it's piped onto the cup in the same way, with a bag. The auriga - charioteer - wears long-sleeved jerkin and leggings, and a leather helmet. He holds a whip in his right hand, and the reins of the four horses in his left. Another chariot is fast on his heels.

Found at Colchester, Essex. British Museum (1857,0806.1)

Same description as the first image. The cup rests on a very small, stumpy foot which flares up into a broad vase shape, slightly tapering at the top. This is taken on the adjacent side to the left of the other chariot, and this chariot is the one at his heels.

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Donnodubus @donnodubus.bsky.social · Oct 1

But telling lies for the right wing b/c you're afraid of retaliation obviously doesn't "lower the temperature." It's just rolling over and accepting that they dictate what you get to say now.

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · Sep 30

Coates is suggesting Klein’s hagiography was a bending of the truth in hopes of “lowering the temperature.” Klein is saying, well, my ultimate goal right now is to lower the temperature

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Donnodubus @donnodubus.bsky.social · Sep 29

Again... wtf do we have to do with this?

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Sep 29

This is now the second attempted terrorist attack on the LGBTQ community in a week as "revenge" for Charlie Kirk. This follows an attempted mass shooting of a gay bar in Arizona.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Texas man accused of plotting Pride parade shooting as revenge for Charlie Kirk

Exclusive: ‘Come on bro let’s go hunting fairies,’ Joshua Cole wrote to a friend two days before the Abilene Pride Parade, according to an FBI probable cause affidavit reviewed by The Independent

www.independent.co.uk

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maria ii @dmariaii.bsky.social · Sep 27

This “genius” has unveiled their sinister scheme.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a scary floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · Sep 27

you know things are bad if cops are complaining about other cops

Elizabeth Joh @elizabethjoh.bsky.social · Sep 27

“A Portland Police Bureau assistant chief said in court recently that federal police were “instigating” some of the clashes between officers and protesters outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in South Portland.”

www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/0...

Federal cops ‘instigating’ confrontations with protesters outside ICE building, Portland police official says in court

Assistant Chief Craig Dobson said federal officers were “causing some of the ruckus” at the ongoing protests.

www.oregonlive.com

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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · Sep 27

Ohara Koson, Japanese (1877-1945), Waxwings on Twig, 1911, woodblock, 34.3 x 18.7 cm, private collection

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Donnodubus @donnodubus.bsky.social · Sep 27

No. This is not a plea for "approval." It is a demand for dominion over their rivals.

Also, professors are not "elites".

James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · Sep 26

More than anything, they want to be patted on the head and told they're a good boy by the liberal elites

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Donnodubus @donnodubus.bsky.social · Sep 26

"One read on that might be that the right-wing outrage farmers seem to have some inauthentic support that makes them seem more influential than they actually are."

Ya don't say...

Gizmodo @gizmodo.com · Sep 26

Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say

Doesn't that make more sense than lots of people caring about Cracker Barrel?

gizmodo.com

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Donnodubus @donnodubus.bsky.social · Sep 26

Pretty much the final domino for absolute far-right media control in this country.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Sep 26

ICYMI — “If I could make TikTok 100% MAGA I would…”

Trump *jokes* about rigging TikTok in his favor with the new right-wing MAGA billionaire ownership… but insists all POV’s will be treated fairly 🤔😕

What a relief

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · Sep 26

The unusual & enigmatic circular Roman signal station at Careg y Bwci, alongside the Roman road nr Llanfair Clydogau in mid Wales, was built on top of an earlier summit-top Bronze Age barrow

The enormous boulder at its centre - 'the spook's/goblin's rock' - was clearly of sacred importance 🧙

📷 TD

A large boulder set in circular earthworks commanding wide upland viewd

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Dan Moren @dmoren.com · Sep 25

Tech bros like Peter Thiel being really into eschatology is just a reflection of their deep narcissism and fear of mortality: they believe the end of the world will come during their lifetime because they literally cannot imagine the world continuing to exist without them.

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Donnodubus @donnodubus.bsky.social · Sep 25

A basic understanding of history blows this racist way of thinking out of the water, without even needing any of this cutting edge genetics research to disprove it.

Sadly, most people (and Pagans) still have ethnocentric thinking that assumes racial separation and purity.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · Sep 25

The white supremacist conceit that everyone in antiquity was living under some kind of global jim crow segregation is just complete bullshit news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Pure bloodlines? Ancestral homelands? DNA science says no. — Harvard Gazette

Geneticist explains recent analyses made possible by tech advances show human history to be one of mixing, movement, displacement.

news.harvard.edu

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Donnodubus @donnodubus.bsky.social · Sep 24

Hate to break it to people, but there's no way to "unsubscribe" our way to healthcare, housing, and living wages...

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Donnodubus @donnodubus.bsky.social · Sep 24

Yep. It's just a firehose of bullshit, and it's like this everyday now. Responding to each and every story is like wrestling in the mud with pigs (we get dirty, they like it).

I address the issues with people IRL as they come up. Doesn't feel worth the energy and oxygen beyond that now.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · Sep 23

I find I can’t muster a proper response to either the Tylenol madness or the U.N. appearance. At some point it is just too ridiculous. It would feel insane to offer sane commentary.

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Donnodubus @donnodubus.bsky.social · Sep 23

What did we have to do with this again? 🙄

Jason Dogwood 💙 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 @jasondogwood.bsky.social · Sep 20

Treven Michael Gokey threatened to shoot up Cruisin’ 7th, a Phoenix LGBTQ bar. He was triggered by the killing of Charlie Kirk. Most likely a mental health crisis, not intent. Still the point remains, those in power want us to fight each other so we don't have the time and energy to fight them.

Phoenix man accused of threatening to shoot up gay bar amid political anger

A Phoenix man is in jail after police say he threatened to shoot up a gay bar near his apartment reportedly because he was angry about recent political violence across the country.

www.azfamily.com

Donnodubus @donnodubus.bsky.social · Sep 23

The way they just changed the caduceus into a spear and money bag into a head and went, "Mercury? Nah, this is Perseus!"

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